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Show 10 YEARSOVERSEAS Orvis Call Is Wounded in Hip and Also Suffers Shell Shock. Rainbow Division Member Tells of Escape on Receiving Re-ceiving Injury. ;-;iwial fo The Trlbun OilDK.V, Feb. 2S.Orvisi Call, son ' A. Call of the Weber county draft board Mini :t resident of Went Ogden, is one of Hi'-; first O'dtMi members of the. famous Rainbow division to return. Tie riitnr.i ,,me allowing th f f f-''iM of Hlinwt no years In I'Yaiiee and laklns part in some of tho Kr-at battles of tho war, particularly par-ticularly that al Chateau Thierry. Call haa a wound In I lies hip, in addition to being shell shocked. I In returned home tv.o days ago, after being away front oden since November rt, 1017. "f wan called to tho service November 1917," Call .said. "After about six w'eeka 'at Camp Ij-wis 1 wan sent to Cainii M 111m and later to Camp Merrill, win-re I received tnv overseas equipment and then nailed for Kranee with the Fort v-first. or 'Sunset,' division. 1 .to ship'wo nailed on nan the T.evlathan, for-i for-i mrrlv tin'. Fatherland. We landed at Liverpool on lieeember If,. 1917; went to Wlriehc: ler and stayed there, until New Year's dav, when wo sailed to 1' ranee and Landed at Havre. Wo then went to lit Cnurtin, central France, for Intensive training. CJivcri Reassignment. "On February ISIS, the 1S3r.1 hi- raiitry was tent to the A Isaee-Lorramo , sector to replace the Forty-second, or ' l.'alnbnv,' division. I was put in the I'iMh Infantry of the 'Rainbow. ' We, remained re-mained In the. Alsace-Lorraine sector 120 davs. There was not much action, except ex-cept for a few raids by the Germans, whom trenches were very close to ours. Artillery fire on both sides wa.s considerable consid-erable and the bocho bont over gas shells veil' often. "On the. night of May 15 the Germans sent over gas projectiles which would light up the whole beavers and the earth trembled llko an earthquake. We lost I art men that night from two companies, in the latter part of June we wt.ro relieved re-lieved in the Alsace-Lorraine sector and moved to the Champagne front, near Suippes. On the night of July "14 the bncho started their peace offensive.. "The French officers warned our major tn met the men Into the dugouts by mid- night. Most of the boys were asleep when the his drive was launched and had been facing a three days' artillery fire. The Germans started their barrage. bar-rage. H'ii were warned by our gas guards to prepare. Then we made for the dugouts. dug-outs. ' Describes Real War. . "As we left our billets tlio air seemed filled w ith flying shells. The concussions were terrific. The heavens looked as though they were afire and the earth trembled violently. This continued six ; davs and nights and we were compelled ' to wear our gas masks at least six hours a dav. "We left tho Champagne sector July in and were sent to tho Chateau Thierry from, where wo were held In reserve in Hellcaii woods until the morning of July JS. At S o'clock that. morning the platoon that I was in was ordered to reinforce M company of our regiment and help take hill 212. After we had taken the bill we. were ordered to hold it until evening. "Wo had but little artillery support and no air support that day. We fought all that day with machine guns and rifles. The hoche made an attack on our left wing at 8 o'clock In the afternoon. The 1-tuns outnumbered us greatly and we were compelled to fall back about 200 yards. Another young man with me was ordered lo establish an outpost upon the ground we had just left. While we were, in a shell holo 'watching the Germans my companion got a bullet through the helmet, hel-met, but was not Injured. Tn about a half hour ,we were compelled to leave our outpost. Is Shot Through Hip. 1 "As hp were retiring' I was shot! through the ripht hip. After being ban- daeod and while lying on the ground for the stretcher bearers I was rendered unconscious un-conscious by the concussion of a ten-im-h sell Fritzie sent over. It almost buried two companions and myself. When L regained consciousness my company bad retired about 100 yards. I had to gut back or be taken prisoner. I determined de-termined on the former courie. "With my two companions I started for our t rench. While en route we saw four stretcher bearers and started toward i hem, when a German shell dropped tn their midst, killing them all. We reached a first-aid station Just as a Gorman shell struck and destroyed tt. We then continued con-tinued on our way to the back and finally reached a first-aid station about two miles back. "When we got there I was practically .-raw ling. Later wo were taken to the field hospital, -where they operated upon my hip. I was then taken to a base hos-. pital. where I remained two weeks. T was transferred to the convalescent hospitals, hos-pitals, sent home and arrived at Newport New s on February 2. I was sent to Camp Tension, where I was discharged from service." OR VIS CALL of West Ogdcn, cie j of first Rainbow division men to return, and who padscd almost 5 j two years in France. j ( Yr)y"r ';7' 'f, "ft w - u "t , - Ha , , 1 V 1 ! - p. t - ' A |