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| | PVT. WILLIAM L. FOUTS
Serial No. 2,048,031
94 Terrace St., Muskegon, Mich.
He came to the Battery from the Ammunition Train and was afflicted with rheumatism, which called for unusual stamina in him to sustain himself under any form of duty. Nevertheless, he pluckily kept working, sick call being looked on by him with disdain. At Pont-a-Mousson tins trouble got the better of him and confined him to quarters for a while. Knowing that his physical disability would get him early discharge, and that he could be sent home, he preferred to remain with the Battery and see things through to the end.
While on light duty the Captain made him hiss orderly and regarded him as attentive and prompt in execution of orders.
Fouts was not easily discouraged, and in his devotion to duty under physical handicap, he was one example of the fiber which made up our army. |