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t FRIDAY, FEBBUART 7, 1919. THE GASTONIA GAZETTE. U . . . , that the enemy was simply swept off their feet and thrown back leaving the towns of Bellicourt and Nauroy in our possess ion and the Hindenburg line broke at a vital point for more than twenty miles. In justice to the men of "A" Com puny, it must lie said, that in this at tai k, their first real big show, they art HISTORY OF CO. A (Continued from page 6.) for more than three hours the fellows be gan to get the least bit nervous, and, I think doubted if I knew where we were, or where we were goin, or how to get back where we had (mo from! The front at this place made almost a semi circle and every-light could be seen on all side. The only thing that we had to guide us was the moon. Wandering a long in this manner we were suddenly greeted by HALT! Lach of us fell to the ground and felt for his gun WHO'S THERE! came in perfect Eiig liflh so we all got up and I answered friends. It was discovered to le one of the American outpost which we knew othing of before that time. The only information the sentinel could give us was the direction back to his Company Headquarters, but added that he did not think we could find it in the darkness. It was absolutely necessary that we get back to the Company before daylight, so we made a second attempt. After wan dering around for more than an hour we were hailed the scenod time by the same sentinel. There was nothing to do but try again. This time we had been walk ing ami dodging shells for about two hours when we suddenly found ourselves hack in the road which we had left in the early part of the night. It was nearly 4 a. m. when we got back to Company Headquarters, day was biginning to break the only thing we could do was to wait over until the next afte rnoon. 1 1 I ad been a bad night, but we were hack safely ami that was something to be thankful for. In the mean time Lieutenant Kankin had been work;ng most of the night with a detail hauling ammunition ami sup lilies up to the place which had been des ignated as our ammunition dump. Dur ing the night he had been slightly wound ed by the fragment of a shell striking him on the thin. One of Jerry's 4 L"k fell close by and a part of the shell made an ugly gash in Rankin's chin. A gas shell followed close upon the first and enme near getting him but he stmk to hia job until it was finished, and no one knew of his troubles until he came in the next morning with his chin bandaged. On the L'sth we located the barrage position, and in the afternoon late the Oompanies were brought up to prepare positi ns ami , arry up equipment. The enemy mils' have noticed the great a, tivit.v n long ,,iir entire front, for more than ever, he swept nil roads and paths with shell ami Machine Cnn lire until it was pra. ti ally impossible to take a Company in wi'fcout retting some one hur In tie early par' of the night. Kred Dunn of (lastonia, was wounded by bciin: shot in the left arm and shoulder by Ma. hine Cun bullets. Also I'liv.-'es deter R. Huffman of M-iyworth and Wil liam 1 Honeyciitt, of Concord were gass ed and had to be sent to the Hosiii'al. The remainder of the Cimprmv under I.....4 n .. i . i . m i.U"i:is ami K.inkin ami "C" Company under Lieutenants Ha-'din and Kit.simin .ns worked all night ect ting things in s'-ape. At Company Hea.f-qnarte-s Lieutenant Cray, Serjeant Wakefield and Corporal WnlVrs wo-Jsed wi'hnut ceasing upon the firing data ami made all the eon char's and marked the maps for both Companies. It was no small .fob. every ,. i,.i , v,-,, j?,,. hind our positions artillery was massed until there was one gun for every ten yards of space upon the front. In our Division alone there were more than one hundred ami sixty Machine Cuns and over six hundred cannon of all sizes and diacripfions massed to support the In fantry in the attack. There was every thing from the light machine gun up to the big Howitzer which threw a shell weighing seven hundred pounds ready to take part in the barrage. At zero hour, 5:f50 a. m. every gun opened fire. The Infantry went over the top. The earth eemed to rock under the veritable rain of lead, iron and steel. - The heavens were aflame with the flash of guns. Along the front. .Terry's "SOS" filled the air like M many rockets in the fire works of a F"N' h of .Inlv ePM,rsti-xi. The con stant roar of cannon and the eternal rattle of machine guns furnis' ed a toctive barrage which enabled our infan try to go forward. A dense smoke and t9g settled close to the earth and nothing eonld be seen even a few yards away. Boon streams of prisoners were coming to the rear looking for a guide to show am to the prison eage. The tanks poshed on, the Infantry kept going THE ' rol?ged our Division for a gain of three nilNUKJVBURa LINE HAD TO BE BROKEN! Soon the Infantry was on the outskirts of the town of Rellieourt under which the famous Cambrai St. Quintin Canal runs in a tunnel or over two miles. This was strongly fortified and offered a serious obstacle but it did not stop our vicarious Infantry. The tunnel was cleared and more than eight hundred Oermnns came out of their sronir lie-Id with hands up crying "Knmerad;" some times the cry was heard and sme times it was not. No chance was taken f"r Herman treachery was too fresh in the honor safe! We spent the night of the .loth at the Battalion assembly ground. The meu sleeping under gun limbers anil for the most part in the otien with a constant drizzle -of rain. The following morning we marched back to Roizcl where all equipment was repacked. In the after ed as real veterans. Absolutely forget- noun we pro ceded to the valley lieliind fid of scif am! safety, they did their job j Tincourt. ami the following day we hiked like brave men. Earlv in the morning two enemy Airplanes passed over our positions ami it was not long before the enemy's counter battery work came d iwn on us. The men stuck to their guns with the u in ..st fidelity anil fulfilled mv high est expectations and hopes which had been builded during the long months of training. Of course, all safe guards in t' e way of sand bags, entrenchments, etc. were made around the guns to protect the gunners, but I have seen men of "A" Company during the tiring mount upon the paiapet in front of their gun refill it with water, lean over the top and remedy a stoppage; stop and re check their aim, or reset their aiming mark w ith as much ease and apparent self con tnd as an aid woman chnngis her knit ting needles. During the barrage Monroe Wilson one ef the mountaineer buys, a real fighter, was s'nick on the head by a piece of shrapnel from a shell which burst neai iy. The bl iw knocked him from the gun lid li' t'i in side up. lie scrambled back to his te, t wit'i his hem bieedni'' bud V reported to Lieutenant Douglas saying: 'The l.-i in deny knocked the fool out f me, and I hadn't fired but four belts l.iuiii rounds! !" Douglas afterwards reported to me that Wilson was the mn'Met.t man he had ever seen, but that sent him to the dugout where first aid was applied and later he was sent to the Hospital. VYilsui is b:i k vvi.h the Company now. Another incident which occured during tie barrage was the passing of the tanks, 'lie t.ani driver made a short turn and ran squarely oer Corporal (iibs n's gun it win. 1 1 t e gunner was firing, and came dangerously near crushing the entire team. In a few minutes a second tank started across tie identical spot and a big shell struik directly upon top of the tank killing the Officer in chargo and wounding several of the men. So. after all. it was In, ky that the first tank had moved my gun team, otherwise they would have been the victims of the shell I which the tank crew fell a prey. .lust alter we had linished the barrage ind while the guns were being cleaned and re-oiled, a shell fell directly on one of the guns. Seigcant John C. Williams fr. in IVsMiiii'r City, . C. was Idiv.n a b.mt six ard-. away, an Automatic I'is lol torn from l is waist and absolutely de s'royed. while he himself was badly shocked but otherwise not touched. The cime shell did wound severely Private William Hill of Way new ill,., X. '. and wounded slightly Private Stephen Anas Later in the day news came back that the ITi'oiii of Ma hine Cues whi'-h I t. llowed the Infantry in the at'a. k hud been 1 st and that the Ceneral directe. "A" Company to rei lace the lost I Mm 'oui. With the Third Platoon mule: Lieut. Cray who during the barrage had served in the enpaii'y of Second in Coni maml and spent his time figuring out tiring data. I started forward to find out something about the line so as to give all possible support to the Infantry; We worked our way forward leading the Platoon over the fresh Battle Field un til we were fired on from the left rear by French Mortars and Machine duns and were forced to take shelter in a trench which had been occupied a few hours before by the enemy. I'pon fur ther reconnaissance we discovered that the New York Division which was upon our left flank had not pushed ns far for ward as our Division and that the enemy was s'ill strongly entrenched in a part of the tunnel in the 27th Area. So we took up positions protecting our left flank. After getting Lieutenant Cray's Platoon ad.jus'ed and safely in positi m I returned to where I had left Rankin and Douglas with the First and Second Platoon. That night the two runners, one of whom was Private Paul C. Broome of Stanley, N. C. who were carrying water and rations up to Lieutenant Gray, lost their way and to keep from wander ing into the enemy's lines, spent the night in an open shell hole. They re ported great experiences the next morn ing. The following day we were re leived by the Australians who lean- thousand yards. During the relief on the night of September 30th I had two men wounded, both were from Illinois, and were transport drivers. Our withdrawal from the line on September ,'lOth marked the close of our first real battle. Many good Americans had paid the supreme sacrifice. Time shall never efface the happening of tic se two days from my memory. It was there that Cnp'ain Ben Dixon, and Ser geant Henry Carpenter and scores of others I .st their lives. The whole thing seemed horrible, but in its f rightfulness minds of mrsf sddiers and all had agreed j there is a thrilling fascination tnt fills f of t' o i.-sf Co-man iris n dead Ger- t'lf heart of 'h se who were there, and man. Bellicourt was the limit of came away. I have since often thought. ini Hne run barraie. It was not pos- T,,at . '"' ''oen the will of God tha' si' l" t" fire nt n hmo-cr ranee over the J should be killed in this war I wi til. I heads of our advancing Infantry. Orders ' ''ke to have died with t'-ese who fell at enme that all Machine Gun Companies I Bellicourt. For in that Ba'tle. the men ..ii .;-'.,iOTr. OT pf i' Company . who took part learned one great phil - which should take up defensive positions i " 'T'hy ' "'P' "They learned to die!" P"'1 rm-are f r n possible counter at t V. Wi did s-. but fhp coun'er atack never came. Things had moved so fast Their faces were turned toward t'e East. and as the sun sank to rest beyond the hills behind the twilig' t soon turned to pit"h darkness, and even an nethcist ! would have half-believed in G d. For I fourteen n.iies. passing through Per ronne, to our camp at Flaucourt. Here we swiit three days and orders were re ceived that our Battalion would go back into the line October 6, 191H. This lie itssitatcd a hike of fourteen miles back t Tincourt and Roizel where we te as sembled at tlfe Battalion assembly ground. There we waited until the 8th, when or ders came that Captain Cherry would take the Battalion of four Companies forward to the valley lying between the v illages of Joncoiirt and Estrees, t h e Australians having carried the line to that point. We started and everything went well until about 9 o 'clock the enemy began 1 inbing the r in, Is from his night planes. The Heavens were alive with the nerve r:i-king hum of hostile i lanes. Bright very lights were dropped along the rond b the enemy to aid him in the search fur passing troops or transports which should be a target for his bombers. But somehow we arrived in the valley be hind Johncourt with the entire Battalion in. Hiding the Tnnis, eirt wih no ,.ec in .U-e.. i u n It was that the eitenn s. cm ed to eiiiuenti ate all his evil effmts upon oui Cainn. 1 remember Lieutenant Doug las came to me and said! "Captain vi.ii will never get through the night here without getting some one hurt."' I then notified nil the Battalion to keep their men well scattered so that one shell or b nub could jfft only a few men in the event that any should fall in our Camp. I lie men were tired out from the long march and in spite of the surrounding daiigcis lay down on the ground, covered only with their raincoats and were soon asleep. I. u. kily no one was injured dur ing the night. I had just laid down when an orderly came up with a message or dering me to Regimental Headquarters at once. I'pon arriving there I was told of the attack the next morning at .":.';0 n. in. My Company was to be in reserve and follow the forward Companies at five hundred yards. Soon all gun teams with fighting limbers were on the road. It was very dark with a heavy fog lying low on the ground, and we had no maps to guide us. We passed through the villages of U'iaiicourt, Rainicoui t, Mont In eha i n . and Itrancourt, which had been captured he day before and arrived at Vain l.e Pet re ':irm where the Company was halt e l I. chin, I a heilg,. and orders given for them t,i rat their breakfast I went for ward with two runners to keep in touch with the attaiking troops. The town of Preniont was taken before ! o'clock in Co im.rning and little resistance was met until our troops reached the out skirts f fie city of Bohain. The Hit ish Division on ,mr right flank did not keep u; aad this left our entire flank to the cm my. "A" Company was then or dered forward to hiut and protect the e:.iose. right flank. The Company was soon move I as far forward as I thought the entire Company could go with rea sonable safe'ly, then with Lieutenant Douglas I went up to pick out our pi si ti' ns. On our way up Douglas aid mv self were caught in an Afrillery Barrage which enme near ending our part of the war. We had been working our wav a long a sunken road and were near an old house when the shelling began. As 'he barrage grew heavier we looked for s' el er and at t'e particular time in question both of us were standing in the r ad look ing in a dugout wbieh had been vacated a few hours before by the enemy, unde cided whe'her to go in or stand out side, when a s'.rll struck squarely in the road a few fee away, and simply blew us in to the dugout. We were both a little da7cd over the shock at first but after a hit Douglas, said! "D Close Capt. " and I agreed with him w ithout argument. After finishing our recon naissance the first I'lat on under Lieut. Douglas took up positions covering the exposed flank and the Second and Third 'Matoons were held in an old quarry near by. In their several positions the men dug holes in the ground and spent the night. The following morning at 5:.T0 the at tack was renewed. My Company moved forward covering the right flank of our Division. During the day the towns of Bohain, Busigny and Bequigny were cap tured. Nothing of importance happened to "A" Company during the day. That night we dug in and spent the night along a hedge surrounding an apple orchard near the town of Bohain. The next day, October 11th. 191s, the atr.nk was renewed and "A" Company was ordered to pass through the forward Machine Gun Companies and support the front line Infantry. The enemy had taken up posi'ion on t'-e high ground overlooking Vanx Andigny. The British were n t up on our right or on our left. This THit eur Division in the verv nse of a snilent wH-h could be bombarded from three side9frnnt, riirht and left. The O"cnra'ion of the high ground by the enemy, together with t' e fa. f t''at we were in a snilent made t'-e line prnc'ica'lv o-'p-aiile. yn s,,j.p rf .liffi.uities the at tack was renewed and the enemy driven fr m Vaux Andigny. Later in the day ' nr Ar'illrrv snnport became weak and the increased ailvnn'are of the enemy as we reared his pegiti rg together wi'h a "rent number of caiisualties nmong t' e Infantry forced our troops to dig in and held the ground taken. point blank through open sights with camion at small groups and even single soldiers as they ajvanced upon Vaux Andigny. During the morning on our way down Samuel Sctzer, of (iastonia, N. C. was shot in the mouth and painfully but not seriously wounded. Fred Thomp son uf Gaslonia. X. C. had the "bully beef jiortion of his irou rations, which hung at his side in a sack, cut open ns if b a can opem i . the f ragment of a shell which burst i.ear by and another soldier in the Company had his overcoat i id, lied and cut by the fragment of a shell us bad as if he had backed into a buzz saw but both were unhurt. I'p on entering the village we saw quite a number of civilians who were owr joyed to see friends. Their haggard faces nowcil the enects ot ruur years suMcr ing. The enemy hud ransacked and rob bed their In mi s, barns, gardens and sops of every thing of value. Of what little was left they were willing to share with is. Some brought out coffee and gae the sohiieis. They told us of the horrors they had be, n through under German Iomina ion. Among the dastardly Ger man deeds they lecoun'ed was the taking away ot more than one hundred vounii iris and women as hostages. This made the men of A " Company f, el that they ad mm h to tight for and lin y pioc, cl d to do their ob. Later in the da . a noil I 4 : .'to. t he en, -In v must have discovered tn.at all his troops were clear of the village for he began to shell heavily. My Company was the only troops in the village. Along the railway in the valley about fifty vards from our poitious was our Inlantrv; on the sur rounding hill in a trench about four hundred yards from our positions was the eiiejnv . As darkness came on the em-my increased his shell liie and mixed gas with his heavy shrapnel. It was a t I,,,,-, ,i.i.. (... l ii ,i ."f,." " ... in. i-.iii, .,ni of the night Mink D. Huffman, of May worth, N". C. while on duty at his gun had his leg nearly cut from his body by shrap in I. Later a shell struck one of our posi t i ins wounding John E. Black, of (las t m i.i . X. C. and Joseph (). Orcutt. of Michigan, Private Black was struck in t' e ba. k by a piece of shrapnel and pain fully injured, though not seriously. I'.l.'uk has not yet returned to the Com pany from the Hospital. Private Orcutt had his left arm shot off at the wnst. his hit knee was absolutely shattered ns if struck by a sledge hammer, and a piece of shrapnel the si.e of a hen egg passed through lis light arm. In this terrible condition he was perfectly eonsicous and never munnered a complaint. I dressed wounds ami sent him to the Aid Chronic Constipation. There are people who never have a movement of the bowels without it is pro duced by a cathartic. Most of them have brought that condition on themselves by t'e use of mineral waters and strong silent forms hovered the benodi tinn of ca'hartirs that take too much wa'er out that peace which nrnwri, ,,n,lt,n,i:, Tl rn nr. .n,f,,l .!.. UU us the living there was no rest. We had CnmPapv. n tv,e ron,,s, vn ,,, M,u to hold on with keen watch against t'e w f wifr, gVn -, M,..Hne Cm fierce shell and gun fire , f a sava-e and fir hv the enernr. rhe priemv wa y ious enemy. For the heroic dead fight- - v owr, ciri'i arounii ineir of the system and aggravate the disease they are meant to relieve. A mild laxa tive tonic like Chamberlain's Table's af fords a gentle movement of the biwels that yu hardly realize hns been produed by a medicine, anf theie.use is not so likely to be followed by constipa'ion. Even- sul tat winered its flit t- eer ritv that day. fulfilled i's appointed work not in vain. Destiny sens-ned with neressi y bad g- decreed the investment of their lives into the services of their eoun'ry, and in return they had eimed a great victory and left their Country's may be avoided. Pen'id:c Bilious Attacks. PersTs subje t to periodic bilious at ta ks will observe tnt their arpetic fails ' em :nst. be re an nti-"k Thn' is, r.pV d 1 not renllv crnve fon hn' eit be cause it is merl tim If tey will eat rly a lit menl nrd r meit. tven-tnke two of Cinmhe-lain 'g Tablets the n t.u k Station. I knew he was mortally wounded ' ut I a. I hopes that his cool nerve and previous perfect heal h would keep him alive. The shock and loss of blood was ' o n uch. He never lived to see the morning sun, but passed away as the new 1 iv was breaking. la his death his arcHs sf ;i ihitifij s m, his comrades i g d friend, l is Company a brave and I v 'I s i.'icr .-nd his Co mtry a hero who " '!!! Iv 'aid the supreme s.-arilice. T' ,- f Ihivving day October ll'tli, 1!IH nr Division was relieved by the L'7tb ''wsi n, .and my '' inpany withdrew to valley near 'he town ,,f Premont. I" e'-e we remained, sheltered in our up ten's" until () tober Kith, when e wt i rdered t i the line. During the rvenirg days t'e L'7th had made no ''tempt to move the line and the enemy was now more strongly entrenched than '''ore on the high ground overlooking a: Andigny. A determined attack was eiessary to drive him bark. I was or ':v. t i take " A " and " B " ( Ashe ill,'. N'. C.i Companies .and put down a Ma. hine Gun barra"e on the right sector f our Divisi .n. With t' e two Companies 'ivided m'o four bat'eries of six guio "ii h positi -ns were taken up in an oh! ai d quarry on the crest of ! hill over 1 "'king Vaux Andigny and M dain. Ar illery was massed in the rear of us and at er i hour, .r:'Jil a. m. every gun opened i"e. Tie Infantry went forward under 'ho barrage and soon prisoners were coin " g b.uk. The town of Molain. La Haie Mincresse and St. Souplct were taken be fore the day was half gone. After finish ing our barrage "B" Company was wi'h drawn for reserve and "A" Company ordered to follow and give further sup port to the Infantry. Lieutenant Gray became ill with the "Flu" and was sent to the Hospital. This left me with Lieutenants Douglas, Rankin and James R. Minnish, of Marion, K. O. Lieutenant Minnish had been assigned to "A" Company some time previous, but had served in connection with the Transport. Instructions were left to have guns and ammunition put in order while with Lieut. Douglas and two runners I went forward to rerconnoiter and keep in touch with the Infantry. I shall not soon forget this morning, October 17. Not because it happened to be mv birthday, but be cause of the things Douglas and myself saw and encountered as we worked our way through the smoke across the new Bat'le Field. Along tie tape where the Infantry had been aligned to go over the top. there lay a dead American upon the j average of one ev-'y ten yards. All j'.vith their fa.es ti the front and manv s ill , lot i-ing thri- rifles. All had met Idea Mi suddenly f r in fierce shell fire and ir on t' e:r cold pallid fa.es was indellibly wri'teu that determined expression which led t' e ' ( Id Hi k try Divisi o, ' ' to vi tory v-.'cr - ot' ers failed. Their lives wrre'o t ws'ed t.' t r -. .'onHo ,rr' t by tie enemy, for a few hundred yards ahead there lay m re than twi Germans for every wounded or dead American. Af er getting t' e necessary information the Company was brought up by single ' i'o .i s. and in t' is manner we con tinued t work our way forward protect ing our rig'-t fl ink. As night . nine on " e Infantry dur in nl ng a line over I king the La Pelle River. "A" Com 'Lse behind-and on te right found fairly good qunrters that night under the hay in a Fre" -mers barn located near the City of Molain. The following day at 5:?.0 the attack was renewed. The La Selle river waa Tossed and t-e town of St. Martin's Rire-e enrtured together with the main railroad svgtrm of cur gvtor. Six guns of "A" Crmpany were left in the edge of the village and the remaining six guns Then, too. the midnight attack was under command of Lt Rankin pushed for- i something new, but in the midnight dark ward to the railway bank. After designa- j n,iw "ur '"'antry worked their way for ting the positions to Ik- taken up by Lt. war'. a,.t..ri,,(s the town of RibeauWlle. ,, , . , , j ai"' "i the early morning pushed o Kaokin I returned to where I had left Lt. . ,r11K,h . fow v Kwhllino and Douglas and bad him plarc his guns in a tiired Mnszrtiheim. I went forward to sunken road located about five hundred ; RiU'auville, following the Tight flank and yards behind the railway. After giving 1 keeping in touch with the Infantry, instructions relative to placing guns ami 1 Positions for my Company and their figuring tiring data I returned to the rail road of advance were chosen and a guide way bank. In the meantime the British sent bark for the company, bat orders who had been behind us on the right made came that we should remain along the an attack and we got orders to assist 1 railway in defensive positions during the them by tiring on the town of Ribeau 1 day. ville. When our guns the railway! On the nifht of Ocfol-r Hlth !:..;. bank opened tire this brought down a Lion was relieved and withdrew from the heavy artillery barrage by tl neuiy. !,,. and spent the niol.t in fh if r Many shells fell along the lailways, but St. Souolet. The neit irin. oil i,,..l;i. . .. t . ' " i r ..or o, ,..,,, was n.cnt was put in order and we marched injured. After the guns on the railway t,.l(h , Busignv and spent the night. ,',,!,s'"1 nr 1 r,',,,r 1 ,a " I,,Hi I Here Lt. Douglas was sent back as Batta lions held by Lt. Douglas. I'pon arriv I i ,i,.tlll(, ;,,,,. , an area fof lug at the sunken mad" it was ,Iib ! Oor rami, T),.. H..Mi;., ,....i,.j . xeept three pri Ramimurt nnd spent the nitrht of Oetn- covered that everyone vates were gone. I inquird regarding Lt. Douglas ami his platoon, and was told that tl neiny's counter barrage dad fallen dirertlv upon the road and that Lt. Douglas had taken the men to another position. A number of scattered slielln were falling in our area at intervals, but ' 'orporal Crifling and mvself sat down t i eat dinner. The Corporal opened a can of beans and cut each of us a slice of bread. Suddenly a shell struck in the n ad nearby and covered our beans with dirt. Not to be outdone the Corporal rut each of us a second slice of bread and spread it with beans. N'o sooner dons than tluee shells fell close by partially cueiing both of us with dirt. It did in t take any further nrgiiment to de i ide that Douglas hud been right in mov ing his platoon and it did not take per suasion to make us move out. All the men were moved to another position without loss of eipiipment or anyone be ing injured. As night came mi the com pany dug in with Kankin 's guns along the railway ami Douglas along the edge of the village of St. Martin's Rivere. That night the BriMsh complained that thev had pushed slightly ahead of our Division mi the right ami our Infantry were ordered to make an attack at II :"0 j p. in. This was a situation which to my ! knowledge never existed before, if in fact, it really existed at this particular time, for tl Old Hickory Division" was always ahead of its flank divisions. ; her LMst. Here Lt. Rankin 7ecame ill with the "Flu" and was sent to the H.spiti l in London, Kngland. This left ine with the entire company and one of ficer. On the next day we moved to Tin court and there entrained for the little French village of Bonnny on the waters of the Nomine Hivcr near Amiens. The company arrived at Bonnay all dirty and completely exhausted, with some sick with the "Flu" including myself. The sick were sent to the Hospital, except myself. I remained with the roniimnv and under the faithful administration of good "Old Alec" in a weeks time I was in fair shape. The company were given clean clothes and a bath, something they had not had since they left Osterville in the. early part of .September. AH equip ment was cleaned, repaired nnd new men sent to the Division to replace those sick, wounded, or killed ami all outfits put in shape to return to the line. BUT on November I ltd the ARMISTICE was signed! To us located in a shell torn village, deserted of nil civilians, the signing of the armistice was not hearald ed with the wild hurrah and the general celebration which characterize! the de monstrations nmong those parts of the world inhabited by the civilian popula tion. 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