Arizona republican., 1919-02-17
TELLS OF THE DEATH
 OF CHAS. KAHLME|ER

HAYDEN, Feb. 15. - Charles NJ. Kahlmeier, employed in the general of fees of the smelter here, is in receipt of a report from Colyn V. Dyment, home communication representative, American Red Cross, Ninety-fir di- vision, regarding the death of his son, Charles B. Kehlmeier, Jr., Company F, 362nd infantry, Ninety first division, who was killed in action September 2s. In his report, MT. Dyment says:
 Your son was killed at about 3:45 o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday, September 29. The circumstances were | related to me by Corporal Wicliffe Ol- sen of Company F, whose home address IS Miles City, Mont. At the time, Cor poral Olsen was in field hospital at Gereghem, Belgium, sick. He said:
 At about 3:45 p. m., September 20, | Company F and other companies of the 362nd infantry were lying on an open | held. The orders were to go over the hlll and take town straight in front on the other side. We started up the | hill and had just reached the brow of | 1t when Charles Kahlmeier was killed. l think it was a machine gun bullet that struck him. He fell back. held himself up on his hands a few sec onds, then sank dead. I was in the second wave, a little to the left of him. and passed about 50 feet from him. On this hill Company F had many losses in dead, wounded and missing. | Corporal Olsen did not know the name of the town, but I think it was the town of Gesnes. The company re- tired once, then advanced, and with other companies took the town then retired again without holding it. Later the town was taken a second time by American troops and this time was held.
 Corporal olsen said your son was q good soldier.
 His company first went into battle
 at daybreak on the morning of Sep
 tember 26, from a point about 20 mile,
 west of the city of Verdun. It haC
 spent the previous night in the larg,
 French woods known as the Forest d
 Hesse. At 80 a. m. of the 18th
 American and sFrench divisions at
 tackled over a 40-mile front after :
 great artillery preparation from mid I night to dawn. This front extende, from east of Verdun to considerabl west of the Argonne forest, and tn
 Ninety-first division was about tn
 center of it.
 "The village of Gesnes, near whic
 your son was killed, is too small to b : shown on any map, except the larges maps of France, and is now in ruin e from shellfire. You can locate it ap : proximately, however, by finding tf e city of Verdun, which is about 25 mile . to the southeast and which is show
 on nearly all maps of France Man e maps also show the town of Verenne f which is about six miles south. TT
 large town of Romagne is about l V miles north. Paris is 150 miles wes ;. Your son gave his life toward or t of the most important achievement e of the war. The Argonne drive wf
 one of the big factors in bringing abo, n the total defeat of Germany. TT r American divisions, relaying one al y other, and aided by a few French d Il visions, kept up this drive relentless from 5:3O o'clock, September 26, unt 7. Il o'clock, November II, when Marsh Il Foch ordered firing to cease. The arm r in this drive had by early Novemb
 progressed so far to the north tn = the retreat homeward of the Germs IT armies farther west was threatene r. To avert their being cut off and ma,
 prisoner, the German government, b. l. ing in a desperate military situatio n surrendered by accepting the armisti e terms of the allies.
 e Please accept my sympathy in yo
 great loss. I am,
 tt Sincerely yours,
 If (Signed) COLIN V. DYMENT,
 Home Communication Representatiy d American Red Cross, Ninety fir .- Division"