"Civil War Veteran Who Lied About His Age to Fight in WWI" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 10 Aug 2023 6:12 a.m. PST |
…After the Civil War, Boucher returned to Canada and began working on railroads, in foundries and as a guide on the St. Lawrence River near Gananoque for the next 49 years. His wife died, his children became adults and he settled into retirement until Germany invaded Belgium in the summer of 1914… Military: link |
| Bill N | 10 Aug 2023 6:17 a.m. PST |
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| Titchmonster | 10 Aug 2023 8:15 a.m. PST |
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| clibinarium | 10 Aug 2023 12:12 p.m. PST |
Died in February of 1939. If he had lived until September he might have been tempted to lie one more time. |
robert piepenbrink  | 10 Aug 2023 1:33 p.m. PST |
I'll have to look him up. There was a National Guard colonel serving with the 28th ID in 1944. After a while, division staff got a message from the Pentagon pointing out that he as too old to be in a combat zone, and he was to be shipped stateside. They replied that he was currently doing a good job running a regimental combat team in the Battle of the Bulge. Could they wait until after the battle to tell him he was too old for this sort of thing? |
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