Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-04-02 | Page 4 | Father and Son on Firing Line Battling for Allies in France

FATHER AND SON ON FIRING LINE 3 t& 2 BATTLING FOR ALLIES IN FRANCE UTH FATHER and son in France side by side in same battery. At the left, Neils Ludwig Poulson; at the right, Edwin Ludwig Poulson. 4, v s-y5 - t ? i Sc - V -i : -1 if4- - rr - ? . f si. x - $ r : i Ti- v " h t J fx- " ' ' , - V , - . .' " t i - ".... ... s - t . Pleasant Grove Man and Boy Face Hun Foe Together. IT is not often asked of a wife and mot tier that she give both husband and son to the service of their country coun-try to battle in the trenches of a foreign land, but such is the patriotic patri-otic gift of Mrs. Neils Poulson of Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove, T'tah. Both Neils . T-udwig Poiilson and his son. Edwin Ludwig Poulson. are together with B battery of tiie Sixth artillery, regular army of the l.nitr.l Stares. Bishop Otto .1. Poulson of Sharon ward. Provo. has just received wurd from his brother and nt-phew that they are in the midst of battle in France. Neils Poulson was a farmer In Box-ebk-r county when tiie I nited States entered en-tered the war. He was fa r a hove draft ae, but his son was almost certain to go in tiie draft, so the father decided that both should volunteer. So tiie elder Poulson Poul-son leased the farm and fa ' her and son went overseas together In the same battery.