East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-03-04
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handed on the side where his convic'
tions led him If there wasn't some par.
ticular reason why he couldn't There.
fore 1 said goodby to my parents and
friends in Lexington and started foI
New York with the idea of sailing for
France and Joined the Foreign legion
Of the French army.
Decides to Go to Canada.
A couple of nights after got to New
York fell into conversation in the
Knickerbocker bar with chap who
was in the reinforcement company of
Princess Pats regiment of the Cana
dian forces. . After my talk with him
l decided to go up to Canada and look
thinks over. arrived at the Windsor
hotel, in Montreal, at s o'clock In the
morning couple of days later, and at
10 o'clock that morning was sworn
in rs private in the Canadian Grena-
der guards, Eighty-seventh overseas
battalion, Lieutenant Colonel f. S.
NIeighten commanding. They were just
getting under way, making soldiers out
of the troops l enlisted with, and dis
Cipllne was quite lax.
They at once gave me n weeks leave
to come down TO New York and settle
up some personal affairs, and l over
stayed it five days. All that my com
pany commander said to me when /
got back was that 1 seemed to have
picked up Canadian habits very quick
ly. At review one day in our train
ing camp heard a major say:
Boys. for Gods sake don't call me
Harry or spit in the ranks. Here comes
the general"
We found out eventually that there
was a reason for the slackness of dis
cipllne. The trouble was that men
would enlist to get $1.10 a day With
out working for it and would desert
as soon as any one made it unpleasant
for them. Our officers knew what they
were about. Conditions changed in
Stantly we went on shipbOard. Disci-
pline tightened up on us like tie rope
on colt.
We trained in a sort of casual, easy
way in Canada from Nov. 4 to the fol-
lowing April. We had good deal of
trouble keeping our battalion up to
strength, and / was sent out several
times with other "nOncOns" on re-
cruting detail. While we We're in the
training camp at ot. Joiiil , iiiuu' ','e
acquaintance ol gouI's o"ii"l,i''l WI" ~
became my "pal." He was CampbCn
Mcfarland, nephew of George DIcFar-
ianu, the aclor' VINO Is 80 wen Aiiom W. u
Oh the Ailerio''n IIluSie'I S."se'
1f 7 know
was serseuHt' men ~ 81 ~ ~,
MN lie was ohe Vi 'le iiioSI "e''sii'iu u.
ana amusing young Aelio"S 9ou oou'u
hhaglhe'
The war changed MN entireiy. nc
became extremely quiet anu seemed 10
be borne down wlth the sense OF inc
terrible things whlch ne saw 4le new
er lost the good fellowship which was
inherent in him ana was always reauy
to do anything TO obllee me, put ne
formed the haDlt OF sittlhg' alone anp
SILENT Tor hourS at tiihe' just thihh-
ing. 1t seemed as II ne hau II prehohi7
ton ABOUT hllnseit' thoush ne never
showed fear ana never spoke OIL the
dangers we We're gong INTO, as tne
other Fellows dld' lie was kllIeu III
the Somme actloh III WHICH was
wounded
also had been maze sergeant Oh
account OF the tact that ! mad Deeh
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