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Lawrence Wenell, a superior soldier and civilian, remembered.
By SUE HUNTER WEIR Lawrence Wenell had an elementary-school education. He loved baseball, and according to his mother, he was very good at it. Private Carl Wenell laying flowers at the grave of his brother Lawrence Wenell.: Courtesy Wenell family Lawrence was born on July 5, 1893, the oldest of August and Laura Wenell”™s fourteen children. He attended Irving School, which has since been demolished, but which was located on the corner of 17th Avenue and 28th Street. By the time that he was 17 years old he was working as a “shirt cutter,” for the Wyman-Partridge Company. In June 1917, he enlisted in the Army. He was assigned to the Battery C 151st Field Artillery, also known as the Gopher Gunners, part of the Rainbow Division. His unit sailed from New York on October 18, 1917, aboard the President Lincoln. Less than five months later, on March 9, 1918, his parents received a telegram from the War Department notifying them that their son had been [...]
