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"_Messieurs--Comrades_:--
"We are here to offer our last, supreme homage of gratitude and
affection, beside this freshly dug grave, to this young man--I might
well say, this boy--who fell yesterday, for France, on the slopes of
Hartmannsweilerkopf. Do I need to recall the painful emotion that we
all felt when we learned yesterday morning that Driver Richard Hall, of
the American Sanitary Section N{o} 3, had been mortally wounded by the
bursting of a shell, near the dressing-station at Thomannsplats, where
he had gone to take up the wounded?
"In Ambulance 3/58, where we cherish for our American comrades a
sincere affection based upon months of life in common, during which
we have had full opportunity to estimate truly their endurance,
their courage, and their devotion, Driver Richard Hall was regarded
with peculiar esteem for his modesty, his sweet disposition, his
obligingness.
"Barely graduated from Dartmouth College, in the noble enthusiasm
of his youth he brought to France the invaluable coöperation of his
charitable heart--coming hither to gather up on the battlefields of
Alsace those of our gallant troops who were wounded fighting for their
beloved country.
"He died like a 'Chevalier de la Bienfaisance,' like an American, while
engaged in a work of kindness and Christian charity!
"To the dear ones whom he has left in his own land, in Michigan, to his
grief-stricken parents, to his older brothel who displays here among us
such stoicism in his grief, our respect and our expressions of sorrow
are most sincere and heartfelt.
"Driver Richard Hall, you are to be laid to rest here, in the shadow
of the tri-colored flag, beside all these brave fellows, whose
gallantry you have emulated. You are justly entitled to make one of
their consecrated battalion! Your body alone, gloriously mutilated,
disappears; your soul has ascended to God; your memory remains in our
hearts--imperishable!--Frenchmen do not forget!
"Driver Richard Hall--farewell!"
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