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Subject: [NJMON] ww1 men wounded from nj(some from around allentown/bordentown)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:51:13 EST

I hope this information will help some readers researching WWI vets from NJ. 
I have article and also postcard of Co H 114th Reg US Inf. Camp McClellan,
Ala. and photo of Oliver Haines after his injury if anyone wants copies of
them.  Email me () for .jpg file! 

This is the News Article that I have typed so that people can get information
from it.

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(Probably Jan. 10, 1919)
January 10 Article released from Newport News, Va.
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JERSEY BOYS WOUNDED AND WELL RETURN
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Transport Finland Brings Home from France Many Soldiers from This State.
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OVER TWO SCORE OF NEWARKERS ABOARD
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Suburbs Represented Also With Members of 345th Infantry and Other Units
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By a Staff Coorespondent
Newport News, VA.  January 10 –

Wounded men to the number of 938, many of them from Newark and other Jersey
cities are here.  They arrived Thursday on the Transport Finland. 

Brigadier-General Martin, commander of the Eighty-seventh division and
Brigadier-General Thyaer of the Johns Hopkins unit, the only medical officer with
his rank, were on the ship.  The Second battalion of the 345th Infantry from
Camp Dodge returned from training in France.  Twenty-four army nurses also were
aboard.

Private Alfred Beffert, 105 Pacfic Street, Newark, was one of the wounded. 
He received shrapnel in the right arm while advancing in the Argonne drive
October 16.   Private George Post, 113 Johnson Avenue, Kearny, received a machine
gun bullet through his left thigh October 16 while carring a machine gun in an
attack before Verdun.  Private James M. Johnston, 314 Jersey Street, Kearny,
returned with the 345th Infantry. 

Two Friends Wounded
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Privates Oliver Haines, Burlington and John R. Sison, same town, were wounded
in fighting with Company H, 114th Infantry, in the Argonne.  The former
received shrapnel in the right leg October 12.  The latter was put out of action by
a machine gun bullet four days later.  Sison was also wounded August 15 in
Alsace.

James Malborne, Trenton, was in Company E, 113th Infantry, in the last drive,
and was wounded October 23.  Thomas Reid, Bayonne, was wounded in the Argonne
with the Thirty-eighth Infantry.  Alton Bellis, Frenchtown, received shrapnel
in the right leg at St. Mihiel, October 3 while with Company F, 311th
Infantry, from Camp Dix.  Benjamin J. Ensmann, Jr., West Hoboken, fought in Company
I, 309th Infantry, and was wounded October 16 in the Argonne.

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