Charles W Slimmer
Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 16 April 1918, page 4
A letter was received Mondaay by Clifford Shields, Newport patrolman, from Charles Wilson Jr. Newport boy now in France. Wilson states he saw Charles Slimmer and Peter Mertes, Newport boys recently.
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 11 May 1918, page 3
There are 55 Newport boys in France according to a list given out by the Newport Exemption Board Saturday. The list contains names of selects and those who enlisted but there are many more in France, who are not on this list:
Charles Slimmer
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 21 August 1918, page 1
The German soldier is yellow, according to Private Charles Slimmer of Newport, who is on the western front with Co I Ninth Infantry. Young Slimmer in a letter to John Dunnigan, Fourth and Patterson Streets, Newport, says that "Fritz" will not fight when cornered, but "will throw up his mitts and squeal kamerad."
In his description of a recent battler Slimmer said: "When the Huns yelled kamerad we took them prisoner and then went after the rest of the yellow bunch. Every American went over the top determined to get as many as possible. We chased them from early in the morning until late that night. I got thru all right. It was some job ducking machine gun bullets. I was lucky but Ches Dues and John Cottingham both Newport boys whose names recently were mentioned in the list of wounded got theirs. Both were shot while right near me.
We did not have time to stop and pick them up but went right after Fritz. Did he run? I'll say he did. We caught and took more than 3000 prisoners beside the bunch we killed.;