Campbell County WY Archives Military Records.....Gillette's Boys Answer Country's Call April 20, 1917
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Gillette's Boys Answer Country's Call
The Gillette News Fri Apr 20, 1917 pg 1
                Answer Country's Call
  Last Monday afternoon over one hundred of Gillette's
citizens formed an impressive escort to eight of their
young men who had volunteered for war service and who
departed on No. 42 that evening for Ft. Logan, Colo.,
in company with Sargeant Ernest Birch, G. F. I., who
came up last Saturday to make examination of the
applicants. Those making up Gillette's Honor Roll, 
were: John F. Mulvaney, Bert Streeter, Arthur A. Drew,
Loyd G. Neyhart, George T. Morton, Claude E. Yowell,
Rex B. Eversole and Ernest F. Houser, to this list
should be added the name of M. A. Drew who went down
a week previous and who has been assigned a position
with the Signal Corps. The boys were escorted to the
depot by the aforesaid citizens, keeping step to the
music of drums with Old Glory floating proudly in the
lead, and at the depot fully a half hour was spent
in handclasps and words of good cheer to the local
volunteers. It is anticipated from expressions over-
heard at the time that within a very short time
Gillette's Honor Roll will be more than doubled. 
God bless you, boy, you have shown the stuff that our
country is made of and may it  be your good fortune
to be returned to your homes and various vocations
within a very brief space of time.
   Word received by Postmaster Given on Wednesday
from Sargeant Birch, was to the effect that he
arrived at his destination with the boys all in
good shape and that everyone of them had successfully
passed the required examination and had been sworn
into the service.

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