Excerpt from Service Record of Men of the Hanover National Bank of the City of New York: Being an Account of the Experiences of the Men of the Hanover National Bank in the Great World War
In the momentous days following the murder of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, and his wife at Serajevo, June 28, 1914, there arose throughout the country a feeling of intense excitement and suspense. The Declaration of War on France by Germany, her treacherous invasion of Belgium, in violation of sacred treaty rights to which Germany was a party, but which she perfidiously considered a "Scrap of Paper," were quickly followed on August 4 by the Declaration of War by Great Britain against Germany in defense of the treaty rights of Belgium.
The air was charged with possibilities of a great war in which the whole of Europe might become involved. The possibilities were considered remote that the United States would eventually be drawn into the conflict and that millions of our own young men would cross the seas to engage in deadly combat with the treacherous Hun on the battlefields of Europe.
The reality came. The young men with difficulty adjusted their minds to the thought of going to war; some-thing entirely foreign to their training and environment. But as the months passed, and as reports of the terrible cruelties and "dirty" methods of war practised by the Germans on land and sea came to us, and as crime upon crime was added to the record, the Hun"s defiance of international law and the claims of civilization, as well as Germany"s many offenses against the dignity and honor of the United States, awakened the wrath of our country. On April 6, 1917, the Call to Arms sounded, and the young men of the country arose. Among them, the boys of the Hanover National Bank responded, ninety-three being enrolled in the different branches of the Service.
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