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Show SIGNAL CORPS HERO IS HOME TO STAY Sergeant C. A. McPhee, Injured In-jured in Service, Tells of Waf Life. Having been fifteen weeks in French Hospitals recovering from wounds received re-ceived October 24 while stringing telephone tele-phone lines in the Bois de Bantheville, Sergeant Charles A. McPhee of the 3Mth field signal battalion, Eighty-iiinth division, divi-sion, has arrived home. He is the son of Mrs. A. J. McPhee of 22 Smith apartments, apart-ments, and enlisted at Salt Lake, February Febru-ary 0, WIS. Because of-heavy fire of German guns, linemen were required day and night to inspect and repair telephone and telegraph tele-graph lines in the Argonne sector, according ac-cording to Sergeant McPhee. In the St. Mihiel sector work was less dangerous, lie says, as tho Huns relied less upon artillery and more on machine-gun lire, tho latter being less effective at long Tango. Sergeant McPhee took part in the action ac-tion in the St. Miliiel and the Argonne sectors, his division taking over a part cC the former on August 5 and holding it until September 12, being later sent to the Argonne. He wass taken to a base hospital at Royat, France, after being wounded He remained there seven weeks and was sent to the hospital at St. Aignan, which, according ac-cording to him. was called by the soldiers Camp Agony." He arrived in America oti the U. S. S. Ohio, March 13. and was discharged at Camp Funston, Kan. |