Friends of France; . in, on that hard-bitten pass under the pines of theVosgian steeps, there fell a very modest and valiantgentleman. Dick Hall, we who knew you, worked with you,played with you, ate with you, slept with you, we whotook pleasure in your company, in your modesty, inyour gentle manners, in your devotion and in youryouth — we still pass that spot, and we salute. Ourbreath comes quicker, our eyes grow dimmer, we gripthe wheel a little tighter — we pass — better andstronger men. Richard Hall was buried with honors of war in theValley of Saint-Amarin, in the part of Alsace whichonce
Friends of France; . in, on that hard-bitten pass under the pines of theVosgian steeps, there fell a very modest and valiantgentleman. Dick Hall, we who knew you, worked with you,played with you, ate with you, slept with you, we whotook pleasure in your company, in your modesty, inyour gentle manners, in your devotion and in youryouth — we still pass that spot, and we salute. Ourbreath comes quicker, our eyes grow dimmer, we gripthe wheel a little tighter — we pass — better andstronger men. Richard Hall was buried with honors of war in theValley of Saint-Amarin, in the part of Alsace whichonce more belongs to France. His grave, in a crowdedmilitary cemetery, is next that of a French officer whofell the same morning. It bears the brief inscription,Richard Hall, an American who died for mountain people in the only part of Germanywhere foreign soldiers are to-day brought to the gravemany wreaths of native flowers and Christmas funeral service was held in a little Protestant 144. RICHARD HALL CHRISTMAS EVE, 1915 chapel, five miles down the valley. At the conclusionof the service Halls citation was read and the Crossof War pinned on the coffin. On the way to the ceme-tery sixteen soldiers, belonging to a battalion on leavefrom the trenches, marched in file on each side witharms reversed. The mSdecin chef spoke as follows: — Messieurs — Camarades — Cest un supreme hommage de reconnaissance etdaffection que nous rendons, devantv cette fossefraichement creusee, a ce jeune homme — je diraisvolontiers — cet enfant — tombe hier pour la Francesur les pentes de lHartmannswillerkopf. . Ai-jebesoin de vous rappeler la douloureuse emotion quenous avons tous ressentis en apprenant hier matinque le conducteur Richard Hall, de la Section Sani-taire Americaine N° 3, venait detre mortellementfrappe par un eclat dobus, pres du poste de secoursde Thomannsplats ou il montait chercher des blesses? A lAmbulance 3/58, ou nous eprouvons pour noscamar
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