Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-01-09
SERGEANT 0STH HIS
LAST GREAT FIGHT
Fourth Operation Too Much For
Him-Was Game to
the End.
eY FRANK ). TAYLOR.
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT,

az FRANK J. TAYLOR.
United Press Staff Correspondent.
An American Hospital in France
(by maiD-"No. they're not going 70
bring the sergeant back to the ward,
boys"
Those were exactly the words the
nurse used. But the tone Of her voice
and the look in her eyes said more.
The little group in the ward which
had been playing cards on one II the
beds to forget the tension they felt
while the sergeant's operation was
taking place. stopped suddenly, all at
tention. all hungering for good news.
"You dom mean the Sergeant's
do you?" exclaimed one.
Yes. boys, the sergeant's gone. -Four
operations were jue* too much for his
strength. He never fegained conscious
ness"
The little group Of patients and the
nurse were silent.
The chap with n leg gone had half
a deck of cards in his hand uazed, he
relaxed, and the cards fell to the floor.
scattering over half the ward. The
chap with n leg gone never noticed
them.
Gee. the sergeent's gone" he said
huakily. "he sure wa a game boy.
"He was the best fellow I ever knew"
0St0 oAAN kA1O hOOs
I've seen them dressing his leg time
and again. and gosh! but 1t hurt. But
did the sergeant ever say anything?
Not the sergeant-he never batted an
eye"
"Just to think" muse a third. "it
wasn't half an hour ago when we saw
him go out. l shouted. Good luck.
Sarge when the stretcher was carried
through the door, and he smiled and
said. Thanks. I'll be back in a few
minutes with you"
They sat there together the half a
dozen Of the sergeant's hunkies, all
invalids, with the nurse OF the ward.
ing to realize thst the sergeant was
gone. Mess time came and went, and
no n paid any attention to it-they
were thinking only Of the nergeant.
The sergeant was Frank Carbaugh.
Of G~reencastle, Pa, a member Of the
His mother is Mes. Carbaugh, INC nc
mother eve reared a drawer son.
Didn't Talk Of Deeds.
The sergeant who was a mathe-
mates teacher before the war, was
wounded when his outfit was rushed
into action nea Chateau-Thierry. None
of his bunkies knew just how, because,
geant wasn't the kind of a fellow
who'd talk Of himself. You car bet he
was wounded doing something for
somebody. though"
They did know that the sergeant lay
gu in the open a long time after he
was wounded. Medical records showed
that. His leg was badly smashed. 'and
they operated at the first hospital he
reached. But gangrene had set In. and
four operations had followed In an Ell
fort to save him.
They have had lots of bravo patients
that doctors and nurses and patients
admired alike in that hospital. but
never one just like the sergeant, who
said little. WIS always Joking ana
cheerful, and never had q complaint.
The rest Of h boys in the ward would
do anything in the world for the
sarge"
The little g,oup sitting on the cots.
with the nurse, had been talking Of the
sergeant for a long time when n OF
his mother. Miss Gutter. The sarge
thought the world Of his mother"
I'm going TO-" replied h nurse.
Of the sergeant, and I'LL send that. too"
What Che Boys Wrote.
The boys did. and here are a few
lines from them:
Private Elmer Hyland wrote: \ was
with him as soon as he came from the
operation, and I cried when he went. He
was q great boy-a cream 1elIoW
through and through. I wish my foot
was so l could walk with him to the
cemetery"
Wagner John Trask wrote: Our
sergeant is one. Why, l loved that
fellow like my own brother. I've seer
other fellows go but I " felt like
Sergt. Vincent Sauer wrote: ~
never felt woree since I came In the
fight. He was game to the last, always
cheerful. and when I called Good luck
to you he answered Thanks I'll be o.
K. soon.' We always had fun around
his bed. he was so cheerful. He was
one Of the finest fellows I ever knew"
Arthur Stain. who knew the sergeant
better than the rest, the boys say, be-
cause "he and the sarge liked to dab
BILE in poetry" wrote q poem to send
| the sergeant's mother.
They buried h sergeant in the little
American graveyard in a pretty Lor.
raine valley, with an American nae
over the coffin, as 18 soldiers fired
three shots over the grave and the
| bugler gave >taps." Then some Of the
boys, whose injuries permitted their
attending the funeral. gatherd flowers
in the valley and the nurses placed
them on the grave with red. white and
blue ribbons around them.
our After Wal Trade.
From the Springfield CMass.) Republican
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