Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-24
Major B. S. Berry Sorry
He Is Not to Fight Now

| Washington - Major Benjamin S.
Berry, United States Marine Corps,
son of William II. Berry, Collector
of the Port of Philadelphia, hero
of the battle of Belleau Woods,
France, the engagement in which
the American marines stopped the
mad rush of the German army on
Paris last June, reported to the
marine corps headquarters, navy de-
partment on his observations dur
| ing sixteen months service in
France.
Major Berry, who wears on his
breast medals for bravery bestowed
| by France and the United States,
has been invalided home to recover
from two machine-gun wounds in
his left arm below the elbow.
He returned from France several
days ago and is now stationed at
the marine corps hospital at Brook
llyn. He made trip to Washington
to report on his observations and
Experiences and will return at once
to Brooklyn. He most likely will
make a visit to Philadelphia next
week and remain a few days at the
home of his father.
Major Berry went to France in
June, 1917, with the devil dog" ma
rines who made up a part of Gen
eral Pershing's first detachment of
the American EXpeditionary force.
He was then a captain.
He went through the system of
training in France and his battal-
ion was among the first to take up
part of the French forces were re-
Ilieved by the Americans.
For conspicuous bravery in re-
pelling an attack by the Germans on
the American trenches last April,
the French authorities bestowed
upon Major Berry the Croix de
Guerre.
In the battle of Bellean Woods, on
June 6, last, Major Berry, after nu-
lmerous acts of conspicuous bravery
in leading his battalion into battle
with the Prussian Guards, received
two machine-gun wounds in his left
arm. His arm was shattered in
several places. After continuing in
the fight for some time, he was
compelled, by loss of blood and sheer
exhaustion, to withdraw.
Major Berry was awarded the dis
tinguished service cross by General
Pershing for acts of heroism in the
Belleau Woods battle.
Carries Arm in Sling
He has a number of ugly wounds
In MS leTt arm, WnlCn ne is Sllll
compelled to carry in a sling. The
arm appears to have been laid wide
open from the thumb to the elbow
and both the bones in the forearm
were broken in several places by the
German machine-gun bullets. He
has the use of all the fingers, but
the tendons leading to the thumb
have been completely severed. leav-
ing it useless.
Major Berry does not take these
wounds seriously.
when the arm gets a bit better
we can open it up at the wrist and
hook a tendon on to the thumb
and it will work then all right" he
said in speaking of the powerless
thumb.
THE doctors say / should be al
most entirely recovered from my
wounds in three months and l ex-
pect to be back on the firing line in
France next spring" said Major
Berry. THE fighting in France is
sure the life and I'm mighty sorry
they put me out of it and prevented
me from getting into the big ad-
vances being made now"
1t was at the battle of Belleau
Woods that the Germans first faced
the Americans in the open, met more
than their match, and entirely re-
Vised their estimates of the fight