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The Chickasha Daily Express
Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma
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Clark Eimer, a young American farmer who joined the army in 1917, served in France with the First Division, was severely wounded by German shellfire in March 1918, and returns to Oklahoma to recount his experiences.
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CLARK EIMER
Clark Eimer, one of the Pershing Crusaders of the First Division in France, wounded while in service in the front line trenches upon German soil, has come back to Oklahoma to tell in his simple, boyish way, just what he saw in his five months service in France. Eimer is not an orator, but he is a typical American farmer boy who has gone out to save the world. In him Oklahoma will picture their sons who have gone to France. Eimer was a farmer boy before the 6th of May, 1917, when he left the farm and joined the regular army at St. Joseph, Mo. He arrived in France with the first Americans to land and went into service in the Toul sector in January, 1918. He was severely wounded on the morning of March 1, 1918, by a high explosive shell sent over by the Germans in preparation of one of the first attacks they made at the beginning of the big German drive of last Spring. Eimer was wounded in five places and is still convalescent.
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Oklahoma, France, Toul Sector, St. Joseph Mo.
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1917 05 06 To 1918 03 01
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Clark Eimer, a farmer boy, enlists in the army on May 6, 1917, serves five months in France with the First Division, is wounded by German shell on March 1, 1918, and returns to Oklahoma to share his wartime experiences.