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Show LEGION Copy (or This Department Supplied by the American Legion News Service.) LEGION SEEKS MISSING MAN Mother Appeals to Organization to Help Locate Her Son, Boyd Martin McClure, Diligent search Is being made for Boyd Martin MeClure, a World war veteran, who formerly served In the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth, One Hundred and Thirtieth and Four Hundred Hun-dred and Seventieth aero squadrons, until December, 1018. To the efforts of the various civil organizations, government gov-ernment agencies have added their services In the quest for the missing man. McClure, whose mother resides In McKenzie, Tenn., enlisted in the army In Great Falls, Mont., in August, 1917. Prior to that time he had been employed em-ployed by the Great Northern railway as a fireman. He reached England while In the service, but was returned and discharged, leaving for the West. According to reports made by investigators, investi-gators, he worked for the Great North em after his return. He is said to have lost his personal effects in a fire which destroyed a railroad hotel in Fargo, N. D., amng which was his army discharge, which had previously been sent to him by his mother. In May, 1922, he made application to the executive secretary of the Red Cross in Billings, Mont., for a certificate certifi-cate of discharge in lieu of the lost original. Further trace of the man was found at the Salvation Army headquarters head-quarters in that city, where McClure was a guest about this time, but the man disappeared in June, 1922. No trace has been found since that time, though It is believed that he may be al work in the Dakotas or Montana. McClure's mother Is said to be in need of help at her home in Tennessee and seeks the assistance of the American Ameri-can Legion in locating her son, though she fears he is dead or a patient in some hospital, because of an illness which followed an attack of influenza while in service. At the time of enlistment the man was twenty-two years of age. He was six feet in height, weighed about 14(i pounds, had brown eyes, brown hair, fair complexion, jpper teeth slightly protruding. Any member of the Legion or other person in possession of information infor-mation concerning this man should ad dress Mrs. U. G. McClure, McKenzie, Tenn. |