Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-03-29
tai for forty four days.

tai for forty four days.
 In the meantime, my division had
 left Cusey for the front and I was
 crazy to get back to my Company.
 After going through a lot of red tape,
 l landed in Fulleron, and joined by
 Company just about four hours before
 it left for the front. We were ten
 days in reserve, and ten days in the
 front line, This was called the AL
 sace Sector which was used for train
 ing green troops, as the Germans sell dom made any attacks. While on the front line we stood guard from 500 r. M. to five A. M. without relief, and it was real tiresome work and noth- ing to break the monotony.
 We were relieved by the French on July 21st, 1918 and after hiking back took train for places unknown. We landed in quite large French town which l do not remember the name of. It was rumored around that we would stay there six weeks, but two days after we landed we were loaded on trucks, and headed for the front, and a real front it turned out to be. We were unloaded from the trucks late in the night, no loud talking, no lights not even smoking. We billeted in a town after about six Hloaneters hike and the next morning when we awoke, we found that we were in Chateau Thierry, and that tho Germans had just been driven out couple days be- fore, and that we had been held in | in case they had broken through our front line.
 Every day we would hike a little. and afterwards found out it was just he distance our army advanced on he front line. Then came the day for us to do our bit, so we took up he support position late in the after loon. 1n support" as we call it is he worst place in the fighting, for Iou get nine tenths of the large 'hells, and small ones too, and you annot fight back for no one can get he best of a high explosive or gas hell.
 was in the fourth platoon, and vas picked to carry wounded from . he front line. We reached the front inc by wading up, which banks pro- ected us from machine gun bullets. After getting to the line we had to arry wounded back, going by a diff erent route through open fields hen l had the sensation of having ullets whizzing past my head, and hip up mud around my feet. Lots fellows were killed and wounded oing just such work, but I seemed ) have had a lucky star over me, as
 didn't even get a scratch. That | lght We continued carrying wounded nd the next day we took up the front ne. The 125th and 126th Infantry g egiments of our Division had them 2 the run during the night, so all ( e had to do was follow them as they an' and routing out stray machine | ln nests.
 We advanced about eight kilomet- $ or five miles that day without re- I stence until We came to the village Fines. The worst of it was we had ivanced so fast that we had no artil- I ry, so when the Dutch began send q g big ones over, it raised He'll with c
 We had advanced down into the p wn, but it got so hot we fell back e 'out two hundred yards behind the d. II. There two of my friends were n He'd, about six feet from me, and I k k as scared, mad, and sorry all at d. ce. It was the first time I had Q, en anybody blown all to pieces, so ta
 sure made me nervous. ST That evening we received orders to '
 over the top, and we were all in in en, as we had not had a hito to w