Crisp County GaArchives News.....SGT. CRUM PART OF HONOR GROUP  AT  FRENCH CEREMONY October 22, 1945
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CORDELE DISPATCH October 22, 1945
 WITH US SUPPLY FORCES IN FRANCE
  JOINING WITH FRENCH AND AMERICAN COMRADES-IN-ARMS ,STAFF SARGEANT CHARLES A. 
CRUM ,CORDELE,GA.,PAID TRIBUTE TO FALLEN SOLDIERS OF WORLD WAR 1 AT 
ARMISTISTICE DAY CEREMONIES IN WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE PARTY FIRING THE 
TRADITIONAL THREE VOLLEYS AS WREATHS WERE PLACED ON A MEMORIAL ERECTED IN A 
FRENCH CITY.
  HE FORMED PART OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY HONOR GUARD WHICH MARCHED IN THE 
PARADE OF SEVERAL THOUSAND FRENCH TROOPS AND CIVILIANS.
  MILITARY DIGNATARIES PARTICIPATING IN THE CEREMONIES INCLUDED GENERAL MARCEL 
ALLARD COMMANDING GENERAL OF A FRENCH MILITARY REGION, COL.ROY W. GROWER,OF 
ST. LOUIS,MO.,COMMANDING OFFICER OF A BASE SECTION ,AND COLONEL JAMES B. 
EDMUNDS,WASHINGTON,D.C. HIS CHIEF OF STAFF.
  SGT. CRUM IS THE CHIEF STATISTICIAN OF THE ENGINEER SECTION OF A BASE 
SECTION IN FRANCE.
  PRIOR TO ENTERING THE ARMY 45 MONTHS AGO ,SGT. CRUM WAS THE CITY ENGINEER 
FOR CORDELE. HE HAS SPENT THE PAST 30 MONTHS OVERSEAS.
  IN ADDITION TO SERVING IN FRANCE,SGT. CRUM HAS BEEN IN 
ICELAND ,GREENLAND,NOVIA SCOTIA AND ENGLAND.
  HE MADE HIS HOME WITH HIS SISTER ,MRS.TOM GLEATON IN CORDELE.

Additional Comments:
MR. CHARLES CRUM SERVED AS A PALLBEARER FOR MAJOR FELIX D. 
WILLIAMSON,CORDELE'S ACE PILOT IN 1947 AFTER A ROUTINE PRACTICE CRASH TOOK HIS 
LIFE.

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