The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-02-01

c11afi ssseren. IL begins on bright,
ssstks6 eaag a year ago last September,
~ csamSec, when the regiment. with
ssessy man wearing previous service
zfzassoE- swung on board a transport
sazkfH n babel OF sound and riotous
oruAsEr-
n sean6s in a crescent shaped trench
81 TVres. on the eighth day of last
SszgE, slmid a green vapor OF strangling
-pcAs02S and gray surge of German in
tSzzss,V with bayonets fixed, writing
ssA~n the broken sand bag ramparts.
Tslsuse the men of Pats Own wrote
.akElr- names into history and disband-
I'd ~ Che command OF the greatest of
~ asssamsnders-Death
or E.126 picked men who stood
proudly in review befDre King George
sol Lord Kitchener at Salisbury
s1amE as they strobe down the lines
.uik SO are uniniured There's still
g asggment of Princess Pats Own"
IN lac trenches on the west front. But
r. sEs.ee of the sturdy men garnered
zzaza tine marts of the world are fresh
ssssssl youths. just from the scholastic
anAiS OF McGill university, in Canada.
T1aw1rs upholding the traditions-so
ss~ssljE Ena3e-of the men who went
suz4 henore them.
EsaE1erday Corporal William B. Kysh
pe Princess Pats Own"-that regi-
lsenHss maich went to the front little
lsssEf uhan a year ago-told the story
W. tax beginning and it's end. He told
IL IN 5erky snatches between quick
iaszatlsseH OF cigarette smoke, while a
EEszEEd Acaly and MANNED from shrap-
f~~sl stroked his yellow face.
"A Regiment Of Veterans.
Era sorry can't tell y more OF
'osa1a7 ne apologized. 81 never was
vzxa,Sii OF a spieler at best-an1 now,
EfsR rotten. Nerves gone. v know
aszazitl eat. can't sleep"
Vet Corporal Kysh was a seasoned
snAffser, as we're all OF his comrades.
vsssssst me took the kings shilling in
Csssss1sc and donned the British uni
napn- He was Sergt. William Kysh OF
.sass 1E'wenty-ninth United States vol
ynazseers in the Spanish-American war,
szh<si Corporal Kysh OF the Argyle and
zarnbeTiand Highlaneers at Ashanti
M tsefween he has been a purser on
,faNs3 passenger steamships running
52D R11rope and the far East He was
hsnsssp IN England. but he is a natural
zs4st American. as were so many of the
sAsan who died at Ypres or before
veEresz was reached.
Princess Pats Own" left Quebec
-ssn September II, 1914
ANer three weeks at Salisbury
g11ans the regiment was attached tc
l1ass Eaghtieth brigade. making up part
so use Twenty-seventh division, com
isasssa otherwise OF British regulars
.axs. back from service in India The
sezanzfer followed the review by the
adinx and Lord Kitchener. The Brit
s4r Tlsid marshal, they say, as h'
gsaszessd down the line and saw the
sxrvzos ribbons across the coats o.
-astkas Own" said. softly:
wow know where all my old fight
nrsx ara"
into the Trenches at Once.
1Stae first week in December saw thu
1a4xzrzent OF to the front. There wa!
g march from Winchester to South
zsnyoon, and there the troops embarked
ms board the Csrdiganshire for Havre
sesre was reached in the darkness
xs8E sitter one nights stop the regi
s4atr2z marched to Bleiringhen. behinC
-izgn firing line. All day long they dul
-zxoerve trenches. And then that nigh
Ike word came 10 relieve Dickelbusch
AZ @f these points are within radiu
90 erenty-five miles from Ypres-
\ Hoh an 40 s4raq q
as1 front was progressing.
Twenty miles the regiment marched
ezzsv1ng at Dickelbusch at night foot
snaEse and weary. This was on Decem
.-zss IS, and hardly had they messe'
When the command came to occup
szsE trenches. The French who ha
.isssan holding them needed relief.
50 into the trenches the men crepi
sszsN{lng along fiat On their stomacht
~seases the star shells from the German
i-suseS made the heavens red risin
r,ERs scooting when welcome darkness
r-sss2e down again. For 70 hours the
tssguched In the trenches OF Dicke
f3alsch under a rain of shell and shraI
tn9 IRE, with only emergency ration
"a sustain them. This was their bar
JIM of fire.
Back into He'll at Hill CO."
Well. we left of the trenches afte
~ hours and marched back to Yves
~sDu1er. where we rested for 4s hours
Sen back into hell again. For TIL
~is.e that was where we went-int
-izench c 10 on Hill go.
After As hours back we crept {
T@est-Outer again to spend our Chris
mas there. We left some dead an
ssquze wounded behind I guess It wa
n Killed. Shippers and hand grenade
ryse che others. So we went back an
rsrrh. thinning the ranks a little eac
z5ane. until February %. Then "
fxszAe our first charge.
Our artillery shelled the German
s<r two days while we lay in tn
sszsaches waiting for the word. The