AUTHOR'S NOTE: I'm again posting my Veterans Day Salutes to my family.
After John H. Poore was inducted at Bay Springs, Mississippi, on June 15, 1918, he entered Company A of the 152nd Infantry Regiment. This regiment arrived in Europe on Oct. 5, 1918, and never saw combat.
After John H. Poore was inducted at Bay Springs, Mississippi, on June 15, 1918, he entered Company A of the 152nd Infantry Regiment. This regiment arrived in Europe on Oct. 5, 1918, and never saw combat.
It served as a source of replacements for other
units. On Nov. 1, John was transferred to Company
On Nov. 1, 1918,
John moved up to the front lines as part of the 325th Infantry
Regiment for the last 11 days of the war. The 325th Infantry waited
in reserve as part of the 82nd Infantry Division while three other
divisions of First Army’s I Corps attacked along the Meuse River on Nov. 1.
Three days later the Germans retreated east of the Meuse.
When American
forces captured the heights overlooking the German railroad at Sedan, they
assured the
end of the war. The Germans agreed to an Armistice to begin on Nov.
11, 1918. The war ended without John having fired a shot in anger.
John H. Poore's grave in Union Seminary Baptist Church Cemetery in Jasper County, Mississippi. Photo by Larry Bell |
During the five months afterward, John and his
325th comrades waited in France for transport home. There was a shortage of troopships to take them back to the United States.
Six months after
the Armistice, John returned to the United States. The Army discharged him in
May 1919 and he came home to Jasper County, Mississippi.
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