The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 23, 1919, Page 3, Image 3
CAPT. HUDGENS
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Soldiers Come Home
From the War
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Lieut. Joseph F. femith, of Waterloo,
. Reaches New York on Steamship
Comfort.
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New York, Jan. 19.?Four steamships,
their decks crowded with American
fighting men, hundreds of
cm7qH unnn thp home shores
nuum \a^/n/aa v?w
from cots and convalescent chairs,
passed the Statue of Liberty today
amid a din. from harbor craft, bringing
home 4,992 heroes. The climax
of the demonstration came when the
hospital ship Comfort bearing 371
sick and wounded entered the upper
bay and was hailed by cheers from
the throngs on shore and the strains
of "Home Sweet Home" from a band
on board a vessel carrying Mayor Hylan's
committee of welcome./ As the
*, Comfort came abreast the Statue of
Liberty a great shout arose from her
decks, crowded to the rails with sold^
iers in bandages, supported by crutches
and canes or seated in easy chairs.
Through the port holes of the hospital
ship glimpses were caught of the
more seriously wounded.
The other steamships were trans;
ports?the Lapland, which brought
s 2,065 soldiers; the Sierra, with 1,515,
and the Wilhelmina, with ' 1,041
ofcoarH Of the sick and wounded
brought back by the Comfort 120
^ were naval men and four were marines.
The troops of the Lapland for the
most part Were casual companies
made up of men from base hospitals
v in France and England and most of
whom were convalescent. One other
* detachment, the One Hundred and
Fourteenth Trench Mortar Battery,
which had not seen service at the
. Tront, was on its way back* to Camp
? ' Beauregard, La. The casual companies
and their destinations are:
Nob. 211, 212, 213, Camp Dix; No.
214, Upton; Nos. 215, 216,, 338, 419,
Meade; No. 417, Gordon. The LapIan^*
also carried 56 casual officers.
Among the troops on the Sierra
were the Three? Hundred and Thirty.
seventh Regiment of Field Artillery
and 237 casual officers and enlisted
men, the latter from hospitals in
France. Also on board were the
Three Hundred and Thirty-fourth and
hree Hundred and Eleventh Sanitary
Train oI the Eighty-sixth Division,
the headquarters field hospital
and three hospital units and 122
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"Among the#wounded officers on the
; Comfort were Lieuts. Joseph F.
Smith,"Waterloo, S. C., and Benjamin
F. Malone, Monticello, Ga.
The Comfort left Plymouth, January
5, and five days later put into the
Azores after a stormy passage. A
turkey dinner was served the wounded
before the ship put to sea again
^. and the trip from Azores was in
smooth seas. - * ^
Germany was in dire straits when
the war ended, according to Capt.
* Robert W. Hudgens, of Laurens, S.
C., who arrived on the Comfort. He
was attached to the One Hundred
and Eighteenth Infantry, Thirtieth
Division, and when the town of Belle4
court was captured the captain said
the Americans found the bodies of
German soldiers being prepared to be
rendered into fats. A complete rendering
plant was found beside the
Bellecourt Canal, Captain Hudgens
said.
Three wounded heroines also were
aboard the Comfort. All were nurses
and one of them, Miss Marie Smith,
of Berkeley, Cal., was wounded in the
foot by shrapnel at Chateau Thierry
while attached to medical unit with
one of the 16-inch naval gun crews.
Members of the gun crew declared
she kept on attending to the wounded
until ordered from the field by an
officer.
Tank Germans Couldn't Keep Down.
Fitchburg, Mass., Jan 19.?Sergeant
Gordon W. Hardy is one of
Uncle Sam's soldiers that the Huns
couldn't kill. Eight times his name
was on the casualty list, but now
* he's back home safe and sound. Seven
times he was wounded. Twice,
he was gassed by mustard gas. He
spent nine weeks in a German prison
camp, from wmcn ne maa? a oaring
escape. Hardy was one of the
^ first 30,000 American soldiers on
the firing line in France and he served
with the United States divisions
which were practically wiped out.
This twenty-three-year-old lad has
heen complimented by General Pershing
for bravery. He declined to
try for a commission. "I want to
be in action all the time and not
scratching my desk with spurs," hesaid.4
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