The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-07-03
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CORPORAL Walter E. Gaultney. Eleventh In.
fantry. Fifth Dlvsion.-Corporal Gaultney was
picked out by his commander an example OF
his finest type of soldier. Gaultney was wounded;
needless of personal danger, he went at the Hun
like Samson with the we-knOwn jaw bOne-only
this young Samson's jaw bone was that nice long
trench knife you strapped along his pack
Just what this young fellow did Is not told; EVIL
IDENTIFY he Is a naturalbOrn fighter and the regular
army training has made him pretty nearly 100 per
cent efacient all-around fighting man.
Private H. J. Devereaux. Company N. One Hun
tret and Twenty-dfth Infantry. Thirty-second d.
vison.-When his company crossed the River
Ourcq and captured the Bois Pelger. the corporal
of his squad fighting beside Private Devereaux
was wounded by machine gun fire. The corporal
foil to the ground and the enemy continued to fire
on the wounded man. Mad clear through. Dever-
eaux sprnted across the open and s1ngle-handeo.
attacked and put the machine gun out Of action.
sorsatsst Feat Of War.
II IN also known that Chase has painted a por-
trait Of Sergt Alvin c. York of Pail Mall, Fentress
county. Tenn. Company G. Three Hundred and
Twenty-elghth infantry. Eighty-second division 1t
Is to be hoped that the painter did hrstciass jo0
for YOrks exploit was probably the greatest indi-
yiduaI feat Of the war. York. then corporal on
October g. 1918 killed 20 Germans, captured 1872
prisoners. including a major and three lieutenants,
put IS machine guns out of business. and thereby
broke up entire battalion which was about to
ceunterattack against the Americans on Hill 223
In the Afg0nne sector. near ChateiChehery. He
outfought the machine gun battalion with his rife
and automatic pistol. There were seven other
Americans with York, but 1t was York's light and
but for him not a man of them would have come
out alive except as prisoner.
Moreover, the man and his home and his sur
roundings Intensely interesting. being entirely
out of the ordinary. Here are a few outstanding
facts:
He was born December 10, 1885, stands feet
and tips the scales at 206 pounds. He IL red head
ed He Is q dead shot-absolutely sure death with
either rife automatic: in the course Of his fight
he killed German lieutenant and seven men who
charged him from distance OF 20 yards He IL q
fighter who gets cooler and cooler A. the danger
grows.
He used to drink. gamble and swear. He quit
in 1915 and Joined the Church Of Christ and
Christian Union, Of which he is second elder and
singing leader. He was conscientious ob1ector
until convinced by Capt. E. c. b Danforth at
Camp Gordon that the Bible proved 1t his duty to
fight He believes In a personal God and looks
upon his successful exploit as miracle. Blessed
is the peacemaker,'" he says.
He is a farmer and blacksmith and provides for
his mother one brother and three small sisters
the other six brothers and sisters are married.
His forbears for generations were Tennesseeans.
When York landed the other day the Tennessee
society took possession of him and tried to make
him feel that New York city was his.
OF course York was having the time OF his life.
yet really, you know, he was regFetting that he
wasn't home to lead the singing at the Possum
Trot spring revival
And at the Possom Trot revival, In the valley
of which Pail Mall with its 20 houses IL the cross
roads metropolis York's neighbors were prouder
over the fact that he had "kept straight than
over what he had done to the HuA- Besides, while
Alvin was "all right" God had had him in charge
since the day he enlisted. ut wasn't Alvin" said
Grace Williams. who Is waiting for HIM, ut was
the hand Of God"
Which reminds Of the nrst Wsrds a the Hus
major captured BY YORK.
"Bsitishf. he asked.
"Anafican," aid Yoek.
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