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aon took part in most of the historic campaigns of that war Including the Artois Sector, St. Michiel, Meuse-Argonne, and Radges, he came through without a scratch. Said Gordon, in talking about this exsxperience, “I just felt I was coming back; but at the end, there were only 37 of us left out of the original company.", Memories of those days remain varied and vivid, and Mr. Gordon tells of them readily. Trench warfare was rough, and mud and hand-to hand combat became the usual prospect of the day. Though many of the “doughboys* brought souvenirs home, Gor don followed orders to the letter and brought nothing back with him. "But at one time," he reports, “we were the first to enter Von Hindenberg’s quarters, and I pried off his brass nameplate. I didn’t keep it, but one of the other men carried it with him." The objects close to Mr. Gordon’s heart as relics of World War I are his honorable discharge; his induction papers carrying the number 258; the statement he was the first civilian selected for in(Continued
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