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OBITUARY: MAN WHO CAPTURED FIRST GERMAN IS BURIED AT POLSON.
"Polson, Nov 18---Funeral services, in charge of Hardwick post American Legion, were held at Polson (Montana) for Sergeant James Lyman Padgett, who died at the Veterans Hospital at Fort Harrison. Helena (Montana).
"Mr. Padgett had a brilliant military career which began in 1913 when he enlisted in company F, Montana National Guard. The following year he enlisted in the regular army with the Fourteenth Infantry and served with that division on the Mexican border. He re-enlisted in the Eighteenth Infantry, First Division, and went to France at the entry of America in the world war. He was with the first American unit to be sent into action and his squad captured the first German prisoner taken by American forces,
"DECORATED BY FRANCE
"For his bravery he was given a decoration by the French government presented by Marshal Foch. Altogether he received 10 metals and decorations. He was in the engagement in the first Toul sector, Cantigny, the Aisne and Marne offensive, San Mihiel and the Argonne during which time he was severly gassed and was wounded four times.
"After the armistice was detailed to St. Nazaire embarkation post and was one of the last to leave France. On his return to America he spent a year and a half in the organization of vocational training
camps.
"For four months he was military instructor at the University of Montana at Missoula. He was transferred to Camp Lewis in charge of headquarters.
"In April, 1922, he entered the veterans' hospital as a patient where he had remained until his death occurred from tuberculosis, developed as a result of being gassed. He was born in Illinois, 32 years ago and came to Montana in 1906."
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