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LUDiNOTON BAIVYLudfn|ioft, Mfehlram hce usiPast Year Has Been Spent in Seven Hospitals Following1 Wound in Leg-.HERMAN HEGLUND MEETS FATE FIRST TIME OVER TOPNow Spending Furlough at Home j Before Going to Fort Sheridan for Treatment.! use his limbs as he did before the war.He Is spending: n 20 day furlough at the home of rtfs parents. Mr. and Mrs. .identifier HeRlund. of fOR Adams street, finable to move his left knee, flip Koidier wan,* with the aid of n pair of crutches. Me will soon be nbio to walk with a cane.Though suffering ami pain have left ilw'ir deep imprint on his comiton mico. he Is pat leaf and nnrompluln-ing. One feature of the young man's Hi a car tor |s hi. unsetflshness. Through his own i roubles ho never forgets the trouble i of others. He is unable ‘(t forget the kindness of theAmerican lied (Vo.- i nurses, tie saysthat hard work was the lot which full h Hie nurses, but still they were kind and patient.Was In Early Draft.Tn November, IJHT. Hie young man lefi 1 aldington fm Camp Custer with of the draft, mint ingem s. After _ ; oneA youthful, handsome face but lined lt;remaining in Camp Custer for two i with 'suffering is that of Private Her- mouths, lie won transferred to ('.imp j man Hegiund. who Is »wuv spending a ! fireene. N. C. The Courth division furlough at Ills home at r.thl AdHim* ( W!!y organised nf Camp (ireoiie.| street. His experienee consisted of j He was wounded in the first battle [being ill seven hospitals during one j jn wliieli he purl ilt; ipated. Since he-vear after wounds received in action, i iMK wounded one year ago. he has While going over the lop as a mem-i ''te hut that in a hospital. 'IVi her of the Fourth division, in the cha-1 b/,HS 'he long hours in those instiltt-lean Thierry drive, he was hit bv ntiM'°ns be and others who were able explosive machine gun hullo!. The! mmd to assist the nurses in making bullet entered his left leg below the!K;H,ze surgical dressings.li ip.theWounded at Chateau Thierry.The following is his version nf story:The Fourth division entered the battle of Chateau Thierry on June :tt)As an infantryman I was going over the top when an Explosive bullet from an enemy machine gun hit me in the leg. When ilie bullet exploder] itshattered the bone and the cords. j » aj The wound was bleeding freely. The t ^ Discovery Is Onebattle was continuing in all its fury, hut ] managed to crawl over No-Man’s I.and lor ; distance of about 1 *10 yardstoward our own lines. Heing too e\ ; __ Iliausted to crawl any longer. 1 lay in i KDINTSI’ROH, Jn'v 12 - A hoard of that condition fur eight hours. 1 was : battered silver plate dating back to i nearly dead trom loss of blood. After j,be lrmr.1, centurv has been foumC . MH-XH'd hko lying there tor ages at the estate near here of the Hritish l'i\o {l hr«e foreign minister. A. J. Kalfour. It isf ,,1‘ (described as one of the most remark*Undergoes Three Operations. .able archeological discoveries over | From the first-aid station the wound j made in northern Europe.Jed soldier was conveyor] in an tirnlml-'. Mr. Balfour has agreed with tlm ox!; nnce tn a base hospital farther be-' envators that all finds should become! hind the linns Here he was opera! the property of tho nation, and the! ed upon. pieces of the bullet and bone • silver vessels have been transferred ! being taken out. He went in i barg** ; to tho Queen street museum in Mils*of Most Remarkable in Northern Europe.down the Marne from the bospita Paris, when? lie remained for two months in an American Hod Gr os-hospital. Here again the young man underwent another operation.Hospital life for Private was not near its end. ll'» was transferred to an American military hospital at Savannay, southern Franco, heaving Savnnnay November 8 he was f*a; to Great. preparatory to return iva t the Paired States. ite left Brest November 14.Arriving at New York, he spent. s:*v on week-* at Greenluit hospital. Get* tin#: as far as Camp Custt r. he -♦vend months at the base hosnitnlis said in lie execp-Micro. Kr.uii tin? military iiospPa! at Gamp Guster Private? ijeglund w;o-sent 10 Fort Sheridan, lit., for corein-aorl medical trennnonr. Here the patient man underwent a third opera* fien. this time having small pie.-e ; or bone and iron removed.Must Go Back for Treatment.city. The h!Iv«i tionalv pure.The site of the discovery is known as Trapraln law'. Tt was once a icirlirtecl area, which covers CO acres Hoclimd , amJ evidence of occupation atintervals during the first four centuries of the Christian era. (t is believed tn leave been at one time the ; site of a Celtic settlement under: Unman rule. It* latest inhabitants j lire Miougnt to have been Saxon pi-!rates.Excavators for Mie Queen street •museum struck a -mall pb \v 11i•T, was filled to the brim with battered silver vessels and a few coins of r.he Emperors Yalens and Gratinn. Tbe vest-; scls were crushed and disfigured, in dioaHiu: that they were regarded at bf-vy and imeruHtl for the melting per..1HeHis story does not end here, must return to Fort Sheridan for massages and electrical treatments. With the aid nf these, Private Heg-ough.tlund will in a few months be able to | Evening SlatPardonable Suspicion.“I)o you think the ox-kflfscr io ho tried?”f have my doubts, 1 understand he. still has enough money to hire some pretry smart lawyers.”—Washington$*7of
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Ludington Daily News
Ludington, Michigan, US
Sun, Jul 13, 1919
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