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Show OLIVER A. LEFEBVRE, who expects soon to be in France, fighting the Huns. 1 Wi 81 $ w4 LOiyGS TO GRAPPLE FOREFATHERS' FOES Battery Veteran of Utah Artillery Is an Expert With , Machinery. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, July 27. That he will soon have an opportunity to get to France and serve in the battle against the Huns, whom his forefathers fought in 1870, is the wish of Oliver Adams Le-Febvre, Le-Febvre, machinist in B battery, 145th artillery, stationed at Camp Kearny. In his letters to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene O. LeFebvre, 410 Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth street, the young soldier has conveyed con-veyed the glad tidings that he expects to be -'over there" before very long. LeFebvre is a veteran of B battery, having been a member of the organization organiza-tion when it was B troop, Utah National Nation-al Guard, doing duty on the Mexican border. When the troop returned -from Arizona, LeFebvre remained as a member mem-ber and was ready to follow the destinies desti-nies of the oiganization in the war as a battery. The young man was a resident of Ogden' Og-den' for four years before going into the battery, lie was born at Petaluma, Cal., twenty-three years ago. He graduated grad-uated from the Petaluma high school and then started as an apprentice machinist ma-chinist with the Corliss Gas. Engine company com-pany of that city. When his parents moved to Ogden, Oliver came to the city and secured a position at the Southern South-ern Pacific shops as an apprentice machinist, ma-chinist, a position he held until responding respond-ing to the call to the flag. He paid a short visit to his parents recently when returning to the camp' from a motor training school in the east. He is a nephew of John A. Adams of J. S. Lewis & Co. |