Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-03-14
ROYAL WELCOME
WOUNDED BOYS
Several Hundred People Turn
Out To Meet Lads Return
ing From the War
JAMES MOORE LOST HIS
LEFT EYE IN BATTLE
Bryan Nalley Tells Interesting Story
Of Movements and Incidents of
Battery Ii

Ladysmith gave three returning sol
dier lads welcome Wednesday morn
ing that they will never forget. that we
are sure touched their hearts as dem
OnstratiOn that the people of their
home town were not fOrgetful of the
sacrifices they had made and the hard
ships they had undergone i'll the ser
vice of the country. At least five hun
dred citizens, members of the state
CORPS. and War Mothers, met the early
train from the south on which James
Moore and Bryan Nalley returned
home.
James Moore Bryan Nalley and
Glenn Gordon. the three lads who were
hOnored. were all volunteer Troop X
boys. Gordon returned to the states in
January. arriving at Newport News,
Va. ON the 18th and ''sneaked" into
town very quietly February s, giving
no opportunity to arrange Il fitting re-
ceptiOn for him when he arrived. Cor
don went to France with the other
Ladysmith boys in the spring of 1918,
and was the first of the boys from this
city to he seriously hurt. Soon after
arriving at the training camp at
ChaquedOn. France, he was knocked
down by Stampeding horses and sus-
tanned ii fractured skull. He was
rushed to the hospital. where skillful
hIIt of
bone, about an inch wide and two
inches long had to be removed from his
skull. Owing to his youth. metal
plate cannot be put in until several
years pass and in the meantime this
unprotected place on his head will
be Il constant source of danger to him.
He lay unconscious in the hospital for
three days after the accident. and it
was four months before he was re-
leased from the hospital and trans
frTred to the medical corps. at Base
Hospital No. 20. Later he was sent to
an evacuation hospital near the front
ON unattached service and was under
considerable shell fire
Enlisted Early i'm the War
Bryan Nalley enlisted April II. 1917
less than Il week after war with Ger
many was declared. He went to Camp
Douglas and thence to Waco, Texas
with the troop. arriving at Camp Nc
Arthur Sept. %. 1917. There he and
most of the other Ladysmith lads were
transferred into "B" Battery of the
120th Field Artillery in the general
reorganization.
In February. 1913. the battery was
sent to Camp Merritt. y. j., remaining
there about Il week. and sailed March
,. on the giant liner Leviathan. arriv-
ing in Liverpool. England. March II.
They spent about five days at Il camp
ut the historic town of Winchester.
near Liverpool, where they saw many
historical scenes and buildings or
rather the remains of buildings. Win
chester was the capital of England at
one time and the boys had the OppOr-
tunity of seeing King Arthur's old
town hall and historic round table,
the latter carefully preserved and sus-
pended from wall of the castle. The
hall was partially demolished at the
time of CrOmwell'S raid
The battery was then sent to South
anptOn. transferred across the chan
mel on the steamer Australian, arriv-
ing at LaIIaVre, France. about March
p. Spending the first night i'll France
ut an English camp at LaHavrc the
battery entrained the next day and
went to Camp Chaquedon, where they
remained for some time. Here is
where Gordon was injured One of
the original Troop X boys, Victor
Johnson. of WeycrhapuSer. died on the
train. enrOute to Camp ChaQuedOn.
Later the battery was sent to LaChap-
elle and from there their movements
during the remainder of the war can
he followed ON the descriptive dia-
gram published elsewhere in this issue
The two months spent by the bat
terry in AlSace were ut what was
ClaSSed as quiet or training sector.
although there was almost constant
hOmbardment while in the front lines
and frequent raids to add to the eX-
citement and keep the boys from suf-
fering from ennui. 1t was while on
this sector that George Kilgore received
Il compound fracture of the knee, re-
ceiving this very bad injury, which has
kept him in various hospitals ever
since. by being knocked off "a horse
when the animal ran too close to a
tree.
The battery was sent to Chateau
Thierry July 23 in time to take a very
active part in the second battle of the
Marne." 1t was in the hot fighting in