Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-04-24 | Page 5 | Texas Boy Who Carried Flag

flEXASBOYWHO CARRIED FLAG V CANADIAN HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, April 23, (By the Canadian Overseas correspondent.) In reference refer-ence to the case of the young American Ameri-can believed to be a Texan who enlisted en-listed In a Canadian battalion and carried car-ried the Stars and Stripes on his bayonet bay-onet up the Vimy heights and who fell seriously wounded in the action tho first American to carry the flag of his country as a belligerent in the European war the correspondent was authorized by tho senior Roman Catholic Cath-olic chaplain of the Canadian corps to state that he heard the story in an ambulance from the lips of the wounded wound-ed man himself, but did not take his name. TEMPLE, Texas, April 23. A brief communication received today from Canadian headquarters In France by Mrs. G. F. Davis of Bland, near here, seems to establish the fact that her son Robert was the young Texan who first carried the American flag into the present war. The message stated simply sim-ply that the boy was wounded, but it is known that he enlisted in the regiment regi-ment which produced the hero of Vimy ridge and so far as can bo learned no other Texan enlisted with that body of troops. Young Davis' father fought the Germans on Vimy ridge In the Franco-Prussian war of 1870.