Pvt. EZRA A. SMITH, USMC

Member of 81st Company as of 15 March, 1918, while battalion was in the Bourmont Training Sector. Serial number: #108131. Wounded at Soissons, July 20, 1918. Absent from company roster at Armistice.

Served as member of the so-called "Well-Known 13th Gun Crew" at Quantico, under (then) Sgt Vernon Bourdette.



Front row, left to right: Ezra A. Smith, Francis J. Squires, Frank Sobkowski.
Back row, left to right: Jasper T. Cobb, John D. Stark,
Roland F. Stanton, Julian M. Smyley, Sgt Vernon Bourdette.

Thanks to Roland Edmonds for the material on this page.
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