Hello Niblox, thanks for posting these great pictures. The history of the great war is very overwhelming,
very big fan of John McCrea and his poem " In Flanders Field". Composer Robert Prizeman made it into
a song " We are the lost" performed by Libera, a very haunting tune.
This is the problem...my dad remembers the GI saying he lived at 1 1/2 FRont Street, Pitson, Misouri. Now, I've written to the state archives and a chap there couldn't find any reference to a Pitson. Neither could he find anything that sounds like it, Piedson, Peterson etc. He even checked out suburbs these days that might have been separate towns during the war years, but nothing came up.
My dad died in 2002 and he'd really wanted us to locate this person. We used to have three photos of other GI's but they got lost over the years. One of the best stories dad used to tell was that the soldier of whom we have a photo, he was an army cook. When my home town was full of US and Canadian troops waiting for D-Day, this guy would bring my dad's family some sausages or a loaf of bread. Dad's family, and the whole country, had been on rationing for years by that point (and would continue to be so until 1953!) so this was great for them to have a little extra to eat.
I'm away from home for a few days just now. When I get back I'll post up his 'regiment', or whatever you guys call it. I've been meaning to leave a message on the regimental web board. If I recall correctly, he was in something like the quartermasters,
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