Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-25

HSHeJ rome A7tef three feafS on
 the Western Front-Pedro Clark in
 Court Because of Strayins Hens and
 Wife Wife-5eatins-Laundryman Charged
 With Brook Pollution = Sixty five
 Men Going to Devens Today.
 Sergeant George Brunnelle 22nd Roy al Canadian battalion, was in Putnam Wednesday. the guest of his brother, samuel Brunnelle, and the returned Soiulers visit down town was almost a Constant reception.
 Standing at the corner of Elm and Pomfret streets at the noon hour, he held an impromptu leVee and about every ten seconds hand was thrust through the crowd, followed by a greeting that usually took the form ot Hello, George, old boy; how are youF' And George. while heartily grasping the hand of 9 boyhood chum, regulariy answered Not so bad"
 And George isn't "se hadi" As a matter of fact he is very good, physi- ca1ly and mentally, after all that he has been through. Sergeant Brun- neile saw more than three years of service on the western front-reaI service, hellish fighting and damnable living. But he has returned to tell t9e tale. and the tale includes the story Of many German laid low, never to return to the Fatherland, and or brilliant exploits of the intrepid band of Canadian fighters with which sergeant Brunnelle was associated. I got my share of the Boches," said George in his quiet way-"and while nave no accurate means of know ing the number. TH bet if they could be counted I have moved down at least 1000 of them while standing pack of machine gun. I have killed them until I was sicii of the slaugh- tef-but they should have died, and | they didI"
 Brunnelle's three years of fighting included the desperate period that marked the indomitable stand of the British in the Ypres salient Brun- nelle was in the fighting in France within two months after war was de- clared. He was rushed out of Canada with one of the first groups of the 1 Hominion's overseas battalions and was in the thick of things within SC | days. This was short notice for get ting into such terrific fighting, but he had seven years of United States ar. my training back of him and was pre-. pared to do his bit.
 l In the year and a half after his ar. rIval in France he was in score O. 1 engagements and spent IT months O the period in the trenches. His exper. fences in addition to the fighting ii Flanders include participation in tn, world famous battle of the Somm, and Vimy ridge.
 Three of the wounds he received while in the army, period of nearl, four years, have left their marks upol him. A scar on his neck is a souveni of ViTny ridge and a shortened righ leg, the result of having a piece o
 flesh torn out of his left hip by piece of scrapnel, at Courcellette. in dieate something of what he has beel through to win the distinguished ser vice medal conferred upon him by tn British government and the militar-
 medal with which he was honored b
 tie government of France.
 1 Sergeant Brunnelle also has tn
 mark of bayenet wound between tn
 thumb and forefnger of one hand
 but, he says, "the boehe who did i
 will never stick another man! I go him with a bayonet thrust that ram
 med right through him, and, before leeuld withdraw the bayonet from hi
 body another boehe attacked me an.
 swung up the butt of my gun, an
 caught him under the chin, knoekin him cold. I finished him later!
 have his bayonet. too. to prove it
 tooth affair with hilt and han
 dle. l used it afterwards to get tw
 more Germans, and now it's or m
 mothers parlor table up at North
 bridge. Mass. got my share of Ger
 mans, especially after I went into tn
 machine gun outfit. They fought u
 hard back there in 1916. and they ar
 good shots. but they are afraid of col
 steel and will quit every time in tn face of a bayonet attack, of whic they are afraid and throw their rifle
 in the air and scream for mercy" Sergeant Brunnelle is now honorabI
 discharged from the British army a . unfit for further active military ser , vice. He has done his bit and i around visiting old friends and ol
 places. My mother hadn't seen m for eight years until dirfted int
 Northbridge the other day" the Ser
 geaRt said Wednesday afternoon. "an haven't been in Putnam for te
 years. I was born in Danielson
 1887, but came to Putnam with m parents when I was two years of az