The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-07-04
MEMBER OF FAMOUS PRINCESS
PAT REGIMENT VISITS
SAUK CENTRE.
WOUNDED SEVENTEEN TIMES
ONE OF ~ SURVIVORS OUT OF
GALLANT REGIMENT
OF 1900.

4 SISdI COIlllCC CnOTOuSHiy dIiU lung dAu
who have first hand an authentic in
formation to yive. The Herald took
advantage of his presence in Sank
Centre to gain information which is
passed Oh to the public as being both
instructive and interesting.
Sergt. Kennedy enlisted from his
home in Winnipeg, Aug. 8, 1914, only
eight days after. the declaration of
war. The Princess Pat regiment of
which he was member, originally
consisted of 1900 men. Seven of the
27 survivors are now prisoners in
Germany and IL are back in America.
The remainder are in England. The
sergeant was prior to his enlistment,
a grain snerchant and at present is
buying for the Monarch Elevator Co.,
at Battle Lake. He was wounded II
times, two being bayonet wounds and
the rest shrapnel and bullets; these
wounds sending him to the hospital
twice and finally to "blighty'' being
discharged Nov. 8, 1917. All the
regiment, surviving, bear wounds.
'sI was at Ypres at the first gas at
tack by the Huns. The gas smells
just like violet perfume but makes you
feel like you want to vomit. 1t is ar
impossibility to do this and the VIC
Tins froth at the mouth and turn
black and suffer awful agonies before
death. I was not gassed so very bad
ly, but saw comrades all around me
fall, and believe me, I would rather
be shot or cut to death than to die
the death that gas brings. The Ghur-
kas, Indian troops, who were holding
part of the front line adjoining our
trenches, were gassed badly, and be-
lieving it to be some manifestation
from heaven, broke and ran, but the
Canadians held the line, though the
casualties were large. We lost 900
ment out of 1900.
"When the Red Cross come to you
for help give to the last dollar, to the
last sent to the last penny, have no
words that can begin to tell you of the
wonderful work they are doing over
there. I know what they have done
for me. After lying in No Mans land
for 16 hours, wounded in half a dozen
places, and covered from head to foot
with blood the Red Cross came and
bound me up, and carried me back to
safety and then to Blighty and nursed
me back to health and strength. When
they ask you for help, give to the last
penny.
"The Germans are using the Red
Cross as blanket to carry on their
devilishness. While lying there I saw
!, the German stretcher bearers come on
the field under the cloak of carrying
off the wounded and bring in machine
guns and place them in the hands of
wounded men. That is the kind of
work the German Red Cross is doing
I saw it and your boy when he comes
back will tell you that he saw it. When
they take our wounded, prisoner, in
stead Of setting heir bones and bind
ing their wounds up in proper man
ned and giving the necessary atten-
ton, they ignore them and at times
when our prisoners are exchanged we
find the worst sort Of wrecks and de-
formities because the fractures and
wounds were not properly attended to-.
The German soldiers are just
as bad as the officers. Nothing is too
horrible for them to do and they have
been trained to it from childhood.
They are afraid of bayonets, however,
and will either run or surrender when
faced with cold steel.
saThe Germans. will fight and shoot
as long as they can, but will throw
up their guns and scream kamerad'
when it comes to close range and bav-
onet fighting.
s'The British Tommies take every
thing as a matter of course are afraid
of nothing and never lose their nerve.
They fight just the same as II they
were doing days work and never
get excited. They are Unconditional. /
have, seen men sit down on top of a
trench in the morning and eat bis
cult as If they We're at home in theif
own gardens. The Belgians are holy
/ terrors. They are in the swamps and
have little fighting to debut they fight
when they fight. The Ghurkas from
India are the snaky kind. They will
crawl along the trench on their bellies
and with their curved knives kill a
dozen Huns before the Germans know
they are in their midst. The Scotch
do not wear kits in the front lines.
It takes about Is yards OF good to
make kilt and they are too expensls !,
except for parade. We We're relieved
by Scotch and they are some flgnters.
/ The Germans call them "Angels from
He'll The Black Watch charged the
Scottish Woods with bayonets, no ar
tillery of any kind.
"None of us carried revolvers. -Four
or five Mills bombs, which you can
carry in your hand are lots better
than revolver. These are about as
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