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Conger Reynolds correspondence, June 1918
1918-06-07 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 3
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the stretchers on which they lay. The "sitting" cases told the correspondents how the advance had been made against a storm of machine gun bullets and shells. I remember particularly one chap whom we helped into the seat beside the ambulance driver. He had been shot through the knee. Was he worried about that? He was not. He was worried because he had lost his equipment. Some consolation for him was the knife he had taken from a German - after shooting him. He thought he could cut his bread with it, and he hoped Uncle Sam might give him more equipment as reward for the two dead Germans he had to his credit. One of the doctors took us to a little room upstairs where two wounded Bosches were dying. Beside them lay French uniforms
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the stretchers on which they lay. The "sitting" cases told the correspondents how the advance had been made against a storm of machine gun bullets and shells. I remember particularly one chap whom we helped into the seat beside the ambulance driver. He had been shot through the knee. Was he worried about that? He was not. He was worried because he had lost his equipment. Some consolation for him was the knife he had taken from a German - after shooting him. He thought he could cut his bread with it, and he hoped Uncle Sam might give him more equipment as reward for the two dead Germans he had to his credit. One of the doctors took us to a little room upstairs where two wounded Bosches were dying. Beside them lay French uniforms
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