The Washington times., 1919-02-28

this war" continued Pop" And
that is that they wouldn't let me get
into the fights that happened. every
day in the front line near our camp.
| did take requirements TO the first
| lines on several occasions. but they
told me 1 was too old TO fight. That's
! all bosh. 1 did everything the other
fellows did, and sometimes made them
] hustle-Delieve me, did!
He'll Soon he Here.
And Mr.. Washington Times" he
called from the step Of the now mev-
ms train, tell the folks down home
that I'm back and win soon have
my 9ivver performing around Ninth
and + streets again.
Another passenger on. the PresideI I
Grant was Capt. David W. Tastet, o.
I02G FaiTmont street northwest, com
mander Of the lG4th regiment medical
detachment Captain Tastet, before /
CnlistinS. practiced medicine-ln Wash !
ingIon. He was commissioned in De |
cembeT. 1917. and sent 10 the Army
Medical School at ChatiIlon-sur-Seine. !
Leaving the school, he was assigned .
to the 164th and spent most of the /
time he was in France at the First /
Replacement Camp Hospital, at 81 !
Aignon.
'''rhe war was all right was Corp. !
Il. Il. Gists comment. "but I'm still
sore about it" Then he stopped.
Well what was the troubls?' -
was asked
- guess you have seen The prett. .
gold and red sunset insignia the boz
in the F1rty-first wear on their shOLl
ders." Corporal Gist replied.
What's that got to do with malting
you sore on the ware
tsHHpE like This I bought
one OF those insignia and wore III
on my shoulder, but one night some
rats got ar il and ate all the gold :
out. They didn't touch any Othc"
part-they seem 10 like the gold.
Anyway, several of the other fellows
had the same experience, and when
the c. o. asked me what had nap-
pened TO mine, / told him. and he
laughed at me. That's what makes
me sore re finished Corporal GIst
lives at 20 Jefferson street norris
west, with his mother. Mrs. :. -.
Gist. He was salesman for Ciudc
Eros. florists, rOr eight years be-
fore enlisLuc. lie went 10 France
November J, 1918. with Casual Com
pany SOC. lie was later GENT 20 -.
Roman and transferred 10 the lGith
Infantry.
Padgett Was GHssed.
Corporal Norman Padgett. culoreo.
whose home is a. 7I9 Harvard stree:
northwest landed at HGyrC Decor
Der I3. 1917. with the iG3rd Infantry.
He was later Transferred to the 16Ith
and fought for two months IN the
Chateau Thicrry sector during the
last big German drive. lie was
gassed and confined TO q hospital
at ChaumonI for nearly a month.
II vas cook rOr the general CON-
msndiEG The ISfth brigade said
Private David II. Forrest. 4ul 1
street northwest. who returned as 4
member Of the headquarters detach- /
ment. lSith brigade (coIored troops. !
Our bunch was fighting IN that
Argonnc Forest battle. and the gem ,
eral was close up ts the fighting. SO, /
OF course. me and my liCtlc two-by- /!
four Kitchen WIS up there. too. One !
auc morning the German crowd (
started one Of those barrages and X I
kept getting worse and worse until /
all the cans Of tomatoes and every
thing fell right down over me AMI /
smashed-and I don't know what hap
pened for a little while then. That
barrage kept up for sevcnty-twp
hours without stopping for one min
Utc.
There was a little hill out there .
somewhere in front Of US he con
tinUed. land the French officers and F.
British Officers said il Couldn't be /
captured. but my general said his bov4
cT the 36Sth could take it In fOu-
hours. Wen, after while they start
ed. The took that hill in foFty-fivc .
minutes and those French and British /,
81 IN IL couldn't be donc a. all But, do
you know, those CGsth boys jas;
couldn't stop when they got that mil
aud they kept On and didn't stop until (.
they had gone ten miles into the Ger
man lines. They did all that IN less
than three hours" Corporal PadSCttl
was at one time employed as cook 1T
the Chevy Chase Club.
Private Allen r. Davis, OF the 18TH /
Detachment. 1919 Thirteenth street
northwest, landed at Brest, France, on
June 10, 1915 He was sent TO a
training camp at Passavaut and later
vas in the fightinE around the Vosges
sector, and the ArgonHe. lie was in
a front line trench on the Moselle
when the arnistiCe was signed.
on to Camp Merritt.
The IS4ti Brigade Detachment wcutI
TO Camp Merritt, y. J., for demobliiza-
tiou.
The following Washington soldiers
.elUrne6 oa the President Grant.
Co. Hear Clay Fisher 2I4S *
street uor,hwes.. NLSrest relative.
Mrs. II. @. Fisher.
t11nr 107-FI W ia $40. fHSr ~.