Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-09-13
GOT THIRTY HUNS
BEFORE He DIED
ScoTTY, YOUNGEST SOLDIER IN
PERSHiNG'S FORCES, rs
MoURNED BY ARMY.
HIS HEROIC MEATH RELATED
Red Cross Establishes Tailor Shop In
Berne to Supply Captured American
officers With Uniforms-New Plan
for Training Flyers.

From Committee on Public Information }
Observation-Disclosures Albert Il.
Scott, the youngest soldier In General
Fershngs army in Fnnce-he was
hui fifteen years Of age hah II Brook
line. Mass, high school boy when he
enIisi eds dend, shot through the
head by n German sniper after he had
laid thirty foes to rest, and the army
piourns It's boy hero
A soldier writer for The Stars and
Stripes, the A. T., +. paper, tells this
story:
In the regiment they are talking
these days of NIL the good pnls they
lost In the fierce, unfortgettahe chase
they gave the Germans In the great
retreat from the Marine. But most of
ALA little Oftener and a bit more
fondly-lhey talk Of Scotty.
"lle was n good kid, they say, and
he died on his gun,
His great chance came when on
that historic July Is his regiment got
the order for which, through many
month Of dreams, 1t had longed--the
order to advance, II went lS kione.
t,rs without stopping, chasingihe Boche
up NIL and down dnlc fighting lis way
through patch after mtcl of inviting
woods that would prove trencherous
with hidden machine guns.
I'm the first days Of that battle. the
movement was so swift that more than
ouce n small German rear guard and nm
advance Ynnk platoon would meet In
the forest and fight ont then and there
a complete and separate battle MI their
own. So II was with the Indians, MS
ScOttys regiment was nicinamed. one
afternoon, ns they were making their
way pnst the bitterly won town OF
EpIeds.
AT the cross r0ad they saw troops
approaching them in column of sounds
The officer In charge caught tnem in
the focus Of his field glasses. They
we're Bochcs coming on. The yanks
waited. itching to open fire. hut hiding
their time. Suddenly the Bochcs dc.
serted the rond and came on them
through the forest.
"rhe lieutenant placed his men along
n roadside ditch. He placed Scotty
and his shosho beside tree and
sQnarely opposite narrow woodland
path that opened across the way. He
could see straight down that patti. and
the Bochcs were bound either to come
along II or to cross II.
See that path. Scotty?' said the
lieutenant. That's your target Not
one OF them must cross IT,
"'Yes. sir said Scotty, and dropped
beside his gun.
Then from the high branches OF
many n tree and from many shelter
the German fire opened, and the Yank
fire answered.
"A gray figure darted suddenly into
the leafy path. He fell.
Another appeared, He fell.
There WIS perhaps ten minutes of
tHht. and what was left Of the German
party was Withdrawing when handful
of soldiers scampered along the road.
They were Germans, but they shouted
as they ran, Don't shoot, we're Amer.
leans
For moment, just for the space
That breath is held Scotty thrust his
mead up TO see. From his perch In
some tree sniper shot him in the
forehead. Another bullet found his
heart. He fell forward, dead. on his
gun.
They had killed him, but the NUN ;
Der OF their dead that are counted as
his was thirty"