Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-28
SERGT. R. Q. FLETCHER DIES OF WOUNDS

Soldier comrades from his own reg iment have written as follows:
 Sergeant Toomey-Quentin Roose- welt is buried a little way up the road from where I am now. I suppose you have heard that we are up at the front. A good many of the boys that came over with US are no more. Bob Fletcher is amongst them. He got picked off last week. He was hit by a big shell and lived only a few min utes. He is buried in the nearest town to us and cannot give you the name now Even his folks will not know until after the war.
 Corp. Dewey H. Woodwork, Battery E-Saw the first boy in my outfit get it. That was Bob Fletcher. He was killed outright by shrapnel. It was a great shock to us boys. He was so well liked by everybody But, believe me, mother, some of them are going 10 pay for it. The boys nearly all went crazey over it and just wanted to go right after them.
 Private Corey-Among the first kill ed was Bob Fletcher Our battery is scheduled to get the battery that got him, and we are going to do it.
 Corp. Harold Robinson-Bob was in a motor truck near cross roads and
 
 ker was standing by. Bob was taken to the hospital. All the boys felt blue as all liked him.
 Sergt. Richard Gregson-The boys have visited Bob Fletcher's grave and we covered it with roses.
 Sergeant Fletcher was a native oi this city and was 25 on the Sth. of last March He attended the Falls schoo and graduated from the Norwich Free Academy in the class of 1912 He was prominent in athletics in schuol, play i ing football and explaining the base ball team in his graduating year.
 Immediately after graduation he en- tered the office at the Hopkins anc Allen Arms Company and from there came to The Bulletin to fill the posi- tion of sporting editor, which he diC with marked ability for several year' and it was while in this position tha he heard the call of his country an( enlisted in the Third Company, Coas Artillery, Captain w R. Derison, il company clerk and went 10 For | Wright, at Fishers Island when tn | company transferred there for train | ing in July, 1917.
 When the 56th Artillery regimen was formed from Connecticut Coas Artillery men, he became regimenta l supply sergeant and left with tn ] company for overseas duty on Marc 1 20 They had been stationed some l where in France ever since. | Sergeant Fletcher was one of tn thousands of splendid stalwart si l foot Americans who have swun along the. French highways, hailed a saviors of their native country bN l aged French men and women, wit eyes brimming with tears of thank fulness while little children showere flowers in paths of the khaki clad sol 1 dien<. His friends and business asso | ciates recall with pride his earnes | manly desire to do his whole part, tn interest he took in perfecting himsel
 in soldierlY efficiency from the mo 1 ment of his, enlistment and the eager ness with which he looked forward
 the time when he could serve at tn
 front.
 He was a friend and favorite of a
 with whom he was associated in bus
 mess or social relations and his los
 is one that will be long felt.
 He is survived by his parents,
 sister, Hazel, and brother, Lesli
 who is in a tank corps in trainir at Tobyhanna, Pa.
 He was a member of Park Congrt !, gational church, Norwich Lodge, N 430 B. P. o. E., and of Union Lodg l No. 31, F. and A. M, of New Lol don, in which he was raised short before leaving Fishers Island for O ] erseas.