We included this item in our column for the December 13th issue of The Clay County News with the note that we'd have the complete article here:
from the column's 1917 section:
"John
T. Johnson of Harvard, son of Robert and Sara Johnson wrote his parents from a
hospital in Birmingham, England after he, “…got my ration of gas Oct. 31 and
the night of Nov. 2nd”. He was slightly affected in the left lung
and had a peculiar sensation in his chest but said, “it’s all nicely under
control.” He had been in the army for several years at various postings. His
company was in Australia in 1915 when the entire crew enlisted in the British
Army. They were in the Australian Imperial Forces serving in Egypt, the
Dardanelles and in France where he encountered the poisonous gas. (That’s a
brief summary of the letter – check the Sutton Museum blog for it all.)"
And the full article from The Harvard Courier newspaper of December 14, 1917:
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