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"e".ers and their organization was
,suoed individually and collectively for
''' work on the other side. The women
we're from the Salvation Army Home
Ma Mn hospital, 316 East Fifteenth Street
! ,;Is wasn't ell story book stuff, the
o1s experience on the other side, ac-
noraing TO Corporal Bert Lawson, Com
p""y Is, l6bth Infantry, the cold Goth. u
one one of the passengers. He lives at aSo
, wess Seventy-second Street, was
wounded twice and gasscd once in the
nghung at St. Mihiel.
Germans Furnished the Beer
think one of the funniest and
lucSiest things we ever did was when
we struck small town in Lorraine
where the Germans had erected big
peer storehouse. They carried beer
from this place to the men in the lines
and 1T was only the best German beer
ana, If must say so, good German beer
is good. Well, they evidently antici-
pated our coming, for when we broke
through, crowd of other 69th men and
myself. there were only few Germans
lett, They were sitting on the steps
of the storehouse and promptly sur
rendered. Everything was packed and
ready for removal, but | guess we got
there too quickly for them.
Anyway, we had plenty of good
beer to drink and you can bet we drank
1t and twenty German soldiers and two
officers we captured stood by and
watched us drink. No. we didn't give
them al ""
An idea of the fighting qualities of
the Prussian Guard was contributed ID
by John Webb, of 615 Hamilton Ave
nue.. North Bergen, N. j., who fought
against them at St. Mihiel with a ma
chine gun company of the old Goth.
1T seemed that every time we ran
into them they'd come running up to
us yelling Don't kill me, I've got a
mother. father, wife and three chill
dren, but our commanding officer
would always say, Give 'em HE'LL and
we always did"
Webb, was MANNED by machine gun
bullets and was gassed.
Surprised at Decoration
Lieutenant William J. Moore, of 397
First Avenue, who failed in an attempt
20 evade reporters who wanted to know
how he Won the Croix de Guerre, was
finally corralled in the officers cabin.
He was with the old 69th down on the
Mexican border. When he saw his first
action he wore the chovrons Of a ser
geant. He received his commission and
the cross at the same time for valorous
work in the Luneville sector.
Moore late in March took command
of sector during heavy lombard
ment after his immediate superior,
Lieutenant Normand, was killed. He
organized rescue parties to excavate
men caught in caved-in dugouts. A
heavy shelling continued for twenty
four hours, and during the fusillade
Captain George McAdle, Of his COM
pany, was wounded.
"Atter we had been at it for twenty
four hours" said the New York man,
I'VE We're relieved by Company E and
ordered to the rear to rest up. We lost
forty-two of our men. A week later
received letter from the command
ing general of the French army, with
the surprising information that l had
been designated to receive the Crox
de Guerre."
Private Charles Burke, of 1O5 Con-
gress Avenue, Flushing, l.. l., Company
ID, 165th Infantry also wore the French
War Medal. He was shot through both
legs in the fighting in the Argonne
Forest. He went out with a handful
of other Americans and effected an
impromptu raid, capturing twenty-five
Germans and the colonel in charge of
a listening post
Joseph O'Neill, Co. F, same regiment,
of 457 West Thirty fifth Street, went
over the top at Chateau Thierry with
two mules drawing field kitchen. On
his way back she'll burst and took
off the hind legs of the mules. They
crawled along on the stumps until they
were safely within the American lines,
fon cold oh "a
gunners ended their misery.
Peter Murray, of 72 Amsterdam Ave-
nue., and a number of other old 69th
men, were in a shell hole without food
or water for fourteen hours at St.
Mihiel.
Praise for His Officers
Sergeant Victor j. Herold, Company
C., old Sixty-ninth, of 1O7 East Eighty
fvth Street, told of his experiences.
1t was following Heavy barrage,
laid down by the Germans that he and
three others, one his bl other, Ernest,
were sent out to bring o wounded man
back to the lines.
GAS we were carrying our comrade
back" he said. "I was hit / told the
others to take care of the other man
wanted to help me but told rim |
could get back all right. l ran a
quarter of a mile and then fell down
in heap from the loss of blood
Later | was taken safely to a dressing
station, but I never saw my brothe y
again, nor any word of him.
Sergeant Herold spoke highly of his
commanding officer, Captain Henry
Botz, who, he said, was of German
birth and shouted all his orders in
broken English.
"Of all our fighters, I don't believe
one of them fought with more zeal than
our leader" he said Zone of his lungs
was pierced by machine gun bullet
in raid. He carried no weapon, and
led all attacks with a simple looking
walking Stick
Among the officers aboard the Maui
was Lieutenant Royal G. Johnson, OF
Aberdeen, S. D., who resigned his seat
in the House Of Representatives to en-
list as private in January. BY sheer
pluck, his friends said, he rose to a
second lieutenancy and was attached to
Company D, 313th Infantry.
Would Talk of Others
81 won't have anything to say about
myself Lieutenant johnson told
newspapermen, "but I will say that you
can't say too much about our dough
boys. They arc trumps; the best in