 Excerpt: The Price of Our Heritage HUXTABLE, Wayne E., page 92, 99408 Private Headquarters Company Died May 30th from gas received May 27, 1918. Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, Grave No. 88. Son of Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Huxtable, Le Mars, Iowa. When the Germans sent over a heavy gas attack, the men rushed out of their dug-outs to alert posts to repel the attack. The suddenness of the attack and the excitement was such that some of the men, not realizing the deadliness of the phosgene gas and thinking that they could fight better without their masks, were careless of their own safety. Huxtable died from gas received in this attack.
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