The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28
keossuqua Boy Who Enlisted in Keo-
kuk Company and Later Fought
with Rsinbo~s WEEDS His
English Nurse.
REAL WAR ROMANCE
Black Lost Both Legs in Chateau
Theirry Drive But is Still srii-
ina and Marriage Occurred
Last Week

! Keokuk men in the famous Rain
bow division who knew terrence
/ Black. OF Keosaueua. Iowa, viii be
| interested in knowing that "Blackie"
+, is married Black enlisted Ii Com
pany l. of Keokuk and was one OF
+, the men transferred TO l. company
of the 16sth when the RainboTs were
organized. He was wounded July II
at Chateau Thierry and lost both OF
/, his legs. He was In reconstruction
, hospitals in the United States at
| Fort Des Moines and Fort Sheridan
Black was taken sick in England
on the way over and was nursed in
an English hospital by an English
nurse. to whom he lost his heart.
The rest OF the story is perhaps told
best by the Omaha Bee in the follow
| ing:
"Blackie is married.
"Blackie" is the Iegless hero Of
the Council Bluffs company OF the
l6Sth infantry.
His full name is Terrence Black,
! "a, and his home was keosauqua,
! Iowa. until he returned from over
seas, when he adopted Council Bluffs
/ for his home because many OF the
| "buddies" with whom he served in
| the army lived there.
''Blackie7 married Hilda Sturgess,
rs, pretty English nurse, in Chilli
Gothic, No, last Friday, it was learned
today, when they arrived in the
Bluffs to establish their home at
/, 1902 Avenue q.
Taken III With Fever.
| "Blackie's" romance is war 70,
! nance, but it's different from the
general run Of war rouaEces.
He enlisted in the Keokuk com
pany Of the Iowa national guard at
! the outbreak of the war and was
4 tralleferred TO l. company, 1s8th in.
fantry. while encamped at Des
I Moines-
While sailing the briny blue deep
{ with his regiment on the English
/ troopship Celtic in 1917, Blackie was
/ taken III with scarlet fever.
1 The troops landed at Liverpool
and .Blackie was taken to an English
hogpita! a. Winchester.
! Here he met Hilda-
/ Hilda nursed him back to health
i and Dan Cupid got in his deadly
work.
Goes 20 Fight Foe.
But BIaekie's first duty was tc
fight the Hun, so he sailed across
the channel and rejoined his regi
ment.
I All through those terrible months
OF hard service seen by the 1sSth in
France, BIackie wrote to Hilda and
sha wrote to him.
/ Then on that fateful night of July
IA. when the Chateau Thierry drive
! was opened, Blackie was sent on out
post duty Somewhere on the Cham
payne 'front.'"
1 Loses Both Legs.
There was a deafening roar, ant
when BIackie revived he was in q
field, hospital, where he was told he
. would lose both his legs.
After the operation Blackie smiled
| And he's been smiling ever since
He landed back in the old U. S. A
in September, 1919, returned to Coun
Gil Bluffs and was sent to Fort Sheri
dan for treatment.
Meanwhile he and Hilda had beer
writing.
came to Canada.
Then, in November last year, Hilda
came to Canada for service in one
OF the big reconstruction hospitals.
And last February she came down
to Fort Sheridan TO visit Biackie.
1t was their first meeting since
1917, when she had nursed hin
through two months Of scarlet fever
Last week Blackie went down Il
Chiiiicothe to visit relatives.
Hilda went down to Chiilfcothe
too. from Canada
And they were married. I'D.