Pacific service magazine . ext shell. And, believe me, they werecoming over thick and fast. Some hitpretty close and threw dirt and stones inour faces and tore the tops of trees downfrom over our very heads. In a laterletter he describes the fighting around(bateau Thierry. We were going backto rest and got half way back and thenthey changed the orders and so here weare on our way back to the front. Itseems as if they cant do any fightingwithout the Marines to back them up andhold the line. So you see we have to domost of the fighting on this front. At Cha-teau Thierry we sure did wade throught
Pacific service magazine . ext shell. And, believe me, they werecoming over thick and fast. Some hitpretty close and threw dirt and stones inour faces and tore the tops of trees downfrom over our very heads. In a laterletter he describes the fighting around(bateau Thierry. We were going backto rest and got half way back and thenthey changed the orders and so here weare on our way back to the front. Itseems as if they cant do any fightingwithout the Marines to back them up andhold the line. So you see we have to domost of the fighting on this front. At Cha-teau Thierry we sure did wade throughthose Huns and killed them by the hun-dreds. Our losses were large but nothingcompared to theirs. Our artillery put upa fine barrage and just cut them to was great. After working so hard wethought we would get a rest, but not makes a prophecy that seems to havecome true: I think the Huns will makeone more drive and then it will be ourturn to drive, and once we start driving,we wont stop until we hit Ensign Wm. Shearer, U. S, N. R. F. (Formerly of Marysville District.) The following letter wasreceived by Mr. Brittonfrom Sergeant M. F. Camp-bell, U. S. Marine Corps: I have the honor to re-port that Henry Honnef,meter setter, employed inthe Electric Department ofthe San Francisco District,was accepted for enlistmentin the U. S. Marine Corpsthis date and transferred tothe recruit depot. MarineBarracks, Navy Yard, MareIsland, Cal., where he willbe put under nine weekstraining for duty is the opinion of the un-dersigned that Private Hon-nef will make an excellentsoldier of the sea, one ofthe First to Fight looking over the rec-ords on file at this office, I find that thename of Herbert Capelle, one of the boysfrom the Gas Arc Department, Fifth andTehama Streets, San Francisco, enlistedin the U. S. Marine Corps, making thetotal of three, including myself, from theSan Francisco District, Pacific Gas andElectric Company, that joined the U. S.
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