The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-10-18
This Bird Answers to North
more" but Look What
He Did.
DISAPPOINTED IN THIS WAR
Hero OF One of Hottest Actions of
War Complains Because He
Was Wounded Early in
the Fight
BY E. A. BACHELOR

Paris.-When they named that boy
Northmore, fate must hare laughed
loudly. It's so unlike him. The name
does not suggest the deeds this par
ticular NOrthmore has done recently
In France. He should have been
called Mike.
NorthmOre Hamill is his full name
and he lives In Detroit. Mich, when
he is home. A little over two years
ago he was In the senior class at high
school, Smallish, bashfu youngster
with an engaging smile Now he is
Private Hamill, United States marine
corps, cOnvalescent from two wounds,
one of the many heroes of one of the
hottest actions of the war, a finished
''hard-boiled" soldier.
Private Hamill has been little
disappointed I'm this war 1t has some
good points, of course, but he feels
that he was cheated because. as he
expresses ii, he didn't see much of
the fight"
Twice wounded and still he didn't
see much of certain fight
Here is Private Hamill'S story as he
told it bss hfully. even alphabetically
after | had given him cigarette Of
a popular brand, cigarette that has
been hard TO get in France:
Nopthmore Had Hard Luck
Yes, II was good fight, that lit
tie affair at Belleau Woods l missed
ri of 7 hn
rotten luck to be wounded early. but
the rest of the boys had a busy time.
eve advanced I'm broad daylight
through wheat field with the Hun
machine gun bullets reaping the grain
around as as nicely as though it had
been done with o scythe. Then we
got into the woods where they had
plenty of guns and plenty of cover.
My platoon was little in advance of
the rest of the company, and we had
almost reached the clearing on the
far side of the woods when we ran
into q nest OF machine guns.
awe had no hand grenades with us
so all there was TO do was TO try to
pick off the gunners with our rifles.
"All of sudden, something ex-
ploded right among four of us that !
were lying near rock. / felt some
thing like a needle stab in each leg |
and knew that / had been hit. Billy. |
one of my pals. got a piece of the |
tfnd grenade, for hat is what had |
gone off. through the steel helmet. II |
went into his skull and he grOaned q |
couple Of times and was gone. Two !
ether men had been wounded, too.
making four casualties for one M Easily |
little hand grenade. Did you ever !
hear of such luck?
"We bad to use Billy's body as a
kind Of breast-wOrk, for things were
getting pretty hot about then and the
rOOr fellow was gone and there was
no use Of the rest of us being ex-
posed.
Il could still work my rifle. for the
pieces of metal In my legs weren't
very big and they didn't hurt very
much. Finally all my ammunition was
gene and | had TO roll Billy over and
use his cartridges. 1 hated to do it
t gave me the creepS-but what else
was there TO do when | was all out of
shells?
Navy Man Cool.
FINALLY we got orders TO fall back
% the advanced dressing station,
which was behind big rock. and the
,Ellets pingiDg around and chipping
IF pieces of stone all the time There
vas hospital man from the navy
here and he certainly was Il cool one.
lie bandaged us up as calmly as IL |
here was not such q thing as war
,oing on.
"Then another fellow and / started