New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1919-06-07
,wrance Iawton former New beIdn back from Scene Of
Many Battles, Tells Of Some Experiences "OveT There
Wounded in the Thigh He was Put Out OF the Fight Nov
o' 1st--Saw Service in France from June 20, 1917.

II one of the Orlando, Florida papers
If verv recent date appeared the follow
ing interesting article relating the wal
experiences of Mr.. Lawrence La"toh'
native of New Iberia and son Oh 'N0
founder of The Enterprise, CITIZEN
a. that State since 1902 Lawrence was
mt more than eight years old "heh nc
left with his parents to take up MS resi-
dence in Florida:
zone bv one they are coming back tne
bows who went over there and did 1t. Last
Won't saw the return of Lawrence Law
+on son of Mr.. and Mrs. j. b. La"1oh
of this city, who is one OF the best Kno"
and likeable young men OF the CITY.
"Buddie." as he is familiarly known
among his hundreds of friends has oseh
in the infantry with the Marines. we
could end our story with this sentence
and volumes would have been spoken, -or
EVERYONE knows what the Marines did anu
what thew went through, but we Will not
we drew from the young soldier, piece by
niece. some of the experiences ne mao
been through, and have put them TO-
gether in the following story.
On June 26, 1917, he arrived IN france
with his division which was the Second
and went TO the Verdun- Toul Proven sec
tor. he then went to the Chateau ThieITy
sector in 1918 where he was in contln-
uous fighting from May 18th to July 9:n'
From there he was transferred to the
Scissors sector, and later to the Marne
sector where he was on the counter oI1sh-
sive from July 18th to 10th. From
August 9th TO oath he fought IN the
Marnacho sector. On September Znd ne
took part in the famous ST. Mihiel drive
where he remained until September 10th.
He then was transferred to the Cham
payne front where he was in action from
September 18th to October 9th. On
October 18th his division was trans
ferred to Summorace where he was in
fighting until November 4th when he was
wounded by the explosion of an enemy
she'll
A 100000 Barrage.
Some of the most interesting stories
about the fighting which we were able
to get from Mr.. Lawton was concerning
the fight at St. Mihiel. It was on the
morning of September End, that the great
American offensive began. The United
States troops put down barrage which
is said to have cost this government three
million dollars, which is SAID to have out
euualed anything which had taken place
on any front, the Americans followed
closely behind it, sometimes not being
more than 50 feet in its wake 1t was
in this fight that orders came for the Sec
ond Division to take Thiacourt, and The
French gave them four days in which "a
take their objective. Just three and
half hours after the Second began Their
advance the village was in their hands
The company to which Mr.. Lawton be-
longed was directly in front of the town
and when it was taken out of 24O men
who entered the fight there were but 6s
left
65 Americans Take 5000 Huns.
This company was left to guard the
town while the rest of the division all
vanced So quickly had the Americans
accomplished their objective the Germans
had no time to inform even their real
guard, as the American spies had cut all
lines of communication leading from the
city The sixty-five men of whom Mr..
Lawton was one had not assumed their
new duty but two hours when German
train which was ignorant of what had