The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-05-23

battalion. who stalked two German machine guns,
killed or wounded the crews and captured the
guns. Lieut.. Robert G. COmbe, Va c., Fifty-third
battalion, led his company through q deadly bar
rage, captured the objective with only five men
left and took eighty prisoners. Then a German
sniper got him.
Death was the price paid, also, by Capt. Okill
NJ. ~Learmouth, ". c., M. c., Canadian infantry,
who, although mortally wounded, stood on the top
Of the parapet Of his trench and actually caught
and hurled back bombs. His example repulsed a
determined attack.
After the Germans had repulsed three attacks,
killing or wounding all his officers, Company Ser
geant Major Robert Hanna, ". c., Twenty-ninth
battalion, rushed the strong point through wire,
personally bayonetted three Germans. Drained a
fourth and captured a machine gun.
Private Michael ]. O'Rourke, V. c., Forty-sev-
enth battalion, a stretcher bearer, worked unceas-
ingly for three days and nights and personally
rescued three men under heavy fire from German
snipcrs.
battalion, who personally killed sixteen Germans
and captured two machine guns; of Lieut.. Rob
ert Sffankland, V. c., Forty-third battalion, who
captured and held a position, displaying most
conspicuous bravery and resource - Of Private
John G. Pattison, v. c., One Hundred and Thirty.
seventh battalion, who jumped from shell hole to
shell hole until within thirty yards of q machine
gun, bombed the gunners and then bayonetted FIVE
survivors; Of Sergt. Frederick Hobson, V. c..
Twentieth battalion, who got a buried machine
gun into action and was killed while attacking
the advancing enemy with a rifle to hold them
until the gun was repaired, and of Private Harry
Brown, v. G.. c. NJ. r., regimental depot, who
saved a captured position by carrying a message
through q heavy barrage, salthough MORALLY
wounded, but little can be said owing to space
limitations.
Although the sword is supposed to be obsolete
as a fighting weapon, Lieut.. Henry Strachan, v.
g., NJ. c., Fort Garry Horse, killed seven German
gunners with his saber, silenced a battery, cut
telephone wires two miles behind the enemy's
lines and brought back fifteen prisoners.
Capt. George X. Pearkes, v. c., NJ. c., Fifth G.
M. r., although badly wounded in the thigh, cap
tured and held a position against repeated enemy
attacks; Lieut.. Christopher p. j. OKelly, v. c.,
nj. G. One Hundred and Forty-fourth battalion.
led his men in two attacks which netted i'll pris.
oners, eleven machine guns and six 'pil boxes >"
Corp. Colin Barron, ". G., Third battalion. single
handed charged three machine guns, killed four
of the crew, captured the remainder and turned
one gun on the enemy; Private Thomas w.
Holmes, ". O., One Hundred and Forty-seventh
battalion, acting alone, killed or wounded the
crews of two machine guns, then bombed a 'pil
box and captured nineteen prisoners; Private
Cecil j. Kinross, v. G., Fifty-frst battalion, ad.
vanced alone in broad daylight over open ground
against an enemy machine gun, killing six of the
crew and destroying the gun; Private James p.
Robinson, v. @, Thirteenth G. M. r., rushed a
machine gun, killed four of the crew, turned IL on
the enemy and later was himself killed while res
cuiRg a wounded man under fire, and Lieut.. Hugh