Norwich bulletin., 1919-02-27
THE A. C. SWAN co. Norwich and New London
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guns put out of commIss:ca and go- ing through bad gas attack.
 Leaving the front. the bttery went to Saillon, nf ar Fort Beaumont, but a short distaECS away. r. was not tiIs then that it became known that every man in the 1attery was suff"ring from gas, either of a slight or dangerous nature. 4 few of the boys had been sent to hosp tals and l large number of those remaining had succeeded in i fooling the officers into believing them not affected so as to remaln at th.r posts. Still a few others did not know that they hr1 been affected by the gas fumes until two or three days after coming out of the lines Gas af- fleets men differently
 Private Goodson was in the class of those dangerously gasscd but insist 1 ed on remaining with Thc battery so as to fill Ne place of cook in the ab- 1 sence of the regular cook. His condi- tion aggravated however. and for four
 days he was totally blind.
 1 T was sent down to base hospital | No. 13 at Limoges continued Private 1 Goodson. w th seven CT tight other men of the battery. The others, how l ever, were sent to Base Hospital No.
 8. in the same city. I was told later IIIdL III all = men out Q! dDOuC bU l gassed were sent to various French l hospitals"
 The retuIp:ng soldier told of the l battery'S alrlval at St. Nazaire
 France, on February ,. 1917. of it's be- | ing into train ng in a cGInr about 10 1 lilometers from Care fer a short pe- riod and of it's final arriv2l at Sois- 1 sons.
 After being ordered first to Buc. 1 De Long ana then to Nni2y. in the l Chemin Des Danes sector. we dug
 emplacements and fired our first shot 1 at the Hun. We left this sector in
 the latter part of March and went on | a 17-day h Ike to the Toh1 sector. On our way, we poIiced and cleaned up | some small Fl enCh towns We finally detra;ned at Connyville where we re-
 lieved the 5th Field Artillery. We
 exchanged guns with ther1, because | they could not remove them"
 Our position was right near Mon dre opposite Mt. Sec. We exchanged
 a considerable amount of shells there It was there. also that we received
 our first experience " th :cas. A few
 days after thus attack. we were order
 ed back of the lines. We succeeded
 in pulling the guns from their em- | placements after some trouble. We
 were StatOnGu snort 1lSiailCe lTOIL
 the front for three days. They called
 it q rest camp but we worked just as
 hard there as elsewhere. although be-
 ing out of danger. This was the latter
 part of May. 1918. It was about the
 first of Junr when we were order
 ed to Chateau Thierry. The battery
 got there just in tnle to take part II
 the big fight. The battery was frs ordered to Camprou."
 } At CamprCli Private Gocdson wa! taken sick and sent to a hospital be hind the lines. He reloincd the bat tery at a section of the front called l Femmes, after his battery had push } ed through Camprou. Tie heaviest o . the fighting at Chateau Thierry oc cured during his absence. Following 7 his return. the battery was ordered t'
 the rear. after r months of practical ly constant action. This was on Au gust 5th.
 l From Femnies the battery went to r town named La Fete. where the mel
 were given d chance to rest about tel days. At La l'ete, Goodsnn was agail taken sick and sent to a hospital. IF l on his return the battery rad installe l itself on the St. MitAel front, nea 5 Remmy. It was here that the boy ot th.s batter astounded theIr Trenc ! and British comrades and distinguish r ed themselves by planting one Of thei