SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1919
THE MALHEUR ENTERPRISE, VALE, OREGON.
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WAR'S HISTORY TOLD BY VETERAN
(By a Free-Lance)
From the Notes and Memory of one who Fought, Suffered and Lived
thru the "First Two Years of Hell". Do not miss a word of this story,
told by an actual eye witness and participant.
First Installment Issue of April 19
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-and should be accquainted HHHHtttHH I I I IHH
TWO YEARS OF A LIVING HELL ing hate in every direction. Running
i low to avoid any direct gauge on my
j advance, I had proceeded some eighty
yards when a "baby" landed. Glancing
over my shoulder to determine its
The tenseness of the nerves tighten
ed as Major Morphy acquainted us
with the approach of the enemv. vet it
had been what we were expecting for j character, I'll swear by all thats liv
the rain of shells that were bursting in&" or dead that its appearance re-
overhead told only to well what to ex- ! semb,ed 8 dud but my judgment
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pect, for we had in the course of a
few weeks come to learn that there
never was to be a counter attack in
day light but that the enemy would
first try to kill the moral of the op
posing force, by presenting us with a
rapidly fired rounds of "scrap" and
"junk" in order to prepare a resting
place for his men, when they came
over our tops.
Leaving the Major and the Captain
in the "Bay where we were I saunter
ed down the traverse and into the
next "bay", and not finding there that
which I was looking for went down
still further into the trench. I was
perhaps some three bays away from
the remainder of the squad, when look
ing over the top of the parapet, I
found that I had got in the position
that I was hunting for. Yes is was
an ideal place for the coming fray, for
the enemy had to pass through the
high entanglements that the previous
detachment had rudely constructed,
and with the fore sight of "angles" or
was at error, it was a live one, and as
I dropped to the ground in a prone
position, thirty or forty feet from
where I lay, I too learned it was a
throbbing, rendering "Live Baby" for
I had no more than got in position,
than I was bodily lifted and sent in the
air for some twenty feet, shrapnel
hizzed, and the broken fragments of a
shattered shell filled the air. I landed,
yes and landed none to gentle, the
force of contact had undoubtedly sent
me in the air for twenty feet, and in
returning to mother earth, it was on
my right side. As I layed there for
a few moments getting back my
breath, and seeing that I was all there
that old saying came to me "A miss
is as good as a mile" and so it was.
Breath regained I once again set
out to get cross that stretch of ground
that laid in my immediate front. It
was the longest four hundred yards
that was ever measured, for in getting
across that distance I was hurled
twice to the ground by the concussion
with the information at once, and the
conditions as they are here man
your wounded" I had turned white
and faint and was droping to the
floor when he reached my side steady
ing me to the floor, at the same time
calling for the orderly. It was only
momentary, the twinge in the should
er caught me, and with the exertion I
had undergone in reaching quarters
had sent me faint. "I'm all right, Sir,
have the others wait, I am to go back
with the reinforcements, only a slight
'blighty' no harm."
As he turned to give orders to the
orderly who had by this time appeared
on the scene, another voice was heard,
and looking up and in the direction
from which it came, the General was
half way across the room. "Adjac
ent; the Fall in, what are the condi
tions and ." Then seeing me on the
floor, some what the worse for wear
said, "So, it is you Corporal
of "demons" left to my right a gap of j of shelIs- and was made to run, and
some twenty yards between the struc- ' run 1 di1- seeking cover in shell hole
tures. This is what I called luck it to she" hole for I did not dare to pre
saved me the return trip back to the sent to much of a target to the enemy
squad and also gave a clear vision of and know that the bys at my rear
the field, where as their vision was : were depending on me to get in and
blurred. This meant I would be able deliver the message and return with
to check their passage through the : re-inforcements. They could hold out
gap, with rapid fire, and could wait at the rate they were going for a
at leisure for the squad to come down i matter of two hours at the very latest
rhp line ivhon thev haA honrH tha and tnen l Knew it wouiu De ail ot.
firing, for the sound of the Lee-Enfield
can rapidly be heard when there
is not a over much or load from the
opposite field. It was this that I now
depended upon to kill the crack and
sound of fire, for with the enemy in
mass formation it was a simple mat
ter to stop the force with a few well
directed shots, and is was these shots
that I was aiming to put over.
They arrived at the gap fully twenty
deep and in width at least sixty,
what targets, (Prussian Guards).
Laying my rifle over and in between
two loosely piled sand bags, I cut
loose, amplely protected from their
fire by the inner sight of some com
rad's neglect to lay that last row of
nags lengthwise.
I had jammed some five or six
bullets in the magazine of the gun,
having once unloaded, when the re
mainder of the squad showed up, the
oys laughing swearing, and all in
;ood humor.
By this time there had fallen some
with them, for they would be without
food for the guns and outnumbered
three or four to one.
Wanting a rest, short of wind, my
heart beating a rapid tatto, I reached
the fringe of the wood that was my
destination for the time being, when
Zing, a whine a burning sting, a full
swing to the left, and as if some one
had dropper a ton on. my shoulder, I
dropped to the ground, only to be up
and away the next moment as the
rain of leaden fire encircled me, and
forced me to seek cover in the brush,
and near trees of the wood I was new
into, Throughing my right hand to
the left shoulder I took it away cover
ed with blood, I felt no pain, but that
of a burning sensation, and going over
my entire body I found that it was the
only place they had got me, just how
severe I could not say, and for the
time being was to mad to care. My
remaining cloths were torn to shatters,
and I must have been a sight to the
j sentry, who was tationed a few yards
! away,cap gone rifle gone, and clothes
, r eigni 01 uie enemy, anu uieir , streaming in the wi,ldj with more or
K-u.e.-, we e u.octung me way 01 tnose ,css mud an(1 b,00(J mixed Qn my
.eninu wnen as 11 uy pre arranged
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WHY NOT NOW?
lans the enitre squad sent over "three
apid" in succession. They faultered
ind there seemed to be a ripple as
hey began falling, some distance in
he advance of where they had been
ndoubetedly shot. Was it that the re
maining force crowed them forward,
I have often wondered as to this, for
it had often occured, not only on this
field but else where on other lines.
'1 he direct fire of our boys soon be-
fMI to tell, our guns were getting a
'rifle warm, and in some cases jamed.
In such cases, we would pick up the
:if'le of some comrade who for the
ime being was out of the fray. We
lad fought for the greater part of an
hour, and still the enemy were pre-
sisting in coming through the gap,
always emmussed, gaining nothing ex
cept the honor of the field. Some
would relate their experiences to those
at home and then there were those
that got it clean.
We had been fighting for some
twenty minutes, when Captain De
Sales left the squad with Major Mor
phy, and went north up the trenches,
such as they were, and when we had
fought on but for a short time re
turned with another detachment, who
were under Sergeant McGill of the 5th
division. Sergeant McGill always had
a nack of being in the right place at
the right moment, for it was he with
his little squad that had turned many
a fight nearing its climax and end to
that of a victorious counter. We boys
were sure glad to see that it was our
old reliable, and when they got into
i.he stride they too laughed as the rest.
My experience had always been that
is soon as the Sergeant made his ap
pearance on the scene, I would be call
ed to do something else, and so it was
to be this time too. The Sergeant had
but placed his men when on glancing
up the "bay" I saw Major Morphy
miiing down, just leaving the traverse
who catching sight of me beckoned me
to him. leaving my post on the rude
ly constructed "fireing step" I went to
meet him. We circled the traverse
that he had but lately turned and
said, "Corporal Report at once
to headquarters for reinforcements,
allow a safe factor, and bring them by
the shortest route. Take these paper ;
with you to the General."
Saluting, I turned and walked up the
bay for some ten feet where I had
seen a crumpled spot, and there wv-
tire person.
"It was hell buddy, I have been
watching you for the last five minutes
What's up?" said the sentry as I got
to my feet again for I had tripped
over a fallen tree trunk, and was
sprawled on the ground in a very
akward position, for I had been run
ning with my head over my shoulder
the greater part of the time, and did
not pay much attention to my immed
iate front, for there I knew I would be
among friends and comrades. I an
swered in jerky words "Hell counter
four to one, Bruce and Fifth squads
holding must get to headquarters
for re-inforcements. Will be back
his way."
On again. But in front of me now
were my friends and so to the rear,
all caution was thrown to the wind
and having gained my second wind I
went down the trail to the road on
the double, reaching the road I severed
to the left sharply and began to catch
my stride as in old track days gone
by, when again I was stopped by a
ommand to "Halt" and a sentry
standing in the center of the road way
I broke and coming up close enough
so that he cold hear me distinctly I
said "Dispatch to Headquarters.
He nodded and I gathering speed
carried on. I could not see the town and
turning sharply hulf left, proceeded to
make time. It takes longer to tell
than the actual time in which it was
accomplished. I had gained the en
trance of Headquarters, when I met
an orderly, and saying to him. "Is
the Adjutant in? If so the compli
ments of Major Morphy on dispatch
Corporal Urgent."
Swinging on his heel, he entered the
office only to return the next moment,
'Corporal the Adjutant wishe
to see you at once, this way." As we
nteied the room, there were M-vrnil
officers that I knew, and the Adjutant
looking up returned the salute as giv
en and I placed on his desk the papers I
that were given to me to deliver. He
glanced over them rapidly, then look
ing up said, "What are the conditions
briefly, reinforcement! needed'.' Cor
poral ." Answering I said "f00
men, and hell; can hold an hour or
two no more" Turning to the officers
that were in the office he said, "Boys
Major Morphy is in it, you Major
Kingsley take your your company and
proceed at once to their aid, Captain
O'Hara take your command and pro-
Major Morphy must be in need of ad
ditional aid. Carry On, Adjutant."
And the General stooping over me
spoke in the voice, that all of us men
knew well, for he knew his men and
they knew him, man for man, no
pomp outside of the regular routine of
army orders and the K. R. O. He was
all man, and it was for him that we
boys went through hell, our everyday
life was linked with that of his, and
we all swore by him. I do not believe
there was another general on the field
that the men loved as they loved Gen
eral French. Many of the boys had
been with him In South Africa in 1802,
and there learned that he never asked
others to do that which he himself
would not do in person. He asked
"Corporal are you hurt badly"
and turning to the orderly that still
stood at attention, said "Call Major
King at once."
I looked up from the floor where I
was resting, and laughing, said "No,
Sir, nothing but a twinge in the left
shoulder will be alright in a few
minutes,' must return to Major Mor
phy." He laughed, and turning to the Ad
jutant who by this time had returned
to his desk, gathering up the reports,
said to him "Would we had more,
such as he is, always ready, and only
knowing orders. All right, Sir, report
to me any information from Major
Morphy at once, and see that Corporal
is tended to before he leaves".
At that Major King entered the
door, saluting the General and seeing
me laying on the floor, turned toward
my direction, and as he striped the
left shoulder bare, laughingly said,
"Corporal some of these days
we wont be at hand as ready as now,
why man it is only a crease, good
for you; but they will get you yet."
continuing the examination . and
dressing the scratch, for that is all
that it was, he asked if I had seen
my father and brother, "No, Sir. Is
Dad and Frank in quarters. I've been
in the southern divisions with the 10th
and only just got here. Won't have
time to see them this trip, for I go
right out with the reinforcements to
the aid of Major Morphy, but will
see you and them when we finish,
and I get back; What billet are you
in? Regards to Dad and Frank if you
see them."
The steady tread of murching feet,
and the clear call of the commands
could now be heard, and knowing that
it was Major Kingsley, I got to my
feet, not without some twitching, and
calling the attention of the Adjutant,
said "Will report in detail when I re
turn, Sir." Saluting I left the office,
only to hump into my brother, now a
commissioned officer, "Hello, Frank
see you later see Major King am
with Major Morphy and Captain De
Sales don't tell the girls at home
only a scratch."
By the time I reached the door I
could see Captain O'Harn coming up
with his command, and the tail end of
the Major's disappearing up the road,
and joining this attachment, I dropped
in step with Captain O'Hara and we
were off.
(To Be Continued)
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