. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . cided touse some in trying, the best I can, to tell 3^ouof our first trip to the trenches, we being, bythe way, the first from Maryland to fight. Shortly after writing the letter you publishedwe loaded our equipment, mortars, wagons,horses, etc., on the train, which consfisted offifty cars, box and gondola, we riding in thebox cars (stencilled on the side, as everySammie in Francenow knows—Hom-mes 40, Chevaux 8)or in plain English,forty men or eighthorses. The side doorPullman affordsevery one a goodchance to view thecountry, which, bythe way, closely
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . cided touse some in trying, the best I can, to tell 3^ouof our first trip to the trenches, we being, bythe way, the first from Maryland to fight. Shortly after writing the letter you publishedwe loaded our equipment, mortars, wagons,horses, etc., on the train, which consfisted offifty cars, box and gondola, we riding in thebox cars (stencilled on the side, as everySammie in Francenow knows—Hom-mes 40, Chevaux 8)or in plain English,forty men or eighthorses. The side doorPullman affordsevery one a goodchance to view thecountry, which, bythe way, closely re-sembles the Cum-berland a twenty-fourhour ride, we de-trained some fewmiles behind thelines. Then the funstarted. Very few of thehorses had beenharnessed for sev-(!ral months, andnever with Frenchharness, which, bythe way, is some-what different. Our headquar-1 e r s b e h i ri d t h elines was abouttw(!nty miles fromthe railroad sta-tion. Well, thewagons, bomb cartsand mortars camestraggling in, thelast ones naif a day. behind the first. The movie men, who, it seems,bothered us all the time at Camp Mills and onthe boat— (Heres where the censor got busy andcut out two pages, leaving only the closingparagraph—Editor.) Hoping this reaches you safely, I remain. Private John H. Gochnauer,117th Trench Mortar Battery, American Expe-ditionary Forces, via New York. (Formerlyat Freight Office, Camden Station.) George Heslau Cited For Bravery In a letter to his parents, George Heslau,formerly employed in the Claim Departmentat Chicago, writes: Outside of the usual excitement up hereat the front, there is not much to tell course, this is an exciting place; somethingdoing most of the time and, to be truthful withyou, I have had two close shaves within thepast week. On one occasion it was a case ofhigh explosive shell, which killed a Frenchsoldier nearby. The other was a gas was asleep at the time, but I got my mask onin time and about the only thing
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