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FORMER SHIP GUARDSSEE ACTIVE SERVICE111almfeWiThere aren’t many of the Wtater-ville boys left in Co. H, of the HKUlj'b1 Infantry, 2itlth division, who were in w. Bath in 1*917 guarding the Bath Iron Pf Works, writes ( orp. Eddie Carey to j Pi Miss Carrie Barter of 26 Grove street. He adds that there is a great change in all those left. They have seen active warfare and he writes that he himself went over the top five Plt; times in a single week.soplfcHe writes, ‘ The war is over andB111we have won. 1 was already to go | over the top again when the last gun 1 was fired at eleven .Monday morning, j l}j Nov. 11. 1 have been in some mighty hard battle but the hardest was at Verdun where I went over five times j rc j In a single week. We killed a lot of jI Huns and of course our losses were | ki heavy. We had hard work to drive °* them back because they had so many | machine guns and pill boxes. You; 01 known you can t very well put men against machinery. But we got them after stiff fighting and when we got them on the run kept them igoing for awhile.. i “In all the battle's 1 have been in , I was only gassed once. 1 think Ij nam lucky. 1 have seen men killed alli about me and many times I thought j I would be the next one to drop but i God evidently didn't want me and IoiO]tlMsiaiaia» am alive and safe today.m “1 am now on a furlough in a lit- | n -'.tie town called Aix-Les-Bain, stopping in a fine hotel, the first furlough I have had in 19 months and i expect to the here seven days. Nine I of us were sent here two days af- ter the armistice was signed. I am having a good rest and getting it JustbedBn in time 'because J Vas literally ‘allic * in.If 11lt;vnr i\* 11»i: s
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Bath Independent
Bath, Maine, US
Sat, Dec 21, 1918
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