[jimfree]

Thank you for sharing. God bless Uncle John.

[mass55th]

Thank you for sharing your family history. My great-uncle, John Stanley Holmes served with the 38th Battalion (Eastern Ontario) Canadian Expeditionary Forces in WWI. He was wounded by German machine gun fire on September 2, 1918 at The 2nd Battle of Arras (France). He died of his wounds on September 9, 1918, and is buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery, in Pas de Calais, France. I also had two uncles who served in the U.S. Army overseas in WWII, and my brother was a U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran who served in the 25th Infantry Division (Tropic Lightning), in Cu Chi ‘66-’67.

[campaignPete R-CT]

Thanks

God bless my Uncle William
KIA, WWI

He hung on for 18 months, died 1920

[Spok]

Thanks for the story and God bless. My uncle, a crewman on a B-25, crashed in the English Channel after dropping a load of bombs on Nazi Germany. His body was never found. Grandma never gave up the idea that he was coming home. He turned 21 on the day he crashed.

[lizma2]

I have my Grandfather’s mess plate from WWI.

He had gone through the Bolshevik Revolution and somehow his parents got him and his brother out of Ukraine to fight for the US Army

He etched things into it like soldier figures taking orders and also “Camp Chateau Baleonjre”. The war was over and he was waiting to be shipped to his new home.

Now I don’t know how good his English was back then but I can’t even find anything close

[Redcitizen]

First Infantry Vet here. I salute Private John Klopfenstein. Thank you to your family for his service and sacrifice.