Keokuk High School - Comment Yearbook (Keokuk, IA)

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I4 THE COMMENT ning, so decided to stay at Division Headquarters and start early in the morning. Slept in a dug-out with my clothes on in a wire bunk and had a pretty good mess with one of the staff groups. The next morning, after quite a search, I found Colonel Welch in a dug-out on the wrong side of a hill. They had telephoned him from Division Headquarters that I was coming, so he was expecting me. He was still rolled in his blanketsg guess he had been up most of the night. He said, UYoung man, last night is the first time I have had my clothes off for more than ten days. That's why I am sleeping a little late this morning. I told him I had no such claim to distinction, but that last night was the first time I hard not had mine off for a longer time than that. He treated me hne and gave me just the dope I wanted. I still had that battalion to see. Got directions and stafrted on again. Our bat- teries were barking all around and they made some din to the unaccus- tomed ears of my driver and myself. As We went ahead the roads kept getting better. We were get- ting away from the belt where more than half a dozen shells had fal- len for every square foot of ground. After going as far as the road would take us, we drew off to one side while I consulted the map. I finally got things straightened around and had .just aboutxdecided where to walk when a German shrapnel burst directly over a shallow trench occupied by machine gunners, support for the numerous seventy- fives in the neighborhood. It exploded directly over a traverse about fifty yards from where we were and wiped out a whole squad, killing four and wounding three. The rest of the men took the best care of them they could, and sent for the ambulance. I started across the field on foot, leaving the driver in a hole in the ground to wait till I came back. After many questionings I found the place, another dug-out formerly occupied by the Huns, 'and was glad to get under ground again. The shells had been getting on my nerves. I had lunch with the outfit. They were glad to see me, as they had been shooting blind and were tickled to death to have more aeroplane control. There was one table in the place and the major and I sat at that and talked shop while we ate. The rest ofthe staff sat on the ground and ate from between their knees. Have things pretty well lined up with that battalion now and we expect to do some work with them as soon as the rain lets up enough. The corner of the woods in which the lVIajor's dug-out was situ-

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THE COMMENT HONOR ROLL LLOYD VVRIGHT HAROLD VVRIGHT FRANCIS LUTz VVILHELM HEINEMAN HOWARD XVYGLE HAROLD HUBINGER JUNIOR WEES JACK XNEES MEREDITH ACKLEY HAROLD ACRLEY HARRY DRUMMOND GREGORY MEADOR LESLEY VAUGHN EDWIN ELDER MALCOLM MCFARLAND VAN HAYDEN RALSTON HAYDEN JOE LE FAIVRE ARTHUR KIRBY ROBERT SCHROEDER CLARENCE SUTHERLAND STAFFORD STRICRLER HAROLD HANSON GERARD HUISKAMP HAROLD POND JAMES MCKENZIE COLIN MCKENZIE LIDUS BUSS CHARLIE BUSS JOE DONNOVIN DAN SEEMAN HARLIE MOORE RALPH TEBEAU DR. FULLER GAVIN HERBERT JOE WYCOFF HELMUTH BEASE BARRER DAVIS IRVING ACRERSON JACOB BLOM WILLIAM CRANE HOVVARD MONTAGUE HAROLD ROBERTS LAURENCE CRUZE ROSS NICHOLS FRED BROVVN LEES BALLINGER DR. REIMERS ROBERT REED GUY FULTON HARRY HORN CAPTAIN LEBRON VAN GARRISON FLOYD LIEBFARTH OSCAR REIN VAN'WALKER PAUL DYSART BERNARD MERRIAM EDVVARD SCHMIDT AUGUST PECHSTEIN 'XVALTER NICHOLS COULTER CRAIG XVM. KESSELRING CLARENCE ALLING VVM. MCKINLEY BROOKS CARROLL JOY VICTOR RUSSELL THOMAS HERBERT RUTH HAMILL GEORGE ROLLOSSON JOHN GOODRICH KENNETH DAUGHRITY E. ELLINGTON CLAYTON JONES ELMER I-IAISCH DR. GEO. NARRLEY DR. VV. FRANK BROVVN CLAYTON REINER MARGARET HENKE RAY DIMOND RUDOLPH RINGSTROM I. HUISKAMP DAN MCANDREVV CLIFFORD AGNEXV HARRY PAGETT ROYAL VVILSON VERL RUTH ESTON SMITH ROY LILLY ADRIAN KIRBY