Part of a Newspaper article from the Spokane Daily Chronicle
This file appears in: The Burch Brothers Go to War
This image shows the crew of the first gun that was fired by the U.S. army. A soldier by the name and rank of Corporal Royce Richardson was part of that crew, and was also from Spokane.
This file appears in: The Burch Brothers Go to War
The Burch Brothers Go to War
When the United States entered the First World War in 1917, many young men in Spokane rushed to join the Army and lend their part to the war effort. Three farm boys from Moran Prairie, Walter, Charles, and Ralph Burch, joined the Army but had very…