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Show NIL L. BUYLOCK HAS HRRDW ESCAPE William L. Blaylock loft Ogden with the contingent for Camp Lewis, Nov. 3rd, 1917, arriving Nov. 5th. They remained there until tho 11th when they were moved to Long Island, arriving ar-riving there soven days later, stopping stop-ping but a short time when they wero moved to Jersey City, N. J., from which point they sailed for the war zone Dec 14, arriving in England for Christmas dinner. They were given their New Year's dinner in France and almost immediately put Into trench battle line service by being brigaded with British. They passed through a wonderful experience In the big offensive offen-sive of last March, when Wm. Blaylock Blay-lock became gassed and was sent to a base hospital for a number of months and was released October 10 and assigned as-signed to light duty back of the lines, guarding German prisoners, where he was engaged when tho glorious news reached him that fighting had ceased In a letter to his wife, young Blay-lock Blay-lock says: "I suppose you are beginning to think I have forgotten you, but not for a minute have I forgotten you and Angus. An-gus. But 1 novo been quite sick for about a week and doing nothing but lay on my bunk. I guess L would havo been there yet only for the fact that all France has gono wild over the war being closed. Every whistle and bell In France has been turned loose and every Frenchman you meet has a hug for you, running up to you with exclamations excla-mations of joy with which every one is bubbling over. "No one but the poor soldiers that have helped to bring this joy to them can realize so well what It means, for God has surely been with them and the prayers offered for them has certainly cer-tainly been realized. "I remember one night standing whore the men were ' dropping all around and it did not seem possible that I could ever live through It. Just to think, I was standing with five of the boys that night. A shell struck into tho. bunch and killed the other four and knocked me into a whirl, but I got up without a scratch. That certainly was a-closo call. "They are going to have a big time hero tonight, but I think I will take It a little easy for it goes against me to be on my foot too much and 1 think when I get back I will have you feed me on bread and milk unUl my stomach stom-ach gets better. "I sure was shocked to seo tho name of my old fellow townsman Raymond Holme3 in the casualty list. The Inst time I saw him was at Camp Lewis. I met a fellow the other day from my old. company and he was able, to tell me quite a bit of news. I was glad to hear that Ray, Daniels was still all right, but one of tho Weber county boys that I left home with from Huntsvillo was wounded in action. I "It has been so long now since I got a line from home, having been kept on the move so much, I am beginning be-ginning to think I will not hear from home until I get there, and I hope now it won't be long. But I would be more contented if I knew all was well at home. Yet I am certainly happy that I havo done my full share In the great struggle that now has so happily come to an end." , |
