Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-10
CO. c IN POCKET
WHEN CASUALTIES
CAME THE HEAVIEST
OTTAWA BOYS FIND THEM
SELVES SURROUNDED BY HUNS
AT cONSENvoYE WOODS.

Two brothers who fought overseas
in the same division arrived home
Saturday night after having received
their honorable discharges from the
army at Camp Grant. They we're
Sergt. Frank Boyle. a member Of the
headquarters corps of the SD Diyi
sion, and Private Louis Boyle of Com
pany A, 13lst Infantry The latter
was severely wounded in action last
August and has been confined to mill
tary hospitals In the United States
France and England since that time
This is the trst instance whore tNt
brothers have returned to Ottawa OF
the same train from overseas service
During the latter part of January Pri
yate Louis Boyle was granted a five
day furlough, which he spent visitinl
at his home in this city. Since chez
he was confined to the Drexel Re
construction Hospital in Chicago unit
a few days ago.
Though the boys were in Oyerseas
service in the same division they me
each other on Just one occasion aitcI
leaving New York in May. 1918, unit.
week ago Saturday, when they ran
across each other at Camp Gran.
Sergt. Boyle enlisted in Ottawa as I;
member of Company c during tn
summer of 1917, About the same TIM
Louis enlisted in Chicago as a mem
Der OF the Old dandy First
Both were stationed in Texas a
Camp Logan during their period o
training They left Camp Logan tn,
latter part of April and sailed from
New York shortly afterward Priyat
Boyle returned from England the Ia.
ter part OF December and his brotne
landed in New York Feb 2n
During their absence their mothei
Mrs. Hannah Boyle, died at her hon
1909 Columbus street, and a brothe
Yoeman Peter Boyle, died OF inluenz
at the Great Lakes Naval Trainiu
Station.
Sergt Boyle left the 33d on tn
morning Of Jan. 20 Al that time t.
veterinary headquarters corps OF tn,
33d was at Diedrcl. Luxembourg. Fou
Ottawa boys, Mike Loouey, Pau
De Wore, julius Richardson and Serg,
Boyle, were members Of this corp.
All were we'll and anxious to g
home.
on Dec. is. two days before he lef
Sergt Boyle went to EttelDruCk, fou
miles from where he was stationtt
to visit the men OF "OttaWa's own
- company and tell them goOd-Dy. Tn,
boys were wei, but were anxious {
get home, and believed they would D.
stationed in Ettelbruck until mex
May. They had been there sine,
Dec. Is.
They lived in private homes ant
had a mess hall in an old garage
Their food was cooked in a rollin
kitchen they had taken with then
from France. Reyeille was sOundc,
at 8: 80 in the morning. The compan
was drilled for five hours every d.,
to keep themselves fit, and the boy
had the rest of the time to then
selves.
Sergt Boyle told of the manner il
which Company suffered such heavt
casualties in the early part of October
They were advancing in the Conser
yoye Woods, which is located acr0s.
the Meuse River. A regiment OF in
fantryment from another division
which was at the left of the l29U
failed TO advance, leaving a tanl
open. The German soldiers streamet
through this opening and pocketed the
129th. Gas attacks were terrible dur
ing the two days before the l29tl
were able to eXtricate themselYe.
from the pocket, and the shell anC
shrapnel the Huns threw on the OF
lava men came like rain. 1t wa.
here the ottawa company suffered al
most all of their casualties.
Sergt Boyle's praise for the Rec
Cross was loud and sincere. He too
how, druing the six days from the
time he left Diekrch until he reached
Brest, he had been supplied with fOot
by the Red Cross, Huts have beer
built at every railroad station. SO the
soldiers can leave the train and ge
their meals These huts are life
savers for the men, who would hay,
to go hungry if they had not been es
tablished, and are deeply appreciated
by the boys who cross the country OF
their way home. The Red Cross fur
nishes food free at all these huts, anC
this was only one of the many thing;
that organization is doing for the
boys, declared Sergt. Boyle.