The Life and Times of a World War I Soldier: The Julius Holthaus Story

INTRODUCTION

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons. –Herodotus

As one travels through northern France and Flanders, the images that become imprinted in one’s mind are the vast cemeteries with their thousands of white marble headstones. These silent monuments of stone represent the fallen warriors of the First World War who came from a multitude of various countries and military units. As you walk among the graves of the dead…