The daily Alaskan., 1917-09-21

Y WAS taken from Pozieres to Albert
 in Ford ambulance or, as the
 Tommics would say, "tin Lizzie" The man who drove this vehicle would make a good chauffeur for an adding machine. Apparently he was counting the bumps in the road, for be didn't miss one of them, However, the trip was only Il matter of seven miles, ana I was in fair condition when they lifted me out and carried me to an operating table in the field dressing station.
 \ chaplain came along and muFmur- ed a little prayer in my ear. imagine that would have made man feel very solemn If he had thought there was chance he was about to pass out, but knew merely had leg pretty badly smashed up. and while the chaplain was praying 1 was wondering If they would have to cut 1t of. l figured, If SO. this would handicap my dancing.
 The first formality in Shrapnel case is the RdminlstratiQn of an antl-tetanus innocuiation. and when it Is done you realize that they are sure trying to save your life. The doctor uses horse syringe. and the injection leaves a lump on your chest as big as base ball, which stays with you for forty eight hours. After the injection a nurse fills out q diagnosis blank with a description of your wounds and a record of your name. age, regiment. regimental number, religion, percentage and previous history as far as she can discover it without asking questions which would be positively indeicate. After all of that my wounds were giv- en their first real dressing,
 Immediately after this was done l was bundled Into another ambulance and driven to COntay, where the c. c. S. (casuulty clearing station) and rail head were located. In the ambulance with me were three other soldiers, an artillery officer and two privates of h. fantry. We were all ticketed off as shrapnel cases and probable recoYeries, which latter detail Is remarkable, since the most slightly injured of the four had twelve wounds. and there were sixty odd shell fragments or shrapnel balls collectively imbedded in us. The nurse had told me that had about twenty wounds. Afterward her count proved conservative. More accurate and later returns showed twenty-two bullets and shell fragments were In my leg. They took these out and pre- sented them to ne. have been giv- ing them away for souvenirs.
 We were fairly comfortable in the ambulance and especially had great relief from the fact that the nurse had strapped my leg in sling attached to the top of the vehicle. We smoked cigarettes and chatted cheertully, ex- changing congratulations on having got clean oues"-that Is, wounds not probably fatal The artillery officer told me be had been supporting our battalion that morning with one of the sacrifice batteries"
 A sacrifice battery, might explain, is one composed of field pieces which are emplaced between the front and support lines and which in case of an attack or Counterattack are fired at point blank range. They call them sacrifice batteries because some of them are wiped out every day. This officer said our battalion that morning had been supported by an entire diyi- sion of artillery and that on our front of 400 yards the eighteen pounders alone in a curtain fire which lasted thirty-two minutes, had discharged l5,OOO rounds of high explosive shells.
 was impressed by his statement, of course, but told him that, while this was an astonishing lot of ammunition, it was even more surprising to have noticed at close range, as did, the number of Germans they missed. To ward the end of our trip to Contay we were much exhausted and pretty badly