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Conger Reynolds correspondence, May-December 1916

1916-08-16 Conger Reynolds to Mr. & Mrs. John Reynolds Page 15

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guns. Infantryman stay in the trenches awhile and then go back for a rest, but the members of "the suicide club" stay until they are wounded or killed. In sixteen months this young chap took part in so many charges that he lost count of them, was wounded five times, and was mentioned twice in dispatches. The first time he was wounded he got a bullet through the flesh on his knee. He fell in "no man's land" and lay there six hours with the bullets whizzing over him. For the first hour and a half he dared not move lest he be shot again; the rest of the time he was unconscious and couldn't move. Gangrene set in and it took him two weeks in the base hospital
 
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