The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 23, 1918, Page 3, Image 3
^ SYNOPSIS.
] CHAPTER I?Fired by the news of the
,sinklng of the Lusitanla by a German
H|A [submarine, Arthur Guy Empey, an Ameriloan,
leaves his office in Jersey City and
, roes to England where he enlists in the
^^^B British army.
[ CHAPTER II?After a period of training,
Empey volunteers for immediate servB^BB
| Ice and soon finds himself in rest billets
[ 'somewhere in France," where he first
fl^V ; makes the acquaintance of the ever-pres[ent
"cooties."
B7 i CHAPTER III?Empey attends his first
BB 'church services at the front while a German
Fokker circles over the congregation.
V I CHAPTER IV?Ehnpey's command goes
^ .Into the front-line trenches and is under
'fire for the first time.
; CHAPTER V?Empey learns to adopt
[the motto of the Brtish Tommy, "If you
are going to get it, you'll get it, so never
i worry." ... . _
CHXPTER Vt?Back In rest billets, EmJpey
gets his first experience as a mesa
| orderly.
j CHAPTER VII?Empey learns how the
[British soldiers are fed.
. ott a "pttcr vtii?Back in the front-line
trench, Empey sees his first friend of the
trenches "go West."
CHAPTER IX?Empey makes his first
ivisit to a dugout in "Suicide Ditch."
CHAPTER X?Empey learns what conjgtitutes
a "day's work" in the front-line
I trench
r CHAPTER XI?Empey goes -over tne
'top" for the first time in a charge on the
German trenches and is wounded by a
bayonet thrust.
CHAPTER XII?Empey joins the "sui,
[dde club" as the bombing squad is called.
i CHAPTER VIII?Back in the front
line trench, Empey sees his first
friend of the trenches "go West."
CHAPTER IX?Empey makes his
first visit to a dugout in "Suicide
| Ditch."
j CHAPTER X?Empey learns what
constitutes a "day's work" in the
front-line trench.
CHAPTER XI?Empey goes "over
the top" for the first time in a charge
on the German trenches and is
wounded by a bayonet thrust.
CHAPTER XII?Empey joins the
"suicide club" as the bombing squad
OdllpH i
CHAPTER XIII?Each Tommy
gets an official bath.
CHAPTER XIV?Empey helps dig
an advanced trench ifhder German j
fire. 1
CHAPTER XV?On "listening
post" in No Man's Land.
CHAPTER XVI?Two artillery- J
men "put one over" on Old Pepper,
their regimental commander. /
CHAPTER XVII?Empey has narrow
escape while on patrol duty in
No Man's Land.
CHAPTER XVIII?Back in rest
billets Empey writes and stages a
farce comedy.
CHAPTER XIX?Soldiers have
many ways to amuse themselves while
"on their own."
T CHAPTER XXI.
About Turn.
' The next evening we were relieved
t>y the ?th brigade, and once again
returned to rest billets. Upon arriving
at these billets we were given twentyfour
hours in which to clean up. I had
just finished getting the mud from my
uniform when the orderly sergeant informed
me that my name was in orders
to leave, and that I was to report to
the orderly room in the morning for orders,
transportation and rations.
l nearly had a fit, hustled about
packing up, filling my pack with souvenirs
such as shell heads, dud bombs,
nose caps, shrapnel balls, and a Prussian
guardsman's helmet. In fact, before
I turned in that night, I had everything
ready to report at the orderly
room at nine the next morning.
I was the envy of the whole section,
swanking around, telling of the good
time 1 was going to have, the places I
would visit, and the real, old English
beer I intended to guzzle. Sort of
rubbed it into them, because they all
clo it, and now that it was my turn, I
took pains to get my own back.
At nine I reported to the captain, receiving
my travel order and pass. He
psked me how much money I wanted
to draw. I glibly answered, "Three
hundred francs, sir;" he just as glibly
banded me one hundred.
Reporting at brigade headquarters,
. with my pack weighing a ton, I waited,
with forty others, for the adjutant to
Inspect us. After an hour's wait, he
came out; must have been sore because
he wasn't going with us.
The quartermaster sergeant issued
as two days' rations, In a little white
canvas ration bag, which we tied to
our belts.
Then two motor lorries came along
&nd we piled in, laughing, Joking, and
In the best of spirits. We even loved
the Germans, we were feeling so happy.
Our journey to seven days' bliss in
Blighty had commenced.
The ride in the lorry lasted about
two hours; by this time we were covered
with fine, white dust from the
road, but didn't mind, even if we were
nearly choking.
At the railroad station at F we
reported to an officer, who had a white
band around his arm, which read "R.
T. O." (Royal Transportation Officer).
To us this officer was Santa Claus.
The sergeant in charge showed him ,
our orders; he glanced through them
and said: "Make yourselves comfortable
on the platform and don't leave;
the train is liable to be along in five :
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minutes?or nve nours."
It came In five hours, a string of *
eleven match boxes on big, high
wheels, drawn by a dinky little engine
with the "con." These match boxes
were cattle cars, on the sides of which
was painted the old familiar sign,
"Hommes 40, Chevaux 8."
The R. T. O. stuck us all into one 1
car. We didn't care; it was as good
as a Pullman to us.
Two days we spent on that train, '
bumping, stopping, jerking ahead, and :
sometimes sliding back. At three sta- !
tions we stopped long enough to make j
some tea, but were unable to wash, so
when we arrived at B , where we i
were to embark for Blighty, we were
as black as Turcos and, with our un- !
shaven faces, we looked like a lot of
tramps. Though tired out, we were
happy.
i We had packed up, preparatory to
detraining, when a R. T. O. held up his
hand for us to stop where we were
and came over. This is what he said:
Dead Bodies tverywnere.
"Boys, Fm sorry, but orders have just
been received cancelling all leave. If
you had been three hours earlier you
would have gotten away. Just stay in
that train, as it is going back. Rations
will be issued to you for your return
journey to your respective stations.
Beastly rotten, I know." Then he left.
A dead silence resulted. Then men ,
started to curse, threw their rifles on ;
the floor of the car; others said noth- j
ing, seemed to be stupefied, while some
had the tears running down their
cheeks. It was a bitter disappointment !
to all.
How we blinded at the engineer of ;
that train; it was all his fault (so we i
reasoned); why hadn't he speeded up a
little or been on time, then we would ;
have gotten off before the order arrived?
Now it was no Blighty for us.
That return journey was misery to
us; I just can't describe it.
When we got back to rest billets, we
found that our brigade was in tne
trenches (another agreeable surprise)
and that an attack was contemplated.
Seventeen of the forty-one will never
get another chance to go on leave; '
they were killed in the attack. Just !
think if thac train had been on time,
those seventeen would still be alive.
I hate to tell you how I was kidded
by the boys when I got back, but it was
good and plenty.
Our machine gun company took over
their part of the line at seven o'clock, |
the night after I returned from my
aear leave. i
At 3:30 the following morning three
waves went over and captured the first i
and second German trenches. The
machine gunners went over with the ,
fourth wave to consolidate the captured
line or "dig in," as Tommy calls
it i
Crossing No Man's Land without
clicking any casualties, we came to j
the German trench and mounted our
guns on the parados of same.
I never saw such a mess in my life |
?bunches of twisted barbed wire lying
about, shell holes everywhere, trench j
all bashed in, parapets gone, and dead \
bodies, why, that ditch was full of j
them, theirs and ours. It was a regular
morgue. Some were mangled horribly
from our shell fire, while others
were wholly or partly buried in the,
mud, the result of shell explosions cav- j
ing in the walls of the trench. One j
dead German was lying on his back,
with a rifle sticking straight up in the
air, the bayonet of which was buried !
to the hilt in his chest. Across his feet i
lay a dead English soldier with a bul-!
let hole in his forehead. This Tommy j
must have been killed just as he ran
his bayonet through the German.
Rifles and equipment were scattered ;
about, and occasionally a steel helmet!
could be seen sticking out of the mud. j
At one point, just in the entrance to
a communication trench, was a stretch- j
er. On this stretcher a German was!
lying with a white bandage around nis |
! knee, near to him lay one of the j
i stretcher-bearers, the red cross on his j
arm covered with mud and his helmet j
filled with blood and brains. Close by,!
sitting up against the wall of the
j trench, with head resting on his chest, j
was the other stretcher-bearer. He
' seemed to be alive, the posture was so
i natural and easy; but when I got
1 closer I could see a large, jagged hole
| In his temple. The three must have
i been killed by the same shell-burst.
The dugouts were all smashed in and
i knocked about, big square-cot timbers
1 splintered Into bits, walls caved In and
! entrances choked.
Tommy, after taking a trench, learns
to his sorrow that the hardest part of
the work is to hold It.
In our case this proved to be so.
The German artillery and machine
| guns had us taped (ranged) for fair;
j It was worth your life to expose yourI
self an instant.
Don't think for a minute that the
Germans were {he only sufferers; we
were clicking casualties so fast that
you needed an adding machine to keep
track of them.
Did you ever see one of the steam
shovels at work on the Panama canal?
Well, it would look like a hen scratching
alongside of a Tommy "digging in"
while under fire. You couldn't see daylight
through the clouds of dirt from
his shovel.
After ldsing three out of six men of
our crew we managed to set up our
machine gun. One of the legs of the
tripod was resting on the chest of a
half-buried body. When the gun was
firing, it gave the impression that the
body was breathing. This was caused
by the excessite vibration.
Three or four feet down the trench,
about three feet from the ground, a
foot was protruding from the earth
We knew it was a German by the black
leather boot. One of our crew used
that foot to hang extra bandoliers of
ammunition on. This man always was
a handy fellow; made use of little
points that the ordinary person would
overlook.
The Germans made three counterattacks,
which we repulsed, but not
without heavy loss on our side. They
also suffered severely from our shell
and machine-gun fire. The ground was
spotted with their dead and dying.
The next day things were somewhat
quieter, but not quiet enough to bury
the dead.
We lived, ate and slept in that trench
with the unburied dead for six days.
It was awful to watch their faces become
swollen and discolored. Towards
the last the stench was fierce.
What got on my nerves the most was
that foot sticking out of the dirt. It
seemed to me, at night, in the moonlight,
to be trying to twist around.
Several times this impression was so
strong that I went to it and grasped it
in both hands, to see if I could feel a
movement
I told this to the man who had used
It for a hatrack just before I lay down
for a little nap, as things were quiet
and I needed a rest pretty badly.
When I woke up the foot was gone.
He had cut it off with our chain saw
but of the spare parts' box, and had
plastered the stump over with mud.
During the next two or three days,
before we were relieved, I missed that
foot dreadfully; seemed as if I had
suddenly lost a chum.
I think the worst thing of all was to
watch the rats, at night, and sometimes
in the day, run over and play
about among the dead.
Near our gun, right across the parapet,
could be seen the body of a German
lieutenant, the head and arms of
which were hanging into our trench.
The man who had cut off the foot used
to sit and carry on a one-sided conversation
with this officer, used to argue
and point out why Germany was in the
wrong. During all of this monologue
I never heard him say anything out of
the way?anything that would have
hurt the officer's feelings had he been
alive. He was square all right;
wouldn't even take advantage of a
dead man in an argument.
To civilians this must seem dread
taU but out here one gets so used to |
awful sights that It makes no Impression.
In passing a butcher shop you
are not shocked by seeing a dead tur- j
key hanging from a hook. Well, in
France, a dead body is looked upon
from the same angle.
But, nevertheless, when our six days
| were up, we were tickled to d^ath to
be relieved.
Our machine gun company lost
seventeen killed and thirty-one wounded
in that little local affair of
"straightening the line," while the
other companies clicked it worse than
we did.
After the attack we went into reserve
billets for six days, and on the i
seventh once again we were in rest bil- \
lets.
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