The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-25
By RALPH HEINZEN

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 Paris, June 25 - (UP) - Fellow fighters of the French Foreign Legion made pious pilgrimage to the fields of Picardy today, on the 5Oth anniversary of the birth of Alan Seeger, to scatter flowers in the titled farmland where the poet of the trenches had his rendez- vous with death July 4, 1916.
 The exact burial place of Seeger is unknown but George Delpeuch, of New York, who fell in the beet field alongside Seeger in the legion's attack, shot through a vertebrae, found the exact site of the rendezvous which is now marked with a simple stone along the country road pointing to the place in the field where a hundred men of the legion were moved down that summer morning by German machine gunners hidden in field of tall wheat nearby.
 The field lies just outside of Belloy en Santerre, on a slope marked as Hill 76 on battlefield maps. The hundred dead of the legion were hastily buried in two common graves before the armies pushed on beyond Belloy. The markers of the graves were blown away by artillery so for several years the hundred dead were lost.
 One Grave Holds 76
 After the war, peasants blowing the Picardy field for more beet crops uncovered one of the two graves containing 76 bodies. The bones were carried to the nearest French army battlefield cemetery at Lihons to join 5000 other un- identified dead. The second grave never was found. It is unknown whether Seeger was among the dead of the opened or the un- found common grave so his burial place is still unmarked.
 In the Lihons cemetery, how ever, the legion pilgrims found the tombs of two New York brothers, Corporals Marcel and Joseph Col let, who fell side by side in the same burst of fire which killed Seeger. In the nearby war ceme- tery of Villers- Carbonel they also found the graves of Nelson Peter Larson, of Buffalo, and Charles Boismaure, drug clerk of Brook lyn. They were all in Seeger's regiment of the legion.
 Delpeuch gave dramatic de- scription of the death of Seeger who kept his rendezvous with death" but suffered for hours in his passing. Only July l, 1916, the Americans in the legion were ad- vised that their Fourth of July passes for Paris were cancelled because of an impending attack.
 Five in 45 Survive
 More American volunteers were killed during the storming N Belloy en Santerre than in any other battle of the legion" Delpeuch said today. "Only 5 put of 45 men in Alan's section sur- vived the attack.
 At dawn of July 4, we went forward, making toward the ex- treme right of Belloy. We had crossed the ravine and made ready for the attack. saw Seeger, pale but with a fixed smile. He was the tallest man in the sec- tion. Beside me, he ran forward with bayonet fixed.
 where the grain was standing about 2 feet high, German ma chine-gunners opened up on us and I saw men fall everywhere around me. I was shot through the groins, paralyzed when bull let hit the fourth vertebrae of my spine. I saw Alan fall, the air filled with the smell of powder and ripened wheat and an in- fernal din of shells and machine guns"
 Tells of Seeger's Wound
 The story of Seeger's death is best told in the compact dia- logue which Delpeuch relates, as the two lay in the wheat, a few feet apart, Seeger in shell hole, Delpeuch hiding himself in the beets.
 "Is that you. Alan?" Delpeuch called as he heard groans nearby.
 "Yes, George" came the reply.
 Where are you hit" Delpeuch queried
 stomach. Suffering terrible"