The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
TOpekan Was With Rainbow
Division Ammunition Train.
He Was Wounded in Action on
25th of May.
TELLS OF HUN ATROCITIES
His Own Son Was in Same
Unit With Him.
He Shaved Colonel Travis in
Kaiser's StaterOOm.

ST shaved Colonel Travis in the
kaisers stateroom on the ship
America"
None other than William D. Bundy,
experience, which befell him on his
way to France with the III ammuni-
ton train in November. 1917. Bundy
arrived home from France Thursday
evening, having been wounded in
action on May rs. He was sent first
to Fort Smelling. from whence he came
home on a thirty-day furlo.
Il never believed it possible for the
Germans to practice such atrocities as
1 had heard about until I got over
there and saw with my own eyes" he
said. "At Baccarat there was a school
where French women were taking care
of about 250 Belgian children ranging
Of them had their hands, feet or
fingers cut off. At another town 1
saw several French girls branded with
the cross of shame by the Germans
and carrying babies whose fathers
were German. These atrocities were
committed in 1914 when the Germans
came thru there"
Enlisted as Barber.
Bundy, who is AZ years old, enlisted
Der on August %, 1917. He left To-
peka for Camp Mills on September 2
for training and was sent to Hoboken
preparatory to sailing on October 2S.
He arrived at Brest, France, Novem-
ber IA. 1t was on this trip that he
shaved Colonel Travis, commander of
the train, in the kaisers stateroom,
which he described as being one OF
the most beautiful rooms he had ever
seen. The ship was seized some time
before as it lay in an American port.
Next to the Vaterland it was the larg-
est vessel in the Germany army.
THE ship was so large" said Bundy.
that we couldn't get into the wharf
and the men had to be taken off in
barges. We lay in the harbor about
week and every minute We were
growing more anxious to get ashore
We were then sent inland to a small
town $50 miles from Brest and on this
trip we received our first introduction
to a French train. On the trip from
Topeka to Camp Mills we rode in Pull.
mans. with porters in attendance. but
on the trip from Brest we boarded
cars which were marked forty men ol
eight horses some of them wers
built like our cattle cars, only smaller
I'VE boarded the train in the even.
ing and 1t took us until O'Clock the
next afternoon to reach our destina
| ton When we departed was put IL
| charge of the grub with instruction.
that it would have to last us on {
three-day trip, so we figured ou
just how much each man could have
and ate accordingly. But the mex
afternoon we arrived at our destina
! ton and had to throw away all tina
food We might have eaten had W.
/ known"
Work I'm France.
! The ammunition train was split VI
/ but concentrated at Luneville in tn,
latter part of March and commenced
its service by hauling ammunition t.
! the French. Previous to this tim
Bundy's company did military polio
| duty in the vicinity of their first inlant
stop. and Major George Frank Of Man
, haitian, was provost marshal of tha
| territory.
| At Luneville. Bundy said, the trail
lost its first man killed. The mel
were billeted in a hotel which a HUI
shell struck, killing a man name,
! been on every front in France, includ
ing Verdun. scissors. Chateau Their
and is now in the Metz region
| Bundy was at the front from Marcl
1, 1913, until May 25. when he wa
| injured. The truck in which the
were hauling ammunition to a batter
in the night ran into a shell hole
| throwing Bundy violently agains
another truck and severely injuring hi
leg. He will return to the reconstruc
ton hospital at Fort Smelling at tn
| expiration of his furlo for an opera
| ton.
His Son With Train.
Bundy's son, William D. Bundy, Jr
is also with the III ammunition trai
and is now in France. He has a son
in-law, Dick Newman. in Battery 4
Bundy is the father-in-law of Harr
Caylor "a State Journal reporter, VIII
is in the navy at the Great Lakes na
val training station.
Among the Topeka men mentione
by Bundy are: William Phillip
Frank Fable. James Ackerman, Harr
Robbins, j. Bennett. Ed Warner. Dor
aid MCGEE, now first lieutenant, an
Ralph Young. All these men weI
transferred from Battery A to the an
munition train and are now in Franc