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Defenders of Democracy

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Pvt. Edwin Abernathy Company F 321st Infantry Pvt. Young T. Abernathy Company B 46th Engineers Pvt. Albert Carl Austin Company F 3d Training Regiment Pvt. Sam A. Bradshaw 325th Ambulance Co. 307th Sanitary Train

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Corp. James P. Bradfield Company C 1st Gas Regiment Ensign Frank L. Branson Naval Flying Corps Seaman Alvin F. Bradfield U.S.S. Shaw Pvt. Calvin G. Bradfield Company E 1st Regiment Engineers

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Pvt. Herbert Bradshaw Detached Infantry Adj. Gen. Office Georgia Pvt. John W. Brittain Company C 45th Mach. Gun Btn. Pvt. Thomas A. Broome 2d Battery R.A.R.R. Pvt. Claude L. Carter Company H 26th Infantry

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Pvt. Leonard Carter Company D 307th Engineers Pvt. Y. Toxie Chambley Company C 321st Infantry Pvt. James E. Combs S.A.T.C. Infantry Pvt. Homer D. Chambley Battery D 70th Field Artillery

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Pvt. Leonard M. Chapman Mach. Gun Company 321st Infantry Pvt. E. T. Combs Quartermaster Corps Naval Aviation T.C. Pvt. Forest Davis Company 39 Recruiting Camp Pvt. Nello M. Dixon Company H 167th Infantry

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Pvt. I. Grady Dixon Hdqtrs. Troops 82d Division Pvt. Leon Duffey Company A 165th Infantry Pvt. Terry Aubrey Dunn Company H 167th Infantry Pvt. Robert Ennis Hdqtrs. Company 55th Infantry

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Pvt. J. T. Franklin Bakery Company 365 Cook Curtis R. Gauntt Battery B 321st Infantry Sgt. Wm. P. Gilliland Company E 106th Am. Train Pvt. Charles W. Glass Company F 151st Infantry

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Pvt. Jno. V. Haerenborgh R.R.D. No. 3 Sailor Jos. E. Hall U.S.S. —— Pvt. R. E. Wilson 634 Aero Squadron Pvt. Henry Hodnett Company 17 5th Receiving Btn.

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Pvt. Arthur Hollis Battery D 117th Field Artillery Pvt. Thomas E. Kinney Company E 106th Sup. Train 2d Lt. H. B. Kirkpatrick 21st Company Infantry Reserve Corps Pvt. Jessie E. Landers Company E 1st Development Btn.

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Pvt. Polie L. Lilly Battery D 114th Field Artillery Pvt. Will McIntyre 21st Company R.R.D. 2d Cl. Fmn. B. F. Martin U.S.S. Newton Pvt. W. Evin Martin Company I 327th Infantry

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Corp. T. E. Middleton 106th Trench Mortar Battery Pvt. Johnnie Moore 19th Company 5th Training Btn. 157th Depot Brigade 1st Lt. J. C. Morgan 233d Amb. Company 9th Sanitary Train Sailor Carl Newton U.S.S. Orion

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Pvt. Walter Nichols 7th Regiment M.P. School Pvt. George W. Norrel Battery D 18th Field Artillery 1st Cl. Fmn. C. Oliver U.S.S. Patterson Yeoman T. M. Piper U.S.S. Baltimore

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Pvt. Rubin Powell Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. Pvt. Geo. W. Reaves Company A 51st Infantry Pvt. Wm. D. Satterwhite Company D 20th Mach. Gun Btn. Pvt. Tom W. Smith Field Remount Sqd. 33

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Pvt. John T. Smith Field Remount Sqd. 330 Pvt. John L. Smith Company D 321st Infantry Pvt. Fred L. Stalnaker 76th Group 6th M.T.D. Corp. W. L. Stalnaker Company D 161st Infantry

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Pvt. C. D. Stalnaker 64th Company 16th Receiving Btn. Pvt. Henry Taunton Company D 5th Mach. Gun Btn. Pvt. Jesse Taunton Company M 182d Infantry Pvt. Dewey Taylor Company C 20th Mach. Gun Btn.

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Sgt. Henry Guy Taylor Supply Company 2d Infantry Pvt. Cephas Taylor Company B 3d Regiment Pvt. William C. Taylor Battery B 149th Field Artillery Pvt. Homer E. Thomas Company G 161st Infantry

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Pvt. T. Howard Turner Company B Development Btn. Pvt. Emmett Welch 5th Company Air Service Sgt. Harvey A. Welch 106th Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop Pvt. Joe Wessinger Battery F 114th Field Artillery

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William M. Whittington Company I 167th Reg. 42nd Div. Pvt. A. C. Williams Aero Squadron Roosevelt Field Corp. James E. Williams Battery E 117th Field Artillery Pvt. G. Harold Williams Company B 17th Engineers

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Pvt. Oscar L. Williams Headquarters Company 321st Infantry Band Pvt. John O. Williams Company C 1st Division Battalion

Roll of Honor

‡ Killed in action

Abernathy, Edwin Abernathy, Young T. Austin, Albert Carl Bozeman, Hugh Bradfield, Alvin F. Bradfield, Calvin G. Bradfield, James P. Bradshaw, Herbert Bradshaw, Sam A. Branson, Frank L. Brittain, John W. Broome, Thomas A. Bryan, C. Jesse Carter, Claude L. Carter, Leonard Causey, R. M. Chambley, Homer D. Chambley, Y. Toxie Chapman, Leonard M. Combs, Elisha T. Combs, James E. Davis, Forest Dixon, I. Grady Dixon, Nello M. Duffey, Leon ‡Dunn, Terry A. Ennis, Robert Franklin, J. T. Gilliland, William P. Gauntt, Curtis R. Glass, Charles W. Haerenborgh, John V. Hall, Edgar Hamer, Ernest Herron, R. A. Hill, A. L. Hodnett, Henry Hollis, Arthur Jackson, Erby L. Kinney, Thomas E. Kirkpatrick, Harold B. Landers, Jesse E. Laster, Willie Lilly, Polie L. Martin, B. Frank Martin, W. Evin Middleton, Thomas E. Mills, George J. Moore, Johnnie Morgan, James C. McIntyre, Will Newton, Carl Nichols, Walter Norrel, George W. Oliver, Claude Powell, Rubin Piper, Tally W. Reaves, George W. Roberts, James B. Satterwhite, Wm. D. Smith, John T. Smith, John L. Smith, Thomas W. Stalnaker, Charles D. Stalnaker, Fred L. Stalnaker, Willie L. Taylor, Cephas Taylor, Dewey Taylor, Henry Guy Taylor, William C. Taunton, Henry Taunton, Jesse Thomas, Homer E. Turner, Thadius H. Welch, Emmett Welch, Harvey A. Wessinger, Joe Whittington, Wm. M. Williams, A. C. Williams, G. Harold Williams, John O. Williams, James E. Williams, Oscar L. Wilson, Robert L.

Colored

Alexander, John, Jr. Burdette, Walter Burton, Bob Dukes, Abe Ford, Otto Ford, Robert Gates, G. G. Heard, Fisher Heart, Ernest Heel, Lewis Howard, Jeff Hutchinson, Willie Moody, Bob Pettillo, J. L. Ross, Jim Ware, Erley Wilkins, Sam

Extracts of Appreciation

“It’s a tough proposition; it’s a terrible thing, but we know that some blood has to be spilled and we are willing to let it flow for the cause and the best country on earth.”

“I am always overjoyed to hear or receive news from my dear friends at home.”

“The French people go wild over the U. S. boys. One can’t get lonesome or homesick, they treat you too good.”

“I am still on the destroyer, Shaw, and we hunt ‘subs’ most every day.”

“’Tis needless to say that the letters and Bulletins which I received today brought one grand little message and a feeling of comradeship into my heart. I appreciate them very, very much and I enjoy them more and more.”

“I don’t want to quit until the job is finished.”

“Your encouragement, our bullets, and it’s all over.”

“I am happy that it fell my lot to serve for our grand and noble country in her fight for Democracy.”

“I hear that we are going to France. I am just ‘crazy’ to go.”

“Your letters have given me a great deal of pleasure and I can imagine the joy they cause the fellows who have gone across.”

“I have been living under the ground since I have been on the front. Don’t know how I would feel if I could get into a house again.”

“If it wasn’t for the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A. and the Service Station, I don’t see how we could get along.”

“I have been in action and I feel more than ever that there must be no peace without victory and every soldier I have met shares that feeling.”

“You would feel a deep new tender feeling for France and her people if you could see them carry the Stars and Stripes so proudly, and note the feeling toward the American soldier.”

“Well, they say that we have had a war in France and that it has come to an abrupt close. Isn’t it strange how easily and how swiftly we put a serious crimp into the great German mass? I can’t realize it—it seems a long dream.”

“I have been in England, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, and on the line of Germany since I have been in Europe.”

“Since the Armistice we have been on quite a long hike; followed the great and final retreat of the Kaiser’s grand army. We are stationed now a few kilometers beyond the River Rhine, on a hill overlooking the city of Coblenz.”

“Sorry that the other boys didn’t get to see France; they missed the real fun, a trip that they wouldn’t ever forget.”

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WAR SERVICE COMMITTEE, Fairfax

P. C. Ramsey J. L. Bowles A. G. Pope R. E. Smith, chairman Ozella Bradshaw, secretary P. T. Sparks

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RED CROSS WORK ROOM, Fairfax

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WAR SERVICE STATION, Fairfax

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INTERIOR WAR SERVICE STATION, Fairfax

Committees

FIRST LIBERTY LOAN Some subscribed, but no organized work done. SECOND LIBERTY LOAN F. L. Branson, Chairman C. Kirkpatrick P. C. Ramsey Lon Combs J. E. Howell Subscription, $1,500.00 THIRD LIBERTY LOAN F. L. Branson, Chairman R. E. Smith P. C. Ramsey C. Kirkpatrick J. E. B. Martin Vana Combs Subscription, $33,700.00 FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN R. E. Smith, Chairman C. Kirkpatrick P. C. Ramsey J. E. B. Martin Lon Combs F. P. Bradfield Subscription, $25,700.00 FIRST RED CROSS FUND F. L. Branson, Chairman P. C. Ramsey Lon Combs J. E. B. Martin Miss Maud James Subscription, $1,200.00 SALVATION ARMY DRIVE T. G. Stanfield Miss Maud James Subscription, $140.00 SECOND RED CROSS FUND R. E. Smith, Chairman P. C. Ramsey J. E. B. Martin C. Kirkpatrick Lon Combs F. P. Bradfield Subscription, $2,150.00 Y. M. C. A. C. Kirkpatrick, Chairman R. E. Smith J. E. B. Martin Vana Combs J. E. Howell Subscription, $572.75 UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN R. E. Smith, Chairman F. P. Bradfield Vana Combs J. E. B. Martin P. C. Ramsey Subscription, $1,740.00 WAR SAVINGS STAMPS J. E. B. Martin, Chairman J. M. Brown J. L. Bowles D. W. Simms R. E. Smith P. C. Ramsey A. G. Pope Subscriptions, $17,700.00 VICTORY LOAN CAMPAIGN F. L. Branson D. W. Sims Jack Davis J. C. Dawe Subscription, $14,800.00

Total

Liberty and Victory Loans $75,700.00

United War Fund 1,740.00

Membership and Subscription Red Cross 3,350.00

Salvation Army Drive 140.00

War Saving Stamps 17,700.00

Y. M. C. A. 572.75

Committee Report

Total number of letters written to boys in Service 1158

Total number of letters received from boys in Service 205

Total number of other letters written 447

Total number of packages or parcels forwarded 326

Total number of visitors at War Service Station 1232

Total number of boys in Service 101

Total number of Bulletins mailed 1496

Total number killed in action 1

Died of disease or wounds 1

Total number wounded 6

From the Fairfax Red Cross

Bed shirts 36

Helpless case shirts 40

Convalescent robes 4

Pajamas, American 5

Triangular bandages 48

T bandages 8

Abdominal bandages 4

Comfort bags 5

Pillow cases 12

Sheets 24

Hand towels 206

Bath towels 100

Wash cloths 24

Table doilies 60

Tray cloths 24

Aprons, women’s refugee 12

Dresses, children’s refugee 22

Housegowns, women’s refugee 6

Morning blouses, women’s refugee 6

Petticoats, women’s refugee 12

Helmets 3

Mufflers 5

Sweaters, sleeveless 24

Socks for soldiers 52

Influenza masks for home use 600

Total weight of garments donated for refugee boxes, pounds 881

Total number of Christmas boxes packed for soldiers 28

Junior Red Cross

Triangular bandages 36

Towels 72

Wristlets 6

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