Show LIVES SEVEN WEEKS I IN IN SHELL HOLE 1 t UNDER Soldier With Broken Leg Suffers Untold Agony in inNo inNo No o Mans Man's a Land d. d 2 s I r By Webb Miller United Unite d Press Staff Staf Correspondent LONDON May l Tr Jf IS If you have hate been thinking that distinguished service el on the tho battlefield means one grand rand dash and then a quiet room loom an tn attentive o nurse and pleasant re recuperation re- re consider the tho case of oC Private atc vate J J. J Ta Taylor lor whose valor Is briefly recited in a a. late issue of ot tho the official Supplement to the London Gazette This official list ot of soldiers cited for decorations always alwa's carries a a. short description of or the act of valor fa for l' l which the citation Is made I These two paragraphs accompany announcement of tho the award o of the distinguished conduct medal to tp Private Private Pr- Pr vate veto Taylor Having been cut of off with his compan company company com com- pan pany he received a bullet in the thigh causing a n. compound fracture T Tr 1 a old 11 ca nt ture lio he cr Il 1 Into n. n I. I a shell D el l hole c. c where P ho h he ho r- r remained if d i for a period of ot over o seven weeks during durin the tho whole of ot which time the tho surrounding surrounding surrounding sur sur- rounding district was subjected to a severe cre bombardment b by our artillery lie JIo subsisted on tins of ot bull bully beef bec collected at night from dead bodies and water which he ire obtained in a waterproof cape CRAWLS TO SAFETY After Arter some weeks three of or the tho enemy nenn visited his shell hole but b by feigning death he hc avoided capture and ul eventually succeeded In crawling back to our lines lines lines-a a distance of some yards In a hospital near London where he ho Is recuperating Taylor diffidently d tl thA t t o t l hC i U o mr a un e s ory va experiences It was as during one ono of ot our attacks upon tho the line he said Wo Vo had gone over the top two vo companies companies com com- comi i panics of ot us We Ye were met b by a terrific ten enemy fire and the tho fellows were dropping like ninepins I was knocked out It must have ha been a couple of days das before I recovered consciousness I found myself In a ashell ashell shell hole hoJe with another man who was wounded but could move freely During Dur Dur- 1 ing H the days dars d ai part of the nights the bombardment kept up Shell fell fellan all an around but none nono happened to drop in our shell hole At night Peters crept out and foraged among among- the dead for scraps of ot beef beet iron rations and nd their water bottles After Arter two or three days it rained We collected water in our caps caps aps MASS OF RAGS J That sort of ot existence lasted for over five e weeks I 1 was getting weaker and weaker One night Peters Peter crawled ra out and did not come como back That left me without aid Next night nighta a a. party of Germans came into m my shell hole hole- One Ono lifted m mv my leg luckily leg luckily not the broken one or Id I'd have ha yelled ced but but tic the they thou thought ht I was dead Iwas Iwas I Iwas was covered with mud and looked like tho the other bodies covering the ground During the next fortnight I mma managed ed to live on the reserve beet beef Peters had collected Then feeling that nothing worse could happen I resolved to try to get Set into our lines lines- It was an nn inky night First I crawled by mistake right into a German line They didn't hear me lime so I turned back and Inched along for an hour Then I got Sot into some barbed wire I was wasa a a. mass of ot cuts blood and rags i be before Core I got through Just then a Verey light shot up I saw a man peering over a trench He lIe was about to shoot when I shouted Three of oC them came camo out and dragged me into our own trenches Before the war t Taylor was a factory fac fac- factory tor tory hand rand He Ho is recovering reco rapidly and looking forward to his return to the trenches |