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Letters received from Leslie Grindle of East Belfast, who has been in service in France, state that lie.is in good health and recover!ngfrom a wound received in battle. He was for 26 days on the firing line and over the top three times during that time. His regiment drove the Germans out of the trenches, not giving them time to dig any more, while the Americans were entertaining them. There were not many vacations or Sundays offered his organization. There had been six or seven divisions up before his went up and could not get the enemy out of the trenches, and machine gun holes in the ground. They got a lot of prisoners and killed a lot and captured a “mess of machine guns, ammunition and artillery. They captured a few villages, but not many as they were in a wooded section. It is quite an experience to march up into a machine gun (ire as well as the artillery fire from both sides, trench motors in shell holes and snipers in tree tops. You really don’t know where to look to find these Dutchmen. He says, “I got seven Huns, genuine Germans, that I was sure of, but at times you can’t tell if you kill them or someone else does it. I got one wound out of it, but was only six days in the hospital. I have a wound stripe and have served sufficient time to get a service stripe.
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The Republican Journal
Belfast, Maine, US
Thu, Jan 02, 1919
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