William Billy Schlossareck

 

 

Click here to view The Evening Record article of November 27, 1918 that tells of a Maywood young man's experience of going ‘Over the Top’ as they called it when the soldiers would climb out of their trenches and charge the German positions.

Written by:
Bob Meli
August 3, 2011

 

 

 

 

Background image of American troops charging over the top obtained from:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2715098/The-haunting-account-trenches-ll-read-brilliant-anthology-Birdsong-author-Sebastian-Faulks.html