Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-02-22

l. WAS strongly under the impression
that Jerry didn't have my name. The
| time seemed to drag little but the
hour finally came when we were to
go over. The orders were all rifemen
| forward. Twas lucky enoug hto have a
rifle, although | should have been
armed with revolver. Anyhow 7
went over the top among the first and
| didn't get back to headquarters or
Regimental Post Command for about
thirty hours where | should have
been as panel signal man and runner
You will probably wonder what
panel signal man does. He receives
and sends messages to aeroplanes and
remains at R. P. c. during the day. at
night, II he wishes he can act as a
runner and carry messages from Reg
mental Post Command 10 Brigade
Headquarters. took several messap-
es tor Chas. Harlow at nights. who
was runner from c. l. and who was
with me ever since we left Camp Lew
IS, we were both in the same squad
and always pitched tents together and
were side by side in the battlefield.
1t happened that shortly after we
went over the top that we Numbered
onto each other and were together I'M
til | came to the hospital ! imagined
that the scenes and sights of bat
tlefield would be like dream and
that you would soon forget everything,
but let me say ! saw sights that | will
never forget The first 30 minutes on
battlefield is the worst, the first few
fellows you see shot up and hear ask
ing for first aid and those that are
abe to walk coming back by you with
an arm dangling by their side or their
face cut and bleeding kind of gets
your goat, but after that you either
will get your right mind back or lose
it entirely; anyhow you go straight
to the front The man that could turn
back up there after seeing some of
his comrades fall and hearing what
some OF them say, would not know
what to think of him. Believe me, it
sure puts blood in your eye About
the thing wounded soldier on his
way to the dressing station or dying
soldier says is Give them He'll, Boys,
given He'll. and believe me that is
what we did. We broke through the
Hndenburg line and took territory
the Germans had been holding for
three years. also took the Dead Mans
Hill which was considered a very
strong point. The French. so | hear
had taken or regained il from the enc
my three times since the beginning OF
the war, one Of the three times hold
ing il for twenty minutes: this may be
Z joke but when "Old Glory" was
planted on her summit it remained
there You should have seen the
trenches and concrete dug-outs the
Germans had. They were sure pre-
pared after we had taken their posit-
ions and driven them farther back it
looked like we had taken something
that was almost impossible and
don't think had we been holding the
position that the enemy were that any
nation could have moved us.
Well, I guess this will be about
enough Tor this time. ! am still at
Convalescent Camp No. |. thought
for while that the convalescents
would be sent home ahead of their
divisions but it seems that things have
changed again All of the men that
were here from digerent divisioni
have been called the last few days
with the exception OF those in the ar
my OF occupation and my Division, so
il appears that each division is asking
for her old men back and will proba-
bly leave for the States as their turn
comes or as the transportation is OBJ
tainable | heard few days ago that
the DIST Division was still in Belgium
and | think that they are. Ii SO, she
will probably not ask for her men
back until she is closer to seaport
as we would have to do "a lot OF un-
necessary hiking, so will probably be
here a few days longer and yet may
leave any time, as 7 have said hun
bred times before, we never know
anyone that can see 80 days ahead in
the army. If he could he could be
worth millions in civil life but | am
sure will get to the company. Con
valescent Camp No. is about $50
miles southeast OF Paris. Although it
hardly ever fails to rain every day and