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Show Tribunes Find Way Into War Zone Sl . ' 03 S3 a Salt Laker Tells of Argonne Fight LIEUTENANT IRA C. EAKEND, Instructor 3f the 131th machine gun battalion, in the Baccarat sector, Alsace-Lorraine, receiving Salt Lake Tribunes from a French mail orderly. The Tribunes shown in the picture were delivered August 2, 191S. s-vs K V v v , v - m - is s- X , K'. S J, " "S . . a-M. . - - i Lieutenant Ira C. Barend, Wounded at Montfaucon, Now at Fort Douglas. How The Salt Lake Tribune found its way into the war zone last summer is told by Lieutenant Ira C. Earend, of Salt Lake, instructor of the 184th machine ma-chine gun battalion, Thirty-seventh division, di-vision, who is convalescing at the Fort Douglas hospital. Lieutenant Barend was stationed in j the Baccarat seetor in the Alsatian mountains, and at least once weekly The Tribune was delivered by a French mail orderly to the men in camp. Lieutenant Barend was wounded in battle at Montfaucon, Argonne, September Sep-tember 27, 191S. He had been in Franco since April of the same year. "Our machine pun company was ordered or-dered to the line, and, with -my two runners, run-ners, we have taken up our position," Lieutenant Barend said, describing the battle in which he was wounded. ''Af-I ter the first day's battle the casualties were very light, although we had en- countered vast machine gun nests and j rear-guard formations. I "The second day, after eleven hours' fighting, I was wounded in the right arm by a high explosive shell. The troops had taken the hill after a number num-ber of attacks, and after I was wounded wound-ed I walked twelve kilometers to a j dressing station." j Lieutenant Barend joined the Twentieth Twen-tieth infantry as a private at Fort Bliss in August, 1915. He came to Fort Douglas shortly after the United States had entered the war and was ' transferred to the Fort'-third infantry, newly organized, and made sergeant. He was retrans ferred to the machine gun company of the Twentieth as an officer. Later he was transferred to the machine gun company of the Six-tieth Six-tieth infantry at Gettysburg, Pa., and later assigned to the Fourteenth machine ma-chine gun battalion, Ninth infantry brigade, bri-gade, as instructor. He left for France Aoril 7, 1018, and was assigned to the Thirty-seventh division di-vision December 29. 1917. Lieutenant Barend married Miss Louise VVey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Fred Wey of Salt Lake. The marriage took place at Charlotte, N. C. |