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PRIVATE CAREY IS GASSED BUT TELLS OF SHOOTING HUNSHis Company Goes Over the Top and Plays Part to the LimitTho following interesting letter was received by Miss Carrie Barter y( 26 Grove street from Private Kd-lie Carey, Co. H., 103rd Infantry, who is in service overseas.“Just a few lines to let you know [ am in a base hospital, slightly gassed, but will be O. K. in a few days. Am getting along fine and receiving :he best of care, and have never been used so well since I left home and Bath. That dear old town, how I wish H was there tonight with all my friends, who used me so well during my stop there while at the iron works.“Well Carrie 1 suppose you have ilready heard about us going over the top and driving tho Huns back. H. Co. went over the top for the first time, and you can bet we got some Bodies, they were dropping everywhere. We got the command, ‘Over the top, boys/ at 7.43 in the morning and at 7.4P we bad the Huns out of their first line trenches and on the run, and the latest reports from the front is that they are still retreaing. I didn’t last very long before I was gassed, but I will be O. K. in a few days and in again, so as to help to keep the ball rolling, i had a queer feeling go over me just before I wentover, but after I once got started I forgot all the danger, and thought of nothing but getting a Boche, and after I saw them running you can bet it was some sport to pick them offand see them drop. We lost only a few men during the battle.“That is all 1 can tell you about the fight for I was put out, and sent here to the hospital. Everything seems so strange and* queer here in this hospital, and really one would(Continued on Page Seven)
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Bath Independent
Bath, Maine, US
Sat, Aug 24, 1918
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