Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Girard, John F. 1918
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel, Thursday, March 13, 1919

Sergt. Max Smith was present at the time that Lieut. John Girard was killed in 
the Argonne fighting and saw the body of the gallant Ionia lieutenant lying on 
the battlefield.  Lieut. Girard was killed, says Sergt. Smith, by a machine 
gun bullet through the head and not by a one pound shell as reported 
heretofore.  Sergt. Smith also witnessed the wounding of Sergt. Leroy Daussman 
as well as other members of the company who were killed.  Sergt. Daussman lost 
a leg in a shell explosion and died within a short time.


Additional Comments:
Transcriber's Note:  The local researcher has indicated death occurred October 
5, 1918.

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