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Show ONLY OFFICER TO SURVIVE Capt. Bert Rugh Saw All Fellow Com. manders of His Battalion Fall In Battle. The only ofiloer In his bnttallon to survive. Bert Hugh's military record reads like a chronology chro-nology of the tides of battle during ' the dark years of the war. Ills experiences ex-periences with the Canadian army, however, are lost In his absorption In the business of putting up a $100,-000 $100,-000 club house for Cedar Haplds (la.) post of the Amerl- ' lean Legion. This, El when completed, probably will be recognized rec-ognized as the finest Legion home In the country. Hugh began his military career aa a buck private In Company C, Forty, ninth towa volunteer Infnntry, serving serv-ing In Cuba from April, 1808, to May, 1899. In 1014 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. |