The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1919-07-11
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Corporal Walter E. Gaultney, Eleventh In
fantry Fifth Division.-CorpOral Gaultney was
picked out by his commander as an example OF
his finest type of soldier. Gaultney was wounded;
that couldn't stop him. Alert ingenious speedy
Needless of personal danger, ne went al the Hun
like Samson with the well-known jaw bone-only
this young Samson's jaw bone was that nice long
trench knife you see strapped along his pack
Inst what this young fellow did is not told; evil
IDENTIFY he is natural-born fighter and the regular
army training has made him pretty nearly 100 per
cent efficient as an all-around fighting man.
Private H. J. Devereo~- Company NJ, One Hun
dred and Twenty-ffth .ntry, Thirty-second oil
vsion-When hi ny crossed the RIVER
Ourco and captu bis Pelger. the corporal
of his Souad flo, idle Private DevereauX
was wounded by MAJ, . gun fire. The corporal
fell to the ground and the enemy continued TO ire
on the wounded man. Mad clear through, Dever-
eaux sprinted across the open and sngle-handed
attacked and put the machine gun out of action
Greatest Feat of War.
IT is also known that Chase has painted pOr
trait of Sergt Alvin c. York of Pail Mall, Fentress
county Tenn, Company G, Three Hundred and
Twenty-eghth infantry, Eighty-second division. II
is to be hoped that the painter did frst-class job
for YOrk's exploit was probably the greatest ind
ydual feat of the war. York, then corporal, on
October g. 1918, killed 90 Germans, captured 132
prisoners including major and three lieutenants,
put So machine guns out of business, and thereby
broke up an entire battalion which was about to
counterattack against the Americans on Hill 223
in the Argonne sector near ChateChehery. He
outfought the machine gun battalion with his rifle
and automatic pistol. There were seven other
Americans with York, but it York's fight and
but for him not man of them would have come
out alive except prisoner.
Moreover. the man and his home and his sur
roundngs are intensely interesting, being entirely
out of the ordinary. Here are few outstanding
facts:
He was born December 13, 1886, stands feet
and tips the scales at 205 pounds. He is red head
ed. He is dead shot-absoutely sure death with
either rife or automatic; in the course of his fight
he killed German lieutenant and seven men who
charged him from distance of 20 yards He is
fighter who gets cooler and cooler as the danger
grows.
He used to drink, gamble and swear. He quit
in 1915 and joined the Church of Christ and
Christian Union, of which he is second elder and
singing leader. He was a conscientious objector
until convinced by Capt E. c. B. Danforth at
Camp Gordon that the Bible proved it his duty to
fight He believes in a personal God and looks
upon his successful exploit as miracle. Blessed
is the peacemaker,'" he says.
He is a farmer and blacksmith and provides for
his mother, brother and three small sisters (;
the other six brothers and sisters are married.
His forbears for generations were Tennesseeans.
When York landed the other day the Tennessee
society took possession of him and tried to make
him feel that New York city his
OF course York was having the time of his life,
vet really, you know, he was regretting that he
wasn't home to lead the singing at the Postum
Trot spring revival.
And at the Possom Trot revival, in the valley
of which Pail Mall. with its 20 houses is the
roads metropolis, York's neighbors prouder
over the fact that he had kept straight than
over what he had done to the Hun. Besides while
Alvin was "aIl right" God had had him in charge
since the day he enlisted. 1T wasn't Alvin" said
Grace Williams, who is waiting for him, st was
the hand of Cod
Which reminds us of the first words of the Hw
major captured by York.
"BritishT' he asked.
American" said York.
"Good Lordr