Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-20
the 26th, the Yankee division, to the
field hospitals, eternally fighting
against time and death and gangrene
or eaS ~nnisoninc

or gas poisoning"
And perhaps the most startling item
in connection with the history of this
unit is that despite months, of duty
In e%vacuating wounded men and work
ing under fire. the 163rd Ambulance
company lost " a ~
After Chateau-Thierry the company
was attached to the Fourth infantry,
later to the Thirty-second division
(Wisconsin-M Michigan guards) and
still later to the Thirty-second divi-
sion Observation-Disclosures guards) and
still later to the Twenty-eighth divi-
sion PENNSYLVANIA National Guard.)
August on the st. Mihiel front and
moved to Claremont IN September 10
and remained on the Argonne front
until the signing of the armistice.
VA complete history means the ex-
periences of each of the men COM
bined.
Sergeant Harry worner, Hankin-
son, N. D., THE only man 1 eve
We found North Dakota men occa-
sionally. Take that chap from Penn
bina Give, forgotten his name). He
had a machine gun. bullet through
his neck, a tear from shrapnel back
Of his shoulder, gashes in the abdo-
men and thigh. We got him to the
AlOSpAl0l LII put 1l11kl Ou IllS OpGIdI-
ing table.
smoked until nth they were we're ready dSo for
him. Then he smiled a queer,
quirky, twisty smile that was recog-
nizable as a smile in spite Of the
pain which contorted his face. I'm
pretty much in pieces Doc. Do a good
HE died on the table," said wor-
There was another fellow named
Chris Anderson from South Dakota.
He had a machine gun bullet through
his neck.
I want to get back there!" was what
he said.
another Eankinson boy: II had a fell
low day with parts of his legs
and both feet gone. He asked me
for a cigarette and I sympathetically
observed he had had hard luck. What
do you think he answered?
"Oh, my legs were too long any
way. I was. six foot two tall"
You know. the field hospitals
worked hand in hand with the field
ambulance units and a member OF
one would COS the other. Mobile
Hospital No: 4 sure made good. They
handled only the so-called hopeless
cases, and expected to save about ter
per cent. They saved 60 per cent.
By this time, probably the 1870
Ambulance company IS en- route home
They have seen all of war they care tc
; see. Their record is q glorious one
: and more than one doughboy long
western men to thank for his being
alive today.
The northwestern men in the uni
were as follows:
Sergeant Leo B: Black. sergean'
Alonzo w. Allen, Charles F. Temple
ton Of Fairmount.~
Sergeant, first class. Casper r
Dennig, Sergeant Harry G.. Worner
Chaplain Nels c. Romerein. Raymond
: J. Burrows, Carl H. Haggberg, Ed
n. ,Karst. Oswald Penath. Howard S
Cox, Harold ". Daily, Bruce v. Inger
son, Frank w. Kirfurst. Eugene ]
Macy, Frank Manske. Edward A
Skog, Harold A. Cox. Len H. Nc
Morrow, Martin l.. Norberg. Car
Peterson, Randolph Robertson, Alder
10. Stanley, John P. Wiley. Joseph L
Wiley and Sam A. Wilson, all o
Hankinsoh. N. d.
Corporal Bohn G. Karasiewiecz
Fred j. Benn.' Louis Coleman, Iva
A. Kvam, Roy O.. Benson. Frankli1
Bertrand, Don M. Blackmore, Ralpl
L. Brown, Milo j. Coffin. Henry r
Elktns, Frank Funk. Melvin Ham
mons, Ralph A.. Lane. Howard E
Luce, Fred o. Norling. Louis G
Smith, Ray w. Smith Harry II
Spears, Walter L. Van ylcet, all o
Bismarck, N. D.
Sergeant Russell L. Apstin, Belle
!. fourche, S. d.; Sergeant Lester a
lCrow, Lead, 8. D.; Sergeant Arthur J
Henderson, Alustin. S. d.: Sergean
Edward s. Peterson, Fargo. N. p.
Corporal Walter r. Brown, Whit
Wake, s.. D.; Corporals Ira e.. Bye an
George W. Corley of Rapid City, {
d.; Corporal All. L. shellenbergel
Minnewaukan, N. D.: Mechanic Gee
Alsakern and Orlando A. Bjork Q
Rosshot, S. D.: Robert Montgomsr!
Happen, N. d.; Adolph Beuther, Whit
= Lake, s.. D.; Edmund g. Green, Al
= cester, S. D.; Clarence Bender, Rapis
8 b.; Earl I. Shipley, MinOt, Nj
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