Lieutenant Bunce Narrowly Escaped Death in Trenches
(World War I)
Word has been received by relatives of Second Lieutenant Floyd W. Bunce of Nineveh Junction [Broome Co., NY] of his safety since the signing of the armistice. Lieutenant Bunce is with the Sixth infantry, Co. I. of the Fifth Division. This division was the first to cross into the German territory. Lieutenant Bunce was one of the men of the first quota of honor men to leave Norwich for Cap Dix in September, 1917. He sailed for overseas in May, 1918, with the seventy-eighth Division. He received his commission as Second Lieutenant at an officers' training school in France, where he received his honorable discharge from the National Army to accept a commission in the Army of United States Regulars. Lieutenant Bunce had a narrow escape from death in the Trenches when a piece of shrapnel pierced his mess kit.
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