Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 7, Hammond, Lake County, 25 June 1919 — Page 8

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SPTCIM. TO THE TIMES! WHITING. Ind.. Juna 2b. The following Account) of the soHiw's service, of Eugene Putnam, son of Dr. W. E. Putnam of "Whiting, is one of the most interestinit experiences had by a Lake county boy:

I enlisted In .the service July 26th. 151". at Chicago. My dady went with me, and I said that we would have one good meal before we separated, so we hd a good meal tog-ether. Afterward, daddy went one way and I turned another way. I went Into the army at 9 o'clock that same evening, and was sent to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. There were about 500 boys on the train who went with me. and we arrived at Jfffer?on Barracks the next morning at R o'clock. There were very few sober men aboard, but they were told that If any of them had liquor when they got oft this train, they would be couTt-martialed. so there was no liquor to be found when they got off the train. Well, we staged there all the next day and were told we were to be examined. They took us into a large bole, and every man was stripped. We stayed there four hours before they examined us at a'.l cf course, that was the beginn'ns of mmy life. Ev.-y man. aftr bein? ex-1-nlned. was stenciled, and if they wcro r.ct passed, they were marked "rejected." ar.d the boys who were marked "rejected," sure felt bad about it. They kept us at Jefferson Barracks for two days classifying us. I went into the medical corps because I thought I c-u!l do more good there. Pretty soon I my name marked in the infantry, and so I immediately made a "holler." 1 went to the lieutenant and told him I did not enlist In the Infantry, and he said It was Just a mistake in the paper work. There were fifty of the boys who were shipped to Indianapolis, Fort Benjamin Harrison, fifty medical boys who t'arted to get the medical routine. They started ns taking care of horses, so we could learn all about them. We got lectures every day, anJ they showed us moving pictures how to handle wounded men. so we could hae an id-a what to do when we got to the front line trenches.

After a while they told tis there were six different camps we would have a choice of going r to, and we all talked about going to New York, and I decided to go to Camp Upton. It is about forty miles out of New Tork. and there Is nothing there but wilderness. When we arrived there we were put to work right away. We were there about four or five months, and then we "started to get overseas equipment. When we first got our pack we put them on our back and traveled about a mile, and we wore all in. but after two or three days we hiked about four or five miles, and after a while that wasn't much of a hike. On the 13th of April. 13 IS. we started to get ready to go. We were told on Sunday we would leave about 5 o'clock tha evening, but that was to get the civilians out of camp, because they interfered with packing. We didn't leave until the next morning at 2 o'clock, and we began to get orders right there. We arrived In Xew Tork City in the morning, and went over to Hoboken by ferry, and then got on board ship, the English boat called the Cedric. There were 3900 troops aboard, and "we were all told to stay down below. We were on the ship fourteen days, and every day we had steamed fish. Tou have an Idea of what that is; well, the American soldier doesrot like it. and naturally threw it away he couldn't eat it. Fourteen days aboard the Cedric, and we were zig-zagging across the sea on account of submarines, as they claim they couldn't get a bomb at you while you were zig-zagging. There were fourteen boats in the convoy, and we had submarine chasers with us the last three days. We were warned that any time the whistle should blow, we should get on deck. One evening about 6 o'clock the whistle blew, and of course everybody was up on deck on the second, and we saw the small boats going around, seeming to be chasing something, of course we didn't see any submarines we were always fooled. At last we arrived in Liverpool. We expected a wonderful reception from the English people, but I souppose the English people were so tried seeing American soldiers land that there was nothing doing. We -went from Liverpool by train t,- rver. It was a beautiful trip and

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mo tun waa shining brightly all tn nay, ana it was just toe time or year when England la very beautiful. On the way to Dover, I counted eighteen hospital trains going by. brlnglnr the wounded back, so w began to feel as though we were getting some place when wo say the wounded coming back by trainloads. Along some of the stations we storped at. some English peoplo said we were too late, and others were sore because we didn't get over a little sooner. When we got to Dover we had a chance to see some of the people who were In hard straits on account of the w ar. Well, we went from Dover to Calais across the channel, and everybody got sick on that trip. When we got to Calafe we only had four kilometers to hike to Ttest Camp No. 6. Of coure. we had everything we had In the world, our packs and barracks bags. When we Kot to the rest camp we were all tired out, and were told we could have supper when we wanted It, but nobody wanted supper, they were all too tired. The first night we were at Calais we heard some funny noises in the air. We didn't know what it was. and some of the English Tommies told us th-at "Jerry" was overhead, and we wanted to know who "Jerry" was. They told us we wouldn't be there very long before we found out who he was. The next morning the English fellows asked us If we didn't want to see the damage "Jerry" had done, and so we went into the city and looked around, and saw where he had hit a large building, and where the people were tearing away the pieces. It showed how the French reople were; they never gave up, although they had many hard times. No matter how luck was against them they always came back with a smile. Well, from Calais we went to a place called M and w were to go In with the 3Dth division (Einglish). We were taught the English way of fighting and using the English machine gun, and cf course they were very proud of their gun. It was a good gun and all that, but In about four days, we began to show them something about their own gun: how to make it shoot better and faster. We had wonderful mechanics, but we had a foreign make of gun and we didn't like It. Well, we stayed with them a while and seemed to get along fairly well with them. Then we had three days of maneuvering. We were supposed to be right in the midst of the fight, and we hiked about thirty or forty kilometers and fought with five guns, just as though we were in the real battle. Well, after maneuvering with the English for three days we came back to jl and got orders that we were to go up to the Lorraine front, and that the 77th division were to take over a sector. They were the first National army to take over a sector on the Western front, and they felt pretty proud. We marched four days, and marched away from the infantry. They are supposed to be the best men In the United States army. but. the machine gunners marched away from them. We arrived on the Lorraine front, and relieved the 42nd division, and when our men came Into the line, "Jerry" had some of his observation balloons up. For three or four days there we were told the Hun was right In front of us all the time. One night we were told to get ready to put over a barrage in a place right on the edge of No Man's Land. The Germans had concrete guns they were working every night, having Just the barrel of the machine gun sticking out, and they were protected In every way. We were to try and get these working parties at night. We were told to get as low as we could,' and of course I got as low as I could., "Jerry" had his snipers working, but they couldn't hit us. We were told that after the last five minutes of fire to get out as quick as we could and then "Jerry" located the, place, but the machine guns were In use. and he didn't harm any cf the boys. Another time on the same front we put over another barrage which'' lasted about a half hour. That was the time the 77th division were trving to get prisoners, but the only Germans that were captured by the 77th on this front were three Germans who gave themselves up. After we got out of the Lorraine front, we were relieved by the 37th division, which was a National guard division from Ohio. When they came into the

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two or three weeks considers himself a veteran, and kids the new division coming In. There waa a daylight raid put over by the 308th Infantry. Company K. Captain Barret took fifty-four boys over all volunteers. They cut the wire during the night, and "Jerry" knew that the wire was cut so he got everything ready and was prepared for them. At 3 o'clock In the afternoon, over came the fiftyfour boys and the captain. They didn't have a ghost of a show, only seventeen boys came back, and they were all wounded. The captain was killed. It seemed to put the scare into the Germans though, because nobody had ever attempted anything like that before. It was done more to show the spunk of the American boys to go over in broad daylight and make a raid like that. After we got out of the Lorraine front we were told we were going into Italy. They put us on a train, and there were forty men to a small box car. Just standing room, that was all. Tou hung your pack up along the wall, or set it down and sat on it. We tore some of the boards out of the side, and made racks so the fellows could lie upon them Just like a Pullman. "We got away with it pretty well, until some French conductor saw it and had to put in a re-

fcport that we were tearing up the box

cars. After maneuvering around for three or four days we went through Chateau Thierry. The battle was over then, but we got a look at it. and we could see where the American doughboys had started to put up American buildings. We passed Quentin Roosevelt's grave going up there. They had the propeller of a plane on it, and the Germans had made a cross and fixed It up, but since then the American boys have fixed it up much better. On we went to Woods. This is a place where we were storing our ammunition. Jerry was bombing these woods every night, and of course we didn't like that at all. We put up with it three or four nights, and the officer decided to move us. The third night Jerry came right over where we were. He didn't drop a bomb, but Just kept hovering around us, and that was wht used to get our "Nanny," so after four days we thought we would move up closer and we began to see some real battle country, where hundreds of horses and trees and everything were all torn up. and we began to think we would see some fighting here. sure. Of course, ail the time they were shooting large shells at us and we were going too fast for our artillery. But right there on the V , the Germans had put barbed wire down in the river where it wasn't so deep, so the boys would get caught when they tried to walk across and they had snipers right across the river who got the boys when they couldn't get out. Then we began to see the German dugout. There were some that were 80 feet deep, were plastered and had electric light and pianos down there and everything that anybody could want. Of course, all of this had been stolen from the French people. In order to get the pianos down into tha dugout they had mechanics take them apart and reassemble them when they got to the bottom. They had wonderful observation along the V ; had about eight observers up all the time. Jerry never came over on our side very much, didn't seem to have the nerve. When our boys went up they seemed to be caught all the time and didn't get very far. but they were game and had the nerve, so that kind f got the Germans' "goat." We advanced twenty-two kilometers on the V . but we lost a lot of men there. One night my battalion put over a barrage. Everybody seemed to be In on this, the machine gunners, all the artillery, the French 75. the big 6" rifle and the 14" gun, and they all seemed to let loose at once. We were moved along one place on the V . and didn't know there were any guns around. All at once the 6" rifles started to make a noise, and it was like a Keystone

comedy: everybody fell down, but it happened to be our own gun. From the V we went up into the Argonne. On the 26th of September the barrage started which last seventy-two hours. We kept on advancing through there, and that was the place we noticed the spiked wires the Germans had in the ground. The Germans were sending over toward the last, a combination of gas and mustard. We didn't know It was gas.

but we knew there was something in the air. It seems as though the gas doesn't get you until twenty-four hours afterward. The mustard gas is supposed to burn. Well, they got twenty-five of us when they got me. One boy got a direct hit of a shell when he happened to be upon a side hill. We brought him back, but h was dying at the time. This lad was a corporal machine gunner, and Just the day before he and I were looking ovfr some small pictures frorry home. When he was showing his pictures to me. he said. "Gee, Put. wouldn't it be good if this war was all over with and we could go home and

see our folks again?" It hurt me when I saw Smithy get it. but Smithy had to cet it and that was all he was the-

boy to go. Well, after I had been gassed they

shipped me to a field hospital, and from there to an evacuation hospital, and then to a base hospital. I stayed In the hospital a month before I could see. and I wasn't gassed bad in comparison to a lot of the other boys. Some of the boys will never see again. The mustard gas has an awful effect on the j body, it burns and keeps burning, and j there doesn't seem to be anything to stop , it. and that Is the sad thing about it. j The man Is suffering continually while the acid is burning Into him. The last j part of the fight I wasn't let in, but I rnf letters from mv buddies and they

rkept me posted so that I felt like I was ;

really in it. I would like to have been ; in that fight because it was direct fire? they were shooting directly at the Ger- , mans. There were fifty-seven boys in my battalion cited for bravery and there were only four hundred in the battalion. When the armistice was signed the division was the nearest. o the German lines, than any other division In the , A. E. F. I

When we were back in the smau towns of France, it was always work. French towns aren't very clean and the American soldier has to rollce them and he sure polices them. We went from B to M . and there we were treated fine by the French. There were suppers, dances and little entertainments given for us. Of course, they didn't have any too much food, but what they had they gave it to you. Everything they had in their house was yours. The American soldier thinks there is a kick coming, but I for one don't think they have any kick coming. They claim the French people are charging them too much money for things they buy over in France.' but that is the fault of the American soldier. If he bought something for a half franc, which is about 10c in our money, he would tip them half a franc, and so they thought if he wanted to give that much for a tip. well why not charge him that much for It. They all knew the American soldier

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had money. The American soldier was making about 85c a day after the insurance money was taken out. and the French soldier was making 5: a day, (he is getting 15c a day now), while the British soldier was getting 25c a day. When the American soldier went into a place and wanted anything, he was always waited on first, because they all knew he had money. We Btayed at M for a while and were then ordered to Brest, and there we were told we would soon embark for the United States. Going back, went on the Captain Grant. The Knights of Columbus. T. M. C. A., and the Red Cross were all on the boat, and they did all they could to entertain the American soldiers coming back, but we were getting two meals a day and It was army slum and we were sick of it, and no matter how hard you try to entertain a sick man. you can't succeed. We were all paid before we got on the boat and of course there were all kinds of games. We had the army indoo g-olf game, and some fellows rigged up, some sort of a roulette wheel and a lad got a can and put three dice in it everybody was a millionaire aboard that

ship. We were twelve days getting back. When we arrived in Xew Tork we got a real welcome, but we wanted to hear some real lively music, and it seemed as though every band was playing "Home. Sweet Home." The Salvation Army had telegrams all ready, telling the camp we were to go to and all we had to do was writs the address and sign our name, and It was

sent home free of charge. I came over with the last 5.000 of the division, and when we heard there was going to be a parade, we were 6n0 miles out. Wo arrive at 5 o'clock In the evening, and the jx-.rade was set at 5 o'clock tint inorninfr. We were well fed when we

arrived; we had all the pie and cake, oranges and bananas we could eat. and the boys Just made themselves sick we knew we were back in the United States. We were shipped direct to Camp Mills, and didn't get a chance to stop over at Xew Tork. They gave passes into Xow Tork. but the understanding was- th-it only Xew Tork boys were allowed Into Xew Tork. I happened to have a friend in one of the officers and I went to him and said, "Lieutenant. I would like to have a pass Into Xew Tork." He said, '.'Well, let me see. Putnam, you're from Xew York, arn't you?" and I said. "Tes sir" so I got a pass, ar.d the rest of them had to stay in camp. Well, when I was in Xew Tork I met Frank Duggan oa Riverside Drive, and he Eaid, "What are you doing in Xew Tork?" and I answered. "Why, I Just came from abroad." "Well, what are you going to do this evening?" "Oh. I don't know." "Well, come on up to my rooms.' He had a nice apartment on Riverside Drive with a real bathroom in it. I had a bath, and put on some aavy underwear and silk socks and felt almost like a real "gob." I went to sleep in a rael bed that night I slept with Frank. The next morning I had to report at camp at 9 o'clock, and that day we left for Camp- Grant at Rockford. At Camp Grant the boys were all waiting to be discharged from the service, and It was two weeks ago tonight that my daddy came up there to get me out of the army

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Everybody had to go through the mill again. I had daddy in the mess line with me he was almost a soldier. Well, oa Tuesday we went through the mill again and were examined, and that afternoon I was discharged from the service, and I tame home. It was sure a wonderful feeling for a

boy who had been away from heme, and sometimes didn't know whether he scull come back again, and sometimes with a feeling that he would rather die than gi through with some thing again. I felt that sometimes I wished it would end. Of course, it is all over now, but there are a lot of boys who are coming back to us, who are not as well as I. and we want to do all we can for these boys. Tou talk to some of these boys w ho hav lest a leg. arm or their eyesight, and you will find that they all teem to be cheerful, havingr the real American spirit.

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