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Show FOLLOWED YANKS BACK HOME Member of London Rifle brigade Likes American Boys and Is Anxious to Be Citizen. Tommy Atkins and the doughboy might have aired different views when London en- tertalned a portion por-tion of the American Ameri-can Expeditionary Force, and there are few cases I where Tommy followed fol-lowed the Yanks back home. Baden Grlndle of tlie London Rifle Brlgnde did, however. how-ever. The Americans Ameri-cans were his bud dies up and down Piccadilly Circus and he swapped yarns and magazines with them In London .hospitals. He grew homesick for them last summer and caught the next boat out of Liverpool. Although he will not be eligible for membership In the American Legion until he becomes an American citizen, citi-zen, Grlndle -wanted to show the ex-service ex-service men's organization where he stood. While to hospital he passed away his idle moments in making a large replica of the American Legion emblem on a brass plate. A buddy lent lilm a Legion button as a model. He took the plate to national headquarters head-quarters of the Legion recently as a token of friendship and asked If some one wouldn't have a law passed so he could become a citizen without further ado. |