Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-07-07
IN THICK Of BATTLE
FORMER BELONG BOY
WAS WOUNDED

Griffith Vaughan brother OF Airs.
Hugh Evans of this city and who liv-
ed here for some time is in the thick
of the fight i'm Europe and was badly
wounded recently.
A report written up for the London
Record by a war correspondent says
this of him
"When Private Griffith Vaughan is
at home he lives at 1S4 Caron Aven-
ue, Windsor where he has wife
and daughter living at the present
time Yesterday l had a chat with
him at the Royal Herbert Hospital
Woolwich. His wound now healed
In few days he will go to Shorn-
cliffe for a week. and then he will
return To France again.
clad in the loose, dark blue fan
mel suit worn by the wounded in hos
pital and looking tit and well with
the exception of a slight limp caus-
ed by two shrapnel bullets which
brought him down while advancing
in charge against the German tren-
ches at Ypres. Private Vaughan walk
ed with me round the courtyard of
the hospital, and told me of his eX
periences at the great fight at which
the Canadians made glorious his
tory.
Private Vaughan is in the No. 3
Company, 1st Battalion, Western on
tario Regiment. He was in the bull
ding trade. but when the call came
he enlisted and left Windsor with
the 1st Contingent The brace of
bullets which struck him in the left
leg he received two days after the
Germans had let loose their poisonous
gas. one bullet was extracted in
France; the other was taken out at
the hospital at Woolwich. Under fire
he crawled a mile-and half before
he was taken TO the field hospital,
after which he was moved to Boulog
ne. thence to Dover and Woolwich.
"Davy Glendy, who also came from
Windsor. was wounded at the same
time as | was" said Vaughan. I'VE
were both hit as We were advancing
on the German trenches. and many a
Windsor man went down that day.
We were in the thick of it, and men
were falling on every side. Won Kluk
commanded the Germans, so a pris-
oner who was brought in with me
told me, and he had 10000 men to
battle against our little lot.
at was after the Germans started
to use the gas that we were sent
from a town five miles away TO march
to Ypres. We got TO the city at ele-
ven o'clock at night, crossed the
canal. and then entrenched until five
in the morning. The whole city was
on fire, and women and children were
getting out the best way they could
in all directions. There was no chance
for them to take anything with them,
for the shells were falling in all dir
ections and men and horses were
lying about everywhere. 1t was ter
rible, and / hope / shall never be in
anything as hot as that again.
AT five o'clock in the morning we
received orders TO charge the Ger
man trenches. The gas was still all
over the place, but / didn't feel it
very much, as had tied my red hand
kerchief over my mouth. We had to
go over four or five hundred yards
of open ground, on which there was
mt cover of any sort. | saw Corporal
Davy Robertson, of Walkerville, drop
when wounded just as we were maxi
ing the rush.
1--WE charged up TO them, and took
the first line of trenches" continued
Y duSldlf anu OuI IltD SldSth Alltlt
until we were reinforced by a British
regiment. II was quite impossible
for the stretcher-bearers to get up
for the wounded. The firing was too
hot for that, the Germans filling in
the trenches by blowing up both
trenches and the men i'm an awful
mass.
About noon the next day, after
we had been under continuous firing,
we were making another charge when
/ got mine | managed to crawl a
-a-half out of the heavy fire.
Then I was attended TO by the Red
Cross. That was where / came across
Davy Glendy lying on a stretcher. He
told me that Srgt. Coulsdon, Of Wind
sor, had been killed. a little while
the brother of Chris. Cor
don, OF Walkerville, told me that
Chris. had been killed, shot through
the stomach.
"Say / hope all my friends at
Windsor are having the best of luck"
said Vaughan, when 1 left him."