331st field artillery, United States army, 1917-1919 . nfined to theirhammocks! Little Nels Anderson was very sick and they carried him down tothe ships hospital. One evening, just before striking the Irish Coast, they dippedthe colors and out over the convoy the LTnion Jacks dropped from the peaks andfluttered for a moment at half-mast. It was some hours later that the fellowsof the Battery learned of the cause of this. The little Norwegian had ended hisfight. The trip was not all gloom, however, by any means. On the second dayout, the Y. M. C. A. came to the rescue with a batch of books. The
331st field artillery, United States army, 1917-1919 . nfined to theirhammocks! Little Nels Anderson was very sick and they carried him down tothe ships hospital. One evening, just before striking the Irish Coast, they dippedthe colors and out over the convoy the LTnion Jacks dropped from the peaks andfluttered for a moment at half-mast. It was some hours later that the fellowsof the Battery learned of the cause of this. The little Norwegian had ended hisfight. The trip was not all gloom, however, by any means. On the second dayout, the Y. M. C. A. came to the rescue with a batch of books. The Captainchose Principles of Efficiency while Newcomb read The Virginian. The fifthday out two reallv voting women belonging to the Y. M. C. A. happened in witha violin and a little play. The fellows forgot about the possibility of it gettingrougher and even sang in several different keys. After this a little lady appearedand started preparing the fellows for their Arcachon and La Teste passes by teach- BATTERY E —Page 295 \ 5511 Field Artillery, ?j. ing them the French for glass and bottle. This day also the Captain had applespurchased with the mess fund for the fellows. The tiny canteens on board were being used far beyond their capacity but sinceSgt. Reesewas M. P. Sergeant, he was able to get the Battery more eats. Onapproaching the submarine zone the danger increased because the fellows wereordered to sleep in their hobs and serious injury might have resulted if some whoslept in the hammocks had fallen out, shoes first, on the men who slept on thetables. One by one the convoy diminished until there was a time when a singledestroyer conducted the transports. On the twenty-seventh a flotilla of Britishdestroyers sneaked up and convoyed the steamers the rest of the way. The next night while Battery E was on guard the first sign of land could make out the flicker of a lighthouse, which was on the Irish the twenty-eighth the boats passed within sight of
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