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Show WAS 30RN UNDER LUCKY STAR Indianapolis Legion Man Sustained ; Twenty-Six Wounds During His V Service in War. Wounded 2(3 times and glad It wasn't 27. William N. Evans, Indian- apolls, Ind., still 'believes he was 'born under a ilucky star. I lie walked Into national head quarters of tht American Legion the other day seeking "Just any kind of work that will keep my mind occupied." H e said he was an overseas veteran. Till still a bit w "I was wounded." eak, c-.a.aed. When pressed for details he owned up to 20 wounds In four major offensives. of-fensives. A job was made for lilm, clerical work that would "keep his mind occupied" but which would be consistent with 20 wounds. Evans was a private in the Twenty-eighth Twenty-eighth Infantry, First division, A ma- ; chine gun got him at Cantigny, a . bayonet came next at Solssons; he j was struck by shrapnel In the St. j Mihlet push and In the Irgoime a : one-pounder shell lilt him a glancing blow on the chin before it exploded. When It went off almost under him 22 pieces of shrapnel peppered his body. He remained on the battlefield SO hours before he was picked up. "But I'm happy Just the same," Evans says. "This Job keeps me from being a loafer and pays just enough with my government compensation for me to get married. I guess I was born lucky." |