The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-08-27
YORK MAN is HERO
OF mo MANS LAND"
DIR. Hunter Was Ministering to
Wounded Soldiers When Cap
tured by Huns.

ter. a son of Mrs. j. j. Hunter, OF
this place, now prisoner in Ger
man military prison camp, is a real
hero, and in time probably be recog-
nized and honored by the military
authorities of England, with which
forces he was serving in France
when he was captured by the Huns
and carried across Germany to a
var prison camp. DR.. Hunter has
written at least one letter that has
reached his relatives here, but didn't
give any details as to how he hap
pened to be captured. He was too
modest for that. The information,
however, has reached his folks here
In quite different fashion.
Miss Francis Parish. native of
York, but for several years past a
resident in New YORK, where she is
one OF the editors of The Review of
Reviews magazine, was a visitor here
Saturday, coming to spend the day
and look over the town and people
whom she knew and to greet her
many friends. Besides her maya
zine work in New York Miss Parish
does quite a bit OF other work
work in which she can help others.
She told this story of how she learn
ed about the heroism OF DR.. Hun
ter:
= "Y heard the story from DR.. Nc
Gill, a Scotch Canadian, who had
been three years in the service of
France, and who was lecturing in
New York a few weeks ago. his sub
ject being the self-sacrifcing hero
ism of individual soldiers. DR.. Nc
Gill is chaplain, not an NJ. ID.
From what the speaker said I gath
cred that he was an eye witness to
what he was talking about. Any
how, as l understood him. il was not
far from Cambria He said that
positively the most heroic act he had
ever witnessed, and he believed the
war had developed nothing greater,
was performed by three young army
surgeons. One OF them was from
Chicago, one from Ohio and the
other was Philip Hunter, cf South
Carolina. He mentioned the names
of the others, but l have forgotten
them. OF course, there was no mis-
take about Philip, because | was
thrilled by the knowledge Of such a
tgreat thing in boy of my own &C
quaintance from my own home
town.
"'We were facing the Germans in
our trenches said DR.. McGill. with
shells coming and going, when we
saw four or five of our men run in
10 a cloud Of poison gas that was
being waited over No Mans Land.
The men were caught unawares and
fell The doctors saw them. 1t was
business to treat men who We're
iht in. and no part OF their du-
go out there, but all three OF
:. n went. They had on their gas
~ SKIS, but nobody knew the danger
after than these same doctors. AS
they approached the PROSTATE men
they lost their way and being unable
. to see with their gas masks on, tore
them off down 10 the parts that COW
cred their mouths. The enemy be-
gan shelling and that made the
work more difficult. Philip was
overcome by the gas and fell while
trying to help the men on whose ac-
count he had gone out. There was
every reason to believe that tho
young doctor was dead and it was
not worth while under the circum-
stances to bring him in. 1t was
some time after that before it was
definitely learned that Dr. Hunter
was a prisoner.
Such is the story as told by Miss
Parish, and it has been heard here
by Dr. Hunters friends with very
great pleasure.
The first information, received
here early in May, was to the effect
that DR.. Hunter was missing. Then
several weeks later, through the Red
Cross, 1t was learned that he was a
prisoner, and a short time after his
mother received a letter from DR..
Hunter himself, in which he told OF
his whereabouts
1t will be remembered that DR..
Hunter volunteered for service last
fall and was assigned to work with
a British repiment in Frapce after a