Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-08-04 | Page 31 | How Barrage Fire Wounded Him, Told by Salt Lake Boy

HOW BARRAGE FIRE WOUNDED HIM HIll TOLD BY SALT LAKE BOY BO Y 4 A 4 L iW z i ip p t 4 v r HAnDlE I. I L. L CANNON c How Ho Hohe he was woun wounded ed Just before he arrived at the tho end of oC a a. perfect day spent pent killing boches is told by Hardie L. L Cannon now no with the United States Infantry In France In a letter hotter received from him In Salt Lake Lako yesterday Cannon Cannon Can- Can non formerly lived at 1146 S S. S Ninth East street Writing to his brother Harold he tells of oC going over o the tue top earl early In tho the morning morning- fth a detachment that piled gray clad corpses up In Its pathway His letter gives the thc details detail of oC the mopping mop ping pine upS upS' process by which the Yanks 8 emptied the German dugouts of ot living 11 men mono Following the attack ck the former Salt SnIt Lake man said ho spent four an ana and anda a half haIr hours under boche shell fire Ire while he was a member of ot a n party de detailed detailed detailed de- de tailed to dl dig an ammunition dump Then toward nightfall Cannon says a s 's he was detailed to go through the enem enemy barrage fire to the tho rear after tion It was while he was making his second trip that a shrapnel splinter gave e a him the wound which Is now confining con con- fining him to the tho hospital The letter Indicates that the young oung soldier Is impatient Impatient impatient im Im- im- im patient to get back on the tho firing line Une and expects to go to duty soon Boon 0