Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-04-10 | Page 7 | Parents of Poet Hero to Hunt His Last Resting Place in 'No Man's Land'

Parents of Poet Hero to Hunt His Ills Last Resting Place in No Mans Man's Land PARIS April 10 UP UP-A UP A small group of comrades in arms will lea leave leae leaven e eIn In III n a f few w da days s to search the battlefields battlefields battle battle- fields and erect a simple wooden cross in the plains of Champagne where Alan Seeger American soldier soldier- poet with the French foreign legion toad hid his rendezvous with death Seeger's parents are expected from New York and they will be joined by Paul Rockwell of Asheville N. N C C. and George of New York who expect to spend some time seeking the exact place of death It was near the village o of en Belloy was vas the thc last soldier of the thc legion to see Seeger alive falling at the same time as the youthful poet with a bullet in his Ills groin heard Seeger cry out as he was hit by a n piece of shell They crawled to separate shell- shell holes and and from his shelter heard Seeger's cry for help heard his weakening cries for wat water r. r Del Del- peuch had a few scant drops in his canteen and anti although in dreadful pain himself tossed his canteen toward Seeger In his feebleness he failed to toss it lit far enough and the canteen lay fn In No Mans Man's land between the two tuo Seeger died a few minutes minutes min min- utes later Stretcher bearers eventually eventually eventually ally found and carried himoff him himoff himoff off to a hospital They found Seeger stripped it being evident that he had tried to bandage himself to stop the flow of blood Seeger was carried to a nearby hillside graveyard and buried burled but In following battles the hill was blown 0 off the landscape b by shell fire Ire The grave rave has disappeared forever but believes he can find the field In which the offered them shelter