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Three times the order to "go over the top" was countermanded. The - assault was first planned for Oct. 19. Then the date was changed to the 20th. Finally, at 12:10 noon of Oct, 21, we went. It was the first general assault we bad taken part in, and we we It Seemed Almost Certain Death te Start Over In Daylight. a highly nervous state. I'll admit that. . It seemed almost certain death to start over in broad daylight, yet, as it turned out) the crossing of No Man's Land wis accomplished rather 'more easily than in our night raids. Our ! battalion was on the extreme right of the line, and that added materially to our difficulties, first by compelling us to advance through mud so deep that some of our men sank to their hips in it and, second, by giving us the hottest little spot in France to hold later. I was in charge of the second "wave," or assault line. This {§ called the "moppingYup" wave, because the business of the men composing it is thoroughly to bomb out a position crossed by the first wave, to capture or kill all of the enemy remaining and to put the trench in a condition to be defended agalnst a counterattack by reversing the fire steps and throwing up parapets, : Our artillery bad given the Germans such a battering and the curtain fire which our guns dropped just thirty to forty yardg ahead of us was so pow- erful that we lost comparatively few' men going over--only those who were knocked down by sheds which the Ger- mans landed among us through our their machine gun gv ig until we neared their trenches a good many. of our men began to drop, but | we were {n their Tront trench before they could cut ns up avywhere near completely. CGolng over | was struck by shell fragments on the hand and Jeg. but the woumds were unl sevére euongh to stop me. In fact, 1 did not Know that | Had been wounded until 1 felt blood running inte wy shoe The J diseoveredithe cut {if my lex but saw that it was Anite shallow and {that ne artery of fmportan ¢ had been gel Rob went on. y 1 bud the familiar feeling of nervous ness aud phivsdes] shrinking and nanses t the bexinning of this Gehi. but hy 1 he time we were hallway actos No an's Lassl 1 Pad ms torve hatk The ideal wile and-ihe ideal hus- band Some mén's heads are so soft that shadow from, uces ous it but Is Going "Out There" Again to Fight For Uncle Sam and His Allies. An Id- _ spiring, Interesting, Persomal Narrative, Full of the Spirit and Atmosphere of the Trenches. Man, He Was Invalided Home, After I had been bit | remember feel ing relieved that I hadn't been hurt enough to keep me from golng on with the men. I'm not trying to make my- self out a hero. . I'm just trying to tell you how an ordinary man's mind works under the stress of fighting and the danger of sudden death. There are some queer things in the psycholo- zy of battle. - For instance, when we tad got into the German trench and were holding it against the most vigorous counterattacks the thought | which was persistently uppermost in | my mind was that I had lost the ad- | dress of a girl in Loudon along with | some papers which I had thrown away just before we started over and which I should certeinly never be able to find again. : Hold Regina Trench at Last. The Regina trench had been taken and lost three times by the British. went into action with 1,500 men of all ranks and came out with 600. I have said that because we were on the extreme right of the line we had the hottest little spot in France to bold for awhile. You see, we had to Jostitute a double defensive, as we bad. the Germans on our. front and on our flank, the whole length of th trench to the right of us being still beld by the Germans. There we had to form a "block," massing our bomb- ers behind cade which was only s from the barricade be- hind which the Germans were fighting. in contgct as fiery as that of two live 0 rush us on our front with nine te counterattacks. Only one of em got up close to us, and we went out and stopped that with the bayonet. Behind our block barricade there was the nearest approach to an actual fight- ing hell that I had seen. - And yet a man who was in the midst of it from beginning to end came out without a scratch. He was a tall chap named Hunter. For twenty-four hours, without interruption, he threw German "eggshell" bombs from a position at the center of our barricade. He never stopped except to light a cigarette or yell for some one to bring him more bombs from Fritz's captured store house. He projected a regular curtain !of fire of his own. I've no doubt the | Germans reported h@-wais a couple of | platoons, working in alternate reliefs. He was awarded the D. C. M. for his | services in that fight, and, though, as I said, be was unwounded, half the men around him were killed, and his nerves finished in such condition that he had to be sent'back to England. CEE Ee Ey RO HEE We r fagk and the German flank were wire eflds. Ans meanwhile the Fritzes | they had a good many casualties en rofite." They found us as comfortable as bugs ir a rug except for the infer. ual apd continuwous Lombing at our flank barricade. The Germans:-had concluded that it was useless t™try to drive us out. G00 of us who were still on their feet were holding the sentry posts, and the remainder of the G00 were baving banquets in the German dugouts, which were stocked up Tike delicatessen shops with sausages, fine canned foods, cham- pagne and beer. If we had only had & few ladies with us we could have { bad a real party. I got so happily interested in the spread In our particular'dugout that 1 forgot about my wound until some one reminded me that orders required me to hunt up a dressing station and get an anti-tetanus injection. The Tom- mies like to take a German trench, be- cause if the Fritzes have to move quickly, as they usually do, we always find sausage, beer and champagne, a welcome change frouf bully beef. I could never learn to like their bread, however. After #his fight I was sent, with other slightly wounded men, for a week's rest at the casualty station at Contay. I rejoined my battalion at the end of the week. From Oct, 21 to Nov. 18 we were in and out of the front trenches several times for duty tours of forty-eight hours each, but were in no important action. At 6:10 on the morning of Nov. 18, a bit. ter cold day, we "went over" to take the Desire' and also the Desire support trenches. These were the names given these trenches. We started from the { left of our old position, and our ad- | vauce was between Thiepval and | Pozieres, opposite Gfandecourt. { There was the usual artillery prep- aration and careful organization for the attack. I was agaiff in charge of "mopping up" wave, numbering men aud consisting mostly of Bombers. li ay Seem strange to Pou | the [ 200 | that a noncommissioned officer should | bave so important an assignment, but | sometimes in this War privates have | been in charge of companies number- {ing 250 men, and | know of a case where a lance corporal was temporari- Liy in command of an entire battalion. { It happened ou this day that, while 1 [was in charge of ths second wave, [| e | did not'go over with them. At the last | moment I was given a special duty by | Major John Lewis, formerly manag- ing editor of the Montreal Star and one of the bravest soldiers 1 ever | knew, as well as the best beloved man in our battalion. : | The Troublesome Machine Gun. "McClintock," said 'be, "1 don't wish {10 send you to any special hazard, and, | so-far as that goes, we're all going to get more or less of a dusting, but 1 want to put that machine gun which {has been giving us so much trouble out of action." I knew very well the machine gun be meant. It was in @ concrete em- placement, walled and roofed, and the devils in charge of it seemed to be de- scendants of William Tell and the prophet 'Isaiah. They always knew what was coming and had their gun aceurately trained on it before it came. "If you are willing," said Major Lewis, "1 wish you to select twenty- five from the company and. go after that gun the minute the order comes to advance. Use your own judgment about the men and the plan for taking the gun position. Will you go?' "1 'sure will," I answered. "I'll go and pick out the men right away. I think we can make those fellows shut | ap shopr over there." ; "Good boy!" he said. "You'll try, all right." The Big Blunder and What It Cost. | 'I started away. He called me back, One of the great tragedies of the war | | resulted from a bit of carelessness | when a couple of days later the effort was made to extend our grip beyond the spot which we took in that first fight. * Plans bad been made for the Forty-fourth battalion of the Tenth Canadian brigade to take by assault the trench section extending to the right from the point where we had es- "This is going to be a bit bot, Mc- Clintock," he said, taking my band.. "1 wish you luck, old fellow--you and | (be rest of them." In the trenches { they always wish you the best of Inck { whent they hand you a particularly | tough job. I thanked him and wished him the isame. I never saw him again. He | was killed in action within two hours tablished the "block" on our flank. The | hour for the attack had been fixed. Then headquarters sent out a counter- | Something wasn't | manding order. quite ready, The orders were sent by runners, as | "all confidential orders must be. Tele phoues are of no avail any more, as both our people and the Germuus have | an apparatus. which needs only to be attached to a metal spike in the ground to "pigk up" every telephone thessage within a radius of three 'miles. When i telephones are used for anything im. | portant messages are sent in code But for any vitally important comumu- nication which might cost 'serious losses, if misunderstood, old style run ners are used, just as they were in the days when the field telephone was une heard of, It is the rule to dispatch two or three runners by different routes so that one at least will be cértain to ar- rive. In the case of the countermarf ing of the order for the Fourty-fou tow ou to assault the German tion ou our flank some officer at hea | quarters thought that one messen | to the Meutenaut colonel commanding the Forty-fourth 'would Le sufficient. The messenger was killed by a chance | shot, and his message was pudeliversd { The Forty-fourth, in ignorance of the { Shane of plan, "went over" There was uo barrage fire to protect them. | and their valiant effort was simply a | wholesale suicide. Six bundred out of S00 men were on the ground in (wo and a baif minutes. The battalion was simply wiped. out. Several officers were court martialed as a result of this terrible hlunder, \ " We Lad gone into the German tienches at a little after oon on Ssi- urday. On Sunday sight at aboot 10 feel we wore relieved. The relief j lore had to come in overland, and are, two of a kind that never | 3 3 ' ie) | "This is going to be a bit hot, Me-" Clintock." after our conversation. Both he and wy pal Macfariahe were shot down dead that moming. . When they called 'fur volunteers to #0 with me in discharge of Major Lew- bayonet men and thirteen bombers. Tuey agreed to my plan, which was to get within twenty-tive yards of the sui ewplacement before stiacking. to {lace do dependence on rifle five; Dut to bum them out and take the posi- ton with the bayosiet. - We followed (hat pleo and took the emplacement Lut thers were only twe of wus left No. 177.063, and myself. All the rest of the twenty-five were dead or down, "Tlie emplacement was bed by eleven True § tr:'s fu Te, l much good ice. A le "work for this coun- of ' boasting skate may distigure About one-fourth of the | | shoulder high. is' order the entire comapauy responded. | I picked out twenty-five men, twelve Guicker than we bad expected to do, | when we got there--Ptivate Gedsall, ' Germans. Two only were left stand ug when we got in. When we saw the gun had been si lenced and the crew disabled Godsall ond 1 worked round to.tbe right about ten yards from the shell hole where we had sheltered ourselves while throwing bombs iuto the emplacement and- scaled the German parapet. We rushed the gun position. The officer who bad been in.charge was standing with his back to us, firing wiih his re- volver down the trench at our men who were coming over at another point. ;1 reached him before Godsall and baySneted him. The other Ger man who had survived our bombing threw up his hands and mouthed the Teutonic slogan of surrender--* Mercy, kamerad!" My bayonet bad broken off in the encounter with the German officer, so 1 picked up a German rifle with a bayonet fixed, and Godsall and I worked on down the trench. , The German who had surrendered stood with his hands held high above his head, waiting for us to tell him what to do. He never took his eyes off of us even to look at his officerly- ing at his feet. As we moved down | Tumbled In on Top of the Four. the trench he followed us, still held- ing his hands up and repeating, "Mercy, kamerad!" At the next .trench angle we took five more prisoners, and as Godsall bad been slightly wounded in the arm I turned the captives over to him and ordered bim to take them to the rear. Just then the men of our second wave game over the parapet like a lot of -hurdlers. In five minutes we had taken the rest of the Germans . stantly followed IT sighited our reg in the trench section prisoners, had re- versed the fire steps and bad turned | a SE - 1 my ears, aud-the detonation which im shook the slanting sides of the shell hole until dirt in lit- tle dusty -rivulets came trickiing down upon me. Wounded as | was, | drag- ged myself up to the edge of the hole. There was no trace anywhere of the folir men who had just left me, They have never been beard of since. Their bodies were never found. The big shell must have fallen right among them and simply blown them to bits. it was about a quarter to 7 in the morning when I was bit. I lay in the shel} hole until 2 in the afternoon, sut- fering more from thirst and cold and hunger than from pain. I only hoped the Germans wouldn't drive our mien back over me. At 2 o'clock a batch of sixty prisoners came along under es- cort. They were being taken to the rear under fire. The artillery bom- bardment was still practically undi- minished. 1 asked for four of the pri rs and made one of them get out his rubber ground sheet, carried sroynd his waist. They responded willingly and seemed most ready to | help me. I had a revolver (empty) and | some bombs in my pockets, but I had no need to threaten them. They haif dragged me toward the rear. Carried .to the Rear, It was a trip which was not without incident. . "Every now and then we would hear the shriek of an approach- ing "coal box," and then my prisoner stretcher bearers and I would tumble in one indiscriminate group into 'the near- est shell hole. If we did that once we did it m half dozen times. After each dive the four would patiently reorgan- ize and arrange the improvised stretch- er again, anid we would proceed. Fol- lowing' ever ube, however, 1 would have to tighten my tourniquets, and, despite all I could do, the hemorrhage from my wound continued to flow so profusely that I was beginning to feel very dizzy and weak. On the way in régiitieiitat drassing sta- tion and signed t0 my four bearers to carry me toward it. I couldn't talk German. The station was in an old German/dugout. Major Gilday was at the door. He laughed when he saw me with my-owp special ambulance detall. : J "Well, what do you want? he asked: "Most of all," I seid, "I think I waut a drink of rum." He produced it for me ifustantly. "Now," said he, "my advice to you is to keep on traveling. You've got a fine special detail there to look after you. Make 'em carry you to Pozieres. It's only five miles, 2nd you'll make it all right. I've "got this place loaded up full, no strét¢her bearers, no assistants, no adequate supply of bandages and medicines and a lot of very bad cases. If you want to get out of here in a week just keep right on going now." As we continued toward the rear we | were the targets for a number of hu- morous remarks from men coming up their own machine gun: against those | to go into the fight. of their retreating companies that we | could catch sight of. As we could do nothing more here, | I gave orders to advance and ree force the front line, across a field furrowed with shell holes and spotted with bursting shells. Not a man hesitated. We were winning. That was all we kvew or cared to | . know, We wanted to make it a cer- tainty for our fellows who had gone ahead, A% we were proceeding toward | the German reserve trench I-saw four | | of our men, apparently unwounded, ly- | ing in a shell hole. I stopped to ask them what they were doing there, As I spoke 1 held my German rifie and bayonet at the position of "guard," the tip of the bayonet advanced, about I didn't get their an- swer, for before they could reply I feit a sensation as if some one had thrown a lump of hard clay and struck me on the hip, and forthwith I tum. bled in on top of the four, almost plunging my bayonet into one of them, a private named Williams, | McClintock Badly Wounded. | "Well, now you know .what's the matter 'with us," said Williams. "We didn't fall in, but we crawled in." | They had all been slightly wounded. 1 bad twenty-two pieces of shrapnel and some shell fragments imbedded in my left leg between the hip and the knee. I followed the usual custom of | the soldier who has "got it." The first thing 1 did was to light a "fag" (ciga- rette), and the next thing was to in- vestigate and determine if 1 was in danger of bleeding to death. - There wasn't much doubt about that, Are terial blood was spurting from two of the wounds, which were revealed when the other wen in the hole helped me to cut off my breeches, With their | aid 1 managed to stop the hemorrhage | by improvising tourniquets with rags | and' bayonets. One } placed as high | up as possible on the thigh and the | other just below the knee, Then we all smoked another "fag" and lay-there | listening to the Lig shells going over | and the shrapnel bursting near us. It was (uite a concert too, We discussed what we ought to do. and Guoslly I said: ¢ "Here, you fellows can walk, and 1 can't, Forthermore, you're not able to carry me because you've got about all any of you can do to navigate aldfie. It doesu't look as If it's going to be | six better here very soon. You all i | proceed to the rear, and if you can get | | some oue to come after me I'll be obliged to. you." They accepted the proposition be- | cause itwas good advice, and. besides, | it was onlers. | was their superior offer. And what happened right | alter that confirmed me forever ju my | curly. Kentucky bred conviction that | there is a great deal In luck. They ronidn't have traveled wore than fifty sards from the sbell hide when thy, slrfek Bf uw high explosire Seemed to come right down out of the sky Into we Adversity tries sonie men police justices try others. . Most things will come your way if yon go after them. A misfit truth fs the worst of an Our way led' and | "Give my regards to Blighty, you | lucky beggar," was the most frequent saying. "BII' me," sald one cockney Tommy, "there goes one o' th' Canadians with an escort from the kaiser." Another man stopped and asked about my wound. "Good work," he said. "I'd like to have a nice cleau one like that mys self." 1 noticed one of the prisoners grin- ning at some remark and asked him if he understood English. He hadn't spo- ken to me, though he had shown the greatest readiness to help me. "Certainly I understand English," he replied, speaking the language perfect ly. "I used to be a walter at the Knickerbocker hotel in New York." That sounded' like a voice from home, and I wanted to hug him. 1 didn't, However, I can say for him he must have been a good waiter. He gave me good service. Of the last stages of my trip to Po- zieres I cannot tell anything, for I ar rived unconscious from loss of blood. The last I remember was that the for mer waiter, evidently seeing that I was going out, asked me to direct him how to reach the field hospital station at Pozieres und whom to ask for when he got there, 1 came back to com. sclousness in a clean hospital cot the next morning. I realized as I lay on that cot I was out of the modern hell for a time, and my mind drifted back over the days just passed. Wounided men, grim pe- minders, were all about me, many of them worse off than I was. I bad seen all kinds of Lravery--British officers clithbing calmly over the top with a monocle in their eyes and a cane in their hands into almost certain death, { like a man getting into a tub of water where be knew be would get wet, "Come on; let's go!" they would ° drawl My respects (6 them, And also to the enemy. The German officers fight to the last. Few surren- der. My hat off to them. And the {dead brave Major Lewis and poor Macfarlane, my close comrades. And only the other day 1 read Lance Coe | poral Glass. the wan, 1 carried In after our first bombing raid in Belgiom, had been killed In action in France. [ saw it in a Moutreal paper, They vaccipated we for everything while with the army--everytbing ex cepl against 'being abot. If a mas coukl invent an antitoxis for that well, be would be a hero, The sixth article of this remarkable personal varrative will appear soos It is eutitied- : Neo. G-~Decorated For Bravery; Home and Uncle Sam This conviuding article of the series re lates in detail how England cares for wounded, How the king afd jueen to Lhe bed of an American boy oratéd him tn a London antsy. interesting, | bug ineldemts told by Amiviies 'Treivg to fight Too many men who run late don't even attempt 16 crawi debt Never judge & painting Poh size of (he arlist's signature. An old bachelor is too for the fair.