Show Didn't Lose Legs Just I Gave Them tO Countr I London Aug 10 hand hamd hand First thrillIng thrilling thrill thrill- Ing stories of ot Uncle Sams Sam's first war victims were vero told tho the Universal ServIce Service Service ice here today by wounded Wounded American officers in a Red Cross hospital here W. W J J. J McGregor PIU Pittsburgh Physician and md former first baseman for the Chicago Cubs Cuba pointed to tho the stubs of ot his hla two legs logs Ill Ili never play baseball again There was a bit of ot pathos In his bin face but he smiled n as ho he said it Both legs were gone about tho the knees kneelS How did you lose lOBO them I Lose them Indignantly I r didn't lose Jose thorn thom I gave them to my count coun coun- t try r A A shell exploded In the Ute midst of or a column of ot us matching marching up to the front I line limme trenches Eight Bight killed were vere outright outright out out- rl right hl and four tour wounded by that out out-I ono one It was In the first push around Ypres March 20 29 We e had imad been tight fight ing lug and retreating for tor nine days das I Ivas Iwas Iwas was vas the tho medical officer of or an English battalion It was some flome excitement be beHee be- be lieve leie me I was vas bus busy night and day a On the evening e of ot the ninth d day the tIme order camo came to march to the front F was only onh about four tour miles awn away He lie kept peppering our ur road and vicin vicin- it H ity with a Jive lively barra barrage c which wo we ducked through at Intervals wh whenever never it lifted Su Suddenly donl I heard a a. whistling noise I and the tho bomb plumped down In the tho middle of ot us us about ten feet from me inc anti and exploded That's all I remember until I came to in a hospital behind the lines shy two legs lega V Dr C C. T T. McCarty cCarty Philadelphia phySician phy phy- who has hns won von the tue military cross and amid a bar Is another member of or the medical officers officers' reserve c cps corps U U. S S. S R. R IL at the hospital Pale and gaunt his hla face the story titon of ot a frightful mustard gas at at at- tack So Some onie mo of ot it got through his mask maskind and ind nd affected his lungs lunga He lie w went nt through this gas attack rescuing and ministering to tho the wounded He kept t tat at this errand of ot mercy until he ha dropped Previously on the tho St St. Quentin front he hue went vent 1 through h a lI machine gun barrage barrage barrage bar bar- rage and rescued a t wounded English officer returning unscratched himself I Oh Its It's nothing he said laid modest modest- 1 ly But his comrades told the atory I Dr TI H ii c C. Easton Pa physician had Just survived an opera opera- tion A piece of shrapnel was taken c from rom his lung It was In tho the third battle of ot Ypres when tho the Germans flanked eel us he said Most Moat of or them started to run I but I stuck to the tho last Then I legged It amid a hail hall of or bullets and shrapnel Finally a piece ploce of ot shrapnel got me In Inthe Inthe Inthe the lung Luckily I wasn't knocked out I remained conscious and managed to stagger tr to a road where a a. British officers officers' car picked mo mc up and rush rushed d dJU JU mo flue to a hospital Lieutenant e has a n military cross crosa for tor previous heroic action and devotion dC to service under fire Through a heavy barrage he continued to move I back and forth between a field neld dressIng dressIng dressing dress- dress Ing Ing- hospital ne near r tho the line lino and a base hospital ministering to the wounded wound d and superintending their removal Hes luck lucky said H. H D D. D McNeil McNell MeNen Mc Me- Nell Neil Bangor Mo ro Ive still g a a. apiece piece of or shrapnel in my lung lunS' I t cant can't breath very Ven well vell but I guess It'll stick k with me mo for Cor life lifo Wo Yo were marching up to the tho tr front frontline nt lino line between Ypres and amid Bethune about 2 a a. a m. m April 9 9 You can hear the whistling of or nearly al alj bombs but I didn't hear lucar the tho ono one that got me It Just flopped down clown in tho the midst of ot us usand usand usand and exploded About About a dozen doen of ot us were vere killed or wounded |