WALTER BEDFORD

TWO PETERS BOYS WOUNDED IN FRANCE, BOTH ON ROAD TO RECOVERY,
WRITE LETTERS HOME
Letters received from Corporal John Peters of Company H. 127th
infantry, who left with Company H, indicate that he was wounded
in action in France on July 10th and has been in a base hospital
ever since. He was shot through the thigh. Charles Peters, his
brother, and a private in the same company who also left here
with company H was also wounded in the same battle, but his
injuries were slight. Both boys in their letters tell of having
the Boche on the run one letter saying, “women and kids are their
meat and when it comes to a good hard boiled yank they are not in
it.” Corporal Peters said one Yank can make three or four Germans
hunt their hole. He adds that “we will eat our Christmas dinner
on the banks of the Rhine.” Charles Peters in telling of being
wounded says he was struck on the shoulder blade by a machine gun
and walked three miles to get to the ambulance. He was fighting
near Chateau Thierry when wounded. He says the Sammies all imagined
that they would be excited when they got into battle, but Peters
said he was as steady as when on the rifle range. He also
announces that Walter Bedford was wounded in the foot.
Manitowoc Herald News, Thursday, October 10, 1918, Page 5
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[Walter Bedford/bur. 07-25-1921/cause: D.W.R.I.A/bur. on Mrs. A.
Bedford lot]
[wounded in war 7/31/1918, died 10/5/1918 - originally buried in
France and brought to US in 1921; info from Laker Shopper newspaper:
died from wounds, in 127 INF.]
(Possible explanation of the cause - died while recovering in action.
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The following is about Harry Bedford. He is in the WWI list of men
but isn't in any cem.:
LONG SILENCE OF SOLDIER BOY WHO WAS FEARED TO BE DEAD, BROKEN BY LETTER
Corp. Harry Bedford, who is serving with the motor truck detachment of
the American army overseas, has been heard from after a silence of months,
a silence which caused relatives here to fear that he had met death in the
service and had prompted inquiries through the Red Cross which, however,
proved without result in the learning of Corp. Bedford’s whereabouts or
his fate. In a letter to his mother here, received today, Corp. Bedford
says that for some time he has been kept busy, the trucks operating on
long trips, three four sometimes six days. He says that he was within a
short distance of Brest on his last trip but did not get a chance to visit
Major Walter Abel, his brother in law who is now stationed at Brest. Corp.
Bedford learned of the death of his brother Walter Bedford for the first
time at Christmas when he received a letter written by his mother from this
city in November. He says that he also received the Xmas box sent him. Corp.
Bedford has no knowledge as to the time that he may be able to return home.
Manitowoc Herald News, Wednesday, January 22, 1919 Page 6