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1 01 S Oilj? litt nb rg r mia Mrs. W. C. Hewitt I HIS noble woman was the one who gave her A life while nursing patients of the Wittenberg S. A. T. C. during the influenza epidemic. When the plague broke out in Springfield she was one of the first to volunteer to relieve the patients in our temporary hospital at Wittenberg, and her kind and loving attentions were always in evidence wherever she happened to be. The Wittenberg company attended the funeral service in a body as a token of their sympathy and as taps were sounded the soul of this dear woman passed to its reward. tventy-thrcc
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1913 1013 51 if t 11 i 11 it It r r y e • • , r , nf«he I etter Sent to the Parents of Sergeant E. Gray Swingle, Original Copy of the Letter Newark Ohio Somewhere in France, July 19th, 1918. 1 i. „,;ii he rather surprised if you receive this letter, but I hlp d to°secure Sergt. Swingle's address and thot you would want ° kTtoiUk 4m as we usually called him, at Camp Ame Srsity, D8 C He ‘ It is superfluous to write that we all liked Dick eiy muen After going to Camp Belvoir, Va., he was made Corporal and so then he became‘‘Corporal Swingle to us He was Corporal of my squad until we went to Washington barracks, Washington D. C where he was made Sergeant. From then until his death he was Sergt. Swingle. He held the respect of his comrades so well that they addressed him by his rank gladly. After becoming Sergeant we always were in the same platoon, so were thrown together quite often. After coming to France we were separated about February 15th, and I did not see Sergeant until about March 25th. On the night of March 27th Co. B went into the trenches. We arrived there between 10:00 and 11:00 p. m. We worked fixing the trenches and patroling for quite a while. About 4:00 a. m. our First Sergeant, Clifford Brundage, came along and told us that Sergt. Swingle was missing. “Dick” had taken out a patrol of 15 or 20 men during the night and in some manner—I have never been able to learn just how it happened but—he was wounded in a skirmish and fell. His comrades lost him in the dark and not being able to locate him again came back and reported him missing. They thot he was captured by the Huns. We received no more word from “Dick” until about 7:00 a. m. While working near the left of our lines we saw Capt. Harris scanning “No Man’s Land” with a field glass. Suddenly he discovered “Dick” lying out near the German lines. He could see with the glass that “Dick” was trying to crawl and knew from his action that he was wounded. Soon Sergt. Brundage came to where Frank Goldcamp and I were working with some other men and said, “We have spotted Sergt. Swingle out about 50 yards from the German trenches and want two big huskies «.«♦HI,11 i ',ni in‘ Goldcamp and I were picked from among those that vol- e,la Were 00r,)°n the way out lt seemed to me to be about Th™.5,ck was ,yin£- We could just see him. guard in r««J thU tj1 n eS- u?nt out part tlle way w th us to act as a gum ci m case the Huns might try to capture us. riflemenCsko si alled for us to keep down low. The “How clo vouovnpl t (ber r and 1 crawled 011 out to “Dick.” He said, my legs are brake? in? Y,?u shou,d have a stretcher. Both of midway of the knee and Sh e- H,e .was.shot thru both legs about his head toward onr lim ,IIe was lyin ln the prone position with position butour and I,were als° 1» the prone several hundred yards to Ines- We could see Germans ‘ Dick” to safety umAserveiT!} « that we might possibly get mg and soon put an end to oSrefforts A German sniPPer w«s watch- t ent -four
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