Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-29 | Page 14 | Salt Laker, 27, Wins Majority in France

1 f AJOR B. F. CAFFEY, JR., -who iT-L has been iu thiclc of fight in France for more than year and who recently won the insignia of major. i-i t? if C 1 ! j " uy i It.. : : I 11 - V ! i r SALT LAKER, 27, WINS IJITYJ FRANCE B. F. Caffey, Jr., in Ar-gonne Ar-gonne Fight Helps Annihilate An-nihilate Huns. i TARIS, Xov. 4. Probably Utah's youngest major has just received his insignia, in-signia, lie is B. F. Caffey, Jr., son of Benjamin F. Caffey, 1037 First avenue, Salt Lake, and but 27 years of age. He entered tho infantry branch at the outbreak out-break of tho war as a second lieutenant and had been in the thick of the fighting for more than a year. His promotion was just learned here through a letter to his brother. Corporal Andrew A. Caf-fev Caf-fev of C battery, 145th field artillery (First Utah). In his letter, Frank tells of beating the Germans in the Argon ne as follows: "We have been fighting for weeks near the Argortne. AVe knocked hell out: of four boche divisions, including two famous fa-mous 'stormstrupper' divisions the Fifth Prussian Guard and the Fifty-second German division. The four were almost totally annihilated, and do not exist at the present time. AVe captured everything every-thing from a colonel to a rolling kitchen." Ulajor Caffey also, writes that he is due for a leave and will make every effort ef-fort to visit his brother and his many Utah friends at the training camp within a few days.