{"id":1201,"date":"2019-05-25T14:19:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T20:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2020-07-14T08:40:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T14:40:51","slug":"memorial-day-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/2019\/05\/25\/memorial-day-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Title-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"Russell T. Stewart\" class=\"wp-image-1203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Title-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Title-150x127.jpg 150w, https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Title.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a Memorial Day tribute to Pfc. Russell T. Stewart, my mother\u2019s uncle, who was killed in action in the woods northwest of Im\u00e9court, France early on the morning of November 2, 1918.  He served in Company M, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Battalion, 319<sup>th<\/sup> Infantry, 160<sup>th<\/sup> Brigade, 80<sup>th<\/sup> Division.  The Division earned the motto, \u201cOnly Moves Forward,\u201d having fought in all three phases of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, from September through November, 1918.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The video begins\nwith the only known photograph of Russell, taken at Camp Lee,\nnear\nPetersburg, Virginia,\nprobably in the spring of 1918.  The remainder recounts his final 22\nhours.  Early on November 1, his unit attacked from the area near St.\nGeorges northward towards Im\u00e9court.  That village was liberated by\nnoon and Russell took cover just north of it, where he and his unit\nrepulsed numerous enemy counterattacks all afternoon and into the\nnight.  In the early morning hours of November 2, he was ordered to\nattack westward.  This was a decisive battle that precipitated the\nenemy retreat from the area, and allowed two other Divisions to\ncontinue their advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"404\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 720 \/ 404;\" width=\"720\" controls preload=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stewart720.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>About this video: \nAn actual photograph taken November 1, shows troops taking cover\nnorth of Im\u00e9court.  It was taken where Russell was, while he was\nthere.  Special thanks to Fran\u00e7ois for discovering the artifacts on\nthe stump.  He found actual Browning Automatic Rifle clips that\nRussell would have used.  Fran\u00e7ois also took the video segment in\nthe woods last autumn in the general area where Russell fell. \nFinally, Fran\u00e7ois\u2019 son Louis visits Russell\u2019s grave at the\nMeuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial near\nRomagne-sous-Montfaucon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a Memorial Day tribute to Pfc. Russell T. Stewart, my mother\u2019s uncle, who was killed in action in the woods northwest of Im\u00e9court, France early on the morning of November 2, 1918. He served in Company M, 3rd Battalion, 319th Infantry, 160th Brigade, 80th Division. The Division earned the motto, \u201cOnly Moves Forward,\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/2019\/05\/25\/memorial-day-tribute\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Memorial Day Tribute&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,15,54,50,77],"tags":[148,147,149,113,150,114],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-history","category-life-and-times","category-maternal-ancestors","category-pennsylvania","category-surname-stewart","tag-319th-infantry","tag-80th-division","tag-memorial","tag-stewart","tag-tribute","tag-wwi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}