New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 4, 1918, Page 13

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Providence, R T W) AF ‘”k‘h I 3 fourth man, in this case, myself, has wdually increasi as our mcn ad- | have to cross a field like dead soldiers could be found :n\v-;’p‘rl.\‘ ‘1‘ with the denness of 1t. But | way or routed out of dugouts. I had ’] ? i ecp the company commander, ced with the guns. It's havd 6| 1 had only gone a short 5, Where around ther I stooped down the Germs have suffered a ! my hardest work with them as I/had hw\,;flgl‘h, IR ERN (captain) in laison with the battalion | crawl along Wi @ heavy macain: gua | when a shell dropped dire in again pulled them a yard apart and greater surprise, because at that cle to hold my automatic in plain View headquarters. It was my sacred duty |in your hands. They didn't. ey | back of me, its concussion lifted my stretched their hands out towards their bullets went way over our | right along as a gentle persuasion t }n*\fl APT!Q to know just where battalion head- | just walked through it all My God! | helmet right off my head. [ stooped each other making it appear as if they { 5o ahcad or they would have bolted juarters were at all stages of our ad- | it was awful to see some of our| guickly to pick it up before the h hands. That satisfied | we dropped we knew theiri gt gt Cooqs every time a shel whiz?’ vance so that I could take a message | comrades aud best friends being torn | shower of dirt and stones came dow nd I left quickly on my return ! SiEhts would cover the place wel o W5 o ot thial maanedl 1ere at once, and also acquaint them | to picces right before your eyes. But| cuusing the men in my company to droppec und were ready to ylw fly brought twenty thousand rounds o vith the of the company. on they came,—what was left of | think L was hit. After that I crawled few minutes later T met an of- stant we got up. But we | Sl L S up to the firing ttaok QI Tet me assure you that this is no | them,—until they struck the shelter | no mor i i o Bl Aes ; o G R “‘l“‘_"‘,‘\”*"‘”'! Lt e ‘*_"“”“[”“” 2 IOV line, without the loss of a man o HAUA Ul casy proposition, when on the tiring | of the bank ere we lay, and pro- | nig hole that sheliered a platoon of looking for battalion head- | ‘. ¢ o oo Y o vhile | animal My captain sure did ap lines. When on maneuvers I did all | ceeded to set up their guns, and re- | jnfantry on our way up. I entered arters. I told him to skirt the }"f" ‘]‘ & T uluxw W (‘-"—‘ preciate it. q communicati ith signal flags, | pay some of our losses at once. | that hole with a head first dive, and Woods till he came across two dead R S | " “The next night we were Te i it here it had to be done on foot, ‘Now it was up to me to get busy. [ got out azain. or the life of me I Mmen shaki inds, then enter the (o had found an enemy machine | lieved, a sadly depleted but happ and sometimes when exposed to Ger- | The company was established for the | couldn’t remain in there for over a Woods, and he would find the head- guy on our side of the river, and|lot. We had n gained our ob: i 1 balloon on my | time be and it was up to me to | minute's 1« You see a shell had auarters a few hundred y to the therefore turned the news, ! jective, A day later we lost ouj with the a he mere waving of a through that shell swept: just struck that hole in the very Ioft. He looked at me suspiciously, ; {he chances were there , | captain. He was made major, and Forc in W would b heils from | ¥ to locate battalion head- j center where the doughboys sat wait- Making up his mind that [ must be | than one hidden there ! given a whole battalion to command brother fetnkoihy BN (o) the }"“ A quarters and tell them where we were | j for the t to Jift s never Shell shocked, but a few more wor “Well, Nat, { cculd fill pages with | but not before he told four of us, in: : ; S A :h capialn a i four | iocated. As T crawled away from the | saw that, or any other barrage, lift, convinced him I was still ‘there’ and what happened for the next few days, | cluding myself, before the companyl : comes the company, usually de- | bunk, towards.a wagd W8 the Oof | “As I ran on I passed man after he walked off looking for two dead |but I am afraid I have written too | to wear two chevrons on our righ _under fire in the trenches. e ved at various distances, depend- | e thinking I migh ' fina it man of our c oither lying men sh han | much already. 1 will only tell a few | gleeve hereafter for good work don e e b o sunhed 1 ‘:“;\L;» Shes ‘l:’“\*" fre, M ‘!n.m than one of our men told : Iy wounded lowly walking to. “A od on they hegaa shoot- | main facts. The next day we put up | on the firing line. And this ends thd : . 5= - e : G, i Py | lly that he wouldn't wa wards the first aid station omp ing m 1L us more than any- barr; that lasted four hours, af-| o1y of my second time ‘“over thd mmediate vicinity chances so he had us deploy from the | my job. I didn’t doubt their word e one f e e coemmE e S R M e e e » o . iy N . y 3 called me by name to h them i na | top. At - Demimhme ot Gpenty Dve gard Biters B 1] Buk sonaelios or Gthey hell Miere was v Life' T coiid do in the sound of s shell coming Which was our objective, blishiag | “Your loving brother, We walked along this way, | fiye had no more terrors for me. The my first aid . Besien I g oven Wt mates Sy our lines well beyond. The engineers Corp. HARRY BERSON", ‘ > X < tly, until we came to a stretch Of | .ayge of it dates back to the 18th of seime imos La st L Eiae, TG S o) e found it inipossible ta ‘t a bridge 3 ! AL ne e }‘ ition of woods which screened our view £rom { 1.1 \Chan we went over the first fif::f‘:".“'l””"",‘“:‘ RE e \\',‘(,”“ ever, so th hell had to m a!across, as the enemy put up a terrible | = e il el i 8 e ioe Thoug lite. | time. 'That afternoon four of us in- simple “Iara luck, old 1 s direct hit ) G ) > o0 them Seo ang d L 0 (R neagaway ‘The instant we left the shelter of | cjuding r i e e : Ll ¢ nan, will ,, ‘the other nd the gas fill ees W 1t in om the b f d Tdeaththaitss o e ne £ s ia e myself were returning to the gend the first Ited Cross man I come TH heIb : - the miver e woods By of al company with range finders. We had neross.” A s 1ell holes, making it extremely pa e 1 realiz e dar uwere in (apy ervation balloon. Experl- | oomeoay with B dcross AN ELTEC cWE IEEw Ol Eicel el e dd fill bool 1t hanktul oiTalne e A e o i that day and many an Ibly o B ni WEne By a o s e e be hed our 16 £ . L vation balloon and a barrage were just then resting in preparation ' next ey W t nen getting verely buraed by cither |lines, when th counter barras & v e ; 5 : g ¢ for another trip “over”. Range as our £ . : : : y cith f the lii f re I light e we sure were not dis. | Lo0 il : nge as our Red e e o i el n e e i on D vory for thei the f light over a month A I have known | (°rS were needed and we went to hands full right then then down on tl -ound where the r ounter attack that 1 ! 2 ol et a whole hat t them. On our return th inute that Sergennt Smith the on as had settled \ltho 1 made many a visit to battalion J i ol lking along the town a German battery New man in My company he- s « mell of sas i quaiter They had’ established tre fore knew what to st have halted on some road- sides myself, being brought In I had my mask ov, although | it in the town that we passed through ' ! heside Gl ST G ) L in the retreat, opened fire on us gassed. I think he told me his home alert position. I kaew there|in our little scouting expedition the S ved by 1 vancin We had to go thro AL lis on Franklin street " 't quite enough of it to prove |night before. The Germans literally ; 1 ! urstinggof ishellsiand i ; field, in full view of Sheils Play Tag. ' “Tinally 1 hed the wood just Scrious, besides I didn't feel like tak- |levelled the walls of that town with i s in your immediate vieinity, onemy lines, in order to be able to | ) B {in time to see the major with his ig any chance of stumbling in a |that barrage. As I ran through the ! o8 satnsnthraueh that, (o our battalion’s left flank which we ! _Lhe big boxes in which the range staff commanding the battalion, move Shell hole full of gas, as it is hard | town time after time I had to leap nd a lot of dis will perhaps realize how I felt 1. o protect with ot hine guns, | INders are carried must have attract- over to another wond @ few hundred 0 See at night with a mask on, |sideways to escape the crumbling; a a I1S- ¢ nigl Ve had no more than showed our. | ¢ their attention. As the shells fol- yards away as his former place was €SPecially where there is a shell hoie | walls of hous 8 Tl TEGH b Lo comforts when By the way, when I bezan this |yes in the open when the barrage l0Wed us up, we knew that we were heing badly shelled. T reported to &t 41most every yard of grouad shells. Frankly speaking 1t was| the morning cu ’ was with the intenuon of (ome' It seemed o us that every D¢ direct cause, and there affer pro- the major at omce, told him whe “I found the company all ep | rather exhillrating and I began to 1 g p i u a complete account of My yyn on the whole German front ceeded from shell hole to shell hole. the company was, where our guns EXCCPt the captain and one of our | enjoy it after a while. is wer the top’ beeat 1 pened up on us. They shot shrapnel After staying a few minutes in one were locatedt and wn{\m e I_J“_ licutena They sure necded the “It W through that barrage that n rather proud of the part I took in ;9 high explosives with a liberal We Would go to the next, With shells jmmedintely but was advised he tha 1St fOr the next day would prove the major commended me and a bat- INSTANT vh [ come back home — g hnkling of mustard gas shells at bursting many a time only a yard major to stay until they wers "‘_ Ne hard one. I reported to the captain, | talion agent that happened to come ) > may seem fo vou, .4 Though not the first by any away. It was only a miracle that we in the new ;fil‘n'n 50T would ;Mlm‘d Al SR Wi s i e s i S I death L destruction meang, still it was | the worst our weren't all killed that day. Once we swithout any {reuite at wieht o the major, also explaining just where | «you are doing fine. I am proud of p TUM re t pecttopcon o I tompany had to face yet in the line all dropped in a hig shell hole to- Ly :“" mle s, in case ”'""“\””1“‘:‘,\'0\1’, His staff was there and as I it t ' this letter and there- | ot poyprag F00 G e o e Pomen AN G A Sl b fd Herman Landmark wppened to me and some one else | gy their approving glances I felt i re : DRSS el | orderca by the captain to take cover; from the edee of our hole. sending a Theyfontanlishenl thomeelven il tnel Lo e o e (R B RAIC Rl aR RG] e theriprond of Yoae £en oo rather than { T ne we went into action at, \pen every man fell Wt O B el eror e : hedit € in the captain was well pleased. we had been there twice in fifteen coffee i u Our battalion e § e T L2 i : N middle of the strip of woods. It was A S e B Sa i e e . i e e b h A ng to a nearby i us m“r IIH'yIi at once, In tne e e B Erveryhody Surprised. :» Eite, G o st i P . 10le. ) ne, as the next she struck : ark whe eft. anc o e a | part o e barrage. - = Sein ) i While the company was square in our Jas g place. Tt hard work finding my way to the Powaenin boriiaiany iied, | aR0 | Sl Houy r the captain told me ostum is i ! i1ty S| cover, the captain, fi ved took us threc he ke that clearing ag for isticceededl i R R s UIs R eLtE | tsked me if L (o must have some ammunitic free from caf- L & I~ four headquarters men, cray thead with (St o e finding my y out of the woods wanted to go on a little so . ex- | brought at once. The enem o . dai i . el e . long as we kept down, we otly at us in I stopped before walkir pedition with him I eagerl recd. | ter atfack had failed, but he 1 ne,is made In : L Vere out of sight of the German ob it onr names writ. (OWATdS mY company, to impross somo \e KIOW our oWi men were on our | try again. My instric N a moment, is de- ; and - fire was then ‘kept That day landmark on my iind, & wvoulq TIght, but could form Ao contact| “Use whatever means you think liei +he o ADg ok m;“‘»“‘uml ”r‘;\‘:]‘( the \\ll\lolt\— ‘m 1d ‘,‘” ,‘,‘ ;vafl:lr‘ 1\.w’~ Hitis 0 e et ‘|\|\1 - ;y_‘(-”“l, with any Ar troops on our 1 Also bring all stragizlers to ¥ ICious, and ; 3 S te one of us stood up for ell would land from e°nter the woo There was no ‘}‘““' ”‘;”\” ‘:‘1 ”r H‘ our guns. It w acyneo‘f‘fablebev— o ¢ would become con- the noise it made Mark there that I could see, the Chine sun s Tt | proposition, as the ough I ' i i immediate vicinity | A the other one was W25 being I alike. Time was [CCHoR. gl axe e o | which I had to bring it, a distance of Qrase s econonn. ' G o we kept down { oE e LevatseiT I Dredionus, butistlIsT hidditollsaelsamal e s J.- L;k‘;’_ ‘»\»‘m; two miles was shell swept, while the § j oL ma- rawling for a considerable I was destined to die Si&n for future reference the the Sistel had our aute. | stragslers are usually men who lost Fora c/range'by ¢ « fon. | distance, we found ourselves ai have been killeq German lin were not too raw ics out advanced quickly but their nerve, nd as such would e cay ! 1 on the | bank with shrubbery “ht there down that way and a man v, We pasted throush a de. | Strenuously refuse to return to the INSTANT ! ‘ rreichine | from which a full view of the Germin “Anvway proceeded on my Inisjuc distances in the 1 Sl el S S line 2 s with him | lines could be had. Our captam ¢ for hattnlion headquarters T little ‘ways off 1 could make out two snipers, without any mishap., It was ¢ it was, my luck was with me r non them immedi- | cided to establish our position there *ht little of the shells that were Silent forms stretched out in the almost on river bank that we |{and T succeeded again. I used two ly, fo them are signalled for the falli all around me. [ had to pass 8ra I quickly dragged one over to | walked almost on top of a German [ @ammunition carts, drawn by two toon ee platoons | comne up once. Th divectls across the field we came up the edgze of the woods then the other machine gun and erew. Although we | mules, ompanied by - fourteen at form the company, while the | still on, more intense if anything, and on and I hope to God I will never ©One. Still I wasn’t satisfied as two | expected it, we were greatly sur- ! stragglers that I picked up on the ' \