Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-08
HEROES HONORED HERE
TELL THEIR EXPLOITS
Valorous 'DeuH Dogs Who at Chateau- Thierry
Stemmed German Rush to Paris Tell of Gallant
Comrades on Bloody Fields

OF placing his body IN front OF his pla-
toon leader while under heavy machine
gun fire, in order that he might dress
the latters wounds. He was shot twice
in the hip while shielding the body of
his leader"
Private 1.atell comes all the way from
Reno, Nevada. He was shot through the
right foot late In the afternoon of June
s, and was sent out of the lines when
firing ceased at . o'clock next morning.
tion, and then was sent back to Paris.
lie rejoined his company in mid-July.
and was wounded again at st. Mihiel
early in the morning OF September Is,
lying there until noon with two machine
gun bullets in his right knee. Three dead
marines lay beside him and some dis
tance off another badly wounded man
was begging for water.
Crawled To Give Wounded Man water
Though Latell could scarcely move.
he crawled over the dead bodies of his
friends and gave the wounded man a
drink from canteen he found on one
of the bodies. The wounded man slipped
lapsed beside him They had to remove
part of Latell's leg bone, and he will
limp all his life.
He got his first wound. that on June
6, just at the moment he was driving
his bayonet into German. Another
boche hiding behind a hedge fired at
him. and as Latell finished his man
buddy" nearby bayoneted the second
German. Though wounded, he kept right
on and in cleaning out the next vii
lage Latell fought hand-to-hand with
five more Germans, killing them all with
the bayonet.
Oscar T.. Carlson, of the Seventy
fourth Company, a Minneapolis man,
went through the Belleau Woods fight
ing without a scratch; got a machine
gun bullet in his neck at Scissors July
10, rejoined when out of hospital, was
hit in the head by shrapnel-which frac-
tured his skull-on November / in the
Argonne Forest, and now is little the
worse.
William Wagner. of the Twentieth
Company, Fifth Regiment. went with
six others to charge German machine
gun nest. Two were killed, all the
others wounded, Wagner being the last
to fall He is still in hospital Three
inches of bone were smashed in his
ISM arm anu part Oh the muscle torn
away.
Corporal Raymond w Boone. also Of
the famous Seventy-ninth Company of
the Sixth Regiment, has been "adver-
tised for" in the Stars and Stripes. but
has never written to the adjutant gen.
eral. His friends believe lie will get
his decoration none the less.
Sole Survivors OF Company
Boone was in charge of squad
operating French automatic rife at
Chateau-Thierry. The shell which
wounded Captain Duncan. of the Ninety
sixth. killed two of Boone's squad. He
carried the officer back into the woods.
but later another shell killed the cap
tain and some hospital corps stretcher-
bearers who were taking to him to the
rear
More men of Boone's squad fell, and
with only two left he advanced to a
shell crater and took up position there
with the automatic. Another shell
killed both Of Boone's companions, leav-
ing him the sole survivor He lost two
fingers and was wounded in two places
in the leg, but refused to go back. He
went with the marines into Bouresches.
wounded as he was, and there German
hiding in a trench shot at and missed
him. and then wounded him in the lip
with his bayonet. Another marine fin
ished the boche. Boone finally was
forced to go to the rear. He was recon-
mended for the %. S. c. because, after
being ordered to the rear, he stayed on
the front lines and besides fighting, gave
aid to the wounded.