Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-08-01 | Page 3 | Terence Rooney Was on Gallipoli in Ill-Fated Expedition

Terence Rooney Was On Gallipoli in I Ill-Faied Expedition H SA.LT LAKE. Augusi 1 Soldier of; fortune, knight of the road, steeple-, m .jack and pood lellow well met, Ter-P Ter-P orii o Roonej baa returned to Salt Lake,' .'the field of his former spectacular ex-I ex-I ploits I With two bad lungs and half his i '& teeth gone ns the result of a gas al-.Utek al-.Utek in -wbiih In was one of the vic-W vic-W tiros at Gallipoli, bullet marks on his nnee and neck, and afier adventures I in which he was delirious from expos Sure and "-'arvation. he can still tell I wilh .1 joyiul ;nn of th time he scaled I- the topmost pinnacle ot ihe L. D. S. temple to straighten out the figure ol I the angel Moroni, whose equilibrium I had been disturbed by a terrific ttorm Ijthat bum in Salt Lake vallev about I IS 13. hen the world war broke out, he was at his innh in alifornia. He en-I en-I listed the second tirao in the British navy in the fall of 10M, and on his '-firsr cruise v. ent to Australia for a I-carTO ot supplies for 'be allies. He left Sydney on the return trip aboard I the Persia, which was torpedoed by a submarine lifty miles off Sydney Heads. The crew was ieft in the open I sea for three days and two nights. The-, were all picked up in a delir- 'ion- conditi'in. I After spending nine days in the hos fcpilal, he enlisted in the Australian1 I Roal eiiL-iri'. r- and wa-' sent on Ihe I ill fated and fruitless expedition to the' i 6tringing wires, building roads and I: constructing pontoon bridges in the Race of Turkish gunfire. It was at this time that he received I the marks thai will remain with him Hor life. One bullet penetrated his j neck, going through the center, but missing the artery Another struck him on l is right hp, hoiow the knee I A bomb limn a "buz.: :.zon" plat-L plat-L tered shrapnel all oer his fare and nearlv took oil a finger A Turk, am-f am-f bilious lor an Irishman's scalp, made a bayonet thrust w hich resulted badl F for the disciple of Mohammed. I "I made him look like Jess Willard I after ihe third round,' Rooney said.