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Show i i JoEKGEANT J. SPAEKS of tiie ! lO Yukon Light Horse, one of tlio j ij few Canadian surrirors of the re- j i treat from Mons, who has come to j it Salt Lake to make his home. i - 'i ME MEDAL FOR RtSEHTffl Wearer of War Decorations to Make Home in Salt Lake City. .Survivor of a thousand engagements, oue of the, few Canadian soldiers who came through the retreat from Mons unscathed, scarred with half a hundred pieces of shrapnel on other fields, Sergeant Ser-geant J. ''Speedy" Sparks, of the Yukon Yu-kon Light Horse, has come to Salt Lake wearing the English military medal and other decorations gained in his five years' service overseas. Sergeant Sparks left irnnee five j-ears and two days from the date he lauded with the first contingent of the Canadian soldiers, so few of whom ever returned. He brings back with him not only the memories, of years under fire, but the wounds he received on two occasions. Among the engagements in which Ijc fought besides the Mons affair with the " Contemptibles, ' ' vere the first and second battles of Ypres, Messines, Hill o'O, Yimy ridge, two battles of Ypres, Bullincourt, Estapea, and many others. "When Uncle Sam came over," he said, "things became changed. The uncle brought not only soldiers, but ho brought food. And before he got there we went hungry a lot of tiniest" The sergeant is a blacksmith by profession pro-fession and a pugilist by preference. During the few lulls he had between fights at the front he managed to win the middleweight championship of the Canadian overseas forces, and when the armies were through with the Huns he went back and became a physical instructor. in-structor. He said last night that his fighting days are not over, and that lie hopes to find a few bouts in this neighborhood neigh-borhood during the coming winter. The English medal and the Belgian cross Sparks won for rescuing nine civilians and a Belgian officer from the ruins at Ypres. On this occasion, he says, he fared forth looking for o. certain cellar occupied only by wine so far as he knew. lie had to enter thi? no-man's land - between the parts of Ynres held then by ihe Germans and 1 those held by the Canadians. He. found : his civilians in a basement. Ho carried car-ried them back .and returned to get the officer. The Germans were after him then and he had to wait thirty-sire hours in no-man's land before he could get his wounded superior back. He was recommended for the Victoria cross for this action and was awarned the medals mentioned. . |