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| | PVT. ROY E. CURTIS
Serial No. 2,983,644
Dafter, Mich.
Inducted June 25, 1918.
In France, at Camp Coetquidan, Curtis, during our intensive training, was made caisson driver, but the inclement weather and mud and the climate of France generally did not agree with him. Like many of our farmer or lumber-jack boys, he was tall, proportionately but muscular and very powerfully built.
He was taken ill with the “flu” so badly that there was anxiety as to his life. He was removed to Camp Hospital No. 15 and remained there during our entire period of activities, returning to the Battery just prior to our going to the forwarding area.
In his quaint, provincial style he told the boys of his experiences upon rejoining the Battery; of how good the French girls in the neighborhood had been to him and so forth, which greatly amused the fellows.
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