New Britain herald., 1918-02-28

work. It just shows you can't go by looks in this game
 Battle of Antwerp.
 By Sergt c. Jones, D.C.M.
 31st Heavy Artillery, Royal Garrison
 Artillery
 (Sergt. Jones, an Englishman, who when the war broke out, was lad of twenty, driving motor car. He did his bit we'll, and after being re- leased from Eighty with his dis charge from the army, no longer physically able to serve in the army, Sergt. Jones came to Chicago to hunt for q iob About the first man he was introduced to was Sergt w. A. Desmond, to whom he needed no in- troduction other than the memory Of friendly hand reaching into the shell hole where he lay helpless ia NO Mans Iand-'D
 I was in the Antwerp battle with the infantry. We were short of am intuition for the guns, the twelve and fourteen inch guns, and they gave us rifles and bombs. The Germans came on us and took LIS by surprise. Before l knew what was happening they were on top of us. There was in the bayonet charge The guns were left outside the city and we went on throwing bombs. It was a tight figh< in the streets. I had a hard tussle with 8 German. He thought he had me; he aimed at my stomach, but he only got my thumb. It was as bad wound as a thumb could get but that was nothing, nothing to what came later. I got him down, l-,II I~s gave orders to advance. We heard a noise among lot of Boches, and we came upon lot of Germans. There was another good fight. It was tight. They got us in corner, walls all around. But some of the men man aged to get behind the Germans, went around the block, and that saved us. It was a four days struggle, as I re- member it, and at that time we drove them back They thought they were on their way to Paris. There was another attack afterwards there, but our company was not in 1t. We had been sent out for 8 rest.
 At Mons it was tight Work-and that drive at St. Eloi. I don't like to talk about it. It gets my blood up and I want to fight again. They say I still have shrapnel near the brain and in my neck, near the wind pipe and in my shoulder. I have spent long time in hospitals.
 I volunteered as soon as the war broke out and went over to Belgium with the first army. I had already had two years in the army.
 They gave me the D. c. M. for talk ing trenches. Later Sergt. Desmond found me in a shell hole and helped me out: but he fired on me first. It was in No Mans Land somewhere. I don't remember much about it, ex- cept that Sergt. Desmond is all right
 He Knew Sergt. Jones. (By Sergt. w. A. Desmond
 c Company, goth Battalion, Canadian
 Expeditionary Forces)
 A few days ago someone started to introduce Sergt Jones to me right here in Chicago-Jones the fellow I found in a shell hole in- No Mans Land at four thirty one morning af- ter emptying my magazine rife into ! that p1ace-or as near it aS I could aim in the dark. We knew each other ali right.
 It happened at the St. IGloi sector of the Ypres salient, April 18th. 1916 1he remnants of our regiment were passing along when l heard sounds coming from the side of the stone road which I thought would bear in vestigation. I shouted but there was no answer. l shouted again. No an- swcr. Then I fired and followed it up to see what was what Tn a ditch by the side of the road, with the usual mud and slime, peering over the edge, I could distinguish five men 1 in the British uniform Four were | dead. The fifth-Jones, was partially 1 paralyzod-could not use his voice. ! there was shell in his neck-we'va 1 been friends ever since. He was 1 landed safely in Blighty. That was 1 the last I knew of him till they tried ! to introduce Us here in Chicago. He's l had his fill, with bayonet, bullet and ] shrapnel, which laid him up for a while, but now he's job hunting
 I enlisted in Canada among the first but I was unfortunate in not i being able to make it with the first 1 C. E. r. The trouble was that one of l the doctors who examined us knew I l wasn't nineteen, although I did my 1 best tC account for the two years , lacking On the 18th of Septem Der ] I tried it again, and that time camo i llll OuSn WILL fly liS Co1olSs auG NaLS | sent into training with the 36th Peel l Regiment and later transferred to ! the 2Oth Battalion.
 After the usual routine we received ! orders for full equipment in England one hundred and fifty rounds of am mutton, gas helmet, euc., and were sent over to France. You never saw i such a welcome as we got in France, l They looked upon us as their deliv- ! erers. During the nine-mile march l We were embraced and kissed in tho regular French style, by men. women and children. We didn't object to the 1 women, but