Show WAR HERO SMItES SMilES AT LaSS t OF LEGS LS Declares He Will Walk Again and Asks for Typewriter VICTIM OF lION HUN BRUTALITY Both Lego Legs Amputated as Result of Injuries Received When Germans Germane Bombed Hospital He Has Become Champion Optimist and Cheer Producer Pro Pro- ducer of War War Amaze Amaze Doctors and Nurses Prohn Probably l the champion optimist o and cheer producer that Uncle Sam's Sams war against the Hun Bun has developed Is arho a n ruddy faced lad tad who rho Is now n a patient at Walter Reed need General hos hospital n lt ml just outside of lp Washington Isis Ills name Is Aubrey AUbre McLeod McLeod had bad worked part of his w way through Purdue when hen the call cail came from his country for troops on t tho h a Mexican l border horder McLeod then a n great husky bear benr of a boy he boy he Is twentythree twenty twenty- twentythree three now went now went wIth with the first lot to to keep leep the Mexicans l from murdering outside of or their ow own n bailiwick When President Wilson accepted the time bloody gauntlet thrown down b by F the tho Hun McLeod having hayIng been mustered out took virtually the next boat for tor France He enlisted In the Harvard ambulance unit Shortly thereafter he was doing his work of mercy at an English American nn base se sector tor where he saw six months' months service Huns Bomb Hospital One night last September while McLeod Jams juis s asleep In In the hospital tent ent several Hun aviators flew fiew over the he place dropping bombs The explosions killed William T T. Fitzsimmons Fitzsimmons mons of ot the army m medical reserve I corps and three privates Clar Clarence ence A. A A McGuire Thaddeus D. D D Smith tad and Rea flea W. W W Whidden officers of the reserve corps six privates an army anny medical corps nurse and 22 wounded British Tommies were injured Mc Mc- McLeod Leod eod was one of the privates wounded Doth Both feet teet were shattered Two big bIJ holes moles were torn In his back Gas gan gan- gangrene grene rene set In and the time feet were amputated But McLeods McLeod's cheery cheel disposition re remained renamed re- re named untouched All he said was Cut em off doctor give me a pair pall of if wooden feet and Ill I'll go get back to sol sol- diering I On four different occasions after that McLeods McLeod's wounds d developed gas gangrene and speedy amputations were necessary After Atter the five fhe operations McLeods McLeod's two legs were left no longer than a mans inns fingers And despite all this McLeod Is the same ame cheery enthusiastic boy bo that he was when he entered the service McLeods McLeod's case Is unique In medical history The army array army medical corps doctors doctors doc doe tors are ale going to try to fit artificial legs to the th stumps that are ale left len him If It the they are successful it will be he the first time on record that a man mun with such Buch short amputations will have retained regained re re- gained what McLeod calls the exquisite ex exquisite te joy of walking With such short stumps he be will have ha to walk hell he'll with his shoulders McLeod says do It or bust r Amazes the Doctors constantly The army doctors are t t amazed at nt McLeods McLeod's unquenchable spirit They have seen few who look forward to a n life of contentment and I actual Joy after tribulation But he does Because of this Inspiring mental men men- tal attitude of McLeod's McLeods the army doctors doctors doc doc- tors want to keep him liim if It possible inthe In Inthe Inthe the service to do cio work ork In special hospitals hospitals' hos hog hospitals hospitals' and rehabilitation work to help them bring wounded back to mental as well w 1 as physical health McLeod In ward B is a jO joy to the arm army d doctors the army array nurses and all patients with whom he comes In contact con con- I tact Outside of his desire to try tryout out his artificial legs McLeod has one He t typewriter sion He wants a wants it badly |