Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-30 | Page 11 | Post Family has Two Sons doing Service

POST FAMILY ! ! HAS TWO SONS I DOING SERVICE 4 ALLEN POST. Y ' - WILLIAM A. POST. f- HERE are two smiling' lads" who consider con-sider "doing: their bit" for Uncle Sammy a pleasure. At the outbreak of the war. Allen Post, who was at school in California, joined the California national na-tional guard, although he was barely 17 years of age. He is now at Linda Yisia with the lSUth infantry. William A. Post, better Uuown as "Billy Junior." thought the fife of a sailor vas. the life for him, so he took himself to Lieutenant Edwin Outline and enlisted in the naval hospittH corps. This was in February last. Tie received his ; first training at San Francisco, was trans-j trans-j ferrerl to Colorado, then to Norfolk, and j has already made one trip to France. lie was on the Cassan that was torpedoed I in an encounter with a U-boat and j limped into port. Billy lias received three promotions and now holds the rank of a petty officer. Allen and William are the sons of Mr.' and Mrs. Walter Lee Post and are natives na-tives of the sunny south, claiming Georgia as their native state. Mr. Post is connected con-nected with the local Packard automobile automo-bile agency.