Hi Listers.. An index to the biographies in the History of Barron County, 1922, and those previously submitted are available at the following: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/wi/barron/bios.htm Transcribed by Peg Lamkin, brinwood@chibardun.net. Edited and submitted by Victor Gulickson. Leo Giddings, Mr. Giddings' son by his first wife, was graduated from the Barron High School, and subsequently entered the University of Wisconsin, taking the engineering course, in which he continued until in his second year. On April 22, 1917, he enlisted at Ladysmith, Wis., in the United States' service, becoming a private in Troop K. He was sent to Camp Douglas, Wis., and from there to Camp McArthur at Waco, Texas, where he was transferred to the 121st Field Artillery, 32nd Division. In the spring of 1918 he crossed to France and soon found himself in action at the front. He took part in the fighting in the Haute Alsace sector, June 9 to July 22; the Aisne-Marne offensive, Aug. 1 to Aug. 6; the Fismes sector, Aug. 7 to Aug. 22; the Oise-Arnae offensive, Aug. 28 to Sept. 6; the Avecourt sector, Sept. 22 to Sept. 25, and the Meuse-Argonne offensive, Sept. 26, to Nov. 2, 1918. He remained in France until the late spring of 1919, returning to the United States in May, and being honorably discharged at Camp Grant May 16. Though he had passed through such a long and severe ordeal, and taken part in some of the fiercest fighting, he escaped without even a scratch. He is now a student in the State University at Madison, Wis. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 103-104.