Father Duffy's story : $b a tale of humor and heroism, of life and death with the Fighting Sixty-ninthDuffy, Francis Patrick
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Father Duffy's story : $b a tale of humor and heroism, of life and death with the Fighting Sixty-ninth
Duffy, Francis Patrick
United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 165th; World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American
Company G talked most about their Captain, the serenest pleasantest,
and most assuring person in the world in time of trial and danger.
Also Lieutenants Ogle and Stout, Norris and Joseph Boag, who was
wounded in the fray. I myself had seen Carl Kemp of the same Company
on duty at Battalion Headquarters standing through the bombardment on
the top of the parapet on his duties as lookout. Sergeant Jim Coffey,
wounded and still fighting; and, in the same class, Ralph Holmes and
John Flanigan; James Christy, working his automatic from the top of
the trench; Dennis Roe, always a good soldier in a fight; Sylvester
Taylor and Joseph Holland, liaison men; Sergeants Jim Murray, Edward
McNamara, Thomas T. Williamson and Frank Bull, Mess Sergeant Hugh
Lee; James Henderson, Thomas Gallagher, William McManus, Michael
Hogan, William Carroll, Morris Lemkin, Dennis O’Connor, John
McNamara, John Conroy, Frank McNiff, Joseph P. Alnwick, Patrick
Burke, Patrick Duffy, David Fitzgibbons, Angelo Dambrosio, James
Keavey, Nicholas Martone, Lawrence Redmond, James Ryan and John Ryan,
the Hans brothers; Thomas Slevin, Herbert Slade, James Walsh, Allen,
Henry Curry and John Fay as Company liaison; Arthur Ayres, George
Murray, Herman and Lyons as litterbearers; Louis Mugno, Maurice
Dwyer, Patrick Keane, Charles McKenna, James Elliott, mechanics;
Michael Hogan, Patrick Burke, young O’Keefe, Robert Monahan, Frank
Garland; and, to end with a good old Irish name, Mack Rosensweig. I
know he’ll be with us if we ever get a chance to go over and free
Ireland, and he’ll be a good man to take along.
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