Born in Pittsburgh of Scottish parents, Corporal Tom -MacDougal saw three years with the US. Cavalry, and later served on the Elizabeth. N. J, police force. He got fo Canada the day after war was declared and joined immediately. Now he drives a headquarters car for his unit. His wife waits for him in Pittsburgh.
"I had a brother who was killed in the last war," MacDougal said. "He joined the Canadian Army in 1914. I figured I would take up where he left oft.
There are scores of other Americans who felt the call of foreign battlefields. Young John Perry and his brother Ed, of Winchester, Mass.. joined in the early days of the war. John was formerly a tree surgeon, Ed a shipper in a factory. Joe Fleming left a biology laboratory in Philadelphia to don the kilt and en battle dress. Another Philadelphian, George Glenny, was a soldier in the U.S. Army. Al Grant of Boston and Speed Kenyon of Kansas are ex-Navy men. Archie Black left a job in a New York hospital to join up.
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