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Headline from midwest newspaper, October 31, 1924.
TO HAVE POST HONORING TWO NEW JERSEY YOUTHS: MAPLE SHADE,N.J.....will soon have an American Legion Post, the ANTRIM-METZ POST in honor of two Maple Shade youths and heros of the World War 1. Harry Antrim enlisted in the United States Navy at the beginning of the war, and was assigned to the U.S.S. Buena Ventura, a supply boat, which was torpedoed on SEPT. 16, 1918. ANTRIM was rescued in a lifeboat, but heroically went back to his ship, which was sinking and attempted to save some of his comrades. ANTRIM
went down with the U.S.S. BUENA VENTURA.
NORRIS M. METZ was a private in headquarters company, Three Hundred and fifteenth Infantry and was wounded in action in France and later returned to the ranks in OCTOBER 1918. He was again wounded in action NOVEMBER 5, and died shortly after from his wounds. his body was returned to the UNITED STATES and interred in ARLINGTON NAVAL CEMETERY with full naval honors. ( I am not related to Norris or Harry and this is a quote from an article-- Metz spelling two different ways in orginal article Menta or Metz) If anyone would care to add to this I would appreciate and question end of article.... were men in the infantry possibly Navy Men?)
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