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Holliday, John, CPL.
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Contact Info
Last Address Ponca City
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Additional Information
Last Known Activity:
Dicharged June 3, 1919 from Camp Mills, NJ; Overseas 17 months (France)
Other Comments:
Name: Holliday, John H.
Rank: Corporal
Home of Record: Ponca City, OK
DOB: Jun 15, 1895
POB: Sciotoville, OH
NOK: Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Holliday, Ponca City, OK
DOE: Active Duty: Oct 3, 1917
POE: Active Duty: Ponca City, OK
DOS: Active Duty: Jun 3, 1919
POS: Active Duty: Camp Mills NJ
Remarks: Overseas 17 months (France)
Source: "Honor Roll and Service Record, Kay Co, OK, p. 56" published by Blackwell Job Printing Company, Blackwell, OK, in 1920.
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World War I/Ypres-Lys Campaign
From Month/Year
August / 1918
To Month/Year
November / 1918
Description Ypres-Lys 19 August - 11 November 1918. That part of the Western Front extending from the English Channel south through Ypres, and thence across the Lye River to the vicinity of Arras, was manned by an army group under King Albert of Belgium composed of Belgian, British, and French armies. In late August and early September the British Second and Fifth Armies, assisted by the American II Corps (27th and 30th Divisions), wiped out the Lys salient. When the Germans began retiring in the sector south of the Lys in October to shorten their lines, King Albert's army group attacked along its entire front. By 20 October Ostend and Bruges had been captured and the Allied left was at the Dutch frontier. In mid-October Pershing dispatched two American divisions-the 37th and 91st-to the French Army of Belgium, at Foch's request, to give impetus to the drive to cross the Scheldt (Escaut) southwest of Ghent. A general attack began in this area on 31 October and continued intermittently until hostilities ended on 11 November. The 37th Division forced a crossing of the river southeast of Heurne on 2 November and another farther north at the site of the destroyed Hermelgem-Syngem bridge on 10 November. Casualties of the two divisions in these operations totaled about 2,600. From 19 August to 11 November about 108,000 Americans participated in the Ypres-Lys Campaign.
