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wc5i^c ohlt;u¥ net wilful lives. j| efti tlve qcirui dmrrp of the0-mna-tiH« wmemfktp tfteniHOWARD DURLEY GCOVER THE TOP B\The following is an interesting letter from Howard Durley, printed in | tei j today's Ventura. Post, under date of October Howard was deputy county clerk and was one of tin* first 17;da EI*and has been made first sergeant of ae his company. He is a brother of \V.1 beMark Durley of this city, sirWell, 1 got back to the company ; bo just in time to go over with them. It j no was a great experience, something 1 wi would not have missed and I came tin thru it without a scratch. We are j ws lying back in the woods now awaiting ne for word which we hope will be to re- ai-efturn to billets for a rest. They had me worst, worried when we were com-out; after I had lasted so long Ieexlt;larHUThy;tt-seil**nMdidn’t want them to get me then. We went over back of quite a high hill just at daybreak, there was a heavy th* fog and together with the smoke of wl the artillery and the spitting of the ho machine guns and the waste of ‘No : splt; Man’s Land', burns one of the pic- no tures into my mind which a shall , innever forget. ntcWhen we were lying back of the coi hill waiting for the zero hour, condi- ou tions were greatly different than I pa j have always heard. Some tried to j bu get a little sleep, others walked back [1 and forth warming up while a great | majority smoked and told funny sto-| ries. There was an underlying intensified excitement but only a very few showed open signs of it. Fromfthen on for over a week, we caught edregular hell and it seemed surprising sh y | how many were untouched, for wee had very light casualties.i- The old boy re-action hit a good y j many of us hard, but with a few morewarm meals, we will all be comingstrong again. J ,1'fno“Our first sergeant was killed during th** first the minutes of the battle and I am the first sergeant forirhitEstlt;nutoantalnucoheagen£dcompany now,**oflth
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Oxnard Courier
Oxnard, California, US
Fri, Nov 08, 1918
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