D 5 TO .34-6 3o3cL- M6 erwicc ecor Class _______ Book Oop)_gMlf ________ COKRIGHT DEPOSIT. - Mi THE SERVICE RECORD Le Journal des Exploits du Compagnie C 303rd Field Signal battalion American Expeditionary Force PRODUCED BY Members of Company C— 303rd Field Signal Battalion HAROLD O. MOHR, EDITOR & PUBLISHER 1919 H570 • 34** 3o3d LitU -i )CI.A559722 COPYRIGHT. 1919 BY HAROLD O. MOHR ^SERVICE TMST RECORD SEMUR AND ITS TOWERS page six ^SERVICE yj288\ RECORD Attention! WHEN we first set foot on French soil — at Calais — we were greeted by the query "Sou- venir? Souvenir?" from the little French urchins who hoped the Yanks had a few stray Lincoln coppers in their O D's. We laughed at them then as we cleared our pockets, and pleased the French kids. Now that it's finis la guerre, the tables are turned and we are crying "Souvenir!" We aren't after pennies, tho — it's something to cherish as a record of our service in Uncle Sam's Army. You see, Uncle Sam and his boys lived thru some wonderful experiences while we have been his boys — and we want to have a suitable remembrance of those exciting times. Of course we have our Prussian helmets, our Lugers, our iron crosses and what not, but they don't quite fill the bill. So we decided to print a book and cover the whole thing — from the time we entered the army to date. We acted on that decision. Here's the book. It's packed with slang expressions ; an occasional "damn" will be found ; there are numerous words and expressions, coined by the A. E. F. ; and there are plenty of curiously-spelled words. All because we wanted to give a real idea of what we had to do, how we did it, what we thought, how we felt, what and how we said it, and what others thought about it. We couldn't tell all the humorous — and sad — experiences we went thru while we were ac- quiring service stripes. So we've touched only the high spots — and will use the book as notes when we spin our yarns to the home folks around the old fireplace. So, please bear this in mind when you turn the pages. We have not shown the authorship of the articles because some of us furnished the ideas and others worked them out, while others did the illustrating — everybody helped. We're all content to say that the boys of Company C wrote, illustrated and published the entire book. If it pleases our Mothers, Dads, Brothers, Sisters and Wives — or Sweethearts — then we've gained our objective. Thank you. The Editor. page seven ^SERVICE Tggr RECORD page eight S»H 'SERVICE "TIBST RECORD Above the drone of industry, Above the mart's weird lay, Above that quaint tranquility That steeps each farmland day Haunting voices rise, and free Pent-up gems of memory. Men of iron, comrades true, Can this tribute measure you ? You, who nobly bore the strife, Suffered hardship, gave your life, Trod the walks of whispering death, Felt its chill, uncanny breath, Faltered not, but pushed ahead Through that hell fire, Prussian bred, Dared the evils of the air, Weary, but without despair, Carried on, with grit supreme, Communication's urgent scheme. You, whose glorious career Climaxed in a Mother's tear. A murmured rite, a wooden cross, A resting place 'neath Franco moss. To you the laurels, halos, fame — A star of honor by your name. And, in this hour of warm regret, We promise never to forget. page nine ffl@ ^SERVICE ^5S\ RECORD This is "Old Jim," as we thought of him — Major James Kelly, S. B. C, as the army knows him — commander of the 303rd. He's a good scout — a real man — so we're happy to dedicate this little souvenir to him. page ten ^'SERVICE 7^KL RECORD THERE are four companies and a medical detachment in the 303rd Field Signal Battalion. Headquarters company is the administrative head of the battalion. The medical attachment works with the battalion when the battalion is together. A, or radio, company handles the wireless for the division. B, or wire, company operates the brigade and division exchanges, extending its communication system to connect with the corps exchange. C, or outpost, company boasts a personnel numbering 280 men — one of the largest companies in the entire army. This company establishes, maintains and operates all telephone exchanges from and including the regimental exchanges, to the front line, also extending its communications to connect with the brigade exchanges, operated by B company. C company has charge, also, of all other lines of communica- tion within its area. C company is divided into four pla- toons of 65 men each — the remaining 20 forming the com- pany headquarters section, handling the company's adminis- trative matters. Upon completion of the instruction schedule, the time came for breaking up the company. Each of the four platoons was attached to one of the regiments of the division. The first platoon was assigned to the 309th regiment, the second to the 310th, the third to the 311th and the fourth to the 312th. Each infantry regiment had a signal platoon, consisting of 76 men, commanded by a second lieutenant. This platoon was a part of the regimental headquarters company. The lieutenant commanding the platoon from company C took charge of the infantry signal platoon in addition to his own and assumed the duties of Regimental Signal Officer. page eleven To carry out this work, he split up his personnel — 141 en- listed men, and the lieutenant from the signal platoon — send- ing a detachment of mixed signal corps and infantry signal men to each of the battalions within the regiment, and one detachment was retained at regimental headquarters. Usual- ly a telephone detail was the one to be sent to each of these four units and the cable laying section was also retained at regimental headquarters. The Regimental Signal Officer directed the liaison system from regimental headquarters, leaving a sergeant first class in charge of each of the four units of his command. The M. S. E. assisted the Regimental Signal Officer by keeping a general eye on the signal work within the regiment. The cook either worked with the infantry cooks or organized a separate mess for the men of his platoon. The extra pri- vates, as shown in the diagram, were used where they were needed most. C company's specialty is the telephone and it maintained a very complete system throughout its sphere of operation. But it also built up auxiliary communication schemes, for use in case Jerry should succeed in breaking up telephone communication. The auxiliary means were: The buzzer- phone, T. P. S., Lucas lamps, flags, aeroplane panels, fire- works and pigeons. The infantry also maintained a runner system which connected all units within the regiment. So, you will see, an extensive communication system was available at all times, and that ample precautions were taken to prevent the division from suffering an attack of nervous prostration — for the communications of a military unit cor- respond to the nerves of the human body. 1 ^SERVICE RECORD V K Platoon •c- Oht Outmost Company — Organtja-tion- — OK* eom.pt nv m divided into four platoons of LS men, each , &nd a. head- cua.rttrs section/ of 20 ■men. ,280 men in all . A captain commands ike- contpa.ni/f ea.ck platoon, u in command cf a, heuteiwt assisted, hij b-a- ril.SX. 3he platoen- consist' °f 4 Jeiepkonc sections and. a. Cable l&yinq section .Jhc latter has a sereetnl in cto. n, set. assistant dgd 7pnra1ts ini.lk nnf torBoTB.1. P 3 rD Platoon Z"° Platoon Company Organization ItacTf |>«5CT| |i*30T| rscTt ISGTl 1 st TCLtPHONC Section 2"' Telephone Section 3" TELtPHONE Section A-th Telephone, Sectioh Cable laying Section __ Platoon Organization I" Platoon lia. Section i — | ACT. HESS JS6T,| I SPL'V.SQT I I I \actg !'-• 66t~| (chauffeur] HORSE .SHOEFLlhl PRlVATCsl 2 CPL CLCRKS] | Z SQT hfcHJS A Jelcphont Sction, has 13 wen . A sergeant I " class ik ctorge ,d scrfesit assistant, a. corpro.1 iru charge of f linemen, a. corporal and 4 Operators mid a, corporal switch id. np&rx.tnr page twelve as ^SERVICE }asv RECORD WHEN the United States entered the world's conflict in 1917, many young bloods were eager to partici- pate in the excitement or felt it their duty to follow the path of their illustrious forefathers by enlisting in Uncle Sam's new army for the duration of the war, then existing only on paper, but in plans in the greatest constructive minds in the country. The executive ability later displayed in carrying out those plans and the results obtained give all Americans who had the opportunity to make a comparison with the same work by Europeans, more enthusiastic for Yankee progressiveness and ability than ever before. After enlisting and being told all about the "mounted Signal Corps," the boys who had selected that organization made haste to bid home folks and friends a fond farewell ; to place their business affairs in such shape that they would not suf- fer in the event of the immediate departure of the newly made soldiers. Then followed a long summer of agonizing expectancy with no word from Washington; all the more agonizing because of its uncertainty and the fact that many had passed up valuable commercial opportunities on account of the daily expectation of receiving a penalty envelope from the War Department with its contents directing the recipient to report to some camp or other. The summer passed and the leaves began to show the signs of fall when, early in October, the following letter was re- ceived by some fifty-five or sixty men who had been looking for it so long : Headquarters Eastern Department Office of the Signal Officer Army Building, 39 Whitehall Street New York City John Doe, 1936 Swatava Street, Harrisburg, Pa. By direction of the President the Signal Enlisted Reserve is to be mobilized under existing law. You will sign enclosed transportation request, present it to local railroad agent and secure ticket. Your meals en route will be furnished by yourself and you will be reimbursed at rate of 50 cents per meal ($1.50 per day). Report to Commanding Officer, Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N. J., on Oct. 11, 1917. By command of Brig. Gen. Hoyle: W. A. Simpson, Adj. Gen., Adjutant. The majority of these notices specified October 11th as the date to report, but a few were October 8th. On October 11th a motley procession wended its way from the new sta- tion through the mud of erstwhile cornfields, (not so very erstwhile at that), to the brand new barracks near the brand new post office where the procession stopped and the first men to be assigned to Company C, 303rd Field Signal Bat- talion, were led into the barracks assigned to that unit. First Lieutenant Morton F. Sultzer was then in command of Company C and it was by his efforts that Company C learned its left foot from its right when both feet seemed to be left ; went through the first lessons in semaphore, wig-wag and buzzer — three accomplishments that we later discovered to be almost useless in modern warfare. page thirteen wl^ ^SERVICE vKK RECORD The first day was spent in getting beds, bed sacks, blankets and comforts, filling the bed sacks with straw and setting up and cleaning up the barracks and grounds. The beds were folding iron cots with springs. They seemed to us to be a very poor excuse for beds after just coming from civil life, but oh ! what a luxury they would have been in France where we had mud, stone, boards or manure for beds — the only springs being the wet weather springs that make northern France a beautiful expanse of mud. The difficulties of the mess-kit were among the first problems to engage our attention. Being extremely hungry and con- fronted with a savory meal and given a cup, two pans, a knife, fork and spoon to get a share of that same meal, it be- hooved the rookies to learn quickly how to handle all these tools with Nature's allotment of two hands when it seemed that a professional hashslinger would have trouble managing it with an extra hand or two. It did not take long to learn the art and become very adept in mess-kit juggling. It is doubtful if there is a man in the outfit now who cannot han- dle two mess-kits at once and do it gracefully. The following two weeks were spent in getting introduction to more brand new problems than were ever put up to any of the men in such a short time before or since. Squads East, semaphore, wig-wag, buzzer, reveille, retreat, bugle calls, learning the difference between the left foot and the right, saluting shave-tails, K. P., guard, inspection and fatigue kept us all so busy that it seemed to us that there never would be any time for ourselves. Fatigue — how much work of all description that word does cover ! Picking up matches and cigarette butts, digging ditches and building roads, sheds and board walks and, in fact, any kind of work at all goes by the name of fatigue. While we are on the subject it is in order to mention one of our men who won fame on two continents as an indefati- gable fatigue fiend. Theodore Davis was one of C Com- pany's first arrivals and soon displayed his ability to tackle any proposition at all from stenciling your number on a blanket to building a stable or moving a wood pile. A poor, harmless wood pile would be resting in peace in some obscure spot where it hoped to spend the balance of its days — but no such luck. The eagle eye of Ted Davis would light on Mr. Woodpile and "Aha ! I knew there was some- thing we could do to keep the boys busy !" would exclaim our redoubtable Ted and out must come all hands regardless of their half holiday occupations of writing letters home or enjoying a nap on a bunk. Then the company would be en- gaged in moving said wood pile to some other spot a few feet away. This process was kept up until a woodpile became nervous, fidgety and ill at ease whenever Davis came into its neighborhood. One wood pile we had became so used to be- ing moved that it would get ready to change its location every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon. These days are half holidays. It was not long before Davis was known in both America and Europe by the appropriate name of Fatigue Davis. The following story comes from a reliable source and is readily believed by all who know Davis. When the 312th Infantry entered Grand Pre the Huns were supposed to have been driven out by the 77th whom the 78th relieved. As a matter of fact the majority of the city was strongly held by the Germans. Jimmy O'Kane walked up to these Germans: "Hello, Jerry," he said. "Hello, Yank," they replied. "Have a smoke ?" offered Jim as he rolled his own. "Sure, we will," was the quick response, "but what are you doing in our town?" "Why the 77th said they took it away from you yesterday," was our brave corporal's reply. "It is just like the 77th to say something like that," said a German who formerly had a cabbage farm near Yap Hank, New York, "but you will have to get out of Grand Pre." Upon being asked what outfit he belonged to and who was in charge Jimmy told them that he was with the 303rd Sig- nals and that Fatigue Davis was in charge. This threw the Jerries into a panic and they exclaimed: "Let's get out of here before he sees us or he'll put us to work !" They did, and that is the way Davis and O'Kane captured Grand Pre. When the first arrivals of C Company came to Dix there were few barracks, no roads and much mud. This condi- tion of affairs was not allowed to exist very long for by the time we had learned to do squads right about without for- getting which way the column was moving, Camp Dix corn- page fourteen ^•SERVICE y^Sy RECORD menced to show a wonderful array of barracks with streets and sewers laid out in a most efficient manner. Good mac- adam roads and well-made ditches did much to make Jersey's wonderful mud a place tenantable for the embryo army that was then pouring in wearing the ribbon of Local Draft Board Number Whatsis. After the third week in Dix there was one thing looked for- ward to more than anything else. Week-end passes were is- sued so that from Saturday noon to Monday morning those living near Dix could spend the week-end at home. Nearly everyone went every week until the arrival of Major James Kelly cut the number of passes down so that a man got a pass not oftener than once a month. "Ye'll lear-r-n ye're in the ar-r-my," said that veteran of six campaigns — and learn we did. Major Kelly took charge of the 303rd about our sixth week in Dix. From that date we began to be more military and relinquished more of our privileges — we learned that the army was not a picnic. Those were trying days for us just come from civil life and put on a strict military basis, but, thanks to Old Jim, we passed the crisis quickly and fell into the ways of the army. During November and December about twenty more men came to Company C from the Depot Brigade. This made the strength of the company about eighty men. The close of the third month found us all fed up on drill and training and full of a desire to go anywhere just to get away from the hum-drum of Camp Dix. Some of the boys tried out the precarious A. W. O. L. stunt with the result that pay day held small meaning for them for several months afterwards. We learned all the tricks of the trade such as going to reveille with an overcoat covering omissions of such trouble- some articles of apparel as shirts and blouses ; skipping over to Mount Holly, sans pass, and back without getting caught and riding the sick book. Riding the sick book is quite an art. There is to be a ma- noeuver or a hike that you dislike to take part in, therefore, on the morning that you are to start on the hated work you become suddenly ill and report to the medico. If you are a good actor you get marked "quarters," which means that you stay in the barracks all day with nothing to do, but if you are a bum actor you may earn a dose of castor oil for your pains. Of course, in the latter case, you will be marked "duty" and must work, but what do you care, for the bunch has already left and you will stay behind and think as little of castor oil as possible. Great game. During the middle of the Winter the camp was quarantined on account of an epidemic of measles. The Y. M. C. A.'s were closed, no one was permitted to leave the camp area and even the old pastime of going to Wrightstown to be bur- glarized was tabooed. Time passed slowly and for a short time at the beginning of the quarantine, life was almost miserable. An order had been issued that windows were to be kept open day and night. The weather was near zero and it is not hard to im- agine what the inside of the barracks was like. This only lasted a short time until the order was changed to read "suffi- cient ventilation" and we were enabled to heat up the bar- racks once more. The last day of the quarantine was duly celebrated with a ceremonial burial of Old Man Quarantine in which we used Paddy Hasson for the corpse. A grand exodus from camp then set in; Wrightstown be- ing the mecca for the majority of the camp and that little place less than half a dozen blocks in size, was slightly over- crowded with fifteen to twenty thousand men trying to get into the stores and various places of amusement at the same time. The shopkeepers in Wrightstown hailed this liberation with glee. Had not all these men more or less money to spend and was not Wrightstown the only place to spend it ? "Oy ! Oy ! Raise der prices kvick, Ikey." They were some prices. Twenty-five cents for a whisk broom or a soap box that cost a nickel or a dime at home and six to ten cents for a cake of five cent soap made you desire muchly to get some of those highway robbers by the neck, lead them to a mustering officer and thence to a rookie squad page fifteen ^SERVICE RECORD where they would be taught the gentle art of shoveling mud for Uncle Sam at one dollar per day less insurance, liberty bond and allotment money. After a month of this they should be marched to Wrightstown with a month's pay in their pockets and discover to their disappointment how little those burglars would give them for their month's pay. Wrightstown was a quiet old country village until Camp Dix was built when a flock of stores of all descriptions com- menced to spring up overnight. These stores at once com- menced to do a land office business at overgrown prices and in a short time a regular little boom was in existence. A queer coincidence was the burning of these stores and the signing of the armistice within a few days of each other. One place in Wrightstown that was a contrast to all the rest of the town was the Haversack. The Haversack was a sol- diers' club conducted by Miss Durgin and some other ladies from East Orange who seemed never to tire of serving ice cream, cake, pie and coffee to a never ending stream of men from camp. There were plenty of musical instruments on hand and several rooms were fitted up as reading rooms. The Haversack did much to make life in Camp Dix endur- able. In March one hundred and fifty men from Fort Leaven- worth, Kansas, came to Company C and with some transfers from other organizations brought the strength of our com- pany to above two hundred and ninety men. The company was at full strength with two hundred and eighty men so, with our present strength, we were assured of a complete company to go overseas. March and April dragged along with the usual hum-drum of buzzer practice, squads east and all the rest of the monoto- nous programme and May was well on its way when we were issued full overseas equipment, quarantined in the bat- talion area and even ordered not to talk about it in our let- ters home. But after a few days the quarantine was lifted and the battalion again allowed to visit Wrightstown where getting nothing for something was the favorite pastime. Great was our disappointment and enlightenment in the ways of the army when the order was given postponing the de- parture of the 78th Division. This disappointment was often referred to later while the erstwhile disappointed ones were sleeping and working in mud and eating half a can of bully beef and a box of hardtack for the big meal of the day. "I wanted to get to Sunny France when I was in Camp Dix," said one fellow, "but if I could get back there now you would never hear a peep from me." This seemed to be the general opinion and may be criticised as unpatriotic, but had the critic been at St. Mihiel and later in the Argonnes he would have witnessed such fine work by these same grumblers that he would consider the grumbling as of no importance. This is too far advanced for our story for we are not yet out of Jersey's sand hills. As was said before, we had received a little enlightenment in the ways of the army. This was only too true, but all that we learned in these seven months was only a drop in the proverbial bucket compared to our later education. Our outfit had been prepared to move and had the movement postponed and settled for a long stay in congenial surroundings only to be marched out the following morning so many times and had been so sadly disillusioned on many reports of the future movements of our division that we have become so skeptical that we will not believe that it is going to rain until the drops begin to fall — not even if the leaves turn the white side, the sky gets black and the chickens hunt cover. We refuse to believe in signs. A few days after the quarantine had been lifted it was clamped on again and this time for good. Very early in the morning of May 26th, 1918, we boarded a train which hauled us to Jersey City, a ferry carried us to Brooklyn and unloaded us at the pier we embarked from. An hour or so later we were on the lower deck of H. M. S. Toloa , a former fruiter owned by the United Fruit Company but then mas- querading as a king's transport. At six o'clock the follow- ing morning the Toloa slipped past the Statue of Liberty in a heavy fog and waited outside of the harbor for the rest of the convoy and, on its arrival, started her zig-zag course across the Atlantic. After a few days out, new ships were noticed in our fleet. Members of the crew volunteered the information that ships sailing from Halifax were to join us in that neighborhood page sixteen ^ ^SERVICE 7^ RECORD v and that we had been killing time there for several hours while awaiting their arrival. With the exception of a torpedo, that was fired at us one night without harm to anyone, the voyage proved uneventful but a few incidents mentioned here may prove interesting and give some idea of life on a troop transport. The Toloa was manned by a British crew and had made sev- eral trips from the U. S. to England with American soldiers, the same crew in the cooks galley having been with the ship continuously. Naturally, these old timers knew the ways of our boys and were much alive to the fact that the food fur- nished on shipboard was far inferior to the worst we had ever received in training camp, while at times, nothing but an old salt with a shark's stomach could make a meal of the tripe and ancient fish that was served. The Tommies and Scotchmen, ever keen to gather a little easy money, would sell sandwiches and even meals of fowl meant for the ship's captain. All of this sounds fine until it is discovered that the fellows paid fifty cents for a sandwich or as high as five dol- lars for some chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy and that all the money went to the cook or steward, who went to no expense whatever — then they appear to have been bur- glars. Of course our lads did not submit to this treatment with- out some sort of retaliation which led to much worry on the part of the cooks and stewards. One of the favorites was to buy something from one of the brigands thereby learning where he kept his stock of contraband eats. After that it remained only to seize the first opportunity to make away with his whole stock in trade. At one time a cook who had previously sold a pint of hot tea, price 30 cents, had three roasted chickens laid away, for which he ex- pected to collect a rich reward. He was doomed to dis- appointment for his victim returned while the cook was absent, and when the cook returned the chickens were ab- sent. On the Toloa was the 309th Machine Gun Battalion and the 303rd Field Signal Battalion with one thousand and five hundred men respectively. These fifteen hundred men maintained a guard of sixteen posts. On the last night of the trip the 303rd was on guard, when, at about 1 A. M. some of the Tommies seemed to display a rather con- strained quietness. Being a curious lad the sergeant of the guard inquired as to the cause, whereupon he learned that the Toloa was then passing through the Rathlyns, and that this was one of Von Tirpitz' favorite hunting grounds. The quietness then became mutual. Another member of the guard, upon learning the situation, made his way to the hammocks of some very nervous individuals, wakened them and explained our location with some enlargements of his own concerning the activities of the "subs" at that par- ticular place. Quite comforting! Shortly after this it became light enough to distinguish the coast of Scotland which, enhanced by an early sunrise, made as nice a bit of scenery as we have seen on this side. After a year away it is a safe bet that a choice be- tween a New Jersey sandhill and the coast of Scotland if given to one of our outfit, the sand hill would win in a walk. The Toloa ran into Liverpool that evening, and the troops unloaded the following morning when we bade good-bye and loaded into the hearses used by Europeans for railroad coaches. The English furnished coaches for our ride from Liver- pool to Dover, which consumed over fourteen hours. Eng- lish coaches are very uncomfortable, but since that time our few train rides have been in "Cheveaux Eights," that make even the cramped comfort of a third class European coach seem like a Pullman. The toy train that we were riding on finally pulled into Dover, where we unloaded. The country through which we had just traveled was very pretty, and around Dover it was no less so, but we discovered in the twenty-minute walk that followed our arrival that, although the land might be pretty, it was composed of chalk and was most uncom- fortable when it settled in dust form on us. We walked to the top of one of the cliffs where we moved into an old hotel building. All of the windows were shaded in order to keep any light from guiding one of Jerry's page seventeen ^tf ^SERVICE ^gg \ RECORD ^§IN^ bombs toward the encampment. This little sign told us that we were at last within the sphere of Heinie's activi- ties. During our stay at Dover, about three days, we saw the old Dover Castle and the city of Dover with its crooked streets and got ourselves copiously covered with chalk dust. From Dover we sailed to Calais accompanied by sub chas- ers and aeroplanes. The short journey was accomplished with no mishaps, much singing and bright prospects of air- ing ourselves in the big British rest camp, that we had heard so much about, at Calais. Oh, what a disillusionment awaited us at Calais! Rest Camp Number Six was reached after a two-mile hike through six dusty inches of chalk and sand, the journey ending in as fine a sand pile as any seacoast could fur- nish. The tents were of the circular type, designed to shelter about eight men. Each tent was pitched over a hole in the ground with sand bag walls and board floors. This was for protection from shrapnel during air raids. Into each of these tents sixteen men were crowded. Sleep- ing was possible only during the short interval that one's feet remained on top of the pile of feet in the center. All feet were placed in the center, which naturally made a pile of feet. The feet on the bottom of the pile, having thirty feet on top of them, would get tired and be with- drawn by the owner and placed on top. This process would be kept up all night, and is one of the reasons no tears were shed when we left Calais. Calais, from a military standpoint, was a very important point ; consequently, frequent raids were made by bomb- ers. One of the nights we spent there was marked by one of these raids. Beaucoup hardware was scattered but, so far as we could discover, no one was injured. Separated from our tents by a barbed wire fence were the barracks of several hundred Chinese laborers. The air- raid got these Chinks very much excited, and long after it was over they kept up a jabbering discussion. We could not tell what they said, but they seemed to cover the sub- ject thoroughly. In Calais we were given another test in real gas which we all passed without trouble — thanks to the thoroughness of our training at Camp Dix. Several instructors were fur-, nished by the British, one of them being a big, kilted Scotchman with a rich voice and a wonderful brogue. One of the things he told us before the gas was put over was that he had casualties during instruction every day. It is easy to guess that this accelerated the movement when the signal was given to don masks while a yellow fog moved across the ground in our direction. This gas drill recalls to memory a fellow named Brenna — appropriately nicknamed "Snooze," on account of his never getting up for reveille, or in fact any formation he did not wish to attend regardless of the punishment he earned. He had a fine voice and loved to use it. On the day we were to have the final gas test Brenna was reported absent from the formation. "Where is Private Brenna?" asked the lieutenant. "I don't know, sir," replied the top sergeant. Just then, through the window of the Y. M. C. A. about fifty feet away came "That's a Baby's Prayer at Twilight" in "Snooze's" well known tones. The company was at attention but everybody grinned just the same. Nobody said a word but "That's a Baby's Prayer at Twilight" was the popular song on the hike that after- noon. All accommodations pertaining to a training camp were very poor at Calais, and imagine what we, who were newly uprooted from one of the best equipped camps in America, thought of it. Imagine our comedown from spring cots with mattresses in a big, cheery barracks to a blanket on a board floor in a tent one-half or one-third large enough with plenty of sand to fill the hair, ears, nose and mouth of the sleeper; from the meals furnished in a land of plenty in a model mess hall by a much-inspected sanitary kitchen to the noto- riously poor cooking and dark, dreary mess hall at Calais ; from the rugged shower baths at Camp Dix (they would be luxuries in northern France), to a plunge in three feet of salt water as cold as good beer. Rest Camp Number page eighteen w ^SERVICE 7^&. RECORD Six was pas bon. The only reason we could see for call- ing it "Rest" Camp was that a man certainly needed a rest after he had been there a few days. One day, while we were at Calais, some of us hopefully went down to the so-called lake for a bath. After a nice two-mile plod through the sand that could be properly navigated by a camel (none of our bunch have any of that animal's characteristics), we prepared for a nice dive into the "lake." After wading across and back and forth, searching in vain for a place at least waist deep, we re- paired to the bank for soap in order to have a good scrub, only to discover at that late moment that the water was extremely salty, and the soap we had was pas bon. While we were bathing we were struck by the extreme modesty of the French women and girls who were there peddling oranges (three for a franc). We were all dressed in Nature's bathing suit, but that did not bother those fe- males a bit, for they came right up to us and criticised dif- ferent points of the physique of several individuals. After dressing we went back to camp accompanied by the sticky feeling that follows a plunge in very salty water. Our next bath was over ten days later, and, although the water was colder than a mountain trout stream, we had learned that only a poor soldier kicks as long as the water will wash off dirt. At Calais the barracks bags that we had come to believe absolutely necessary, and which we had shipped over stuffed to the last inch, were filled with all personal stuff we could not carry and put in storage. We were told that when we came out of the lines that the bags would be returned to us, but we have been out of the lines about six months and have seen nothing of them yet. Au revoir, barrack bags. Some of the equipment we had carried over was turned in to the Q. M. C. to be re-issued. The following is an ap- proximate list of the equipment carried over by each man: 1 Overcoat 2 Uniforms 3 O. D. shirts 3 Suits winter underwear 3 Suits summer underwear 6 Pairs socks 3 Pairs shoes 4 Pair shoelaces 3 Pair gloves 3 Blankets 1 Shelterhalf 1 Tent pole 5 Tent pins 1 Campaign hat 1 Winter cap 1 Slicker 1 Belt 1 Canteen 1 Mess kit 1 Condiment can 1 Bacon can 1 Helmet 1 Haversack and pack carrier In addition to these were toilet articles and all personal stuff, such as sweater, handkerchiefs, etc., and also several pounds of rations. Some pack. At Calais we were ordered to turn in a part of the fore- going, with the result that a pack became one-third of its original weight. The big idea seems to have been to get transportation from America for the extra clothing to be used later in the field, said transportation being us. Our men, today, would almost become mutineers should they be ordered to carry such a pack as the one they carried from Dix to Calais. The stay at Calais was mercifully short. A few days after landing we were marched about three miles to the railroad and introduced to the famous Cheveaux Eights. On the side of a French box car is this inscription: "Hommes, 40; Cheveaux, 8," meaning that forty men or eight horses are to be loaded on that car. After loading on these cattle cars, with so many men to each car that it was a difficult matter for all to sit down page nineteen ^SERVICE 70R RECORD V at the same time, we were treated to a three-day ride with- out a sign of hot coffee and sandwiches, so much adver- tised during Y. M. C. A. money-raising campaigns. On the third day we landed on a siding, and as usual in French railroading we staid awhile. It was here that the Red Cross gave us some coffee which reminded us that there was still some joy in life. By the time we had grown roots on this siding the frog train crew evidently had fin- ished all their lunches and conversations, for they pulled the train out on the main line and ran the other half mile to Lumbres, in the province of Pas-de-Calais. From Lumbres we carried the packs that we had not yet learned to lighten through the thirst producing chalky dust of that country to the little village of Lart. At Lart we camped on a nice green field with plenty of room in the tents for the men to sleep comfortably. This was about 4 P. M., and at about 4:05 P. M. we dis- covered, about three hundred yards from camp, a beau- tiful stream of (ice cold) water. An old mill pond, a spring board, a cake of soap and a towel soon put the pep back into our road-weary bunch. After a few days in the tents we moved into billets, which are much nicer to live in than tents — especially in rainy weather. Training was started again as soon as we got settled in our new home. Buzzers, Lucas lamps, flags and telephones with field maneouvers and endurance building hikes were handed to us until we thought that the war would be over before we were pronounced well enough trained for the lines. Up to this time our company had been organized in the usual infantry form of four platoons of eight squads each with eight men to each squad. We were now to be re- organized according to regulations for the Signal Corps. The reorganization was effected according to S. C. D. R., and our training carried on. After the reorganization our training was concentrated on installing and operating tele- phone systems under the supervision of British instructors. It is amusing to recall some of the good advice given us by these Tommies. All of their plans were for a sort of stationary warfare in elaborate trenches and dugouts which they occupied for months at a time. Accordingly, they painstakingly explained how to make ourselves at home and what preparations to make for an extended stay in the trenches when we got there. Another point they cov- ered well was how to make a good retreat; getting all the equipment or destroying it — not a word about advance. All this advice was a great help to us — we don't think — since the longest we usually occupied one dug-out was about two weeks, were never in the trenches as the Tom- mies knew them and were never in a retreat. Nearly the whole of our work was during advancing or raids, of which the Tommies had told us nothing. Late in June we said good-bye to Lart, and marched two miles to Nielles, a larger village in the same province, where we moved into billets with the same British instructors. Nielles is a small village boasting a butcher shop, six esta- minets and a few stores that had little the American soldat cared to buy. Of these the butcher shop and the esta- minets did the most business. Eggs, milk, potatoes and lettuce were quite plentiful, and when added to a few pork chops made to us what seemed a regular banquet. Beefsteak was never popular with us after the discovery that in French butcher shops the beefsteak was mostly cut from the carcass of a cheveaux. Horsesteak is good if one does not know he has eaten horse. In northern France the buildings are invariably placed in the same positions. For instance, the house is built on one side of a square with the stables, pigpen, granary, etc., on the other three sides ; all facing the center. The center, or courtyard, is used for manure pile, garbage dump, front yard, chicken and pig feeding place and front porch. It is usually paved with cobblestones. In the sheds of some of these establishments we made our homes at Nielles, which were O. K. as soon as we became accustomed to the smell. page twenty <§IP tagffSf ^SERVICE y2BS\ RECORD v Nielles was our home for several weeks, during which time we learned that the French are usually ready to help Americans part with their francs. For instance, wine that the French soldiers bought cost them one franc, while the price was five for American soldiers. With the excep- tion of the Australians, the Americans were the most high- ly paid soldiers in France, so you can scarcely blame the shopkeepers (who are mostly of the ignorant class) if they saw us coming. Our last gas test was taken while we were at Nielles. We filed to some trenches where we donned our masks. The gas was put over and we took our masks off as soon as it cleared away. Next, we listened to a long-winded lecture during which one of our men went to sleep beside a re- cently discharged gas cylinder and became very sick. How- ever, it was not serious. In all these lectures one point was made very strong: All masks must be on within six seconds after the alarm is sounded. If a man fails to get his mask on within that time he will be gassed. After we had been in the lines awhile the procedure was something like this: "There's a gas alarm, Bill." "Can you smell any gas?" inquires Bill. "No." "Let's go to sleep." "Same here." We were getting well fed up on training, which is in- evitable after a stay of a month or two in one place with only the dull drag of training for a time killer. It did not bother us a bit when, a few days after the Fourth of July had been duly celebrated in Nielles, we hiked to a little railroad station called Affringues, about three miles away, where we started on our second journey in Cheveaux Eights. This was with the usual jolty, slow movement, and with not enough room to stretch and wound up the next day about seven miles from St. Pol. After unloading and the usual map consultation being com- pleted, we started on an eight-mile hike that was the hard- est one we had yet had. Due to an overdose of Scotch consumed by our guide we took a route that led two miles further than necessary, and with Scotch setting the pace for us loaded with our heavy packs we stumbled into Her- lin-le-Sec about midnight with the majority of the men strung out along the road for a mile or so in the rear. The only water was about five hundred yards from our camp site. All the water had been used up hours before and, naturally, a drink of water was the principal thought of every man there. The water was in a deep well with one bucket to draw it up, causing the process to be very slow. It was over two hours before the line at the well was finished. As soon as our fellows had slept off the effect of the previ- ous two-days' travel they began to wander around on ex- ploring expeditions, the result of which showed that we were within a kilometer of the little village of Herlin-le- Sec which contained two estaminets and not another at- traction. Along the roads around the village were about a hundred lorries belonging to the British and used in transporting troops to and from the Arras front, which was a few hours ride from there. With those trucks were some work shops better equipped than the army usually carries. The me- chanics in these shops did not seem to be overworked, for they picked up quite a few extra francs making cigarette cases, rings and other souvenirs out of the brass of French 75's ; all of which found ready sale among the Americans. About three kilos north lay St. Pol, and although not a very important city, it was a railroad center that drew quite a few air raids from Jerry. After Jerry learned where our camp was he dropped an occasional barracks bag in our direction but never succeeded in doing us any dam- age, although he managed to make a direct hit on the rail- road while we were there. It was the day following Jerry's first visit that our nice little acre of tents that had been pitched so correctly on a pretty piece of sod was moved to the nearby shelter of three rows of elms and acting on the advice of the Brit- page twenty-one ^SERVICE ^fiS\ RECORD V 1 ■$^$^ ish no attempt was made to line them up, for irregularity- makes a better camouflage then straight rows of tents. The same British instructors that we had at Lart and Nielles came to Herlin with us and we went through the same old stuff as before. The old monotony of continuous training soon made itself obnoxious, and with August well on its way we had commenced to have visions of a winter in the trenches with the British — not to our liking. With these thoughts in mind we woke up one beautiful morning to find the third and fourth platoons ordered to join the 311th and 312th Infantry Regiments. This looked like business, and looked even more so a few days later when the balance of the 303rd was loaded on Cheveaux Eights in the usual overcrowded manner and hauled by many different engines and crews to Bourbonne-les-Bains, in the Haute Marne province, whither the 78th Division had been ordered. On the way to Bourbonne we passed through Chateau- Thierry where we saw our first fresh battlefield. The train stopped several times while crossing the newly captured territory, giving us an opportunity to investigate the Ger- man equipment that was lying everywhere. Americans are quite industrious when souvenirs are to be found, as the trainload of helmets and almost everything German the men could carry that was hauled away gave proof. How- ever, the subsequent twelve-mile hike on a hot macadam road was trail marked with most of those souvenirs. They are a nuisance on a long hike. The train ran through the edge of Paris where we caught fleeting glimpses of wide streets — that is all the most of us have ever seen of that city. The end of the train ride was La Ferete, twelve miles from Bourbonne, and our work for the next four hours con- sisted of hiking the intervening twelve miles. Realization that we were in sunny France was keen that afternoon while the sun was beating down on that twelve-mile macadam road and drinking water on par value with gold. But when we did arrive there were good billets and a hot supper with beaucoup hot coffee; none of which takes the joy out of life. The day after our arrival another joyful surprise awaited us in the form of a real hot bath in a real French bath house. For half a franc we enjoyed a hot tub bath that tourists in antebellum days paid five francs for. Bourbonne, too, proved to be a lively little city in which articles such as sugar, chocolate or even a good meal could be purchased at reasonable prices; the same not being true of the balance of France as we had known it. The people in Bourbonne seemed to be more hospitable than in the section we had just left, although the shopkeepers did not hesitate to slide the prices up a little if one showed too much money. Another elevation of spirits was caused when we discov- ered that we were now in a strictly American area and destined to be sent to an American sector. The attitude of the lower classes of Bourbonnese towards the negroes is amusing. The 92nd Division (black), was quartered in Bourbonne up to the time of our arrival. As told to us by some English-speaking French these fellows had given the people of Bourbonne an excellent line of talk about themselves being the real Americans while all the white soldiers were merely the lower classes. This story was steadfastly believed by some of the more ignorant French and, needless to say, caused several rough houses, as for instance, when a darkey walked into a saloon filled with white men and the madame who ran the place asked one of them to give the nigger his seat. The men at the table were from West Virginia. The 92nd had been moved from Bourbonne before our arrival and only a few of their men were there, so nothing serious happened. Bourbonne, however, was far too good to last; our good time there being brought to a quick end by an order for the first and second platoons of our company to report to the 309th and 310th Infantry Regiments. All of our company was now assigned to the outfits with which it worked in the field and it looked like real business for us at last. Our company was separated during the fighting and was not assembled again until long after the armistice was signed. page twenty-two ^SERVICE yasSBK RECORD V ^ &ijj^ With the outfits to which assigned here they went through the war, gaining the praise of not only the battalion and reg- imental commanders, but all the higher officers. The com- pany was highly commended, as were the separate platoons and the men individually ; to have been through the war with Company C, 303rd Field Signal Battalion is a source of pride for us and will be the basis of many "aprez la guerre" tales when we attain a long-wished-for discharge. The armistice has been signed and "when do we go home," had been the momentous question. On December 13th, Company C was assembled at Chevigny where the 303rd Field Signal Battalion headquarters were. This gave rise to the rumor that preparations were being made to go home, but this air-castle was wrecked the following day when it was learned that the company had been assembled for one day only for the purpose of a corps review. The reunion was glorious. Old friends who had not seen each other since the company was divided, met again. Stories of the front were told and retold, and accounts of the missing were given. There were many faces missing and many new ones in the ranks of the company for one hundred and fifty-five had made the supreme sacrifice or been evacuated to hospitals, and many new men sent to fill their places. Most missed of all was our captain, Luther Hagar. The company had never an officer so popular with his men as Captain Hagar had been, and his death while we were in action at the St. Mihiel sector was mourned as a great loss. Taps had no meaning the night the company assembled, the babble of conversation continued away into the morning. The day following the review, the platoons were sent to their respective regiments, where they remained until January 26th or 27th. On January 26th the second platoon moved from its station at Vic de Chassenay to Menetoy, about one kilometer away and three kilometers from Semur in the province of Cote d'Or. The follow- ing day the first, third and fourth platoons moved from their locations, Epoisses, Flavigny and Bussy le Grand, to Menetoy. This time the company was assembled for good. The first few days at Menetoy showed rather a large at- tendance at sick call, but nothing was thought of this. The weather was very wet, the men drilled in the snow and were subjected to wet feet continually, and the climate of that part of the country was always a source of colds for the Yankees, but on the 5th of February four men were blue-tagged to the hospital, with the flu and twelve more followed within a week, then we realized that the flu had us. These were unhappy days, for five of our men died in the hospital within a few days, and about thirty were in the pest house. The medical force gained control of the disturber, and we commenced to come back to normal again. Company commanders changed, and the new com- mander at once abolished some unnecessary guard duty that had been causing men to go to the pest house or hospital after every tour of duty, and more discrimination was used regarding the nature of the weather. The men were not forced to stay out unnecessarily, so that the flu soon became a memory and a sad one, when we think of the ones who never came back from the hospital. C company began to police up and clean up, for after a tour of duty in the lines we had become careless and looked decidedly slop- py. By the time the big review was held we were as fine looking as any outfit on the field. On March 26th, at 4:45 A. M. we had reveille, and immediately after we ate breakfast there, we were then loaded on trucks and were hauled to Venary, where General Pershing was to review the 78th division. We stood in formation on a muddy field while our colors were decorated with the ribbons for the St. Mihiel and Argonne fronts. About 7 P. M. the inspection and review were finished, and we listened to General Pershing's address. In his speech he said, "You are going home soon, I hope," and so did we. We had been standing in formation eleven hours. Our first man to go home (not via hospital) was Cook Leo C. Cain. Several weeks before we left Menetoy he received orders to pro- ceed homeward for discharge. Cain was our head cook, and a good one. His platoon and those who visited his kitchen while in the lines have much praise for his meals furnished and nerve he displayed in maintaining his kitchen under the continuous shelling. On March 25th, the 78th 1>age twenty-three ^SERVICE }ifiSv RECORD V 1 division was transferred to the 8th Army Corps. This was a genuine homeward bound preparation, and was wel- comed with a vin blanc celebration, that was second only to the one that was held on the night orders were received that we were to start on the homeward bound journey. The days dragged slowly, bub the sure signs, such as polic- ing up of the area we had occupied meant that we were going to move somewhere, sometime. On April 24th, about 8 A. M. we hiked to Semur, and stood around waiting to be herded into our box cars. Before leaving Menetoy an absurd amount of rations was issued to us with instruc- tions not to eat any of it. Now, when a few pounds were added to our packs, in the early days we docilely carried it, but now, nothing doing. It was only a short time until the Frogs were in possession of most of the rations. Char- acteristic of the French peasants was the action of the natives of Menetoy, who were given these rations. One nice old lady, who was always ready to do the soldiers a favor, cooking, washing, mending and anything that did not cost her money, was the recipient of corned beef, beans, bacon and hard tack, to the extent of some fifty or sixty dol- lars worth. "Merci, merci, Monsieur," until one thought she was overcome with gratitude, but when our fellows got eggs and milk from her, they had to pay the regular price, which was about 10 cents a quart for milk, and a dollar a dozen for eggs. She was no skinflint, either, she was mere- ly one of those thousands of French, not poor and not rich, who could live where a Jew would starve. At Semur we ate dinner at the entraining kitchen, and were given cocoa, cakes and chocolate by the Y. M, C. A. This was the first substantial free issue we had ever received from the Y. M. C. A., and was only the first of many agree- able surprises that greeted us between Semur and Mar- seilles. All bed sacks had been hauled from Menetoy to Semur. The straw in them, as we had been sleeping on them was left instead of being thrown out. This was an- other new departure, for heretofore we had emptied the bed sacks and carried them in our packs. At Semur the sacks full of straw were placed on the bottom of the box cars, an arrangement much more comfortable than the board floors we had become so well acquainted with. After having loaded on the box cars our train pulled out of Semur about 11 A. M. The cars were about the same size as American box cars, in fact, they were built in America for the A. E. F., having four-wheel trucks, instead of the old-country type of two-wheelers. Forty-five men was the assignment to each car, but some of the companies' cars managed to get themselves loaded with much less (leave it to C Company), so for once we had room enough to stretch out and sleep. The route was through Beaune and down the Rhone to Marseilles. The scenery, especially along the Rhone, was by far the finest we had seen in France, and when we neared Marseilles the lake came in view. The trip was well worth the trouble for the scen- ery alone, but coupled with the knowledge that we were going home, our spirits were high when we pulled into Marseilles about dusk on the 25th. The train had been provided with a kitchen car that furnished us with hot coffee at several stops. Also the crew, cars and engine were American, which explains the noticeable lack of de- lay by the train crew, an ever-present evil when we were hauled by French crews. A twenty-minute hike from the train landed us in Camp Covington, our last camp in France, for which we have no regrets. The first thing off the bat was inevitable physical in- spection that we had had so much of during our year in France. After this task was finished we were allowed to go to the barracks and turn in. The order to start homeward had been sprung on us so suddenly that it seemed almost too good to be true, and after we made the start everything had moved so smooth ly (thanks to the American system that was employed on this troop movement) that we were about half afraid some fool bugler would blow first call for reveille and bring us all out of it into the old exasperation of wait- ing in Menetoy. Three days of beaucoup dust and bully beef at Mar- seilles were terminated by the final hike to the pier from which we loaded onto the Re d'ltalia. page twenty-four 3$jp ^SERVICE 7MK RECORD The last man was on board about 4:30 that afternoon and at 5 o'clock the cables were loosened and the last leg of our year's journey was started. The Re d'ltalia was no pleasuse boat, but it was so much better than the Toloa that we were satisfied to let well enough alone. The biggest complaint was against the food, or rather the lack of it. Everything was cooked to perfection but there was never enough, and the changes in the menu were so few that the discontent soon made itself ap- parent in the mess line. The old query "when do we eat" became so persistent that our mess officer quickly got on the job and we had better eats the balance of the trip, although not nearly so good as we had been used to. A quite necessary evil while in France was the famous, or infamous "bully beef". Imagine the nerve of the "wops" in attempting to feed us that when there was ample fresh meat on board ! The cases of "bully" — six of them — were brought up from the hold and laid on the deck overnight, or rather part of the night, but the "bully" was destined to make the sharks realize the hor- rors of war because somebody fed it to them before morning and we ate something more appetizing that day. From Marseilles to Gibraltar on the Mediterranean the trip was beautiful. The coast of Spain was visible part of the time, the temperature was mild and the sea very smooth. Then besides, WE WERE ON OUR WAY HOME, so what more could we want? When the ship reached Gibraltar a day was spent in coaling. The methods employed were quite a contrast to what would be expected of a station with Gibraltar's importance. The coal was piled on a pier alongside which the Re d'ltalia tied up, and it was carried aboard in baskets. The baskets held eighty to one hundred pounds and were carried by a bunch of undersized Span- iards — one basket to a man. Those little fellows were husky though and were going just as strong at the end of a ten-hour day as at the start. There was no opportunity to go ashore at Gibraltar as we had hoped, so we had to be satisfied with merely an external glimpse of the famous rock. Of course the time-worn joke about the insurance sign was pulled and a few over-credulous persons strained their eyes in an attempt to see the great Prudential advertisement. Before sundown the same day that the ship coaled we turned toward the Atlantic and although the progress was slow, we were satisfied, but after the straits had been cleared the old boat seemed to be trying herself in an effort to put the coast of Spain away in the rear. For several hours that night the ship was piloted by a school of porpoises. The ship was making a good rate of speed, but the porpoises kept just ahead, and in the moonlight the phosphorescent flashes of their bodies, as they skipped ahead of us, dived, came up and skipped out of the water again, made a sight well worth see- ing. For about three nights these fish swam "like por- poises" for us but after we neared mid-ocean they left us. On the third day out from Gibraltar it looked as if we were in for some bad weather, but a wireless from a ship ahead that had run into the storm caused our skipper to alter his course and sail south of the storm. We missed the storm but the sea was rough enough to cause about half of our shipload to develop a strong affection for the rail. Everything came up but the moon ! As soon as the sea-sickness wore off, the trip became just one day after another of "when do we eat?" and "where are we today?" "Where are we today?" was shown on a chart in the hold of the ship and was as popular as a score-board in world series time. The last day of our trip the "Where are we?" chart was inconspicuously wrapped around the cane of "Tubby" Mohr and carried away with him "bon souvenir." On May 13 we crawled into New York harbor and finally went down the gang plank (about supper time). On the pier we immediately began to realize that we were really at home. The Red Cross had a big supper ready that was a regular feast for us after the fare on page twenty-five ^SERVICE 73K RECORD the Re d'ltalia. There was pie, real pie, and we had not tasted pie for a year. Then the Y. M., the J. W. B., the K. of C. and the Salvation Army were there with fruit, chocolate, chewing gum, cigarettes, 'n'everything. Oh my ! the royal reception we did get. It made us feel like going back and coming home again — almost. From the pier we went to the train that hauled us direct ly to Camp Dix. Y. M. and Red Cross both kept us loaded with more smokes and eats than we could use. For the first time in a year we were actually fed up on chocolate. About 1 :00 a. m. we landed in Dix, and finally went to bed in the same barracks that we lived in during the first stage of our eventful army career. On May 14 the final de-cootieizing commenced. We marched to a big shed, carrying everything we had, and turned in the blankets, underwear and old clothing. Next we had a real shower and were issued new underwear and what clothing was needed. Everybody tried to get dolled up as fine as possible before going home, but this seemed impossible. The clothing did not fit and hob- nailed shoes do not make a very dressy appearance, but these things did not seem to matter when the red chev- ron was sewed on — that chevron was enough to make any old uniform feel good. The time from the fourteenth to the eighteenth of May were the longest four days we spent in the army, and for the majority of Company C was the last four days so spent. The manner of discharging men in Camp Dix caused us to stay in the vicinity of the barracks all the time. First the company commander turned all of our service records over to the discharge unit, where the payrolls were made up. When the payrolls were made up the names on them were called and those whose names were called reported at once for physical examination. If a man happened to be away when his name was called he was very likely to be out of luck for an indefinite time. The physical examination was a joke. Provided that the soldier had made no claim for disability, he went through so fast that the various clerks had hard work getting his name and number. For instance when one came to the dentist the dentist asked, "Your teeth alright?" "All but two that " the fellow started to reply but was cut off by the D. O. who snapped out "Get them fixed at the lower end of camp. Next." If a man made a claim for disability it meant a prolonged stay in the army until all the red tape had been untan- gled and his claim adjusted. Needless to say that the prospects of an early return home versus an indefinite time in the army kept the claims down to a minimum, and, of course, many who should have claimed disability did not do so. After the examination we returned to the barracks to wait until we were called for pay. This finally came, for the ones being discharged at Camp Dix, on the 18th and 19th of May. All of C company was taken to Camp Dix from New York and then the men were grouped according to the states in which their homes were. The men from Vir- ginia, West Virginia and all the states lying north of these two were discharged from Dix while the balance were sent to camps nearer their home states. Many of the men destined for southern and western camps had not left Camp Dix for some time after the eastern bunch had been discharged. However, long before this book goes to press, they will all have settled in the old job again and be thankful that at last it is "finis le guerre." Just a Thought And just to think — A slap of ink Embroiled the world in war! A fleet of ships Through U boats slip — A kaiser is no more. page twenty-six Q^ l 1 ^ ^SERVICE Tifift RECORD •^?Y 0F-CO^PANY H^DQU^raRS^ECTION it Company Commanders Lieutenant Sultzer Captain H. E. Brabant Lieutenant Paul L. Rittenhouse Lieutenant E. F. Roosevelt Captain Morris E. Strieby Captain Luther A. Hagar Lieutenant Harry E. Olsen Lieutenant Leroy N. Suddath Lieutenant George Sauerhoff Captain Morris E. Strieby Captain Gill E. Pagan ON AUGUST 27th, 1918, the headquarters' section of the company bade good-bye and good luck to the last of the platoons leaving to join its regiment of infantry. The headquarters detachment then became the S. O. S. of the company and made all of its moves with battalion head- quarters. The company C O was also battalion C O, so the headquarters' section saw but very little of him. On August 28th the headquarters' section was reduced by the loss of Murnane, Greene and Lee, who were sent to the Division Signal Supply Officer for special duty. Upon leaving Bourbonne-les-Bains on the 28th, the section in- cluded George Koehler, Harry Sanford, Billings, Kaufman, Langford and Watt. After marching from 2:30 P. M. to 10 P. M., we pulled into Breuvannes, and bivouaced there for the night with battalion headquarters. Resumed the march the next day at 1 :1S P. M., and made St. Thiebault at 5 P. M. Prep- arations for an indefinite stay were made here. We actually staid but eight days. That gave us ample time, however, to make up the monthly rosters and returns under con- venient conditions as headquarters had been established in a good billet. Kaufman took over the work of repairing lame signal equipment, and Burke came in from his platoon to work with him. Up and away again on September 4th, marching at night and keeping under cover during the day. Aside from the fatigue and hardships of such a march, it proved unevent- ful. Arrived at Chatenois on the 7th after passing through Neufchateau. After a three-day stay at Chatenois, we were loaded on French Lorries driven by Indo-Chinamen, and transported to a piece of woods, the Bois de la Cote en Haye. We were not here long before we heard our artillery banging away just ahead of us and could even hear the explosion of some incoming shells, so we began to realize that we were at last going up the line. Early next morning we ran a line from our battalion headquarters to division headquarters, located in a dugout just outside of Regnieville, and division headquarters was, in turn, con- nected with a line that was being run in from corps head- quarters. Then we established company headquarters in a bell tent we had salvaged up in the British sector and made preparations for a few days stay. At 8 o'clock, though, we received orders to move forward, and at 9 we were all set to comply. We moved out in a pouring rain and re-established ourselves as best we could in the Bois de Langmois. This piece of woods had a thick under- growth of scrub and small trees, and we surely used some choice language trying to find space enough to pitch a tent page twenty-seven ^SERVICE 70B& RECORD with the rain making conditions all the more miserable. We weren't the only ones to cuss, though, as after we had pitched our tents and crawled into our damp blankets, we could hear cussing— beaucoup cussing — on all sides. We couldn't use lights or flashlights, either, as we were now pretty close to where Jerry held forth. Some of the boys gave up the job and just flopped on the wet ground in the rain, and rolled up in their blankets for the night. To add to our difficulties, the big barrage that opened up the St. Mihiel drive was started at about 1 A. M., and we were wakened by it. Then some big naval guns, emplaced in our piece of woods added their bit, and we resigned our- selves to a sleepless night despite our fatigue. In the morning we saw some of the results of all the hullabaloo, as a continuous stream of captured Jerries poured by our woods enroute to the P. C. in the rear. At 9 o'clock that night we were again on the march and kept at it until 2:30 A. M., when we pulled into Limey. In the morning we established headquarters alongside of a truck in what used to be Limey's main street, and cleared up the ac- cumulating paper work. At this place some mail from the States caught up to us and was sorted out to platoons on the main street of Limey. The next day it was sent to each of the platoons and distrrbuted to all the men. The few nights we were located in Limey were clear moon- light nights, so Jerry planes were ever dropping their loads around on all sides of us. We were sleeping in our pup tents alongside of old trenches, which proved to be quite an advantage for some. No damage was done in our im- mediate vicinity, but quite a few bombs were dropped in the other end of the town. From Limey we moved a long way with division headquar- ters and our battalion headquarters to the edge of Loge Mangin facing Thiaucourt. At this place another open air headquarters was established for two days. On account of being under direct observa- tion of the enemy we were ordered further into the woods and established a permanent headquarters in the bell tent which we camouflaged with branches of trees. We sal- vaged a table and some chairs from a dugout and fitted up an orderly room and repair shop and sleeping quarters all in the one tent. Koehler, with a few of the headquarters detachment men, began the salvaging of old German wire, Sergeant Sanford handling all the paper work which was quite a problem get- ting all the casualty reports and changes, dropping men from the rolls, forwarding service records to the central records office, and sending the mail up to Regimental headquarters for the distribution to the platoons. There was no night work in this line of duty, for absolutely no lights could be lit in the tent. Early in September, Sergeant first class Koehler left the de- tachment to attend the 2nd Corps school at Chatillon-Sur- Seine. On the night of October 5th the headquarters detachment was relieved by the 90th Division and started to the rear. After a two nights' hike we were transported in trucks from Pierrefitte to Beauchamps Ferme. Two days' rest here and we started up into the Argonne. Established a P. C. at Varennes for two days and moved from there to Le Mihel Ferme establishing headquarters again. No work was done for this place was under artillery fire almost continually day and night. From Le Mihel Ferme we moved about one kilo to Chatel Chehery and established our headquarters in a house on the main street of the town. At this place we ex- perienced several mine explosions, artillery bombardments a.nd air raids. Headquarters detachment had its hands full with work at this station, getting caught up in the work that had accumulated since leaving the St. Mihiel front. On the advance November 1st headquarters moved forward with the advancing division through Grand Pre, Briquenay and Authe to Brieulles where the division was relieved and start- ed back for another rest, returning to Chatel Chehery and from there to the Crown Prince's dugouts near Varennes. After a day and a half here we moved to Camp Boise near Florent. It was at this camp that news of the signing of the armistice was received. From Camp Petit Boise we moved to Varreriers and from Varreriers we hiked to St. Mene- holde, where we entrained and moved to the Semur Area. page twenty-eight o & complete liaison throughout our regiment and with the 311th regiment and brigade using telephones, buzzer- phones, Lucas lamps and pigeons. Oct. 17-20 — Continual shelling and bombing from Jerry. Casualties of our doughboys very heavy. Line mainte- nance very difficult, one line to forward battalion being shot out seven times in one night. In our entire tele- phone system we averaged 15 breaks every night. Jerry sends over great quantities of gas — some mustard — but mostly phosgene. We have put over two bombardments, made several raids and captured nearly two hundred prisoners. One infantry signaller wounded by shrapnel. Oct. 21 — Gumbrecht and Wiltse wounded. Sixteen sig- nallers gassed and evacuated today. Oct. 22 — Captain Hughes is killed and Lieutenant Lit- tig wounded by shell fragments at regimental headquar- ters. Oct. 25 — Herlan and Crampton gassed and evacuated. Shell hits exchange at railroad station, breaking all lines. Communication re-established within 10 minutes. Gal- lichio and four infantry signalmen gassed and evacuated. Oct. 27 — 312th regiment relieved by 311th regiment. 312th marches back to Senuc for rest and replacements — all but Lauffenburger, Kroencke, O'Kane, Vernon, Watt and four infantry signalmen, who stay behind to operate the exchange. Nov. 1 — 311th takes over our exchange and we move into Grandpre. Our artillery puts over a 12-hour barrage on Jerry, using 30,000 shells. 312th advances two kilos to Bellejoyeuse Ferme. Communication kept up by con- tinuing our lines from Grandpre to the new P. C. and O. P. Sergeant Kaiser is killed at entrance to new P. C. dugout. Our artillery puts over another barrage which puts Jerry on the run with the doughboys hot after him. We advanced with them stringing wire along the waj^. Encounter some machine-gun fire, but the doughboys soon flank their positions and we move on again. See terrible sights where our artillery has made direct hits on German troops and horses. Arrive at Le Mort Homme with our line, giving our colonel communication back to brigade and division. Sleep in barns and at dawn move forward again. Encounter more machine- gun nests and some light artillery fire. Arrive at Bric- quenay at 11 p. m., where we dispatch two important messages by pigeon, back to corps headquarters. Jerry shells us here for two hours, after which we again move forward. See 5 mines explode on road, which holds us back some. Arriving at Germont we are billeted for the night in barns. See another air battle, the American coming down in flames. Just at dusk 200 Allied bomb- ing planes pass overhead, Germany-bound. Nov. 4 — Move on, avoiding main roads. See two road bridges blown up by German mines. Pass towns of Boult, Authe and Belleville. White flags on the church steeples of these towns show the artillerymen that civilians are living in them. Reach Brieulles-sur-Bar at 4 p. m. and are shelled as we enter it. One lieutenant killed. Jerry is two hours' march ahead of here. French civilians in these towns have been prisoners of war in them since 1914. They tell us many strange stories of cruel treatment at the hands of the Germans. Our first battalion goes forward as far as Petites Armoises, where it is again shelled by Jerry. Our regimental, brigade and division commanders arrive at Brieulles in auto- mobiles and establish their P. C. Nov. 5 — Relieved at 2 p. m. by the 42nd Division and begin a happy march to the rear for we know we are going to have a rest. Pass the 6th, 77th and 82nd Divi- sions, which had been in support. Pitch shelter tents in large field for the night. Nov. 6 — March back over our route of advance through Grandpre to Chevieres, where we billet for the night. Nov. 7 — March all day in rain. Arrive at dusk at a negro labor camp where we billet in dugouts. Participate in premature celebration of the end of the war. Nov. 8 — March to town of Florent, where we get good eats, good champagne, baths and new clothes. Nov. 11 — Learn armistice has been signed and that hos- tilities are to cease today. March all day, passing through St. Meneholde, Dampierre and Nieuville-aux-Bois, where page thirty-nine ^SERVICE RECORD : ^^^ft we billet in barns. Operate French telephone exchange, holding communication throughout our regiment. Nov. 17 — Board train at Vier Lampierre, for a two-day ride. Nov. 19 — Arrive and detrain, at Les Laumes. March to Bussy-le-Grand where we billet in barns. Nov. 20 — Operate the French exchanges at Bussy-le- Grand and at Les Laumes, also lay a line to our first battalion at Chateau Rabutin, making complete com- munication throughout our regiment and connecting our system with that of the rest of the division. Nov. 26 — Lieutenant Clarke is assigned to our platoon. First batch of men leave on the regular seven-day leave to which each member of the A. E. F. is entitled every four months. Nov. 28 — All men of the platoon assemble at Bussy-le- Grand and are billeted with the regimental headquarters section. Dec. 1 — We move out of barns into houses. Dec. 13 — Platoon rejoins company at Chevigny for first time since our separation from it in August. After one day of glorious celebration the fourth platoon is re- turned to Bussy-le-Grand. Dec. 24 — Christmas eve was celebrated by the fourth platoon — nuf sed. Jan. 1, 1919 — New Year's eve was also celebrated with a good feed and plenty of "everything." Jan. 27 — The platoon is ordered to join the company at its headquarters in Menetoy, Cote D'Or, four kilometers from Semur, and we bid good-bye to our friends, the doughboys of the fighting 312th. Gettin' Camouflaged For the C. O.'s Once-Over Scene — A billet in France. Time — 7:30 a. m. to 9:00 a. m., Saturday — any Saturday. The boys are all very busy dolling up for inspection, some are shaving, some are arranging bunks, others are occupied in quests for misplaced articles. Kenlon (who never puts any water on the stove) : "Whose water is this? Can I borrow a little to shave?" McMahon (who shaved every day when he operated at Bussy-le-Grand, now he shaves every other day — we wonder why): "You cannot! What's the matter? Are you crippled?" O'Kane (who never does anything that he can get out of) : "Has anybody seen my slicker?" Kenlon: "That's enough, Pawtucket." O'Kane: "Whose helmet is this on my bed? Get it out of here." McMahon : "This blade is a bird. Who has a new blade ?" O'Kane: "Now who in the hell took my towel? I wish you fellows would stay away from my bunk." Vernon: "What's the matter, Jimmie, do you want me to help you?" O'Kane : "Why don't some of you fellows get wise to yourselves? Whose shoes are these under my bunk? Get them out. Say, Henry, give me a shoe lace." McMahon : "You're out of luck, James." Vernon: "Whose dubbin is this?" (It's on the stove.) O'Kane : "Where's my knife ?" Kessler (who butts in on the stove in the next room) : "That's my dubbin. I'm going to put it on my shoes." Vernon : "Pardon me, I thought you were going to shave with it." O'Kane: "How do you fold your blankets?" Kenlon : "The same way you did at Dix." McMahon : "You can bet your sweet life inspections won't bother me when I get out of this man's army." O'Kane: "Henry, have you my gun?" King (who gets away with anything and everything) : "What's the matter, O'Kane, haven't you anything at all?" Kenlon : "King, give me a match." O'Kane: "When you are through, Henry, lend me your razor and soap, will you?" Vernon: "Who has a cigarette?" O'Kane: "Who has my mirror?" Kenlon: "Here is the water, James." (It's cold.) All together : "There goes the bugle." 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T3oucha.i*ps {.ffanch camp near tfermohT t.Ttrrrrfr camp \near Clermont" B.Treneh camp \ pear let Isletces: '^Trench camp \ itcarles isUttts * 3U 10 - Wt "Gas!!" " f^\ AS !" What a start that word used to give us while I -r we were in the rookie period. "Gas !" Pronounced by an instructor with all the sharp imperativeness of a starter's "Go" at a horse race. "One, two, three, four, five, six seconds — that was very good with the ex- ception of a few men who used up about eight seconds getting their masks on," would say the instructor, "Try it again. Those men will have to get some speed or they will surely be casualties when they hit the lines." Thus we had it in training — day after day — mask drill in fresh air ; mask drill in real gas ; mask drill on hikes and this one, too — we wore masks during time that we were "on our own" — until we wondered which would wear out first, the face or the mask. With all this drill we firmly believed that if a man were a second late getting that mask on, his people would collect $10,000. Going into the lines we found a nice place to sleep (about one hour), but false gas alarms kept sounding all night, making a continuous performance of donning masks. After those sentries had had some experience with gas they let us sleep more peacefully. When the men had been in the lines a while ; seen, felt and smelt gas ; seen men gassed and gas shells explode without damage to anything but the ground, they were not so much disturbed when a gas alarm was given. The following dialogue is typical of the attitude of old timers toward a gas alarm : Bill, just waking up, to Jim who is sound asleep : "Say, Jim, there's a gas alarm." "Can you smell any gas?" asks Jim. "No, can you?" "Not a bit, maybe some one changed his sox on the windward side of the sentry." Whereupon Bill and Jim roll over and carry on their slumbers. Mustard, phosgene, sneezo and H. E. — they all came our way. Mustard attacks both inside and outside. A man may have his mask on only to get his hands in some mustard gas and be severely burnt. The most aggravating is sneezing gas. This stuff makes a man sneeze, sneeze, sneeze, get sore actually and fig- uratively so that he will fight even his own bunkie, and if he could get the one who is putting over the "sneezo" it would be a wooden cross "somewhere in France" for him. After a heavy fire of high explosives the air becomes blue with the gas from the explosives. Although not of high enough concentration to be fatal, this H. E. will put a man out of commission and put a husk in his voice for weeks afterwards. Now it is "finny lee gare" and we have had our last gas, but the old watchword remains with us to be used by the mice when the cat approaches. For instance, when the "flu" held us in its deadly clutches, and the "pest house" was full of masked "flu" suspects, the pseudo fatimas wore the mask over the second button of the blouse while the doctor was not around. Upon the signal, "Gas," which announced the approach of the M. D., they were returned to their proper position. May the signal stay with us but the gas perish in obscurity. page eighty-one s^ ^SERVICE aSk\ RECORD The Wonder Week SEVEN days leave — seven days out of the army — a whole week in which you can be "you" and you can get up when you feel like it, go to bed when you please, drink cognac, flirt with mademoiselles, prome- nade, or climb mountains ! Remember when they told you to get your pack together — you were going on pass? How your head swam, your feet got light and you pranced with joy at the thought of getting away from the army for a whole week ? And such wonder places to spend that week! Surely there must be a human heart back of our army after all. Vals-les-Bains, the city of baths ; Aix-les-Bains, with its wonderful springs ; La Bourboule, the resort tucked away in the mountains ; Grenoble, the historic old Roman town ; Cannes, Nice, Monte Carlo, the cities on the beau- tiful Mediterranean — every one different and every one full of interest. Let's forget about the hikes to the stations, the uncom- fortable trains and the M. P.s and we'll take a dream trip on a permission in France. We have left the foggy, hazy, rainy country of Central France and are headed south. Sunny fields, orchards, flowers, vineyards fly by and you are in the hills, those great rolling hills covered with vines and crowned with fleecy white clouds. Your train rolls into a station and someone yells "All out." Now, let's forget again how those whadyecallems lined up and marched us through streets to our hotels, let's begin at the hotels, or rather, with those wonderful beds — remember how you'd pull off all your Q. M. property, and, with nothing but nature's dress, jump into the pile of feathers, and as you lay sprawled out with a bottle of beer on one side of your bed and cigarettes on the other, you'd make a wish that you could die that way? Then you'd doll up for a promenade. You'd get out on the street and for the first time you'd realize you were out of the army. There was nothing on your mind but your cap, and you didn't care if it fell off. If you are guilty you can tell in your own way how you hunted out the beverage shops, or how you'd spy a petite mademoiselle dressed as only she can dress, and how you'd try to tell her in your perfect French that she was the sweetest, loveliest thing on earth and would she promenade with you, and how she'd come back at you with "Why sure, kid, I'd be glad to" in perfect Yank. Yes, and you can finish the rest of that dream of seven days' bliss, but, at least I've got you started. JDov» loo-r T*V Stew* page eighty-two ^SERVICE 7 Mg \ RECORD His'n or Our'n This takes place in a well-protected dugout, situated at the edge of the woods in which division headquarters was lo- cated at the St. Mihiel front. Brady, Watt, Young and Menaker are the happy family who have taken possession. 9:00 p. m. (Brady) — Well, fellows, I guess it's time to turn in. They make preparations for the night — put out the fire, let down the gas curtain and assure themselves that their gas masks are handy. 10:00 p. m. — Whiz — z — z — z — zzzz — bang! Brady (starting up from tranquil dreams of Seneca Falls) — My God ! \Vhat's'at ? Was that his'n or our'n ? Young (reassuringly) — That was our'n, King, go to sleep. They all turn over and are immediately back in the States again. 10:10 p. m. — Whiz — z — z — zzzzz — bang! Brady, encore (pounding Young and kicking Menaker) — Vic, Menaker, listen! Is that his'n or our'n? Chorus — Shut up and go to sleep — that was our'n. They make another attempt. 10:30 p. m. — Whiz — z — z — zzz — bang! bang! 10:30^ p. m. — Bang! Whiz — z — zzz — bang! 10:31 p. m. — Bang! bang! 10:31^> p. m.— Bang! Whiz — zz — z — zz— bang! 10 :32 p. m. — Whiz — zzzzzz — bang ! Brady (still awake from the last interruption) — Vic, Men- aker, that's his'n, that's his'n, that ain't our'n, that's his'n. Young (waxing mean with semi-hourly interruptions) — Yes, that's his'n all right. 7:00 a. m. (next day Menaker shakes Young)— Say, Vic, where 's Brady and Watt? Young — Darned if I know. Brady was still talking at 5 o'clock this morning. Menaker (discovering evidence of a hasty departure) — Maybe they've found a dugout that's their'n now, where shells of his'n and our'n won't bother them any more. Ye Brave Toloa Oh, hail Toloa, we sing your praise ! Our memories of bygone days Are not complete, until we bring You back into our memory ring. May twenty-seventh you ventured forth Bound, with us, for an unknown port. Remember how we loathed you, when We boarded you that day? But then, Remember with what halting stride We left you on the other side. Your buffeting and tossing, true, Had taught us to rely on you And perhaps, to love you some, But not your ancient fish nor slum. Ah, yes, as yet, I plainly see Some comrades, who, quite hastily, Coming to worship at your rails, Gave up their all, to feed the whales, Or other fish who chanced to be In the nearby locality. We stuck to you, yes, but I feared, If land had suddenly appeared While we were far out there at sea, You would have lost our company. You fooled the Hun sea-dogs clear through, You, and your valiant hero crew. We owe you much, as much as man Can justly owe in life's short span, And so the boys of the Three-O-Three Wish you and yours, prosperity. May luck attend you where you roam And always bring you safely home. The Last Laugh Campbell (coming back from sick call) : I'll ever go to that doctor again. Woodie: Why? Campbell: He gave me a shot of A. T. S. The whole room: Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Campbell: Well, I got marked quarters, anyway. I'm damned if page eighty-three ^SERVICE 7^ RECORD ®§Pp Lookin' Back SPEAKING about the good and bad times we have been through. How little we thought of the good old times back in Camp Dix until we landed over here ! Right from the start we began telling of the happy days back there. The first thing was to get to know one another — but that didn't take long. I remem- ber one day when there were a few of us sitting on our bunks, Ike Dore asked Bowman what town he was from, and Bowman said, "Central Village, Mass." Right here Herlan spoke up and asked how big it was, and he said, "About 200 in farm season." Well, you might know Ike got in again. He says, "Why, yes, I have been there. I spent a whole week there one night and I know your fire department — he is a fine looking fellow." Bowman had to come back and he said to Ike, "Why don't you learn the barber business, Ike? All the farmers won't hit you a poke in the eye when you try and cut their hair." Well, anyway, Ike didn't cut Aldrich's hair that day. That day when we came back from a hike Aldrich and Ike sat on a bunk the best of friends and Aldrich said to Ike, "Just look at me, wouldn't I look nice going home to my wife with my hair all cut off?" and Ike said, "Just look at me — wouldn't I look nice going home like this?" And Aldrich said, "Yes, you would, Ike." "No, I don't think I would look very good — I can only see out of one eye." We sure had some great times. Just look at that ball team. We had a hard team to beat. Let me see, we only lost five games all season ; that's going some, ain't it? We played six. We sure had some fine players on that team. There was Luke Burns, the Rochester boy who played right field, and a fine fielder he was. But at the bat he made it bad for the great Ham Turner, who followed him in the lineup, for after Burns got through swinging at the ball, there wasn't enough air left around the plate for Ham to live on. And there was Bill O'Neill, our little catcher. He was good, only he said he could catch better if they only had a back- stop—then he wouldn't have to go so far to get the ball to return to the pitcher. Speaking about catchers, we had another good one in Jackson — no, not shoeless Joe Jackson — for our Jackson had shoes on and that was what made him so slow on the bases. He ran like a dry creek. And there was another good player in Billings, but he proved to be much better in passing Out second- handed clothing. There was our first baseman — a finer man we never will run onto — -but you haven't got to be a fine man to be a good ball player. Speaking of Colville, though, he was a good ball player. Just look at our third baseman, McCormac. You couldn't beat that boy for holding down the hot corner, but we all think he could have done better working for some talking ma- chine company, and there was our big pitcher, Blair, and as for pitching, you couldn't beat him — no, you couldn't even tie him — but I think if he had a long-handled fork he could have done better pitching hay. The best player of them all was the guy that played shortstop, only he thought he was playing football the way be booted that pill around. Yes, we had a great team, so good that we were given a new field to play on. So one of our subs said he would mark and rake the field over, so sub Fisher got all the rakes and picks in the supply room and went at it in fine style. We told him he could chase the foul balls if he did a good job. He worked hard for five or six nights and, believe me, he wasn't long piping down after 9:10 p. m. But, anyway, he got the job done and then it snowed. Well, then we had the snow to wade around in, but they couldn't find enough snow on the roads so they arranged a snow battle with A and B Co.'s to battle with us and I don't believe we will ever forget that day when Merrill yelled, "At 'em, boys," and sure enough we went at 'em. Herlan came out of it looking very good — one eye closed ; poor Dick Warren got kicked in the bully beef basket and some one ran their heel across Tubby Mohr's cheek. Lucky for Tubby the guy had lost his heel plate on that shoe. Shortly after that we left camp for overseas and some trip it was. Lots of the boys said they never knew there was so much water in the world and the fish that followed the boat had more to eat than the whole A. E. F. page eighty-four ^SERVICE 7Mfc RECORD Our Athletic Endeavors ABILITY to endure hardships has proved to be one of the fundamental requirements for the success of this as well as any unit, and it was acquired by the development of athletics. The form of athletics that has been foremost of all was baseball. This sport obtained a start as early as the second day in camp. At that time there was a period entitled "Fatigue," unfamiliar at that stage of our mili- tary career, but now "tres" familiar. Many thought a fatigue period was a rest period after the strenuous drill, being confused with "bunk fatigue." During the first fatigue period a game was started and enthusiasm waxed high when to the amazement of all concerned the pas- time was brought to an abrupt close and the participants arraigned before the skipper for an explanation of the meaning of "fatigue." It was definitely defined and is now well understood. On the Wednesday and Saturday afternoons for the remainder of the fall, games were played and much enjoyment derived. During the winter months a basket-ball team was formed from C company, which in turn beat A and B and head- quarters companies.' C was also well represented on the battalion team. Basketball did not fare so well because of the lack of a place to practice. As early as January when the weather permitted, and there were a few beautiful days, the boys were out tossing the ball around. But not until the first of April did practice begin in earnest. Lieutenant Price at that time was in charge of the physical training and the company was rapidly rounding into one of the best trained units of the division. In fact, when a keen-eyed, healthy look- ing C company chap was asked by an officer what com- pany he was from, he would snap to attention, salute, and reply, "C company, sir." The answer was, "I thought so." It was not long before he didn't have to be asked, everybody knew what company he was from by his appearance. Lieutenant Price also took charge of the company ball team, which proceeded to trim both A and B companies — every time the latter companies thought enough of themselves to extend a challenge. The battalion team needed bolstering, so C company not only bolstered it, but proceeded to represent the battalion without changing its lineup. Many exciting games were played with other battalions, some were lost and a great many won, but when a team engaged C com- pany, it knew that it had been in a ball game before it was over. The pitchers were Moll, Pattison and George Blair j catchers, R. L. Jackson and O'Neill; infielders, McCormac, Herlan, J. Jackson, Morris and Colville ; outfielders, Turner, Remmes, Burns and Robins. Upon arriving overseas, there was not much of a place or time to play until the outfit reached Herlin-le-Sec. At that town the team was again formed and games played with various organizations. Division Headquarters was the first to feel the sting of defeat in an exciting, well played game. But, nevertheless, many an interesting time was passed and there was something besides "home" to occupy the mind for the following days. Headquarters thought if another game was to be played they could redeem themselves, so another game was arranged. This time the opponents exhibited another twirler, but the best they could do was to make an exceedingly close finish and be defeated by the score of 7 to 6. This game also furnished an introduction of C company into the movies. The most amusing game of all was the one with the Tommies. That the English boys were good cricket players was easily seen, as the American's ball was en- tirely too small for their eyesight. The way they ducked and waved the bats was like a burlesque show at Camp Dix. The Tommies could not compree the snake-like curves of the C company pitchers. The Tommies took it good-naturedly and were very much interested in learning the greatest of all sports. The next team to be tackled was the one representing the 311th Regiment and it was some team. It had a New York National league battery and was the best team that had been en- countered. Also C company was shy a good many play- ers as a maneuver had to be solved on that particular day and signalers were required. Also it is a pretty stiff proposition for a company to buck a regiment, so our first page eighty-five ^SERVICE yas RECORD foreign defeat was suffered to the tune of 7 to 1. That was our last game, as shortly afterwards the company was distributed among the different regiments for battle action, where an equally good record was made by the individual platoons. When Jerry started for Berlin with his tail between his legs and "finis LA guerre" was sounded, athletics again came to the fore. It greatly aided in restoring the bodies of the boys to their normal condition as well as occupy- ing the minds during those long, "watchful, waiting" days for the command of "homeward bound." A soccer team was formed from the third platoon under the supervision of Jack Hughes, which easily defeated all the platoons of head- quarters company, 311th regiment. A most interesting and exciting game with the former champion trench-mortar and one-pounder platoons decided the supremacy. The latter, though a much bigger and heavier team, was vanquished to the tune of 4 to 3. Upon returning to the old signal head- quarters the third platoon soccer team still remained unde- feated. Many games of football were indulged in, often on snow-covered fields and honors among the platoons were about even. As spring began to roll around and the weather grew more temperate, the "old national pastime" was again in evidence and, under the direction of Lieutenant Sauerhoff, assisted by Lieutenant Harvey, another ball team of the usual high standard was formed. 'Member It? Here we come — The signal corps are we! All of us are members of the 3-0-3. We work like hell from morn 'til night And when it is dark we signal with our light. Glorious ! glorious ! There's a hell of a lot of work for all of us. We buzz, buzz, buzz, And we sema — semaphore — And we'll wig-wag the kaiser to the floor! The Censor Found This For Us Franse March 1919 Deer Buddy ; this life is jes 1 detale aftur anuther, an thay shore r de- talen me to deth. if there evr wuz a detale i wuznt on , it must hav bin becaws i wuz on anuther alreddy, the stabels, k p, wier, gard , latrines nevrythin hav got to hav a detale the top kikker is a pirty gud fella but he can think of my name ezier then i can myself. 1 day he askt me Gabe du u no enythin abote a ford car, i sez shore i can mak u 1 in a cupl a days if u wil fergit my name wen u r reedin of detales. he sez nevr mind but u kin go ovr to the kitchun an crank the sawsege grinder four a wile, i hav desided that the les u no in the army the better off u r. that is why sum of theas noncums hav it so soft, there is a bunsh of bucks here to who r none as d ds detale dukkers & thay shore r slik at it thay wil fak bein sik er hide sumware or du enythin to git out of work, i bit thay cud murder the skip- per an git away wit it. 1 of em a gink named vanzant gows on the sik book 1 morning & faks bein sik wit the flew an gits markd kwarters well he wuz sposd to be on gard that nite and i had to tak his plase, i wus sorer than hell an thot i wood giv him a gud bust in the jaw but u no i didnt hav the hart to hit a kriple er a fule an he is in the hed. 1 tim i tride fakin a spraned ankel to git out of a hike, an the top giv me a nice soft job pealing aboute 8 bu of spuds sinze then i giv up trien to be a d d. wen we wuz up to the frunt i used to git on the chow detale abote evry time we et witch warnt very often but thos wuz the wurst detales i evr had, it seams a jerry alwase new wen the detale started out an he wood shute rite at us wen we had to git out in the open, we had to go abote 2 kilos to ware we got the chow in big cans an it tuk 2 of us to carry 1 of them then we had a sweet tim stagern thru the mud an dogin shells too. in them days tho it wuz wurth a lot to git sumpin to ete. we hav rode detales now to go out an fix up the rodes four the frog people, i no we ware out a lot of rodes walkin all over the country, but i think the jerry prisuners shud fix em eny way we hav to go out an shuvel mud and bust rocks nevrythin but u no me buddy my mother didnt rase page eighty-six ^SERVICE yMS\ RECORD eny fulish children an if there is enything i no how to du it is to rest ezy on a shuvel er pick handel. 1 tim i wuz on a would detale to get sum would four the kitshun an we fond sum pols all cut an dry we tuk them in and cut em up an aboute that time a bush faced frog farmer cum runnin up wavin his arms an tarin his hare lik a loonatik a corse we cudnt mak out watinell he wuz ravin an makin sich funy noises abote, but we gessed sum 1 had murderd his hole family so we gotta fella that cud talk f rensh. Well we foun out that he wuz raven becaws we had tuk his would, he wuz goin to mak hisself a pare of shuse er a weel baro out of. Enywa the skipper had to jar luse with a 100 franks an u kin imajun wat he giv us beside all the artikels of war. Well buddy i gess i will hav to kwit caws the top gust cum in an sez i am elekted to a posi-shun with sane- terry mires. Ure pal, Gabe. A Sample Day 5 :30 a. m. — Corporal of the guard stretches, consulting his issued Elgin with a worried look, and says: "Oh hell, it's either ten minutes slow or ten minutes fast," and he goes back to sleep. 5:40 a. m. — Corporal of the guard wakes with a start and decides it is time to wake the windjammer. 5 :45 a. m. — Corporal of the guard very gently mauls the bugler into a state of wakefulness. The said B. consigns him to the Tres Chaud Regions and hauls himself out of his flu-proof bunk. 6 :00 a. m. — The bugler, dressed, goes to kitchen for a hand- out. 6:15 a. m. — First agony-call sounds. 6 :25 a. m. — "I can't git 'em up." 6 :30 a. m. — The hounds gather for early morning pleasure. 6:33 a. m. — Maguire and Colombo saunter in line in time to be late. 6:50 a. m.— "Chow." 7 :00 a. m. — Chamberlin wants chocolate. S. O. L. 7:10 a. m. — Fersky goes for seconds. 7:18 a. m. — Zahniser starts a poker game. 7:21 a. m. — Maguire and Colombo go to breakfast, Cain gives 'em hell. 7:23 a. m. — Fohrell bums a cigarette. 7 :25 a. m. — Cain starts cussing K. P.s 7 :29 a. m. — Protine wonders what he will do to get out of formations. Decides to ride sick book. 7 :45 a. m. — O'Kane — sick, Schneider — lame, and Protine — ■ lazy, limp painfully toward the infirmary. 8:00 a. m. — Squads east. 8 :03 a. m. — Maguire and Colombo arrive. 9 :00 a. m. — The gang returns. 9 :03 a. m. — Fohrell bums a match. 9:15 a. m. — "Arms forward, raise." 9:17 a. m. — Maguire and Colombo just arrive. 10:15 a. m. — Back to billets. 10:16 a. m. — Brooks bums a cigarette. 10:30 a. m.— Buzzer (?). 10:32 a. m. — Maguire and Colombo late again. 11 :30 a. m. — Back to the kennel. 11 :31 a. m.- — Fohrell bums a match. 1 1 :32 a. m. — Chamberlin wants chocolate for dinner. 11 :35 a. m.— Stable detail and platoon sergeants go to mess. 11:50 a. m.— "Chow." 11:55 a. m. — The race. 12:00 Noon — "No Jimmy, Du pain est finis pour vous." 12 :05 p. m. — Davis washes mess kit and goes to billet to study fatigue. 12:15 p. m. — Gang drifts back to billets. 12:18 p. m. — Brooks bums a cigarette. 12 :20 p. m. — Lusareto starts a crap game. 12 :25 p. m. — Cain still cussing K. P.s. 1 :00 p. m. — Two hours of athletics. 1 :03 p. m. — Maguire and Colombo arrive. 1 :08 p. m. — Davis' detail goes joyfully ( ?) to work. 3 :00 p. m. — The mud-splashed hounds cuss their way bil- let-wards. 3 :05 p. m. — Lusareto starts a crap game. 3 :30 p. m. — The Sunset parade starts. O'Kane, Fersky, et al, with gas masks and "full" packs. page eighty-seven ^SERVICE vas\ RECORD p- p- 4:00 4:03 4:20 p. 4:35 p. 4:38 4:45 5:00 5:30 6:00 6:30 p. 9:00 p. 9:10 bibing much 9:15 p. m.- 9:20 p. m.- a black jack 9:30 p. m- 9:45 p. m.- 9:55 p. m — 10:00 p. m.- m. m. m. m. m. m. — m m m. — m. m. p. m. — Pe-rade rest. Maguire and Colombo late. Monkey meat, boot leg and punk. Gigliotti wants "speget". Fersky gets seconds. Back from chow. Off to Vic for Vin Rouge. Y. man says "Fini chocolay." Joe Carlson goes to call on a Mademoiselle. Jim buys Perc Arms some beer. —Tattoo. The hounds begin to straggle back after im- H. E. Darmody starts a rough house. Langford wins two francs from the cooks in game. Ted Davis gets busy on tomorrow's fatigue. Call to quarters. Bockmann starts an argument with Grand Pre. —Taps. All's quiet ( ?) for the night. EVERYWHERE IN FRANCE An Appeal "Pioneers from over-seas, strangers weaned from strife, You who daily hazarded that swift shutout from life, Returning to your mother-land, exalted men of strife, Bring you new ideals, intents, and philanthropic creeds? Bring you strength to fashion a new world from the old, To snip away where edges fray, to willingly unfold A higher sense of fellowship, a scheme to happiness, To undermine each governing wrong, wherein lies earthly stress, To abolish selfish coteries who sponsor poverty, Who juggle human destinies, who mock the so-called free? Bring you power to ostracize each narrow wanton trait, Converting each base evil to a loftier, sinless state? Bring you the key to problems as yet unsolved by time, Of sex and politics and industry, of justice and of crime, That toil be stripped of drugdery, and heart unsmirched by lust, And graft a vice forgotten in an epoch bright with trust, You, the generation, ascending to the throne, With tasks spread forth on every flank, to rectify, atone, Will you revive the neighbor love and banish instincts cold, And make a ripened friendship a trophy vied by gold? Onward into battle — We mortals reigning now Are watching close — We wait your verdict — Teach us how." Joe Tries to End the War While in St. Juvin, Joe Eros took it on himself to end the war by the simple method of capturing the German army. He started in on a captain who was muddy and had only one leggin, to say nothing of his three weeks' beard. No doubt Joe saw visions of a couple of D. S. Cs. for a few seconds, but then was brought out of his dream of fame when an American machine gunner saluted the captain and reported to him. Joe fell heir to a real bawling out then. We all felt sorry for him and wished him better luck next time. page eighty-eight ^SERVICE TZSy RECORD ON THE MARCH Patrol Peppering "Duckin' the huns is nothing like duckin' Yankee guns," says Link, thereby calling to remembrance the episode of the mistaken patrol. Wherein Abe saunters out beyond Thiaucourt almost to the prairie to diagnose a line difficulty, finds it practical to alter the course of the wire somewhat and begins his task in the pitch of night with the shells a-bounchin' nearby. He encircles the troublesome area with about half a mile of wire, then discovers he has miscalculated by about 200 yards. So he endeavors to pull the old line over to the new extension and while tugging away he is suddenly startled by the sharp spat of a rifle and the peculiar zip nearby. Naturally Link wallops the ground and plays possum, with the quick suspicion of a sniper through his mind. Once again a few shots fired in rapid succession cause old Link to breathe heavily. Through the dusk he spies a black form slinking slowly away and after a brief interval Link arises and renews his labors on the wire. Returning to Thiaucourt he is greeted by the report that a Jerry patrol had pierced our lines and had been fired on by a regimental lineman. So Link decides he was the hun invader and after matching tales with his former antagonist, states, "That fellow wears a sharp-shooter's medal. I hope the next guy that uses me for a target has no such decora- tions — he might hit me." We Haven't Forgotten 'Em On the roster of our outfit There are names unrecognized Dimmed somewhat by common habit Some not known, while others prized. Some of them are discharged Some of them came overseas Some of them their fame enlarged In a Louie's history. Those of us who still remember Some old transferred pal or friend Don't forget, recall that member By the list hereunder penned. There was Anderson and Swanson Forst, and World and Fatty Maule, Davidson and Danon, Halpern, Gott and Billy Hall. There was Geltman, there was Heitman Kemper, May and then Watzke, Cassidy and Beighley Levy, Willey and McGee. Hewitt, Hulett, also Harris Ruffing, Rona, Moore and Layne And that little bit called Dokas And that Louie, Jimmie Lane. Some Macs we have upon our list There's Farland, Crudden, Neill. And Schroeder we have surely missed And Quackenbusch was real. There was Miller H. and Miller M. Effenberger, Brooks, and Penn And Barto surely was a gem We hope to meet again. There's Mengel, Menzies, Metcalf, Meyer, DeRose, Bolstad and Glaze. Of Pine's old chants we'd never tire, We've laughed at Crawford's ways. Then there's Aldrich and Lee Womack Watters, Knutson, and — we're through With mentioning comrades held back From returning with our crew. page eighty-ntne ^SERVICE y28S\ RECORD V" Fire Water The men being in bed for the night, room No. 5 was all quiet, when Frank Wade entered with a can of water and seeing all the boys in such an unusually peaceful frame of mind, he deliberately threw the water on him, who was then Latrine Orderly, Chester E. Fisher. This man Fisher, not being in a very good frame of mind that evening, due to the fact that he had only eight fires go out that day and four more weeks of latrine orderly work imposed on him by our acting C. O., Lieutenant Rittenhouse. Fisher, with usual care-free attitude, grabbed a fire bucketful of water and a hot race for the stairs followed ; as Wade knew fully Fisher's capability at throwing fire buckets, he made a special effort to get out of reach, and when Fisher reached the top of the stairs Wade was at the bottom and just in time to be on the receiving end of part of the bucket of water. In order to go into the depths of the matter as to where the other part of the bucket of this water went, we will have to take you to the bedside of Andy Schroeder who was billeted directly under the stairs on the lower floor. At this hour of the night, Andy Schroeder was peacefully slum- bering, but it was written in the book of Fate that he was to be aroused shortly, and he, like Wade, received a shower of that which, as we understand at this time, the old cro- nies are trying to supercede for pastime beverages. It is needless for us to say that Andy Schroeder expressed his feelings in loud tones and for sometime afterwards he could be heard asking for dry towels and blankets. Sure — The Signals Take Prisoners 'Twas up in the Argonne, and Brooks was working on a 309th line when he ran upon a wild Boche. Well, in a twinkling he had him kamarading. But Heinie's pals were distributing miscellaneous junk all about that vicinity just at that time and C. W. realized he'd better take cover — then he realized he had his prize to look after. Luckily — for Brooks — a second lieutenant came upon the scene while he, too, was seeking shelter. And Brooks turned his pris- oner over to the officer and submerged in a shell-hole until the shelling stopped. That's generosity — he, that is Clar- ence, renounced all claim to honors for the capture of his Jerry. Reviews Due to the fact that we stood in line for review at Camp Dix for many hours in the mud we might mention a few words relative to it. Washington said, "First in War, First in Peace," etc., but I guess that he did not have a signal battalion else he would not mention the first, be- cause from vivid memories, we fail to find where we have ever been first unless it was at the front, but in parades — well, all we can say is that there has to be a tail end, and I guess we have been it. However, we sincerely hope that we do not go home in parade formation, lest the boats fail to wait for us, as every one will recall that since the days when Lieutenant Rittenhouse took the company out for its morning run, each and every one of us has slowed up to a great extent and we might be S. O. L. A short time ago we had what we all hoped was the last review. It was held at Les Laumes, France, and was given for General Pershing. It was there our colors received their decorations from the commander-in- chief of the A. E. F. It might be mentioned that our Major Kelly is an old friend of the commander-in-chief and they had a hearty handshake upon their meeting, which had been the first in a number of years. page ninety sji^ ^SERVICE ^fi£\ RECORD BOOMERANGS— the idea is, we "threw" out our work and the words commending that work (grouped under this head) "boomeranged" back to us. Those which made direct hits on us are included, as well as those which hit Company C, 303rd F. S. B. more gen- erally — more indirectly — frexample, boomerangs which hit the division, corps, etc. We have also included two interesting expressions from some French folks. Our hats are off to the doughboys — they bayoneted Jerry, they threw the grenades into his dugouts, they grabbed his strongest positions, one after another. But we were the nerves of those doughboys and carried orders, instructions and information from the brain at G. H. Q. to them, the well-muscled, brawny arms, for translation into invincible action. So we, too, take pride in the approving words of our President, the Secretary of War, Marshal Foch, the com- mander of the A. E. F., the commander of the first army, and so on. The signal troops of the division have maintained and operated their own lines of communication : telephone, tele- graph, radio, visual, runner and courier service and handling of pigeons during the period of September 12 to 18 inclu- sive. This includes participation in the offensive operations of the first corps on September 12 and 13 and the occupa- tion of the entire sectors held by the second and fifth divi- sions, since their withdrawal from the front line. Enemy's artillery has dealt severely with radio and wire communica- tion, which has been maintained only by the persistent, painstaking and fearless work of the personnel operating the division lines. The action of all officers and men of both signal troops and line troops connected with the communi- cating systems has been commendable and the action of com- munication troops in the forward areas in restoring torn out lines under fire has been especially commendable. — From Lieut.-Col. S. C. Megill, Division S. O., 78th Div., September 19, 1918. Accept my warmest congratulations on the brilliant achieve- ments of the Army under your command. The boys have done what we expected of them and done it in the way we most admire. We are deeply proud of them and their chief. Please convey to all concerned my grateful and affectionate thanks. — President Wilson to General Pershing, September 20, 1918. I submit herewith an appreciation of the work of First Lieut. G. J. Sauerhoff, 303rd Field Signal Battalion, and the men of his platoon, detailed for duty with this regiment. The defense sector assigned this regiment is, undoubtedly, the most difficult of any in the division, not only because of difficulties of supply, but also because the entire sector is continually under heavy enemy artillery bombardment. The maintenance of wire communications to the outpost and army line battalions has been one of great danger and diffi- culty. On only one day out of ten thus far spent in the sector have the lines remained unbroken. On several days, the lines have been repeatedly severed by shell fire. Lieutenant Sauerhoff and his men have continually exposed themselves to great danger to repair breaks and reopen communication. He has worked without regard to hours, day and night. I commend him to your consideration should vacancy for page ninety-one ^•SERVICE y28Sv RECORD V promotion occur. — Col. W. C. Babcock, commanding 310th Infantry, to Lieut. G. J. Sauerhoff and second platoon, Company C, September 25, 1918. This record of courage and devotion is the source of great pleasure and gratification to the division commander. He counts it more than an honor to command such men and is gratified to have opportunity to express his appreciation of their service. — Maj.-Gen. James H. McRae, Commanding 78th. Div., regarding Colonel Babcock's appreciation above, September 25, 1918. It is the high privilege of the division commander to express again his satisfaction and pride in the soldierly and devoted qualities of the members of this command. Under most difficult and trying conditions, the conduct and courage of the officers and men has been a constant inspira- tion to their commander. This formal and printed order is but a poor expression of the deep feeling of the division commander, yet in no other way can he reach all. The work done by the division has not been spectacular, but it has been done at a pivotal point in the line and has been watched with approval, not only by the corps and army com- manders, but the allied command. The following from the commander of the first army is published : "The army is very much pleased with the persistent, intelli- gent and successful work done by the 78th Division in clearing up the ridges north of Grand-Pre." In the days to come we will do yet more. — Maj.-Gen. James H. McRae, October 28, 1918. I heard the commander of the first army, Gen. Hunter Lig- get, express himself as very much pleased with your intelli- gent persistence in pushing operations against the enemy in your sector. I wish to add to this my high appreciation of the perse- verance of yourself, the officers and enlisted men of your division in pursuing operations in most difficult terrain and under severe conditions, completing the capture of Grand- Pre and pushing your line well forward into the Bois de Burgogne. Please convey my sentiments to all concerned. — Maj.-Gen. J. T. Dickman, commanding first corps, to Maj.-Gen. James H. McRae, October 29, 1918. Operations begun November 1 by the first American army have already assured, thanks to the valor of the high com- mand and to the energy and bravery of the troops, results of the greatest importance. I am happy to send to you my warmest congratulations on the success of these operations. ■ — From Marshal Foch to General Pershing, Novem- ber, 1918. On November 1, after constant fighting for over one month, the first American army launched an attack against the German army which had established itself for determined resistance. In five days it had penetrated 25 kilometers and had driven the enemy to retreat before it. Its brilliant success, in connection with the advance of the fourth French army on its left, forced the Germans to retreat on a broad front to the west. It has fought and marched and endured the rigors of campaign with the utmost superb indifference, except the determination to go forward and imprint upon the enemy the marks of its courage and resolution. All arms and services, those in advance who smashed the way, those in the air who rendered aggressive and efficient serv- ice, and those in the rear who by their untiring industry made possible the continued advance, are worthy of the highest praise and the gratitude of their admiring country. The army commander is proud of such an army, thanks it for the splendid results already achieved and looks with confidence to the still greater successes that lie before it. — To the first American army from Lieutenant-General Liggett, November 5, 1918. The commanding general feels that the foregoing praise is well deserved by the officers and men of this (78th) divi- sion. By their gallantry, fortitude and perseverance in the capture of the heights of Grand-Pre, the Bois de Loges, and in the subsequent pursuit of the enemy in his retreat to Sedan, they merit and are assured of the gratitude of their page ninety-two ^'SERVICE 76BR RECORD country. — To the 78th Division A. E. F., regarding the remarks of General Liggett above, from Maj.-Gen. James H. McRae. The enemy has capitulated. It is fitting that I address my- self in thanks directly to the officers and soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces who by their heroic efforts have made possible their glorious result. Our armies, hur- riedly raised and hastily trained, met a veteran enemy, and by courage, discipline and skill, always defeated him. With- out complaint you have endured incessant toil, privation and danger. You have seen many of your comrades make the supreme sacrifice that freedom may live. I thank you for the patience and courage with which you have endured. I congratulate you upon the splendid fruits of victory which your heroism and the blood of our gallant dead are now presenting to our nation. Your deeds will live forever on the most glorious pages of American history. Those things you have done. There remains now a harder task which will test your soldierly qualities to the utmost. Succeed in this and little note will be taken and few praises will be sung; fail, and the light of your glorious achieve- ments of the past will be sadly dimmed. But you will not fail. Every natural tendency may urge towards relaxation in discipline, in conduct, in appearance, in everything that marks the soldier. Yet you will remember that each officer and each soldier is the representative in Europe of his people and that his brilliant deeds of yesterday permit no action of today to pass unnoticed by friend or by foe. You will meet this test as gallantly as you have met the tests of the battlefield. Sustained by your high ideals and in- spired by the heroic part you have played, you will carry back to our people the proud consciousness of a new Ameri- canism born of sacrifice. Whether you stand on hostile ter- ritory or on the friendly soil of France, you will so bear yourself in discipline, appearance and respect for all civil rights that you will confirm for all time the pride and love which every American feels for your uniform and for you. — Gen. John J. Pershing, November 12, 1918. After having resolutely held the enemy, you have, for sev- eral months, attacked him without respite, with undying faithfulness and energy. You have won the greatest battle of history and have res- cued the most sacred cause — the liberty of the world. You may be proud ! You have bedecked your flags with an immortal glory. Posterity will look upon you with gratitude. — From Mar- shal Foch, supreme allied commander, to all ranks in the allied forces, November 13, 1918. The signing of the armistice and the cessation of hostilities brings to an end a great and heroic military adventure in which the army under your command has played a part distinguished by gallantry and success. It gives me pleasure to express to you the confidence and appreciation of the War Department and to those who have labored with you to make this result possible this appreciation of their zeal, courage and strength, both of purpose and achievement. The entire country is filled with pride in your fine leader- ship and in the soldierly qualities shown by your army. Now that a respite has come in the solemn task to which the army devoted itself, the War Department will do all in its power to expedite the early return of the Expeditionary Forces to the United States in order that the country may welcome its soldiers home, and in order that these soldiers may be restored to the opportunities of civil life as speedily as the military situation will permit. I extend to you as commanding general of the American Expeditionary Forces my hearty congratulations and this expression of high es- teem, and I beg you to make known to the officers and men of your command the fact that their conduct as soldiers and as men has stirred the pride of their fellow countrymen, and that their military success has contributed to the great victory for the forces of civilization and humanity. — Sec'y of War Newton D. Baker, November 15, 1918. During all the time this regiment was "in the line" Lieuten- ant Olsen and his platoon kept up continuous communication between my headquarters and the battalions in the firing line. page ninety-three ^SERVICE 3SK\ RECORD w V 9jp To do this required the platoon commander and his men to be on the job all the time, and there was a great deal of this time when the wires were being cut so often as to re- quire steady patrolling under heavy shell fire. Nevertheless the lines were never "out" for more than a few minutes at a time. On the drive beginning November 1 phone connection was kept up with the front line until — and beyond — Beffu. This was the only wire communication back for several hours, and was made use of by members of the division staff to communicate with headquarters. In other words, while serving with this regiment, Lieuten- ant Olsen has "delivered the goods." — Colonel Morgan, commanding 309th Infantry, to Lieutenant Olsen and first platoon, Company C, November 15, 1918. A Newspaper Clipping Two of the national army divisions which saw as hard fighting as any units of this organization were made up of men mostly from New York or the immediate vicinity. These two were the 77th and 78th. The signing of the armistice found them fighting side by side. Theoretically, the 78th is a New Jersey division, but actually about 60 per cent of the personnel is of that commuting class which does its working in New York and its sleeping only in New Jersey. These sons of the Empire City had been on the job in the line for a long time, and the men gave a splendid account of themselves all the way, enduring the hardship and strain as well as some of the units who drew from the farming country, where the men are supposed to be more hard. The last fight of these two divisions is a good example of the sort of thing they have been doing, and the real story of that fight has been only touched in the news because of other big news in the same hour. The 78th, under command of Major-General McRae, and supported by its own artillery, the 153rd brigade, under the command of Brigadier-General Hearn, took over the sector beyond the Argonne, just in front of Grand-Pre and to the east on October 14. The 77th went back a few kilo- meters for a rest. Three times the 78th attacked Grand-Pre and the citadel just beyond it, before this strong point of the Boche was finally taken. Six times a brigade of the 78th doughboys drove through the Bois de Loges, a patch of woods about a kilometer square, before it was finally cleared of the Boche and so thoroughly fumigated by our artillery fire that it was made uninhabitable. Both General McRae and General Hearne were compli- mented by the corps commander for the persistency and courage of the men in carrying out these operations and capturing these two strong points. The big operation which finally wiped out the Bois de Loges and carried the Americans forward forty kilometers was started on November 1 with the 77th and 78th sweeping ahead, side by side. Just before the big attack the 77th was brought up from the rest area, where the men had been putting in about six hours a day drilling and put in reserve to fill up a gap as the line moved up. Its artillery was put in as support with orders not to fire a shot until "H hour." Two days before the attack the 153rd brigade fired every gun at the barrage rate of 300 rounds per hour for seven hours, combing through a great forest on the left flank as part of the preparation. At zero hour the 78th stepped off from Grand-Pre and in front of the Bois de Loges. Machine guns stopped one brigade temporarily as these "typewriters" belched their spit of death, but a little artillery concentration fixed that patch of woods, and the armistice saw the New York boys of both divisions once more side by side. — Reprint from the Paris edition of the New York Herald, November 21, 1918. It has long been our custom to turn in the autumn of the year to praise the Thanksgiving to Almighty God for His many blessings and mercies to us as a nation. This year we have special and moving cause to be grateful and to rejoice. God has in His good pleasure given us peace. It has not come as a mere cessation of arms, mere relief from page ninety-four ^SERVICE aSS£\ RECORD the strain and tragedies of war. It has come as a great triumph of right. Complete victory has brought us, not peace alone, but the confident promise of a new day as well, in which justice shall replace force and jealous intrigue among the nations. Our gallant armies have participated in the triumph which is not marred or stained by any pur- pose of selfish aggression. In a righteous cause they have won immortality and have nobly served their nation in serv- ing mankind. God has indeed been gracious. We have cause for such rejoicing as revives and strengthens us in all the best traditions of our national history. A new day shines about us, in which our hearts take new courage and look forward with new hope to new and greater duties. While we render thanks for these things let us not forget to seek the Divine guidance in the performance of those duties, and Divine mercy and forgiveness for all errors of act or purpose, and pray that in all that we do we shall strengthen the ties of friendship and mutual respect upon which we must assist to build the new structure of peace and good will among the nations. Wherefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, the 28th day of November next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, and invite the people throughout the land to cease upon that day from their ordinary occupations and in their sev- eral homes and places of worship to render thanks to God, the Ruler of nations. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in the District of Columbia, this 16th day of Novem- ber, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and forty-third. — President Wilson, November 23, 1918. And now in this old church, I wish to bid, in the name of my parish, a respectful and hearty welcome, to our friends, our brothers, the Americans, both officers and soldiers. You remember with what overflowing delight we greeted here last September the American regiment, recently landed, which was billeted among us. With what sorrow, also, we saw them depart a few days later. They were the first Americans to come to this small town. Their language was new and unknown to you, but from the first moment, the hearts understood. And when they departed, we felt as though some of our family was going away. But they had come, as they would say, not to stay, but to go where duty called them, not to rest but to fight. Our prayers accompanied them from a distance — we mourned over their dead. Those who are now among us (headquarters company and first battalion 311th Infantry) came with the hale and glory of the victorious battles they have fought. Many of their comrades have fallen on the battlefields : Arras, the Argonne, St. Mihiel, Grand-Pre. For several long months they struggled on the French soil to gain at last this victory, the extent of which has reached beyond our hopes. A hard task they achieved, the necessary task. They vied with our own soldiers in endurance and gallantry. They have a right to rejoice, after having suffered so much. My dear parishoners, do not forget what they are and what they have done. As you see them walking along your streets, or receive them in your homes, show unto them the feeling of respect and gratitude to which they are entitled. Let your intercourse with them be inspired with the delicacy of fraternal hearts. Be careful not to abuse their liber- ality. Treat them as beloved brothers who suffered to deliver our country and clear away the formidable menace which had been for so long a time weighing upon the world. Let us share our joy with them, but let this joy be grave, serious, as the present conditions require. Honor be to our brothers of the great America ! To do them honor, I directed that our church should keep its decoration of last Sunday. It seems to me that their presence here, on this day, still reverberates the echoes of the magnificent Te Deum as those vaults had never heard before. Look at their glorious flag united with the glorious French flag. The same thrilling breath is moving them. It is the symbol of the imperishable union of France and America. page ninety-five v» ^SERVICE ylBk\ RECORD Honor to the Americans. — Extracts from sermon delivered at the church of Flavigny, France, by the Cure, November 24, 1918. The work of the signal corps men attached to our battalion was most excellent. At no time in the recent campaign was our phone liaison with regiment cut off more than a very few minutes. Your men manifested an intense desire to keep communica- tion open, even under dangerous conditions of shell-fire and gas. Indeed, we have nothing but praise for the work of your men. — Captain Parsons, commanding first battalion, 30th Infantry, to Lieutenant Olsen and first platoon, Com- pany C, November 24, 1918. I wish to state that your men did their best in maintaining proper lines of communication, both in the St. Mihiel and Argonne sectors. Lack of material prevented at times proper means of communication, but the services of the men in general were excellent. As to individual deeds, I have nothing to mention, except that every man connected with the third battalion of this regiment fulfilled his duties in a most heroic manner and it will be a great task for me to mention any particular indi- vidual who had distinguished himself in duty more than any other. In fact, all performed their duties with due credit to the great nation they represent, to the division, regiment, battalion and themselves. Your detachment was first in immediate charge of Sergeant Morris at the St. Mihiel and Argonne sectors, followed by Corporals Nightengale and Terhune. These three N. C. Os. were always attentive to their duties, and through you I extend to them my thanks and appreciation. — Mat. R. A. Segarra, commanding third battalion, 309th Infantry, to First Lieut. Harry E. Olsen and first platoon, Company C, November 25, 1918. It is with a sense of gratitude for its splendid accomplish- ment, which will live through all history, that I record in general orders a tribute to the victory of the first army in the Meuse-Argonne battle. Tested and strengthened by the reduction of the St. Mihiel salient, for more than six weeks you battered against the pivot of the enemy line on the western front. It was a position of imposing natural strength, stretching on both sides of the Meuse River from the bitterly contested hills of Verdun to the almost impenetrable forest of the Argonne ; a position, moreover, fortified by four years of labor de- signed to render it impregnable; a position held with the fullest resources of the enemy. That position you broke utterly, and thereby hastened the collapse of the enemy's military power. Soldiers of all divisions engaged under the first, third and fifth corps— the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 26th, 28th, 29th, 32nd, 33rd, 35th, 37th, 42nd, 77th, 78th, 79th, 80th, 82nd, 89th, 90th and 91st — you will be long remembered for the stubborn persistence of your progress, your storming of obstinately defended machine gun nests, your penetra- tion, yard by yard, of woods and ravines, your heroic re- sistance in the face of counterattacks supported by power- ful artillery fire. For more than a month, from the initial attack of September 26, you fought your way slowly through the Argonne, through the woods and over the hills west of the Meuse ; you slowly enlarged your hold on the Cotes de Meuse to the east; and then, on the 1st of Novem- ber your attack forced the enemy into flight. Pressing his retreat, you cleared the entire left bank of the Meuse south of Sedan, and then stormed the heights on the right bank and drove him into the plain beyond. Your achievement, which is scarcely to be equalled in Amer- ican history, must remain a source of proud satisfaction to the troops who participated in the last campaign of the war. The American people will remember it as the realization of the hitherto potential strength of the American contribution toward the cause to which they had sworn allegiance. There can be no greater reward for a soldier or for a soldier's memory. — Gen. John J. Pershing, December 19, 1918. page mnety-sxx ^SERVICE y2K\ RECORD v It is with soldierly pride that I record in general orders a tribute to the taking of the St. Mihiel salient by the first army. On September 12, 1918, you delivered the first concerted offensive operation of the American Expeditionary Forces upon difficult terrain against this redoubtable position, im- movably held for four years, which crumpled before your ably executed advance. Within twenty-four hours of the commencement of the attack, the salient had ceased to exist and you were threatening Metz. Your divisions, which had never been tried in the exacting conditions of major offensive operations, worthily emulated those of more arduous experience and earned their right to participate in the more difficult tasks to come. Your staff and auxiliary services, which labored so untiringly and so enthusiastically, deserve equal commendation, and we are indebted to the willing co-operation of veteran French divi- sions and of auxiliary units which the allied commands put at our disposal. Not only did you straighten a dangerous salient, capture 16,000 prisoners and 443 guns, and liberate 240 square miles of French territory, but you demonstrated the fitness for battle of a unified American army. We apprecite the loyal training and effort of the first army. In the name of our country, I offer our hearty and unmeas- ured thanks to those splendid Americans of the first, fourth and fifth corps and of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 26th, 42nd, 82nd, 89th and 90th divisions, which were engaged, and of the 3rd, 35th, 78th, 80th and 91st divisions, which were in reserve. — Gen. John J. Pershing, December 26, 1918. Greetings to those in the uniform of the United States army : To you who have fulfilled the promise of the nation over- seas and you who stood ready in reserve at home I send greetings for the new year. The year of 1918 has shown what America can do; 1919 will show what America is. Your part in the great accomplishments has been a vital one. The part you will bear in the days to come will be no less important for our country. The process of demobil- ization is moving swiftly, in order and in accordance with plan. Clearly everything cannot be done at once and pa- tience will be needed. Each step must follow the step be- fore, and some units will go quickly, while others may be held a little longer for reasons that are very real, though sometimes not apparent on the surface. As America made her power felt more quickly than the foe thought possible, so she will return that power to the pursuits of peace with all due speed. As you have shared in the pride of the first accomplishments, so must your patience aid in the present adjustment to new conditions. The privilege of having stood in the ranks of the army of victorious democracy will be your pride through the years to come. If fortune has decreed that only weeks or months remain for you to stand in those ranks, instead of bloody years as our allies have done, then bear yourselves through the remaining days in a way to increase that pride. The best wishes of the country for 1919 and all the coming years are yours. To these I add my own heartiest good wishes and the confi- dence that in the future as ex-soldiers, as you have done in the past as soldiers, you will continue to reflect the high- est honor on our country. — Sec'y of War Newton D. Baker, January 1, 1919. The signal corps in France stands out as one of the mas- terful accomplishments of the American Expeditionary Forces. — Gen. John J. Pershing, January 20, 1919. I desire to express to you my deep appreciation of the efficient work done by the platoon of the field signal bat- talion while on duty with this regiment. As you know they came to us while we were in the British area and have trained and fought with us ever since. During our most trying days in the lines, the men of the field signal battalion were always at their posts, never fail- ing their duty and ever ready when the call for extra work came as it often did in those days in the Argonne forest. I want to make special mention of the work of First Lieut. Robert Clapp and Sergt. Victor E. Colson. Lieutenant Clapp's technical knowledge and his ever willingness to do the extra work and keep up our means of liasion gave me page ntnety-scven ^SERVICE ylSfi\ RECORD %> v <$/^§® great satisfaction and I always felt that the communication was safe when in his hands. Sergeant Colson was on duty at my P. C, handling message center and outside details, his cheerfulness under the most trying conditions and his never failing devotion to duty at any hour of the day or night were of great assistance to me and to every one with whom he came in contact. It is with great regret that I see these men go, for I almost feel that they are members of my own regiment; but they know that they will carry with them the best wishes of this regiment and leave behind remembrance of a work efficiently and cheerfully done. — From Col. M. B. Stokes, command- ing 311th Infantry, January 26, 1919. It is indeed a pleasure to transmit the above most excellent letter of commendation to the officers and men of the 303rd field signal battalion. Only the absolute loyalty, highest sense of responsibility, strictest attention to duty, the willing co-operation of all, and the fearless execution of their work under the most trying circumstances made the excellent re- sults obtained possible. Kindly transmit my sincere con- gratulations and appreciation to all officers and men of your company. — Mat. M. A. Looseley, commanding 303rd F. S. B., January 31, 1919. The commanding general desires to extend his sincerest congratulations to you and the members of your show, for the most successful and excellent entertainment. He fully appreciates the difficulties under which you labored, but the success which you attained should partly reward you for your efforts. The spirit and enthusiasm which you and the members of your troupe displayed in giving entertainment to your broth- ers-in-arms is that fine spirit for which this first corps is noted. Again, I wish to thank you and to ask you to extend my personal thanks and appreciation to all members of the troupe. — From Major-General Wright, commanding first corps, to Captain Conley and the battalion show troupe, February 18, 1919. Now that active operations have ceased, I desire to con- gratulate the officers and men of the signal corps in France on their work, which stands out as one of the accomplish- ments of the American Expeditionary Forces — the result of a happy combination of wise planning and bold execution with the splendid technical qualities of thousands of men from the great commercial telephone, telegraph and elec- trical enterprises of America. It is a striking example of the wisdom of placing highly skilled, technical men in the places where their experience and skill will count the most. Each army, corps and division has had its full quota of field signal battalions which, in spite of the serious losses in battle, accomplished their work, and it is not too much to say that without their faithful and brilliant efforts and the communications which they installed, operated and main- tained, the successes of our armies would not have been achieved. While the able management of the directing personnel is recognized, it is my desire that all members of the signal corps who, regardless of long hours and trying conditions of service, have operated and maintained the lines, shall know that their loyalty, faithfulness and painstaking care has been known and appreciated. In the name of the Amer- ican Expeditionary Forces, I thank them one and all and send to them the appreciation of their comrades-in-arms and their commander-in-chief. — Gen. John J. Pershing, February 19, 1919. The chief signal officer desires to add to the above an ex- pression of his own sincere appreciation of, and his hearty congratulations on, the skillful and successful performance of their work in the American Expeditionary Forces, which has resulted in the signal corps personnel of these forces collectively and individually receiving such unstinted and unusual praise from their commander-in-chief — Brig.-Gen. E. Russell, C. S. O., A. E. F., February 19, 1919. On August 16, 1918, the fourth platoon of your company, consisting of sixty-eight enlisted men, was reported by its commanding officer, First Lieut. Leroy N. Suddath, to the page ninety-eight < w> "^SERVICE / gg \ RECORD 312th Infantry, then at Habarcq, France, for duty. It was immediately attached to the headquarters company of that regiment. The platoon came to us complete in personnel, well organized, and well trained in so far as time had per- mitted. Extensive training for all units of the division still con- tinued, however, except, of course, when troop movements interfered, and the signal units were far from being an exception. For the purpose of greater unity, co-ordination, and more systematic instruction, the field signal platoon and the infantry platoon were trained as one. In many cases the members of the former group were more technical and consequently assisted the infantry men to a very consider- able degree in their training. This system of training as one platoon was employed throughout, and even used during the activity while in the front line areas. Some time previous to our going into the lines each platoon sent a specified quota to each of the three battalions. From the fourth platoon twenty-six men remained with regimental head- quarters, while thirteen men went to each battalion. Of the service rendered by the signalmen, both in the Limey sector and in our part of the Meuse-Argonne offensive, I cannot speak too highly. In both sectors it was necessary to re-establish, practically anew, telephone systems. In both sectors communication was maintained only by con- stant patrolling and repairing, always to be done during heavy shell fire. Notwithstanding this, the construction and maintenance were done, and completed quickly and effi- ciently. Your men were to a large extent responsible for this. I wish particularly to mention the exceptional services ren- dered by Master Signal Electrician Davis, who was left in charge of the platoon as we were entering the Argonne forest. Electrician Davis' technical ability and his untiring and able leadership were noted at all times, especially while in the Grand-Pre sector. Nor will we ever forget the well- trained and efficient services of Sergeant Lauffenburger as superintendent, Corporal Ashton as telephone operator, Corporal Wiltse, and Privates Coffland, Jackson, O'Kane and Kroencke ; in fact, I must say that every man was in the game from start to finish. The regimental commander has on frequent occasions com- plimented the work of the signalmen of your company very highly. It is with great pleasure that I send this note as a simple expression of appreciation of the services rendered by the members of the fourth platoon. — Capt. Stanley D. Chapin, 312th Infantry, to fourth platoon, Company C, March 3, 1919. In compliance with telegraphic instructions from G. H. Q., A. E. F., the 78th division stands relieved from this army on April 6, 1919. The 78th division, joining the first army on August 30, 1918, participated in the following operations of this army : St. Mihiel Operation The 78th division participated in this operation first as a reserve of the first corps, and later by holding the Limey sector. While holding the Limey sector, the 78th division partici- pated in several local engagements and the demonstration of September 26. Meuse-Argonne Operation The 78th division, having been relieved from the Limey sector, joined the army reserve in the Meuse-Argonne sector on October 5. On October 15 to 16 and 17 the 78th division relieved the 77th division along the southern banks of the Aire River facing Bois de Loges and Grand-Pre. Between October 15 and 31 this division executed continu- ous attacks against the difficult and strongly-held terrain of Bois de Loges, Grand-Pre and east of Talma Ferme. The heights east of Talma Ferme and Grand-Pre and the heights to the north thereof were captured by hard fighting, which included several "hand to hand" engagements. The division participated in the army's general attack No- vember 1, advancing between that date and November 5, approximately twenty kilometers, and through the localities of Bricquenay, Boult aux Bois, Chatillon sur Bar, Brieulles sur Bar, Les Petities Armoises to the heights east of Tannay. The army commander desires to convey to Major-General McRae (commanding the 78th division) and the officers and soldiers of the 78th division, his appreciation of the excel- page ninety-nine w* ^SERVICE jMSK RECORD ;^^^ lent services rendered by this division as a combat unit of the first army. The army commander and the army greatly admired the tenacity and aggressiveness of the troops and the leadership of General McRae and his subordinates of the 78th division during the hard and continuous fighting which resulted in the capture by the 78th division of the heights east of Talma Ferme and of Grand-Pre. The 78th division, in leaving the army, carries with it the best wishes of the army commander for its future abroad and in the United States. — From Lieutenant-General Liggett, commanding first army, March 27, 1919. It gives me great pleasure to extend to you, the officers and men of the 78th division, my sincere compliments upon their splendid appearance at the inspection and review on the 26th of March. I wish also to take this opportunity of express- ing my appreciation of the high morale existing throughout all ranks, and my satisfaction at the condition of the horse transport and artillery. All ranks should take just pride in such a commendable showing, as well as in the credit of service in France, which stands to their credit. Arriving on June 8, the division trained with the British Expeditionary Forces for two months, and in August was moved into the American sector, acting as a reserve for the first corps in the St. Mihiel offensive from the 12th to the 16th of September. It was then placed in the front line, relieving the second and fifth divisions, and remained in the Limey sector with the fourth corps of the first United States army until October 4. During this time the division kept up continuous aggressive patrolling until its relief from the line. On the night of October 15 to 16 it relieved the 77th division and thereafter remained in the Meuse- Argonne offensive until November 5. The names of Grand- Pre and the strong position of Bois des Loges, whose final reduction came only after a succession of desperate assaults and counterassaults, will always be remembered in the his- tory of the American Expeditionary Forces. On November 2 the division occupied the Bois des Loges and thereafter made a rapid advance of over 21 kilometers, during the course of which the towns of Beffu et le Mort Homme, Bricquenay, Boult-aux-Bois, Belleville-sur-Bar, Germont, Authe, Brieulles-sur-Bar and Verrieres were occupied. In view of this record, I want every man in the division to know of my appreciation of his work. Please therefore extend my congratulations to the members of your division, who may proudly carry home with them the gratitude of the allies with whom they fought and the pride of their fellows throughout our forces. — Gen. John J. Pershing, to Maj.-Gen. James H. McRae, April 13, 1919. G. H. Q. American Expeditionary Forces General Orders No. 38A „ „ , 00 imn France, February 28, 1919. My Fellow Soldiers: Now that your service with the American Expeditionary Forces is about to terminate, I cannot let you go without a personal word. At the call to arms, the patriotic young manhood of America eagerly responded and became the for- midable army whose decisive victories testify to its efficiency and its valor. With the support of the nation firmly united to defend the cause of liberty, our army has executed the will of the people with resolute purpose. Our democracy has been tested, and the forces of autocracy have been defeated. To the glory of the citizen soldier, our troops have faithfully fulfilled their trust, and in a succession of brilliant offensives have overcome the menace to our civili- zation. As an individual, your part in the world war has been an important one in the sum total of our achievements. Whether keeping lonely vigil in the trenches, or gallantly storming the enemy's stronghold; whether enduring monot- onous drudgery at the rear, or sustaining the fighting line at the front, each has bravely and efficiently played his part. By willing sacrifice of personal rights ; by cheerful endur- ance of hardship and privation; by vigor, strength and in- domitable will, made effective by thorough organization and cordial co-operation, you inspired the war-worn allies with new life and turned the tide of threatened defeat into over- whelming victory. page one hundred ^SERVICE tIK RECORD v With a consecrated devotion to duty and a will to conquer, you have loyally served your country. By your exemplary conduct a standard has been established and maintained never before attained by any army. With mind and body as clean and strong as the decisive blows you delivered against the foe, you are soon to return to the pursuits of peace. In leaving the scenes of your victories, may I ask that you carry home your high ideals and continue to live as you have served — an honor to the principles for which you have fought and to the fallen comrades you leave be- hind. It is with pride in our success that I extend to you my sincere thanks for your splendid service to the army and to the nation. Faithfully, John J. Pershing, Commander in Chief. At the moment when the terrible slaughter has come to an end, thanks to the devoted aid of great America, permit a simple French woman to express her gratitude and ad- miration for the country which has saved us. I know with what sublime abnegation, with what disregard of danger, those brave children delivered us from the Boche at the time when they were so near Paris. One of my nephews told me about it. He said there were ten thousand Ameri- cans who fought like lions. They made a rampart for us that stopped the Boche reaching Paris. And, also, when I see all that you are doing for us, all the orphans you are adopting for which you got no thanks from the French government. When I see the merchants who, because you are Americans, charge you three times the value of things, and even food, without any thought of the self- imposed sacrifice you are making with open heart for us, you may be sure that there are times when a true French- man is ashamed to be one. What must you think ! I am speaking to you as a person who has suffered greatly mentally and spiritually from the war, and who will suffer after it. Before leaving France, please remember that there are peo- ple who esteem and admire you and will never forget what you have done for their native land. I visit the cemetery every week to greet those who have fallen so valiantly in defending us and I am really grieved not to be able to strew all their graves with flowers. Pardon me for writing this; I am but expressing all my feelings. — A letter from a French lady to the editor of Stars and Stripes, official American Expeditionary Force publication. A Clipping from the Newark Evening News THE part played by the Lightning Division in the war is the subject of an article in the Newark News of January 1, by Miss Cecil I. Dorrian, a staff cor- respondent of the New Jersey newspaper. Miss Dorrian visited the 78th Division at Semur, from where the story is sent. The article, which takes up four pages of the News is a vivid account — for the most part accurate — of what the 78th did since leaving the States. The face of victory herself has not been much harder to find in this war than have the faces of the boys of the 78th Division since they left Camp Dix under the command of General J. H. McRae and came to France. Until I managed, after a general hunt of three months and a hot chase of five days, to join them here in the heart of France, no one from the outside world has reached them — no newspaper chronicler has written a word of their great campaign. This unkind and entirely accidental fate has been unfor- tunate because the truth is that this division has become one of the most distinguished of all the troops that have come to France. It is doubtful if a half-dozen people know it, but it was the 78th Division of civilian soldiers of New Jersey and New York who captured Grand-Pre and the Bois des Loges on the Argonne front, and thus broke through the Kriemhilde line, the pivot of the German defense. In the German communique of November 3, we may remember reading the following statement: "The Ameri-' cans have penetrated our lines and forced our withdrawal page one hundred one ^SERVICE 7ag\ RECORD V 1 from the Kreimhilde positions." The Americans referred to in this communique were the men of the 78th Division. For this act they were given two special mentions, one by General Dickman, Corps commander, the other by General Liggett, chief of the First Army, "for great courage in taking Grandpre." The actual capture of the town and citadel was done by Newark's Own Regiment, the 312th Infantry, under Colonel Anderson, on October 25 and 26. Their action here went hand in hand with the splendid fighting of the 311th Infantry (of Trenton and South Jersey), under Colonel Stokes, who, by the capture of Talma Hill and the heights called the Burgundy Nose, west and north of Grand-Pre flanked the position and made it possible for the Newark boys to make a dash for the Grand-Pre citadel. For these achievements General McRae is very proud of his men, and his men all tell you that there is no general like theirs and none so fearless. When we recall that these places were considered by French military experts to form the strongest points in the German line and that the crack here precipitated the end of the war, we will begin to realize, though at first but dimly, what part in the world struggle the New Jer- sey men have played. Among the first of the National Army soldiers to start out for the battlefields of France, the New Jersey troops sailed on May 19 and 20 from a number of different United States ports (Philadelphia, New York, Boston), but mainly from Halifax, Nova Scotia. One of the Hali- fax ships carried the Headquarters Staff and the H. Q. Troop. Tiflis ship had something more to report than merely rough weather in crossing. Their route lay very far to the north among the ice fields. On June 2 they approached the Irish coast and at about 6 o'clock in the evening, as they were assembling for mess, they suddenly felt a violent trembling of the ship and heard a dull boom ! They looked at each other. A few seconds later the vessel trembled again like a house in an earth- quake and the muffled roar of a second explosion was heard. Lieutenant MacCaffery, of the Headquarters Intelligence Section, who described this entry of our division into the war arena, said that at the second shock the men quietly left their places, went out on deck and took up their al- lotted positions beside the lifeboats. There was no bust- ling, no confusion. Unaccustomed to the niceties of submarine warfare the men naturally expected to see the ship begin to fill and sag. But they soon found that the shocks had not been the result of torpedoes hitting the ship, but of depth bombs thrown by the ship at a submarine which had been maneuvering to get a shot at her. A depth bomb is a terrific affair, and when it explodes it sets the entire seascape to rocking. As the men stood by their boats they had a chance to see in panoramic form the whole curious drama of the submarine war which had been raging behind the cur- tain for over two years. They saw their British convoy ships standing by. They watched the little destroyers appear as from nowhere in an incredibly short time. Some of them that were a mile away made the ship's side in one minute thirty-two seconds. Observation balloons floated over the scene. Great geysers heaved up out of the ocean's blackness as the depth bombs exploded. Soon the battle was over, and one, perhaps two, submarines had met the horrible fate that they deserved. The 78th Division landed in three different English ports : Liverpool, Southampton, London, from about May 30 to June 8. These were the days when the Germans were smashing their way down past the Chemin des Dames and through the Marne pocket toward Paris. Time pressed and our men did not stay nearly as long in England as did those of many other divisions that went before and that came after. The 311th Regiment, for example, landed in Liverpool on May 31 and the next day they were marching up the sand dunes behind Calais I imagine that is a record of transportation speed. I am told that the longest time any of the units spent in Eng- land was four days. They stayed in Calais for only a few days of "rest." Oh ! Those God-forsaken places on page one hundred two m v 5 ^SERVICE 7^ RECORD the dunes. "Old England's Restless Camps," as sings a new division song. Thence they entrained and went down behind the British front to Hazebrouck. A divi- sion of troops is a mighty thing to move. Do you know that it takes twenty-eight French trains of fifty-one cars each to transport a division of men with its baggage? They thought themselves well out of Calais for that place was being mercilessly bombed every night at about one time. The men came out of their huts on the hills when 10 o'clock came and watched the dastardly show, the searchlights looking wildly around the skies for the coming raiders, the lightning of the guns, the splash of giant bombs, the fires, red glares and silence. They were seeing enough to show them that they had arrived at the war, but as yet it had not touched them. Their own entry into the raid area came a few days later when they went down to St. Pol, behind Arras, to go into training in British training camps, with British in- structors. Here the Germans air-raided them every night, dropping tremendous bombs. Many of the men who have been through the hardest fighting at the front will still tell you that these air raids at St. Pol were the worst feature of the war. This chaos of death and noise in the darkness when you stand defenseless seemed such a mean situation. During their period of training in the fields back of Arras they had mock battles among trenches, and were brought up to date on all the latest dodges of British war methods. From time to time groups of them went into the real trenches with the Australians out in front of Arras. It was here that Lieutenant Mitchell of the 309th went across No Man's Land with some Australians on a reconnaissance of pure devilment, such as the Aus- tralians themselves were noted for, and single-handed, took a German machine gun and killed its crew. This was the same man that represented the division at the bayonet practice exhibition of the military show held at Madison Square Garden before the division sailed. It was during these days of training and nights of raids that Lieutenant Colonel Edward S. Hayes, chief of the operations section, H. Q., first began to distinguish him- self. His personal investigations of the front line, his good cheer when the bombs were dropping earned him the name among the men of "Le Bon Colonel," and wher- ever you go among the troops now you hear his name mentioned — and his absence regretted. For this gallant officer lost his arm in the later fighting and is now in the hospital. On August 19, just as two battalions of the division were about to lead the way for the rest into the line in front of Arras to have a period of active training, they received orders to move to the American front. What was up? They did not know. They did not care. They felt almost as if they were going home, for they were going to an ail-American section of France. Twenty- eight trainloads of happy men pulled out of the Picardy mists and the desolate northern fields of many battles, passed through the torn-up Marne salient, headed south- east through pleasant lands that had not been spoiled by war and were unloaded in the province of Haute Marne at Bourbonne-les-Bains, Chatillon-sur-Saone, and other places in the vicinity. Here they had a little comfort, not much, but it was the first they had had, and it seemed considerable. The days were pleasant, the world was good. And they had American chow once more. Here the troops had some more training, intensive, get-ready stuff. Some of the officers had days at the staff college at Langres. It was evident that something was up, and they figured that they would soon be seeing something of the war close-to. It was not long in coming. On September 9 and 10 they began to move forward. They went past places, the names of which will grow more and more familiar to Americans as the years go along, through Jeanne D'Arc's country, Neufchateau, and on to Toul. After that the real thing began. They climbed into those big French blue camions that have gained laurels with the dusty Poilu in the annals of war, and driven by Chinese drivers, they rolled out on the long white roads toward the front. You know what happened on September 12. That was the day of the first American offensive, at St. Mihiel. page one hundred three ^SERVICE yiBSv RECORD Our division arrived on the hills behind the line in time to see the kickoff of that fight. They could hear the hub- bub of it, the greatest roar of artillery that had ever been let off yet in France. Then they marched up as the line advanced. They crept forward at night through the forests, and they will tell you that they never knew how dark night could be till then. It was raining, and they could have no lights and no fires and no hot food. In the black hours before dawn of September 14 they crawled forward and took the line, relieving the 5th Division. And there they were, in the war. They were in the sector from Xammes to Vieville-en-Haye, near Thiaucourt. The way these new troops, who had never had any active experience, effected the relief of the line, advancing in the thick darkness in a country that they knew only on the map, and settled down under particularly sharp fire from the high ground of the Hindenburg line opposite, won them the compliments of the corps commander. The staff work was excellent, he said, the steadiness and discipline of the troops perfect. That was a good beginning for our civilian soldiers. We will not stop for details here as this is simply a gal- loping account of where the division has been since it left Camp Dix. What the regiments have done and who were the men who figured, form another story that will come hurrying along after this one. The 78th held the Thiaucourt sector from Sep- tember 14 to October 5. That is a long stretch under any conditions, and when you think that this was their first entry into the war the length of these days is some- thing to be put down to the great credit of the division. During these three weeks they withstood heavy German counter attacks, made raids on a large scale, advanced their positions locally, and on the 26th of September made a demonstation to resemble an offensive. This was the day of the opening of the great drive on the Ar- gonne front and the intention was to puzzle the Ger- mans as to where the real push was to be made. In general, the work required of the division on the Thiaucourt front was to hold on and not to advance. On October 5 followed some memorable days — that is, nights. For it is well to recall pointedly, now and then, that this was principally a night-time war. Thoroughly tired out and strained with their first rigorous experience in the line, dirty, exhausted with lack of rest and with the long spell without hot food, they started out for a forced march of fifty miles, through the mud, in the cold rain and the blank darkness across the base of the St. Mihiel salient, towards the Argonne. All the men speak of that march. They will never forget it. When they got a few minutes' halt for rest they fell right down where they stood, even if it was in a river of mud or a pool of water, and sank into a dead sleep. The trundling artillery, the staff cars, the baggage lorries, the field kitchens, passing the marching troops in the chaotic darkness along that ragged, narrow road that had been tossed by shellfire and traffic until it had a surface like that of the Whirlpool Rapids all gave to the imagination the tinge of nightmare. One staff car nearly crashed into an artillery limber that had skidded across the road. The officer in the car, whose nerves were a bit frazzled along the edges by fatigue, re-acted to the shock of the collision by crying out to the officer commanding the limber (who was Lieutenant De- vinne, himself attached to the staff), "Why don't you get that limber out of the road? You ought to be in jail !" "Jail !" muttered the lieutenant, wistfully. "I wish I was in jail!" Two or three nights of this and another long "bus" ad- vance, that is, in lorries, and they arrived in Clermont, on the eastern fringe of the Argonne Forest. Here they had two whole days of rest, with a chance to take their clothes off — for the first time in a month — and get a bath. The 156th Brigade, including the 311th and 312th Regiments, was called upon to make another long march forward to be on hand for a possible counter attack. The 155th Brigade (309th and 310th Regiments) followed. page one hundred four ^SERVICE 74S& RECORD ; w From the 10th to the 15th of October they were in reserve behind the Grand Pre front. On the 15th they took over the line from the 77th Division, and their front extended from Grand-Pre to St. Juvin, roughly along the Aire River. Here, as the division historian tersely put it, "hell broke loose." Although the 77th Division thought they had taken Grand-Pre, and it had so been announced the day before, the 78th found the town entirely occu- pied and strongly fortified by the Germans when they took over. They managed to get a foothold only in two or three houses at the end of the main street. The taking of the town and citadel was all before them. The Germans had no intention of yielding this key position without putting up the strongest fight that they knew how to wage. At this time they were not yet beaten. Lille had not fallen. The center was only in the vicinity of the Chemin des Dames, while the Ger- man pivot positions from the Argonne to the Meuse were still holding. It was thought possible that the Germans were going to settle on a new line for the winter. Two weeks later, when, by as heroic and bitter fighting as has taken place at any time during the war, the 78th Division smashed through the pivot of Grand- Pre, the Bois des Loges, the Burgundy Wood, and, re- gathering itself for another spring, launched a final blow on the Germans, the hun ran, a chase set in, and a few days later the war was over. The final blow north of Grand-Pre, after the fall of the citadel, was delivered on November 1. Before dawn on the 3rd the Germans, seeing the game was up, turned and headed for Germany. Without rest, without food, without equipment or blankets, the doughboys picked up and dashed after them. Twenty-four kilometers north they hurried, fight- ing the Boche out of rearguard positions. The 42nd Division, the Rainbows, were coming up to relieve the 78th. They could not catch them. The Ger- mans had turned the roads upside down, thinking that would delay their pursuers. But the engineers hurried up and did incredible stunts in hole mending and tem- porary bridge building. The doughboys were far ahead. They waited for no transport. They were hungry, cold, coatless, exhausted. But they did not notice it. They hurried on. On November 5 the 42nd caught up, and the event is referred to in division circles as the time when the Rainbow caught the Lightning. The commander of the Rainbow's first unit to arrive exclaimed : "I was ordered to leap-frog you and to take the line, but how could I when I couldn't catch you?" The 78th had reached Tannay, a small place on the west bank of the Meuse, about opposite Stenay. This place is called "Finis la Guerre for the 78th." They did not know then, however, that the guerre was finis. They only knew they had earned their rest. They had given the hun a wholesale drubbing, and they were going back, back to some quiet place where they could sleep, and perhaps dry out a little and get a bit warm, and — have something to eat. They trudged down along the road to Bricquenay, and those who saw those muddy doughboys passing through will never lose the picture from their memory. So tired that they staggered rather than walked, their eyes dazed, their uniforms torn and wet, caked in mud to the shoul- ders, their faces stained, their chins stubbly, their tin hats pushed back from their foreheads, they looked up at their general, who stood to watch them and they smiled. Some of them carried strange souvenirs. One had an old plug hat he had found in an empty house. Another trundled a battered baby carriage full of pre- cious war junk together with some bread discovered in an abandoned Boche bakery. In voices muffled with fatigue they bandied jokes and laughed. They had chased the hun and they were going back to rest. The rain kept on, the mud splashed, the guns were rumbling and the machine guns sputtering. Nothing mattered. They were going back to rest. A few days later a frivolous rumor passed along from line to line of the marching troops. Some one had said page one hundred five ffl@ ^SERVICE /UK RECORD that the war was over and an armistice had been signed. What was the use of starting these silly rumors? No one paid much attention to them. Toward night as they were approaching St. Meneholde they saw an alarming, if spectacular, show in a neighbor- ing valley. There were some American troops there and they were raising a tremendous hullabaloo. They were shooting guns, sending up rockets, star shells and flares, popping machine guns and tossing hand grenades. Surely there must be a riot. The 78th thought they probably would be stopped and sent down to restore order. But they weren't. Then the rumor started again, the rumor about the armistice. And the ingenious rumor spreader added that the riot in the valley was a peace celebration. They wondered if such a thing could be true. The idea got hold of them a little and as dusk came on some one started singing the "Long, Long Trail." They were almost too tired to sing, but still the air was taken up here and there and it wandered thinly down the line. When they got into St. Meneholde they found it was true. The Germans had quit. The thing had been signed. The war was over. The 78th were too tired for any gaudy celebra- tions. They stood around talking about it in a dazed sort of way, but somehow it seemed incredible. Peace was too large an idea to take in until at least after having one long sleep. So they fell into their billets. And while we sang and danced and shouted in the cities, they slept. Meanwhile some of their officers went into a little steep- roofed tavern in St. Meneholde and there by chance hap- pened to see a group of old bent figures gathered around a wooden table over a bottle of wine. They were veter- ans of 1870 celebrating the victory of 1918. When they saw the Americans enter, covered with mud and fresh from the war, it seemed to them to fit the occasion mira- culously. They invited our men to join them, patted them on the back, gave them some wine, and they drank to the day together. A few days later the 78th entrained and were taken down to one of the most picturesque corners of old France, in the Cote d'Or, north-west of Dijon, with head- quarters at Semur. That is where they are now as I write. They are busy getting themselves together, cleaning up, looking around for old chums in other units — finding some and missing many others, learning what the rest did in the great fight, beginning to hear that they are a brilliant division and that honors are to come to them. New Jersey can be very proud of her sons. page one hundred six SERVICE ^Kv RECORD >**> M AS YOU GRAVIES AT YOUR GROCER'S NAME AND ADDRESS Entered Company Pvt. First Class Corporal Sergeant Sergeant First Class Casualties Returned to Company 2-29-8 3-24-8 11-19-7 10-22-8 10-25-8 2-24-8 10-23-8 10-11-7 2-24-8 5-22-8 2-24-S 2-23-8 2-24-8 10-20-8 10-11-7 12-10-7 2-24-8 2-24-8 1- 5-9 2-24-8 2- 1-8 2-24-8 10-14-8 2-24-8 5-16-8 10-11-7 2-24-8 3-24-8 3-24-8 10-22-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 11- 1-7 11- 1-7 1- 1-9 4- 1-8 Discharg 12- 1-8 3- 1-9 Discharg Transfer 12- 1-7 10-17-8 2- 5-9 12-22-8 Died 2-11-9 Albertson, E. E., 205 Baker St., Mt. Vernon, Wash . . 12- 1-8 ed, S. C. D. 2-4-8 Aldrich, Everett S., 352 W. Van Buren St., Battle Creek, Alexander, Kenneth B., Newbern, Va ed, S. C. D. red to 28th 4-6-8 Division, Andrews, Chas. F., Mermaid and Stenton Aves., Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa.. . April, 1919. Arms, Percy J., 1936 Swatava St., Harrisburg, Pa Died 2-19 pany A Ashton, Leon W., Collingswood, N. J 6- 1-8 6- 1-8 To Depot To 309th 8- 1-8 Transfer red to Com Brigade. Infantry. 5-5-8 5-1-8 Billings, James R., Smithville, S., Nassau Co., N. Y Billings, John H., 1828 Benson Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.. . . 12- 1-7 1- 1-8 4- 1-8 Killed. 3- 1-8 6- 1-8 10-24-8 12- 1-8 Gas.10-20-8 6- 1-8 6- 1-8 As Serge 6- 1-8 8- 1-8 6- 1-8 As Corpo 6- 1-8 8- 1-8 To B. Co. 12- 1-8 12- 1-8 6- 1-8 3- 1-9 4- 1-8 To 310th In 5- 1-8 12- 1-7 2- 1-8 Black, Clifford R., R. F. D. No. 2., Sheldon, N. D Black, William, 189 Jefferson Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y Blair, George M., Sandy, R.D. No. 4, Salt Lake Co., Utah Blair Robert T 54 Oak St Yonkers N Y Gas.10-20-8 ant First Class. Bleam, Arthur L., 216 Highland Ave., Trenton, N. J Blomgren, Iver L., 615 N. Green St., Ottumwa, Iowa.. . . ral. Bluto William W 8 Union St Hudson N Y 11-18-7 To C. Co. 10-4-8 As Corp. Bobinsky Paul A 2809 V St Omaha Neb Bock, Arthur W., 107 Wainwright St., Newark, N. J, Bockmann, Emil 0., 489 S. 6th St., Newark, N. J 10- 4-8 10-11-8 10-28-8 12-24-8 f. 5- 1-8 To Co. B. 7- 1-8 10-14-8 8- 1-8 6- 30-8 10-14-8 Brady, George L., Seneca Falls, N. Y To Co. B. /To Co. C. \ 1- 4-9 Page one hundred seven ^SERVICE ylK RECORD NAME AND ADDRESS Entered Company Pvt. First Class Corporal Sergeant Sergeant First Class Casualties Returned to Company Brenna, Norman L., 2720 10th Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minn. Brennan, Robert C, 112 N. 5th St., Newark, Ohio 2-24-8 11-13-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 11-13-8 12- 9-7 2-22-8 2-24-8 4-26-8 2-24-8 11-10-8 11-13-8 9-24-8 11- 1-7 2-24-8 12- 3-7 10-25-8 5-16-8 12- 6-7 2-24-8 2-24-8 4-15-8 12- 5-7 10-25-8 10-14-7 2-24-8 3- 1-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 1- 9-8 2-24-8 10-11-7 2-24-8 10-11-7 5- 8-8 10-25-8 11- 1-8 2-24-8 12- 9-7 2-23-8 2-24-8 10-11-7 10-20-7 11-19-7 Trans 1- 1-9 4- 1-8 5- 1-8 3- 1-9 To Depot 6- 1-8 4- 1-8 5- 1-8 8- 1-8 ierred. 8-8-8 12- 1-8 Brooks, Clarence W., 620 18th St., Oakland, Calif Brooks, James R., 122 Plum St., Montgomery, Ala Brooks, John H., 17 So. Water St., Westfield, N. Y Brown, LaForest V., 34 High St., Cambridge, Mass Brigade. 12- 1-8 5-10-8 Brown, Raymond G., 323 Magnolia Ave., Alden, Pa Died 1-8-9 Rrttnftti Tohn 600 N Wells St Chicaeo 111 Bucey, Charles D., 205 Washington St., Fairmont, W. Va. 4- 1-9 As Corp. 2- 1-8 5- 1-8 6- 1-8 10-14-8 Burke, Forrest A., 628 S. 57th St., Philadelphia, Pa.. . . Bitrnap Leroy N 132 Ninth St Trov N Y 8- 1-8 Burns Luke E 210 Ford St Rochester N Y 12- 1-8 Byron, Earl, 1002 E. Enterprise St., Springfield, 111 Cain Leo C 912 W Mill St Ithaca N Y Cook 2-1-8 9-17-8 Campbell, O.'j., 1020 2nd Ave., No. Fargo, No. Dak Part son T A Grafton N D 6- 1-8 4- 1-8 To Depot 12- 1-8 12- 1-8 Brigade. 5-17-8 Chamberlin, Edw. F., 10 Melrose Ave., E. Orange, N. J. . Clapp, Robert H., 523 W. 113th St., N. Y. C Clark, Charles J., 923 S. Main St., Kalispell, Mont Cleary, Anthony H., 724 Saratoga St., E. Boston, Mass.. 3- 4-8 5- 1-8 6- 1-8 7- 1-8 4- 1-8 4- 1-8 6- 1-8 Discharged to Accept Commissio Hospital Clutts, Clay A., 203 Woodland St., Nashville, Tenn 8- 1-8 9- 1-8 To Co. B. 12- 1-8 Cook 4-1-8 12- 1-8 6- 1-8 6- 1-8 Colberg, George A., 112 E. Baker Ave., Wildwood, N. J.. 6- 1-8 4- 1-8 4- 1-8 4- 1-9 Colombo, Michael A., 546 Clinton St., Brooklyn, N. Y. .. Colson, Victor E., 3537 W. Beach Ave., Chicago, 111 Colville, Walter W., 35 Eldorado PL, Weehawken, N.J. Conolly, John J., 105 Ashford St., Brooklyn, N. Y Cosgriff, James A., 2217 E. 68th St., Cleveland, Ohio. . . . 12- 1-8 1- 1-8 5- 1-9 8- 1-8 5- 1-9 M. S. E. 6- 1-8 1- 1-9 As Private 6- 1-8 Discharge First Class 10-25-8 Yes Crawford, LeRoy J., Jefferson St., Buffalo, N. Y d S. C. D. 7- 1-8 3-15-8 Croscup, Everett J., 615 River St., Mattapan, Mass 8- 1-8 11- 1-7 Discharge 1- 1-8 Wounded 1- 1-8 d S. C. D. 4- 1-8 5- 1-8 11-6-7 6-1-8 Danon, Samuel J., 20 E. 116th St., New York City Darmody, Arthur F., 64 Mulberry St., Newark, N.J page one hundred eight ^SERVICE 7aK\ RECORD NAME AND ADDRESS Entered Company Pvt. First Class Corporal Sergeant Sergeant First Class Casualties Returned to Company Davis, Theodore E., 208 W. 54th St., New York, N. Y. . Davidson, Arnold B., Parkersburg, W. Va 10-11-7 10-14-7 3- 7-8 2-24-8 10-22-8 10-20-8 11- 1-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 12- 8-7 4-29-8 5- 1-8 11-10-8 10-25-8 10-11-7 2-24-8 3-24-8 10-11-7 2-24-8 10-11-7 2-24-8 10-11-7 5-20-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 11-19-8 10-20-S 11-23-7 2-24-8 3-10-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-22-8 6-14-8 2-24-8 4- 1-8 2-24-8 10-11-7 2-24-8 10-11-7 10-11-7 Transferred 4- 1-8 11-16-7 toQ.M. C. 9- 1-8 1- 1-8 1-16-S 3- 2-8 M.S.E. Day, William P., Brookside, Pa Dearden, Arthur, 390 Eighth St., Troy, N. Y Dejon, William P., 34 Patrick St., New Haven, Conn.. . . Delaney, Arthur G., Keating, Clinton Co., Pa Died 4-18-8 12- 1-8 As Corp. To 311th 5- 1-8 5- 1-8 To Med.De Denzler, William, 334 E. 66th St., New York City DeRose, Domenico, 222 Washington St., Spokane, Wash.. Devine, Thomas, 708 Third Ave., Grand Porks, N. D Ditmer, Carl, care of Mrs. Ruth Wilson, Grafton, N. D. . . Dokas, Konstantinos, St. Louis, Mo To Co. B. Infantry. 12-1-8 5-1-8 10-16-8 pt. 5- 2-8 11-20-8 7- 1-8 Dore, Thomas G., 55 E. 6th St., Oswego, N. Y Dotson, Samuel C., Lewisburg, W. Va 6- 1-8 6- 1-8 10- 4-8 9-28-8 10-28-8 Douglas, Frank C, Ellensville, N. Y Drach, Dudley J., 1358 W. 112th St., Cleveland, Ohio... . Dunstan, Thomas, 4423 W. Seattle St., Seattle, Wash Edgcumbe, Merton W., 110 Kingston St., Rochester, N. Y. Effenberger, Alie J., Nehalem, Ore 10-20-8 3- 1-8 To Depot 7- 1-8 To 155th 4- 1-8 12- 1-7 12- 1-8 10-11-7 9- 1-8 12- 1-8 12- 1-8 6- 1-8 Flu. 1-1-9 Brigade. 5-10-8 Ehlers, John J., 21 Park PL, Morristown, N. J 10- 8-8 11-14-8 Einson, B. B., 643 Lenox Ave., New York City Brigade 5- 1-8 Headquart ers. 6- 1-8 Elliott, Leroy J., 208 E. Pico St., Los Angeles, Calif Ensminger, George S., Evergreen Ave., Morristown, N. J. Eros, Joseph, 2809 V St., Southside, Omaha, Neb. . Evans, Samuel H., Y. M. C. A., Los Angeles, Calif Farnam, Earl L., Pawnee, 111 /Wounded 1 10-20-8 Flu. 2- 6-8 Felger, David G., Johnstown, N. D Fersky, Sol. J., 4516 William St., Cleveland, Ohio Fink, Luther D., Eccles, W. Va Finn, Samuel J., Coffeen St., Watertown, N. Y 7- 1-8 9- 1-8 Finnegan, Ralph M., 2021 A. E. O'Lear St., St. Louis, Mo. Fisher, Chester E., 451 14th St., Buffalo, N. Y 5- 1-8 4- 1-8 6- 1-8 7- 1-8 5- 1-8 12- 1-8 /To Co. B. \ 10-14-8 /To Co. C. \ 1- 9-9 Fitz, Henry L, Peconic, N. Y Flannery, Thomas J., 40 Mt. Pleasant Ave., Newark, N. J. Fleming, Fred U., Alpena, S. D 5- 1-8 12- 1-8 Flom, Theodore, Gary, Norman Co., Minn 3- 1-8 6- 1-8 12- 1-8 7- 1-8 To Depot 12- 1-8 Flood, Harry E., 75 Reservoir St., Cambridge, Mass Fohrell, Elmer H., 1115 Second St., Edwardsville, 111.. . . Foote, William E., Elberta, Utah Gas 10-18-8 9-23-8 12- 1-8 Forst, Raymond C, Trenton, N. J Brigade. 5-24-8 Freeman, Albert J., Havana, Fla Furth, Alphonse J., 319 New York Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Gagliardi, Joseph, 421 Main Ave., Spokane, Wash Gallichio, John A., 2853 W. 20th St., Coney Island, Brooklyn, N. Y 3- 1-8 / Hospital \ 10-3-8 4- 9 12- 1-8 12- 1-7 12- 1-8 Gas 10-20-8 page one hundred nine ^SERVICE y28S\ RECORD NAME AND ADDRESS Entered Company Pvt. First Class Corporal Sergeant Sergeant First Class Casualties Returned to Company Garber, Frederick W., 610 Elkins Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. Geltman, Louis, 546 E. 180th St., New York City Gervasi, Vincenzo, Tarrytown, N. Y 10- 1-7 12-15-7 10-11-7 10-11-7 3-24-8 2-24-8 10- 2-8 2-24-8 2-10-8 5- 5-8 11- 1-7 10-22-8 2- 1-8 11-30-7 2-24-8 10-11-8 10-11-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 10-20-8 2-24-8 10-11-7 5- 1-8 2- 1-8 2-24-8 10-11-7 2-24-8 10- 4-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 10-11-8 1-11-9 11- 1-7 11-19-7 12- 8-7 4- 1-8 2-23-8 12- 3-7 10-11-7 10-22-8 2- 1-8 12- 3-7 10-30-7 12- 1-7 Discharge To Suppl To Suppl 10- 1-8 9- 1-8 12- 1-8 To Med. To A. 1- 1-9 4- 1-9 d S. C. D. y Detach, y Detach. 2-19-8 11-18-7 11-18-7 Giannotta, Pasquale, Kensington, Conn Gibson, George E., 745 Bay St., Rochester, N. Y Gigliotti, Eugenio, 928 S. Shalto St., Chicago, 111 Gilbert, Roy, White Rock, S. D 2- 6-8 Glaze, James B., Spokane, Wash Dept. M. C. 5-2-8 Gott, Sanford J., 491 S. Goodman St., Rochester, N. Y. . Gray, Alfred E., 90 Pullman Ave., Rochester, N. Y Greene, Harold I., 248 Central Ave., West Hoboken, N. J. Gas 12- 1-8 6- 1-8 Gumbrecht, John, 402 New York Ave., Jersey City, N. J. Habel, Edward G., 19 Woodside St., Rochester, N. Y. . . . Hagie, Wayne R., Marion, Mont /Wounded \ 10-24-8 ergeant Cookl-16-8 6- 1-8 d S. C. D. d S. C. D. 8-1-8 8-1-8 3-23-8 12-14-7 Mess S 4- 1-9 Hall, William J., Perm. R. R., 4th and Front Sts., Long Island City, N. Y Discharge Discharge 6- 1-8 9- 1-8 11- 1-9 12- 1-8 12- 1-7 To Depot 4- 1-8 8- 1-8 2- 1-8 5- 1-8 12- 1-8 6- 1-8 6- 1-8 Hammett, Charles L., Cairo, Ga 2- 5-9 Died 2-12-9 Harmon, Artemas H., 24 Orange St., Portland, Me Harmon, Elvas E., Eldon, Iowa Harpell, Albert E., 29 Burnett St., Newark, N. J Harris, Gordon L., Irving-On-The-Hudson, N. Y Harvey, James E., 158 Myrtle St., Brockton, Mass Haselwood, Alfred V., Tecumseh, Okla 10-22-8 12-20-8 Brigade. 5-14-8 Hasson, Arthur P., 128 W. 109th St., New York City.. . Hawkinson, Axel B., Box 77, Crompton, R. I 4- 1-8 6- 1-8 4- 1-9 12- 1-8 4- 1-9 Hayzler, Emil, Schuyler, Nebr Wounded 2-6-9 School. Heider, Roy W., Watervliet, Mich 2-20-9 12-27-7 Heitman, Alfred W., 98 Romaine Ave., Jersey City, N. J. Hennessey, Joseph A., 51 Canonburg Road, Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y 11-16-7 d 2-21-9 8- 1-8 10-14-8 8- 1-8 4- 1-9 Train. 6- 1-8 To Officers Training Transferre 6- 1-8 To Co. A. 2- 1-8 5- 1-8 To San. 2- 1-8 1- 1-8 Herlan, Harry, 125 Madison St., Oneida, N. Y 12- 1-8 Herr, Lawrence F., 10 Commercial Ave., Binghamton, N. Y Heslink, Walter D., 314 Babcock St., Buffalo, N. Y Hess, Thomas F., 275 Walnut Ave., Trenton, N. J Hewitt, Michael D., Otisco St., Syracuse, N. Y 4- 1-9 5- 1-8 Hills, Ralph M., Friendship, N. Y Hildebrandt, Geo. R., 39 Lincoln Ave., Ocean Side, N. Y. Hirleman, Fay, Houghton, S. D 4 -1-9 5- 1-8 Hobcroft, Edward C, 1375 Lyman PL, New York City. Hogan, Hugh E., 75 North Ave., Oswego, N. Y M. S. E. Trans f erred. Holmberg, John M., 79 Huntington St., New Brunswick, N.J 2- 1-8 page one hundred ten ^SERVICE 7m& RECORD tins' NAME AND ADDRESS Entered Company Pvt. First Class Corporal Sergeant Sergeant First Class Casualties Returned to Company Hornberger, Walter J., 392 Glenwood Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. Houston, Edward B., 119 N. 6th St., Newark, N. J Howell, Edward N., Kirksville, Mo 1-10-8 3-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 10-11-7 10- 4-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 12- 6-8 12- 3-7 2-24-8 4-15-8 10-25-8 2-24-8 10-11-7 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 10-11-7 10-11-7 10-11-7 11-24-8 4-27-8 10-11-7 4-21-8 10-11-7 10-11-7 2-22-8 2-24-8 4- 4-8 4-15-8 10-11-7 10-11-7 10-11-7 2-24-8 10-11-7 10-25-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 10-11-7 10-11-7 10-11-7 12- 3-7 Gassed 6- 1-8 4- 1-8 12- 1-8 12- 1-7 12- 1-8 To Depot 6- 1-8 2- 1-8 Sergeant 5- 1-8 6- 1-8 8- 1-8 To O.T. C. 10-28-8 Howorth, Earl G., 1192 Pavone St., Benton Harbor, Mich. Hughes, John D., 570 W. 191st St., New York City Hugunin, Wallace R., 1908 Harrison St., Davenport, Iowa Hulett Roy M 132 9th St. Troy N. Y. 2- 1-8 3- 1-8 Brigade. 5-17-8 Died 2-20-9 Gas.10-20-8 5-17-8 Jackson, Ernest G., 208 Niagara St., Niagara Falls, N. Y. First Class. 6- 1-8 To 4th S 12- 1-8 ervice Co. 4- 1-9 Jacobson, Samuel, 438 So. Park St., Elizabeth, N. J Johnson, George W., 2560 Benninghofen Ave., Hamilton, Ohio 12- 1-8 4- 1-9 6- 1-8 11- 1-7 10- 1-8 10- 1-8 10- 1-8 Johnson, William G., Port Royal, Pa 1- 1-8 12- 1-8 4- 1-8 4- 1-9 Gassed. Gassed. 2- 5-8 2- 5-9 Gassed. Gassed. Johnson, William S., 384 High St., Benton Harbor, Mich. 3- 1-8 1- 1-8 3- 1-8 2- 1-8 4- 1-9 5- 1-8 Kahaly, Arthur T., 656 Broadway, New York City Kaufman, William, 1357 Odell St., New York City Keenan, Patrick J., 219 W. 66th St., New York City 10-11-7 4- 1-9 6- 1-8 12- 1-7 12- 1-8 To Co. A. 1- 1-8 8- 1-8 12- 1-8 Kelly, John I., P. O. Box 1216, Drumright, Okla Kelly Joseph A 802 Linden St Camden N J 4- 1-9 11-18-7 Kempner, David D., 251 W. 92nd St., New York City. . . Kenlon, Edward C, 142 S. 12th Ave., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. 11-16-7 To O.T. C. 12-27-7 Gas.10-10-8 7- 1-8 3- 1-8 6 -1-8 8- 1-8 4- 1-9 12- 1-8 6- 1-8 Kilbourn, William M., 1104 Kossuth Ave., Utica, N. Y. Gas.10-20-8 King, Franklin G., 2 Schwartz St., Rochester, N. Y Kinsella, Christopher A., 686 Bergen St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11- 1-8 6- 1-8 Flu. /Killed \ 10-18-8 10-11-7 1- 1-9 6- 1-8 1- 1-8 3- 1-8 6 -1-8 Krider, Charles E., 1402 Catalpa St., Parkland, Louis- 4- 1-9 Deserted 4- 1-9 4-27-8 10-11-7 1- 1-8 To Camp 4- 1-8 Gassed. Lane, James H., 446 Peffer St., Harrisburg, Pa Lane, James M., Jr., 1270 73rd St., Brooklyn, N. Y Langford, Frederick R., 558 3rd St., Niagara Falls, N. Y. Lee, Va. 5-24-8 page one hundred eleven %f> SERVICE y^Sx RECORD NAME AND ADDRESS Entered Company Pvt. First Class Corporal Sergeant Sergeant First Class Casualties Returned to Company Larenitis, Leland P., 1232 Organ Ave., Ft. Wayne, Ind... Larkin, Frank C, 80 4th St., Newark, N. J 2-24-8 10-22-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 11-13-8 10-11-7 12-26-7 1-10-8 5-10-8 10-11-7 5-22-8 10- 6-8 3-20-8 10-22-8 4-20-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-22-8 11- 1-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 3-26-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 10-11-7 2-24-8 2-24-8 5- 1-8 2-24-8 10-11-7 2-24-8 2- 1-8 3-14-8 10-11-7 9- 9-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 10-11-7 4- 1-9 4- 1-9 4- 1-8 Lauffenburger, Joseph E., Buhl, Idaho 6- 1-8 12- 1-8 / M. S. E. X 4- 1-9 / Flu. \ 1- 8-9 Lawrence, Francis D., East Hampton, L. I., N. Y Layne, Elmer F., Quinlan, Okla To Depot Brigade. 12- 1-8 5-10-8 Leas, Oran C, Green City, Mo Lee, Arthur L., 1608 Mississippi St., La Crosse, Wis LeFrancis, Fred E., Clarkston, Wash Died 2-20-9 11-17-8 10-13-8 Lennon, William J., 470 W. 153rd St., New York City. . Leo, Thomas W. J., 412 W. 55th St., New York City Levy, Adolph, 123 E. 108th St., New York City 4- 1-8 4- 1-8 al Corps graphic Sc 1- 1-8 To Medic To Photo 11- 1-8 6- 1-8 12- 1-8 6- 1-8 12- 1-8 To Depot 5- 1-8 12- 1-8 6- 1-8 Liles, Joseph M., care of Julius L. Liles, R. F. D. No. 1, Wendell, N. C hool, Paris 5- 1-8 Lincoln, Leroy S., 51 Highland Ave., Uniontown, Pa. . . . Lipman, Theodore E., 1300 Bushnell St., Beloit, Wis Livingston, Adam L., Mabton, Wash 12- 1-8 Gas.10-10-8 Loftus, William J., 225 S. 10th St., Newark, N. J Longo, Joseph E., Bunkie, La 8- 1-8 Louser, John L., 418 No. 5th St., Lebanon, Pa Brigade. 5-24-8 Ludy, Harry E., 424 9th St., Benton Harbor, Mich Lusareto, Marcelino, Sweetwater, Nev /Wounded \ 10-21-8 Lyons, Henry J. D., Henderson, W. Va MacCormac, George H, 155 Mansfield St., New Haven, Conn 6- 1-8 10-23-8 MacDonald, Matthew P., 74 Garden St., S., Manchester, Maguire, Matthew S., 390 8th St., Troy, N. Y 6- 1-8 3- 1-8 6- 1-8 9- 1-8 Malone, John R., Mansfield, Wash Marion, James E., Harrison, N. J Martin, Aloysius, 555 Woodland St., Trenton, N. J Maule, Charles P., South Omaha, Nebr To Depot Brigade. 6- 1-8 Brigade. 5-10-8 Maxwell, Lucan M., 58 W. 36th St., New York City. . . May, Austin B., Green City, Mo To Depot 8- 1-8 5-14-8 Mazurek, Frank W., 490 Berlin St., Buffalo, N. Y McCabe, Earl R., Venice, 111 11-26-8 Gassed. 12-10-8 McCann, Francis T., Verona, N. D 6- 1-8 11- 1-7 9- 1-8 To Depot To Depot 12- 1-8 1- 1-8 4- 1-9 Brigade. Brigade. McCarthy, Jeremiah J., 221 E. 124th St., New York City. . McCready, Earl, Clifford, Mich McCrudden, John J., New York City 5-24-8 5-14-8 6-1-8 McFarland, Joseph A., Philadelphia, Pa McDaniels, Homer A., Hillsdale, N. J Gassed. McGary, Bert, 155 Russell Ave., Akron, Ohio McGee, Guy F., Osgood, Mo 12- 1-8 4- 1-8 Brigade. ed to 80th 5-1-8 5-10-8 6 -1-8 ToO. T. C. McGee, John F., Kalispell, Mont McGillis, John, Edmore, N. D McKendrick, Edward H., 1 High St., White Plains, N. Y. To Depot Transferr 12- 1-8 page one hundred twelve ^SERVICE Jfil\ RECORD NAME AND ADDRESS Entered Company Pvt. First Class Corporal Sergeant Sergeant First Class Casualties Returned to Company McMahon, Henry F., 551 Broadway, Pawtucket, R. I.. . . McManus, Mark D., 1253 Arapahoe St., Los Angeles, Calif. 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 3-10-8 2-24-8 2- 8-8 4-15-8 11-19-7 5-17-8 11-12-7 10-11-7 2-10-8 1-30-9 2-24-8 10-25-8 11-19-7 5-17-8 10-11-7 10-11-7 2-24-8 10-11-7 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2- 1-8 10-11-7 6- 1-8 11- 1-8 10-11-7 2-24-8 10-22-8 5-24-8 2-24-8 10- 4-8 11-13-8 5- 2-8 2-24-8 3-26-8 12- 3-7 2-24-8 2-24-8 10-11-7 11-13-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 12- 1-8 Gassed. Gas.10-18-8 To Depot Brigade. 4- 1-8 To Headq 5-10-8 McPhee, Cole, 43 Liberty St., East Waterbury, Conn Meaney, John M., 195 Woodlawn Ave., Jersey City, N. J . Mellen, Frank 0., 98 Marcy Ave., E. Orange, N. J Menaker, Frederick E., Perth Amboy, N. J Gas.10-23-8 To Co. C. 6- 1-8 uarters Co. 4-1-8 12-1-8 3- 1-8 To Depot To Camp M. S. To S. C. Mengel Leo S Brigade. Kelley, Te E. to O. Radio Scho 5-20-8 xas. T. C. ol. 5-11-8 Menzies, George A 12-12-7 7-26-8 Merril, Dudley R., 1654 E. 9th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Metcalf, Franklin R Meyer, Charles A Meyer, Frank K., 3012 Clay St., San Diego, Calif Michaels, Max, 613 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. . 4- 1-8 First Class 6- 1-8 10-14-8 8- 1-8 As Private 1- 1-8 To Co. B. 8-27-8 Miller, Burton R., 53 Mary St., Binghamton, N. Y. . Miller, Horatio, 411 Boulevard, Westfield, N. J Miller, Martin J., 3235 Bainton Ave., N. S., Pittsburgh.Pa. Millington, John, Jefferson St., Follansbee, W. Va Mohr, Harold 0. 101 Sixth St., Wilmette, 111 11-16-7 xas. ToO. T. C. 12-26-7 To Camp 6- 1-8 10-11-7 6- 1-8 Kelley, Te 2- 1-8 6- 1-8 12- 1-8 M. S. E. 4- 1-9 Moll, Frank E., 2041 E. Penna. Ave., Warren, Pa Mooney, Daniel W., 1040 E. 27th South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Cook 3-1-8 4- 1-8 geant. geant. To 10- 1-8 poral adquarters 12- 1-8 First Class 6- 1-8 8- 1-8 Morris, Everett J., 2221 Evans Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. . . Mowers, William W., Alloway, N. J 6- 1-8 4- 1-9 Wounded As Ser As Ser Moore, Melvin S., 31 New York Ave., Ocean Grove, N. J. Murnane, Cornelius J., Westville, N. H O. T. C. To Co. B. 12-27-7 12-1-8 Murray, James J., 499 E. 138th St., Bronx, N. Y. C Nasdeo, Anthony, 345 Water St., N. Y. C Nelson, Emil, North Cape, Wis As Cor To He 5- 1-8 As Private To Co. A. Co. 11- 1-8 Nelson, Fred E., 8057 Throop St., Chicago, 111 Nicolai, Jack F., 301 W. 21st St., New York City Nightingale, Walter T., Waldwick Ave., Waldwick, N. J. Died 11-1-8 12- 1-8 As Private 12- 1-8 Horse 6- 1-8 2- 1-8 Norman, William H., Sta. A. R. F. D., New Orleans, La.. Norton, Earl R., 22 Delaware Ave., Hudson Falls, N. Y. Oakes, Ray H., Woodstock, Vt O'Brien Hugh J., 406 Center St., Trenton, N. J First Class Shoer. 12- 1-8 12- 1-8 12- 1-8 O'Donoghue, John G., Box No. 557, Dunellen, N. J O'Kane, James F., 569 Broadway, Pawtucket, R. I 5- 1-8 As Cor 4- 1-9 6- 1-8 6- 1-8 Gas. 3-12-8 /M. S. E. \ 6- 1-8 poral. 2- 1-8 /Wounded \ 10-16-8 Olson, Axel G., 220 S. 2nd St., Lindsburg, Kans Olson Oscar K., Box No. 2, Brocket, N. D page one hundred thirteen ®w ^SERVICE 70S RECORD v* M ^Hw NAME AND ADDRESS Entered Company Pvt. First Class Corporal Sergeant Sergeant First Class Casualties Returned to Company O'Neill, William E., 373 East Ave., Pawtucket, R. I. . Organ, Albert M., 8 Waydell St., Newark, N. J Padien, James R., 276 Carrol St., Paterson, N. J Page, Claude E., Green City, Mo Parker, Charles A., 146 W. Grand St., Rahway, N. J. Pattison, Earl C, 40 Washington Ave., Pleasantville, N. Y. Paur, Frank E., Pisek, N. D Penn, Delbert H Peterson, Anthony, 265 Maple St., Perth Amboy, N. J. . Petterson, Ernest A., 79 Locust Ave., New Dorp, S.I., N.Y. Philliber, Thomas E., Benton Harbor, Mich Pils, Louis C, 892 E. 94th St., Brooklyn, N. Y Pine, Cleo., Joplin, Mo Poier, Frederick, Osmabrook, N. D Priestley, Oscar, Blackstone, Mass Presley, Leander, Hawkpoint, Mo Protine, Philip D., Hulbert Court, Libertyville, 111 Quackenbush, Kendrick, Union Springs, Minn Quinn, William J., 12 Elizabeth St., Worcester, Mass. . . . Rector, Orville R., 1315 Iranistan Ave., Bridgeport, Conn. Reilly, Vincent B., 143 River Ave., Providence, R. I. . . . Remmes, Joseph T., Andover, Mass Rice, Charj.es E., 1510 S. 5th Ave., Minneapolis, Minn . . Roark, Earl D., 1053 Alki Ave., Seattle, Wash.. Roberts, George H., 5733 Franklin Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. Robins, Donald H., Cleveland, Okla Romberger, George C, 7545 Norton Ave., Los Angeles, Calif Rona, Oscar M. A., 78 Sherman St., Passaic, N. J Rook, Jack S., 221 Palmer St., Union City, Tenn Rouse Glenn F., Washington, Iowa Roy, Armand L., 1 Cohasse St., Southbridge, Mass Ruch, George A., 14926 Cardinal Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. . Ruffing, Philip E., Paterson, N. J Rutstein, Irving R., 239 Lincoln St., Wilkesbarre, Pa Sanford, Harry C, 205 Lafforte Ave., Syracuse, N. Y. . . Sams, Herman L., Lewiston, Mont., Box 1738 Sauerhoff, George J., 9 5th Ave., Haddon Heights, N. J. Saunders, Harold, 52 Kermit Ave. N. E., Buffalo, N. Y.. Sawyer, Henry R., 4053 E. 44th St., Cleveland, Ohio Schmitt, William S., Troy, 111.. 2-23-8 1-15-8 3-28-8 2-24-8 12-13-7 4- 1-8 2-24-8 5- 1-8 2-24-8 3- 3-8 2-24-8 10-11-7 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 10-11-7 2-22-8 5- 5-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 10-22-8 11-13-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 11-13-8 12-15-7 9- 2-8 2-24-8 2- 1-8 12-19-7 2-24-8 12-20-7 12- 6-7 2-24-8 5-19-8 4- 1-8 3- 1-8 6- 1-8 6- 1-8 9- 1-8 4- 1-9 4- 1-9 To Co. B. 10-14-8 'To Co. C. i 1- 4-9 5- 1-8 10- 1-8 To Depot 12- 1-8 6- 1-8 Cook. Brigade. 10-21-8 5-17-8 To Depot 5- 1-8 Brigade Cook 1-1-9 11-16-7 5-10-8 Gassed. Wounded. 6- 1-8 12- 1-7 Hospital. Hospital. To Depot Brigade. 5-14-8 9- 1-8 6- 1-8 6- 1-8 3- 1-8 12- 1-8 As Cor 4- 1-8 4- 1-8 To Medi Hospital. 9- 1-8 12- 1-8 12- 1- 4- 1-9 poral. 4- 1-9 4- 1-9 cal Dept. 4- 1-9 5-2-8 Gassed. 10-12-8 12- 1-8 To Depot 12- 1-8 Brigade. 5-17-8 Killed 10- 8-8 1- 1-8 4- 1-8 To Officers 1- 1-8 2- 1-8 8- 1-8 Training 6- 1-8 12- 1-8 Wounded, Camp. 12-26-7 8- 1-8 Died 2-24-19 page one hundred fourteen ^SERVICE j9HK RECORD V V NAME AND ADDRESS Entered Company Pvt. First Class Corporal Sergeant Sergeant First Class Casualties Returned to Company Schneider, William J., 98 Watson St., Buffalo, N. Y Schroeder, Andrew A., Albany, N. Y. . . 4-29-8 10-11-7 2-24-8 5-17-8 5- 1-8 4- 8-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 5-20-8 12- 3-7 10-25-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 10-22-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 10-25-8 2-24-8 9- 1-8 12- 3-7 2-23-8 3-25-8 10-22-8 2-24-8 3-25-8 2-24-8 10-11-7 2-21-8 3-15-8 3-25-8 3-24-8 10-11-7 10-29-7 6- 1-8 As Sergt. 12- 1-8 To Depot 4- 1-8 12- 1-8 Brigade. 4- 1-9 5-12-8 Schuler Frank J., Waterville, Wash.. /Wounded \ 10-16-8 Schumacher, Fred R., 251 Front St., Binghamton, N. Y. . Seerota, Harry, 1919 S. 6th St., Philadelphia, Pa Sharp, Everett C, 5813 Cedarhurst St., W. Philadelphia, Pa 7- 1-8 8- 1-8 8- 1-8 Shelley, Richard, Story, Wyo. . . 10-20-8 Gassed. / Gassed. \ 10-20-8 Shibla, Vernon, H. St., Belmar, N. J Simon, Ralph E., 131 Latrobe Ave., Chicago, 111 7- 1-8 1- 1-8 12- 1-8 6- 1-8 4- 1-8 1- 1-9 6- 1-8 4- 1-9 5- 1-8 Sinclair, Harold B., 264 Clinton Ave., Newark, N. J. . . . Slocum, Irwin J., 1233 7th Ave., Fort Dodge, Iowa Smestad, Ingdor C. G., care of Mrs. George Gilbertson, 6- 1-8 Hospital. Smith, Alvin 0., Lady Smith, Wis 5- 1-8 8- 1-8 Smith, Philip A., 124 W. 5th St., Grand Island, Neb Smith, Sayle E., 302 W. 7th St., Fairfield, 111.. 9- 1-8 4- 1-8 Smith, William A., Antelope, Ore /Wounded \ 10-16-8 Gassed. Stark, Clyde E., Bloom, Kans Staub, Orlo W., Mansfield, Wash Steele, Norman L., Goshen, Utah 6- 1-8 6- 1-8 7- 1-8 6- 1-8 Sundet, John J., Fleming Minn. 4- 1-9 Swan, Arthur O., Genda Springs, Kans Swanson, Martin W., Minneapolis, Minn Swanum, Peder, Fleming, Minn Taylor, Daniel O., 7405 Lawn Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. . . . Taylor, Tracy P., State Line, N. Y Templeton, William E., 587 Linden Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Terhune, William C, Pennington, N. J Terry, Clyde A., 240 N. St., Francis St., Wichita, Kans. . Todd, Carl B., Osgood, Mo Tompkins, William H., 33 Griffith St., Salem, N. J Toupin, Emil L., 106 Maple Ave., Congress Park, 111 Turner, Hugh H., Avondale, Pa.. . 10-17-8 12-22-8 6- 1-8 Gas. 10-20-8 12- 1-8 6- 1-8 Acci- ] ■i dentally \ { Shot J 8-12-8 8- 1-8 6- 1-8 3- 1-9 6- 1-8 12- 1-8 6- 1-8 11-16-7 6- 1-8 3- 1-8 6- 1-8 12- 1-8 Hospital. 1- 1-8 Chauffeur 2- 7-8 / M. S. E. \ 8- 1-8 /To O.T.C. \ 10- 1-8 Vandal, Josephat D., 67 Irving St., Fall River, Mass. , . Van Zandt, Loomis 241 W 24th St. N Y C 4-1-9 Vernon, Wilfred, 240 Straight St., Paterson, N. J Vernooy, Cornelius, 342 Suydan St., New Brunswick, N. J. Wade, Frank E., 204 The Manchester, 1246 M. St. N. W., Washington, D. C 4- 1-9 9- 1-8 Gas. 11-1-8 2- 1-8 11-16-7 6- 1-8 2- 1-8 4- 1-9 Gas.10-19-8 Wagner, George P., 1629 E. 9th St., Brooklyn, N. Y 1- 1-8 page one hundred -fifteen SERVICE yasv: RECORD V v $8 NAME AND ADDRESS Entered Company Pvt. First Class Corporal Sergeant Sergeant First Class Casualties Returned to Company Walker, Lawrence G., 168 Allen St., Lockport, N. Y.. . . Walker, Robert L., Maud, Okla Watters, Lewis, 1360 Chapel Rd., Dayton, Ohio Warren, Richard P., 210 5th St., Jersey City, N. J Watt, Alfred P., 1507 Corby St., Omaha, Nebr Watzke, Karl H., Black Earth, Wis Weaver, George St. Clair, Whitney, Idaho Webb, Stephen J., Ill S. Columbus St., Aberdeen, Miss.. Whalen, John, Route No. 3, Irwin, Pa Willette, Frank, 525 7th Ave., Minneapolis, Minn Willey, Herbert G., 11 Woodford St., Dorchester, Mass. Wilkinson, Carlie, Glasgow, 111 Wiltse, Ralph A., 66 Gregory Ave., Mt. Kisco, N. Y Wolf, Henry, 440 Humboldt Parkway, Buffalo, N. Y Wolfe, Frederick A., 61 Gaston St., W. Orange, N. J Womack, Lee F., Havana, Fla Woodruff, Ralph J., Green City, Mo World, Thomas M., Salt Lake City, Utah Wyand, Harrington B., South St. Avon, Mass Young, Albert A., 25 Mason St., Rochester, N. Y Young, Victor H., 1053 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. . . Zahniser, Orie, 232 Plummer Ave., Hammond, Ind 12- 9-7 2-24-8 2-24-8 10-20-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 10-22-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 5-19-8 5-23-8 5- 6-8 12- 8-7 2-24-8 2-24-8 2-24-8 1-10-8 5-10-8 2-23-8 2-24-8 6- 1-8 6- 1-8 To Depot Gas.10-17-8 12-22-8 Brigade. 5-14-1 6-1-8 5- 1-8 To Depot 7- 1-8 2- 1-9 /Hospital. 1 9-11-8 Brigade. 12- 1-8 To Depot 8- 1-8 Brigade. 12- 1-8 9- 1-8 5-10-8 /Wounded 1 9-20-8 /Wounded I 10-21-8 7- 1-8 1- 1-8 To Depot 6- 1-8 To Depot Wounded 10-24-8 6- 1-8 Brigade. 4- 1-9 Brigade. 12-1-8 5-10-8 4- 1-9 Killed. 9-19-8 As Corpo 5- 1-8 3- 1-8 ral. To Ph 6- 1-8 6- 1-8 5-10-8 10-1-8 otographic 4- 1-9 12- 1-8 To Co. B. School, Par 10-14-8 1-10-9 /To Co. C. \ 4- 1-9 4- 1-9 REPLACEMENTS REPLACEMENTS Granquist, T. D., 304 Central Ave., Duluth, Minn Gregg, Floyd W., 215 S. Pleasant Ave., Lodi, Cal Hartzell, Leo A., 909 W. Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich. Hasty, Ford E., Parshall, Col Heinen, W. M., 923 Walnut St., Waterloo, Iowa Hutchans, E. M., McMinnville, Ore Kahn, Arthur, 9 E. 97th St., New York City Kleinman, R. S., 535 Ogden St., Ottumwa, Iowa Entered Company Private First Class 2-10-9 2-10-9 2-10-9 2-10-9 As Private First Class As Private First Class As Sergeant 2-15-9 2-10-9 4- 1-9 2-13-9 2-10-9 As Private First Class 4- 1-9 Page one hundred sixteen ®B* ^SERVICE 7 jfg \" RECORD M V ®^^ REPLACEMENTS Lindquist, A. L., Tavlor, Texas McClung, J. E., 130*3 Oklahoma St., Elkhart, Kans McMillan, Geo., Alpena, S. D Murray, E. W., 539 W. Main St., Ottumwa, Iowa Patton, P. L., West Texas Richardson, R. M., Jr., 1736 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, Colo. Terhell, A. P., Milroy, Minn Thompson, H. E., 1017 E. Brill St., Phenix, Ariz Entered Company 2-10-9 2-10-9 2-10-9 2-10-9 2-10-9 2-10-9 2-10-9 2-10-9 Private First Class 4- 1-9 4- 1-9 As Private First Class 4- 1-9 4- 1-9 4- 1-9 base one hundred seventeen Deacidified using the Bookkeeper process | Neutralizing agent: Magnesium Oxide Treatment Date: j,.™ 2001 PreservationTechnologies I