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BEING THE NARRATIVE OF BATTERY A OF THE 101st FIELD ARTILLERY

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Honor Roll

 

JOSEPH W. ZWINGE. Severely wounded on April 15. 1918. Died of wounds April 16. Pvt. 1 Cl. Zwinge was taking a horse to Battalion Hdq. on Fort Liouville Hill (near St.- Julien, Toul Sector) when he was caught in a heavy concentration of 150's. A shell splinter entered his head above the right eye. He was sent to the Field Hospital, where he died on April 16. He was buried in American Cemetery No. 198, near Commercy.

 

DAVIS O. LAWRENCE. Killed in action April 21. 1918, at the Battery position near Boncourt (Toul Sector). Pvt. 1 Cl. Lawrence was acting gunner corporal of the first piece. Just as the gun was being fired a German 150 exploded in the gun pit, instantly killing him. He was buried in the American Cemtery at Vignot, France.

 

E. CLIFFORD SAWYER. Killed in action April 21, 1918, at the Battery position near Boncourt (Toul Sector). Pvt. 1 Cl. Sawyer was on the first section gun crew with Lawrence and Rigby. He was instantly killed by the same shell that killed them. He was buried in the American Cemetery at Vignot.

 

NORBERT E. RIGBY. Severely wounded April 21, 1918. at the Battery position near Boncourt (Toul Sector). Died of wounds on the way to the hospital. Pvt. 1 Cl. Rigby was on the first section gun crew with Lawrence and Sawyer. He was very severely wounded by the same shell that killed the other two. He died in the ambulance on his way to the hospital. He was buried in the American Cemetery at Vignot.

 

E. NEWEL RIPLEY. Killed in action May 27, 1918, at the Battery position at Bernecourt (Toul Sector). The Germans had launched an attack against the 101st Infantry and were shelling the Battery position very heavily in their efforts to neutralize the guns. Sgt. Ripley, the chief of the third section, was in the act of entering his gun pit when the splinter of a gas shell struck him in the heart, killing him instantly. He was buried in the American Cemetery at Menil-La-Tour.

 

C. RALPH FARNSWORTH. Killed July 13, 1918, at the Battery position near Paris Farms (Chateau-Thierry Sector). Corp. Farnsworth, the chief of the fourth section, had been firing his gun intermittantly all night. Very early in the morning of the 13th it blew up, killing him almost immediately. He was buried in the cemetery near Bezu-Le-Gery.

 

PHILIP CUNNINGHAM. Killed in action July 19, 1918, at the Battery position in Belleau Woods (Chateau-Thierry Sector). The Battery had made its first move forward in the Aisne-Marne Offensive the night before. Pvt. 1 Cl. Cunningham was instantly killed when the Battery position was caught in a heavy concentration of 77's. He was buried in the American Cemetery at Bezu-Le-Gery.

 

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