Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-06-13
LOCAL BOYS BACK
FROM OVER There
Lloyd Raymond, Fred SaiIer
and Fred Dolansky Ar
rived this Week from
Foreign Service.

Lloyd Raymond, army field clerk,
attached to the headquarters staff Of
the First American Army in France,
arrived Tuesday for a few days visit
with Eagle River relatives and
friends. Lloyd landed in New York
two weeks ago and has been visiting
at Chicago, Marshalltown, Ia, and
Madison while on his way to Inter
national Falls, Mimi, where he will
resume his pre-war position as mana
ger of the land department of the In
ternational Falls Lumber Co.
Raymond spent eleven months in
France with the headquarters staff
directing the big operations of the
First Army in it's service on the vest
ern front. His service over there
dates back to the time when head
quarters were established just a few
miles back of Chateau Thierry where
the enemy made it's last futile at
tempt to break through on that
salient and bumped up against the
u. S. marines who gave the boche the
first real taste of what the Yanks
could do in the way of fighting. From
then on he was Immediately back of
the big operations that cleaned the
Vesle sector, the st. Mihiel salient
and the Meuse- Argonne territory.
His work brought him into close
touch with the machinery of warfare
that the average person knows little
of and he had the opportunity to see
much of France along the battle
front. He was with the American
forces that occupied Sedan, that his
toric battle ground, and was in Metz,
a few hours after the armistice was
signed. During his travels he Sc
cured numerous valuable mementoes
that have proved highly interesting
to his many friends here, including
souvenirs Of the battles and cnrios
from the many places he visited. Not
the least among them is the cOllec-
tion from the Verdun sector. That
city today is a mass of ruins, having
been bombarded daily by the enemy
for four years, and yet under the
ruins the French have established a
complete s-ubterranean city caKablsi
Of accommodating at least $4,000 per-
sons. Its underground chambers in
clude everything necessary for the
life of an army, quarters, amusement
centers, chapels, and most wonderful
of all, a drill ground large enough for
regimental maneuvers. His travels
took him 10 many famous places in
France, and the northern part of
Italy, as well as through the whole
length of Great Britain.
At one little station in France he
was showing a friend the havoc done
by a boche airman when an American
troop train pulled in. In the cannon
eer section of the train he met Tom
McGregor and Billy Knox of Eagle
River and some Sayner boys on their
way up to Chateau Thierry.
Raymond's visit here was limited
to a few days, far too short a time for
him to relate an adequate account of
the things he saw while with the A.
e. f. in France.
Fred Sailer arrived from Rhinelan-
der Sunday having received his dis
charge at Camp Grant after a years
service in France. Fred was a
machine gunner with the 33rd Div.
that started in on the Albert sector
early in July and saw continuous act
i've service on almost all the western
front up to the Argonne when the
armistice was signed in November.
His discharge certificate shows a list
of engagements that any man may
well be proud of. On the Albert Sec
tor he fought beside the Australians