Paul R. Coffin

Private Company H

    
        Private Coffin was instantly killed when a shell lit in a group of men of Company H and they never knew what hit them. Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Coffin, News Sharon, Iowa. The duties of Private Coffin were those of a runner and as such the most exposed and dangerous of all. Coffin displayed not only the utmost disregard for self, bravery and self-sacrifice, but displayed unusual intelligence. He was considered the best runner in the battalion of which he was a member. Private Coffin was loved and admired by all his comrades, and his loss was felt by all.

Clyde M. Cushman

Private Company L

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      Killed at Sergy in the Chateau Thierry salient, July 28, 1918. Buried in Grave No. 26, Map of Fere-en-Tardinois. Private Cushman was killed by machine gun fire during the attack on Hill 212. He was a company runner and brave at all times. Private Cushman survived the shower of shells at Champagne but in the performance of his duty at Sergy, he was swept-under by the withering machine gun fire which he courageously dared to traverse. Relative's address, Mrs. Bertha
Degenhart, Council Bluffs, Iowa.