Fulton County GaArchives News.....J.H. THOMPSON IS IN ATLANTA FROM OVERSEAS RECOVERING FROM WOUNDS IN BATTLE  :
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"The Roanoke Leader" :
Roanoke, Randolph Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, January 29, 1919 
 
J.H. THOMPSON IS IN ATLANTA FROM OVERSEAS RECOVERING FROM WOUNDS IN BATTLE 
 
Five Georgia officers, two of whom are Eighty-Second division Lieutenants and 
all of whom bear the wounds as testimonials of the fact that when they fought 
in France, were among the convalescents who reached the Fort McPherson base 
hospital this week. 
 
They fairly bristled with stories of heroism of comrades and of the part the 
82nd played in clearing the Argonne forest and driving the Boche to the open 
warfare. 
 
When it came to the subject of their own wounds they volunteered nothing at 
all, which is the way of some young officers who have really been through the 
mill. 
 
Lieutenant Thompson, who used to be in the advertisement department of a 
Tuscaloosa, Ala., newspaper and who married an Atlantan girl, Miss Haydee 
JOHNSON, told how the daring 82nd completed the work of clearing the Argonne 
forest and then met the Boche on the Aire river in the open warfare that proved 
one of the biggest factors in the defeat of Germany. 
 
He was wounded at St. Michiel and later at the Argonne forest where he fought 
for thirteen days before shell splinters struck him in the arm and leg and put 
him out of commission. He told of high morale of the 82nd, of the enthusiams 
with which the men fought at all times. Trench and Camp Department, Atlanta 
Journal, the 21st inst. 
 
Lieutenant Thompson referred to above is John Homer Thompson, son of Mr. A.J. 
Thompson, prominent citizen of Stroud, Chambers County. First Lieut. Thompson 
had made a fine record wherever he was placed before the war and his friends 
are not surprised that he made good as a soldier. They rejoice that he is safe 
at home again, though wounded. 

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