Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1916-12-07
FREDERICK COUNTY, MD. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1916

sergeant, and heard while there that
Captain Scales and scout were lying
out dangerously wounded Hill Mt once
volunteered to fetch them in. He sue
:eeded in bringing the captain to safe
ty, but the officer died soon after.
"Hill then started to return to me,
out on the way he found two Germans
n shell hole. How he found them Is
puzzle, for 1t was dark. He leveled
his rifle at them and the Huns put up
Doth hands before this little man and,
as they always do, pleaded Mercy,
kamerad.' Hill then took his prisoners
down the line and that was the only
time he thought he had done any
thing big. He was proud of his bag
He performed all these feats in less
than half an hour"
One particular incident stirred Eng
land deeply. 1t was the death of John
Travers Cornwell In the battle of Jut-
land. A boy of sixteen on Ii. NJ. s.
Chester, he was mortally wounded
early in the fight. Nevertheless he re-
nalned standing alone at a most ex-
posed post to the end Of the action,
with the guns crew dead and wound
cd all around him. He said simply,
when asked why he had remained
there, he thought that he might be
wanted. The boys body was brought
back to England and buried by his
parents in London cemetery. The
urit Itch
story of his death, but when Sir John
JellicOe'S dispatch was published tell
Ing about young Cornwell's heroism a
wave of emotion swept over the coun-
try.
Two months afterward the coffin
was dsinterred and buried with hon
Ors In new grave.
Wins V. c. Twice.
One man has won the V. G. twice in
the present war. He was still alive
when last heard from and may Yet win
the medal again. Lieut.. John Jacka
of the Fourteenth battalion of Aus
tralian infantry is the man. He won
the V. c. first in the fighting at Gal
lipOli. He was then corporal. On
May 1S, 1915, the Turks made fierce
attack on the position held by the Aus
tralianS. The onslaught was one of
the most furious of the disastrous
series Of battles that marked the Gal
lipoli campaign. 1t was necessary to
capture certain part Of Turkish
trench and Jacka undertook to accom-.
plish that jot alone. He got in be-
hind the trench. With his rifle Jacka
slot down five Turks, with his bayo-
net he killed two more, and the three
who remained tc oppose him he cap
tured. His achievement saved part
Of the allied line.
On August last Jacka won his v.
c. the second time at the battle of the
SCmme. He had been promoted to
lieutenaacy and was in command of a
platoon sent to relieve force Of An
zacS in an advanced trench near
PCzieres, In the morning Jacka's lit
tie command was attacked by fierce
of 600 Germans. Only seven Of Jacka's
men, including himself remained alive
after that charge. These seven decd-
ed tC die fighting, even against over
whelming odds. With bayonets they
charged at the Germans. They fought
like tigers and were able to keep the
Germans busy until the reserves came
up and the tide turned. 1t is said that
not single German of that COO got
away. Many were killed and some
We're captured.
In any record of the Victoria Cross
one cannot emit the name of Lieuten-
ant Warneford, the first man t. de-
stroy Zeppelin single-handed. A few
days after his exploit Warneford was
killed while flying with an American
newspaper man.