New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 11, 1918, Page 5

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You do not Know you { and vou are not gure how vou will act And abov all things you want to do your dut 1t was so with me and I belicve this is the casc with most of the men. But after you have been fifteen or twenty minutes In the thick of it, and | even a comparatively mild beginning | Jooks bad if it is the first, vou “find vourself,” so to speak, and then you are no longer afrald. Your only de- sire then is to kill—not that. you | hate anybody, but it is simply 'vour iob, and it you don’t do it you know | the cnemy will kill you. You are oved up to the highest pitch, and the only thought is to reach vour objective, regardless of all else. Before this tirst experience just as you do not know vourself, so you miss your zuess on your comrades soméfim There was the fellow, a left a badly bruised place. When we | wet they were too heavy to be car- | (Bv Serzt. Reginald Grant, 1st Divi- [and in judging distances Sergt. ,\n—i\\'hcn I woke up again in a hospital |opened up their heav: told Bill what we saw he stopped | rlied around, and consequently most| sion, Canadian Field Artillery.} B ovi Wi anainola e GolA Star for| Jist & monih after ISAVng € the Hest | eeliiin onatt e ni R groaning and sccmed absolutely mad | of the men threw them | Since the world began I don't sup- | four successive years in the army). | timec. therm, dnd, knowlge ‘ita)ceati for revenge. We wero under heavy this particular instance they were al- | pose there was over a scene of such From India, attached to the head- A few months later I was able to |they naturally were .[blxtc . bombardment at the time. The|lowed new coats without repayment, ; @wful beauty, mingled with the ter- ! quarters staff, where laying out golf | join my unit in the Somme. I was very hot for us \vckhel? bo l’(n “ritzies were coming over on us and | but the occurrence was not repeated. | r-r and suffering of men and horses; | courses, et had heen an interesting | not in any too good shape and was | close to me killing two of my ol we opened rapid fire. You should have | (By Serst. A. G. Jorgenson, Jr., 20th bursting Vesuvius made beautiful | adition to the army routine, to the | detailed for speclal duty af DeiVille |and another vne of them Eatl cn Bill Marshall, He didn’t stop Vancouver Battalions, C. B, F.) v:th the radiant colors of a thousand | first British trench «t Dickiebush | Wood. There at the collecting sta-/|from the Goncussion of ‘the' tho firing step. He jumped to the| We had been in the trenches two | 1ainbows; such was the work of @ |near Ypres, was a jump with. sharp | tion for the killed my job was to col- | When I tell you that there wad parapet and stood there yelling to us, | months when volunteers for a bomb- | single German shell which struck one | contrasts. There we relieved the | lect the pieces. Many times we would {a mark on his body, but on 0 “Come on men, The coming! | ing raid were called for. They picked | of our ammunition dumps containing | French, and took over their holes of | not identify the men. 1 was about |up his tunic his back appearsd They're coming!” Never again could | twenty-three men out of our grenade yut 50,000 rounds of shells and | mud and water. Davs and days we |all in myself and did not think much |black, and his back was broken anvone have any doubts about Bill. tions and took us back of the lines. | © r explosiv such as riflc gren- aved there in conditions too horri- | @#bout the peculiarity of my work—it | the concussion, you will get s | { That first blow woke him up. Then, | From the pohtograph of the German |¢ . Mills bomt French mortar , bie {o deseribe. When we finally | Was just “carrying on” as ordered. idea of the power of these high | trenches in the front of Messines, | buttons, took off our ldentification ; Which {er land where the town was built. At 2 a, m. we left our trench—the | a bombardment of considerable inten- | party; Lieut. Wilmot in charge of the pal of mine named Bill Marshall. He | was a fine fellow, a first class Irish- wn, but he didn’t look to mec as if would make any kind of a sol- He didn't scem to have any in him. The third battle of was his first experience and the Germans were bombarding us All of a sudden he shouted, *I'm hit! I'm | He was standing about five feet from me, “Where are vou hit, Bill?” Got o stretcher bearer right away. | I tell you I'm h There was no evidence of his being hit and 1 asked him wher: “Den’t talk to me, man, ba atreteter,” was all I could get |licu of the proper splints. He was|to the entrance. Reaching a com-|ha. death-store loosed upon us. 9:30 in the evening and the other boys | every man’s duty, no matter what po- { sent to Hngland and later to Canada | munication trench we came upon a Vith our horses stampeding and [, my tent, seven of them, had set- |sition he holds, to help his country him, I turned back to ano:iwer friend | of mine, Sergt. Major Lairc Bl Marshall says he's wounded,” T told him, with some. misgivings. Laird came back with-me and we tried to convince Marshall that he was not wounded. We proceeded to take his cquipment oft and told him his tanic | i mew great coats were issued to these | had been killed and one wounded, and gvle and Sutherland Highlanders | as wntiaircraft, They spotted our | mans “got wise” and opened up ma- | p7e ity o5 - SCah wapg il was net even cut or torn in the back where he dfclared he was hit. He | neisted on- going through ail the signs 9t suffering and “we looked at his back. Surc ewough., e had had an awful smash, There was a blg mark from something flat which had not broken the _outer skin but had braught the blood to the surface and , and then’ replied: “There wasn't a | trenches when the Germans opened | professional goif club m i ex- | about twenty-five wounded. Thirty of |tiéns. We lost very | and not till then, did he know and [ front linc supplied by our aeroplane | 'ombs, acrial torpedoes, high exy went out we found it more comfort- | Notwithstanding all the evidence |plosives. I myself was blown t of us know where he stood. | men we built section of trench ive shells, shrapnel ells, star 4 able to carry our muddy frozen kilts | f our unpreparednes in those days |the air and suffered more or less Major J. C. Biggs, 3rd Canadian | Which was its exact duplicate, and we | 8as shells over our shoulders than to wear|When the Germans, well-equipped, |the shock or concussion of the Mounted Rifles). { practiced on it for about three weeks. 4 fire rted that hered ' {hom. About 400 of the men were | Were having things much their own |with frequent hemorrhage for (Tha fluctuating value of an army Then the night came for the attack. | Strength every second, for all the | gisabled from trench feet and ex-| Wa¥, the prisoners we took Insisted | weeks. That, however, did ' no#] great coat is illustrated by Major | All was quief. IFour of our men |World like irie fire, and the | pogyre. that they were simply defending their me out of service. JGiges of tite Chicago Depot of thae | Went out and lay underneath the Ger- | Sceric ¢ as that of a glgantic | " Ny lclief came after 1 got mine in|OWn homes and their lives; that But a few weeks later we wi B. 0 R M. In the following storvy, | mans barbed wife five hours, cutting | fi'eworks exhibition. Destruction and |, jijtening trench whero six of us had | I'Tance and Great Britain had 8- |the front line trenches at Ypres In November, 1915, The Canadian | and opening to let us through. We ({°ath were hurled in every direction i poan sent out to make observation combined ugainst them. |ing a heavy bombardment. ¥ Mounted Rifies Brizade held. tne | blackened onr faces, our badgesyand | With a hissing, crashing and TOAMNNE |y German shell came over, blew off | “FIShting to save their country,” they |caring for a wounded man Wi beg description. [ ho marapet and baried the whole six | &1l insisted. — But believing pom- |ghell burst along side of me. which has sinse been captured. . The | dises and regimental numbers so if | One of my mates, Downey, and T| ot o My right hand was free and | POUSLY in their own superiority these | four pieces of shrapnel in both Irenehes wore vers wot. helng In the | We wera taken prisoners the Germans | “ere taking a piston rod and a part | ;'\ oo apie to dig away enough earth [ Prussian Guards used to raise black Jand then it was T who needed Jow grodnda I the valley of the Dove | could get little information resarding | ¢f @ Duffer to our gun positions ub| ;| could breathe. Eight hours later | P02rds over the side of their trenches | tion. I was carried two miles o River, the Germans holding the high- | our division or regiment. | torward. We were on horseback, and | ;10 men of the signal service cameo | With sarcastic jibes: ‘Come along, yo I stretcher to the nearest dressing sere getting into ‘La Boisselle Valley | v obair the lines and dug me English! You arc lazy today,” Was |tion and afterwards landed in Neithet! siAdNnaalsnvisteatVamioin| 22Pariui 1TVe =oilliintot tdlaotional] e s oo mie whent iR BRI Reh Al G e By el thor lnvell esllowaiiwera | LR 8L AT RS RN ERE L ,.“ ,:”fi‘e,;i Sid o ighty- p as if about all of them spoke English. { Y¢hen once our men' get o¥e) i & began i work. We hastily dismount- = of ammunition for the artillery, but! of ten men each with two officers and : : [ dead. They dragged me 500 yards on S iy = 2 % y e¢d. tying our horses to the barbe = S % i rs we i 9 in > . % the Germans had more than we had. | two signalers. Captain Gwynn, an | \ire jren pickets on the side barhed | a waterproof blanket to crude n:&?xom\‘\rz“;]: S (}lf;:rent they don't need to be urged o Nearly every afternoon they put on | Englishman, was in charge of our{, .| e rushed over with a lot of | (Tessing station and thirty-six hours B i Tero i 4 | Liey heed-no iftimiiSrECEE s : B later withowut » bath or shaye' -for| Ji0on they srées mmeh [oR /RwS =0 [tuee owb o6k | 1 NSSE Afty or boys of sixteen and seven: |tne papers of tho haves Wl 5 5 Sl 4 2 | men, mostly wagon drivers whose : : sity directed against some particular | other. We crossed No Man's Land. | y,cons were stalled on the road in | Weeks. I was landed in an English | o)) “sti)i” they believed they were |the Huns in Belgi 3 3 : alle R e 5 [ Y > they ! the s in Belgian and Frene hospital. 1 was one of the frslj gy, gor their country,” but they jages and towns, but'when wé cctor. s we approac 24 of | 1 ; S 'rhr 4 2 5 -t\]» (:‘C awrvm;"uht‘fl the "‘:mm‘(t of | {he congestion, to save what ammu- e = e : L . e officer commanding one of the | the German bay we were to enter a |, jon we could Loun el s diore bacan OEnClidie 3 5 v 3 i - ; : 5 not show as much fight neverthe- ¥ squadrons of the Mounted Rifles, who | sentry, hearing our approach, put up Tn the first rush toward the pile an | ] Was being showed off as a curiosity. |\, o " here the information was ‘,:?mt‘réeerl;n;;:)o::ke our pt;-man was an ex-mounted policeman, a !his head. Captain Gwynn -shot him | c.piosion snuffed out the lives of | I heard two youns women say, “What| ojo000q from the German prisoners |The jook on mvef;:;tho:: [ s ° | thorough-going fighter, had his leg |and we tumbled into the trench un- | tuirty or forty of the men, knocking | # shame to send old men like that|ypom we took that they had received 'ang children was enough to m broken by the falling of a sand bag | molested, our party of ten proceeding | qjc T oy ko so | to fight.” T was just twenty-nine. e 7 s e i ) during one of the bombardments. T et e o (e e e e e e e m,:,_ihi(‘\vm“;v When T was entered in the hospital r‘;‘::‘"m“‘]’;'“?a‘w;f“'i{.‘]f"|:“(‘)‘1;"‘; cx“’“f:m | T Moodt boil. The effect it This occurred in the early after- | right. We got the Huns asleep, all | of the ho on the road. To add | @ nurse was assigned to me and later | guoioq to the real situation. ;arr""‘r was to make us fight al noon and it was not possible to move | but a few sentries. The captain was!io the indescribable chaos, several | She had difficulty in finding her pa-| “prom Delville Wood we were sent %5 the major at that time from the front | Just ahead of me, a very cool headed | of the horses stampeded, racing | tient. When an orderly pointed me |, 15 Transloy there to prepare for line trench because of the heavy fir- | Englishman, who never forgot to | biindly into harbed wire entangle- | 01t 1 heard her declare, “No, it is not | i34 attack at Bapaume where the line ing from the enemy. The weather | carry his cane. Proceeding. he poked | jnicnis he. It w n old man fully fift¥- | was extended and we took it over was cold and the heavy casualties | the flap of several dugouts with his The reflection of the fire from the § five vears of age. The trouble Wwas | from another regiment. At Bapaume | which were occurring made it difficult | cane, and turning to me would say, | cy si was quickly observed by | T had be bathed and shaved in the |y was hit in the knee and that for the men to receive much atten. | “Jorgenson, just put a bomb in | Tritz. F ¢ order he had his air | meantime. They said I was in pretty | knocked me out, this time for good. tion Nevertheless when evening | theah.” v over, dropping their | bad shape. After they had scrubbed | «gight years and ninety-one days” is came and it was possible to evacuate We went down twenty or thirty | bombs - we were seen try- | for half an hour they say they came | the Jength of service I have rendered the casualties major absolutely | yards and came on a machine gun |iug to save a part of our preciousam- | to a second shirt and then began | ;my country. refused to he moved out until all the -ement. As s0on as we reached | munition. In spite of the cumulative [‘again. Things are very different now. (By Private R. A. Quigley) asualties, no matter how slight, had <e we found Number One | ¢ffects of that first shell and Fritz | Your American bovs will never 0! porore the war Mr. Quigley was heen ovacuated. This was comment- | on the gun, sitting there on sand bags | overhead endeavoring to compiete | through what we endured that first | pocimaster at Franklin, Warren Co., ed upon up and down the line. with a paper across his knece h's work of destruction, wec man- | vear. Ohio. Being by birth an Irishman he The last man to be carried out was | him with a revolver, while the ca aged to save about 10,000 rounds out But the danger was not confined |said he felt it was his duty to line the major, after his leg had been | tain put a bomb under the machine | of that entire dump. It took nervel! (s the trenches. I got a worse dose | yp with the British when they need- rudely attended to. a rifle being | gun. Our time, seven or ecight min- | and cool head to keep to the main | i;; the tent hospital at Otterpool | ed him. He says, “I gave up a very strapped to it in the cmergency in | utes, was up and we had to start back | Issue and “carry on" on the edge of | Camp, Chornecliffe, England. Tt was | good position, and 1 consider it is where he has completely recovered. | German under-officer, whom we c gercaming like wild things, our men | {19 down to sleep. I heard the |against the enemy.”) Don’t endanger the life of tha Later, when this particular squad- | tured and marched back in front of nd our cxplosives bursting in | yepps coming and ~ent out to sec| My frst time over the top was at | cious baby by using unknown o ron was in billets, it was found that | us to the bay, where our signaler was | ¢ conceivable “direction with a| what was doing. {st. Eloi on the Flanders front. The | jacicurized milk. iere was an unusual shortage of | lying walting for us | theusand different roars, the scene | (yearly defined in the sky over our | getting off of mines has left seven | 1jse OUR REALLY " SAFE t coats, and on inquirs among| We recrossed No Man's Land with | Calnot be pletived “or 2 distance | yands was a squadron of Zeppelins on [enormous craters, part of which were PURE PASTEURIZED M he men, some sixteen wero reported | our pris ~ the other section, who | ¢f twenty miles the reflection of the | ipoj way to London. We were in |occupied by the Germans. The plan | gjiminate ALL question . of imi Ing, each man claiming that he | had oleaned up the right, hringing | fire extended, the rockets themselves | yunts “ahout fifteen ov sixteen thou- was for us to get thase craters from | or richness. ced his great coat over the| back three Germa We had killed visible for about ten miles cand men. and totally unprotected in |the Germans and hold them. e seliiiaiksitiaie SRl major when he was Iving injured, and | thirty-five or forty. wo of our men % - Bryant Ambrose Andrews | n,sa day We had no such things| While we were going over the Ger- | 40 g THOROUGHLY ' PAS men When this ifl('m'm‘nflr\n was | we brought them all back with u Princess onRE Own) { tenis and dropped their bombs on us. | chine gun fire and started throwing | oy erpuRIZED MILK will Satis given fo the major, first he laughed, | We weren’t much more than in ot (In civi} life Sergt. Andre was a | Thirteen of our men were killed and {bombs from their consolidated posi- 3 - & " | most exacting. heavily, but we damn coat put on me‘during the aft- | up their artill on hut - thes t. formeriy of the Rochester Golf |m,~; hors were killed and the rest | reached the craters and managed to IBERT crnoon, and I nearly froze to death.” | awoke too lat Our fi homb Club, England, and son of B, J. An- | stampeded. A bomb hit the back of | drive the enemy out and they never J. E, The Mounted Rifles had been issued | raid for the purpose of ning in- ws of the Hyperion Field Club, |the tent | had just left, finished my |were able to regain them. cavalry great coats which had very| formation and taking a few prisoner Moines, lowa. Being thus [ pals and lifted me off the ground. T T had a very narrow escape in go- 01 PARK STREET . full skirts, and when these heramaq - a4 a complete success. quipped as an exper{ rar 4nder ! knew nothing more for a few days'ing over that night. 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