The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-08-29
NILE REED Is WOUNDED AFTER
ROUGH EXPERIENCES.
oyer THE TOP AFTER HUN
No" In Hospital With Injured Ankle,
Hopes to Get Back to Lines Soon.
Attended BY Or. johnson of
,..L--- OskaIoosa.
Somewhere in France, Aug.

very good. however, with the except.
ion of my ankle. got shot through
the ankle last Sunday afternoon about
1870. They came almost getting me
four or five times before that, but
they didn't. 1t was pure luck.
! am in the hospital nova swell
place for sure and quite ways from
the lines. The hospital is located in
a summer resort, with beautiful sur
roundings. They surely take good care
of you here, say. | got to ride about
500 kilometers on a U. S. Red Cross
train, which is up-to-date with every
thing necessary to ones comfort.
We went over the top about 100 or
lis p. m, deployed as skirmishers
and then went after the Huns. But
they got me first, although | stayed
with them for about ten minutes.
Hit BY Machine Gun Fire.
1t was machine gun that got me
and two of my pals on the right side
/ say, but we don't pay any attention
to that up here. was crawling along
on the ground and one bullet got me
on the left hand and cut the snap off
my glove but did not touch me- The
next one got the rim OF my helmet
and then one went through my money
belt and hit a compass had in it, and
tore it all up. Still they did not hit me
but finally one got me in the ankle.
Well that's going some Ha-Ha-Ha.
also had piece OF shrapnel hit me
on the arm and skinned it little and
tore my French canteen all to pieces
! had my coat and rain coat on and
that kept it from cutting me guess.
Attended by DR.. Johnston.
was operated on by fellow from
Oskaloosa, DIR. Johnston. He did a
good Job too. He is sure a fine fellow
| was glad to see him and he was glad
also to see me. When he found out
who ! was he told the other doctors
he wanted to work on me because |
was from his home town and it made
me feel q whole lot better. There
before they got to me. was on an
other doctors table but he took care
of me. There were couple of nurses
and a couple of doctors talking to me
about getting sick watching the other
fellows being operated on. But it did
not bother me a bit, and what do you
know about it,-Ralph Lester was on
the table beside me.
Other People From Home.
While was going to sleep thought
! was riding in an aeroplane and when
| went clear under | thought / fell
out OF 1t and then | was gone, and
did not know anything more until that
morning about 6:15 a. m. went under
about 3:45 a. m. early morning. also
met fellow there by the name of
Stanley w. Meyers Am r. c. Military
Hospital No. / A. E. F. Dick Barrow
man is his uncle. He was from Bur-
lineton Iowa, and when he told me
he knew Beryle Barrowman, told him
1 had picture of Beryle in my pocket
he did not know hardly what to say.
| had quite talk with him. Frank
Nash is his uncle also. | also met a
nurse from Des Moines and had quite
a talk with her. ....
Well the nurse just got through Civ
ing me a bath and feel pretty good.
Well guess will close for this time,
so goodbye, with lots of love to all.
I will be back at it in couple OF
weeks so do not worry. EVERYTHING is
all o. X.
In letter dated Aug. 4, Niles says:
will drop you few more lines to
let YOU know am all right and feel
ing pretty good, all except my ankle.
1t is a little sore this evening but 1t
will get all right. 1t was just week
ago today that | got it. But such is
war, There was an old Frenchman and
his daughter just got through serenad-
ing us a little while ago. The boys
threw out soos to the little girl. They
were Belgians guess instead OF
French.
Well, dad, believe me we are run
ming the Dutch right. wish you could
see the paper we. get here, 1t has a
map each day telling where the Ger
mans are and where they started
from. We get the New York Herald.
1t is printed in Paris and they get the
morning report of what was done the
night before. And we get it here the
next evening and 1t is right. You
would be really surprised to see what
the u. S. has done in this last drive
and believe me we have done some
fighting. and We are going to continue
10 fight until Germany quits or we
will kill all of them. When we went
over the top the boys all said spare
none" and also par Comarad" Enc
comrade) or they would say in French
to dutchman who would holler