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The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com
Sunday, November 11,2018 5A
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Pope Ellard’s military-issued machete is framed in son Martin Ellard’s
home. The piece also include’s Ellard’s military photograph.
Northeast Georgia History Center Executive Director Glen Kyle prepares
a World War I style backpack with canteen Wednesday, Nov. 7, for an
exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.
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civilization. World rests from
greatest struggle ever known to
mankind.”
The kaiser was the German mon
arch at the time of the war.
Unknown to people of the day,
World War I set the stage for world
changing events through the 20th
century, including World War II
and the Cold War.
Tank and aerial warfare, the
United Nations, global commu
nism and chemical weapons can be
traced to the war, which has been
upstaged in modern times by the
more horrendous World War II and
the divisive Vietnam War.
“It’s almost impossible to over
state the importance of (World
War I) in world history,” said Glen
Kyle, executive director of the
Northeast Georgia History Center
in Gainesville.
He noted that “many Georgians,
including those from Hall County
and Gainesville, participated in
such far-reaching events.”
The history center at 322 Acad
emy St., Gainesville, is especially
marking the anniversary Sunday
with “The End of the War to End
All Wars,” a Family Day program
with living history demonstrations,
hands-on activities, special gallery
tours and performances.
Also, a forum is set for 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 13, at the history
center. “The Great War and the
World it Made” will be an examina
tion of what effects the war and the
resulting Treaty of Versailles had
on today’s political, social and eco
nomic climate.
And a special exhibit, “Over Here
& Over There: Georgia and Geor
gians in the Great War,” featuring
original artifacts and memorabilia
from the war, along with local sto
ries, will be open through Jan. 12,
2019.
“We feel it’s important to remem
ber the events of 100 years ago, to
reflect on the sacrifices, the beliefs
and the efforts of those who fought
in (the war),” Kyle said.
“To most Americans, (World
War II) tends to overshadow the
first because it’s still within living
memory.”
One of Hall County’s best-known
figures from the war was Paul E.
Bolding, who was once believed to
be Hall’s first fallen serviceman in
the war.
The Marine’s photograph and
military garb are on display at the
Paul E. Bolding Post 7 of the Ameri
can Legion in Gainesville at 2343
Riverside Drive. Also displayed is
a letter from Bolding to his mother,
written Aug. 14,1918, from France
on stationery provided by the
American YMCA.
An Oct. 30, 1918, newspaper
article says that “Corporal Bolding
was a young man of sterling charac
ter, unquestioned in integrity, and
genial nature, and had won hun
dreds of friends .. who feel a sense
of loss in his death.”
The story states that Bolding had
been injured months earlier but
that “he received his fatal wound in
action later, dying on Oct. 3.”
History would later show that
James T. Bailes was the first Hall
veteran to fall, dying in France
while serving in the U.S. Army
infantry on Sept. 26,1918.
Georgia records from the era
indicate that Silas Dunnegan was
killed in the trenches during the Bat
tle of Argonne, Hubert Ledford was
killed in his first battle and Daniel
McKinney took a machine-gun bul
let in the Battle of Chateau-Thierry.
A book produced by the state,
“In memory of the Gallant Sons of
Georgia,” shows Albert Parham
died “together with every man in
his company” on the Argonne front
on Oct. 7,1918.
The war is particularly known
for its many battlefield trenches,
where life became a nightmare for
soldiers.
Mortar shells exploded all
around, and warriors dealt with
rain, mud, rats and disease.
“It was constant, unremitting
misery,” Kyle said.
Many troops suffered from “shell
shock,” an early version of what is
now commonly known as post-trau
matic stress disorder.
And many died not from bullets
and bombs but illness. That was the
case with several of Hall County’s
fallen, who suffered from such con
ditions as pneumonia, tuberculosis
and, in one case, spinal meningitis.
World War I, along with other
conflicts, is depicted in a somber
way at the history center. Its out
door Freedom Garden features
the “Circle of Honor,” a series of
monuments recognizing veterans
by name and including their mili
tary rank, branch of service and
years in service. The monuments
also feature the names of families
of area veterans.
The University of North Georgia
also is leading efforts of the Georgia
World War I Centennial Commis
sion, which has been busy prepar
ing to mark a century since the
war’s end.
Billy Wells, the college’s senior
vice president for leadership and
global engagement, serves as the
commission chairman. Retired Lt.
Col. Keith Antonia, UNG’s associ
ate vice president for military pro
grams, is a commission associate.
Wells, a retired Army colonel,
will be the keynote speaker on the
war’s impact at a Sunday event at
the Atlanta History Center.
He plans to talk about the cost
of the war, the dramatic changes
it brought to American society, its
impact on future military affairs,
the changes it led to in America’s
foreign relations and policy, and the
hard lessons the U.S. and Europe
learned on how to end a conflict.
The Georgia group is joining the
national World War I Centennial
Commission to encourage Ameri
cans to ring bells 21 times at five-
second intervals at 11 a.m. Sunday
to mark 100 years since the war’s
end.
Gov. Nathan Deal has signed a
proclamation for the Bells of Peace
ringing.
Also, Virginia Dilkes, who has
served on the advisory board for
the state World War I Centennial
Commission and as a volunteer
for the U.S. World War I Centen
nial Commission, will lay a wreath
at Arlington National Cemetery on
the grave of four-star Gen. Court
ney Hodges, a UNG alumnus who
earned the Distinguished Service
Cross during the war.
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World War I Cpi. Paul E. Bolding’s photograph hangs inside the American
Legion hall named in his honor on Riverside Drive.
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