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Updated: May 18, 2025
At one time there was no iodine, no bandages, no number 9's at Kodish Front. The medical officer under discussion was never on the front and gained the hearty dislike of the American doughboys for his conduct.
"K" Company came up fresh from its rest in Archangel keen to knock the Bolo out of Kodish and square the November account.
Chappel from Issaka Gorka with the other two platoons of "K" company closely followed by Captain Cherry with "L" Company from the Railroad force. General Finlayson, whose job it was to take Plesetskaya, now sought to shove the Kodish force ahead rapidly so as to trap the Reds on the railroad between the two forces.
In the morning Captain Cherry took his company and two platoons of "K" and struck south to pass by the flank and fall upon Kodish in rear of the enemy who was holding the position in great force at the river. The remainder of "K" Company moved upon the right of the enemy front line at the river crossing.
A determined smash of the three Allied columns would have won the coveted position. But the Kodish force now received the same strange order from far-off Archangel that was received on the other fronts: "To hold on and dig in." No further advances were to be made.
We left "K" Company and Ballard's platoon of machine gun men, heroes of the fall fighting at Kodish, resting in Archangel. We have seen that the early winter was devoted to building defenses against the Reds who showed a disposition to mass up forces for an attack. "K" Company had come back to the force in December and with "L" Company gone to reserve in Seletskoe.
Now the trench mortar platoon and "M. G." platoon went to the railroad front, and Major Donoghue was the last one to leave the famous Kodish Front, where he had won distinction.
Attacks from the front, sly raids from the woods on each side of the road, heart chilling assaults upon the cluster of houses in Kodish way in their rear, and steady progress of the Red Guards toward the bridge on the Emtsa, their only way out of the bag in which the worn and depleted company was being trapped, brought the prolonged struggle to a crisis in the middle of the afternoon of the eighth of November.
Donoghue Brings Valuable Reinforcements Bolshevik Orator On Emtsa Bridge Conditions Detrimental To Morale Preparations For Attack On Kodish Savage Fighting Blade To Blade Bolsheviks Would Not Give Way Desperately Bitter Struggle We Hold Kodish At Awful Cost Under Constant And Severe Barrage Half-Burned Shell-Gashed Houses Mark Scene Of Struggle We Retire From Kodish Again We Capture Kodish But Can Not Advance Death Of Ballard Counter Attack Of Reds Is Barely Stemmed Both Sides See Futility Of Fighting For Kodish "K" Means Kodish Where Heroic Blood Of Two Continents Stained Snows Richly.
"K" Company Hurries To Save Force "B" Importance Of Kodish Front Hazelden's Force Destroyed First Fight At Seletskoe Both Sides Burn Bridges Desperate Fighting At Emtsa River Capture Of Kodish Digging In We Lose Village After Days Of Hard Fighting Trenches And Blockhouses.
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