The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-07

intosh, steel helmet, two blankets, tear
shell goggles, a balaclava helmet, |
gloves and q tin of antifrOStbite grease |
which is excellent for greasing the |
boots. Add to this the weight of his |
rationS, and can you blame Tommy for |
growing at twenty-kilO route march?
Having served as sergeant major in
the United States cavalry, I tried to
tell the English drill sergeants their |
business, but it did not work. They |
Immediately put me as batman in their
mess. Many a greasy dish of stew was
accidentally spilled over them.
would sooner fight than be waiter.
so when the order came through from
headquarters calling for a draft of
$50 re-enforcements for France, L vol
unteered.
Then we went before the M. o.
Cmedical officer) for another physical
examination. This was very brief. He
asked our names and numbers and
said gift" and we went out to fight.
We we're put into troop trains and
sent to Southampton, where we de-
trained, and had our trench rifles is
sued to us. Then in columns of twos
we went up the gangplank of little
steamer lying alongside the dock.
At the head of the gangplank there
was an old sergeant, who directed that
we line ourselves along both rails OF
! the ship. Then he ordered us to take
life belts from the racks overhead and
put them on. have crossed the ocean
several times and knew I was not sea-
sick, but when I buckled on that life
belt had a sensation Of sickness.
After we got out into the stream all
could think of was that there were a
million German submarines with tor
pedo on each, across the warhead or
which was inscribed my name and ad-
dress.
After five hours we came alongside
pier and disembarked. I had at
tanned another one of my ambitions.
I was somewhere in France" We
slept in the open that night on the SIDE
of the road. About six the next morn
ing we were ordered to entra1n.
looked around for the passenger
coaches, but all could see on the SID
ing were cattle cars. We CLIMBED INTO
these. On the side Of each car was
sign reading "Hommes 40, Cheveaux
g." When we got inside of the cars
we thought that perhaps the sign
painter had reversed the order OF
things. After 48 hours in these trucks
we detrained at Rouen. At this place
we went through an intensive training
for ten days.
The training consisted Of the rud1-
ments of trench warfare. Trencnes
had been dug, with barbed wire en-
, tanglements, bombing saps, dugouts'
, observation posts and machine gun en-
} placements. We we're given smat-
) tering of trench cooking, sanitation
bomb throwing, accommodating, listen
? ing posts, constructing and repairing
: barbed wire, carrying in parties
!. methods used in attack and defense,
/ wiring parties, mass formation, and
( the procedure for pOison-gas attacks
On the tenth day we again met our
! friends "Hommes 40, Cheveaux g.
Thirty-six hours more of misery, ana
" we arrived at the town of r.
d After unloading our ratiOns and
: equipment, we lined up on the ROAD IN
> columns of tours waiting for the order
- to march.
l. A dull rumbling could be heard. Inc
I sun was shining. L turned to the man
on nv left and asked, "Whats the
noise. Bill?" He did not know, but his
face was of a pea-green color. Jim
on my right, also did not know Du'
: snpeested that I 'awsk' the sergeant
8 Coming towards US was an old grlz
!, Sled sergeant, properly fed up witt
tho war. SO I "awsked" him.
"Think it's going to rain, sergeant!
He looked at me in contempt anC
- qrunted. "'Ow's it a-goin' ter rain Will
" the bloomin' sun a-shinin'?" l LOOKED
3 guilty. H.. o
= "Them's the guns up the Hne' M
= lad. and you'll get enough OF EN- Oe
- fore YOU gets back to Blighty."
~ NV knees seemed to wilt ana
- scneaked out a weak ooh"
Then we started our march up to tn
:. limo in ten-kilo tricks. After the frs
y, dov,s march we arrived at our res
bi1Iets. In France they cell them res
@ hillets, because while in them Iomm
- works seven days a week and on III
~ eighth day of the week he Is give
~ tTon+v-fonr hours ION his own"
10 Our billet was a spacious affair."
~ large harm on the left side of the roac
10 which had one hundred entrances
ninetv-nine for shells, rats, wind an
!, roin and the hundrsdth one for Ton