This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Applegate, Dickson Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/206 Message Board Post: The Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, October 29, 1917 A letter received at this office the latter part of last week from Eugene Applegate, at Paris Island, S.C., informs us that he is getting along fine and seems to enjoy life as a U.S. Marine. – Union Ledger The Plattsmouth Journal, July 11, 1918 EUGENE APPLEGATE IS WOUNDED IN FRANCE >From Monday's Daily Word reached us Tuesday morning that Eugene Applegate, one of the first boys to enlist from this place had been wounded on the western front in France. This is the first casuality [sic] from this place and came as a great shock to all. Eugene enlisted in the Marines about a year ago and has been in France several months. The meager news received of his being wounded states that he was wounded in the right hip and arm, but how serious is not revealed, other than that he was in a Paris hospital and that he was getting along fine. We hope it is true and that his injuries are not serious. This newspaper received a letter from him just a few minutes before the news came of his being wounded. In the letter he stated he was well and getting along fine. As near as could be determined from his letter he was in the trenches at the time which was May 27th. According to the last information he was wounded June 5th. - Union Ledger The Lincoln Sunday Star, Sunday, December 22, 1918 EUGENE APPLEGATE (photo in uniform) [Caption] Son of Mrs. Ida Applegate, 329 South Eighteenth, returned to Lincoln nine days ago after spending four months in a Paris hospital following a trip “over the top” with the marines at Belleau Wood in the face of German machine-gun bullets. The marines relieved the French troops during the latter part of May and the first of June when the Huns were driving toward Paris six or seven miles a day. Applegate enlisted in June 1917. He has three brothers in the service, one of whom is in France. WOUNDED OHAHAN [sic] INVALIDED HOME Julian E. Applegate, wounded four times at Chateau Thierry, has been invalided home from France. He is now at the home of W.F. Dickson, 2222 South thirty-first street. “The sight of French refugees made me fight,” said the war hero. “When I saw those men and women suffering from German kulture, I was ready to do my bit to eliminate the huns.” Applegate was wounded when he and fifty comrades were ordered to destroy a machine gun nest. -source of clipping unknown; taped to back of military portrait