“The infantry was marching along the sides of the road, as it always does, in two long, thin lines…. It was two long lines, thin lines as far as you could see and then it was faces looking ...

In the early morning hours of July 19, 1918, 19-year-old bugler Frank Charles Fergus was serving in the Army in France with the 58th Infantry Regiment in the first days of the Aisne-Marne Offensive.