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THE PERSONNEL OF ONE OF BADIN’S PROGRESSIVE BUSINESS HOUSES
does help a little to know that our friends
do want to help.
If you could know God’s plans and
mind, you could then understand why
these things come; but we must live by
faith, and trust him who doeth all things
well. Take all your trials to the Lord
in prayer, and I know he will help you
as he did me.
I hope you and the little ones will be
blessed with health and strength, and
your future will be brighter than it now
seems possible; and remember me as
Your sincere friend
Geo. F. Campbell
Home from France
The following article, clipped from
The Daily Times, Chattanooga, will be
of interest to many people in Badin who
knew Lieutenant Brown when he was
working here for the Company.
We have abundant cause to be proud
of this Badin boy.
COMES HOME UNANNOUNCED
Lieut. Foster V. Brown Ordered to
Fort Oglethorpe
Wearing Decorations, Wound Chevrons,
and Two Service Stripes, Young
Officer Slips in on Relatives
Slipping unannounced last evening into
his old home town, visiting numerous
familiar places of his boyhood days, and
greeting friends with a naturalness of
manner that indicated a return from a
brief journey rather than a stay of many
months on the blood-soaked soil of
France, First Lieut. Foster V. Brown,
Jr., young Chattanooga attorney, wearer
of the coveted ribbon of the croix de
guerre, two wound chevrons, two golden
service chevrons, subject of two citations
for gallantry in action, and with a record
of service under fire possessed by few
officers in the American army, not only
surprised his friends, but frustrated
their plans to give him a welcome that
bespoke their admiration for his gallant
conduct in battle. Lieutenant Brown ar
rived at Hoboken, February 13 and, after
undergoing treatment at a hospital in
New York, was ordered to Fort Ogle
thorpe for final medical survey and dis
charge. His arrival was a great sur
prise even to his family, who had not
expected him for a week or more.
Lieutenant Brown graduated at the
first officers’ training camp, at Fort
Oglethorpe, and was immediately as
signed to overseas duty. He arrived in
France November 17, 1917, and was as
signed to duty with the Twenty-Eighth
Infantry (regulars), F'irst Division.
From the date of his arrival in France
until his (departure, after the armistice
was signed, a period of more than seven
teen months, Lieutenant Brown was con
stantly at the front, with the exception of
approximately a month the division spent
at rest camp. So urgent was the de
mand for the historic division at the
front that it was in exceptionally rare
instances officers were given leaves, and
as a consequence the gallant Chattanoo-
gan, altho serving in practically every
major operation of the American army
—from Cantigny to the Argonne—was
not absent from his post thru the long
period of service. “Gay Paree” is as
unfamiliar to him as to the wearers of
the silver chevron in America; and Nice
and Monte Carlo and the famous water
ing places of Europe, where American
officers were wont to motor while on
leave from the harrowing job of mak
ing war, figured not in the war diary
of the Chattanoogan. He was with the
First, and it was a case of the first be
ing last and the last first—first at Can
tigny and last out of the Argonne.
With characteristic modesty of the
American officer. Lieutenant Brown last
night, at the home of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Foster V. Brown, 511 Walnut
Street, disclaimed any undue credit in
the mighty struggle America’s manhood
waged for civilization. In fact, when it
came to portraying the part his regi
ment and division played in the conflict,
the young officer’s silence was
able with the manner of his j
But his friends and fellow-soldiers
let his good deeds so shine that
were seen afar off by New York
porters, and with these reports and ^
aid of admiring friends, a Times
er succeeded in tracing his battle
Joining the First division in
ber, 1917, Lieutenant Brown fir®V
service in the Toul sector. Rexn^'^ijj;
there until Easter, he went
command to join British force®’ ^
served with them until May. Then
the American forces’ first battle
pendent of other forces—Cantigny
Lieutenant Brown sustained * ^ jt
wound while leading his men in °
the advance waves. Recovering ^,
his wound after he had been jc
dead, the young officer was
join his regiment in time to P**?'jei'*'
in the vicious struggle in the
Thierry sector, the First and
including the marines, stopping if'
advance on Paris, and turning
vaders back on what developed ^
final disastrous retreat.
was slightly wounded and
recovered in time to be in ^,1
St Mihiel drive, and following t|‘
victory his division continue*^ t?
front right thru until the ,i
last gun died away in the Argo”^ fr
It was at Soissons, it is
friends of the young officer
reports, that he was cited and
He was the only officer in
who survived the attack and, i**