The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-12-19

lines. But I remembered about the
other wounded man / had passed |
when / was carrying Philippe Pierre,
so / began hunting for him, and after
a long time I found him. He was still |
alive. His chest was all smashed in
and he was badly cut up around the |
neck and shoulders. l picked him up
and started back, but ran into some
barbed wire and had to so around.
/ was pretty tired by this time and
awfully thirsty, and thought If did
not rest little bit could never make
1t. I was so tired and nervous that
I did not care much whether did
get back or not, and the wounded
garby was grooming all the time.
So when I thought the shells were
coming pretty thick again I got into q
shell hole and it was the same one
had left not long before. The dead
garby was there just as had left him.
The wounded one was bleeding all
over, and my clothes were just soaked
with blood from the three men, but
most Of all from him. There was some
of my own blood on me, too, for when
was knocked down by the shell my
nose bled and kept bleeding for a long
time, but, of course, that was nothing
compared to the bleeding Of the
others.
The worst Of all was that he kept
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thirstier than I had been. even. But
there was not a drop Of water any
where and I knew there was no use
searching any bodies for TASKS. So
we just had to stick it out. Pretty
soon the wounded man quit gr0aning
and was quiet, and knew he was
going to die too. It made me mad to
think that had not been Of any use
in carrying these two men around,
hut II I had gone on with either Of
them 1t would have been just the same
they would have died and probably
would have got 1t, too. When fig
ured it out this way I quit worrying
about 1t, only wished the fire would
let up.
So the other man died, and there
were two Of them In the hole. read
the numbers on their Identification
| disks when shells burst near enough
so that could see them, and after q
while got back to our lines and rolled
| in. / could not remember the num-
bers or the names by that time. but q
working party got them, along with
others, so it was all right.
My clothes were mess, as have
said, and / was so tired l thought
could sleep for a week, but / could
not stand it in my clothes any longer
1t was absolutely against regulations
but I took Off all my clothestht
blood had soaked into the skin-and
wrapped myself in nothing but ali
and went right to sleep. I did moi
sleep very well, but woke up ever,
once In a while and thought / was II
the hole again.
| During the night they brought NJ
water, but was asleep and did mo-
know 1t. They did not wake me
but two men saved by share
though usually IN case like that 1
was everybody for himself and let tn,
last man go dry. You could not blaIn'
them, either, SO thought it wa
pretty decent of these two to save m.
share for me. / believe they mus
have had q hard time keeping tn
others OF Of 1t, to say nothing Of them
selves, for there really was not NOR
than enough for one good drink al
around. It tasted better than anythin
I have ever drunk. Go dry for 2
hours in the hottest weather you ca
find, do a nights work like that, an
come to in the morning with a til
cup full Of muddy water being handle
to you, and you will know what
mean.
At Gaba Tepe there were steep littl
hills with Quarries in between then
and most Of the prisoners we too
|. were caught in the Quarries. w
found lots of dead Turks under pile
Of rock, where our guns had battere
|. the walls Of the Quarries down o
them.
We were fighting about this part q
the country one time when we "a,
three motor trucks disappear over th
side Of hill going across cOuntr.
The detachment from the Cassard wa
> sent over on the run and we cam
: upon the Turks from those trucks an
!, several others just after they had g
out and were starting ahead On foo
We captured that whole bunch d
not know how many In all. They wei
achievements on their way to pal
Of their line that we were batterin
2 very hard. and by capturing them v
helped the Anzacs great deal, Il
: they were able to get through for
big gain.
We held that position, though thu
rained shells on us 50 hard all tn
day and night that we thought thu
N were placing barrage for raid, al
stood to arms until almost noon Il
next day. But our guns gave ba.
Il shell for shell. and pounded the Tur
J ish trenches and broke shrapnel ov
| them until they had all they cou
q do to stay in them.
n Finally, our guns placed shell aft
shell on the enemy's communicate
Il trenches, and they could neither brit
up reinfOrcements nor retire. So Y
went over and cleaned them out n
took the trench. But then our gu
had to stop because we were In RAM
II and the Turks brought up reinfor,
81 ments from other parts Of the line a
N | wo wpro drivpn hack after hnldi