Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-30 | Page 8 | Cache County Hero is Back from War

CACHE COUNTY HERO . IS BACK FROM WAR Special to The Tribune. I LOGAN, Nov. 29. The first of Cache county fighters to reach home from the front in France is AV. A. Noble. Jr.. of Smithfield, who returned Tuesday evening. eve-ning. Mr. Noble was invalided home on account of shellshock and also is suffering suffer-ing severely from the rffects of gas. I-lo left Smith field for Camp Lewis in October, 1917, and in six weeks was on his way to France. His division, the famous Thirty-second, went into the front line trenches on the Lorraine front in yVpril and later was transferred to the Chateau Thierry sector, where tho boys were in the thick of that famous action. In fact, the Thirty-second division wns in more or less continuous action from the time it went to the front in April. Mr. Noble's account of Ihe scenes and conditions incident to the fighting around Chateau Thierry are thrilling. He says he is glad he had the opportunity to do his bit for his country. Mr. Noble, is the son of William A. Noble, Sr., and was reared in Smithiield. At the time ho was gassed he was with some other soldiers sol-diers in a dugout at Chateau Thierry. A German shell i-truck the dugout and tore the top off and the gas from the shell nearly cost tho boys their lives.