LONDON, Nov. 11. — "Foghorn”
McDonald admits he is as "Scotch as
oatmeal," but what he doesn't have
to admit is that he is beyond doubt
the best known man in the wonderful
big army Canada has sent over to
fight for the mother country. Gen
eral Sir Ham Hughes, Canadian min
ister of militia and defence, is not
jealous of “Foghorn’s" distinction
The rawest rookie in the learmost
ranks of the Dominion forces pro
claims it on the fighting line, and
looks up to this world wandering scion
of the clan McDonald as a shining ex
ample of what a lowly "buck" can do
in trying times like these.
For “Foghorn'' came over as a pri
vate himself just tw'o short years ago.
Some of his home folks told him he
was a "darned old fool" to enlist at
53. Hut "Foghorn" had been a miner
all his days. He had hit the western
train from sun-baked Hatonilas in the I
wilds of Mexico, to the snow-shrouded
valleys of the Yukon, and he knew
what perseverance and pluck and
courage and sacrifice could do.
He knew he would “make the
grade," and so did a great crowd of
his friends who gathered a day or two
ago to “wet" that new third stripe
and crown on the cuffs of his khaki
army jacket. He was hack from the
front to receive this latest promotion,
and he was toasted a major of his
majesty's forces.
“Foghorn" was born Neil Roderick
McDonald, but there are comparative
ly few who know him by that distin
guished name. It's just plain “Fog
horn" nowadays from one end of the
trenches to the other, and one earful
Of that low, rumbling, window shatter
ing, rock shivering voice explodes all
possible doubt as to the derivation of
the nickname.
There are plenty of Germans who
know “Foghorn,” too. In the days of
the deadly deadlock, when trenches
crept closer and closer together, he
was one of those who burrowed be
neath the earth and set off great
mines under the enemy. He had not
been a mining engineer in vain. Of
ten his voice would go booming acres
“No Man’s Land." hurling picturesque
invective at the Germans.
Not to know "Foghorn" McDonald
is to miss one of the big human per
sonalities of this war. It is not dif
ficult to realise what a tower of en
couragemen? and strength he Is to the
soldiers at the front.
“He is the sort of officer whose
men would follow him to the gates of
hell itself and walk in laughing,"
declared Major Eddie Holland, a long
time friend, and a “V. of the
South African w ar.
“And speaking of hell," he added,
"there may or may not he something
in the fact that “Foghorn" belongs
to the Black Devils."
That is the name the Germans have
given the Eighth battalion, Canadian
infantry, and the battalion has adopt
ed as its insignia a small black imp
dancing in glee. They were delighted
with the appelation, and are living up
to it according to all reports trom the
Somme.
It has been said of "Foghorn" that
“he's not afraid of anj man — and
very few women." His home is in the
great American west. He has lived
much in the United States and almost
every province of Canada can claim
him as her own. His heart is as big
as the world in which he lias lived;
and he has a way of calling a superior
officer “Bill,” or “.Jim," or “George,”
and referring to a corporal as a
"brother officer" that Is quite baffling
to the Englishmen’s ideas of disci
pline. Someone spoke to "Foghorn"
about it.
“Well, sir,” he explained, "it’s a
man’s man, by God, sir, and I respect
every mother’s son who is out there
doing his bit. I was a full-fledged
‘buck’ myself once, and I know what
they have to go through.”
“Foghorn" has been serving for
some time as transport officer of the
“Black Devils,” and has been riding
about the front lines on what he de
scribes himself as a “mighty fine
hoss." Where he got the horse he
will not tell you. "It wouldn't be
passed by the censor,” he says.
A good transport officer tries to
keep his losses at a minimum and to
make the deficiencies good as quickly
as he can. "Foghorn" had his men in
the [Slack Devils trained to the min
ute in that respect.
"One night," he said. 1 w'e were tak
ing some loads of ammunition away
up in front. It was blacker than the
ace of spades and if you struck a
match you’d get your eye shot out.
But in the midst of all this blackness
and the shelling we were getting I
heard one of my men say to his part
no,.. ‘Keep your eye out for a good
hoss, Bill, this ought to be a good night
to get one.
“Foghorn" served for .. time as an
officer in the United States army —
the Third volunteer cavalry of the
Spanish war.
“I think the officer commanding our
regiment had fifteen or twenty million
dollar* " said "Foghorn;" “1 hud a dol
lar and thirty-five cents myself."
ji d.°y or two ago a staff colonel,
fresh from Canada, walked Into the
Savoy Club.
“Mellow, ‘Foghorn’,” he called out;
“I heard you a couple of blocks down
the street and came in to see you. Do
you remember me?”
"Remember you?” repeated “Fog
horn,” "why, bless your brass hatted
old soul, I’d know your hide in a tan
yard.”
A "brass hat” is the army name for
all staff officers, and it comes, of
course, from the abundance of gold
braid they wear on their caps.
Someone asked how things were go
ing at the front.
"Going?” said “Foghorn;” “why, the
boys are getting so gay out there one
of our battalions came parading up to
the front line trenches the other day
with a brass band playing for all it
was worth. They were right where
you could get killed any minute, too,
and even my old hoss thought they
were crazy.
“Guess I’ll be getting back to the
front soon myself,” he concluded with
a sigh; "this quiet life of London is
getting on my nerves.”
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