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| | 1ST CL. PVT. JULIUS D. PETERSON
Serial No. 2,026,596
Ravenna, Mich.
Quiet and of an easy-going temperament, the boys will remember him by his favorite and only song. “I am Growing Old, Maggie.”
He was No. 2 man on Sergeant Dunn’s piece. His job was placing the shells in the breech, which he did dexterously and efficiently.
At the Montauville position, unhappily, he was taken down with trench fever, and with Corporal Piaskowski, Sergeants Schultz and Schmuck, was ordered to Aix Les Bain. This prevented him from taking a more active part in actual warfare.
His enthusiasm and satisfaction with his particular assignment of duty that of getting the shells in position to send to Fritz, was marked and limitless. He felt the importance of his duty and performed it well. |