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1919HIED ASGommilti ring W P.P.RESULT' Few pedestrians or busy Christmas 'shoppers on Wall «tn*t Saturday | night noticed that ruddy looking war 'hero clad in khaki and wearing the ! overseas hat and shoes of the fighting infantry of Uncle Sam’s army.Few noticed the empty coat sleeve and scarred, but smiling face, representing haid fights for victory on the shelled battlefields of bloodstained Europe. The young man was not looking for admirers or curiosity seekers but just acquainting himself with the scenes of “old times’’ after a year and one-half of i sacrifice for “those he left behind him.” Fortunately a former friend' An of his, a Freeman representative, saw won.-, o him anil after some persuasion drew 'from him some of his «r*te*»nces that have placed twenty-two-life long was scars on his body and has taken from■him his left arm just below the el- tj1, high bullIbow. ..j The hero of this story is Harry Souders of this city, a brother of Mrs. H G. Hoag, of 197 Washington 1 avenuW, with whom he . ' ;orlsiir ;Private Souders returned to the Uhrt-' ed States less than a week ago aitfw- .ing in New York from England aboard ™np» the Princess of Britain, Tuesday, “J r ! December 10th. He was immediate-lly taken to the Greenhut store hos- . , .i pital at 18th street and 6th avenue * where lie is now stationed as a con- •I H Wrdijvaiescent. , 'of the a.Souders enlisted m June, 191lt;• joining Company 1, 71st Regiment, when they were quartered in the local armory and was sent to Camp Wadsworth Spartanburg, S. C., jfor training, going overseas May 18th of this year and arriving in Brest, France, on Decoration Day.His regiment was immediately advanced to the Ypres section where they were quartered in dugouts, not ^to face the Hun u*ilsummer. Soudee dtiiea 'fllit- i* the jtno^r^ : Ypres sector no trenches had been HQ constructed and they fought from fshell holes placed there b* enemy fpmyjrockets. | HansIn September Souders’s company ^an^p. Was sent forward to take part in the p.thickest of that famous drive, he re- jng. tha mainihg in the front line until crip- Very u pled in the legs by Hun machine gun ploint bullets. Showing real “doughboy” jnR fro| pluck he started unassisted to the month reserve line but after accomplishing (arRe j, half of the distance a shrapnel shell amount exploded, wounding him about the ty five face and body, rendering him prae- Uflder,:1 tically helpless for further travel proc0ed without aid from some one. While ipsburi still conscious and trying to find some ^Qjn wj way of reaching a dressing station, baf. ^ two stretcher bearers discovered him ca,|e(1 ,t txt. tko firaf niriirons Gfilar meemitteeWommelMull we field thi: similar plans fc a le*aJ Thfs coiand started with him for the first aid |e appdugout, but again the enemy 'rock- bur(r ets” startedl to blase the air, one con1containing gas and shrapnel, bunted usjnp. nearby, killing both bearers and run- wh-’h dering Souders unconscious. thot tHow he finally did reach the dress- mater ing station, Souders wa« unable to many n„, tell but after receiving emergency fuKion’ll treatment he was sent to Hospital which lUhH- Base 13 at Boulogne, for an amputa- VsUbli5 nc front mi \ontion of his left arm and was later re- is furmoved to Dartford, England, where )olt;,a] ] shrapnel was removed from his head dentin and body. |Today, after spending the last three j months in army hospitals, Souders i All says he is once again very much alive j 1*1 U and anxious to resume his duties in the supervisor of tracks office at theWet Shore station.-.Daily Freeman.-Kingston, N. Y.
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Clearfield Progress
Clearfield, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Jan 08, 1919
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