The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-07

, support of the French. He was in the Second battalion while the First
 was in the first line back of the
 French.
 American orders said, Retreat un- der no circumstances" The Germans began heavy bonTbardment NJ July
 16, 1918. and the French fell back of
 the First battalion. The artillery fire
 was tremendous and flying shapnel
 shattered Paddy's leg. Surgeons
 saved it but a scar extending 1rom
 the ankle to the hip remains.
 After being discharged the second time Paddy joined his company at the scene of it's greatest work-the Aisne-Marne sector. This was in July also. The division relieved the 26th. Here the old 69th suffered it's great est loss due to an alleged blunder at headquarters, The fighting Irish" were holding the lines. Orders came to advance and the zero hour was set at in the morning. It came and the
 men went up. Shortly afterward an other order came through to retreat; the recall was blown but it was too
 late. The men had no artillery sup port and Wer> moved down but the Germans paid too. Twelve Germans were taken alive
 Snipers' Deadly Work
 Snipers did their deadly work here in the Marne forest. They allowed one wave to go on and when their
 backs were to the Huns they fired and sniped one after another Many
 were killed and the Americans thought that their own men were do- ing the firing. 4 friend of Grogan's, named Thomas Mansfield, who also came from his home town, in Tip was brought down by a sniper with a bullet in Ii;s knee-cap. As he was fall ing ne saw a naVeme emit in thta tree tops. He managed though in great l pain and anguish to grab his gun lie fired. A dull thud was heard and the German sniperS' force was reduced by one. Mansfield later lost his left leg. 1 It was, in this battle also that Lieut.. 1 Oliver Ames, aiGe-de-camp to Major
 Wild Bilr' Donovan, was killed and who had to be buried three times.
 Paddy helped bury Anes. By a re
 markab1e coincidence he was blown
 three tinl'es and each time he had to i be buried over again. It was with It. Ames that Sergt. Joyce Kilmer, one of
 Americas leading poets, was buried. Received Third Wound.
 The next scene r5s action was the l Meuse-Argonne sector where 200 men | of Go. D entered and only 24 came out alive to tell the tale, Paddy Grogan sector Patrick Grogan was wounded | for the third time with gun shot
 wound in the arm. This was during i the only open warfare carried on. | The American troops were hampered by snipers, machine gun nests and again lack of artillery support. Roads
 were bad and the infantry moved with
 such rapidity that the artillery could l not keep apace.
 | At Chateau-Thierry.
 l Chateau-Thierry also saw the l plucky Irishman and he helped take i the heights of Sedan and was with | the advance patrols that entered the | famous city, taken by the Germans in i 1870 and wrested from them by the l French Novermer 6. 1918.
 Here he explained peculiar fact. 1 The Americans were about to take
 the city when orders came up to | hold back as the French desired to | have the honors of entering the city. | This the Americans graciously did
 and allowed history to record the | taking of Sedan by thes French. "Paddy's' superior officers knew of
 his va1or and heroisnn and Sept. 26, 1918, he was promoted to corporal l and Nov. IS to Sergeant, and only
 for the fact that he was honorably | discharged he might have been 9 ! lieutenant or a captain.
 l One Mans VaIor.
 Sc saw service at St. Mihiel and was
 with the Army of Occupation fol 1 some time, but outside of that-wen | that's the story of what one fellow | did for his country and 1t is by nc