[sargon]

I still have my Great Grandfather's WWI uniform and mustard gas mask. He was a Corporal in the 5th Division (red Diamond), in a (heavy) Machine Gun Battalion. One of the companies in his regiment is thought to have possibly taken down the Red Baron with ground fire.

Corporal George Washington Cummings never said one word about WWI, and nobody ever pressed him. But he did his duty in France (Meuse-Argonne and St. Mihiel) and then in the postwar occupation.

I never was able to figure out whether he was using the old French heavy machine guns (Vickers water-cooled) or whether he later employed the "new" Browning M2. I need to do some more research on that point...

[rellimpank]

--my granddad was in the 354th Infantry , Company "A"--he and his brother were drafted at the same time as stayed together through until the armistice--his brother came home almost immediately but G'pa was there (in France) until March, 1919-

-all we really know about his combat situation was that during a gas attack , he was in a slight valley and somewhat affected and brother Roy was up higher and avoided the gas ,due to his location---

--his ,45 automatic (1915 serial number ) and a cartridge belt are all that remain of his souveniers--