Show WORLD WORD YARNS WAR by Frank E Hagan Through the Wheat The One Hundred and Third infantry Infantry infantry try of ot the T Twenty eDt sixth division was ma matte e up of ot boys from rom Massachusetts New ew Hampshire and Vermont It If you ask come some one of or the Oie Oe Hundred arid and Third who was the greatest hero In Inthe inthe Inthe the regiment hell h 11 probably tell you that it was Private George of II H company and he hes s 5 likely to add udd that was one of ot the greatest of ot all the war ar heroes George Dilboy couldn t claim May May- Mayflower May flower flower ancestry nor a fighting heritage from Concord or Bunker HilL nilL He tie was wasa wasa a Greek Greeh immigrant boy brou brought ht to this country by his father to escape persecution by the Turks six or eJr seven years ears before the outbreak of the World war ar But nut when the One Hun Hundred Hundred dred and Third made an nn attack near Belleau on July 18 1918 HIlS it was George DUboy who raced forward under the fire of German snipers and machIne gunners on a railroad embankment throwing hand grenade after hand grenade until he silenced the enemy s sOre fire and his platoon took tool the embankment embank embank- embankment embankment ment But nut there was still work ahead A hundred yards ards away ny across a wheat wheatfield wheatfield wheatfield field a machine gun next neIt opened up with Its rat tat tnt tat tat taL Im Im I'm going to get that gun lieutenant said Id Dilboy to his platoon officer I m goIng to fi fix it so my platoon can go o through II Before he officer could forbid the mad venture he was ofT off ba bayonet onet fixed charging straight ht through the wheat to toward ard the nemy Ie He had gone several yards before the astonished enemy realized realised that n a alone alone lone American was as char charging ing their position Then they concentrated their the on him But dod dodging twist twisting twistIng ing dropping to tu the ground rising stopping for a moment to take a pot potshot potshot potshot shot at them he continued on his bis way Half naif way wa across the field be sud suddenly suddenly suddenly denly staggered The hall hail of lead stopped for a moment then was re- re renewed renewed re renewed Dilboy almost fell paused rl fI moment then tottered forward as the machine gun fire tIre slackened then stopped because of ot a jammed cart cartridge cartridge cartridge ridge The Time American soldier kept on until he was 25 2 yards ards from the spit tang engine of death It opened up again and went down For ForI I just a moment he lay still then began to creep forward yard drag dragging his right leg which had been cut off Ju just t above p the knee Digging Dl ln In his uninjured foot he dragged himself closer doeer and closer then S swung Sung ung his gun tom forward rrt and fired A machine machane gunner went down Dilboy crawled cra on another foot or two then stopped and aimed his rifle rille Rat nat tat tat tnt tnt-It tat It could not miss now But before tho those e bullets tore their av through his bod body v boy had fired and a second machine m gunner dropped The rest of ot the time bUD kun crew led fled A few seconds later mem members members members bers of Q n comp my found him yin there They say that there was a 11 smile on his lips Ups He ne hid had fixed feed It so the platoon could go 0 through It And lAnd a Little Child Child- Child Tire The British have hate no sen sense of ot ho hn homor humor mor r says a former mem member member member ber of the American Intelligence servIce service service ice Listen to this one A veteran company recuperating from the lie terrific effects of a long siege of hard fighting had a new cup cap captain tamn It to replace a popular officer who bad had ecu cu killed Imagine Imigine the disgust of ot the seasoned warriors w when they saw their new commander commander-a a beardless be schoolboy quite Immaculate Imm fresh from froID a nine ty day school of military instruction When the lie Infant reviewed ed his corn com command mand for the first time giving Ing them some orders In his hie piping voice a R deep deell bass roared out from the rear rank rank- rank Arid And a n little child shall I lead ad them I 1 The blushed he stuttered he m nude Ide i r very poor e exhibition The were ere 0 overjoyed ed with victory victor until net next morning It was then they found on the bulletin board the following notice B li company wilt will report at 7 a in with complete equipment for tor a twenty twentymile twentymile mile male hll till c e And a little lIttie child shall lead on them them on a n d-d d d d good horse Death Across the Rhine III History torr has lias not preserved presented his name nam but but it is a Ii commonly known fact that the first mm man in the American Army Arm of Occupation to cro cross s the Rhine died on the following In diy day He tic w iv wis IS an un t engi engineer neer who had beta been struck strut do down don n and Injured by hy a train at the d ot of se eMI du days dais s before A tied Red Cro Cross s hospital was established directly afros across the lie river rifer er It the rest nearest refuge refue for the In Injured Injured lured man mun and heUS he was US taken over oser the stream lie he had doubtless 4 dreamed of crossing e ever eier er since lea leaving lensing In America lIe died there the next day The ho was nas packed at the time with German wounded these 1 hese enemy soldIers pooled their funds to buy a 11 wrath for tor the rae rase it II was placed there th-reo bv by a R which buried him In the little village church churchyard churchyard churchyard yard Zu Z A u 1920 o W Western st rn Newspaper N Union I 1 |