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'col that it true stateLETTERS FROM ERNEST LUTZand the combatedLUBe Warrick Club mem-men wayyyit. Bank s Bankville.CAMPFiance, Oct. 1(5. HUS.The Standard; Having returned from our first aid work in the trenches in the recent big drive and at present being; in an immense field hospital 11m writing* you in the office tent, as ( J was recently appointed private order-; ly to the major. While in and between the trenches I had the experience of being under shell fire, and if Sheridan had. been .there he wc*dd havee said more, if it were not for their gas, though, the Germans would have been a joke, such as they are terminating into ultimately. I note with interest of some of the young fellows back home strutting their cocked feathers over their commissions. They will never get to France now. I would rather be a buck private and remain in the splendid outfit I am in than hold a commission elsewhere. Some poke fun at the medical corps and dub us “pill pushers” but in the last drive the “pill pushers” were right up beside the doughboys and in the trenches binding wounds and administering as well as bearing litters. I have borne i litters and worked under shell fire between the second and third line trenches and have some experiences to relate, and for this, plus what J have seen for which I wouldn’t take millions, is the reason 1 would remain a private rather than fool around “training” for commissions back home.1 have had my hear't desire. I saw my chance to get to France and in action and 1 did. It is a glorious feeling to win your way to the heart of a poor wounded fellow in helping his sufferings. 1 am right beside Howard and Oscar Goad and Hathaway (“Happy”) Smith of Newburgh and we are all 0. K. and expect to remain so.Our “doughboys” made a glorious advance. They went over the top and pursued the fleeing Huns for the first few kilometres with rifle in one hand and cigarette and swagger stick in the other and were not even checked at the German third line of defense. That's the American system.I have been through part of Scotland and Englaul and noted the following places cf interest: Stratford-on-Avon, Shakespeare*1’ birthplace; Oxford, Manchester and r.»*ound London. f have scon Par’s and the French say that Verdun and other places may never be rebuilt, but hold as objects of interest for tourists. The French war bread is far better than ours and light wine is: served at their meals just as. we serve cofFee and tea hack home. I have been on every front except tin* Flanders front and the Italian front. I am sending home some luce which 1 got cut of s;me recaptured Gorman loot. It is valued at between two and three hundred dollars. I picked up a rosary and pieces of shrapnel as souvenir.*; from the bat-side the rc thirty feet, tooted the Whenever are swept « as conereti IField HospThe1* la StaBelgium nlt; ive service va?:cing lir have been front si net which is n the elevent of the elevc If you cot about us t; lishment ol Wc have cloisters si Belgian dri occupancy • the Germnt Expect tiCLARClarence, youngest si Splittorff, i Millersburg and died Nlt;L\$%tlofiolds. We established our dres-s and paged from at my Ive•sing stations, going up at night*bearing our litters across and around shell holes, stumbling over unexplodcd shells for a distance of four or five miles, and the mud was awful, an intense rain having followed the hoavy barrage of American fire. 1 noticed the phosphorescent glow at night of the soil from the phosphorus in the explosive^ used. Onco nurtured and nursed forests and woodlands in close proximity to the battle zone a^e.ruin ite oiweSherman, C age of 21 y lie was ; lows and tin burgh, Indii He Was c 27, JJH8, an. man and se (th Tr. Bn. was still in death.Besides h brothers ant and August lium, John, rick county.Clarence 1 ful disposit: knew him. conducted n( J. E. Side place at the
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Boonville Standard
Boonville, Indiana, US
Fri, Dec 06, 1918
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