The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-13


privates}, who iimped and had his left
hand II. splints:
II was on the Nerdun front, Company
| II. 309th Infantry, when an explosive
| bullet tore through my hand and an
other hit me in the thigh. was two
| hours in the field and the doughboys
and Germans were nghting all around
me. Finally the Huns won the section
OF the field where ! was and took me
! prisoner. That was on october o. They
operated on me four times in four days
and did not treat me badly and after
what seemed to be a long time I found
myself in r German hospital. | can't
tell You the name. because couldn't
pronounce it, let alone spell It.
Kaiscr's Picture Kicked Around.
~ was there five weeks and when
the armistice was signed the officers
in the hospital tore the buttons off their
caps and the next day the head surgeon
came In in civilian clothes. heard q
noise outside and raised myself on my
good arm and looked out the window
across the street. They had thrown
down big picture OF the Kaiser out
of window and the kids were kicking
1t about The German people that.
saw seemed mighty glad that the war
was over"
Harold Kaplan. first sergeant of Com
pany l., 30Sth Infantry. Seventy seventh
Division. OF Bath Beach, Brooklyn, left
his right leg in n German hospital. He
was shot in the knee by machine
gun bullet in the Argonne forest and
lay six days with only cauteen of
water and two biscuits His knee be-
came infected and when the Germans
captured him they amputated his leg.
The disabled men arriving by the
Mercy are from nearly every State and
Territory in the Union. They were taken
TO Debarkation Hospital 8. Grand Cen
trail Palace.
Two chaplains came by the Mercy
Father hammers Of Cincinnati and the
Rev. A. g. T.arne of Bristol. r. L.,
who was rector of an Episcopal church
at Bar Harhor before he went to war
with the Rhode Island Naval Reserves
Later he became chaplain OF the Sixth
| Marines and served with them through
the war. He met Father John 7. Brady
Of the Fifth Marines and said fine things
| Of him.
Got No Mail From Home.
Private Granville Robinson, 27o Ber-
gen street. Brooklyn. lost his right foot
and had his skull fractured An the Ar
Sonne Forest September 2S. but this did
not disturb him much compared with
his grievance against somebody or other
who did not let his mothers letters
reach him. He said he had written her
three dozen letters and had not heard
from her once.
Major w. F. Palmer OF Chicago. MEM
Der of the Signal Corps before he went
to France as a part or the Railway
Artillery Reserve that handled the eight
railway cars, came back aboard the
transport Iowan in charge OF all troops
| in her.
One OF his subordinates Is Capt. Vinton
| n. Cockey OF Baltimore. boss OF the
Fifty-third Company. known as "Cockey's
Circus" He and his four officers and
235 men were inspected by Gen. Pershing
before they left for home, and the Gem
eral shook hands with every mothers
son of them. The company was formed
| in France In June and took charge OF the
Anticipated rolling stock Of the Bordeaux
Terminal, recreated it and finally made
real American line OF II with American
tracks and locomotives and cars.
brings Two Medals for NaIor.
Corporal John L. Casey OF Fairfield.
Conn, came back with the Distinguished
Service Cross and the Croix de Guerra
He went to France in September. 1917,
with the 102d Infantry, Twenty sixth
| Division. At Chateau Thierry Casey
was in charge of a liaison deta chment of
| fifteen men. whose work was to take
messages from company to company.
Three men were shot down in an effort
to deliver an urgent message, and the
gallant corporal did the trick himself
despite heavy machine gun fire. Later
he was wounded at Nerdun by shrapnel
The SURNAME brought back Capt
! Philip Roosevelt. cousin of Quentin, who
has been with the American air forces
In France. and Capt 4. VI. Mcleod
aviator and aerial pioneer. who first
fought with the French and later with
the Americans. He was twice wounded
and is going to a hospital here.
Tho First and Second Battalions of
the Twenty-slXth Engineers and six
| casual companies, in command of Lieut.
Col. r, w Shedenhelm Of Hollis. l. l.,
arrived - the transport Calamares
Lieut.. Lloyd S. Neise OF Newport, Tenn,
| of the 307th Infantry. Sevent seventh
! Division, helped to bury the late Capt
Eddie Grant He said that Capt. Grant
was killed by shrapnel piercing his
| heart and was buried near German
! field hospital In the Argonne. "I put the
grass on his grave and helped to nix II
up, and felt that 1t was an honor" said
the Lieutenant.