Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1915 — Too Tall to Fight. [ARTICLE]

Too Tall to Fight.

Rutledge F. Gardner, of Baltimore, who is so tall that he could not find a single trench to fit him, is back from the front, where he fought in the British army. Gardner is nearly 7 feet tall and says that he was employed as a creeper in the trenches. The duty of a creeper is to crawl toward the German trenches at night and locate snipers. Finally a trench ’fell in on him and he was sent back to England and discharged.