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Decorated For Bravery; Home and Uncle Sam. By Sergeant Alexander McClintock, D. C. M., 87th Overseas Batt. Canadian Gres, Guards, Copyright, 1817, by the Bell 8yn- dicate, Inc. y This is the concluding. article of the | series of siz by Sergeant McClintock, | an American boy of Lexington, Ky. i who has seen service in France, was | decorated for bravery and invalided I home. He has been promised a com- | mission in our army. The first Jive in- | ataliments told of the. fighting in Bel- | gium and on the Somme, where he was desperately wounded. This final in- stallment describes his journey to the | rear with twenty-two pieces of shrapnel {én one leg and his meeting with the | king in g London hospital, J WAS taken from Pozieres to Albert ip a Ford ambulance or, as the Tommies would say, a "tin Lizzie" The man who drove this vehicle would make a good chauffeur for an adding machine. Apparently he was counting the bumps in the road, for he didn's | was one of them. However, the. trip was only a matter of seven miles, and I was in fair condition when they lifted =| me out aud carried we to an operating table in the field dressing station. ' A chaplain came along and murmur- | ed a little prayer in my ear, I imagine that would bave made a man feel very solemn. if he had thought there was a chance he was about to pass out, but 1 Knew I merely had a leg pretty badly smashed up, and while the chapigin was praying I was wondering if they would have to cut it off. I figured, 80, this would handicap my dancing. The first formality in a shrapoel fise is the administration of an anti-tetdnus innoculation, and when it is done you realize that they are sure trying tu save your life. The doctor uses a horse syringe, and the injection leaves a lamp on your chest as big as a base- ball, which stays with you for forty- eight hours. After the injection a nurse fills out a diagnosis blank with a description of your/wounds and a record of your name, age, regiment, regimental number, religion, parentage and previous history as far as she can discover it without asking questions which would be positively indelicate. After ajl of that my wounds were giv. BO their first real dressing. Immediately after this was done 1 was bundled into another ambulance #8) spring, Interesting, Personal Narrative, Full of the Spirit and Atmosphere of the SERGEANT McCLINTOCK. Trenches. shaken up. 'We were beginning also $0 realize we were by no mieans out of the woods surgically. Our wounds had merely been dressed, Each of us faced sn extensive and serious operation. We arrived at Contay silent and pretty badly depressed. For twenty-four hours in the Contay casualty clearing station they did little except feed us and take our temperatures hourly. Then we were put into a hospital train for Rouen. : v Germans Bomb Hospital Train, Right bere I would like to tell a lit- tie story about a hospital train leaving Contay for Rouen--not the one we were on, but one which had left a few days before. The train, when it was Just ready to depart with a full quota of wounded men, was attacked by German aeroplanes from which bombs were dropped upon it, There is noth- ing apparently that makes the Ger Two of the Nursing Sisters Were the Coolest Individuals Present. Red Ci emblem. On the top of each the cars in this train there was a Red Cross big enough to be seen from miles in the air. The German aviators accepted them merely as excellent tar- %ets. Their bombs quickly knocked three or four cars from the rails and killed several of the helplessly wound: ed men. The rest of the patients, weak and nervous from recent shock and in. Jury, some of them half delirious and vearly all of them absolutely belplesg. and in pain, were thfown into near panic. 3 3 Two of the nursing sisters fa charge -of the train were the coolest individ. vals present. They walked calmly up and down its length, urging the pa- tients to remain quiet, directing the | male attendants how to remove the . | wounded men safely from the wrecked cars and paying no attention whatever fo the bombs which were still explod- and driven to Contay, where the C. C. ing near the train. I did not have the 8. (casualty clearing station) and rail Privilege of witnessing this scene my- head were located. In the ambulance Self, but I know that I have accurate "with me were three otlier soldiers, an artillery officer and two privates of in- fantry, ly cribed it, for the details' were told in an official report when the king We were all ticketed off as decorated the two sisters with the Roy- shrapnel cases and probable recoveries, #! Red Cross for vald in the face of which latter detail is remarkable, since | lhe enemy. the most slightly injured of the four The trip from Contay to Rouen was | bad twelve wounds, and there' were 2 nightmare--twenty-six hours travel sixty odd sbell Tfagments or shrapnel Pg 150 miles on a train which was | balls collectively imbedded in-us. Tha forever stopping and starting, its jerky nurse had told me that I bad about And uncertain progress meaning to us twenty wounds, Afterward her count Just hours and bours of suffering. Ido proved conservative. ' More accurate NOt Enow whether this part of the sys. and later returns showed twenty-two tem for the removal of wounded has { bullets: and shell fragments were in Deen improved now. Then, its incon- ing them away for souveips, strapped ay leg in a sling attached to the top .of the vehicle. We smoked | elgareites and chatted cheerfully, ex- changing congratulations on having told ng Se bg been epvorting ou battalion that morning one of "sacrifice batterjes. © TX A-sacrifice batters, | might éxpiain, Is oie composed of field pieces which are emplaced between the front and. support lines and which in ease of an becadse some of hom gre wiped out every d This officer ficer said our-batalion that morning had been supported Lip an entire divi 4 sion of artitlers and that on eur front ! o,_Tands the elghicen pounders HiLytwo Whutes, hud discharged nev, as 1 did, the sumber of Gécmans they missed. To wong much exhausiod aud piy : " attack or counterattack are fired at' point Blank range. They call them! sacrifice v a curtain fre which lasted ay we | badly wy leg. They took these out and Veniences and Imperfections must have : sented them to me | Rave: been ive been inevitable, for fu every way after. i ward the most thoughtful and tender fairly scare was shown us. In the long rows ate and 1 a a ee of huts which compose the British gen- relief from the fact that the nurse had | ®! bospital at Rouen we found our. selves in what seemed like paradise. In the hut which constituted the spe- clal ward for jex wounds 1 was lifted from the stretcher on which I liad trav- eled all the way from Poizers nto a comfortable bed with fresh, clean and iustantly ¥ found myself tient care. | forgot the pain of 'my wounds aud the dread of the coming operation when a tray of deilcions fui was placed beside my hed (by bathing my face and hands with' scented water. i a On the followiiz moming wy leg was X raved and photogthphied. 1 told. the' surgeon | thought (he business of until I bad had whet three wore re meals. uf be conus sce 15) that way In the afternoon | got.my first sickening dose of ether: utd they 100k the first lot of iron ont of we, 1. he pther the pw of bullets and shell acrid 81 Tthe foul of my bed was Vile Wier. After tie number ha Rr | tere, but they thought they'd better | et them stay. | My wounds bad become septic, and it | Irgipage and cure mans so fearless and ferocious as the surrounded with quiet traiged, efi. | prepared me for the -enjosment of it | eperating could very. well be put off |, es "| eached twenty-two they told wé that erhaps there were a few more in vas necessary io. give 41 attention to it was about this ime that 'everything for awllle seem. x] to become hazy and my memories tot all queerty mixed up and confused. { recollect | conceived a violent dis. ike for a black dog that appegred rom nowhere now and then and be- ran chewing at my leg. and | believe ! 'gave the nurse a severe talking to )ecgyse she insisted on going to look m at the ball game when she ought to je: sitting by te chase that dog away. And 1 was perfectly certaig about lec sing at the ball game, because | gaw ier there when |"was playing third ase. The Alarming Cablegram. It was at this time (on Nov. 28, 1016, #n days after 1 had been wounded) hat my father in Lexington received 'he following cablegram from the offi- 'er in charge of the Canadian records n England: Sincerely regret to inform you that Sere feant Alexander McClintock 'is officially reported dangerously ill in No. 6 general jospital from gunshot wound in left thigh. Further particulars supplied - when re- reived. » It appears that during the time of ny adventures with the black dog and 'he inattentive nurse my temperature 1ad ascended to the stage when the loctors began to admit' another method )f treatment might have been snccess- ful. But aus out. The one thing I most regref*¥bout ny close call is that my parents in Lexington were In unrelieved suspense about my con- dition until I myself sent them a ible from London on Dec. 15" After. 'the rst official message, seemingly pre- pared almost as a preface to the' an. 2ouncement of my demise, my fatter rrecelved no news of me whatever. And, as I didn't know that the official message bad gone, I cabled nothing to him uth 1 was feeling fairly chipper again. You can't have wars, though, without Eliese little misunderstandings. If it wefe possible I should say some- thing\here which would be fitting and adequate about the Englishwomen who nursed the 2,500 wounded men in general hospital Ne. 5 at Rouen, but 'that power isn't given me. All 1 can do Is to fall back upon onr most pro- found American expression of respect and say that my hat is off to them. One nurse in the ward"in which 1 lay aad been on ber feet for fifty-six hours, with bardly time even to eat. She dnally fainted from exhaustion, was 'arried out of the. ward and was back again in four hours, assisting at an peration. And the doctors were do- ng their bit, too, in livitig up to the lizations. which they considered to be theirs. An operating room was. in very avard, with five-tables in each. After the fight on the Somme, in which [ was wounded, not a table was -va- ant any hour in' the twenty-four for Jays at a time. 'Outside of each room was a long line of stretchers contain. ing patients next awaiting surgical at: tention. And in all that stress 1 did not bear one word of complaint from the surgeons who stoed hour after tour, using their skill and training for the petty pay of English army medical officers. 5 ; On Dec, 5 I was told 1 was well snough to be sent to England, and on the next day I went on a hospital train from Rouen. fo Havre. Here I was placed on a hospital ship which every medical officer in our army ought to bave a chance to Juspect. Nothing jn. genuity could cautrive for convenience and comfert- was missing. Patients were sent below decks in elevators and then placed in swinging cradles which Lung level no matter what the ship's motion might be. . As soon as [ had beer made comfortable in my particular cradle 1 was given 'a box asked mie what he had "Qeorge and talk it wer Ft surplus stock. If I had undertaker to eat and drink and smoke all the things that were brought fo me by Americans just because I was gn Amebican i'd be back in that hospital now only get- ting- fairly started 'on the job. I's some country when you 'need it, Wounded Get Great Welcome, The wounded soldier getting back to England doesn't have a chafce to im- agine that his services are not appre- ciated. The welcome he receives be at the railroad station. Al traf Hie is stopped by the bobbies to give the ambulances u clear way leaving the station. The people stand in. crowds, the men with their hats. off, while the ambulances pass. Women rush out And throw flowers to the wounded 'men. Sometimes there is a cheer, but uswally only siléetice and words of sympathy," The King George hospital was built to be a government printing office and 'Was nearing completiqn'when the war broke out, It bas been made a para- dise for convalescent men. The bare- ness and the sick suggestion and char acteristic smell, so to speak, of the "I thank you," 'he said, "for myself and "my people for your services." average hospital are unknown bere. There are soft lights and comfortable beds and pretty women going about as visitors, The stage beauties and comedians come to entertain us. food is delicious, and the chief thought of every one seems to be to show the inmates what a comfortable and cheery thing it is to be ill among a lot of real friends. 1 was there from December until February, snd my recollections of the stay are so pleasant that some- times I wish I was back. i Cu the Friday before Christmas there was a concert in our ward. Among the artists who entertained us were Fay Compton, Gertrude Elliott sister of Maxine Elliott), George Robie and other stars of the London stage. After our protracted stay in the trenches and our long absence from all the civilized forms of amusement the affair seemed to us the most wou- derful show ever given. And in some ways it was! For instance, in the most entertaining of dramatic "exhibitions did you ever see the Iady artists ge] around and reward enthusiastic ap- plause with kisses? Well; that's what we got. And I am. proud to say that it was Migs Compton who couterred this honor upon me. At about 3 o'clock on that afternoon, when we were all having a good time, one of the orderlies threw open the door of the ward and announced in a loud voice that his majesty the king was coming in. We could not have been more surprised if some one had thrown in a Mills bomb, Almost im- mediately the king walked in, accom- panied by a \umber of aids. They were all in service uniforms, the king having little In the style of his uni form to distinguish him from the oth- gratitude cannot be great enough to § Yard men who have J served as you have" ; ad He spoke in a very low voice and i Bo assumption of royal dignity. Te wis nothing in the least thrill | Ing about the Incident, but thers was' | much apparent, sincerity in the few After be tad goubone of the nurses the. way the war was cand 1 said 1'd drop in 1a With him as soon as Wan well enotich to be up tH The | 5 | with the sald limits to the Allegheny me what | St ant, tired Nttle man with & gréat bur. den to bear and not much of an idea about how to bear it. He struck me as an fvdividaal who would conscien- tiotisty do bis best in any situation, but would never do or-Say anytbing with the slightest suspicion of a puneh to it. A few days after bis visit to the hos pital I saw in the Official London Ga- zette that I had been awarded the dis- tinguished conduct medal, Oficial let ters from the Ca un headquarters ' amplified this in and a pos tice from the British war office informs~ ed me that the meds! a waited me there. 1 was told the king kmew that the medal had been awarded to me when be spoke to me in the hospital. De- 'spite glowing reports in the Kentoeky press he didn't pin it on me. Pr be didn't have it 'with him, or he didn't consider it good form to aD. C. M. on a sul While I was'in the King George hos pital I witnessed one of the most won. derfyl examples of courage and pluck I have ever seen. A young Scot only nineteen years old, McAuley by name; had had the greater part of his face blown away. Thesurgeons had patch. ed him up in some fashion, but he was horribly disfigured. He was the bright. est, merriest man in the ward, always Joking and never depressed. His own: terrible misfortune was merely the top- ic for humorous comment with him. He seemed to get positive amusement out of the fact that the surgeons were always sending for him to do some thing more with his face. One day he was going into the operating room and a fellow patient asked him what the new operation was to be, "Ob," he said, "I'm going to have a cabbage put on In place of a head. I'l grow better than the one I have now." Once in a fortnight he would man. age to get leave to absent himself from the hospital for.én hour or two. He never came back alone. It took a couple of men to bring him In. On the bext 'morning he would say: "Well, it was my birthday. A man must bave a few drinks on his birth. day." . I was discharged from the hospital tn the middle of February and sent to a comfortable place at Hastings, Spe. sex, where 1 lived until my fur h papers came through. | bad a fing time in Loudon at the theaters and clubs pending my departure for home. When my furlough had arrived | went to Buxton, Derbyshire, where the (a- - nadian discharge depot was located, and was provided with transportation to Montreal. 1 came back to America on the Canadian Pacific Royal Mail Steamer Metagama, and the trip was withoat incident of any sort. We lay for a time in the Mersey, awalting word that our convoy was ready |b sée us out of the danger zone, and a de- stroyer 'escorted us 400 miles 'on onr way. fs : 1 was informed before my depurture that a commission as lieutenant in the Canadian forces awaited my return from furlough, and I had evéry inten. tion of going back to accept it, but since 1 got to America things have hap pened. Now it's the army of Uncle Sam for mine. I've written these ato ries to show what we are up against. It's going to be a tough game aud & bloody one and a sorrowful one for Lmany, 'Dut it's up to us to save the issue where it's mostly right en one side and all wrong on the other--gad I'm glad we're in. I'm not willing to quit soldiering now, but I will be when we get through with this. Because when we finish up with all this there won't be any necessity for soldiering. The world will be free of war for a long, long time, and a God's mercy that. THE END. ---------------- The State of Westsylvania. The "province and government of Westsylvania™ was a proposal made by | the settiers in the southwest of Penn. sylvania and the adjacent territory for the creation of a new state. It origl nated in connection with the troubles between Virginia and Pennsylvania, and the scheme was brought forward early in July, 1776. 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