Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1918 — HE CAPTURES 17 HUNS [ARTICLE]

HE CAPTURES 17 HUNS

Sergeant, Single-Handed, Performs Remarkable Feat Gets Distinguished Conduct Medal for Heroic Deed at Battle of Sanctuary Wood. Chicago.—Sergt. Francis T. Fraser, who single-handed captured 17 Germans in Sanctuary Wood where now there is bitter fighting, called recently to see officers of the British-Canadian Recruiting mission some of whom, including Lieut. S. MacDonald, belongs to his battalion, The Black Watch. Sergeant Fraser is one of the few who have been awarded the D. C. M. How one of the “Laddies from Hell.* . without a rifle and with several bullet holes through his clothes, was able to take captive 17 stalwart Germans, was told by one of the officers of the mission. He said: “It was during the battles at Sanctuary Wood when The Black Watch made a raid on the Boches, that Sergeant Fraser became isolated from his companions but kept right on going even after he dropped his rifle. He had about 30 bombs and felt well armed with them. When the Germans ran into a dugout he pursued them, and as he was about to hurl his last bomb at them, they came out of the dug-out with their hands up. crying ‘Kamerad’ and every one of them surrendered. Later they told him they were glad to be prisoners and get out of the fighting. “It was the duke of Devonshire who placed the distinguished conduct medal on the breast of Fraser, and the duke told him that he should have had more than the D. C. M. for such a feat” If you want a good typerwiter at a bargain price, see those at The Democrat office.