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| | PVT. FOLKERT SCHOLTE
Serial No. 2,048,731
Grand Haven, Mich.
Inducted April, 1918, at Camp Custer.
During our activities lie served as cannoneer, being selected, as all of them were, for his speed of movement and his solid, tenacious nature and fine strength. These qualifications particularly fitted him to carry on and discharge the indefatigable duties of a gunner.
Scholte was undeniably courageous and one who, though he knew that personal disaster awaited him, would discharge his duty.
When we took our sacrifice position he seemed to have a premonition that he would be a victim of the enemy. His vivid imagination made him picture what was to come. At the close of hostilities the same attribute of mind made him picture his home coming and long for the return to America.
He was possessed of a whole-hearted nature and was generous, had other commendable traits, and was well liked. |