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' / FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1919. |Tam We owe it to death on the bl Victory Libert 1 THE LANCASTER NEWS. LANCM , I lulHu/ ericas! Miller and to the ood-stained fields o: y Loan as Americai This space cont HE LAJNCA2 LANCASTE % *- ? n i ' ? the right leg, but he nevertheless staggered for* head of his command. Soon afterward he was in the right arm but he continued the charge, che ring his troops on thru the heavy machim Just before the objective was reached he received i ~TZ~= the abdomen, which forced him to the ground, but he - urge his men on, telling them to push on to the next ridj him where he lay. He died from his wounds a fet Home address: Mrs. Oscar F. Miller, wife, 51st Street, Los Angeles, Cal. 1 ?SCAIF.MILL r jHMORTA thousands who v\ f France to go thrc is should. Victory Liberty ributed b* ;ter news R, S. C. * lSTER, S. C. Official Citation * MILLER, OSCAR F., Major, 361st Inf. (Decease I 'OR conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity i X beyond the call of duty in action with the a ^ Gesnes, France, 28 September, 1918. _ After two days of intense physical and inei during which Major Miller had led his battalion i ^ line of the advance, thru the Forest of Argonne, was met in a prepared position south of Gesnes. almost exhausted, he energetically re-organized hi 1 t a a ww and ordered an attack. Upon reaching open g advancing line began to waver in the face of m; fire from the front and Hanks and direct artillery sonally leading his command group forward betwee line companies, Major Miller inspired his men by f courage and they again pressed on toward the f tion. As the officer led the renewed attack he v PAGE SEVEN ibove and I icmy near I ntal strain, n the front the enemy Though s battalion round, the ^ ichine-gun I , "^v fire. Per- S J* \ n his front || vas shot in I r^rVV (\ 'ard at the I J arrair* <Nrvf | ? , ' V ' I , personally V ./ c - gun fire. L \J/ i wound in ~~ ; continued to je and leave ~~~ r days later. Q " * " 1 ?rXa 1727 West | ' 1 J -?\ ^ -?Jf KR ^ ^ -v. gt ' j Lsl^ rent down to ugh with this i ix>an tiomminee / j I ? ' i w* ^