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Show ONLY OFFICER TO SURVIVE Capt. Bert Rugh Saw All Fellow Commanders Com-manders of His Battalion Fall in Battle. The only officer in his battalion to survive, Bert Rugh's military record reads like a chronology chro-nology of the tides of battle during the dark years of the war. His experiences ex-periences with the Canadian a r m y, however, are lost in his absorption in the business of putting up a $100,-000 $100,-000 club house for Cedar Rapids (la.) post of the Ameri- lean Legion, llils, when completed, probably will be recognized rec-ognized as the finest Legion home In the country. Rugh began his military career as a buck private in Company C, Forty-ninth Forty-ninth Iowa volunteer infantry, serving serv-ing in Cuba from April, 1898, to May, 1899. In 1914 he joined the Second Field troop of the Canadian Engineers, went overseas, and was promoted to a lieutenancy. During the course of events, every other officer In the battalion bat-talion met his death. Three of Rugh's orderlies were killed in action, and in one attack Rugh was the only member of his company to come through alive. |