. History of Battery B, One Hundred Third Field Artillery, Twenty-sixth Division, with pictorical supplement; . until it contracted theunpleasant habit of taking fire. We saw very little of it that hauling in the pieces and posting a guard we were ordered to thetop of the hill, with whatever of our haversacks we might liiid intact,to join in a grand controversy over a tangled mass of blanket rolls. Bythe flickering light of a lantern, held by a most excitable French Lieu-tenant, we salvaged what we could of our rolls, and were assignedquarters in one of the biggest dugouts it has e
. History of Battery B, One Hundred Third Field Artillery, Twenty-sixth Division, with pictorical supplement; . until it contracted theunpleasant habit of taking fire. We saw very little of it that hauling in the pieces and posting a guard we were ordered to thetop of the hill, with whatever of our haversacks we might liiid intact,to join in a grand controversy over a tangled mass of blanket rolls. Bythe flickering light of a lantern, held by a most excitable French Lieu-tenant, we salvaged what we could of our rolls, and were assignedquarters in one of the biggest dugouts it has ever been our luck to see. Originally a chalk mine, the property of an exceedingly ambitiousowner, judging by the size of the hole he had made, the cave servedmany good purposes during the war. Frenchmen claimed for it acapacity of a divi-sion in case of ne-cessity, not countinthe bugs, rats, andthat sort of in reservewere stationed there,troops going in foran attack occupiedit over night. P>itzmade it a head-quarters when hecame through early rr, HHEy-MAc- —how ii,G~ Do yovj w^MT This,. On« of Corporql nCorrUs in 1917, and the deloiU in action Bucy. French returning trapped several hundred Boche inside. It was dividedinto chambers about twenty-five feet square, lighted by acetylene lamps,and ventilated, here and there, by holes in the roof. Damp, stuffy, andill-smelling it was, but when the German planes were up and theirhigh 39] explosive (lioppiiit; near, llu llidu^lit of forty feci of solid rock overheadwas alniiifhty soolhintj;. Tlu lUaresl :; lo real war \vt ran across up iherc occurred tlie first(lay. ll came with shell hauling; the curse of a cannoneers existencefrom oni end of a scrap to the other. Ihal days experience was a fairsample of what wi look as a matter of course later on. Just how manyshells we carried is unknown, hut an indication of their number may begained by an astute jierson who has a knowledge of the habits of thespecies, wh
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