In photograph at left, Legionnaire Cpl Andrew Walbron (France) is on the left and Paul Pavelka (USA) is on the right.
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Paul Pavelka, another Legionnaire in the squad with Kenneth Weeks, had been wounded in the leg at the time the latter was killed. Pavelka already had enjoyed a varied and romantic existence before joining the Legion; a cowboy in the American West, a hiker across the Andes, a sailor that had been to the South Seas; he was living at a sailors' home in New York when the war started. His experiences at sea provided him the nickname of 'Skipper', by which he was known to his Legion comrades.
~~ Alice S. Weeks, Greater Love Hath No Man (Boston: Bruce, Humprhies, Inc., 1939).
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