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LOCAL The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com Sunday, November 11,2018 5A SCOn ROGERS I The Times 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. WAR ■ Continued from 1A 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. AMERICAN LFGION POST #7 Namec 'r Warn pi"* Q' CORPORAL PAUL t BOLDING L’i>. 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