Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-23
ONCE REPORTED KILLED,
lieut.. HARDWOOD RETURNS
Young Officer OF Richmond Has En-
citing and Varied ENpcri-
cnccS With Huns.
BLOWN HIGH INTO AIR BY SHELL
Was With First of ..mcrica'S Fight
ing Troops i'm Francc-Woundcd
Several Timcs-Savcd Once by
Razor Case and Letters


Razor Case and Letters.
Confident that the Germans will bite
the dust within tho next year Lieu
tenant Franklin Ilarwood. son of
Franklin liarwood. OF 1904 Park Ave-
nuc. Richmond, is back homo rccupcrat-
ing from wounds received in the big
countcrattack las; July. lie landed at
an Atlantic port yesterday and utilized
n twcnty-four hour leave to come 10
Richmond TO spend the night with his
parents, who, during the first OF hu-
gust. thought their son was killed in
action. He Will leave here this morn
ing at 4 o'clock for Newport News TO
catch a train for some unknown hos
pital station as "A sort of ''pursatory''
between pas. and future action.
Lieutenant HARDWOOD. who left here
Tor New y ork TO sail August -. 1917,
received his cmbarkation orders the
same day he received his commission.
WAS first lieutenant, Company r.,
sixteenth Infantry regulars. He reached
Franco in September. tho front line in
November and his farthest line toward
HEnland on July 81. when he received
the third and severe wound. The first
lighting the American soldiers engaged
in saw Lieutenant Ilarwood in action
This was on November 5, when Cor
poral Gresham and Privatcs Enright
and Hay Won the name. The First
Three" The pocbcs pulled All uncx-
E'ectcd raid on the line ut Bathlemant
near Arracourt; Lieutenant Harwood
said that Al the time they thought
that was something. but in fact II was
nothing compared with what he later
experienced.
as 1t may be Sergeant 1ialyburton, a
carolinan OF his company. was among
The captured. He had, when taken
about 500 francs lie had won this
shooting a. IL mt lI.,r
wood said that rhc company afterwards
heard from the "unlucky" blikcn, who
was having pretty rough time in a
herman prison camp
HELD CiNTIGNY AFTER
DIG TIME WITH BoCHES
After the brigade TO which Lieu
tenant Harwcod was attached hit the
front lines II stayed there longer than
any other division had up to tho time
ne was wounded. lie saw the fight on
November 3. From that time on he saw
danger and hard work. The battle Of
G;antsny was fought during the las,
days OF May. The Hun drive had be-
gun IN March and had scarcely stopped
On May IS and -. the Twenty eighth
lrmtantry Regiment took the town OF
CanuSny. He said they had a picnic
getting bochcs out. II Was tho SIN
ieenth Regiment. in which Lieutenant
harwood was a first lieutenant that
was told TO hold the place after il was
taken. II was those holding the Mace
that endured.
Lieutenan; lIarwood said had they
naa Tue troops 20 follow up aud make
mass a'ack' as the Germans had
ncen doing through all their oifcnsiycs,
,hey could have advanced as far as i;
was physically able for troops to 20 i'm
aho gay, but that after the 18th. when
tnc drive had stopped, the Germans
demons. "'
IT. On the night OF May so Lieutenant
harwood unwit;inSly buried i'm a shell
mole Second Lieutenant Narbourne r.
GGraS' OF Louisville, NY. Lieutenant
fray mad been II University OF Vir-
woods. Both were members or Tho
t ai team. and had run in the same
b.a -, usually the two-mile races. II
nad neen Gray's luck 10 come out sec
ond III nearly all events. That night
adt tlr the battle OF taking the town.
lieutenant lIarwood and a squad wnr ~,
doing patrol in no mans land . Thcrc
were twenty-five bodies out IN from
OF the lines. 80 '0h'
IDENTIFICATION TAG DIsCLosES
FACT HE Had HURRIED ISRIy:\n
u was decided 10 bury the mon mar
misht. There We're many shell holes H.
'front.' OF the line. and The squad Gov
Two shell holes. They HRS, took from
s snnin t hsi identihca,iom tags and per-
e eI,.a, n.Ghi o eng The next day dis
"9 nod had buried his old friend. 'A
the belongings DISTRESSED, fIhc f,c.
ESQ also mat ihc bullet +:ili'flg Lieutenant
IN The left breast pocE"t Of h;.. " j,.,i
IN men Travelled, doubtless, through
~. !i,drt' Better luck along this wy
attended Lieutenant Hnrwood or i THS
-. " the battle OF scissors a bniic,
p,G5eea SIX or eight letters and IA tcs.
,anent IN the similar poke; for Lien
tenant Harwcod. 1t passed thrnurh :,
ua;,I,., SasS ana stopped against his BODY
~ mt.n' ~. G9iihg more damage than MAX
~ n!Pic spot exactly over his heart
INC bullet he later discovered I'm -.
!: rn,r nc OF The letters contained
,erLu itieutcnant Cray mad bccr a
nsn,hcr OF the regimen; that tool, On
-. 80! NJ Wa a member OF The rcgi-
t"Gnt hoInlng tho city.
Dong patrol probably Tho prx, r;sb
LEV. enant iar''ood had his nrsi on,
al pitah VIII T., boShe Il was black
mans land. Tbey ha Gr' eS Sas n ac; ;%ae
i nsne c nIeIe ~ 3i d@ubtful territory aud
enemy was digging in. Tho so,,,, me ne
'.n ni1,d baG 80 ihrd OF Inc way across c,s
we're creen fi. d n%lweIn The lines, aud
Eianiation 10 .ns2ccl tho enemy I,,,,
tartheF down, when the: ran in,n
ana stealing along IN tnn
Wnen the Drchcs. ~ % sigma. ;It,i,rl,nI
lien, one OF them struck l.i"ut"n:ant
llarwood IN the mouth with M 49,
pt gun knocking three teeth out ~
~, "spef ia ~. Amost q, the sa,Hc
STRUCK him on the head ''""
FIRED INTO UI>.S SIM.
As THEN GRArpLED II nam.
!: Ahheuienani iiarwood had his pistol
-, ms hand' IL closed ,I OF the Ger.
man before llim STUCK the gun i,c;,i,s.
,iis sac and pulled the trigger Nmd
tieulchant Tar" God soI his nrs, HUI
conscious The squad .aptu-nd a ,"i,-
pie OF me Doehrs, and Lieutenant Han
Sooh soon came 20 s moment moro
rockets we're lighting NJ thc bn,r .'aU,
a ie" more a baragc wns laid dn,,n
ana everything in mo mans ian1 ;,
beat Y for the lines an"
he stated tina; ~ was in sir,i,
patrol that Captain "-addock. ~ I't',',.i,''.
hnrs. received his wounds In . nn
,rol on" night CrnddocK Was ftlr,riS. IA
by party o. bochcs. who ara r.p., ~
20 az me patrol fighters Ca1t,J7