Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-01-16
LIEUT.. WORRELL HOME
AFTER BEING WOUNDED.
IN ARGONNE BATTLE

First Lieut.. Orlando Worrell. who
was wounded twice at the battle of the
| Argonne Forest, and gassed as well
is home on thirty days leave from
Camp Meade, Md. He is at present
the guest of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
r. D. Worrell and he looks as well and
jovial as the day he left here for SER
vice. Lieut.. Worrell is the only one
of five officers living who were pro-
NOTED for bravery in action by Cen
eral Pershing. In the battle of Argon-
| ne Forest he vas the last of the off.
GERS in his company to remain in ac-
ton and when he was wounded he
with fourteen of his men, were within
the German lines and had to fight their
way out.
Regardless of his appearance of hav-
ing just returned from few weeks
at training camp, tothe PLEASURE of
his host of Mexico friends, Lieut..
Worrell has gone through some of the
worst fighting which the American
forces took part in during the great
war.
Lieut.. Worrelf enlisted Friday July
10, 1917 in Co. B, 9TH Regiment Mis-
souri, National Guard. On August 5,
1917 his organization was Federalized.
His command overseas was Co. T.
both infantry. 6He was with the
British troops during the training per-
iod. He saw action in France, Alsaca,
Lorraine and at other points along the
Western front.
He was in the hattie of the Argonne
Forest five days before he was wound
ed. His wounds consist of a shot IN
the right hand, ore in the right thigh
and gassed from mustard she'll
which has left two small spots on his
lung and which will eventually leave
him.
He with fourteen of his men, all
that was left # his company since
going over the top, found themselves
within the German lines the fifth day
after they went over the top. It was
here that he was wounded and he was
8 days without medical aid
He was gassed by a mustard gas
shell bursting over him while in a /
she'll hole. His gas mask had been
shot away early in the action on the
first and he was without this protec-
tion.
lie suffered with trench feet also
having. had to go thirty days without
his shoes which were soak
ing wet and clogged with mud most of
the time. When the sheos were re-
moved they had to be cut from his
feet and it was sometime before his
feet recovered sufficiently for him to
walk again. 1
He was going over the battle field /
when he saw "ChucF" Wilson, a fam
'us Missouri University football play
n and a friend of his, laying on the
ground. He was smiling and Lieut..
Norrell says he thought he was just
wounded and smiling because he had
'een found. When he spoke to him
however he discovered Wilson was
lead.
Lieut.. Worrell says the American
oldiers dislike the Huns really more
han the latter dislike them. That the
1un would surrender readily and one
Tank would have no trouble in taking
barge of 100 prisoners. The Yanxs
islikes the overbearing attitude of
he Hun more than anything else y
out them
He underwent an attack by the =
iermans with liquid fire but escaped.
he only atrocities he saw was the
helling of Matlock, a village filled \
nth German residents. The Hun 5
helled this city with gas until the en- Y
re population. men, women and chill
ren, were killed, in reprisal for
lccessful attack made the day prev S
,us and because the French held the l
illage.
He saw little of the Mexico boys
fter he landed. He said Ernest Wat q
on, of this city, had been wounded t,
l the foot, That Russell Jones was
sken i'll with diphtheria the day they T
'ent over the top.
Lieut.. Worrell expects to return to
amp Meade at the end of his leave
nd assist in the mastering out IF
len. The Ledger joins his many
'iends in Mexico in expressing pleas
re in seeing him safely home and
'oking so well.
He is extremely modest about his
art in the fighting but reports that L
ome from other sources pay the high
st tribute to his bravery under fire L
nd the esteem every man in his COM