This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KROTOSHINSKY Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JRB.2ACE/1475 Message Board Post: October 7th, 1918 08:00 Captain Holderman volunteers Private Krotoshinsky to bring a message back to the lines. 18:30 Reaches the lines, volunteers to lead back to pocket.19:00 Relief led by Krotoshinsky reaches the pocket. (Paraphrased from The Lost Battalion, Johnson & Pratt) I need to find and add text of DSC. All the rest are 308th and that is where I got the text. Krotoshinsky also has his story told "History and Rhymes of Lost Battalion". See "Books" page to on-line copy of book, find his story. this was found at the following url: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-johnrcotter/lost_battalion_heroes.html WWI was barber came thru Ellis Island