Connecticut western news., 1917-08-30
r WAS taken from Pozieres to Albert

Y WAS taken from Pozieres to Albert
 in a Ford ambulance or, as the
 Tommies would say, "tin Lizzie" The man who drove this vehicle would make good chauffeur for an adding machine. Apparently he was counting the bumps in the road, for he didn't miss one of them. However, the trip was only matter of seven miles, and I was in fair condition when they lifted me out and carried me to an operating table in the field dressing station.
 A chaplain came along and murmur- ed little prayer in my ear. imagine that would have made man feel very chance he was about to pass out, but II knew I merely had leg pretty badly smashed up, and while the chaplain was praying I was wondering if they would have to cut 1t of. I figured, if so, this would handicap my dancing.
 The first formality in shrapnel case is the administration of an anti-tetanus fnnoculation, 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 lump on your chest as big as base ball. which stays with you for forty eight hours. After the injection a nurse fills out a diagnosis blank with a description of your wounds and record of your name, age, regiment, regimental number religion, parentage and previous history as far as she can discover it without asking questions which would be positively indelicate After all of that my wounds were giv- en their first real dressing.
 Immediately after this was done I was bundled into another ambulance and driven to Contay, where the c. c. S. Casualty clearing station) and rail head were located. In the ambulance with me were three other soldiers, an artillery officer and two privates of in fantry. We were all ticketed off as shrapnel cases and probable recoveries, 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 I had about twenty wounds Afterward her count proved conservative. More accurate and later returns showed twenty-two bullets and shell fragments were ill my leg. They took these out and pre- sented them to me. I have been giv- ing them away for souvenirs.
 We were fairly comfortable in the ambulance, and I 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 cheerfully, ex- changing congratulations on having got "clean ones"-that is, wounds not probably fatal. The artillery officer told me he had been supporting our battalion that morning with one of the Sacrifice batteries"
 A sacrifice battery, 1 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 divi- sion of artillery and that on our front of 400 yards the eighteen pounders alone, in a curtain fire which lasted thtrty-two minutes, had discharged 15,000 rounds of high explosive shells.
 l was impressed by his statement, of course, but I told him that, while this was an astonishing lot of ammunition, was even more surprising to have noticed at close range, as I did, the number of Germans they missed. To- ward the end of our trip to Contay we were much exhausted and pretty badly