Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1919 — HOME AGAIN AFTER STRENUOUS OVERSEAS SERVICE. [ARTICLE]

HOME AGAIN AFTER STRENUOUS OVERSEAS SERVICE.

[ Arthur Bissenden, son of Mr. and ; Mrs. A. J. Bissenden, of this city, arrived in Rensselaer Sunday evei ning from Camp Sherman, Ohio, where he had been discharged from the army service on Saturday after two years of strenuous war service. Private Bissenden was actively engaged throughout the heaviest of the fighting in 1918, and in all spent fourteen months overseas. The second battle of the Marne, ChateauThierry, Mt. Sec, St. Miheil, the battle of the Meuse, and the, Argonne baittie found him an active participant. Young Bissenden came through the battles without a scratch and qualifies as one of the most warring warriors produced 'by this county. With very few exceptions Bissenden saw more of the great battles of the war than’ any other soldier from this community. Bissenden left Rensselaer as a member of‘Co. M, under the command of Colonel Healey, going to Hattiesburg, Miss., where he remained urttil the early part of 1918. The last few months of his overseas service were speht with the army of occupation in Germany and he left that country on August 5, arriving in the United States on August 18. He was a member of the 18th field artillery.