Our Hugh DeHart, a Hero of the Great War

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    Our Hugh DeHart, a Hero of the Great W
  • Above: The only known photo of Hugh De-Hart.
    Above: The only known photo of Hugh De-Hart.
  • Above: His tombstone in the Table Rock Cemetery
    Above: His tombstone in the Table Rock Cemetery
    Take note of this date: Friday, November 1. On that day in the year 1918, a 27-yearold farmer fell dead near the town of Audenarde, Belgium. His name was Hugh Elsworth DeHart. He was a soldier, a hero of the Great War, killed in Flanders fields less than two weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918.Hugh DeHart had been born in Red Cloud in 1891, the year that a teen-aged Willa Cat...

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