Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-10-18
This Bird Answers to North
MORE" but Look What
He Did.
DISAPPOINTED IN THIS WAR
Here Of One OF Hottest Actions Of
War Complains Because He
Was Wounded Early in
the Fight.
BY E. A. BACHELOR.


Parls.-When they named that boy
Northmore, fate must have laughed
loudly. It's so unlike him. The name
does not suggest the deeds this par
tlcular Northmore has done recently
In France. He should have been
called Mike.
Northmore Hamill Is his full name
and he lives in Detroit, Mich, when
he Is home. A little over two years
ago he was In the senior class at high
school, smallish. bashful youpgster
with an engaging smile. Now he Is
Private Hamill. United States marine
corps, convalescent from two wounds,
hottest actions of the war, a finished
"hard-boiled" soldier.
Private HamIll has been a little
disappointed In this war. II has some
good points. of course, but he feels
that he was cheated because, as he
expresses 1t, he "didn't see much Of
the fight"
Twice wounded and still he didn't
bee much of II certain fight!
Here is Private Hamills story as he
told 1t bashfully. even apologeticaliy
after | had given him cigarette or
popular brand, cigarette that has
been hard to get In France:
Northmore Had Hard Luck.
Eyes. II wag n good fight, that lit
tie affair at Belleau Woods. l missed
the best part of It because | had the
rotten luck TO be wounded early, but
the rest of the boys had busy time.
"We advanced in broad daylight
through wheat field with the Hun
machine gun bullets reaping the grain
around US MS nicely as though 1t had
been done with scythe. Then we
got into the woods where they had
plenty of guns and plenty Of cover.
My platoon was a little In advance OF
the rest of the company, and we had
almost reached the clearing on the
| far side of the woods when we ran
into a nest OF machine guns.
1--WE had no hand grenades with us
| so all there was to do was to try to
| pick Off the gunners with our rifles.
| "All of sudden. something ex'
plOded right among four OF us that
were lying near rock. l felt some
thing like needle stab I'm each leg
and knew that | had been hit. Billy
one of my pals got n piece Of the
land grenade, for hat is what had
! Eone or. through the steel helmet. II
| went into his skull and he groaned q
couple of times and was gone. Two
ether men had been wounded. too
lnnking four casualties for one m 'nsly
little hand grenade. Did you ever
hear of such luck?
1--WE had to use Eilly's body as n
kind of breastwork for things were
getting pretty hot about then ana the
Ioor fellow was gone and there WINS
no use of the rest of us being ex-
posed.
81 could still work my rifle. for the
pieces of metal In my legs weren't
very big and they didn't hurt very
much. Finally all my ammunition was
| gene and had to roll Billy over and
use his cartridges. | hated TO do it
II gave me the creepS-but what else
was there to do when | was all out of
shells?
Navy Man Cool.
FINALLY we got orders to fall back
to the advanced dressing station
which was behind big rock. and the
bullets plnging around and chipping
off pieces of stone all the time. There
was hospital man from the navy
there and he certainly was cool one
He bandaged us up as calmly us II
there was not such thing as war
going on.
Then another fellow and started