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| | PVT. EMERY J. WELLET
Serial No. 2,083,421
Negaunee, Mich.
Inducted June 25, 1918. at Camp Custer.
Private Wellet had been quite an athlete and baseball player before joining the army. In France, at Coetquidan, trench fever had stricken him, from which he did not make a complete recovery, but through sheer pluck and grit hlie managed to stay with us and tried to discharge the duties given him. He was for a time on guard duty at Coetquidan. Later, at the front, he participated with other privates in the duties of the men. He carried ammunition for the guns under tremendous shell fire and participated in all the perils of our outfit during the days preceding the armistice.
His wonderful spirit as a soldier was shown by few of those who had strength and health, which he had not. Private Wellet remained on duty through dogged determination and the courage which we like to believe fires all Americans in face of obstacles.
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