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Show LEGS CRUSHED, GUNNER BEGS FOR LAST SHOT Vichy. The presidential palace and all the hotels have been converted iiio hospitals and are now filled with wounded. All branches of the service are represented, the patients including includ-ing artillerymen, infantrymen, chasseurs, chas-seurs, dragoons and hussars. A gunner who was in the battle at the Bonhomme pass told this story of a comrade: "He was a' marvelous pointer and got the bull's eye every time, but they got him at last. His legs were crushed, but he asked to be carried to another gun point for one I last shot." |