The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-02-13


week as wounded, degree undeter-
mined"
Sergt. Edgar Hanson returned to
civil life last week, the third OF six
brothers in the service to be dis
charged. He has been at Camp Gus
ter, Mich.
Albert and Lieut.. Carl Tegge, broth
ers, of the town of Two Rivers are with
the army of occupation in Germany.
They had had no knowledge of each
others whereabouts when they by
chance met and had little reunion.
While together they met Emil Parma
of Two Rivers.
Sergt. Frank Kazilek, with the 1st
Prov Depot company 3O3 tank cen
ter, near Laugres, France, wrote home
recently relating many interesting de-
tails of army life overseas. He saw
President Wilson and Gen. Pershing
review the troops. At Laugres recent
ly ne ran across Jack Klinker from
home and the two found Bill Vollen-
dorf.
Dispatches from Europe last week
had it that the 32nd and 42nd divi-
sions are soon to be sent home. If this
is authentic the local boys who went
out as national guardsmen may soon
be en- route to these shores. The Co.
H.. utofn ic
division was one of the first that fol-
lowed the regulars to the battlefelds
and was sent into the front line early
in 1918 and saw a lot of the real
thing.
Lieut.. Lester Lindsey of Marinette,
recently returned from overseas, Wis
tied Manitowoc last week and spoke in
words of glowing praise of Capt. Ed
ward Schmidt under whom he served.
He said that the captain has had a
career of unusual distinction at the
front
The following official communica-
ton in regard to Lieut.. Donald W.
White appeared in War Department
announcements last week:
Second Lieut. Donald W. White, de-
ceased. Twenty-third infantry. For
extraordinary heroism, in action near
Landres-et-St. Georges, France, Nov.
/, 1918. Wheg the edyauce Of his bat
talon was hindered by strong enemy
machine gun nest Lieut.. White led his
platoon forward in an attack on the
hostile position and was killed at the
head of his platoon just before the last
machine gun was put out of action.
Next of kin, Mrs. Emma E. White,
mother, Manitowoc, Wis"
Lieut.. White was a nephew of Gus
tav Fehrs of this city,
Puch Egan, dropped off a rattler at
the station last Friday with his honor
able discharge and hastened to doff
the khaki and don the mufti. He has
been at Camp Grant since early last
summer and rose to the dignity of
corporal for while.
EOWeT COHWdy, d lOIllicl NdlllOWoS
boy, has been in the city the past week
He wears the insignia of Lieut.. Col
and of overseas service. Col. Conway
saw many months of actual fighting
and was wounded at Argonne forest
He is a son of the late l.. j. Conway
and was born mad reared here. He en-.
tered the service at the outbreak Of the
war and was commissioned captain
at the officers training camp
Corp. Frank Bouril twice reported
killed in France, arrived home Satur-
day with his discharge. Bouril LETT
Manitowoc with Co. II Aug. g. 1917
and sailed from New York Feb 26,
1918 He was shot In both legs at
Chateau Thierry but recovered and
rejoined his command and was in all
the last battles of the war that the
division participated in including the
final big fight In the Argonne woods.
He was gassed there and spent more
time in the hospital He says that
few of the old H boys were in at the
finish, a majority having been then
underground or in hospitals.
The 80 local men who were ready
to leave for camp on the morning of
Nov. 18th last and who we're at the
last minute ordered not to entrain
will receive regular discharge from
military service and one days pay as
soldiers.
Corp. A. Stephanik of Two Rivers
arrived home Tuesday wearing gold
chevrons and two wounu stripes won
at Chateau Thierry and Argonne. Priv
Joseph Kusterman, of st. Nazianz ar
wound stripe won in the Veste drive
where he was injured in both legs by
shrapnel.
An Ohio soldier in France wrote to
Manitowoc to inform the people here
that Capt. Shimek Is the idol OF the
men in the ranks both ss q man and a
surgeon anG that the people here ought
20 have band at the depot to greet