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Show f . X'' I. STRINGFELLOW, member i , of fighting engineers regiment, j '! who took part in many of Yankees' I I greatest battles. j V" '7 AN- ' 'L SECOND ENGINEERS VETERANRETURNS B. I. Stringfellow Is Home After Fighting at Chateau Cha-teau Thierry. To have been a member of the famous Seeond engineers, "who wilh Ihe marines stemmed the title at Chateau Thierry, to have fought in nearly all the great battles of the war since the entrance of America and to have been severely gassed are a few of the experiences of a. young Salt leaker, B. I. Stringf clloiv, who recently returned to the city after being discharged at fort D. A. liusscll, "U.' .... vv yo. Jlr. StringlYIIow joined the Second etiinecra at Salt LaKo June I, 1917. Tie was sent to EI Paso, where he remained re-mained several months. In September, 1UI7, lie arrived in llobokcn, X. ,1. From 1 li o re lie sailed for Havre, I'mnee, by way of Glasgow, Scotland, and Southhampton. South-hampton. On landing in France, the excitement beyan immediately, Mr. Stringfellow said, and did not cease till tiie armistice. With his battalion lie worked during the next few months in till parts of Franco building roads, bridges, machine fiun emplacements, and barbed wire entanglements. From ihe Toul-Troyon sector the Second engineers were sent to Cliauteau Thierry where they were ordered to reenforee the marines. It was here that the crucial test of the war cainc. The Germans had opened a wide gap and it was for the engineers and the marines to shatter their attack. "By night we marched to Bourches," Mr. Stringlellovv said. "It was pitch dark. To that condition we owe our lives, for the road was sprayed with tho fire of small arms and maeiiine guns by the Germans who were entrenched only a few hundred feet distant. To make the advance more difficult, the road was under heavy shell fire front 77 's. "Miraculously, we reached our destination des-tination without a casualty. There we. found a. .handful of -marines wiio wero withstanding the heavy attacks of tha Germans. Many times, while we were building machine gun emplacements, wo had to drop our tools and rush to witlv stand an attack." On July 20 at Soissons, while parrying parry-ing a wounded soldier on a stretcher back to a dressing station, a gas shell burst near by. Before gas masks could be donned, Mr. Stringfellow said, the vapor had enveloped them and they found themselves choking, gasping and coughing in great agony. Tho wounded soldier was killed immediately by the gas and two of the four stretcher-bearers died shortly afterward. Mr. String fellow- managed to put on his mask and make his way to a first aid station. lie was confined to the hospital for a week or more, but was discharged in time lo take part in the great advance. With his battalion, after the armistice, he marched into Germany, where he remained re-mained until an attack of influence, the result of the injury done to his lungs, invalided him. On his recovery, he was sent home for discharge. Mr. Stringfellow- is the son of Mr. and Mrs. It. H. Stringfellow and a nephew of ('. Ii. Stewart, president of the stale live stock board. |