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Note: Doyle Carter was one of 6 soldiers killed in action 1) Aug 1918 in an assault against Germsn trenches that were mostly abandoned. Doyle was with 2d Battalion, 317th Infantry Regiment, 159th Infantry Brigade, 80th Division (Blue Ridge Division). The assault was across 2 kilometers with a battalion of New Zealanders. 29 others from Doyle's Battalion were wounded. Doyle's regiment was assigned a sector in the vicinity of the village of Hebuturne-Blane Clark
The 317th Infantry Regiment was made up of men from the Piedmont and Western counties of Virginia. The 318th, the 317th's sister regiment, was comprised mostly of men from the Sheandoah Valley and Tidewater areas of Virginia.-Blane Clark
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