Sunday, August 18, 2019

Wilson Lieutenant Who Served in Siberia Has Landed in New York, Aug. 18, 1919

From the Wilson Daily Times, Aug. 18, 1919. Newspaper article spelled Magete and Magette in same sentence. I don't know which is correct.

Back From Far Siberia

Lt. R.W. Magete, son of Mr. and Mrs. L.W. Magette of this city, wired his parents that he is at Camp Merritt, having landed in New York. He, with a party of 750 picked engineers composed of Americans and British, were sent last spring to Siberia to help get the Americans from the Archangel front. They found that the Bolsheviki had burned the bridges and torn up the railroad track, and it was their duty to connect up with our command.

The ice was just beginning to break on the Archangel sector where there was nothing but snow and ice to be seen. A shop that had been ice-bound for six months was just getting away.


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