Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . d a newspapermap. About noontwo other Ameri-can prisoners werebrought intocamp, LieutenantsRobert Andersonand Theose Til-linghast. We askedthe commandingofficer to be allow-ed to see them, andhe consented. We talked tothem for a while,and after they hadgone out in thecourtyard we dis-cussed them. Weliked them, and, as they appeared to betypical Americans with plenty of grit, weasked them to join us, which they eagerlyagreed to do. The British N. C. O. in thenext cell was also asked to join us. He hadbeen a prisoner for thirteen m
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . d a newspapermap. About noontwo other Ameri-can prisoners werebrought intocamp, LieutenantsRobert Andersonand Theose Til-linghast. We askedthe commandingofficer to be allow-ed to see them, andhe consented. We talked tothem for a while,and after they hadgone out in thecourtyard we dis-cussed them. Weliked them, and, as they appeared to betypical Americans with plenty of grit, weasked them to join us, which they eagerlyagreed to do. The British N. C. O. in thenext cell was also asked to join us. He hadbeen a prisoner for thirteen months, andas he was sentenced to ten years solitaryconfinement for hitting a Hun officer, hewas glad to join the party. He was inthe next room and we just pulled out thestaples holding the padlock, this takingonly about fifteen minutes. We allgathered in my cell just before decided to escape about nine oclock,as the moon came up about ten. Thiswas on the night of the 26th of Septem-ber. While waiting I heard how Andy and Vol. CXXXIX — No. 830.—32. LIEUTENANT JOHN O. W. DONALDSON Tilly had been brought down. Andywas jumped on by five Huns, and al-though he circled, half rolled, dove,spun, and did everything he could, hecould not shake them off his tail andthey brought him down, wounded inthree places. In the last half-roll he didnot have quite enough room to flatten out and he crashedinto the Germantrenches. TheHuns bandagedhis wounds forhim, but told himhe would have towalk to the rear,as they were shortof the first milehe collapsed; thenthe Hun guardstopped a wagonand placed him onboard. This oc-curred on August27th, just outsideArras, and fromthere he was car-ried in a cattle-carto Mons, where hewas placed in ahospital. He wasthere four weekswhen he was sentto Fresnes to waitto be sent to prisoncamp in is where wemet him. Tilly was out on a patrol on Septem-ber 22d and met a number of Huns,some of whom were above and somebelow.
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