The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-10
AMBULANCE FIRST AID
STATION UNDER FIRE
Edward Jenney Left His Dinner TO
Dodge Flying Fragments Of
German Shells.

Under date of October %, Edward
B. Jenney. of the American ambulance
corps, writes his brother Or. Rolin
ID Jemey,
"one month ago We moved into ac-
tive service in an exceedingly tranquil
sector, due to the fact that about two
miles of swamp separated the two
lines, making it necessary for one de
vision to take things easy while those
on the right and left OF us drove the
boche back far enough to make the
crossing of the swamp possible.
For two weeks we enjoyed quiet
none too active period at the front
and then with a bang things changed.
The boche retreated and we moved
forward. The first day at our new
post as things were going along in
peaceful manner loud whine and
deafening explosion interrupted our
dinner Nice way to have things hap
pen, / must say, for ! lost my dinner
when ! ELL fat 70 escape flying frag.
ments Of the she'll Then came an.
other and another Our first aid sta
ton was being shelled good and prop.
er, We beat a hasty retreat into E
dugout where we waited for a half
hour while the affair blew over
Some one remarked that by morning
frits would have retreated again.
Sure enough he did so once more we
were moved a considerable distance
Then real hard work began with our
division and others constantly attack
ing and advancing.
Never in my life have ] seen such
terrible roads. All the main roads
were blown up with many bridges de-
stroyed making it necessary for us to
take roundabout trips over measly
roads plastered thick with oozy mud
Many cars of all kinds became stuck,
but still traffic managed TO continue.
The towns we visited we're not so
thoroughly destroyed as those in our
rear, for the boche had gotten out
rather rapidly. But the roads, We
heard cries of pain from our wound.
ed every few yards.
And then that strange feeling one
experiences after having been sixty
hours without sleep, and little to eat.
sticking 10 your ambulance seat and
trying TO hang to the road that isn't.
The rain beating into ones eyes is
fairly binding at times. Occasionally
would almost drop into a dose hut
would come back TO life with start
just in time to save my car from go
ing over a bank or hitting a tree.
Then N top of all broke the
/ frame OF my car and had to go to the
/ park where | am at the present time
for repairs. The park is located in
an important city which was once one
of the strong points in the linden
burg line. Although It shows what il
has gone through ! have seen towns
/ in much worse state of destruction.
( The cathedral, though, is a wreck and
! the boche had intended to make a
complete job of il. Each pillar had
been mined but for some reason OF
/ perhaps a change of heart the charges
were not fred when the boche moved
out
J. German prisoners are everywhere
cleaning up wreckage and repairing
where they had destroyed They are
a work here in the park and they &c
around with a hungry look in theii
eyes, grabbing pieces OF bread that
have been thrown away and picking
up cigarette butts. 1t sounds pitiful
but darn'm they're better treated than
our boys in Germany
One of our crowd has received q
postcard from Lockwood. one OF h'
three ambulance drivers who v1r,
lost 1t was just the usual card sta
ing that he was a prisoner of war il
Germany and was we'll Perhaps the
other two are prisoners, for all three
were in the same car The card wa
at least encouraging.
Il received a telegram from Dewey
saying that he had landed at Havr,
and expected TO be in the city twi
weeks. wrote him that would =
/, my best 10 see him, but as he ha
probably told you before now it wa
impossible fer NE to reach him
Headquarters refused TO give me |
/ fn,trn Of al