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Show Amwoan LEGION Copy for Tbla Lpts,rtmert Supplied bj tha American Lfflon News Service.) IN ARMY AT THE AGE OF 14 Stephen S. Tillman of Washington Now Sergeant-at-ArmS of Georgo Washington Post. Stephen S. Tlllinnn, Washington, D. C, served as a private In the army dur- -'is 'n8 'he World KfZK vQr at the mature "Ke of fourteen l years. He wus i i reBulnr'y enlisted ; ) s. didn't have to lie about bis oge. V Just before he T J went to the re- A ut'iB office he cut the numerals r V V "IS" out of a cal- , -sxC , endar and pasted w -- t)em Jn jieels of his shoes. When the recruiting officer of-ficer asked him how old he was, Tillman Till-man replied: "I'm out eighteen." They swore him ln. Being a trifle smaller than a regulation regula-tion army rifle, he was detailed as a bugler. He went to ths Mexican border bor-der with his company, "H" of the Third D. C. Infantry. Coming back from the border as the United States entered the World war, he did guard duty along Conduct road, Washington, where several hundred attractive young women were taking an Intensive training course. But he was ouly sixteen six-teen years old then. Now he Is scTgeart-at-arms of George Washington Post No. 1 of the American Legion, Washington, the first Legion post organised. His father fa-ther is a retired cavalry officer. |