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Yes. He was an artillery officer in the Missouri national guard. In WW1 his regiment the 129th field artillery was attached to the 35th infantry division in France. When he retired from the national guard he held the rank of colonel.

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Yes he was an Army Officer (Captain) in WWI where he saw and experienced combat.

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Yes - WW1. There is a legend that his mother, who was driven from her home by Union troops in 1863 as a Confederate sympathiser, wouldn't let him into the house in US Army uniform.

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