e killed. Talbot was hit twice, but is about
again. That accounts for all the officers in the company that I brought
over. In the first fight 103 of the men in that outfit were killed or
wounded. The second fight must have about cleaned out the old crowd.

The tanks, as they crushed their way through the wet, gray forest looked
to me like beasts of the pre-stone age.

In the afternoon as I lay on my back in a hole that I dug deeper, the
dark gray German planes with their sinister black crosses, looked like
Death hovering above. They were for many. Sumner, for one. He was always
saying, "Denig, let's go ashore!" Then here was Wass, whom I usually
took dinner with--dead, too. Sumner, Wass, Baston and Hunt--the old
crowd that stuck together; two dead, one may never be any good any more;
Hunt, I hope, will be as good as ever.

The officers mentioned in Major Denig's letter, with their addresses and
next of kin, are:

Lieutenant Colonel Berton W. Sibley; Harriet E. Sibley, mother; Essex
Junction, Vt.

First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates; Mrs. Willis J. Cates, mother;
Tiptonville. Tenn.

First Lieutenant Horace Talbot, no next of kin; Woonsocket, R.I.

Captain Arthur H. Turner; Charles S. Turner, father, 188 West River St.,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Captain Bailey Metcalf Coffenberg; Mrs. Elizabeth Coffenberg, 30 Jackson
St., Staten Island, N. Y.

Captain Albert Preston Baston; Mrs. Ora Z. Baston, mother; Pleasant
Avenue, St. Louis Park, Minn.

Captain Lester Sherwood Wass; L. A. Wass, father. Gloucester, Mass.

Captain Allen M. Sumner; Mrs. Mary M. Sumner, wife; 1824 S Street, N.
W., Washington, D. C.

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Holcomb; Mrs. Thomas Holcomb, wife, 1535 New
Hampshire Avenue, Washington, D. C.

Second Lieutenant John Laury Hunt; Etta Newman, sister; Gillet, Texas.

Captain Walter H. Sitz; Emil H. Sitz, father; Davenport, Iowa.

First Lieutenant John W. Overton, son of J. M. Overton, 901 Stahlman
Building, Nashville, Tenn.

Major Egbert T. Lloyd; Mrs. E. T. Lloyd, wife; 4900 Cedar Avenue,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Major Ralph S. Keyser; Charles E. Keyser, father; Thoroughfare, Va.

Captain Pere Wilmer; Mrs. Alice Emory Wilmer, mother; Centreville, Md.

Lieutenant Colonel John A. Hughes; Mrs. A. J. Hughes, wife, care of
Rear-Admiral William Parks, Post Office Building, Philadelphia, Pa.

Lieutenant Overton was the famous Yale athlete, the intercollegiate
one-mile champion.

CHAPTER XLIII

ENGLAND