Boone Youth Went Over
Seven Times
Private Fred Winkler, Co. M, 120th infantry, 30th
division, arrived in the city yesterday afternoon en route to Boone to visit
his mother, Mrs. Ella Winkler, after an experience in France that took him
seven times over the top and left him wounded three times. He arrived in New
York on December 21 on the steamer Baltic, was sent to Camp Greene and came in
yesterday afternoon and spent the night with his uncle, Mr. D.G. Taylor,
leaving today for home.
Private Winkler was wounded on September 29, the very day
the 30th division cracked the Hindenburg line. As fierce as that
battle was, the young man is of the opinion that the capture of Kemmel Hill in
Belgium earlier in the campaign was the toughest job.
In the battle for the Hindenburg line he received a wound in
the left leg and two machine gun bullets through the stomach—one on each side.
One of the bullets is still in him, according to the X-ray picture.
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