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“Over the Top”
By An American Soldier
Who Went
ARTHUR GUY EMPEY
Machine Gunner Serving In France
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(Copyright, 1M7. by Arthur Guy Bmpej)
8YN0PSIS.
CHAPTER I—Fired by the news of the
sinking of the Lusitania by a German
submarine, Arthur Guy Empey, an Ameri
can, leaves his office In Jersey City and
foes to England where he enlists In the
iritish army.
CHAPTER It—After a period of train
Ing, Empey volunteers for Immediate serv
ice and soon finds himself In rest billets
"somewhere In France,” where he first
makes the acquaintance of the ever-pres
ent “cooties."
CHAPTER III—Empey attends his first
church services at the front while a Ger
man Fokker circles over the congregation.
CHAPTER IV—Empey’s command goes
into the front-line trenches and Is under
fire for the first time.
CHAPTER V—Empey learns to adopt
the motto of the Brtlsh Tommy, "If you
are going to get It, you’ll get It. so never
worry."
CHAPTER VI—Back In rest billets, Em
pey gets his first experience as a mess
orderly.
CHAPTER VII—Empey learns how the
British soldiers are fed.
CHAPTER VIII—Back In the front-line
trench, Empey sees his first friend of the
trenches "go West.”
CHAPTER IX—Empey makes his first
visit to a dugout In "Suicide Ditch.
CHAPTER X—Empey learns what con
stitutes a “day’s work" In the front-line
trench.
CHAPTER XI—Empey goes "over the
top” for the first time In a charge on tne
German trenches and Is wounded by a
bayonet thrust. ,
CHAPTER XIII—Each Tommy gets
an official bath.
CHAPTER XIV—Empey helps dig
an advanced trench under German
fire.
CHAPTER XV—On "listening post’
in No Alan’s Land.
CHAPTER XVI—Two artillerymen
“put one over” on Old Pepper, their
regimental commander.
CHAPTER XVII—Empey has nar
row escape while on patrol duty in No
Man’s Land.
CHAPTER XVIII—Back In rest bil
lets Empey writes and stages a farce
comedy.
CHAPTER XIX—Soldiers have
many ways to amuse themselves
while “on their own.”
CHAPTER XX—Erupey volunteers
for machine gun service and goes
hack into the front-line trenches.
CARTER XXI—Empey again goes
“over the top” in a charge which cost
his company seventeen killed anc
thirty-one wounded.
CHAPTER XXII—Trick with a ma
chine gun silences one bothersoms
Fritz. i
CHAPTER XXIII—German attack
preceded by gas wave, is repulsed.
< HAPTER XXIV—Bnaj>ey is forces
to take part in an execution as a inem
her of the firing squad.
CHAPTER XXV—British prepare
lor the Big Push—the battle of the
CHAPTER XXVI—In a trench raid,
preceding the Big Push, Empey is des.
perately wounded and lies unconscious
in No Man’s Land lor thirty-six hours.
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1 In* u!lets were cracking 'overhead,
j I crawled a few feet back to the Ger
man barbed wire, and in a stooping po
sition. guiding myself by the wire, I
went down the ijne looking for the
lane we hud cut through. Before
reaching this lane I came to a limp
form which seemed like a bag of oats
j hanging over the wire. In the dim
light I could see that its hands were
j blackened, and knew it was the body
J of one of my mates. I put my hand
on his head, the top of which had been
blown off by a bomb. My fingers sank
into the hole. I pulled my hand back
full of blood and brains, then I went
crazy with fear and horror and rushed
along the wire until I came to our
lane. I had just turned*down this lane
when something inside of me seemed
to say, “Look around.” I did so; a bul
let caught me on the left shoulder. It
did not hurt much, just felt as if some
one had punched me In the hack, and
then my left side went numb. Mv arm
was dangling like a rag. I foil forward
In a sitting position. But all the fear
had left me and f was consumed with :
rage and cursed the German trenches
With my right hand I felt in my tunic
for my first-aid or shell dressing. In
feeling over my tunic my hand came
in contact with one of the bombs which
I carried. Gripping It, I pulled the pin
out with my teeth and blindly threw it
towards the German trench, I must j
have been out of my head, because I ■
was only ten feet from the trench and .
rook a chance of being mangled. If
rhe bomb had failed to go into the
Tench I would have been blown to
fits by the explosion of my own bomb. 1
By the fin re of the explosion of the j ?
mmb. which luckily landed in their
leneh, I saw one hig Boche throw up
ils arms and fall backwards, while his j
ifie flew into the air. Another one
'ilted and fell forward across the
andbags—then blackness.
Realizing what a foolhardy and risky
hing I had done, I was again seized
riili a horrible fear. I dragged myself
o my feet and ran madly down the
ine through the barbed wire, stum
ling over cut wires, tearing my uni
rirni, and lacerating my hands and
'-'s. Just as I was about to feacli
"> Man’s Land again, that same voice
eemed to say, “Turn around.” 1 did !
"hen, “qrack,” another bullet
night me. this time in the left shoul
.ter a boat V-m, ^ nrM 4^ay
other vrMJH Then It was taps for me.
The lights tent ont
W lier I im« to I was crouching in
n hole n -o Man’s Land. This shell
hole «s^ ®"tit three feet deep, so that
It brow! >y head a few Inches below
the lev?1 °*fhe fcround. How I reached
this hoi* ‘will never know. German
"typewriter were traversing hack
and fnrfh fl Jfo Man’s Land, the bul
lets hit'Dgthe edge of mv shell hole
and throw*,, dirt a„ oyer mp
Overheat Arapnei was bursting.
I could h,r (pc fragments slap the
ground- ae# I went out once more.
When I to everything was silence
and dnrthss In No Mnn’s Land. I
was *mk. with blood and a big flap
from the Mimf In my cheek was hang
Ing overly mouth. The blood run
ning frorshl# flap choked me. Out of
the corn* of m.v mouth I would try
and blowit back, but It would not
, move. I ached for my shell dressing
and 'rietkvith one hand, to bandage
my face, prevent the flow. I had
an a'vfulorror of bleeding to death
and was Jtlng very faint. Ton would
i have lntlpd If you had seen my
ludlcrousftempts at bandaging with
one band The pains in my wounded
shoulder rrtjjHiwful and I was getting
sick at 1 stomach. I gave up the
bandiiglntuat as a had job, and then
fainted.
When -ante to, hell was let loose.
An Inten bombardment was on, and
on the wie iny position was decided
ly implant. Then, suddenly, our
barrage used. The silence almost
hurl, butot for long, because Fritz
turned -be with shrapnel, machine
guns, anlfle tire. Then all along our
line cana cheer and our boys came
over thfop in a charge. The first
wave "'[composed of "Jocks.” They
won* a trnlfieent sight, kilts, flapping
in the td, bare knees showing, and
their hanete glistening. In the first
wave thpassed my shell hole, one of
the “Jot,” an Immense fellow, about
si| feetvo Inches in height jumped
right oi me. On the right and left
of me aera! soldiers In colored kilts
wtrre htled on the ground, then ove?
■ came ti second wave, also “Jocks.”
, One ytg 8 cot tie, when he came
abreast’ ray shell hole, leaped into
the air,is rifle shooting out of his
l hands, ding about six feet In front
11 of hira,yonet first, and stuck in the
fioundje butt trembling. This Im
. i titwsede greatly.
I itighbw I can see the butt of that
' fill trifling. The Seottie made a
[ c >si plot turn in the air, hit the
’ | fi 'wnd.flling over twice, each time
sj c prli*t the earth, and then re
itjjsned.il, ni>out four feet from me,
I l|i sort sitting position. I called to
* hit. “Ayou hurt badly, Jock?” but
t nfeans?. He was dead. A dark red
1 *0 dgens coming through his tunic
Jpt wtfthe heart. The blood ran
dfe'n M>otc knees, making a horrible
*g)t. t his right side he carried his
9 21?' 1 vvas <'razy for a drink
aaW?W>.rt*ath this, hut for the life
t ofgnilJ not negotiate that four
fe often I became unconscious.
Whft oke up I was in an advanced
I tirsftpost. I asked the doctor if
i "e ft!|ken trench. “We took
| theftli and ihe wood beyond, all
, riglfte said, “and you fellows did
! you! but, my lad, that was thirty
‘; six ft ago. You were lying in No
,' Alaftnd in that baily hole for a day
j nndftf. It’s a wonder you are alive.”
He Bold me that out of the twenty
i til lift" in the raiding party, seven
teefte killed. The officer died of
wotftn crawling back to our trench
tmifts severely wounded, but one
feJlftturued without a scratch, with
! out Birlsoners. No doubt this chap
«as Hone who had sneezed and im
pro] H .cut the barbed wire.
It Hofficial communique our trench
rale H described as follows:
“ftiiet on the western front, ex
j cep ft u the neighborhood of Gom
! wee® wood, where one of our raid
| tag Bes penetrated into the German
line®
It Heedless to say that we hud no
■ use Hur persuaders or come-alougs,
i as ^Bought back no prisoners, and
uritiftie Old Pepper’s words, “Per-,
somft don’t believe that that part
of tlBrmnn trench is occupied,” will
alwiBane to me when I hear some
felU*,-ing to get away witli a fishy
Stl,t ■» * * "H* ju<ige it accordingly.
I CHAPTER XXVII.
Blighty.
Prftpiis first-aid post, after inocu
lation* with antitetanus serum to
pre\< jhlickjnw, I was put into an atn
hulat ftmd sent to a temporary hos
pital kind the Hues. To reach this
hospi |we had to go along a road
ubou ft miles in length. This road
was ©i<r shell fire, for now and then
a flag ould light up the sky—a tre
nieucftiexplosiou—and then the road
seem®, tremble. We did not mind,
thou® o doubt some of us wished
Ma piLydia, the palmist, win qe
foundll the Curr’er & Mickelson
'■uildi^giri C street 16-tt
In '‘Blighty.’*
that a shell would hit us and end our
misery. Personally, I was not particu
lar. It was nothing but bump, jolt, rat
tle, and bung.
Several times the driver would turn
around and give us a "Cheero, mates,
we’ll soon be there—” fine fellows,
those ambulance drivers, a lot of them
go West, too.
We gradually drew out of the fire
zone and pulled up in front of an im
mense dugout. Stretcher-bearers car
ried me down a number of steps and
placed me on a white table in a brightly
lighted room.
A sergeant of the Royal Army Med
ical corps removed my bandages and
cut off my tunic. Then the doctor,
with his sleeves rolled up, took charge,
fie winked at me and I winked back,
and then he asked, ‘‘How do you feel,
smashed up a bit?”
I answered: “I’m all right, but I’d
give a quid for u drink of Bass.”
He nodded to the sergeant, who dis
appeared, and I’ll be darned if he
didn’t return with a glass of ale. I
could only open my mouth about a
a.uarter of an inch, but 1 got away with
every drop of that ale. It tasted just
like Blighty, and that is heaven to
Tommy.
The doctor said something to an or
derly, the only word I could catch was
“chloroform,” then they put some kind
of an arrangement over my nose and
mouth and it was me for dreamland.
When I opened my eyes I was lying
on a stretcher, in a low wooden
building. Everywhere I looked I saw
rows of Tommies on stretchers, some
dead to the world, and the rest with
fags in their mouths.
The main topic of their conversation
was Blighty. Nearly nil had a grin on
their faces, except those who didn't
have enough face left to grin with. I
grinned with my right eye, the other
was bandaged.
Stretcher-bearers came In and be
gan to carry the Tommies outside. You
could hear the chug of the engines in
the^waiting ambulances.
I was put Into an ambulance with
, three others and away we went for an
elghteeu-mile ride.
I was on a bottom stretcher. The
lad right across from me was smashed
up something horrible.
Right above me was a man from the
Royal Irish rifles, while across from
him was a Scotchman.
>' e nau gone anout tnree miles when
I heard the death-rattle in the throat
' of the man opposite. He had gone to
rest across the Great Divide. I think
at the time 1 envied him.
The man of the Royal Irish rifles
had had his left foot blown off, the
jolting of the ambulance over the
rough road had loosened up the band
ages on his foot, and had started it
bleeding again. This blood run down
the side of the stretcher and started
dripping. I was lying on my back, too
weak to move, and the dripping of this
blood got me in my unbandaged right
eye. 1 closed my eye and pretty soon
could not open tlie lid; the blood had
congealed and elosed it, as if it were
glued down.
An English girl dressed in khaki was
driving the ambulance, while beside
her on the seat was a corporal of the
R. A. M. C., They kept up a running
conversation about Blighty which al
most wrecked my nerves; pretty
soon from the stretcher above me, the
Irishman became aware of the fact
that the bandage from his foot had be
come loose; it must have pained him
horribly, because he yelled in a loud
voice:
“If you don’t stop this bloody death
wagon and fix this d- bandage on
my foot, I will get out and walk.”
The girl on the seat turned around
and in a sympathetic voice asked,
“Poor fellow, are you very badly
wounded?”
The Irishman, at this question, let
out a howl of indignation and an
swered, “Am I very badly wounded,
what bloody cheek ; no, I’m not wound
ed, I’ve only been kicked by a canary
bird,”
The ambulance immediately stopped,
and the corporal came to the rear and
fixed him up, and also washed out my
right eye. I was too weak to thank
him, but it was a great relief. Then
I must have become unconscious, be
cause when I regained my senses, the
ambulance was at a standstill, and my
stretcher was being removed from it.
It was night, lanterns were flashing
here and there, and I could see stretch- |
er-bearers hurrying to and fro.' Then i
I .was carried into >» hntsnltiil —
• (To be Continued)
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