Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1918 — Battery F’s Loss Is Small. [ARTICLE]

Battery F’s Loss Is Small.

Bloomington, Dec. 20. —That all members of Battery F of this city xtere safe after' the signing of the armistice was the word contained in a letter just received by Mrs. E. B. Cassell of this city from her son; Joseph. The letter, dafed November 28, said that the battery had the smallest casualty record of any of the others of the state. On the dhy before the signing of the armistice Battery F was pouring shells into the German lines. The letter said that one German shell came over and every member of the battery thought it was going to smash up things', but it passed over and wounded many df the members of the Rainbow division in other units. The battery has a total of only two men killed in action since it left Bloomington. Cassell’s letter stated that the boys were just ready to step over the border into Germany at the time the letter was written. Sergt. Lannis Thrasher of Battery F arrived home and will go to a hospital at Camp Taylor, Ky., after a fiye-day furlough here with relatives.