The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1918-07-23
BIG NEWS FROM
COMPANY K
Have Had a Taste Of the Real
Thing. Our Men From
Wilson Making Good
AS THE ALWAYS Do|
Dear Homefolks:

Dear Homefolks:
Since our last letter we have had
many new experiences, and from
these we have learned to be real
hard soldiers, eating little, sleeping
little, but working much.
We now know how the artillery
sounds and have felt the sting OF
"gas" and some Of us have seen
many wounded, and some killed sol
diers of the Allies armies and we
have seen many German wounded
and dead and some prisoners.
Our captain and several Of our
sergeants have been up to and in
the front line, and to hear them tell
Of their experiences would make your
hair stand on end. One night when
Sgt. Whichard, Capt. Giddens, Sgt.
Edward Bond Cat one time with Mr..
Finch, the lawyer at honey were
up in the firing line, our side started
"barrage" on the Hun lines and
they say "Hell" certainly could not
be half as bad as it was there for
100 minutes and then some. Then
went over with the raiding party
and the reports show that II Ger
man prisoners were taken and many
killed. Capt. G.. said that lit was
some time up there. The big Hun
guns and ours as we'll dropped many
shells right into the raiding party
and killed some of them and wound
ed over 40. Then we learned about
taking the wounded back to the lines
and to the dressing stations. Some
of the wounded died,
1t. Dunn has gone into the line
this week, and we hope he gets back
all right. Two of our members have
won honors since getting to this
place. Corpl. Douglas Moss attend
ed British Machine Gun School and
his crew won silver cup and he
won medal for getting the best
marks in the class, consisting Of
over 800 men from several divisions
represented.
Douglass has been advanced to be
a sergeant and Capt. Giddens is
sure proud of him and all the men
who do fine work. Yesterday Corpl
Jimmie Brooks returned from a big
Musketry School where there were
officers and men from every regi-
|ment in the corps in attendance. He
won the grand prize Ga medaD for
making the best averages and
score. This makes us feel very
"chesty," for we know that we have
ESQ men in our company who could
have done the very same good work,
and when we go up against the Huns
they will find out that Wilson
County has been there too"
Corpl. Jim Anderson got cable
gram from his brother Steve stating
that Lieutenant Robert B. Anderson
had been killed. We have since
seen it in the France Edition of the
New York Herald. This is a very
happy way to pass away as a SOL
dier feels, but We all are sorry Rob-
ert has been called away so early in
life and DR.. Anderson and Mrs. An
derson certainly have the sympathies
of our whole company. Some Of us
are new to the Wilson Company but
we love Jim and whenever we do
have chance to get at The Huns
we are going to make them pay one
thousand fold for this.
Corpl. Harvey McNair is growing
so gast and getting filled out so
much you would hardly know him;
he is fine boy too, and we all wish
we were the good boy he is. He
don't drink, smoke or do the other
bad things so many men do. Our
company ha sa very good reputation
and we are proud to tell everybody
about 1t. You know our captain
breaches the good side of life to us
all the time and whenever he finds
some of the sergeants, corporals, or
|lieutenants doing wrong he gives
them a good calling down and II
this occurs again, he Immediately,
without any trial or anything, has
them transferred or else busted"
He told us in a talk yesterday that
"in the face of death" he was going
to make the bad ones good, whether
they wanted to or not, that he WASH t
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