Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1918 — Dead Man Upright at Machine Gun. [ARTICLE]

Dead Man Upright at Machine Gun.

Stories of the scenes of the battlefields are told In a letter received by Mrs. H. E. Wilson of Middle avenue, Wilmerding, Pa., from her son, Private Gordon Wilson of the One Hundred and Ninth Ambulance corps. Walking over the battlefield in search of wounded men, he wrote, he found, himself staring into the muzzle of a German machine gun, with a German soldier at the breech. Dropping into a shell hole, Private Wilson remained there for half an hour, not daring to move. Finally, as darkness approached, he decided to crawl away. He lost his way, be lays, and did not know was until he was again looking at the German machine gun and the lone soldier behind it. This nine he was in a position to see better and recognized at once that the soldier was dead. A bullet fired by an American rifleman had penetrated his forehead, probably just at the time he was preparing to pour a volley into the advancing columns. '