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HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
An Authentic History of the Thirty-fifth Division
Heroes of the Argonne
An Authentic History of the Thirty-fifth Division
—BY-
CHARLES B. HOYT
Arranged and Compiled by C. B. LYON, Jr.
Published by FI^ANKLIN HUDSON PUBLISHING COMPANY
KANSAS CITY, MO. Copyright 1919
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TO THE FALLEN,
WHO OFFERED THEMSELVES
ON THE ALTAR OF DEATH
FOR VICTORY
CONTENTS
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Foreword 9
Major General William M. Wright 10
Major GeneralTPeter E. Traub 12
Brigadier^General Charles I. Martin Id
; .; I. Rookie Days 19
^ 11. Blighty 25
III. Tommy Atkins and the French Language. . 28
IV. Trenches in the Vosges 39
V. The Two Raids 44
VI. As Reserves at St. Mihiel 53
VII. Behind the Curtain to Strike 61
VIII. The Morrow of Big Things 70
IX. And On the Second Day 83
X. Against Montrebeau Woods 92
XI. The Crimson Day 102
XII. The Thirty-fifth Holds On 114
XIII. Fu-ing the Last Gun 122
XIV. Not Strictly a Matter of History 128
XV. The Last Days 134
The Casualties of the Thirty-fifth 141
The Roster of Kansas Guardsmen 143
ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS AND DIAGRAMS
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The Man Who Trained the Thirty-fifth 11
The Man Who Led the Thirty-fifth 13
The Organizer of the Seventieth Brigade 15
Diagram of the Division 17
View of Camp Doniphan 21
As England Looked 22
Trenches Near Vauqois Hill 29
Depths of the Argonne 30
Map Showing Travels of the Thirty-fifth in France. 33 Battery of the 130th Field Artillery in Action at
Varennes 37
Looking toward Cheppy 38
Map of the 137th Infantry Raid 46
The Field Signal Battalion in Action ... , 49
The Tank Comes Through 50
Map of the Hilsenfirst Raid 52
Looking Down on St. Mihiel 55
Infantry of the Thirty-fifth on the March 56
Map— Where the Thirty-fifth Bit into the Hinden-
burg Line 63
Diagram of the Arrangement of the First, Army
for the Drive 67
Map of the Operations of the Thirty-fifth in the
Meuse-Argonne Offensive. 73
The Opening Guns 75
Varennes 76
Diagram, Formation of Brigades During the Drive. 81
Shell Holes and Pup Tents of the Argonne 87
The Shell-torn Church at Neuvilly 88
Diagram, Where the Argonne Dead Lie Buried 95
Vauqois Hill 99
An Advanced Dressing Station 100
Graves on the Field of Battle 107
Shooting Down Hun Planes 108
Doughboys Marching Out of the Argonne 117
Artillery in Action in the Bois de Rossignol 118
Trench Scenes Near Verdun 125
Trench Scene in the Sommedieue Sector 126
Hauling SuppUes 131
Artillery Camouflaged. 132
A Sniper on Outpost 137
The Doughboy Knew Mercy 138
FOREWORD
On the pages which follow the aim is to better acquaint those who stayed at home with what the fighting men did in France. If the present story of the Thirty-fifth Division serves to give an insight into the soldier's life among the French peasantry; if it carries in some degree a picture of their trench days and their work on the fields of the Argonne; and if to the men themselves it serves as an authentic record to carry them in some later day back to their experi- ences overseas, then a measure of its purpose is fulfilled.
The groundwork for the history is official records. From these was built up the completed story, its frame- work the reports, secret orders and information furn- ished by officers and men who were in France with the division. We owe indebtedness to Charles I. Martin, Dr. Claude C. Lull, Owen R. Ridlon, M. R. McLean, F. R. Fitzpatrick, Clad Hamilton, Charles F. Oehrle, Kenneth G. Lewis, and Eugene Wolfe, overseas, and to Arthur Capper, C. W. Hoyt, W. F. Thompson, G. A. Betz, Dr. C. B. Lyon, and Charles Ciuiiis, who, by their help, have made this book possible.
MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM M. WRIGHT
The Thirty-fifth Division received its training un- der Major General Wright at Camp Doniphan, Okla- homa, He was sent to take over the command August 25, 1917. In September of that year he organized the division. He left the same month for France to study modern combat conditions, returning to Camp Doni- phan to give the Thirty-fifth its final instructions for overseas service.
On the division's arrival in France he was placed in temporary command of the Third Army Corps. Later he was given charge of the Eighty-ninth Divi- sion, made up of the National Army men organized at Camp Funston, Kansas. He was with this division through the Argonne.
Major General Wright is a West Poster. He was graduated from the Military Academy in 1882. He was a brigadier general when the war broke out.
Of him it has been said by the officers and men, "A leader, as well as an organizer of men."
The man who trained the Thirty-fifth.
Photo by W.1.1.ARD, TopeKa , Kans.
MAJOR GENERAL PETER E. TRAUB.
In the spring of 1886, Major General Traub was graduated from West Point and became a lieutenant in the First Cavalry. Four years later he was in South Dakota chasing Sioux Indians. From stalking the Redskins he returned to West Point as an instruc- tor in languages. Until the Spanish-American War |broke out, he retained his professorship of languages. jIn the Philippines he took part in the engagement of Las Guasimas, and in the battle of San Juan was rec- ommended for the brevet of captain. He secured the written agreement of General Guevara to surrender April 27, 1902. From 1902 to 1904 he was assistant professor of languages at West Point. In 1914, when the European War opened, he was assistant chief of the Constabulary in the Philippines.
Major General Traub led the Thirty-fifth in the 'Argonne. He was relieved of his command before the division returned to the United States, and was succeeded by Major General Wright, the man who had trained the Thirty-fifth. Peter E. Traub is now a Regular Army colonel, stationed at Fort Thomas, Kentucky.
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BRIGADIER GENERAL CHARLES I. MARTIN.
A quiet man, whose underlying force is his power of organization. He gained that name for himself as long ago as 1890, when he was a sergeant in the Kansas Guard. He became a captain in 1898 in the Twentieth Kansas Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel Frederick Funston .
In the battle of Manila he led his company over an open roadway, and on that day it suffered the heav- iest casualities of any company in the regiment. He came out of the war a major.
After receiving his appointment as brigadier gen- eral in 1917, General Martin organized the Seventieth Brigade at Camp Doniphan, shaping and training it for overseas service. He took it to France and was with it during the Vosges and St. Mihiel days. On the evening of September 21 he was relieved of his command, just before the division entered the Argonne offensive.
Of him his fellow- officers and men have said: ''He is quiet and businesslike. More of us would have come out of the Argonne with him in command of the Seventieth Brigade."
The organizer of the Seventieth Brigade.
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THE ROOKIE DAYS
The workshop of peace days shaped and produced the National Guard of Kansas and Missouri. The demands of war took it, reshaping what was green and untrained into the seasoned and trained. It took it and at Vauqois Hill, at Very, at Cheppy, at Charpentry and at Exermont, in the Argonne, wrote for it a part in the annals of world warfare.
In October, 1917, when the Kansas and Missouri troops were combined at Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma, to make up the Thirty-fifth Division, the Kansas offering in officers and men totalled 8,500, the Missouri side 14,765. To bring it up to the divisional strength, then set at 27,000, draft men of Kansas and Missouri were joined to the nucleus.
The final quotas of Kansas and Missouri troops that were merged to create the division were only frameworks at the time war was declared. They were less than a third the number, and to the lot of Charles I. Martin, adjutant general of Kansas, and Harvey C. Clark, adjutant general of Missouri, fell the task of building up from this skeleton- work the backbone of a new division.
The National Guard troops were not called as quickly as anticipated and a breathing space for recruiting and or- ganizing was offered by the delay. August 5 the troops of the two states were called out and assigned to home camps, where an initial baptism of hikes and drills began. Steadily from then until October, when the mobilization was complete, a stream of guard troops flowed toward Camp Doniphan. Here organizations were allotted designated areas and entered on an intensive program of exercises, marches and drills, and an extensive daily menu of Okla- homa dust.
Major General William M. Wright, a regular army officer, assumed command August 25 and began shaping the plans for creating the division. The actual organization was launched with the arrival of the Headquarters Company the last of September.
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The division headquarters included staff officers se- lected by the commanding general, the Thirty-fifth Head- quarters Troop, formerly Troop A ; First Squadron, Kansas Cavalry and 128th Machine Gun Battalion, formerly the First Battalion, and Machine Gun Company of the Second Missouri Infantry.
The Sixty-ninth Brigade was placed in command of Brigadier Arthur B. Donnelly. It included Brigade Head- quarters, formerly First Missouri Brigade; the 129th Machine Gun Battalion, formerly Second Battalion, Second Missouri Infantry; 137th Infantry, formerly First and Sec- ond Kansas Regiments ; 138th Infantry, formerly First and Fifth Missouri Infantry.
The Seventh Brigade came under command of Briga- dier General Martin, "with the organization as follows : Bri- gade Headquarters, formerly Headquarters First Kansas Brigade ; 130th Machine Gun Battalion, formerly Third Bat- talion ; Second Missouri Infantry, 139th Infantry, formerly Third Kansas and Fourth Missouri Infantry; 140th Infan- try, formerly Third and Sixth Missouri Infantry.
Brigadier General Lucien G. Berry took command of the Sixtieth Artillery Brigade: 128th Field Artillery, for- merly First Missouri Field Artillery ; 129th Field Artillery, formerly Second Missouri Field Artillery; 130th Field Artillery, formerly First Kansas Field Artillery; 110th Trench Mortar Battery, formerly Supply and Headquarters Company, Second Missouri Infantry.
The 110th Military Police was made up of Troops B, C and D, First Squadron Kansas Cavalry, 110th Ammunition Train, made up of National Army men transferred from the Eighty-ninth Division; 110th Supply Train, formerly Mis- souri Supply Train ; 110th Engineer Train, formerly Kansas Engineers' Train; 110th Sanitary Train, formerly Kansas and Missouri Field Hospitals, Companies 1 and 2, and Kan- sas and Missouri Ambulance Companies 1 and 2.
Colonel Sherwood A. Cheney commanded the 110th Regiment of Engineers, composed of the First Battalion, Kansas Engineers, and the First Battalion, Missouri En- gineers.
Other commands of the division personnel were held by the following officers :
Brigadier General Harvey C. Clark, Depot Brigade.
Colonel Perry M. Hoisington, 137th Infantry.
Colonel Leroy K. Bobbins, 138th Infantry.
Colonel John D. McNeeley, 139th Infantry.
Colonel Albert Linxwiler, 140th Infantry.
Colonel Frank M. Rumbold, 128th Field Artillery.
Colonel Karl D. Klemm, 129th Field Artillery.
Colonel Hugh Means, 130th Field Artillery.
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Major Milton R. McLean, 110th Field Signal Battalion.
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick R. Fitzpatrick, 110th Ammunition Train.
Major Carl 0. Houseman, 110th Motor Supply Train.
France possessed one phase of attraction that was an unknown quantity in Camp Doniphan. There in the mud- land and rainland overseas troops were continually on the move, shifting from front to front, going into the trenches or coming out of them, and forever appraising the French wineshops and the weather gods. The spice of variety, whether likeable or not, was never lacking.
Camp Doniphan, from a soldier's point of view, lacked everything but dust. The camp was a stem old schoolmas- ter, not rapping the desk in proverbial manner for the study of text books, but blowing a whistle for reveille, a whistle for drill, a whistle for police duty, and interspersing as its bid for variety frequent bugle calls and voices of superiors.
The old schoolmaster routed the soldiers out of bed each morning with dust in their eyes and dust on their army bacon. The troops arriving during the summer he sent to drill or hike under a scorching sun with equally scorching sands underfoot. He kept them at it from gray of morning until a like period of evening, with time enough snatched between to eat their meals and furl the pyramidal tents in which they lived.
The schoolmaster's whip was a court-martial, whose equal effectiveness was never a matter of doubt to the soldier. He learned the wages of disobedience. He Was taught the reward of discipline.
As summer advanced into fall and autumn days into winter, the manual of arms, bayonet drill, grenade throw- ing, and trench work became an inseparable part of each day's routine for the infantry. The a^rtillery with its range practice, the field signal battalion with its radio work, the medical men with their first aid training, were on a busy schedule. Gruelling hikes that carried the men out into the scrub-oak hill districts surrounding the camp were ini- tiated as a part of the muscling process.
Major General Wright, after spending until September 18 at Camp Doniphan, had gone East and later to France. There he was taken on a tour of the battlefields. An inti- mate study of first-hand information was opened to him, and when he returned, January 4, he inaugurated material changes in the training schedule of his command. During his absence Brigadier General Berry had been divisional commander from September 18 to December 22. Brigadier General Martin had then been placed in charge.
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British and French instructors were detailed to the camp. These men, fresh from France, taught to the men at Camp Doniphan the lesson of the bayonet, the hand grenade and the gas mask. As the days of bayonet-as-bayo- net-can fighting had largely passed when the Thirty-fifth arrived in France, this phase of training proved more bene- ficial as a mind-trainer than in actual combat.
Winter in tents meant a fight day after day to keep up the health of the command so that it would be ready when the orders came for overseas service. Hospital condi- tions of the camp were inadequate during: the first months. Men suspected of diphtheria were placed in the same wards with certified cases. Refuse and decay matter was thrown down the slope of the hill at the Old Post Hospital, allowed to .rot there, and be carried back by the winds into the wards where patients lay. At the Isolation Camp mumps cases were compelled to stand guard duty at all hours of night and to work on kitchen police while their faces were still swollen.
Later there was an improvement in conditions at the hospital. Even to the time when the troops began to en- train for embarkation points in the East, the percentage of illness in the camp was appreciable.
Madame Rumor, whose wagging tongue by its wag- gings had ceased to carry weight, persisted that the ap- proach of spring meant assignment to overseas duty for the Thirty-fifth.
In March more than Madame's tongue appeared as proof of this. In vanguard of the division, 300 officers and men, chosen from all branches of the service, left as an overseas detail.
The division as a whole did not begin moving until April, divisional headquarters leaving Camp Doniphan the evening of April 11 and arriving in Camp Minneola, L. I., at noon of April 15. In inverse order of their numerals, the infantry regiments left: Colonel Linxwiler, with 140th In- fantry, April 12; 139th Infantry, with Colonel John D. McNeeley, April 8; 138th Infantry, under Colonel McMahon, April 15, and Colonel Tucker, 137th Infantry, April 17. The 110th Engineers, the field artillery units, the 110th Sanitary Train, the 110th Supply Train, the 110th Ammunition Train were not slated out until May.
The stern old warmaster. Camp Doniphan, gathering up his ink pots and drill texts, blessed the hearts of 27,000 of his pupils as they bid a profane adieu to over seven months' daily grind and Oklahoma's dusty precincts.
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A fist-fight of the first class is said to have occurred between an American and British regiment soon after our first troops had landed on French soil — following which the two forces fought the Huns with a marked show of harmony, good will and success.
The Thirty-fifth's record does not confine it to a regi- mental dislike. The Kansas and Missouri troops took it too seriously to have it less than a divisional affair. Instances of individual actual encounters, especially when there was tea for breakfast, are matters patent in divisional annals. Divisionally, the Thirty-fifth kept fistically in check. It never did more than to have a worded and open consensus of dislike against the Tommy Atkins brethren and their tea- drinking habits.
By April 20 the infantry regiments of the Thirty-fifth had been assembled at the embarkation camp of Minneola, L. I. The field artillery units and trains of the division did not follow up until May.
The Kansans and Missourians aboard the British trans- ports of the convoy received early impressions of mild dis- taste against the British. The English gobs were obsessed with a desire of seeing rabbit in the messkits of the Yanks every meal. The Yanks, obsessed with their usual desire of saying what they thought, opened the breach.
The convoy passed down the submarine-infested waters of the Irish Sea, with Scotland's hills to be seen on the left and Ireland on the right. The voyage had been rough. The submajrine had been a thing of constant peril. Land and the Spratt's Dog Food signs of Liverpool, when they loomed up May 7, were welcomed with cheers.
The troops, practically speaking, were marched from boat to train. They were at Liverpool that day and by
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evening were leaving it for the other side of Blighty. The trip to Winchester gave the Thirty-fifth a new impression of the English and the land in which they lived. They did not hold it against the conductor of the train on which they rode that he was called a guard and used snuff. The sol- diers were likewise lenient to the toy-sized coaches, which were divided off into compartments. Their size, they found, was no indication of their speed, for they whirled the Thirty- fifth across Blighty at a breath-taking rate.
To the Kansas and Missouri men England looked like a land laid out by ruler and mathematics. Hedgerows were trimmed neatly, homes "were arranged and grouped with the precision of an English mind, fields were squared away and separated as though by use of the tape-measure. On all sides the green of Blighty in springtime was ablaze with buttercups and poppies, the poppies as red as the A,rgonne days that were to come.
Along the way feeble cheers were discerned from the unenthusiastic Englishman.
"If the Huns' reception isn't any wanner than this, this'U be a cruel war," was the doughboy's verdict.
"What town is this, old dere ?" a soldier would ask out the window of his compartment.
"I tyke it you're asking the name of the town?" the presumptuous Englishman would ask.
"Tyke it, hell no," the soldier would reply, in a gentle American tongue. "It ain't the name of the to'wn I'm after, old dere, but I was wondering if cooties can stand the Eng- lish climate."
"Beastly uncouth, the Americans," the presumptuous Englishman would tell his wife at the supper table that evening.
"What I don't understand about the Englishman," the soldier with the gentle tongue would remark to his com- rades, "is how they understand a war is going on. They don't understand anything else you ask 'em."
It took nearly a year's association with the French to convince the Kansans and Missourians that the family tree of their own race does not possess all the bad points.
The fighting men of the Thirty-fifth were only vague- ly aware of what was enacting itself in the war drama across the English Channel. As they rested at Winchester after their long voyage and the trip across England, ink- lings trickled in, and they were not always inklings to as- sure the soldier the best was as it should be.
The infantry had gone ahead of the other units of the division because after March 21 the Germans had made it appear every available rifle-bearer on the Allied side was needed. The great four-phased offensive had been laimched
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with much pomp and gusto. The Germans openly bragged about putting their feet under Paris tables before April had passed and indicated their design to smash through, separate the French and British armies, and seize the Chan- nel ports.
Ludendorf commanded a mobile force of over half a million, with staunch support given to every sector of his line. He was playing a card to beat the Americans before they beat him. The interlude between America's promise of aid and the concrete evidence of it was. recognized as the crucial period, both by our leaders and those of the Huns.
The old red gate that stands on the edge of Belleau Wood was then only the entrance to a wooded hillside, and not to a shrine of American sacrifice. The old red gate was unbattered by shell fire. It had not yet seen the Second Division and the Marines fight their way through the tan- gled underbrush and devilwood of Belleau. That was for days "which were to come.
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The Thirty-fifth, a part of that stream directed toward France to stem the advance of the Germans, was not per- mitted to rest itself long at Winchester. The soldiers were fretted mostly there by the two-meals-a-day schedule of their Tommy Atkins brethren. Some of the division's aux- iliary troops, to come later in June, were in the rest camp at Romsey, where buying eggs or a glass of rum was crime next to murder.
It would not be a faithful record to say that on May 9, when the men left for Southampton to embark for France, it was a matter copiously wept over. They had been wait- ing for the guns so long they were ready to hear them. To themselves, they confessed guns could present no new ter- rors when English slum had been on the menu for two days.
The soldiers had been led to believe that every inch of St. George's Channel housed a Hun underseas craft. They set out of Southampton that night and the next day sighted France. In all the 27,000 Kansans and JVLissoufians trans- ported to French soil, there is not a single casualty on rec- ord by torpedoing. The convoy that came across in May, bringing the 130th Field Artillery and 110th Sanitary Train, was intimately involved in the Irish Sea with a submarine, but escaped without loss of a ship.
The infantry reached La Havre May 10 at 10 o'clock in the morning. The coal-smudged, gloomy streets and buildings of the city were not to them as they had pictured the threshold of France. They had not been long in French surroundings before they learned that too much of what they had read about sunny France was written by authors who had large apartments in the Hotel Louvre at Paris. Those who soldiered in the mud-and-rain villages and re-
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ceived the privilege of a brief stay in the French capital understand why the authors felt that way about it.
At 3 o'clock in the morning, May 14, the men began the move toward Eu. They arrived here at 6 o'clock in the evening of the same day. Eu, a typical village of northern France, was thirty-eight miles from the high tide of the German advance. Amiens, important as a railroad center, was southeast of it and just behind the line being held at such desperate cost by the British army. The matter of lights was here brought seriously to the attention of the men. Aerial bombing about Eu was not uncommon and the no-lights-allowed edict, carried out effectively at night in all districts of France, was a necessary measure.
In contact With the British sailor while crossing the ocean on his transports, in contact with the English civilian while crossing Blighty en route to Southampton, the dough- boys were now experiencing their first intimate relation with the British soldier and the French language. Which was the harder to get along with is a matter of the individual case. With the British Tommy the soldier always could ex- plain very emphatically his opinion of him. In the French language and with the Flrench he was reduced to the sub- terfuge of "Wee, wee" and "Pas compri."
It can be said in justice to the Tommy that he thought as little of us as we did of him. He thought our nation was a note-writing, back-sliding, diddle-daddling, afraid-to-fight affair, and that each Yank represented wholesomely and faithfully the spirit of it. In turn, we impressed him with the fact that the Huns would be eating at the family table of the English if we had not stepped in when we did. The Americans were always earnestly impressive that it was to save the world they stepped in and not to save the British.
This clash between the two seemed to run more in under- currents than on the surface. Frequently and in a general way profaning each other to the back, they would meet, as individuals, curse the Huns and exchange cigarettes, which the American, after once smoking an English fag, always considered a bad trade on his part. The Central West men were eager for talks With Tommies who served under Gen- eral Allenby in Palestine or had taken part in the Gallipoli venture.
The Thirty-fifth was at Eu until 3 o'clock on the morn- ing of June 6. The wall of men thrown out by Foch had dammed the advancing gray flood, and the plan to brigade other American divisions with the British had been changed. Never having been called into action, the change in brig- ading plans directly affected the Thirty-fifth. Under new orders it was to be sent to a quiet sector in the Vosges for actual training in trench warfare.
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The box car system, "40 homme, 8 chevaux" (40 men, 8 horses), by which the troops traveled from Eu to Arches, their first stop in the mountainous country of southern France, was the product and result of an overcrowded coun- try. The inpour of foreign troops was as though the trade of the largest store in New York had been suddenly switched to a two-counter affair in a country town. French tracks were congested with rolling stock. America, on its part, con- tributed no passenger trains, but an appreciable number of large engines and the larger types of freight cars.
By interlacing anatomy, forty men were accommodated in each car. It was not comfortable riding. ^Men were stacked in and piled up in a manner that would have brought protests from a self-respecting sheep on the way to market. At night they criss-crossed each other, cursed, and possessed of a soldier's privilege, slept even under those conditions.
The French system of freight-handling differs from that of the United States, the problem of short runs being a principal factor. Their "40 hommes, 8 chevaux" are equal to only about half the length of our ordinary freight car. These small-sized cars reduce for the shipper whose scale of business is not large his cost of unutilized space. In America the shipper pays for the room in an entire car, whether his goods fill a third of it or not. The French shipper seldom has a shipment that does not fill the better part of the toy- type carrier of France. All roads are under government control.
The trip from Eu to Arches was 300 miles. It carried the soldie^rs in close proximity to Paris, where from their palatial box car accommodations they could obtain a pano- ramic view but could not visit it.
Along the way they received their first intimate glances of French life. They saw fatherless children at play, who begged them for "biskwee," the American cracker form of hardtack. They sailed these litttle fellows what they cried for and enjoyed the ensuing scramble. They saw women in the fields, who stopped in their work as the soldiers passed. Old men, bent on carrying out at home the work of the young men who were now at the front, leaned on their scythes and looked with tired eyes at the passing train.
There was little cheering. In England the soldiers had laid this to the English jealousy of the American. In France they accounted it to the French people's stricken condition. They were, the soldiers believed, too sad to cheer.
The American's introduction to the French was more pleasant than that to the British. He had made up his mind about the British. Before he ever landed in England, he had made up his mind against them. Everything the British did during his contact with them he took as confirming his con- viction.
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The soldier had taken a liking for the French before he ever met them. The side of France he had read about was the birth of a tie of sympathy and understanding. The tie held until he came into actual contact with them. Then it snapped. It kept rebounding farther and farther back until by the time he left he and the French were on the terms of a bulldog and tomcat. He loved the British in comparison.
The cause for this cannot be assigned to one thing, but to a number of things. When the Thi.rty-fifth drew into Arches at 8 o'clock on the evening of June 11, Arches Was not the village it was to be several months later. So with all the small villages in Southern France. It required a matter of some weeks for the American soldier to educate the French storekeeper to the amount he could be over- charged. After the soldiers were quite finished with edu- cating the merchant, the merchant started out on his own hook. He dazzled the soldier with his superiority in that line. He could get more out of nothing than a magician.
There exists a strong strain of avarice in the French peasantry. Mere Blanc, who ran a combination wineshop and epicerie on the corner, was one with her eyes always on the francs.
The course of the Thirty-fifth's travels through France.
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A soldier would enter her shop.
"Eggs today, Madame?"
"Oui, Monsieur," Mere Blanc would reply. "Five francs, Monsieur."
"Why is it you are charging me five francs for a dozen of these when you sell them to the French for fwo francs ?" he would ask.
"Pas compri, Monsieur."
The soldier would pay the five francs and leave. The reason the French paid no more than two francs for eggs was because Mere Blanc knew they would pay no more. The Americans paid five francs because Mere Blanc knew that if he wanted them bad enough he would pay ten.
Good conduct is not a thing without exceptions. There were American soldiers whose minds could not surmount the workings of French wines and alcoholics. If a soldier had the evening's pleasure of breaking up some glasses in a cafe and smashing the only mirror in the house, he was highly indignant if he "was ousted in a manner as ungentle- manly as himself. He never forgot it, either as a particular or general thing. The winekeeper he forever held an ac- count against and the French race he never forgave.
Then there was the egotism of the individual cropping out into the egotism of the races. Two people thrown con- stantly together will, after a lapse of time, begin to discover certain faults possessed by the other. In the same manner, two races thrown together, especially when there is the barrier of an uncommon speech, will soon seek out the faults of the other. This discord is apt to be more harsh and quickly accomplished between races, largely because of the wide divergence in standards. Until after the armistice the accord between the Americans and French was an un- shaken relationship, perhaps lent force by the crucial tests to both forces. Certain it is, that after hostilities had ceased, and shades of it even before, a contrary feeling had begun to appear.
No tourist ever knew France as the soldie;r knows it. Seeking the hotels of larger cities, the traveler goes along on the surface of things. The soldier, thrown into a hay- mow life over a cackling chorus and the mooing cow, caught glimpses that lent a new insight. The wonder of it is that this knowledge of a people did not bring him closer to them instead of adding to the rift.
There was nothing of a thrill in the daily life of the Kansas and Missouri soldiers during their stay from June 11 to June 30 in the Arches area. At Eu there had been marches which tested their endurance. Here went on a repetition of the grind with which they were so familiar, d^ill, short hikes and maneuvers.
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The Thirty-fifth's training at Camp Doniphan had been with the Springfield, the change to a British type of rifle being made while the troops were at La Havre. On leaving Eu they had again been equipped with Springfields and Eddystones.
The Arches area was an excellent foretaste of the coun- try in which the division was to do its first fighting. High pine-clad hills could be seen rambling on both sides from the valleys belo'w. Little villages, a few kilometres between each, were complete with dreariness and women at daily tasks of washing clothes at the municipal troughs.
Up with the early light of a new day, there would be reveille, army bacon for breakfast, and hard manuevers for the morning. There would be rice for dinner and hikes and drills for the afternoon. Supper over, the men could be seen mingling with the peasant-folk of the villages. Many of them, in their first flush of enthusiasm for the French language, would go armed with grammars and spend the entire evening wrestling with it in presence of the Mere and Pere and, fortune favoring, with what daughterly mem- bers there chanced to be.
During these early days the Kansans and Missourians and French peasantry were on a basis of strong friendship. The surroundings were new to the soldiers and the soldiers were new to the peasants. The storekeepers were satisfied with the small overpay the Americans gladly gave them. The soldier was drained of his souvenir supply. This peasantry's appetite for Things Americain seemed without end.
Call to quarters summoned the soldiers to the haymows of the villages. There was never an elaborate supply of straw for bedding and in winter months as the Thirty-fifth moved farther north the soldiers suffered from the cold. With each haymow there was, however, an elaborate as- sortment of odors and cooties.
The stables Were usually directly under the sleeping quarters of the billet. Stamping and mooing bovines fretted the soldiers during the night and the first thing they heard in the morning before the bugle was some chanticleer busy bringing up the dawn. Rats and the troops at a later period developed as congenial bedmates.
There were no guns to be heard. Air raids were spoken of, but never occurred. In these surroundings the air of war took on a subdued tone.
It was on June 15 that Major General Wright was re- lieved of command to assume charge of the Third Army Corps, and later to be given command of the Eighty-ninth Division. Brigadier General Nathaniel F. McClure took over the command. While at Arches, Colonel McNeeley
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was relieved of the 139th Infantry and succeeded by Colonel Kirby Walker; Colonel Linxwiler was relieved of the 140th Infantry and succeeded by Colonel Murphy; and Colonel McMahon relieved of the 138th Infantry and succeeded bj Colonel George P. White.
On the morning of June 30 the Thirty-fifth began the move toward the Wesserling subsector on the Vosges front.
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IV TRENCHES IN THE VOSGES
F. Wolf gan, who owns a typical wineshop in the typical village of Kruth, was standing in the doorway of his estab- lishment on an evening early in July. The place of business of F. Wolfgan, who was himself a pudgy and stocky per- sonage, as if from too much beer, was at the end of the main street. The manure piles and gray red-tiled homes on both sides of it stretched out in perspective under the evening sun. The road forked to the right of Herr Wolfgangs wine- shop, the main roadway winding away into the pine-clad mountains and its branch taking a steep course up the hill which set back of the cafe. Between the fork of the roads stood a small shrine, common in all parts of France and Germany.
Herr Wolfgan had his eyes on the figure of Christus on the shrine. He did not see the moving body of khaki far down the village's main street.
"Frau Wolfgan," he said over his shoulder to his wife, who was busy inside, "I hear there are Americans coming. I wonder, mein Frau, will they leave untouched our little shrine at the fork of the roads."
"Mein Herr," returned Frau Wolfgan, from among an array of glasses, "we must trust to God they do and not to them."
So the Thirty-fifth came to Alsace, a province that had been torn from France in 1870, and now "was being held by right of arms. In the first year of the war, the French had looked ahead of the Germans in their advance here, had met them half way, and had taken some territory back. The warfare had then reverted to an immobile type, in which each side dug its trenches, turned loose cannon each day to evidence its presence, and indulged, for want of excitement.
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in nightly raids occasionally. At the time the Thirty-fifth officially opened a joint account with the French on the Wesserling subsector, July 1, the brethren in blue, as far as it had been in their power to do so, had discarded all semblance of warfare with the Germans.
In contact with the inhabitants, the Kansas and Mis- souri men tasted first of German efficiency. This Alsatian land that had once belonged to France was no more the France from which they had just come than Germany itself. The people spoke both French and German, but German was practically the only tongue heard; they looked like Germans; acted like Germans; and, Americans were not slow in learning, did not hesitate in flaunting their loyalty to the Fatherland. One storekeeper in Kruth on July 14, when the Bastile Day was celebrated by the French and Americans, hung American, French and German flags over the entranceway of his shop. The Kaiser would have wept to see with what speed some passing soldiers hauled down the Prussian banners.
From the beginning the relationship between the Alsa- tians and Americans was founded on grave suspicion. Herr Wolfgan and his clan of thinkers throughout Alsace had at heart stern doubt of the sincerity of the soldiers.
The soldiers, on their part, saw people who by German efficiency had to all appearances been converted into Ger- mans. The strain of Alsatian blood had been suffused with forty-eight years of Teutonic. German was taught in the schools. The sons of many of these aged peasants were away fighting under the Prussian standards, offering their lives to uphold them.
The second battalion of 138th Infantry, under Major Norman B. Comfort, held the honor of being the first or- ganization of the Thirty-fifth to go to the front. In trucks the men went from Arches, up along the winding course of the Moselle, and passing through the tunnel at Bussang, left France for their first sight of conquered territory.
General McClure established headquarters for the di- vision, with the first echelon, at Wesserling. The headquar- ters of the second and third echelons was set up at Corni- mont.
A steady flow of troops of the division was directed toward the trenches. The moves were generally made in trucks. Like a spiral staircase, the roadways wound up and up from the Arches area into the spruce and pine of the peaks and then lowered to the valleys of Alsace.
Wesserling was the farthest point to which the men were taken by trucks. From this area to the trenches, hob- nails, sweat and army language served their purpose. To the points from which the men marched directly into the
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trenches, such as Bussat, it was a steady ascent. Branches of trees interlaced overhead, arching into a so^t of pergola. Sheltered under this a greater part of the way, they were very rarely subject to artillery fi;re or dangers from the air.
The march was made at night. Arriving at the small towns behind the trenches in the gray of morning, the men generally rested that day and went in by companies to re- lieve the French during the night. Occasionally the Boche would spout a few rounds of wrath at the Americans, and on a number of occasions there v/ere casualties. More often, the companies filed quietly in under the cover of darkness and the Germans awoke the next morning with fresh khaki in the line opposing them.
The Thirty-third French Corps was in line on the De Galbert subsector. It was located between Gerardmer and Wesserling and served as a choice rest spot for the French. Divisions that had been riddled in the severe fighting farther north were sent here much as they would have been sent to a rest camp. They were reorganized, filled out, rested, and after the training of the replacements was complete ,were returned to the northern districts.
The soldiers of the Thirty-fifth had trained until train- ing no longer held a beloved spot in their hearts. They could not see their first life in the trenches in the light of the poilu. Having trained a year and crossed the ocean for action, they could not understand a man who would turn it down when it was right at hand. Just over the parapet were German trenches. In them were Germans.
"This is a hell of a war," said the doughboy. "Germans everywhere and they won't let you shoot any."
"This ain't a war," his Buddie would answer. "The Frogs and Krauts got it fixed up between 'em to spend their vacations where there ain't nothin' to bother 'em but scenery. How're they gonna find out who's winnin' this affair?"
"Maybe they got maps and figure it out in their heads."
"Yap ; but we won't get home to help with the harvest next summer unless somebody does some fightin'."
"It does look like," said the doughboy, "somebody might get hurt if they don't quit firing those cannons once a week."
At one point on the line a little mountain stream in No Man's Land had been used through mutual agreement by the French and Germans for washing clothes. The doughboys of the 137th Infantry never fully became recon- ciled to this friendly agreement between enemies.
"What's them Krauts doing in No Man's Land?"
"Dunno. No special permits granted, is there?"
The rifles of the two doughboys barked together. Two
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Germans fell. The third scuttled toward friendly territory.
A Frenchman hurried up to the doughboys.
"Monsieur, monsieur — ah, it is between us an agree- ment."
"Yes," drawled one of the doughboys, nonchalantly filling a cigarette paper with tobacco, "but between us it ain't. Between us, old dere, it's war."
The trenches in which the infantry found itself kept no uniform distance from that of the Germans. Each sys- tem of earthworks, both ours and that of the enemy, twisted and serpentined over the hills, at one point so close the men could have sighted "the whites of the enemy's eyes," at others four and five hundred yards apart. Speaking gen- erally, the trenches were deep enough to shelter an infantry- man from the enemy gaze without need of his bending or crouching. In passing each other, one of the two some- times had to use the fire step. Red Cross men in the trenches always went without their brassards. The Red Cross insignia on their left arms offered too good and dangerous a target to the enemy sniper.
Lieutenant Tiberius Jones, with the ambulance section of the Thirty-fifth, was making a visit to the trenches near Wesserling. The trench in which he found himself was a shallow communicating trench and as the lieutenant walked along his head was in plain view of the enemy. Something struck the parapet near his head.
"What was that ?" asked Lieutenant Jones of a dough- boy who was near.
"That?" returned the doughboy; "a Jerry sniper we haven't been able to locate yet."
The lieutenant sank to the trench floor just as another bullet shattered the earthworks near his head. He glared at the doughboy.
"Say, you," demanded the lieutenant in a fine rage, "why in the devil didn't you tell me there was a Boche sniper oVQr there ?"
The doughboy returned the lieutenant's glare steadily and inquired in an unperturbed drawl, "Well, if he didn't have something to shoot at, how in the hell could we ever locate him?"
Until July 15 the French and the Americans held the Wesserling subsector on a joint account. On July 20 the Seventeenth Brigade relieved the Sixty-ninth Brigade. A regiment of French infantry was on the right of General Martin's men. The khaki fighters forever lived under a sense of restraint, which they blamed to the timid qualities of their F!rench brethren. The poilu, in return, never quite forgave the American for disturbing the halcyon calm of the Vosges sector. And it was never, it can be said in
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justice to the French fighter, quite the same after the Americans came.
After the French withdrew, the Wesserling sector was left entirely in the hands of the Thirty-fifth. The Sixty- ninth Brigade, under Colonel McMahon, and the Seventieth Brigade, under General Martin, alternated their commands in performing the trench duties. August 10, five days before the Sixtieth Field Artillery Brigade, under General Berry, rejoined the division, the south end of the Gerard- mer sector was entrusted to the Kansas and Missouri fight- ers. This gave to the division a strength of trenchworks approximating thirty-five miles in length.
The Gerardmer portion of the line, differing only slightly in topography from the pine and spruce clad moun- tains of Wesserling, gave no cause for a change in the schedule of divisional duties. The extension of the line placed practically the entire Thirty-fifth body of infantry- men into the trenches, and gave less time for resting periods in the rear.
The division, after August 15, was supported by its own artillery. The Sixtieth Field Artillery Brigade had arrived at Liverpool in the same convoy with the 110th Field Signal Battalion and the 110th Sanitary Train. The signal units and Sanitary Train men had joined the division shortly after its arrival in the Vosges.
The artillery had proceeded from La Havre to Angers, where it received equipment. At Camp Coetquidan, the old artillery training post of Napoleon Bonaparte during the days of his emperorship, the two Missouri and one Kansas regiments spent two months. The units then relieved the French artillerymen, who had been supporting the Thirty- fifth till the American gunners had finished their training.
The usual humdrum of trench life was not often broken. Major Fred L. Lemmon, commander of the First Battalion, 140th Infantry, early in August withstood a severe German raid. Early in the same month three hundred Germans staged a raid on the sector held by the 139th Infantry. In July the Thirty-fifth doughboys gave the Boche a taste of what they were to give them by the mouthful in the Argonne.
V THE TWO RAIDS
The mettle of Kansas men met its first serious test July 20. Company C, 137th Infantry, staged a raid on Landersbach, returning with laurels and five German pris- oners.
Orders having been given for the raid, the forty mem- bers of Company C who had volunteered, and the balance of 160 from other companies of the regiment, were with- drawn from the trenches July 15. The next day the volun- teer raiders spent in resting. July 17, 18 and 19 the men went through a series of practice raids on trenchworks built in imitation of those they were to attack. On the evening of July 19 they returned to the lines and set them- selves for their first venture over the top.
The general scheme of the raid was for part of the first platoon to support the right flank in the advance ; the second the left flank, cleaning up trenches and dugouts as they went; a platoon to advance toward Landersbach in two columns, cleaning houses and cellars, and especially the factory of the village; and the other group to leave the trenches near the road of Sondemach-Landersbach, pene- trating the enemy position and joining up with the group engaged in mopping-up the village.
Green rockets were to be used for signalling the return of the men. Telephone liaisons were established in a cellar at Sondej-nach and at a post between this and the artillery. Ten American stretcher-bearers were to accompany the right groups and six the left groups.
Captain Roy Perkins, commander of Company C, was in charge of the raid. The first, second and third platoons of the company were massed in the organizations southwest of Mattle at 2 o'clock, and the fourth platoon at Sondernach at the same hour. The night of July 19 good openings in
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the American wire entanglements were effected by work- ing parties.
The ground over which the men were to advance was difficult. Mattle Field and Mattle Hill, lying across the dip from the American trenches, were subject to extreme ma- chine gun fire from the wooded slopes to the east and north- east. An effective barrage, it was hoped, would lessen the effect of the enemy*s fire as the men worked their way down the slope toward Landersbach.
The American barrage opened at 4:04 o'clock. The French manned the guns, for this was at a time the Sixtieth Field Artillery Brigade was still in training.
The men crouched in the trenches, waiting for the zero hour, just as they were to wait for its more sinister note in days to come in the Argonne. It was dark still, with that early morning grayness and dampness of the Vosges setting in. On all sides the forms of crouching men could be dis- tinguished lining the trenches. The pine and spruce trees, which clothe the peaks of the Vosges, gave an added air of grotesqueness to the scene. Some men leaned nervously against the sides of the trench, others squatted down and hugged their rifles in their laps.
The barrage, to have begun at 3 :30 o'clock, was delayed until 4:04 o'clock for want of Hght. As the preliminary strokes of the guns shook the earthworks in which the men were waiting, the word passed along the line to prepare for the advance. The roll and bellow of the French 75s in- creased, hurtling their greater destruction at the Germans.
Before the advance had begun, the Germans were re- taliating with vicious regularity. The trenchworks of the Americans were churned and swept with an unrelenting fire.
After a six-minute barrage, from 4:04 to 4:10 o'clock, the first three platoons of the company worked their way through the openings in the wire and facing a hurricane of German artillery fire, started the advance. The fourth platoon, under Lieutenant Rolf, did not leave Sondernach until 4:29 o'clock.
Lieutenant Thess, with one-half of the first platoon in his charge, met with little opposition on the right flank. He found that the American barrage had completely destroyed the trenches and shelters. As he made his way farther toward the German lines he discovered five dead Germans, grouped around a light machine gun badly damaged from fire.
Lieutenant Masters, with the second platoon, at the outset of his advance, was caught in the enemy barrage. He proceeded with difficulty and found the positions he was to clean, filled with snake-like masses of entanglements.
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A few shelters, evidently used as posts, he destroyed. Find- ing it impossible to continue through Boveaux, which was filled with wire and was being heavily hammered by enemy artillery, he was compelled to retrace his steps and go by the factory road of Landersbach.
Lieutenant Scott, with the third platoon and half of the first, made his way through the openings in the enemy wire without meeting serious opposition. He sighted a party of Germans running down the slope of the hill and captured five of them. Captain Perkins took charge of the men and directed that Lieutenant Scott return with his captives to the American lines.
About half way down the slope, the men ran across some small dugouts. The bodies of seven German dead were found here. The dugouts had been almost completely
The Kansas men advanced across Mattle under heavy machine gun fiire.
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destroyed. Captain Perkins pushed on to the quarry, which by war's interference had been out of operation since 1914. No troops were discovered in the quarry or in the buildings on the Lander sbach Road. One dead German was found in the entranceway to a cellar.
Lieutenant Rolf, with his platoon, searched the dugouts and buildings on the left side of the road. The men fired these as they went along. Six dead Germans were found near the dugouts. Lieutenant Rolf and Captain Perkins joined their parties in Landersbach at the old factory. It was learned that Lieutenant Masters, with the second pla- toon, had already returned to Sondernach. Captain Perkins and Lieutenant Rolf went to the American lines, arriving there at 4:49 o'clock.
The most serious fire during the raid had been received from the wooded slopes east and northeast of Landersbach. The Americans had been under continuous machine gun play on Mattle Field and Mattle Hill.
Lieutenant C. Thomas Hopkins, the first Wichita man to be killed with the Thirty-fifth in France, who, with the 139th Infantry, had entered the trenches on the night of the raid during the barrage, had seen one of Lieutenant Rolf's men become wounded and entangled in the bajrbed wire. Facing the direct fire from an enemy machine gun, he went to the man's rescue and was himself wounded. Sergeant Jackson Walker and a private from Company G, 139th Infantry, rescued the two men.
Three were killed in the raid and twelve wounded, three seriously and nine slightly. Private George W. Holm was the first man killed. Ten hours after the raid Captain Perkins made his way into the German lines, found the dead bodies of two of the Americans, and brought them back to the American side for burial.
Eleven men were cited :
Lieutenant Hopkins, Wichita; Captain Roy Perkins, Salina; Lieutenants Emil Rola, Paul Masters, Louis Scott, Walter Kirkpatrick, and Arthur Thess; Sergeant Walker, and Privates Carl Turner, Earl Sullivan and Earl Brusser.
The raid had netted five German captives and nineteen dead.
Not less effective or less well carried out was the raid on Hilsenfirst Mountain by Company H, 138th Infantry. Like preparations were made for it in the way of rehears- ing on trenches fashioned after those to be attacked. The men were taken out five days before the time set for the raid and thoroughly acquainted with the obstacles in ter- rain and opposition they v/ere expected to meet.
The artillery preparation for the raid of July 6 was much longer than it had been for that of the Kansas men.
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For forty-five minutes the American batteries thundered at the Germans, paving the way through the tangle of barbed- wire for the advance. The Germans answered With their best, and the barrage through which the Missouri men were forced to pick their way was swift and severe.
To guard against mistaking their own men, the Amer- icans either wore helmets painted in white or girded with a white stripe. Large white handkerchiefs were worn around the neck. Only about one-fourth of the men were equipped with rifles, the rest with pistols. One man in each four carried four incendiary or smoke grenades, and each man had with him six 0. F. grenades. Each party in the raid carried an automatic rifle to protect the retreat of the cleaning detachments.
Differing from the raid of 137th Infantry, the ^Missouri men had their zero hour just as the Vosges Mountains were darkening into evening. From the point of a soldier's mind, evening is a better time for these affairs. The outline of the bare sweeps of Hilsenfirst Mountain would have been just as gaunt and ugly by the early light of morning as by the late light of day, but the soldiers had a different taste in their mouths. They were not worn out by a night of sleepless waiting and they had none of that early morning pinch at the marrow which adds terrors to the zero hour.
When the bombardment began at 7 :45 o'clock, the men were in dugouts on Hilsenfirst Mountain. At 8:05 o'clock they were ordered out to the front line, where they crouched and hugged their guns, awaiting the zero hour. At 8:30 o'clock the signal passed along the line and the advance began.
Lieutenant Leahy was in charge of the raid. Scouts had the night before cut through the wire entanglements and through these gaps they were led up for the advance. The right flank Was to be protected by Lieutenant Leahy in command, with Lieutenant Oliver W. Spencer and Lieu- tenant William Sweeney in charge of the separate platoons.
On the left flank Lieutenant William Bryan was in charge of a platoon, and Lieutenant John Mitchell was to follow with a group of moppers-up. Sergeant George von Land was in charge of half a platoon on Lieutenant Bryan's flank.
The communicating trenches of the Germans ran like the spread of two eagles' wings from the crest of Hilsen- first. From the wide spread near the summit, they tapered together gradually as they reached a point midway of the slope.
Behind the slow moving barrage the Missouri men went at it calmly. Lieutenant Bryan met little opposition on the left wing until he drew near the apex and joining point of
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the two communicating trenches. There a German machine ^n caught them in full fire and they Were compelled to seek cover. Sergeant Peter G. Errett ventured out with three men to aid him, and by making a hands-and-knees creep up on the nest, were able to silence it with pistols and hand grenades.
The entire advance was made under a symphony of machine gun fire. Lieutenant Sweeney, back of Lieutenant Spencer on the right wing, kept a clear field most of the time, but the party in the lead fell crosswise of some serious nests. Bombing dugouts as they went, they reached their objective below the joining point of the communicating trenches without great loss and returned in company with Lieutenant Bryan.
Lieutenant Mitchell, following on the heels of the others with the moppers-up men, cleaned the dugouts. None of the Germans he met seemed willing to be taken prisoners, so he did not insist. There are easier ways.
Four Missouri men Were killed and eighteen wounded in the raid. Seven prisoners were taken and twenty Ger- man dead were left behind their lines.
Nineteen men were cited:
First Lieutenants William H. Leahy, John E. Mitchell and Oliver W. Spencer; Second Lieutenants William S. Bryan, William Sweeney; Sergeants Albert Michenf elder, Peter G. Errett, Charles E. Newman, Albert E. Elsea and Fred L. Edwards; Corporals Walter E. Ficke, L. Bartels, Clayton Moore, George von Land; Privates Elmer Grupe, Herman Harrison, Joseph Reynolds, Francis M. Fierce, Fred L. Laird.
The value of the training in the Vosges to every branch of service in the division must be measured more by the atmosphere of war it gave them rather than by the actual benefits of the training. For what the infantry learned of trench warfare was of no practical value to it in carrying on the open tactics of the Argonne; for what the artillery learned in emplacing guns it had pretty nearly to unlearn in the days to come ; so with the field signal wqrk and med- ical men.
The importance of the Vosges sector for training was that it also gave to the Thirty-fifth those conditions under which war must be carried on. Feather beds and waffles for breakfast, they learned, were not a part of it. The civilian mind, even with a year's training, does not easily adapt itself to the requirements of a soldier at war. These necessities life on the Vosges sector helped to emphasize.
Then, too, to bring the condition home to the mind of the soldiers, was the toll of dead. Ninety-six little graves could have been counted when the Thirty-fifth withdrew
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from the trenches in the Vosges. These dead drew largely theix number from sickness and accident, but the raids and life in the trenches counted their part also. The crosses that mark the resting place of the Kansas and Missouri men are to be found scattered in the many cemeteries of the small villages.
After the Argonne the soldiers turned their memories to the mountainous country of Southern France and found they thought of it more as a land at peace than at war. The homes of the peasantry were intact there; the fields produced their yearly harvest; something the soldier was later to see only at rare times. For Northern France had paid the toll greater than any other part of the country.
The peasants in the fields had seemed to the soldiers to be at peace; the hum of the linen factories, fringing the streams in Alsace, it seemed must hum the peace song ; the girls in the villages, the old men, the old women, all clatter- ing along in their sabots like a troop of noisef ul cavalry — in comparison with Argonne days, nothing could have been more like a land of warless quiet.
VI AS RESERVES AT ST. MIHIEL
The soldiers of the Thirty-fifth sensed a move and Big Things in the air. It is not the lot of a soldier below the silver eagle rank to be informed of these things, but they are never slow in getting ideas for themselves. From the Vosges most of them were possessed with the belief that it was to be straight smash through to the Rhine.
The Thirty-fifth had held the Wesserling subsector since July 1, and had added to their care the d'Anould or Gerardmer sector August 10. The first confirmation to the soldiers' belief that Big Things were to come was the assem- bling of elements of the division that were not in the line at Gerardmer. These organizations were farmed August 27 and 28.
Orders were received from the headquarters of the French Thirty-third Army Corps that the Thirty-fifth was to be relieved of the Gerardmer sector August 31 and Sep- tember 1. The morning of September 2 saw all the units of the division out of the trenches. The move and Big Things looked like a sure part of the program at last.
The men who had just completed two months' training in the trenches were now scheduled for six weeks out of them.- They were turning the prow from the Vosges toward a kind of warfare which was natural to them, but which had not been a principal part of their training program.
To measure the Vosges training and its actual benefits would be to say that if a person wears a bathing suit it will give him the ability to swim. The soldier of the Thirty- fifth had donned his fighting togs, but he had yet to do much fighting. And it — of the sort he was to meet with in the wooded passes of the Argonne, where, as Dumouriez once said, "every pass is a Thermopylae."
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When you become accustomed to seeking the protec- tion of the trench and dugout whenever there is a bombard- ment, it is a different matter to face one in a shallow shell- hole. It is a different thing to lie behind the sheltering lift of a parapet and have a sniper blaze away lazily every now and then at you to taking the hail of machine gun full in the face. In this is drawn the line between what the soldier had experienced and was to experience in the month to come. Through comparison, the relative benefits of the trench training to the open mode of warfare are a matter of surface evidence.
The organizations of the division entrained September 4, 5 and 6, and began the move to the Rosieres a,rea. This was the jump-off for a series of marches which were a fitting introduction to the hardships of the month to follow. France had kept up its traditional habit of raining each day, and mud on the roads was ankle deep.
On the nights of September 10 and 11 the troops marched to the vicinity of Tomblaine, Jarville, and Maron. The men were billeted in villages along the way.
Night. The 70th Brigade, under General Martin, has passed through Neufmaison. There are no lights, for smok- ing is forbidden where there is danger of enemy planes swooping down at any minute. There are no noises, save for the jangling of accoutrement and the crunch of the hobnailed soldier. On such marches the soldiers do not talk much among themselves. They have rifles and seventy- pound packs to think about. What more could be asked to keep one's mind occupied ?
The road is jammed with moving troops. The advance is made by paces. The men take the distance of a few yardsticks ahead; then stop, and stand in inactivity while a cold drizzle washes their faces and adds pounds to their packs.
The men wear out as the night wears on. Their cloth- ing is saturated ; their packs weigh over the seventy pounds now; and shoulders are numbed. When the column halts, they halt in their tracks and slump into the mud.
The soldier tired enough knows no bed more com- fortable than one of French mud. On their initiation into night hikes, they believed they would never accustom them- selves to sleeping in it. The early stages of night march- ing convinced them to the contrary. Officers and men alike would stretch themselves in the slime to snatch a brief respite. The water soaking through their already rain- and sweat-soaked clothing, they would fall asleep almost instantly with a calmness that civilians in a feather bed would envy.
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The men began the ascent of what seemed an endless hill. The trees that formed an arch overhead reminded them of the Vosges days and their first time into the trenches. Horses in the supply train began to fall out.
"Poor weak creatures," sympathized a doughboy, shift- ing his rifle from his right shoulder to his left, and hitch- ing at his pack. "I wish we'd get to the top of this Pike's Peak or they'd let us smoke a cigarette."
"I s'pose if we passed by a cafe," sneered his com- panion, with the sweet emphasis of one in bad temper, "you'd want 'em to stop and let us get refreshments?"
"Why not?" growled the doughboy. "The general and his staff, wearing away their life in a seven-passenger Cadillac, never fail to do it. It must be hell to climb these hills in a six-cylinder car? I'd "
But the doughboy's words are suddenly drowned in the avalanche of sound. The barrage for the St. Mihiel offensive had begun, and the sky to the northwest was slashed and cut with a mass of crimson. The earth trem- bled and rocked under the shock of the guns.
All night the men had marched to the music of the guns, and as they swung down the road leading to Foret de Haye the first light of a new day was in the East. Be- draggled ; bemudded ; wearied to the core ; where pup tents in the mire could be made palaces of sleep. There between them and Foret de Haye, between them and the flush of a new day, some Algerians had come onto the road. In the reflected glow their keftis and burnooses gave weird outline to their figures. * * *
The division lay in concealed bivouac in the Foret de Haye. They were in the First Army Reserve, behind the curtain to strike wherever Pershing might direct. But in their pup tents in the sogging and dripping woods they were kept behind the curtain and never struck. And never, as a result, fully forgave Pershing for not letting them.
Being in reserve at St. Mihiel was a dreary affair, more dreary than exciting. After each long march the soldiers were convinced the fight and Big Things were just ahead. Big Things were elusive. Each night of hobnailed agony seemed to bring them no nearer. In Foret de Haye they went into the mud and pup tents as living quarters. Big Things slipped away again. The thundering guns re- ceded into sullen grumblings.
The soldiers picked blackberries in the surrounding woods until by the time of their departure they were on a par with their rations. The soldier turned convert to the theory that there is no affair of Big Things. This Was like the Vosges had been, an affair of Little Things. They
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grew tired of searching for blackberries. Boche airplanes pelting the Nancy vicinity ceased to be a matter of interest. They chilled with sleeping under pup tents on chilled ground. Masters with the dice lost interest, for Nancy took all there was to take.
The Thirty-fifth was kept in Foret de Haye until Sep- tember 15 and 16. Pershing had not been sure of the strength of his opposition at St. Mihiel. He had backed his trained divisions up with untested divisions.
The first day was a gauge by which to judge the en- tire operation. The barrage sent the Germans reeling back of Mount Sec and St. Mihiel, and they were kept reeling back as the doughboys advanced. The strong point of Mount Sec, a stronghold corresponding to Vauqois Hill in the Argonne, was a thing to be climbed by the doughboys and not fought over. Occasionally a machine gun spit a thin thread of flame, but they were always quieted without serious losses.
The St. Mihiel operation, for it does not deserve the name of drive or offensive, cost the American division par- ticipating in it slightly over one per cent casualties.
Bombing was the great danger to which the Thirty- fifth was subject during its three days in reserve. The Germans were busy attempting to save their guns, supplies, and men, and were in no mood for more retaliation than was absolutely necessary. Most of this they gave into the hands of the airmen, who divided their choice selection of aerial torpedoes between the city of Nancy and the soldiers lying concealed in the woods.
The organization of the division during the St. Mihiel operation was:
69th Infantry Brigade Brig. General Nathaniel F.
McClure
137th Infantry Colonel Clad Hamilton
138th Infantry Colonel George P. White
129th Machine Gun ...Captain George P. Wark
70th Infantry Brigade ......Brig. General Charles I. Mar- tin
139th Infantry Colonel Kirby Walker
140th Infantry ......Colonel Pierce A. Murphy
130th Machine Gun ...Captain Paul A. Frey
128th Machine Gun Major Westley Halliburton
60th Field Artillery Brigade.Brig. Gen. Lucien G. Berry
128th Field Artillery Colonel Frank M. Rumbold
129th Field Atillery Colonel Karl D. Klemm
130th Field Artillery. Major William W. Thurston
110th Trench Mortar
Battery Capt. Fred W. Manchester
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110th Ammunition
Train _ _._ Lt. Col. Fred R. Fitzpatrick
110th Engineers Colonel Thomas C. Clark
110th Field Signal Battalion...Captain Elmer G. Stahl 110th Train Hdqrs. — Mounted
Police -...._ Col. William McD. Rowan
110th Engineer Train _ First Lieut. Peake Vincil
110th Supply Train Major George M. Faught
110th Sanitary Train _..Major Herbert C. Wooley
137th Field Hospital _ Major Archie N. Johnson
138th Field Hospital Major William W. Gilbert
139th Field Hospital ...Major Seth A. Hammel
140th Field Hospital Major Henry T. Sallisbury
Follovvdng are units that were attached :
112th Mobile Veterinary
Unit - First Lieut. Calvin F. Bennett
Sanitary Squad No. 19 „ First Lieut. Sam M. Hibbard
Sales Commissary Detach- ment 9 Second Lieut. Harold Hurley
Salvage Unit No. 304 Second Lieut. Joseph Linner
Salvage Unit No. 305 Second Lieut. H. H. Bruce
Division headquarters was established in three echelons. The first consisted of:
The Commanding General Major General Peter E.
Traub
The Chief of Staff.....„ Colonel Ernest E. Haskell
Assistant Chiefs of Staff —
G-1 - Colonel William R. Gibson
Gr-2 Major Harry S. Howland
G-3 Lt. Col. Walter V. Gallagher
The Division Surgeon Lt. Col. Raymond C. Turck
Division Signal Officer...... Lt. Col. George A. Wieczerek
Division Engineer _ Col. Thomas C. Clark
Division Gas Officer. Captain William W. Wise
Division M. G. Officer. _ Lt. Col. Donald D. Hay
The first echelon was established at Liverdun. The second echelon at Sexey les Bois, consisted of:
The Division Adjutant Major William Ellis
Division Personnel Adjutant.„Captain William R. Thurston Division Veterinajrian Captain Ora P. Davis
The third echelon, at Velaine en Haye, was made up as follows :
Division Quartermaster Major Arthur Parker
Division Inspector Captain Edward Sammons
Division Judge Advocate Major Victor Ruehl
Division Ordnance Officer. Major Channing E. Delaplane
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Had the soldier understood Foch's plan for the whole, his individual part might have been more clear to him. Like so many checkers on a board, only in this case it hap- pened to be in French mud, he saw bodies of soldiers marched and countermarched, camping for a time here and then rolling pup tents and marching toward some other indefinite address. This continuous moving, to the appar- ent accomplishment of no end, he came to view as a useless and timewasting process. He had been in the war for over a year and hadn't seen a thing that looked like a good- sized battle.
Foch, long before the Americans had an appreciable army in France, had mapped out their course of campaign. It was on a certain day in Paris, shortly after the American aid had been promised, and before Pershing had arrived. He was with Sir Douglas Haig and Premier Clemenceau.
"The Americans ?" he said, in answer to a question by Clemenceau. "I have their place — here."
With his cane, he traced in the gravel at his feet a line representing the western front. He explained his plan to place the Americans on the southern sector of the line, there to smash northward as the French and British drove to the east, and so bottle up the armies of Ludendorf.
So while the stern old schoolmaster of war. Camp Doni- phan, kept the Thirty-fifth at its lessons for seven months, Foch kept his mind on his plan. He kept his mind on it as the division tasted the surface dregs of War in the Vosges. And they were a pa,rt of his plan as they moved north into reserve at St. Mihiel, and had come to the time they were going to play their role in it when they began the move toward the Argonne.
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The soldiers never knew how palatial were the French box cars until they took their first long ride in a truck Francaise. There is room for twelve men in a French truck. The number was doubled, minus two, and the men told to sit on each other's heads and stomachs.
The division, before leaving Foret de Haye, was marched to a point in the vicinity of Five Trenches where the 200 French trucks were lined up on the roadway. There was ten miles of them. The truck method of convoy was very common in the French army.
After an afternoon and night of this species of agony, the division arrived in the Charmontois district. Here it was attached to the Third Army Corps and under the Second French Army for tactical control and supply.
The division was under command of the French gen- eral at Mordacq, and from his headquarters the order came that the 69th Brigade, under General McClure, was to move to the vicinity of Anzeville. This move took place on the night of September 19.
The following night the rest of the division changed its position from Charmontois to the neighborhood of Grange-le-Comte and the woods east of Beauchamp. The Grange-le-Comte sector was taken over by the division from the French Seventy-third Division. The outpost units of the French remained in place. The supporting line was held by two battalions of the 69th Brigade, each with a machine gun company attached and one battalion and machine gun company in reserve.
The Thirty-fifth maintained this formation until the curtain went up on America's greatest offensive the morn- ing of September 26.
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The ground over which the division was scheduled to advance was not heavily wooded. The trees were scattered and only in places furnished natural defensive positions for the Germans. There were many deep ravines, de- stroyed villages and farms, and other obstacles which did offer natural defense. Vauqois Hill was a network of dugouts and trenches, torn with huge mine craters, pre- senting almost impassable entanglements of wire. Cheppy, Very, Charpentry and Baulny stood in the way of a rapid and cheaply-boughten advance.
History had played a large part on these fields and in these same ruined villages. It was at Varennes, the same Varennes that the Thirty-fifth Division wrested foot by foot from the Germans, that in 1791 was the meeting place of a king and groceryman who changed the whole course of French history. It was the same Varennes, the same Vauqois, the same Cheppy, the same Very, the same Neuvilly that in the following year saw the Duke of Brunswick's Hessians pouring through the passes of the Argonne toward Paris.
Old-Dragoon Drouet, the Maitre de Poste of Sainte Menehould, was leaning in the doorway of his office on the warm summer evening of June 20, 1791. Old-Dragoon Drouet was not in a good mood this evening. Affairs of the day had not been going to suit him, and he had only a scowl and a surly greeting for his neighbors as they passed.
Old-Dragoon Drouet was a patriot. And neither had things at Paris been going to suit him. An entirely bad taste he felt for things in general as he glanced up and down the narrow street on this evening in June. A postilion-guard carriage came thundering down toward the Maitre de Poste. Old-Dragoon Drouet sought with his eye those inside the Berline coach as it moved by.
He forgot his scowl, his surly demeanor, the bad taste in his mouth for things in general. Old-Dragoon Drouet had been in Paris; he had seen something of France and the French nobility. He knew that face in the carriage, prettily tucked away under the broad gypsy hat. It was Marie Antoinette.
Old-Dragoon Drouet smoked a foul-smelling pipe and was taciturn, which is not a bad combination for the thinker. He knew that were Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI allowed to escape from France, there would follow an invasion by Prussia and Austria.
Guillaume was called. The horses must be made ready that very minute. They were ready that very minute, and Old-Dragoon Drouet and Guillaume were on them and speeding away toward Varennes as quickly. It was dark-
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Where the Thirty ^fth bit its way into the Hindenburg Line.
When the division was relieved on the morning of October 1 , it was the farthest advanced division in the First Armj^- Boureuilles, Varennes, Cheppy, Charpentry, and Baulny are all towns captured by the Kansas and Missouri men.
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ening rapidly, but darkness must not interfere with speed when France is at stake.
Frothing horses and scowling Old-Dragoon Drouet, with the silent Guillaume, drew up in front of the Bras d'Or Tavern at Varennes, just as Boniface Le Blanc was serving some late patrons of the wine table. Scowling still, Old-Dragoon Drouet called Le Blanc aside and whispered something to him. Le Blanc called Madame Le Blanc and soon much whispering was going back and forth through the quiet village of Varennes. M. Sausse, the groceryman, who retired early each evening, soon ap- peared at the Bras d'Or, his hair disheveled and his shirt tucked in badly. M. Sausse dispatched someone and soon the tocsin was heard booming; sending its summons into the night for a rally of the Patriots.
Across the bridge (this bridge was blown out by the Germans when the Americans began their advance), under which the Aire River flows between Neuvilly and Var- ennes, the patriots placed an old furniture wagon.
Down the dark roadway, from the direction of Neu- villy, there presently came the rumble of the Berline — ^the same Berline that would plunge France into civil war were it allowed to pass Varennes.
"Altela!"
There was a flashing of lanterns. Two muskets were leveled at the door of the coach.
"Your passports, Mesdames?" said Groceryman M. Sausse.
In the shadow-dancing lantern lights they all left the Berline — the weak King Louis, the pretty Marie Antoinette in her gypsy hat and her heart beating a bit faster. There are no passports. Then with no passports there can be no passage through Varennes, Groceryman M. Sausse informs the King and Queen.
They all went to the Bras d*Or Tavern. Louis asked for refreshments. They were given him, a bottle of Bur- gundy and bread and cheese, for there was no better. The King remarked that the Burgundy was the best he had ever tasted.
That night the Bras d'Or Tavern (nothing shows there now but gaunt fire-withered walls) was the royal resting place of King Louis and the destinies of France. The next day he was returned to Paris, where, before his entry, notices were published warning the populace that "if they cheer the King they will be beaten; if they insult the King they will be hung."
In the following year, September 2, 1792, when Paris was storming with revolutionary fire, every neighbor was
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doubting every neighbor, and the stage of things had come when worse was to go to the worst, the Hessians under the Duke of Brunswick had occupied Verdun and were pressing on for the passes of the Argonne toward Paris. As Brunswick had planned it, the march to Paris was to be a triumphant march, much the same as the Prussian ruler something over a century later was to plan it. Well for France then there was a Dumouriez, as later it was to be well for her there was a Joffre, whose genius knew that such a triumphant march could be turned into a complete disaster — ^for Brunswick and his Hessians.
"There are four passes in the Argonne," said Du- mouriez, "and each pass is a Thermopylae."
The Thirty-fifth soldiers who have been there know the nature of September weather in the Argonne. Du- mouriez knew the Argonne and its seasons by heart; Brunswick, by maps and reports. Wheeling southward, he was able to force Grand-Pre pass, advancing through the same territory the Thirty-fifth lost so many lives to take : through Charpentry, through Very, through Cheppy, through Varennes, through Neuvilly — ^toward Paris!
Brunswick was suddenly attacked by an enemy Du- mouriez knew would not fail as France's ally. It rained; rained day and night, for so many days that ditches over- flowed, fields were as seas of mud, roadways were nearly impassable. Rained, and raining on day and night, threw the Hessian spoilers into a confusion of movements and a confusion of supplies.
But if it would not be triumphant, it would be hard fought; Paris would be reached at all costs. So Bruns- wick pushed on, rain or no rain; mud or no mud; con- fusion or no confusion.
Dumouriez had scrappings of soldiery numbering 96,000 to face an army of 160,000 Prussians headed by Brunswick. He chose Valmy as the place to take his stand. Across the valley on the heights of La Lune the glittering Hessian array was stationed.
Dumouriez was confronted with no small problem, all these recruits on his hands, who wanted to fight with "Vive la Patrie" on their lips, but who talked back when a superior ordered them to carry a sack of bread or help load a wagon. No doubt they were good enough as "shoe- makers and tailors," but what would that help, tacking soles on shoes or mending clothes, in winning a battle?
On September 30, from the heights of La Lune, the cannon mouths of Brunswick opened and sent their first message of steel death into the ranks of the French. Some bombs set fire to ammunition wagons among the French batteries.
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"They are in confusion; it is time," said Brunswick.
He directed that the infantry be sent forward in close order formation. Kellermann, who was later to be- come one of Napoleon's greatest masters of the field, held the impatient "shoemakers and tailors" until the Hessians had almost reached them.
Bayonets gleaming; "Vive la Patrie! Vive le Nation!" on every lip; confusing yells, some with meaning, some with no meaning, the unseasoned and the untrained went forward to meet the trained and the skilled. And the line crumpled before them.
There it was, in the same Argonne where the Thirty- fifth was to meet with the German best, the best that was not good enough, Dumouriez's faith in his scrappings of soldiery saved France.
At 8 o'clock on the evening of September 21, Brigadier General Martin was notified by the commanding general of the division. Gen. Peter E. Traub, that he was to be relieved of his command of the Seventieth Brigade. The same day General McClure was notified that he was to be relieved of his command of the Sixty-ninth Brigade.
General Martin had been with his command since its organization at Camp Doniphan. He had sailed across with it and had seen it through the trench-training period in the Vosges. General Traub offered no excuse for either his removal or that of General McClure.
General Martin was succeeded in his command by Col. Kirby Walker, General McClure in his by Col. Louis M. Nuttman. Col. Clad Hamilton was in charge of the 137th Infantry ; Col. Harry S. Howland in charge of 138th Infantry; Lieut. Col. Carl L. Ristine of 139th Infantry, and Lieut. Col. Channing E. Deleplane, who had just been promoted from the rank of major, was in charge of the 140th Infantry. Capt. George P. Wark, who had been in temporary charge of 129th Machine Gun Battalion, lost command to Maj. Thomas H. Loy.
When the troops had been brought up for the attack, the Thirty-fifth found itself opposite the Argonne Forest and the Aire Valley. It was in the First Army Corps, with the Twenty-eighth Division, under Major General Muir, to its left. Both the Twenty-eighth and the Seventy- seventh, to the left of General Muir's division, were troops with experience.
To the right of the Thirty-fifth was the Ninety-first, under General Johnston, the Thirty-seventh and the Seven- ty-ninth, all untested divisions. Of the other three divisions in line on the right flank, the Thirty-third was untried, the Eightieth had seen some fighting with the Australians, and the Fourth drew its store of experience from fighting on the Vesle.
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I'ue Fust Army ury,aUizea lor tile otiensive.
The First, Second, Third, Twenty-sixth, Thirty-second and Forty-second, the most tried troops of the First Army, were held in reserve.
The nine divisions in line for the opening attack Sep- tember 26 were given 215 tanks to aid them in the advance. This was a greater number than the nature of the terrain permitted to be used. The American tank corps operated 143 of these, and the other 72 were manned by the French. Of the airplanes attached to the First Army at the beginning of the battle, 40 were French.
In the Argonne battle, as on the training sector in the Vosges, the Americans were working on a joint ac- count with the French. The French Fourth Army, under General Goraud, was to advance on the west side of the Argonne Forest, the Americans on the east side of it. The mistake of attempting to take it by frontal attack was early realized by Foch. When the French and American armies had advanced the Germans would be compelled to retire to save themselves from falling into enemy hands. The two forces would join up and repeat the process on the wooded hills north of the Argonne. The French and Americans pushing toward Givet from the south, the British from the west, the Germans would find themselves
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with their backs to the Ardennes Forests. The handwrit- ing on the wall could forecast nothing less than a debacle for them.
Not all the troops which faced the Thirty-fifth and its sister divisions were of the best German stock. It seems that there had been some miscalculation on the part of the German intelligence department.
Gen. von der Marwitz of the German Fifth Army looked for an attack toward Metz. The French on outpost before the Thirty-fifth and the other eight divisions of the American First Army were kept there as a decoy for the Germans. No operation on as large scale as the Meuse- Argonne offensive could have been completely veiled, yet so secret was it that the enemy entirely misjudged the place and force of the attack. Only four German divisions held the country through which the Americans were scheduled to advance.
The First Guard Division was the best the Germans had to offer. It had suffered great losses in the Chemin des Dames and Marne battles and was on this quiet sector recuperating. The Seventh Reserve was building itself up in a like manner after having been badly riddled in the spring and summer. The 117th Reserves, composed largely of Alsatians and Poles, could not be counted on for strong morale. The Second Landwehr Division, made up of men over thirty-five years old, was stationed in the Argonne Forest. The Thirty-fifth found itself, though it was not known to the men at the time, facing parts of the First Guard and Second Landwehr.
The artificial defenses of the Germans, the Americans realized, were more formidable than those erected in their path by Nature. Directly in front of the defenses stretch- ing between the Argonne and Verdun, were four well de- fined defensive lines. The Hindenburg line was made up of what is known as the Volker Stellung and the Hagen Stellung. Running back of this was the Kriemhilde Stellung, reputed to be stronger than the Hindenburg defensive works. To the rear some distance was the un- finished Freya Stellung. The Kriemhilde line was con- sidered by the Germans as the backbone of their defense.
The plan of attack was to be a column of brigades, the Sixty-ninth Brigade leading. The regiments of the two brigades were to keep side by side, each with one battalion in the front line, one battalion in support and one battalion in reserve. The second battalion of 139th Infantry, under Major Rieger, was to be attached to the leading brigade to mop up Vauqois Hill and Bois de Rossignol, two com- panies being assigned to each separate place of attack.
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The Sixtieth Field Artillery Brigade was to be rein- forced by the 219th R. A. C, 282d R. A. L., 317th R. A. L. and 451st R. A. L. The organizations were to be in echelon, the positions well forward. One battery of light artillery was to be directed to the front line to be used as forward guns.
Four machine gun companies were to be attached to the front line battalions, two companies were to be in rear of the support line, ready to take position on Cote 239, and one battalion and one company were in position at Buze- mont and another battalion and another company to be in position on Cote 253, Mamelon Blanc, and La Maize.
One company of engineers was to be assigned to the leading brigade as wire-cutters, two platoons were to be assigned to accompany the mopping up battalion and one company, less one platoon, was assigned to assist the ad- vance of the tanks.
The 344th Tank Battalion, less one company, was to be distributed along the front ready to advance. The First Aero Squadron was attached to the division, and one plane was directed to be constantly over the division sector. The Second Balloon Company was assigned to the division for observation with the larger calibered guns. One squadron. Second Cavalry, was assembled south of Abreville, with scouts assigned to accompany the rear ele- ments of the infantry in its advance.
The night of September 25 was a night of stars. It was unusually quiet and unusually dark. Occasionally above the low murmurings of talk there would be the whining twang of a Jerry.
The soldiers knew, and no word was needed to tell them. It was the eve and the morrow was the day of Big Things.
VIII THE MORROW OF BIG THINGS
Big Things opened with the American artillery prep- aration at 2:30 o'clock on the morning of September 26. Shortly before mid-night a deceptive fire had been sent over west of the Argonne and east of the Meuse. This had been to further confuse General Von der Marwitz and to increase his uncertainty as to the points against which the offensive was to be aimed.
Since September 21 the Thirty-fifth had been sta- tioned in the wooded places about Grange-le-Comte. The afternoon of September 25 they had begun the move for- ward and that night were among the guns awaiting the advance of the morning.
Each man carried a full canteen of water, for the (Germans were known to make a practice of poisoning wells in territory surrendered to the enemy. The infantrymen went equipped with rifles, bayonets, steel helmets and gas masks. They had 250 rounds of ammunition. On their backs they carried a pack-carrier, containing a raincoat, seventy-two hours' iron rations and a mess kit. ihe ration issue generally consisted of two cans of bully-beef and five boxes of "biskwee," the American hardtack. In- cendiary grenades, explosive grenades and rifle grenades were carried, to be used by the men on machine gun nests and dugouts.
The night of stars had given way to a heavy fog. Grotesque shapes formed out of the darkness as the men crouched and slept in their places near the guns. The Germans had learned they were there, for intermittent shelling changed to a steady fire. Both gas shells and high explosives were being used.
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Some distance back of the infantry in the woods was a section of the 110th Field Signal Battalion. Caught in the heavy shelling, several of the men were wounded.
"I had just raised my head," said Thomas J. Kelly, of Company B, "to smell for gas, when a high explosive burst just in front of me, so close that the explosion burned my face and the concussion knocked me crazy for a minute. When I came to I was bleeding as though my whole face had been shot off. I had no feeling in my face and didn't have for days."
When the artillery preparation began at 2:30 o'clock, it was as if that part of the world had been seized by the scruff of the neck and was in for the shaking of a life- time. The earth jarred and trembled to the opening strokes of the barrage, rocked and rumbled and tossed as its volume mounted. The lighter pieces were punctuated with the thunders of the heavies, all contriving to give that indescribable roar and whining that is a part of fire so intensely concentrated.
The formidable array of 75s were stationed in ad- vance positions, assigned to the task of tearing up and making a way through the barbed wire entanglements and network of dugouts for the infantry's advance. The naval guns stationed at posts farther to the rear sought to ef- fectively stop concentration and movement of troops be- hind the enemy lines.
In that artillery preparation, lasting three hours, the Americans offered against the Germans all their three thousand guns could give. The 77mm. batteries of the 128th and 129th Field Artillery Regiments, and one batta- lion of the 219th French Regiment, 155mm. batteries of the 130th Field Artillery and 317th French Artillery Regi- ment, and the 105mm. batteries of the 351st French Regi- ment, all together threw into the German lines 78,000 shells during the drive, and the bigger part of them were sent hurtling over on the morning of September 26.
The sogging, dripping blanket of fog grew heavier as the time approached for the infantrymen of the Thirty- fifth to begin the advance. The Sixty-ninth Brigade, under Colonel Louis M. Nuttman, was to lead the attack, making the leap-off along the line with the 137th and 138th Regiments abreast. The Seventieth Brigade, under Colonel Kirby Walker, was to serve as the divisional re- serve. The Second Battalion of 139th Infantry, under Major Rieger, and the 130th Machine Gun Battalion, under Captain Paul Frey, were attached to the leading brigade as moppers-up of Vauqois Hill and Bois de Ros- signol.
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At 5:30 o'clock the advance began. The 139th In- fantry was in column behind 137th, the 140th Infantry in column behind 138th. The regiments were formed in columns of battalions with 500 metres (541 yards) dis- tance between each. They advanced in small columns in staggered formation. The regiment to the left in each brigade served as the base regiment.
The men followed a rolling barrage at the rate of 100 metres (110 yards) in four minutes. It was not hard going. Back in the Foret Hesse they had discarded their packs, and what they carried now was light compared to their usual march equipment. Some were smoking. They went with their guns flung over their shoulders.
The 139th Infantry, in column behind 137th Infantry, was to follow on around the western edge of Vauqois Hill, 140th Infantry, in column behind 138th Infantry, around the eastern edge. Dugouts were to be cleaned by two companies of the Second Battalion of 139th Infantry. The other two companies of the battalion had been directed to proceed toward Bois de Rossignol to mop up after the advance there.
The 137th Infantry, under Colonel Clad Hamilton, found little opposition as it advanced on the left wing of the divisional line. So thorough had been the artillery preparation that the artificial defenses were churned and upheaved into wreckage. The fog walled the men in. Oc- casionally there was a machine gun to quiet. Occasionally the whine of a German shell told the men all was not to be easy ahead. Prisoners were taken at Boureuilles. The march continued up the roadway that runs between Neu- villy and Varennes, then the men, veering in an easterly course, left it as they drew nearer the defenses which the artillery had not destroyed. They found themselves ad- vancing against heavier shelling and greater opposition from the machine gun nests. At 7:40 o'clock the Ameri- can barrage protecting the advance had ceased, and the men were left to cut their way through as best they could. Colonel Hamilton and his staff encountered their first heavy shelling about two kilometres (one mile and a quar- ter) southeast of Varennes. They were on the road which branches down from the Fleville-Varennes main highway. They sought shelter in what had been a German gun em- placement, staying there under cover during a severe bombardment. The advance had not been seriously im- peded. The troops kept on in the general direction of Varennes.
The 139th, under Lieutenant Colonel Carl I. Ristine, had established headquarters before the jump-off under an old bridge near Clairmont. From there the regiment
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began its advance. Major Rieger, with the Second Batta- lion, was stationed farther east to better command an ad- vance along the slopes of Vauqois Hill.
At 11 o'clock the 139th Infantry was two and one-half kilometres back of Varennes. The leading battalion of 137th Infantry had been checked by machine gun and flank artillery fire on the outskirts of the village. Every gray-walled little house, even to the gaunt remains of the town church, seemed to have within a machine gun.
As the fog still lent confusion to attempts at liaison between units, the leading battalion of 137th Infantry halted and established itself behind the defenses at the edge of Varennes. When the Second Battalion drew up in support of the leading battalion an attempt was made to secure protective artillery fire for an advance. This could not be done, as the guns had been unable to move up within effective range on account of blown-out bridges and the condition of the terrain. French tanks were directed to the aid of the 137th, and the two leading battalions swept into their possession that part of the village which lies east of the Aire River. On the slope which rises northward of Varennes they were ordered by Colonel Hamilton to prepare positions and stay until artillery sup- port could be secured. Flank fire from the east, the posi- tions which had not yet been taken by the Twenty-eighth Division men, made it impossible, in Colonel Hamilton's belief, to advatice farther on the western edge of Cote 221.
Unable to understand why the 137th Infantry did not continue the advance. Lieutenant Colonel Ristine sought out Colonel Hamilton and asked the cause of delay. Colonel Hamilton said it would be slaughter to attempt an advance without artillery protection. Lieutenant Colonel Ristine said he understood the advance was to be con- tinued at any cost.
The 137th Infantry was established on the slope north of Varennes. Lieutenant Colonel Ristine led his men around the base of this to the northeast. Major Rieger, after mopping up the western slope of Vauqois Hill, joined the regiment here.
Major Rieger's battalion had found Vauqois Hill and Bois de Rossignol comparatively easy to handle. In some of the dugouts the moppers-up had found Germans, none of which had shown much fight. They had bombed and cleaned them out as they went along, endeavoring to over- look as few as possible in the fog of impenetrable thickness.
Lieutenant McDonald, adjutant of the battalion, had been killed as he went over with the first wave. He had been crouching down, waiting for the zero hour, and had just raised himself to lead in the attack. He crumpled back on the ground with a bullet through his chest.
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Vauqois Hill, the Dead Man's Hill of the Argonne, stood as the pivotal center around which the division operated. The French said the hill could not be taken in less than seventy-two hours. The Americans took it in forty-five minutes and a view of the ground itself revealed how great was the price.
Pitted and scarred, scalped and torn, nothing stood but the battered ghosts of trees. Gnarled and withered trunks they had become, standing lone and bleak on the crest. The ground where the trenches had been was kicked and pitched with fire until its aspect was wave-like, rolling from crest of shell hole to pit of it. The German earth- works, where they ran along the summit of the hill, were bashed in until unrecognizable as the handiwork of man.
The barbed wire entanglements had been gnarled into snake-like masses. Over these grounds, sacred with Ameri- can blood, you might pass with reverence; yet pass over them with a blemished suffusion of regret to realize that to kill the snake some must be bitten and sacrificed.
After capturing Varennes, the 137th Infantry had been checked at 2:45 o'clock in the afternoon. The 139th Infantry passed around the 137th, and at 3:15 o'clock Colonel Walker sent General Traub a message saying Colonel Ristine now commanded the advance regiment and was about one kilometre northeast of Varennes. From his advance line Colonel Ristine sent out men both to the right and left in an attempt to establish liaison with other regi- ments of the division.
After setting his regiment in motion. Colonel Ristine took charge of the advance elements and assigned Major William Stepp to the remainder of his command.
About two kilometres east of Varennes there is an old orchard, a house in shambles, and near this a narrow gauge railroad, used by the Germans for carrying sup- plies. Colonel Ristine had gone ahead and Major Stepp was making his way through the orchard to follow. Enemy artillery fire from the Varennes flank had been increasing. Major Stepp was on the edge of the orchard when struck by a piece of shrapnel and killed.
Colonel Ristine had advanced under opposition that grew stronger as he progressed. Major Rieger, he found, had pressed ahead, and he ordered him with his men to make way toward Very to the east. By this move he hoped to bring 138th Infantry, under Colonel Harry S. Howland, into liaison, and by so doing establish the semblance of a divisional line.
Receiving enfilade fire from German artillery to the left, Colonel Ristine ordered his men to dig in and returned to learn why Major Stepp had not come up with the other
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battalions of his command. Learning of his death and the serious bombardment to which the men had been subject, he reorganized them and led on to give support to his battalion holding the advance positions. The First and Third battalions dug in, the Second Battalion remaining in the rear as reserve.
Colonel Hamilton, with 137th Infantry north of Var- ennes, discovered that the men had become badly mixed, both with Twenty-eighth Division men and those in other units of the Thirty-fifth. He attempted a reorganization, replacing officers who had been killed and combining or- ganizations so that they might be effectively handled.
Part of the First Battalion had wandered away to the right during the fog of the morning. These men fell in with 138th Infantry and were instrumental in the tak- ing of Cheppy about noon of the first day of the drive. The 139th Infantry on this wing of the advance were led by this into believing that they were still in support of the all-Kansas regiment.
The main body of the 137th Infantry, before Varennes, dug in there for the night.
Since 7:40 o'clock in the morning, when the barrage had ceased, the artillery had been attempting to move for- ward. That road which leads between Varennes and Neuvilly was made impracticable for use by the explosion of a mine, a gap looming there that required days to fill. A bridge, too, had been blown out. This left the Axis of Liaison, a very vague factor in the Argonne, as the second choice. The Axis of Liaison was comparable to an unim- proved roadway in Kansas during the wet season. The wheels of the cannon sank frequently and deeply, and the exhausted horses could do little to move them. The 129th Field Artillery began to move at 8 :25 o'clock on the morn- ing of the first day, one battalion of the 130th Field Ar- tillery at 8:25 o'clock, the other two battalions at 10:15 o'clock, and the 128th Field Artillery at 9 o'clock.
But in the mire of the roadway not much progress could be made. Only one battalion, 129th Field Artillery, gained a forward position on the first day. Its guns were stationed in the northwest corner of the Bois de Rossignol.
The shortage of horses in the Thirty-fifth was from the same cause that brought it about in the entire First Army, America stopped shipping horses in the spring in order to send men, and the French were unable to either find as many horses or as good ones to equip the artillery as they had expected. In addition, the American army had not yet learned to care for horses properly, and the wear- ing out process took a terrible toll.
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On the right wing of the advance, 138th and 140th Infantry had experienced varying obstacles in the opening phase of the attack. The same fog that so badly confused the units on the left of the divisional line added confusion to the two regiments on the right. The intermingling of men of different commands resulted before the eastern edge of Vauqois Hill had been passed and the progress toward Cheppy well started.
The men could not see over twenty-five yards in any one direction. To add to the confusion, smoke bombs were sent over by the artillery. In clear weather fire of this nature would have served as a screen against the enemy, but on the foggy morning of September 26 it served to add to the disorder.
Just as the 137th Infantry had passed through Bour- euilles and met with little serious opposition until reach- ing the outskirts of Varennes, the 138th Infantry pro- gressed through the ravines and passes until it came to the southeasterly edge of Cheppy. By the time they reached the little village the men had gone three kilometres and losses were light.
Cheppy was almost in the center of the divisional ad- vance. It was a village much like Varennes, with an old church pitiably mangled from shell fire and homes bleak with the same ruin. Colonel Rowland's men had been checked and in the face of the cutting machine gun and artillery fire the worth of an advance was not considered equal to the price that would have to be paid.
As at Varennes, it was necessary to call on aid from the 344th French Tank Battalion. Six crawling steel houses came swinging down the road, and under pro- tection of these, as far as it could be called protection, the attack was made. The tanks swept down the machine gun nests, pouring machine gun fire and one-pounders from their small steel towers. Even with the tanks before them, the losses of 138th Infantry were heavy before the complete capture of the village was affected. A thin wave of 137th Infantry, which had lost itself from the main body, had passed through the western edge, and from a German pill-box had received a high toll in dead and wounded.
The advance of the 137th detachment had been in a column of twos. The men, one after the other, had pushed on in the teeth of the fire, and, one after the other, had fallen. Their rifles were in their hands and their faces pointed toward Germany.
The 140th Infantry, under Lieutenant Colonel Dela- plane, had encountered less opposition than practically any other regiment. On the eastern slope of Vauqois Hill
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a bombing detachment of the regiment had met some Ger- mans who showed fight, but on the whole the advance had been quiet for the regiment.
The 140th Infantry kept about one hundred metres in rear of the 138th Infantry. While Cheppy Was being taken, the regiment was advancing back of the attacking troops in case of unexpectedly strong opposition by the Grermans.
As in the case with other regiments of the division, the 140th Infantry a number of times passed machine gun nests and then was compelled to return and capture them. The German machine gunners, lying in a particularly well concealed clump of trees or in a defense that was not easily recognizable in the fog„ would allow the troops to pass without firing.
When they had gone on for some distance the gunners would open a strong fire from their rear. In the white- walled air of the morning it was not easy to detect the position of the nest and the losses were frequently heavy before the men could backtrack and capture it.
After Cheppy had been taken, the 138th Infantry re- organized and prepared to go ahead. General Traub ordered up the tanks and put them in the line to crush down pill-boxes wherever the opposition loomed strongest.
Very, about two kilometres northeast of Cheppy, was the next stronghold in the pathway of 138th Infantry. Like Cheppy, it boasted mostly of its past. The homes that had once been there were shattered stones and half- standing walls. The people, as in the other parts of the war area, had fled, and behind in their leave-taking had left only memories.
Tanks played a very small part in the capture of the village. The Germans, as if they had learned of what was sweeping down on them, posted the strongholds thinly with machine guns and were for the most part gone when the Americans arrived.
On the right of the Thirty-fifth, the Ninety-first Divi- sion had not been able to progress so rapidly through the Bois-de-Cheppy. Its lagging pace had permitted the Ger- mans to maintain their artillery position at a point com- manding Very. So where at Cheppy it had been machine guns, at Very it became artillery fire, and in both cases the cost in dead and wounded was large.
Very had been taken at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. At 4 o'clock the leading elements were one kilometre north of the village. Colonel Howland ordered his men to dig in for the night. With the line running about one and one-half kilometres south of Charpentry and one kilometre north of Very, the advance on the day of Big Things came to a stop.
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Three miles had been the net advance. At Cheppy, at Varennes and at Very, guns and supplies and prisoners had fallen into American hands. Automatic rifles, ma- chine guns and anti-tank rifles were included in the cap- tured material. An estimate of four hundred and fifty prisoners were taken on the first day.
What had been the cost there can be only an estimate. The report of the first day by the division surgeon shows one gas case, five seriously wounded, ten slightly wounded and one suffering from psycho-neurosis (shell-shock). But the report serves only to show how few of the wounded were cared for on the first day. Dressing stations and triages were not established and working effectively until the sec- ond day of the offensive.
At Boureuilles, in the morning advance, 137th Infan- try had captured prisoners from the XV Landsturm Batta- lion, acting as sector troops. The first captives from the First Guard Division were also taken here.
The morrow of Big Things had not been without its price and rewards.
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Varying fortune had greeted the American First Army's attempt to break through Germany's Kriemhilde Stellung, the outer defense of which was the Hindenburg Line. Neither the Twenty-eigb ••h on the left nor the Nine- ty-first on the right had beei able to keep pace with the Thirty-fifth. This, bad as it was for the Thirty-fifth in receiving enfilade fire on the opening day, was to grow worse as the offensive progressed.
Satisfactory results had been the general tone of the reports along the entire 40-kilometre (25-mile) front for the first day. Artillery preparation of the right kind and the fighting qualities of the men had shown the de- fensive earthworks of the Germans were not the land armadas they were boasted to be.
During the period lapsing between the barrage of the first morning and the early hours of the second day only one battalion of artillery, 129th Field Artillery, had been able to gain a forward position. It was stationed near Cheppy. The remainder of the artillery units, both Ameri- can and French, were fighting their way up into position along the muddy and shell-torn roadways leading to the front.
General Traub, ^ lo had consulted with General Berry, in command of tiie Sixtieth Field Artillery Brigade, had learned there could be no effective artillery support given before 8:30 o'clock on the morning of the second day. He issued orders for the attack to begin at that hour.
Shortly after midnight he received orders from the First Army Corps stating the attack must begin at 5:30 o'clock. Without artillery support General Traub realized the terrible toll this would take.
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At 1 o'clock he sent this order :
"The Thirty-fifth Division will attack the enemy at 5:80 a. m. this morning and advance to the combined army first phase east of Fleville."
He realized that this last-minute countermand in orders might lead to a serious misunderstanding. He sought out the brigade and regimental commanders, some of whom he found ana some of whom he did not, in an attempt to straighten out the matter before the hour set for the attack.
The plan of attack was for the Seventieth Brigade to take position in the lead. Colonel Ristine, with 139th In- fantry, had passed 137th Infantry on the first day. It was necessary for Colonel Delaplane, to fill out the brigade plan of attack, to come abreast of Colonel Ristine's regiment with 140th Infantry. This he did.
Two battalions of each regiment were to be in the ad- vrance line, one battalion in support. The Sixty-ninth Brigade was to come up from the rear at a distance of 1,000 metres (1,083 yards) with regiments formed in a column of battalions.
To the leading battalions in the front line the ma- chine gun companies were attached, one company to each battalion. The 128th Machine Gun Battalion was attached to the Sixty-ninth Brigade.
The advance was begun at 5:30 o'clock. It was mist- ing, the sky overcast. There was no fog, as there had been on the previous morning.
Colonel Ristine had sent messages back to brigade headquarters asking that a protective fire be given by the artillery. Without it he was open to serious flank fire from the Twenty-eighth Division area. At the time set for the attack he had received no answer to his messages. A desultory shell, seemingly from the American side, whined overhead occasionally, but there was no attempt at a barrage. He ordered an advance at 6 o'clock.
It was an advance of certain death. From the flank the Germans poufed into the ranks a costly fire. From left and right, and ahead, the sputter of machine guns greeted every step.
It was a test of morale. The damp gloom of the Sep- tember day ; the excitement and strain of the fighting the day before; the lack of food and sleep — all contributed against, and not for, the soldier. The German artillery bit into the ranks at every pace. Fresh gaps opened as the rut-rut-rut of machine guns increased in volume.
"No use," said Colonel Ristine.
He ordered a halt. The men dug in. Word was sent back to brigade headquarters that without artillery sup- port no further advance could be made.
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Colonel Ristine learned of tanks in the rear. He formed the right wing of his line behind these and at- tempted another advance. Anti-tank rifles and artillery from the German lines began an effective fire, a gale too strong for the tanks and infantrymen to advance into. The tanks turned prow to the rear and left the rifle-bearers to dig in.
The right side of the line was now considerably ahead of the left side. To avert the deadly flank fire, Colonel Ristine drew back the right wing. The regiment dug in again.
The 137th Infantry had moved early in the morning to the east, near Vieux Moulin. The flank fire from the direction of Varennes continued, indicating the Twenty- eighth was still meeting with serious opposition. The casualties of the 137th as they lay near Vieux Moulin on the second day were heavy, the German guns playing on them from vantage points to the west.
On the right spread of the divisional line 140th In- fantry had met with even greater losses. Shortly before 5 o'clock Colonel Delaplane received the orders for the ad- vance at 5:30 o'clock. He passed his regiment through that of 138th Infantry and set his men on a line to press ahead. They begun to move forward at the hour indicated.
The crest of Hill 218 was boiling under enemy fire. High explosives and shrapnel kept the death song continu- ously above the men's heads. The line seemed to literally crumple before the artillery and machine guns of the Ger- mans, and Colonel Delaplane decided each foot of ground was being bought at too precious a price. The men were ordered to dig in.
"Then I had my first real experience of going over the top under fire," says Sergeant R. P. Haley, Company B, 140th Infantry. "I wish you could have seen the boys, some smoking, some carrying their guns on their shoulders as if they were on their way home."
It was the Kansas and Missouri men's manner of facing death.
The headquarters of the Seventieth Brigade had been established early in the day at Le Forge near Cheppy. Colonel Walker had learned of Colonel Ristine's need of artillery support, and had received a similar message from the commander of 140th Infantry.
To them he sent this message :
"Have just sent message to battery west of Cheppy to get in liaison and support you."
This was at 10:35 o'clock. At 10:40 o'clock and at 11:32 o'clock he sent messages again saying that he was attempting to get artillery fire for the two regiments. At
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1 :50 o'clock Colonel Walker sent word to the two regimen- tal commanders that General Traub had taken up the mat- ter of artillery support and that they could be promised it within a short time.
The 138th Infantry, like 137th Infantry, lay during the day under fire. The regiment was in support of 140th Infantry and when its advance was checked it was held up also.
Each time during the day when the Thirty-fifth had attempted to go forward it had been in the face of what seemed insurmountable difficulties. Not only was the ter- rain unfavorable with its many small ravines, its wooded patches, its hollows and its hills, but the artificial de- fenses of Hagen Stellung and Volker Stellung stretched themselves like a concrete rib across their pathway. Al- though in retreat, the German artillery had lost none of its effectiveness. American airplanes politely withdrew when observations were sought by enemy aircraft, and machine guns hung behind every natural and artificial defense that was in gunning distance.
The machine guns were manned largely by members of the First Guard Division. It may be that there were troops in the German army that were fond of surrender- ing. This class, by lip proof from the doughboy, was not.
At 5:30 o'clock in the afternoon a new attack was launched. Nine more tanks were sent lumbering tov/ard the front along the Very-Charpentry road, and, aided with these and those already on the first line, better results were anticipated.
During the day's fighting Major Clark, in command of the First Battalion of the 139th Infantry, had been wounded while charging a machine gun nest and had been replaced by Captain Williamson, Company D. Lieutenant Brown, adjutant of 139th Infantry, had also fallen in the morning attack.
Before the advance could be made it v/as found a considerable amount of reorganization was necessary. Straightening out his units the best he could. Colonel Ris- tine led his men into an attack against Charpentry and Baulny.
There was no artillery protection, speaking in a sense that term infers. A gun would bellow now and then, pre- sumably from the battery near Cheppy, but there was no concentration of fire or nothing to serve as a screen against the enemy. The men, tired after two days of fighting, struck into the full current of artillery and ma- chine gun fire. The 140th Infantry, advancing on the right, fell in behind the tanks for protection, but the men of 139th and 137th Infantry charged the machine gun
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nests with rifles and grenades. Down the road that leads into Charpentry the men took the best the Germans had to offer and it was not good enough. Mixed elements of 137th, 140th and 139th Infantry beat their way through the maze of ruined homes and hidden guns, never stopping until the line had been advanced north of Baulny. At Baulny they had repeated the type of attack employed at Charpentry and the Germans had not been able to stand against it.
Theoretically, there had been a divisional line estab- lished to keep separated the regiments attacking on a line with each other. Liaison was supposed to be maintained, and the regiments to advance as individual units, one on the right of the line, the other on the left.
As the division had fought its way farther northward, the 138th Infantry and 140th Infantry had gradually woven their course to the left. It was found that when the attack was made on Charpentry practically all the units were not far distant from this point. The gradual north- westerly direction followed by the two regiments to the right made it impossible for them to keep in close liaison with the Ninety-first Division. A large gap naturally formed in the line between the two divisions and was there a greater part of the second day. Colonel Nuttman attempted to correct this the third morning by directing the troops of 140th Infantry to strike out diagonally to the northeast.
Colonel Hamilton had remained with 137th Infantry during the day near Vieux Moulin. Before the attack was to begin in the evening he learned of the advance and in- structed Major John H. O'Connor to take over the active command. Major O'Connor, with the leading battalion of 137th Infantry, followed after the 139th Infantry, and arrived at Charpentry in time to aid in the capture of the village.
He kept on with the command until he believed he had reached the farthest advance of the line. He later dis- covered he had gone some distance beyond it. Returning with his detachment of men, he established himself with mixed elements of all the regiments north of Baulny.
Colonel Delaplane, going ahead with 140th Infantry on the right, had reached past Charpentry and was established northeast of Baulny when darkness forced him to stop. The 138th Infantry had followed up in the rear, and some of the elements had intermingled with those of the regi- ment ahead, as the progress continued. As night closed down liaison became more difficult. The main body of troops, a sprinkling of all the division's regiments, dug in just beyond the outskirts of Baulny.
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Colonel Ristine, with men from the 139th Infantry, had surged far ahead of any other point reached by the divisional troops. Fearing lest a stop of any length would subject him to crossfire from the west, where the Twenty- eighth had not yet come up, and from the east, where other units of his division were lagging, he kept rapidly working his way to the northwest.
Beyond Baulny to the northeast is Chaudron Farm, and to the north a kilometre's distance, Drachen. The Germans had used this as a camp during their occupation of the territory, and before Colonel Ristine was sure of his bearings he found himself near this point. He caught sight of troops ahead, and learned these were Germans. He caught sight of some troops to the rear, and learned these were Germans. In grave danger of capture. Colonel Ristine established his men in a shell hole and prepared all the re- sistance possible under the circumstances.
It had grown dark and in the distance Colonel Ristine was able to hear what sounded like American guns. Ma- chine guns opened up on the position occupied in the shell hole, and verified his fear that the Germans knew of his place.
An attempt Was then made to discover the main body of 139th Infantry, which had been left behind by Colonel Ristine's rapid-moving smaller detachment. In the dark- ness Colonel Ristine was unable to regain contact with the regiment and with dawn found himself farther within the German lines.
In the gray light of early morning he discovered the abandoned overcoat and helmet of a German officer. Be- hind the enemy lines, all had been thrown into the con- fusion of retreat. Troops were moving back, supplies were being taken to the rear, ammunition and guns, and all other possessions the Germans wished to save, they were hurry- ing out of reach of the advancing Americans.
The movements of confusion going on back of the enemy lines aided Colonel Ristine. Disguised in a German overcoat and helm.et, he could hurry as much as the rest of them whenever spoken to and thus avoid chances of dis- covery.
He learned the positions of two ammunition dumps, several batteries, and procuring maps, brought what he had found back with him when he returned the evening of the next day. The American artillery destroyed the dumps and silenced the enemy batteries.
Night of the second day found the Thirty-fifth two and one-half kilometres nearer Germany. The total ad- vance in the two days had been seven and one-half kilo- metres, or five miles.
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It is not easy to understand why it was the Germans offered such stubborn resistance on the morning of the second day and yet in the attack in the evening we^re un- able to hold back the Thirty-fifth. If the Thirty-fifth had advanced the second time with a barrage, this dropping back would have been a natural consequence. As it was, the men swept on with no artillery support, leaving what they could not do themselves to the tanks.
Perhaps the strongest opposition met at any time dur- ing the advance on the second day was at Charpentry. The ruins which had once been homes we^re sheltering crevices for nests. Along the roadway leading into and out of the village machine guns were behind trees and snipers were in them. They were fighters belonging to the Prussian First Guard and were fighters. Few prisoners were taken on the second day.
The heaviest casualties for the day were suffered by 137th Infantry and 138th Infantry. There is an element of surprise in this, for a greater part of the day both of these regiments were held in reserve. They were not up on the fighting line until evening.
The cause for this is the flank fire from enemy artil- lery that both of the regiments received. They were not in a well protected place, and the toll counted from the cross- fire was much higher than among the troops spread out on the first line.
The artillery from the American side had been negli- gihle. The thin fire offered on some occasions during the day by the battery of 129th Field Artillery west of Cheppy had not been sufficient to afford protection or sustain an advance. Despite the inability of the artillery to plow its way through the hub-deep mud of the roadways, the in- fantry, after its check in the morning, had plunged ahead late in the afternoon, and had stopped the advance only when confusion was .resulting among the units as a result of the darkness.
Some of the fighting men had surged as far ahead as Montrebeau Woods, but the main body now lay just north of Baulny. The men were tired. The first day had been hard, but the day just back of them had introduced them to the sterner aspects of Argonne warfare.
The men were hungry, with that hunger which comes from diet on bully-beef and hardtack. They had been sub- jected to the racking fire and excitement of open fighting, and where they lay now the intermittent thunder of enemy guns gave them little chance for sleep.
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The dawn of September 28 was cold, with a fine drizzle filling the air. All through the night under the occasional burst of shells the Thirty-fifth had clung to its position near Baulny. For those who could cast away a thought of the morrow, snatches of sleep had been possible.
Along the entire American First Army's front the ad- vance had continued. Some of the divisions lagged behind others, but progress, no matter how small, had been made in the case of every one. The invincible rib of steel and wire and concrete, the bar to Germany, was crumbling. The pride of the Kaiser's soldiery knew it, and they were working frantically and loyally to stem the catastrophal advance bearing down on them.
The rapid surge ahead of the Thirty-fifth had given the Germans little time to organize their retreat. What they could not take they abandoned to enemy hands. The division had been slowed up on the second day and during the night the Germans drew together every resource to check further gains.
At 6:30 o'clock in the morning, behind artillery pro- tection, the Germans sought to break through the Thirty- . fifth's position. The thin line on the American side poured rifle and machine gun fire into the ranks, and the enemy reeled back without another attempt. The principal force of the counter-attack was against Major O'Connor's men on the left of the line.
The line that held the Thirty-fifth divisional front was like so many shuffled cards. Major O'Connor had better than a battalion on the line, but as to the position of the
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rest of his regiment he had no idea. Even in the battalion directly under him there was an element of men from other units of the division.
During the advance the regiments had kept in col- umn, 139th and 137th Infantry in one, 138th and 140th Infantry in the other. A large number of the units of 139th Infantry had by this time worked up on a line with 137th Infantry, and there had been a great deal of inter- mingling. The 139th Infantry was literally without a com- mander. Colonel Ristine, who was lost behind the German lines, had been unable to notify anyone of his predicament. Major Rieger, who would have succeeded to the command, not knowing the whereabouts of the 139th Infantry com- mander, did not attempt to keep organized any more than his one battalion.
The 140th Infantry, on the right, was in the lead of 138th Infantry. There had been some mixing of elements between these two regiments, but they still maintained to a large degree their original fo;rmation.
A half mile to the north of Baulny runs the L'Esper- ance-Chaudron Farm road. Sloping up from this roadway northward again is Montrebeau Woods.
This woods was the Baby Belleau of the Argonne. On a smaller scale, it looks much like Belleau Woods, with a thick growth of trees, a tangle of underbrush and shrub- bery, and dips and small ravines that baffle approach when armed with machine guns. Screened behind the protec- tion of these natural defenses, and added to them the arti- ficial entanglements and defensive works which had been constructed, were the Germans holding a Baby Belleau that had every aspect of being as impregnable as the original.
The mixed elements of 137th and 139th Infantry re- ceived orders that the left wing was to advance at 6:30 o'clock. Early morning grayness was setting in. The drizzle at dawn had left a dreary, overcast sky behind it, and the usual gloom of a September day in the Argonne.
The attack had to be made over open fields. Lieut. Menager, French artillery liaison officer, had carried v/ord to Lieutenant Colonel Creange, in command of the French artillery with thirty-five guns, that support was needed to make the advance. The battery of 129th Field was near Cheppy, and a battery of 128th Field Artillery west of Very. The 155mm. guns of the 130th Field Artillery bat- teries were in place at Varennes.
The Germans still held the winning hand in a,rtillery. As the 137th and 139th Infantry fought their way across the L'Esperance-Chaudron Farm road they were greeted with a torrential pour from artillery and machine guns.
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From beyond Exermont, where observation by the Ger- mans went on unmolested, the guns sent against the ranks a sweeping fire.
The Twenty-eighth Division was still held up on the left bank of the Aire River. Apremont had not yet been taken and from this point the Germans poured in their fire. From the Argonne Forest, just beyond, where the Seventy-seventh pivision was in a tangle of underbrush and difficulties, there came heavy artillerying. The flank fire was causing large casualties.
Even more terrible was the toll of the machine guns from Montrebeau Woods. Sheltered in this Baby Belleau, the Germans felt the confidence of their stronghold and were not slow to grasp its advantages. As the 137th and 139th Infantry, offered no shelter on the open stretch, drew closer to the tangled maze of forestry, new machine gun nests seemed to open fire with every step.
Arriving on the fringe of the woods, the men were or- dered to dig in. Major Rieger, with his battalion on the right, established itself and reorganized. Major O'Connor had received word that Colonel Hamilton was back to as- sume active command of 137th Infantry, but so far he had seen nothing of him since they had parted the afternoon before.
On the right flank the attack ordered early on the morning of the third day was progressing much slower. At 6 o'clock Colonel Delaplane, with 140th Infantry, at- tempted to drive ahead from his position northeast of Baulny. It was as though the men were advancing under heavens that rained artillery fire. From three sides ma- chine guns played their continuous death stream on the Kansas and Missouri men.
Corporal Coulter, of Company B, with his squad took a comparable place in the history of his company with that of Major Whittlesly of the Seventy-seventh to his division. Things were still well shrouded in darkness when the ad- vance began, and Corporal Coulter with his squad moved far ahead of the advancing regiment.
Caught in the vortex of machine guns from all sides of him, and in the center of what seemed an inferno of bursting shells, Corporal Coulter and his squad could neither go forward nor return to rejoin their companions.
When the regiment came up with them late that morn- ing, Corporal Coulter and his squad were trusting to luck and a shell hole for preservation. They joined up with the regiment and continued in the advance.
After attempting to go forward in the hurricane of machine gun and artillery fire. Colonel Delaplane had meas- ured the cost and decided it were best to wait for artillery
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The American aeaa lie buiiea at Komagne.
The cross on the map indicates what is to be the final resting place of practically all the dead of the Am3rican Expeditionary Forces. From every corn3r of the Argonne b ittlefield, the bod- ies of the soldiers are being disinterred an J carried to the city of dead at Romagne. Many of the Thirty-fifth's men, killed in action, Ue buried here.
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protection from the American guns. At 9:45 o'clock another attack was undertaken. Some veteran tanks (veteran because they had battered down the nests of the Germans at Varennes, Cheppy, and Charpentry, and many of the Frenchmen who manned them had seen service on as hard a front as this) lumbered up. Back of these 140th Infantry began the advance, slowly working its way to the L'Esperance-Chaudron Farm roadway, pass- ing this, and advancing to 500 yards north of Chaudron Farm.
As with the left wing of the division, 137th and 139th Infantry, meager artillery fire paved a way for the attack. The tanks proved less effective than they had in instances before.
Hidden in the Baby Belleau, the Germans commanded a full viev/ of the advancing troops. Armed with anti-tank guns, which shoot a shell much like that of the rifle except that it is three times as large, they sent the tanks reeling back for safety time after time. Artillery, playing a deadly fire from flank and front, checked them also, hindering the bugs of steel from effectively hammering down the machine gun nests.
Captain Grigg, liaison officer of the Seventieth Brigade, was established at regimental headquarters 400 yards back of Charpentry. He had been attempting to get in touch with Colonel Delaplane, but had failed to do so. At 1:15 o'clock he sent a message to Major Rieger saying that the attack was to continue until Montrebeau Woods was in possession of the Thirty-fifth.
Lieutenant Martin, in charge of a squad of men, had been sent out by Colonel Delaplane in an effort to establish liason with the 137th and 139th Infantry on the left. He was unable to do so. Colonel Hamilton, who had re- sumed the active command of the 137th Infantry, was un- able to get in touch with the units on his right.
Major O'Connor, who had taken over the 137th Infantry on the afternoon of the second day, had been forced to go to the rear in the afternoon after Colonel Hamilton had worked his way to the front and located his regiment.
Along the edge of Montrebeau Woods the men were in what might be called group formation. Any real sem- blance of a line had been lost as the regiments advanced and gradually merged with one another. On the right of the Thirty-fifth, Colonel Delaplane had more than once attempted to establish liaison with the Ninety-first. The gap that had resulted as the entire Thirty-fifth swung in a westerly direction in its attack prevented this being effectively accomplished.
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The 138th Infantry had kept to the right of 140th Infantry in its attack of the morning. When 140th In- fantry, as the leading regiment, dug in on the fringe of the woods, the larger part of the supporting regiment closed up on the right and dug in.
The Thirty-fifth's attempts against Montrebeau Woods introduced them to a warfare different than any they had yet encountered. The Germans were behind trees, in small ravines, such as Indians in America of an early day might have chosen in fighting against the pioneers and explorers.
The Germans had all the best of it. They were not short on ammunition and their artillery pounded away con- tinuously. By crawling up on nests, and using their rifles and grenades, the Americans were able to clean them out.
By night they had a better hold, but they were not in possession of the Baby Belleau. The pill-boxes were in bunches and clusters, and every one taken was charged with its price in dead and wounded.
It was on the third day at 3:25 o'clock in the after- noon that a reorganization of the brigades took place. It was found that under the condition in which the men were fighting and the circumstances that prevented proper liaison, the troops could be more effectively handled by placing each flank of the divisional line under the brigade commanders. Colonel Nuttman, who up to this time had been in command of 137th and 138th Infantry, took over 139th Infantry, and the 138th Infantry went to Colonel Walker. Colonel Nuttman was in command on the left, and Colonel Walker on the right.
The plan was to take as much as could be of Montre- beau Woods. The farthest approach of the line was to be maintained by the main body of the troops. The line of resistance was to be established about 1,500 yards in rear of the first line. Machine guns were echeloned at the main line of resistance to strengthen it.
Major P. C. Kalloch had reported to Colonel Hamilton when he rejoined his command that afternoon. Major Kalloch, who was acting under orders from divisional head- quarters, had been relieved as division intelligence officer so that he might help fill the gap in the rank of active commanders. Colonel Hamilton appointed him chief of staff and sought to reorganize as well as possible the scat- tered units of his command.
A steady pour of rain had set in at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Finding three enlisted men wandering about in the woods looking for their command. Colonel Hamilton pressed them into service as a part of his regimental staff. They dug out what had been freshly made by a large shell and the regimental headquarters post was
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established. The three enlisted men were appointed run- ners, and Lieutenant Black was made adjutant for the regiment.
It was impossible to do much in the darkness of the woods. Dismally cold, the steady drip of the rain in the branches of the trees was drowned by the sound only of bursting shells or the intermittent purr of a machine gun announcing itself from another section of Montrebeau. The short flashes of the shells would be followed by the grind and snort of the steel as it tore its way through the underbrush.
Lieutenant Owen Ridlon, liaison officer of the Sev- entieth Brigade, was established in a dugout north of Char- pentry. Outside there was the slow pour of the rain and the near-thunder of the artillery.
An officer with the epaulettes of a colonel appeared in the doorway.
"I am to take command of 139th Infantry," he an- nounced without introductory remarks.
The officer was Colonel Americus Mitchell. He was a regular army officer, who had been assigned to the division after the many removals on the eve of the Argonne battle. He was three days late in arriving.
"Where is Colonel Nuttman?" asked Mitchell.
"Search me," said Ridlon. "I'll try and find him."
Accompanied by a runner. Lieutenant Ridlon spent the better part of the night looking for Colonel Nuttman. The Colonel on the first day of the fighting had lost his bearings and wandered away into the Ninety-first Di- vision's area. Lieutenant Ridlon feared a similar circum- stance in this case, for by morning Colonel Nuttman could not be located.
As the truth would bear it out, it would have been difficult to locate brigade or regimental commanders of the rest of the division. The 139th Infantry had gone along leaderless until the return on this evening of the third day of Colonel Ristine. After his disappearance some sup- posed him dead, others that he had fallen back wounded. His regiment had gone ahead without a leader. The com- mand of 137th Infantry had shifted from Colonel Hamilton to Major O'Connor and back again. No one was certain who held command, as far as the men were concerned, until Colonel Hamilton led the attack the morning of September 29.
On the right side of the line Colonel Delaplane had kept command of his regiment. In 138th Infantry Colonel Howland had gone to the rear and Major Norman B. Com- fort was in command. The locations of brigade and regi- mental headquarters during the first day had been fairly
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well established, the second day was a thing of doubt, and the third day a matter of profound uncertainty. The run- ners ran themselves out of breath, to no good result.
From Mamelon Blanc division headquarters had moved to Cheppy. Major General Traub had not stayed with the headquarters post all of the three days, but had been absent on long tours of personal reconnaissance. It had been his desire to find out just how things were going and the best means to do this had in his belief been to see for him- self.
Each day of the battle had seen the advance of the Thirty-fifth grow slower. Past the outer defenses of the Hindenburg Line they had bent themselves against the inner strongholds with less success. It was not that the men were fighting less bravely than on the opening day. They were tired with three days in the rain and the muck. This, together with the lack of food, was the difference between the men who had gone into battle three days before and the men who held to the dense thickets of Montrebeau Woods on the third night.
The little groups of men that went to make up the Thirty-fifth's line on the night of the third day had been badly thinned. Each man who was taken to the rear wounded was firm in his belief that his entire company had been wiped out; that only a few of his regiment re- mained, and that thejre was not much left of the division as a whole.
Each one had his story of how the artillery had swept them off their feet. He had seen his comrades fall on all sides. Most of the officers had been killed. Cooks, cor- porals and chaplains were leading. The attack was going ahead, against a withering artillery and machine gun fire.
The records, as best they could be compiled on the third day of the fighting, show 138th Infantry the heaviest loser. The largest proportion of casualties was from machine gun and gas, with no way to count the dead. The 137th In- fantry stood second on the list in men lost.
The Thirty-fifth had plunged forward one mile and a quarter nearer Germany.
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XI THE CRIMSON DAY
The town tocsin in the old church belfry of Exer- mont was booming to the peasant folk of the village an early summons to mass.
Pere Blanc, with his silk hat, and Mere Blanc, in a skirt she must lift high to keep off the muddy streets of Exermont, were donned in Sunday's best. Behind them trailed all the little Blancs, Jeanne and Adele and Pierre, strutting and dressed fqr the occasion.
The main street and the branch streets of the village were filled with peasantry, all bent on the same mission as Pere and Mere Blanc and their family of three. The best regalia their scant incomes afforded they had bought, and on this occasion of all others it was worn. Pere Blanc bowed pleasantly as they passed their neighbors; Jeanne and Adele and Pierre (Pierre whose record of sin had never been forgotten since the day at mass when he had thrown a marble at the cure during services and it had landed in the vessel of holy water) trailed along the muddy street behind them.
How different the Sunday morning of September, 1913, and this Sunday morning five years later.
There was no particular value attached to Exermont, but the Germans were contriving every means to save it from American hands. During the night machine gunners had moved out from the village and established themselves just beyond the northern edge of Montrebeau Woods. Ma- chine guns were on the right of Exermont, and on the left, to the back of it, and in it.
On the right of the divisional line, the Ninety-first Division had failed to come up, and a similar circumstance existed on the left of the line in the sector occupied by the
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Twenty-eighth. German airplanes, whose predominance had been a matter unquestioned since the second day, acted as free rangers, bombing, pouring machine gun fire into the ranks, and directing the artillery.
The Exermont of five years ago had opened its eyes on peace. The Exermont of this Sunday in 1918 opened its eyes on the dawn of the Thirty-fifth's most crimson day.
It had been a sleepless night for the Kansas and Mis- souri soldiers. In the dismal recesses of Montrebeau Woods the sharp flashes of bursting shells had kept up the better part of the night. A spongy mud offered itself as the sole resting place for those who were exhausted enough to take advantage of it.
Big Things, in those long hours of night, was disrobed of its glamor. Its romance, its thrills, its excitement, dropped away from it, as if the darkness of early morning when it lifted was a curtain rising to let the men look into all the ugliness of war. Dark, lowering skies were a back- ground for death. It was colorless, romanceless, and a thing to give a sickening physical twist.
As far as could be learned, the Ninety-first Division on the right was at Eclisfontaine. On the left the advance position of the Twenty-eighth was reported to be north of Apremont.
At 10 o'clock on the night of September 28, Major General Traub had sent out orders for the attack at 5:30 o'clock the following morning.
The right column of the division, consisting of 140th and 138th Infantry and 129th Machine Gun Battalion, were to carry the divisional line forward past Exermont on the right. Colonel Nuttman, with 137th and 139th Infantry, and 130th Machine Gun Battalion, was to make the attack on the left.
The artillery was to send over a protective barrage until the advance had been carried about half a mile north of Exermont.
The 110th Engineers and the 138th Machine Gun Bat- talion were to act as divisional reserves. The engineers, less the second battalion, were assigned to the right column, and the 138th Machine Gun Battalion, less one company, and with the second battalion of the engineers, were to fol- low in support on the left wing.
On receiving orders for the attack at 4 :45 o'clock from Colonel Nuttman, Colonel Hamilton began to organize his units. He found that many troops from 139th Infantry were with the 137th Infantry, and he formed the two to- gether as effectively as was possible in the darkness of Montrebeau Woods.
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Major Kalloch was placed in command of 150 men and told to lead the first wave. Colonel Hamilton, with 600 men, was to give him support.
The artillery barrage promised at 5:30 o'clock did not materialize, so Colonel Hamilton decided to attempt an ad- vance without it. The Germans were pounding the woods with high explosive and shrapnel and the whir of machine guns was continuous.
Swinging out from behind the protection of the woods, the men began the advance. It was as if a flood of steel poured against them. The line wavered, surged forward, and wavered again. Men were falling in pitilessly large numbers on all sides.
Counting the cost at every step, Major Kalloch pushed ahead. At the rise north of Montrebeau Woods which overlooks Exermont, flank machine gun fire swept back the ranks and Major Kalloch saw unless cover was gained he would not even have a shattered remnant of his line with which to return. He v/as able to gain a gully that leads out from Exermont and there waited fo,r the reserves promised by Colonel Hamilton.
They did not come. Colonel Hamilton, waiting until Major Kalloch was some hundred yards ahead with his men, had given the order to move forward. The men had come out of the woods in thin skirmish line formation, with a hundred of the 600 kept back to fill up the gaps caused by casualties.
By this time the Germans had trained the full current of artillery and machine gun on the northern strip of the woods. Moving slowly against the scorching death flow, the men gained the crest of the slope which looks down into Exermont. Major Kalloch saw them and believed at last he was to get relief for his handful of men, still hang- ing on under shelter of the low slopes of the gully.
When Colonel Hamilton's men reached the crest of the slope, the inferno that had been bad before became worse. As if singed by the stream of fire, the line hesitated, dropped back, and plunged ahead again.
Colonel Hamilton, who was watching the men as they pushed forward, went dizzy suddenly.
"I'm gassed," he said to Major O'Connor, who was near him. Major O'Connor, who the afternoon before had re- turned to the rear, had come up again early in the morning. Colonel Hamilton, fifty-two years old, a Topeka lawyer, used to desk and office work, was so weak he was unable to stand. Stretche^r-bearers were able to get him back to Montrebeau Woods, and from there he was taken to the rear.
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Major O'Connor, who saw it was slaughter to face a fire of the kind being sent against them, did not attempt to check the line as it dropped back down the slope toward the Baby Belleau. Bought at such a price, Exermont was better left in the hands of the Germans.
Major Kalloch, when Major O'Connor's men had fallen back, was favored with renewed machine gun and artillery fire. Believing it useless to hold on longer, Major ICalloch and his men, what small handful was left of them, crawled out of the small gully and made it Indian fashion back to the protection of Montrebeau. The first attempt to take ExQrmont had failed.
Not far distant from where Colonel Hamilton had been established with his men that morning was Major Rieger, with the second battalion of 139th Infantry. He received orders to launch the attack at 5:30 o'clock, with the as- surance that there would be support given him by the regi- ments on the right and left. By 6 o'clock he had come in contact with no othe;r large bodies of troops, but had ac- cidentally ran across two lost companies of 140th Infantry. These he added to the badly depleted ranks of his own bat- talion and prepared to go forward.
Much the same fire greeted Major Rieger's men as those led out by Major Kalloch and Colonel Hamilton. The burning dash of machine gun checked them many times but never was able to bring them to a standstill. Un- daunted by their losses, the men gained the slope of the hill leading down into Exermont.
Again here the artillery and machine gun play mingled in death song on all sides of the men, and here again Major Rieger's men might have wavered and crumpled back. But they did not. Taking it as they might have taken any serious problem, for death was not as serious now as it might have been some other time, they swept down the hillside into the village.
Winning their way through the muddy streetways, they stamped out the nests and killed the gunners as they went. Here was a lonely old house, that had once been the home of a peasant. The soldier could be sure of it, for discarded in one corner was a schoolbook. On the first page inside — ^j^^es, it is "Pere to Pierre Blanc, on his tenth birthday, 1913." This then is the wreckage that is left of the home of Pere and Mere Blanc and all the little Blancs, who had lived there in the days when peace was on every hand. And the only emblem of their happiness is the torn old schoolbook of Rerre, whose record of sin for throwing a marble at the cure may still live.
The soldier below pauses. There is the angry bark of a machine gun overhead. Can it be that from the sleeping
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chambers that were once used by the Blancs the Germans have so much forgotten themselves as to kill those who are the friends of the Blanc family, the Americans? The soldier will see to it.
Five minutes later what had once been the bedroom chambers of Pere and Mere Blanc and all the little Blancs was a mass of wreckage. The doughboy's grenade had ac- complished as much, and in addition hidden in the debris were the bodies of the two Germans who had so far forgot- ten themselves as to desecrate the bedchambers of the Blancs, former citizens of Exermont.
Major Rieger halted his battalion a little short of a quarter of a mile nqrth of Exermont. The withering fire from all sides that had greeted his advance increased rather than slackened. So badly cut had his men been by the enemy guns, he considered a farther movement forward as out of the question.
Colonel Walker, on the right wing, had not been so fortunate in transmitting the divisional order. The runners were able to get them into the hands of Colonel Delaplane, but Lieutenant Colonel Parker, who had taken command of 138th Infantry, they were unable to find.
Colonel Walker, at Chaudron Farm, at 8:18 o'clock, sent the following message to Major General Traub, with head- quarters at Cheppy :
"The 140th Infantry began the advance at 6 :45 a. m. (This was an hou,r and a quarter later than called for in divisional orders.) The 138th Infantry evidently did not re- ceive the orders, for I have been unable to find them. Two companies of the 139th Infantry was mixed with the 140th Infantry. No tanks appeared. The advance was stopped within one-half kilometre (approximately a quarter of mile) by artillery and machine gun fire. Have ordered another attack to begin at 8:15 o'clock. The elements of the Ninety- first Division are on our right, but they did not advance at 5 :30 a. m. and are not advancing now. Apparently have no orders to advance. There is no evidence of an advance on the immediate left of the column.
"The 138th Infantry has just appeared and will put two battalions into the attack which I have just ordered, holding the third battalion in reserve."
Unaided by tanks, as had been the case with Major Rieger's battalion, Colonel Delaplane, with 140th Infantry, gained a position near Exermont about two hours after the 139th Infantry men had paved the way on the left. An attempt was made to strengthen the line against counter- attacks by closer operation between the units on the right and left of the line. This was partially accomplished, and Major Rieger and Colonel Delaplane held on, waiting for further orders.
Buried where they had fallen.
In the heat of the Argonne fighting there was little time for care- ful burial of the dead. The man's helmet was sometimes laid across his grave; the identification tag, with the soldier's name, rank and numb3r, sometimes attached to the little cross. Even these were not always there to mark his resting-place.
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Lieutenant Colonel Parker had been reported killed during the action of the morning, and the command of 138th Infantry had been taken over by Majo.r Comfort. Colonel Walker sent orders to him to keep in support of the leading regiment, and in case of a counter-attack to establish a line of resistance.
While Major Rieger and Colonel Delaplane were pay- ing the price of retaining their positions on the edge of Exermont, the units of 137th Infantry in Montrebeau Woods were suffering from the failure of the Twenty-eighth Di- vision to advance on their left. After their attempt to go forward in the morning, the remnants of Major O'Connor's command had remained in the shelter of the woods, where they were subjected to artillery and machine gun fire, but where a measure of protection was offered them.
A thin line was thrown across the west edge of the woods by Major O'Connor. Late in the morning a detach- ment of Germans were seen approaching, evidently with the idea of testing out the strength of the American posi- tion. They were beaten back with rifle fire.
In the early part of the afternoon a large body was seen coming in the direction of the Baby Belleau. Major O'Connor's men were so exhausted and thinned by casual- ties he feared the result of the attack and signalled for a barrage. It came quickly in response to his call and the Germans fell back without reaching the woods.
On the right side of the woods Colonel Mitchell had scraped together some scattered units and organized them into what he called 139th Infantry. There was such a confusion of organizations that for some time neither Colonel Ristine, after his escape from the German lines, or Colonel Mitchell had known the other was supposed to be in command of the regiment.
About 1 o'clock in the afternoon Colonel Mitchell and Lieutenant Ridlon were standing on the edge of Montre- beau, looking away to the east. A speck of moving men could be seen.
"Americans or Germans?" asked Colonel Mitchell.
"Look like Germans," said Lieutenant Ridlon.
They were Germans. They bore down on the eastern edge of the woods in the face of a strong rifle fire. The Germans paid a heavy price in dead, but a large number of Thirty-fifth men were taken prisoners.
As more troops were appearing to the east, it was believed an enveloping movement was under way. Realiz- ing the danger, Colonel Mitchell sent Lieutenant Ridlon back with word to Colonel Nuttman of what was taking place.
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Toward noon of the fourth day Major General Traub had made a trip toward the front to learn just how mat- ters stood. The perilious thread-like position that had been reached by Major Rieger gave every indication of being too weak to hold, and the withdrawal to a line of resistance on the heights of Baulny was considered essential.
Lieutenant Ridlon found that the work of preparing the line of resistance was already well under way. Colonel Thomas C. Clarke, in command of 110th Engineers, had chosen the line L'Esperance-Chaudron Farm-Cote 231 and was organizing it for the infantry to fall back on. Lieu- tenant Ridlon talked with Colonel Clarke and Lieutenant Colonel Edward Stayton, told them how conditions were nearer the front, and then started back to rejoin Colonel Mitchell.
He found Colonel Walker was established with his brigade headquarters at Chaudron Farm in an old stone structure. He reported to him and told him the condi- tions as he knew them.
"You go up and tell the C. 0. of 139th and 137th Infantry to fall back on Baulny Ridge, using thin lines," commanded the Colonel.
"Wouldn't it be better, sir, if I had a written order to that effect?" asked Lieutenant Ridlon.
"Do what I say," said Colonel Walker.
Lieutenant Ridlon made his way on up to Montrebeau Woods, telling Colonel Mitchell of the orders he had re- ceived from brigade headquarters. As Colonel Mitchell's regiment was not in Colonel Walker's brigade, he believed there must be some mistake. He sent a runner back to headquarters of the Sixty-ninth Brigade and asked for orders. Word was brought back that the division was to retire to Baulny Ridge. The troops in the Baby Belleau were to cover the retirement of the regiments holding Exermont.
Lieutenant Ridlon, with runners, carried this message forward to Major Rieger.
The 110th Engineers on Baulny Ridge were during this time doing everything within their power to prepare the line of resistance. The Germans, aware that the re- tirement was being comtemplated, sent a crossfire from Exermont and Emerieux Farm.
The engineers were working in the open, with nothing to give them protection from the heavy shelling. A tempo- rary system of trenchworks were dug, and along this the infantry and engineers were to make a stand. The engi- neers, not ordinarily combatant troops, had been up to the third day of the drive in the rear, repairing roadways and bridges. Some had been attached with the fighting men to
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cut wire entanglements, but the regiment as a whole had been engaged in the other type of work.
By the order sent out at 10 o'clock on the night of September 28, the 110th Engineers were created divisional reserves and consequently combatant troops. Equipped with rifles, gas masks, and helmets, and with shovels and picks that they had before used on the roadways, they be- gan digging in.
Exposed to the frontal and flank fire, high explosives and shrapnel rained around the engineers as they worked. Colonel Clarke saw what a heavy price his regiment was paying, but to save a possible rout of the division he realized the work was necessary.
And the work went on.
At 12:30 o'clock the artillery, which was effectively doing all that was asked of it, gave Major Rieger's bat- talion a barrage at Exermont. A movement afoot against the battalion by the Germans was checked.
The Sixtieth Field Artillery Brigade and French Artil- lery units of Lieutenant Colonel Creange had been expe- riencing every manner of difficulty since the barrage sent over on the opening day of the drive. The surge ahead of the infantry had distanced the artillery guns by the early part of the morning. A battery of 129th Field Artil- lery was first in a forward position, stationed on the edge of the Bois de Rossignol. The 75s were ordered into ad- vance positions on the second day near Cheppy and Very. The 130th Field Artillery, with 155-mm. guns, were di- rected to take a post at Varennes.
From the start the artillerymen fought with their guns over roadways that were practically impassable. By the time the batteries of 129th Field Artillery were in action near Cheppy they were stripped of animal stock, and what was left them was so exhausted as to be ready for the discard.
Undaunted by enemy fire and by the depthless mud of the roadways, the artillerymen kept their guns moving forward when it was possible to do so. Putting their shoulders to the carriage of the cannon, they attempted to push ahead the mud-bound guns, and where the horses failed the men succeeded.
On every day of the drive there was artillery fire. On the first day during which the opening barrage was fired, 41,000 shells, 4,500 of which were of heavy caliber from the 130th Field Artillery guns, were sent over. The Sixtieth Field Artillery on the second and third days put over a total of 4,000 shells. After the fight to get the batteries forward on the second and third days, the artil- lery was back in full working order on the fourth day,
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with a record of 12,700 shells hurtled into the German lines. On the fifth day, as the Thirty-fifth lay entrenched along Baulny Ridge, the artillery furnished protection with a fire of over 12,000 rounds.
After the attack by the Germans shortly after noon, Major Rieger perceived them massing troops in increased numbers to his front and flanks. He sent word to Colonel Nuttman, telling of conditions and asking for more men. Word came back that he was to withdraw.
Sergeant Fugene Wolfe, of 139th Infantry headquarters, was sent back with a request from Major Rieger for a bar- rage to cover his withdrawal. Sergeant Wolfe was able to make rapid progress to the rear, despite a strong ma- chine gun fire on the flanks, and conveyed Major Rieger's order.
When Lieutenant Ridlon, who had been directed by Colonel Mitchell to inform Major Rieger of the plans for withdrawing to the line on Baulny Ridge, arrived at Exer- mont, the shattered remnants of the battalion were already preparing to retire. The 140th Infantry men, who were at Exermont, had started to the rear some time before.
Behind a protective fire from the artillery. Major Rieger began the retirement. The Germans, who had been massing men since the attack about noon, dogged the retreating steps of the battalion with automatic rifle and machine gun fire. The handful of men that still remained to Major Rieger fought back stubbornly, inflicting losses as they went.
To the south through Exermont, past the house of Pere and Mere Blanc and all the little Blancs, now the house of death for two German machine gunners, the re- maining members of the battalion retraced their steps of the morning. Only thirty per cent of the number who had helped capture the village were in the line of retire- ment. The rest had either been killed, received machine gun wounds, or were gassed.
The work of getting the wounded to the rear was suc- cessfully carried out. Captain D. H. Wilson, 137th In- fantry, was posted with seventy men at Chaudron Farm to protect the evacuation of the casualties as they were taken from the dressing station at Chaudron Farm and as they were carried from the thickets of Montrebeau Woods.
Among the wounded going to the rear was Charlie Rife, Company B, 137th Infantry. Everyone who saw Rife was sure something had gone wrong with his blouse, but just what it was they were not certain.
Rife's blouse had been torn to threads while he was in Montrebeau Woods the third day. A piece of shrapnel, tearing its way into his blouse, had knocked a razor, a pair
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of sun goggles and some other essentials of warfare out of his pocket. The wound was not serious, but Rife never re- covered from the loss of his sun goggles.
As evening drew on it found the Thirty-fifth en- trenched along the heights of Baulny Ridge. The retire- ment had been effected without great losses in any of the regiments. American artillery had covered the retreat whenever its fire was necessary and had lessened the num- ber of casualties.
The division had made its last advance. The work at hand was to hold on.
XII THE THIRTY-FIFTH HOLDS ON
The dawn of the Thirty-fifth's fifth day in the Ar- gfonne was much like the dawn of the other days had been. Low-scudding clouds threw a drear aspect on the scene. There was no rain, but the ground on which the men lay was wet from the rain of the days before, and the air was cold and moist.
Baulny Ridge was not protected from enemy eyes by any natural growth of trees and shrubs. The holes which the men dug were their only measure of protection, and this was not enough to save many of them from becoming casualties.
On the whole, the division was some better situated. The Ninety-first Division on the right had advanced as far as Eclisfontaine, the Twenty-eighth on the left was up to Apremont, and the flank fire which had harassed every step of the Thirty-fifth's advance no longer bothered the men.
The task of holding on, with all its balm for the days that had gone before, was not pleasant. The men were tired, so tired that when they dropped down it was like moving a world on their shoulders to get up again.
The retirement of the day before had not been carried out in perfect order. The men had fallen back in some semblance of formation, but there was much straggling into the lines after it had been established along the heights of Baulny. The engineers, not fresh themselves, were still fresh enough to stimulate the fight-worn in- fantry and machine gunners. The doughboys trickled into the lines in groups and singly, falling in where they were directed to and doing what they were commanded the best their tired bodies would perform for them.
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At 9:45 o'clock in the morning the headquarters of both brigades and the headquarters of 138th Infantry were established on the Varennes-Charpentry road at the entrance of Charpentry.
Colonel Delaplane reported at 10:10 a. m. at brigade headquarters that the night had been passed by 140th Infantry in a thin line of skirmishers north of Chaudron Farm. Mixed units, he reported, held the position south of Chaudron Farm. Back of the first line was a second, being held by mixed troops, and a third, being held by the engineers.
Colonel Mitchell, with 139th Infantry, had organized along this same line, slightly to the left of 140th Infantry. No liaison between 139th and 140th Infantry and 137th and 138th Infantry had been established.
At 10:15 o'clock Lieutenant Gates, of 130th Machine Gun Battalion, sent the following message to Captain Moore :
"Acting under division machine gun officer's instruc- tions, I have taken up position in ravine on hill south of Baulny in order to cover retreat of troops on hills should they be forced to retreat. Troops on hill north of Baulny having hard time and may retire at any time."
Captain Reinholdt, who on the day before had taken command of 138th Infantry when Major Comfort failed to put in appearance, had assembled and reorganized his regiment on the ridge south of Baulny. An example of the riddled condition of the division may be gathered from the strength of this regiment at the time it organized for a defensive stand. In the first battalion there were 182 men, in the second battalion 250 men, and in the third battalion 521 men. This made the total regimental strength 853 men. With other regiments of the Thirty- fifth practically the same condition was existent.
At 11 o'clock two planes were sighted flying over the lines near Baulny. As enemy aircraft had played a large part during the drive in bombing and machine gunning the doughboys in their advance, these were the object of instant suspicion. They bore the French three-colored circle on their wings, but had two black stripes on them also.
The anti-aircraft guns blazed a pathway of puff-balls around the two planes. They swerved, dipped, rose, and after taking observations, scudded away in a Rhineland direction. They were German planes.
Major Comfort, lost from his command of 138th In- fantry, at 11 o'clock sent the following message to Brigade headquarters :
**Am organizing second position on crest across draw east of Baulny. Have 115 men of 138th. The first line is
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apparently failing on its right and my right will soon be the right front. No shelter here from hostile artillery and unless we get fresh men and artillery from rear, can but momentarily retard the Boche, should he come."
Fortunately for Major Comfort and the right of the line, the Boche launched the counter-attack some distance to the left. They came forward with rifles and automatic rifles. The counter-attack, it seemed, was more to gauge the strength of the American line than a determined as- sault. Suffering material losses in men and guns, the Germans were forced to withdraw. And the Thirty-fifth kept at the task of holding on.
During the morning a conference had been held be- tween Colonel Walker, Colonel Nuttman, Colonel Ristine, and Colonel Delaplane, with a decision as to the organiza- tion of the units on the divisional line. During a large part of the day the troops were organized as follows:
To the right 138th Infantry was on the front line, with units of 140th Infantry in reserve. The 140th Infantry was in liaison with the Ninety-first Division on the right. The center of the line was held by 137th and 138th Infantry, in reserve, with 110th Engineers in the front line. On the left of the line the Twenty-eighth Division, with engineers in reserve, was drawn up.
Colonel Hay, division machine gun officer, received word that Captain Moore had taken over the command of 130th Machine Gun Battalion from Lieutenant Gates. Company A of the battalion was northeast of Baulny with five guns. Company C, with eleven guns, and Company D, with two guns, were just south of Baulny on the slope of the hill. Company B had become badly mixed and could not be located.
From Major Thomas H. Loy, Colonel Hay received this message:
"Have 138th Machine Gun in position on ridge south of Baulny. Have two fragments of company on front. A and B Companies can only muster two guns and have them in position on same ridge. Everybody worn out and needing relief."
Later Major Loy sent the following message:
"With remnants of Companies A, C and D, about 150 men and 19 guns, have taken up positions covering point of hill 210 along same ridge to extreme right flank of division sector. The 138th Machine Gun Company I have turned over to the commander of 138th Infantry, who is occupy- ing the ridge immediately in our front.
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evacuation of the wounded. Fearing his little band of men was too small in number to stand out against the enemy, Colonel Walker directed that Lieutenant Ware, 140th In- fantry, organize a provisional company and go to his aid. Bringing together stragglers and other men as they filtered back into the lines, Lieutenant Ware went forward to Captain Wilson's assistance.
Lieutenant Lucier, who was in charge of a mixed de- tachment in Montrebeau Woods, holding back the Germans until the wounded could be taken to the rear, reported late in the morning to brigade headquarters that he could not keep his place much longer without reinforcements. Ger- man waves, massed much stronger than his outpost detach- ments, swept them back and seriously endangered the work of evacuation.
By beating back the German advance, although often overwhelmed by numbers, the outpost units were able to keep their places until all the wounded were on their way to the rear. Major Slusher, in charge of the men of the dressing station at Chaudron Farm, saw that all the men were cared for before he drew back toward the line along Baulny Ridge.
Despite all the men could do to fulfill the dictates of duty, the supreme weariness of the last four days of fighting, now entering on the fifth, was not to be easily triumphed over. What they did was by sheer will, for bodies were numb and reacted slowly to thoughts that would drive them.
Perhaps this message from Colonel Walker to General Traub on the last day of the fighting reveals better than any other just what test th^ men were facing:
"Colonel Delaplane has two front lines of engineer trenches and engineers all in the third line. Colonel Dela- plane's part of the line is held by a mixture of elements. Colonel Mitchell last night got some of the elements of his command and is reported to be moving into ravines to north and east of Charpentry. We will need heavy coun- ter battery work to avoid losses from enemy artillery play- ing on rather crowded men in lines that are exposed to view. Hope Colonel Hay can get M. G.s organized or give us a plan. The men are physically exhausted and the action of a few is liable to cause many to filter to the rear. In my opinion these troops should be relieved at once by fresh troops."
Late in the afternoon of September 30 orders were received that the division was to be relieved, and were transmitted by G^eneral Traub to the brigade commanders. The First Division, one of the first to arrive in France, and seasoned by hard campaigns on the front to the north.
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was to take over the sector occupied by the Thirty-fifth.
The First Division slipped into the Thirty-fifth's place on the front at 3 o'clock the morning of October 1. The Sixtieth Field Artillery Brigade and the Sanitary Train were not relieved, but were attached to the First. The Sixtieth Field Artillery on its first day in support of the new division fired 4,438 rounds of ammunition, and be- fore it withdrew on October 2 fired a farewell round of 1,728 shells.
The Sanitary Train continued two days longer with its work until the First Division medical men could get into place with their dressing stations and triages. During the six days it was in operation the triage at Neuvilly, in the hands of the field hospital section of the Sanitary Train, handled 4,623 cases from the Thirty-fifth ; from the Thirty- seventh Division, 87 cases; from the Twenty-eighth Di- vision, 443 cases ; from the Ninety-first Division, 798 cases ; and miscellaneous, 350 cases; making a total of 6,301 handled. Of this number 250 were sent to the corps rest camp. From the salvage at the triage 280 officers and men were re-equipped and returned for duty.
Besides the 4,623 cases which were handled from the Thirty-fifth by the triage, there were 2,344 handled by triages of other divisions, bringing the total casualty list to 6,967. The medical department of the division had lost proportionately as many men in the drive as the com- batant units. During the latter days in the Argonne, when word floated back that the fighting men were being pressed back and the line would not hold, many of the men with Red Cross brassards on their arms tore them off, secured a rifle from some dead comrade, and went to the front line.
"We Were behind the infantry," said James C. Wilson, Ambulance Company 140. "We grabbed fallen soldiers' guns and went over the top. We tore our brassards from our arms and marched along with the infantry."
In Ambulance Company 137 sixty-one men and three officers of a personnel of 140 were listed as casualties from shell fire and gas.
The total gain in ground by the Thirty-fifth during its five days' fighting was ten kilometres, or six and one- quarter miles. The farthest advance had been 300 metres north of Exermont, or to a point seven and three-quarters miles from where the jump-off had been made near Vauqois Hill the morning of September 26.
Twelve German officers had been taken as prisoners and 751 men. If all the prisoners had been brought to the rear that were captured, the total would have been ma- terially increased. But the class of fighting Prussians who would stay at their machine guns until they had done all
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the damage in their power and then jump from behind them with "Kamerad" on their Hps received only the just share of mercy. The doughboy never faltered and the pun- ishment he meted was a thing inexorable. In addition to the list of captured accredited to the division, 250 prisoners were taken by mistake to the Ninety-first Division head- quarters.
The materiel taken during the drive was : 85 machine guns, 160 auto rifles, 100 anti-tank guns, 4 telephone sys- tems, 1 engineer dump, 2 ammunition dumps, 5 6-inch how- itzers, 2 machine gun belt fillers, 3 77milm. field pieces, 2.60cm. gauge gas engines, 4 whiz bangs, 1 anti-aircraft battery, 2 trench mortars, 11 pieces artillery, and 1 one- pound gun.
So the Thirty-fifth had gone against the best the Ger- mans had to offer and it was not good enough. There, in a bedlam of death and destruction and debris, they had thrust aside the pride of the German army and had bat- tered down the master-defenses erected in their pathway. On every side were American boys, fallen face forward with their rifles in their hands ; Germans fallen at their machine gun posts, in the comradeship of death. Dead horses, crumpled at their task of supply and demand. Wreckage of villages, bare walls the only proof that the old church tocsin had once boomed the night watches and lives had been lived there. Shattered trees and roads torn with fire. By Varennes is an airplane, once piloted by an American, now lying crippled and smashed and useless. A ground that is marred and misshapen, a place of skulls, a playground of death, the battle-ground.
The dawn of October 1 saw the weary columns of the Thirty-fifth winding to the rear. It was morning and the sky Was lit with crimson ; like all that was left in remem- brance behind.
The air was cool, October air of the Argonne. The trees on the hillsides were purpling and russeting and robing for the colder days that were to come.
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FIRING THE LAST GUN
After the relief had taken place, the troops assembled in the vicinity of Charpentry. The organizations, badly cut up and disordered, formed in marching order and set out on the long trail that led to the rear.
Both officers and men were so worn by their five days' fighting they literally dragged themselves to the task of marching. They kept in column formation, so far as that was possible, and there were stragglers only where men dropped out from sheer exhaustion and weariness.
The horse-power of the division had been greatly de- pleted during the drive. On September 25 the horses with the artillery and ammunition train numbered 5,370; on October 6, after a count and report had been made, there were 4,152 horses. In the 128th Field Artillery there was a shortage of 641 horses; in 129th Field Artillery, 799; in 130th Field Artillery, 977 ; and in 110th Ammunition Train, 286.
Such vital shortage in horse-power explains the in- ability of the artillery to move forward along the mire of the roadways. The long, tedious hours of waiting when progress could not be made ahead might best be shown by taking a company of artillery as an example.
This shows the headway made by Company B, 130th Field Artillery, during the days of the drive:
At 2:30 a. m., September 26, opened barrage fire from the position north of Neuvilly. At 8:30 a. m. left position, materiel intact, took road through Neuvilly north. At 5:30 p. m. September 26 to 8 a. m. September 27 in bivouac on road two kilometres north of Neuvilly. At 8 a. m. Septem- ber 27 to 2 p. m. same day on road from bivouac to position
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in town of Varennes. At 2 p. m. in position at Varennes, active operation until 9 p. m. October 2.
The chronological order of Battery B's movement into position serves as an example of what occurred in the case of other artillery units. The light pieces, which had a greater distance to make, were not into position as quickly as the 155mm. guns of the 130th Field Artillery.
October 2 the battle-torn columns of the Thirty-fifth swung into the area south of Courupt. The Sixtieth Field Artillery Brigade and the Sanitary Train were relieved on the line at varying times during the day.
From Courupt the march was continued on October 3 to the area along the eastern edge of Les Islettes-Brizeaux road south to the Passavant-Beaulieu road. The following day the division spent resting and cleaning equipment. October 5 the march to the rear was continued, the men arriving in the evening in the vicinity of Vavincourt.
Coming out of the Argonne, the fighting men of the Thirty-fifth in five days had covered forty-six miles. The days from September 26 to October 6 had been a test with- out equal in the division's existence.
In the words of H. A. Drum, chief of staff of the First Army : *The fighting spirit and bravery of the officers and men were excellent."
From October 6 to 11 the Thirty-fifth Division re- mained near Vavincourt, resting from the strenuous days of Argonne fighting. The days were not without their drills, their policing, and all that is a part of the camp routine. The soldier had heard much of the rest camps, where men wined and dined after they had suffered heavy fighting.
The rest camp, it was found, was another army chimera. Reveille, retreat, drill, and a repetition of all those things they had done over and over again for nearly a year and a half, was what greeted them daily. Vin rouge and bad beer they had, if that would be called wining; bully-beef and beans they had, if that could be called din- ing. The rest camp made the soldier long for the battle.
Then began the gruelling hikes again.
"Keep me in battle all the time," growled the dough- boy. "Them rest camps are a French joke."
"Yal," agreed a companion, as he trudged along; "reveille and drills are regular vacation parties, ain't they?"
"I wonder," said the doughboy, "if John J. knows there's such a thing in the army as a rest camp. I thought all the time he had a big heart."
The morning of October 13 found the Thirty-fifth in the vicinity of Benoite-Baux, Courouvre and Thillombois.
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The first lap of the ma,rch toward Sommedieue was com- pleted.
That day the march continued. The Thirty-fifth ar- rived in the Sommedieue area. Here it came under the Thirty-third French Army Corps. Major General Traub set up headquarters for the division at the little village from which the area took its name. Sommedieue had been the scene of some shelling, and, as was proven in the days to come, was to be the scene of more. There was a city fountain, three wineshops, two epiceries, and an old church. Not all the French had been driven out by the shelling of the village.
The Thirty-fifth relieved the French Fifteenth D. I. C. Division on the Sommedieue sector the night of October 14-15. The relief was carried out in one night, with inter- mittent shelling from the enemy lines.
After the Argonne, the trenches near Verdun were almost to the Americans as the Vosges had been. It was a return to the trench system of fighting. And that sys- tem, so called, is a dry, tasteless affair after the open mode of warfare the Thirty-fifth had experienced in the Argonne.
The Americans shelled the Germans. The Germans kept up an answermg rumble. TTiere was gas sent over as a general daily appetizer, occasionally high explosives. The Thirty-fifth did not undertake any daring raids as it had in the Vosges and contented itself with penetrating the enemy lines with small patrols. One of these made its way as far as Etain, and returned with an adventure to its credit and all the knowledge of the German positions that could be desired.
The Kansans and Missourians were near Verdun and near Dead Man's Hill, where the French had made their historic stand against the Kronprinz. The safety of Democracy was a dim, indefinite matter to the soldier when he saw such concrete irrespect of church and home as the battered cathedral and buildings of Verdun.
All four regiments of the division were on the line in the Sommedieue sector. Two battalions of each were in the trenches, and one in support. To each line battalion a machine gun company was attached.
The German airplanes were not idle. They maintained vigilant observation over the American lines, directing the enemy artillery and dropping propaganda. The opening negotiations toward an armistice had been launched by Germany and the airmen attempted a heart thrust at the American morale with such statements as,
"What are you fighting for? Germany is tired of bloodshed and seeks peace. When the need of fighting is past, why are we fighting?"
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From overhead these slips of paper would shower down on the soldiers below. Enemy propaganda was always jested at and considered a "bon souvenir." They rarely survived long in the hands of the men, for regu- lar scouting parties were sent out to round up the slips of paper "damaging to the morale."
It was while on this sector the first seven-days fur- loughs were granted to the men. Grenoble, yet uninvaded by Americans, was the first furlough area thrown open to the Thirty-fifth or other organizations of the A. E. F. The French met the train at the depot with flags, bands and cheers. Pretty girls blew kisses from their finger tips and old women waved and wiped away the tears. There were twelve hundred men of the division who tasted again of the sweetmeats of civilization. They were given good rooms in good hotels, good meals at the best eating houses, and with no cost to themselves. They answered to no call except their own whims, went where they pleased in the city, and were treated as guests.
November 1 the Thirty-fifth passed under the French Seventeenth Army Corps. The nights of November 5 and 6 the men were relieved in the trenches by the Eighty- first Division. Upon completion of the relief the division was attached to the Third American Army Corps.
The Thirty-fifth doughboys had spent their last days in the trenches, had shot at their last Boche, and for the last time had been under fire. The fighting days were at an end. The path lay homeward.
XIV NOT STRICTLY A MATTER OF HISTORY
There is a man we call the professional soldier. He is graduated from West Point. Its standards are his standards, its creed his creed, its teachings his belief. He has no previous military training before he is sent there. West Point is his college and he must learn to obey its laws and bow to its precepts.
The broadening power of the civilian college is barred to him. He enters the portals of an educational institu- tion whose doctrine is destruction; whose creed is killing, if killing and its attendants will accomplish the desired end. He has no knowledge of the life of the soldiers he must command. He is given no opportunity to learn their viewpoint. He has been taught to think of them not as men, but as something to be used to accomplish the de- sired end. Nothing must stand before that. It must be his religion, even as destruction is a doctrine with him and killing is a creed.
So with the world at war we saw a new situation. We did not have professional officers commanding profes- sional soldiers. The officers retained their vocation still, but there was a need for men. The vast reservoir of civilian manhood was spigoted. And soon the profes- sional officers found themselves commanding non-pro- fessional soldiers.
This was new to them. The plain soldier, in their eyes simply a means, they could think of him in no other light. He was the instrument to accomplish an end. His life meant little, his comfort less, and his health meant nothing.
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As when a report was turned in by a regimental com- mander after the armistice showing that the men of the Thirty-fifth were suffering great sickness from drill and hikes in the mud and rain of a French winter, General Dugan, division commander, replied: "The health of the command is secondary." Secondary to what? To drills and maneuvers at. a time when the war was over. Sitting by a warm fire, did it matter to General Dugan how many of his men never returned? Was he interested to know how many men were in the hospitals? No; for, saturated with West Point theory, he thought of the men only as an accomplishment to an end. And, with that small, cramped vision West Point gives. General Dugan could not see that the end, the winning of the war, had already been attained.
There was a situation brought about just before the Argonne drive by this same myopia and pettiness bred by the regular army. With the Thirty-fifth from the day of its organization, many of the Kansas and Missouri National Guard officers had built up around them fighting machines fit for any field. His dislike for anything National Guard overshadowing his desire for efficiency, Major General Traub made some last-minute removals. The news that General Martin and others in high com- mand were to go had been common property, and not favorably received by either officers or men. General Martin had intensively studied the ground over which the attack was to be made. He knew accurately the nature of the terrain. He understood his command. Colonel Kirby Walker, who replaced him, like the others of the regular army placed in commands at the last minute, was un- acquainted with his command, and, even more important, did not possess its confidence.
Such a situation could result in but one thing. When the system of organization met its first serious tests, it crumbled. Instead of holding his hands to the reins, Major General Traub, imbued with the regular army habit, was making inspections on the field; was here, there and everywhere, and no place in particular. Set such an ex- ample by their chief, the brigade and regimental com- manders naturally took on some of this wanderlust spirit themselves.
The organization system crumbled, but the organiza- tions themselves did not. The men demonstrated that of- ficers may, or may not, be a full asset to victory. Where no officer was present they took things upon themselves. Cooks, figuratively speaking, kicked over the coffee pots and led companies. Chaplains forgot to pray and led
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the men into battle. Corporals took over the responsi- bilities of captains.
There was the matter of the artillery. The alleged failure of that organization to give effective protection to the infantrymen was again not a thing of the organization itself, but the manner in which it was handled. The regu- lar army general in charge, General Berry, handicapped largely by a failure of the guns to make their way through the muddy roadways, was handicapped to a further degree by his own short-sightedness in the provision of efficient liaison.
What did the regular army, with all its West Pointers and gloried theories, bring from the Argonne fields? All that had been studied for a lifetime they let crumble. All they had bragged of and flaunted as their acme of effi- ciency was valueless in practice. They brought no honor from the field and no credit for the victory won there. The shattered remnants of their boasted prowess had gone at the first breath of resistance from the enemy and they lesft to "carry on" the plain, bemudded, begrimed dough- boy.
The West Pointer needs a new school. The doctor who graduates from college, the lawyer who obtains his degree — are their promotions ever afterward given them because they possess their degrees? The doctor's degree has little to do with his success after he is graduated. The lawyer does not win his cases because he succeeded in passing the state bar examination.
But the situation of the West Pointer differs from all other professions. He is graduated. He is promoted by seniority, not on a basis of ability. He passes exam- inations from one grade to another, examinations that are a matter of form and not tests of his personal leadership and adaptability. He attains generalship some day, per- haps, not because he has risen to the top by his own merit, but because he is older in the service than other men and a graduate of West Point. There is no incentive for him to show he is a better leader than other men, for they who are older than he must keep the places ahead filled until deaths or retirements open gaps.
The West Pointer needs a school where he receives his training in civilian pursuits and his military training afterward. He requires that broadening of vision that in no day has been thought of as a part of the professional soldier's makeup. He should serve a period in the ranks after he has completed his civilian studies. When he won his officership after obtaining a knowledge of the civilian mind and a knowledge of the plain soldier's mind he would appreciate and not abuse its privileges.
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So in the Argonne it was the doughboy. With or without officers, he said : "Hell ! fellows, let's eat *em up."
And he did — the uncrowned king, the doughboy.
XV THE LAST DAYS
The Thirty-fifth was on the long hike trail again. From Sommedieue on November 6 and 7 the division went into the Chaumont-sur-Aire area. Here the following day was spent cleaning equipment and resting. On November 9 and 10 the move was resumed, the division reaching the St. Mihiel area, where it was relieved from duty with the Third Corps and the First Army and came under the Fourth Corps and Second Army.
The eleventh month, the eleventh day, and the elev- enth hour, Germany confessed by the armistice its defeat. The Thirty-fifth, which was in that current directed by Foch for the great offensive east of Metz, was checked. The men took up billets in the haymows, and waited for proof of the news.
Among the soldiery it was not received without skep- ticism. There had been rumors and counter-rumors for many weeks that Germany was on the brink of defeat, but as rumors and counter-rumors are as necessary to the army as bully-beef and black coffee tfie soldier held to his doubts. The night of November 10 the sky was ablaze with flares and rockets. On every hand were evidences of the good news.
In the corner of the billet the usual belated game was in progress. A sleeper, disturbed in his slumbers, would in mild military terms express his opinion of "card sharks" and "all their dam brethren."
Suddenly a sound rises above the low mumbling billet talk.
"Music," suggests a doughboy at the card ring.
"A jazz band," says another.
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"A bomb," persists the dugout fiend, diving for refuge ttnder a bunk.
"Hey, guys, wake up !"
("Aw, what in hell?")
"Outside, you fellows. A Yank's married a madam- oiselle and they're celebrating."
"La guerre fini! La guerre "
But soldiers are skeptical. Some would scramble out of their straw pallets and go out into the muddy little street. There the night was light as day; search-lights and rockets blazed on the sky, flares and fires lighted the horizon. There was a hurrying of people to and fro.
More did not go into the muddy little street. They rolled over and slept. Others gurgled mumbles of protest against those who disturbed their sleep.
The next day French newspapers appeared with screamer headlines on the front page "Signe Armistice." Then came Paris editions of American newspaprs, all bearing like news. The doubting turned to belief at last, but belief is not realization. And there were many who saw the dawn of a world unbattling with that attitude the soldier learns to hold toward all things — indifference.
The weary period of waiting following the armistice was spent in the area about Commercy. The soldiers were quartered in the haymows of typical French villages of that section of France. There was the usual wineshop, the usual peasantry clattering along in their sabots, the usual haymow apartments with their mustiness and dank odors, and the usual city fountain that stood as the heart from which all the village's industry radiated.
The soldier faced no more difficult period in his en- tire army experience than this time of waiting. At Camp Doniphan he had always ahead of him the adventures of- fered by the voyage to France and the promise of excite- ment in battle. In France, he might not have been fight- ing for a vision, but he was possessed of a concrete idea, and its force was great enough to lead him through what- ever suffering and hardship there might be.
The writer who says the American soldier was an uncomplaining soldier has no intimate knowledge of his characteristics. On every step of long marches there would arise a bellowing protest, so loud as to awaken villagers at their peaceful occupation of the forty winks. After the armistice drills and maneuvers were a part of each day's program, and the soldiers' idea of them will always be best kept in France.
This ever-flowing stream of protest was a result of civilian days, ingrown and deep-rooted. The soldier would
136 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
bow to discipline outwardly, but inwardly never fully al- lowed himself to acknowledge its precepts. He would do as he was told to do, but his idea beneath was expressed by his talk on the surface.
The soldier earned his redemption through the qual- ities of his action when real sacrifice was at stake. No matter how much he might say on the march, no matter to what thoughts his hours of drill were given, when it came time in the Argonne for that real test in makeup, he met it without a word to indicate he would have wished his course to be different.
The villages in which the soldiers lived after the armistice were not given to cheerfulness. The brooding old churches, with their moss-covered walls ; the red-tiled roofs of the homes, etched with spots of black and yellow by the days of rain, and the streets that were lastingly muddy, lent an atmosphere of depression and discontent. French winters are gray and fog-bound. Snow is rare, but temperatures are low. Heating a haymow pre- sented a problem to which only comparable was the quest for entertainment. The days were busy with drills and maneuvers, a thing loathed and inveighed against without mercy by the soldiers; evenings were left them, empty-handed of pleasures of practically any form. There were wines and beers at the cafes, but if no other argument were needed to convince mankind prohibition is necessary, some forms of French alcoholics would furnish it.
As winter went along, this dearth of entertainment was in a measure remedied. Troupes of singers and dancers and musicians were sent out over divisional cir- cuits. Motion picture shows were given three times a week. A show troupe of the Thirty-fifth was organized, playing at Commercy and other points in the divisional area. Later the show was sent to Luxemburg and cov- ered other cities on the A. E. F. circuit.
Boxing matches between French and American fistic champions were arranged at Commercy. Some of the same matches that were staged in Paris were staged here. So the winter wore along. A year before they had been waiting to start the journey toward France. They had seen France, lived, eaten, and some had lost their lives, in its mud. They were ready to return.
It was better that the soldiers be returned as soon as possible. The breach between the Americans and the French had widened and in the chasm across which they gazed there was to be found no common interests and sympathy. Lafayette had been repaid, but the thanks of the French were expressed in increased prices to the sol- diers. The mass of the soldiery never understood and
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never forgave. Between the inhabitants of some of the villages and the men billeted there the relationship trem- bled on the brink of racial clashes. The soldiers desired a quick return to America and the only love the French now held to stay their departure was for their money.
The division was scheduled out February 7, but a delay of a month took place. By March 12 the whole of the Thirty-fifth was in the Le Mans area, after a ride of three days in box cars a la Americain.
In the Le Mans area an effort was made to restore the men to their normal condition. There were few in- spections, short hikes, and the most that was required was not a great deal. The villages in the district were clean little affairs, each possessing a church and wineshops with mechanical pianos.
The Thirty-fifth began the move toward St. Nazaire April 2. The men were in isolation and blue overalls here for several days while awaiting the arrival of ships. In the distance they could see the Bay of Biscay, and the road that led toward America.
Divisional headquarters, with Major General Wright and his staff, and auxiliary units of the division, boarded the De Kalb March 28 at 4 o'clock, and sailed the next afternoon at 1 o'clock. The ship docked at Newport News, Virginia.
The 137th Infantry and 130th Field Artillery arrived in the harbor at New York April 23. The division in landing was split between New York and Newport News, those that sailed from Brest going to New York and those embarking from St. Nazaire to Newport News.
The Thirty-fifth left 1530 in dead in France, and re- turned with 10,605 replacements.
Practically all of the organizations on the way to Camp Funston, Kansas, for demobilization, paraded two cities of Kansas and Missouri. The streets were banked with crowds, and the people from the countryside were out with bands and flags.
Short work was made of the demobilization at Camp Funston. The men were given their discharges, their pay, and the sixty-dollar bonus due every discharged soldier of the army. On an average, less than three days were spent by the organizations at the demobilization camp.
Slips were given for transportation. The men boarded the trains armed with grins and new suitcases.
And the unvoiced thoughts we could but translate:
France, we have told you goodbye. We tramped through the mud of your fields, we slept weary nights in your rains that never cease, we gave all you asked and
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repaid all we sought of your Lafayette, and now we have returned.
All of us who went are not returning. All of us who went and have returned possess a larger vision of your sacrifice, a broader insight into your heroism. All the the praise you offer us for throwing the weight on the scales and defeating the Huns can never equal your valor in preserving the balance until we arrived. You fought against odds and we fought with them ; you fought against the seasoned and the fresh troops of all the enemy had to offer, and never once did they reach their goal; you paid with blood and the reward was victory.
We have returned, but the land we left behind shall always be sacred for the memory of our dead who only returned in spirit with us ; sacred for the memory of their sacrifices for you and your sacrifices for them; sacred as the spot the world shall always look upon as the cal- dron in which men and races were regenerated.
What awaits us on our return makes us glad of that return. Most of us shall probably never again visit the spots where comrades fell and the guns mouthed their loudest thunderings. Our return is no brief farewell, and a farewell not of regret but of satisfaction that the work we went to do has been done well.
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Introduction to the Roster
There were 27,000 men in the Thirty-fifth Division. Of this number the original quota furnished by Kansas was 8,500.
What follows is the table of organization for the Kansas quota, with a list of the points at which they were organized :
first Kansas (later merged with Second Kansas into 137th Infantry): Headquarters, Lawrence; Machine Gun Company, Humboldt; Supply Company, Lawrence; A Company, Kansas City; B, Horton; C, Burlington; D, Paola; E, Fredonia; F, Hiawatha; G, Fort Scott; H, Lawrence; I, Manhattan; K, Gar- nett; L, Yates Center; M, Lawrence.
Second Kansas (later merged with First Kansas into 137th Infantry): Headquarters, Newton; Machine Gun Company, Hutchinson; A Company, Wichita; B, Holton; C, Great Bend; D, McPherson; E, Hutchinson; F, Larned; G, Minneapolis; H, Winfield; I, Wichita; K, Independence; L, Emporia; M, Salina.
Third Kansas (later merged with the Fourth Missouri into 139th Infantry) : Headquarters, Topeka; Machine Gun Company, lola; Supply Company, Topeka; A Company, Coffeyville; B, Oskaloosa; C, Junction City; D, Caney; E, Leavenworth; F, El Dorado; G, Downs; H, Abilene; I, Herington; K, Newton; L, Wellington; M, Marion.
First Regiment, Kansas Field Artillery (later made the 130th Field Artillery, 60th Brigade): Headquarters, Topeka; Supply Company, Topeka; A Company, Topeka; B, Lawrence; C, Pitts- burg; D, Pittsburg; E, Kansas City; F, Wichita.
First Squadron, Kansas Cavalry (later became Troop A of the Headquarters Troop, Thirty-fifth Division): Headquarters, Ida; A Company, Eureka; B, Wichita; C, Dodge City; D, Coffeyville.
First Kansas Field Signal Battalion (later became 110th Field Signal Battalion) : Headquarters, Wellington; A Company, To- peka (radio); B, lola (wire); C, Wichita (outpost).
First Kansas Battalion of Engineers (later became 110th En- gineer companies): Headquarters, Kansas City; A Company, Topeka; B, Kansas City; C, Kansas City.
Kansas Sanitary Train (later became a part of 110th Sani- tary Train) : Field Hospital 1 (became Field Hospital 139), To- peka; Ambulance Company 1 (became Ambulance Company 139), Kansas City; Field Hospital 2 (became Field Hospital 140), Par- sons; Ambulance Company 2 (became Ambulance Company 140), Kansas City.
The 110th Ammxmition Train was made up of draft quota from Camp Funston, Kansas, and transferred men from the Thirty-fifth Division.
The roster, containing the names of the Kansas men as they entered training at Camp Doniphan, including the 110th Ammu- nition Train, is on the page that follows:
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS AUGUST 16. 1917
BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS OF THE FmST
KANSAS INFANTRY
70th Brigade
Sergeant Major, Brig.
Lawrence, Virgil J. Sergeant
White, Raymond M. Waggoners
Nevill, Clarence R.
Bkillin, Hance B. Privates, First Class
Brown, William A.
Hdq.
Carroll, Alfred E. Crawford, Geo. M., Jr. Longrenecker, Donald D. Mays, Marshall I. Reed, Willis C. Ridlon, Owen A. Stratemeyer, Lewis O. Waldo, Guy L. Zercher, Joseph E.
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TROOP A OF THE FIRST KANSAS CAVALRY Headquarters Troop, Thirty-fifth Division
Captain
Baker, Ralph E,
1st Lieutenant
Martin, Eugene R.
2nd Lieutenant
Clark, Elzie E.
1st Sergeant
Miller, Wilkie M. Mess Sergeant
Ainsworth, Howard W. Supply Sergeant
McMullen, Everett A, Stable Sergeant
Purkable, Harry V. Sergeants
Rodenbaugh, Charles W.
Smuth, James W.
Weiser, Charles H.
Gore, Clarence E.
Moffitt, Russell M. Corporals
Ladd, Ole E.
Marriott, Dean R.
Wig-gins, George E.
Miller, Albert B.
Burt, Harold A.
Cook, Archie A.
Hamlin, Edwin F.
Pugh, Lloyd A. Horseshoers
Weldon. Robert Ia
Cook, John E. Saddler
Klein, Fred C. Cooks
govern, Samuel L,
Martin, Ralph L. Buglers
Martin, Errol S.
Riney, Harold P. Privates, 1st Class
Hickman, Harry C.
Berry, Lloyd A.
Call, William L.
Duncan, Jesse
Hart, Harold M.
MoFall, Ray H.
WTieeler, Charley H.
Wright, Rodney R,
Lewis, Glenn R.
Todd, Eddie- L.
Willis, James H.
Swann, Carl S.
Call, John C.
Gullikson, Charles M.
Hunt, Fred L.
Harris, Joseph H.
Wright, Wordie I.
Jones, Earl J. O'Brien, Francis F. Ladd, John E. Privates
Askey, Lee E. Agard, Robert Atkinson, Arthur R. Barker, Willie Barber, Charley Barg, Melvin H Betsher, William H. Branson, Hugh Bland, James W. Beyer, Oscar A, Boone, Everet L. Cox, Claude L Collins, William F. Conn, Roy J. Crans, Thurlow S. Cummings, Arthur C. Divine, John A. Dolson, William E. Davis, Roy L. Edwards, Oral W. Gibson, Grover C. Hellman, Glenn C. Herbert, Arthur Hillman, Charles E. Jones, Earl O. Johnson, Lowell W. Jordon, Harry E. James, Vernon A. Kessinger, Bennle Lloyd, Walter W. Love, Otis Milham, Ralph A. Miller, George Meredith, Cline J. Milner, Calvin A. Owen, Alvin G. Olson, Henry J. Pryce, Sam Roberts, Clyde Rockley, Rex Ray, Arthur C. Ryan, Frank C. Robb, Vivian E. Reay, Charles R. Sallyards, Logan Soully, Andrew L Smith, Otto G. Stride, Clarence R. Samuels. William A. Schall, Jack Stockton, Ernest M. Sturgeon, Harold J. Schadel, Levi M. Talley, Cecil V. Webb, Earl R. Wilson, Norman R. Weatherbee, Fred L. Watson, Frank R. Walter, Barney
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TROOP B OF THE FIRST KANSAS CAVALRY 110th Military Palice
Captain
Sherman, James H. 1st Lieutenant
Stroud, Elisha H. 2nd Lieutenant
Hollick, Merle E. 1st Sergeant
Bishop, George E. Mess Sergeant
Lanning-, Wayne J. Supply Sergeant
Chapman, Burchard B. Stable Sergeant
Cooper, Walter S. Sergeants
Evans, Jack
Fiedler, Fred
Hunt, Richard L. Corporals
Cunningham, Claude F.
Brown, Willard R.
Lord, Ralph C.
Critser, Dale W.
Ogile. Franck O.
Gioding, John L.
Foley, James W. Privates
Anderson, Emmitt C.
Asher, Roy D.
Banta, Orson F.
Bidwell, Andre-w J.
Boyle, Dewey
Brown, John R.
Brumfield, Joe
Burns, James W.
Callahan, Warren J.
Campbell, Carl F.
Case. Charles E.
Cherry, Leland S.
Close, Elmer H.
Colson, James C.
Colver, Ralph B. D.
Corbin, Robert
Crawford, Herbert J.
Current, Orval E.
Decourcey, Victor St. E.
Daugherty, Bryan J.
Doran, Ira
Elliott, Jesse R.
Ester, Lawrence W.
Fowler. Raymond C.
Fowler. Raymond G.
Goosey, Merle C.
Graves, George C.
Graves, Henry C.
Gregory, Chester A.
Harman, Robert L.
Harned, Frank S.
Harper, Albert D, Heine, Albert W. Hervey, Raymond C. Hibarger, Godfrey S. Hills, Dan C. Helt, Roy F. Holliday, Owen J. Holsey, Henry N. Howard, Clarence A. Holt, Rollie H. Houston, James W. Husted, Emery E; Jansen, Charles Johnson, Rudy L. Kearney, William A. Kemper. Charles L. Kennedy, Earl L. Laurie, James M. Lickey, Clifford Manahan, Thomas L. Matson, Lauren C. Mayfieid, Henry M. McMahan, Pearl P. McDaniel, Floyd McKivett, James C. A Miller, Walter L. Milligan, Harry D. Moore, Pearl T. Nagley, Earl Nagley, James W. Newcomb, Jack Pantier, Ray W. Parker, Merle D. Patterson, Clarence Penny, Kelles N. Penland, Robert E. Phenneger, Forrest G. Pickens, James F. Pickens, Leon S. Roll, Lloyd L, Roll. Arthur D. Rowe, Everett M. Rush, Oren N. Scrimsher, Evell R. Sellers, Leonard Shafer, Harry H. Sharp, Oscar H. Showers, Erman A. Smith, George O. Spurling, Harlowe Straw, Herschel E. Thompson, Earl W. Traver, Harry J. Tuttle. Clarence J. Umbarger, Ivan D. Vance, Francis M. Wheeler, Dean O. Wilson, Clyde B. Wilson, Harold A. Wood, George M.
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ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
TROOP C OF THE FIRST KANSAS CAVALRY 110th Military Police
Captain
Gary, Joseph R. 1st Lieutenant
Jones, Winfield D. 2nd Lieutenant Hale, Will T. Sergeants
Askow, Bernard M. Miller, John L. Holmes, Jess C. Dowdy. Claude D. Watson, Lige E. Miller, John E. Morgan, Fred Corporals
Myers, Floyd P. Balfour, William D. Evans, Earl D, Dye, William L. Evans, Cress B. Privates
Arrington, Frank H. Anders, Lemual L. Anders, Phinas C. Archer, Rommie L. Allen, Jean H. Brentlinger, Charley Bader, Ross J. Bolinger, Esra D. Bailey, William L. Barbee, Andrew L. Cormack, John C. Cummings, Theodore W. Crowe, James D'. Craft, Clarence D. Craft, DeWitt Davison, Roy H. Dennis, Robert I. Downing, McKinley
Dooley, William J.
Dixon, Carnet J.
Ditch, Oscar
Eagan, Robert E.
Eaton, Forrest D.
Elsey, Howard C.
Ellis, Herbert B.
Fiester, George J.
Fowler, George W.
Freeman, Alvin D.
Foster, William J.
Fugitt, Austin G.
Gearhart, Byron W!.
Galloway, Lawrence HL
Gilliam, Lloyd H.
Hill, Guy W.
Hill, Leonard J.
Hinke, William B.
Hole, Martin Hays, Dwight D. Haff. Vernon M. Houston, Harry H. Houston, Frank W. Hutchison, Chester A. Hole, Allen Howe, Clifford C Helfrich, Henry C. Hutchings, Harold E. Hill, Fred G. Howard, James A. Hudson, Therman O. Johnson, Howard L. Judd, Robert F. Knowlton, Charles A. Kuns. Albert W. Karraker, Francis M. Little, John P. Lowery, William G. Melton, Thomas Mapes, Walter W. Mansfield, John H.
Mallonee, Ira
Moore, Chas. F.
McCue, Ralph V.
McDowell, Jess
Miller, Merl F.
McDermott, James L.
Otto, Leo B.
Page, Herbert S.
Pendleton, Elwood
Parker, Frank G.
Perry, Jim W.
Powers, Grant
Roberts, Carl A.
Rockstrum. Charles
Reeves, Robert C.
Robertson, Alexander W.
Reese, Victor
Rapp, Martin S.
Souder, Chas. O.
Snyder, Owen O.
Stafford, Addison D.
Skillington, Lewis E,
Samples, Lyle K.
Sisson, Nelson J.
Sisson, Archie L.
Sibert. Elzy
Summerville, James R.
Strum, Clyde R.
Timken, Leslie
Tuttle, Austin L.
Troehmel, Julius P.
Underwood, Thomas A.
Vance, Earl E.
Wallace, Paul R.
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Troop D of the First Squadron, Kansas Caralry
Captain
Fulton, Ralph I>. 1st Lieutenant Hite, John M. 2nd Lieutenant
Milham. Russell F, 1st Sergeant
Fish, Earl S. Mess Sergeant
O'Connell, Mark B. Supply Sergeant Allison, Gelo P. Stable Sergeant
Drake, Morlan W. Sergeants
Clarence. Amos C. Gillam, John C. Wells, Ted W. Milliken, Charles W. Wilmoth, Jesse B. Ck>rporals
Cook, Vernon S. Dana, Arthur W. Flanna^an, Mike Quesnier, Joseph A. Hill, I. Thomas O'Connell, Paul M. PInkston, Elmer Turner, Merle E. Horseshoers
Davis, Roscoe J. Holmes. Walter F. Saddler
Pool. Ralph P. Cooks
Dillon, John L. Thomlinon. Amos R. Buglers Scott, Paul H. Williams, John S. Priyates, 1st Class Amos, J. Albert Beal, Otis O. Brill. Claude H. Cavenar, Clarence W. Clark. Ellis J. Creel, Earl W. Debo, William O. Fisher, Willard Forth, Frank J. Hurley, Raj H. Klme, Ernest L. McBurney, James B. McCormick, George D. McHatton, Robert P. Millstead, William B. Pendarvis, William Smith, J. Lester Summers, Chester R.
Thompson, Reese A. Wallingford, James C. Privates Arnold, Lee Barnes. Lawrence A. Basey, Mark H. Bennett, Eddie L, Bray, John H. Beal, Charlie Bowersock, Roy Bowman, Frank C. Burress, Dewey Bush, Lloyd Burris, George Boyce, Fred E. Burgolty, William H. Christy, Ernest P. Crittenden. Samuel Cooper, Delbert H. Dewey, Richard C. Dugan, Cuba J. Edson, Leon K, Evans, Condo Farran, James R. Ford, Willford H. Frizell, Allen Hahn, Clyde D. Hanley, Harold Harrington, Walter D. Harvey, Frank H Hindman. Charley M. Igo, George W. Johnston, Francis H. Johnston, Harris Kabler, Ira C. Knight, Thomas R. Landon, William R. Lonnecker, Virgel H. Maiden, Clarence O. McKee. James B. McCleary, Frank W. McCloud. Walter R. Owen. Lee R. Raczykowski. Thomas Ransom, John Wi. Sayre, Aaron V. Sullivan William C. Schroeder, Johannefl F. Smith, James Otis Stevens, Robert W. Stockham. Charles M. Swallow, Fred B. Taylor. Manning H. Tiarks. Herman M. Tiffany. Dolphin C. Tucker. Kyle W. Walls. Tilde H. Warner William T. Wilson Willis T. Wilson. Frank L. Wolfe. William P. Wright. Jacob W. Toung Perry J.
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Sanitary Detachment of the First Squadron, Kansas Cavalry
1st Lieutenant
Simpson, Samuel E.
Privates
Alkirs, Charles W. Baldrldge, Floyd K.
Brenner, Cecil A. Ely, Clarence G. Enslow, Andrew Leathexwood, Harry E. Manzering, Carl C. Smith, Earl R.
Detachment of the Kansas Q. M. C. Thirty-fifth Quartermaster Corps
Sergeants, 1st Class
Wilson, Donald D.
Fritz, Walter R.
Thoren, Carl E.
Shadinger, Harold D.
Hesse, James W.
Balakely, Victor K. D. Sergeants
Milam, Morris D.
Nash, Edward C.
Shepard, Cortland W.
Weber, George W.
Welty, Donald D.
Brockett, Wallace J. Priyates, 1st Class
Baker, Von C.
Bowman. Herbert D. Briery, Clifford C. Cole, Wilbur D. Fellows, Frank L. LAwn, James F. Reinbach, Otto M. Rowell, Lloyd G. SamuelBon, John N. Willard, Glenn M.
Privates
Gustafson, Charles M. Hall, Lester H. W.
Cooks
Chapman, Marion S. Jasperson, Clarence P.
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Headquarters Company, First Kansas Infantry Seventieth Brigade
Captain
Murray. Joseph W.
Regimental Sergeant Major
Studer, William J.
Battalion Sergeant Major
Hanson, Harry W. Bryan, Ora E. Gillette, Harold R.
Color Sergeant
Wenger, Joseph S.
Mess Sergeant
Galloway, Percy L.
Supply Sergeant
LeSuer, Nelson M. Stable Sergeant
Dickerson, Harlan K Sergeant
Hill, Ormond P. Cooks
Lupher, David W.
Reedy, Howard L. Band Leader
Rigdon, Walter Assistant Band Leader
Keiser, Bernhardt A. Sergeant Bugler
Domingo, Faustina J. Band Sergeant
Crowder, Frank T. Band Corporals
Riggs, Charles N.
Shearer, Beryl L.
Williams, Charles Musicians, 1st Class
Birch, Albert B.
Kalama, Francis J.
Musicians, 2nd Class
Madrid, Savannah Mcllhenny, Robert C. Musicians, 3rd Class
Barndt, Clarence Li.
Bayles, Charles G.
Belden, Theodore
Berridge, Guy H.
Block, Clarence I.
Clements, Luther Q.
Davis, Oren T.
Deon, Louis A.
Graham, Roy W.
Kirk, A. Tom
Peterson, Fritz B.
Powell, Verne C.
Ramsey, Charles L.
Saunders, Gordon
Tanner, Allen O.
Tester, Clifford L. Privates, 1st Class
Angevine, Montfort B.
Cohn, Byron S.
Hill, Alfred G.
Sanger, Clarence A. Privates
Anderson, Arthur S.
Benedict, Fred R.
Bouton, Archie B.
Brown, Max L.
Burger, Harry L.
Courtney, William E.
Haskins, George
Hess, Walter W:
Jones, Frederick G.
Lawrence, Arthur
McCurdy, Henry B.
Neville, Kenneth L.
Roads, Ray V.
Rohrer, William
Smith, Guido B.
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ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Machine Gun Company, First Kansas Infantry 130th Machine Gun Battalion
Captain
Mathlas, Frank D.
Ist Lieutenant
Braucher Hawley H.
2nd Lieutenants
Moor, Thomas F. McClaran, Ray M,
First Sergeant
Goble, Lester E.
Mess Sergeant
Braden, Fred W,
Supply Sergeant
Capelin, Perry A.
Stable Sergeant
Hinkle. Byron L.
Horseshoer
Lambeth, Hugh W. Sergeants
Works, "Warren W.
McGannon, Michael L.
Lieurance. Ray R.
Solley, William H.
Doty, Alg-y
Armsby, Horace H. Corporals
Johnson, James L.
Lieurance, Delbert R.
Noyes, Melvin F.
Williams, Edwin H.
Willhite, Riley E.
Johnson, William M.
Hottenstein, Fred J. Mechanics
Willhite, James G. W. Cook
Sibert, Frank S. Privates, 1st Class
Ashbrook, Lindsay W. Alexander, Colin H. Barrackman, William J. Goble, Lawrence S. Poore, Ezra W. Porter, Charles E.
Privates
Adams, Raymond D. Bayer, Clarence G. Benson, Floyd E. Bush. Ranson A. Byers, Frank J. Campbell, Clarence E. Carter, John H. Cave, Ernest L. Cheap, Georg-e L. Dauster, Ralph D. Dobson, Bryan Embrey, Roy N. Fleming-, Gilford R. Fronk, Cyrus A. Goodell, Walter Gordon, Clyde F. Green. James E» Hack, Lyle W, Hall, Fred H. Henderson, Cletus L. Hendricks, George L. Hylton, Henry R. Jordon, Raymond A. Kelley, Orlo T. Kerscher, Raymond Lambeth, Alson G. Lassmann, Otto W. Lloyd, Thomas A. McGinity, James M. Magha, Dewey W. Miller, Frank E. Mosier, Fred T, Newton, Elza L. Northrup, Walter H. Partington, Orrel D, Rauhoff, Harry J. Saunders, Gwinn J. Smith, Carl J. Snider, Arley R. Summers, Earl E. Tomlinson, Harvey W. Thompson, Robert L., Jr. Wastle, Frank A. White, Ernest D. Wilson, John M. Wood, George D. Wood, Robert W. Gant, Clarence F.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
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Supply Company, First Kansas Infantry
Captain
Wagstaff, Robert B. 2nd Lieutenant
Bartlett, Thomas R. Regimental Supply Sergeants
Tuttle, Horace L.
Templin, Harry W.
Thompson, Leon R. First Sergeant
Kester, Clarence L. Mess Sergeant
Willis. Vergil B. Stable Sergeant
Stover, Ralph A. Corporal
Nelson, Earl C. Saddler
Cook, Harry T.
Cook
Parker, John W. Waggoners
Ardrey, Joseph C. Allen, Luther
Bebout, Roy N. Bishop, Fred H. Brown, Orrin C. Brown, Russell R. Byerly, Arthur D. Crane, Chas. W. Chambers. Albert R. Chambers, Frank 1m Coffey, Ellis D. Dunham, Robert E. Fife, Robert F. Gard, George E. Grattan, Alex D. Heylmun, Edgar D. Hurlock, John B. Kraus, Joseph Kratz, Francis O. Lobaugh, Ray Ww Peck, Athol Percy. Mack J. Potter, Clarence B. Riggs, Edwin C. Remberg, Everett K Seymour, Frank K Taylor, Russell L. Webb, Steve G.
154
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Company A of the First Kansas Infantry 137th Infantry
Captain
Rupert, Archie K. 1st Lieutenant
Simpson, Wyndham A. 2nd Lieutenant
Firstenberger, Alfred 1st Sergeant
Beck, William J. Supply Sergeant
Winters, Roy Mess Sergeant
Cog-hill, Charles A. Sergeants
Strickland. Frank P., Jr.
Browe, Owen B.
McMinimy, Joseph L.
Kirby, James S.
DeBord, Ulysses C.
Browne, Donald L».
Donlen, William J. Corporals
Hammer, Nelson E.
Powell, Paul R,
Boyle, Ernest E.
Debo, Leland C.
Townsend, Ben G.
Adams, Frank P.
Hardin. Edward R.
Abramson, Harry
Snowwhite, Gustave F. Cooks
Orr, Thomas J.
Hicks, Charles C.
Phillips, Fred Mechanics
Asplund, Robert A.
Urie, Noble B. Buglers
Carey, Thomas F. Jr.
McBratney, William L. Privates, 1st Class
Anders, Everett J.
DeBord, Hugh G.
Gunz, Earl
Henderson, Herbert A
Hill, George
Jeffords, Paul
King, Howard O.
Lane, Paul R.
Simpson, William T.
Stevens, Earl
Stubbs, Earl B. Privates
Ackley, William B.
Adams, George P.
Anderson, Harry
Anderson, Walter
Ashlock, Vernpn L.
Asplund, George B.
Barclay, Dennis
Beggs, John O.
Beardsley, Grov©r C.
Berg-in, Cecil A. Bernsthy, William W. Booker, Manning K. Bowers, Orville D. Bray, Russell K. Bunevac, Paul Brendell, Leo Callahan, Frank R. Garden, John W. Carpenter. Orville L Consty, Roscoe J. Colley, David J. Converse, Arthur N. Clark, Ora R. Crawford, Charles E. Defries, Ruel E, DeMeyer, Edmond Davidson, Hugh W. Dougherty, Forester H. Dougherty, Leslie H. Douglas, John L. Dunn, Harvey N. Erickson, John Faulkner, Arthur C. Fiscus, George Folscroft, Otis G. Force, Archie D. Gerhards, Ben J. Gerhards, John H. Goff, Charles D. Goodell, Ralph H. Gregory, William Grossman, Samuel E. Gunn, Donald M. Hail, Worden R. Hiatt. Frank L. High, William H. Hill, Harry Hillyer, Fred W. Holleman, Albert L. Jeffords, Frank E. Jenkins, Roy E. Johnson, Joseph E. Johnson, Leon Jolliff, Charles D. Jolliff, John W. Kane, John W. Kerns, Commodore L. Kirkman. Ridge Laudeman, James H. Lawrence, Phillip H. Layton, Fred Lew^is, Arthur C. Lobeck, John Maule, Fred E. Malherbe, Arthur L. Malott, Harry A. Maxwell, Donald B. Maxwell, John A. Michaelis, Joseph B. Mitchell, Wade W. Morris. Arthur J. Munkers, Gilmer H. Nelson, Harry L. Newton, Robert W. O'Farrell, William W.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE^
156
O'Neill, Thomas H. Otterman, DeWItt J. Pate, William N. Peterson, Oscar A. Poisal, Walter Randel, Samuel P. Reynolds, Joseph I. Rash, Elmer E. Ridley, Fred Sanders, Raymond D. Schiller, Arnold A. Schwalje, Michael A. Schuler, Louis A. Schneider, Frank Simonsen, Harold N. Sinsleman, Charles H. Smith, Arthur L. Staton, Edward E. Stanford, Jesse W. Strelner, Charles G.
Street. Earl T. Sterbenz, Matthew J. Stubbs, Gail W. Stumph, Bennie F. Sudac, Nick Tarry, Lloyd W. Thompson, William Timmons, Bverette Voix, John A. Washburn, Raymond Way, Floyd L. Wells, Clarence T. Williams, Orie A. Wiggins, Ralph Wilson, James C. Wilson, Merle B. Wise, Charles W. Woolf, James E. Galley, Edward J. Trendell, William
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ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Company B of the First Kansas Inf antiy
Captain
Thompson, John R. 1st Lieutenant
Thompson, Andre-w J. 2nd Lieutenant
Vining, Guy E. 1st Sergeant
Theiss, Arthur L. Supply Sergeant
Hodgen, Calvin J. Sergeants
White, Jesse
Landing, Arthur A.
Birch. Arthur M. Corporals
Pettit, Charles M.
Weir. Arthur N.
Hutchinson, Elzie C.
Ellson, Ralph E.
Lanter, John S.
Masquat, George P. Cooks
Whiffen, Paul
Conner, Charles E.
Jack, Thomas A. Buglers
Harris, Clarence A.
Crawford, Floyd H. Mechanics
Welker, Lewis E.
Baldwin, James B. Privates, 1st Class
Bolen, Oscar
Griffin, Charles E.
Henderson, William M.
Henney, Homer J.
McMinds, Erwin P.
Miller, Henry J.
Smithers, Claude C.
Stovall, Woodson E. Privates
Alexander, Earnest
Allen, Alex
Anderson, AUie E.
Archer, Clyde L.
Balser, Chris E.
Bowman, Roy
Boyce, Daniel A.
Brun, Kilby
Brun, Franklin O.
Brunner, Sam.
Busser, Earl P.
Bushey, Dwight C
Cahill, Edward J.
Calvert, George H.
Cameron, John L.
Candreia, Louis J.
Claflin, Sanford F.
Clark. Walter J.
Connor, Frank L.
Connor, John W.
Conner, Bearl Cordill, Ivan R. Deeringer, Roland Evans, Frank B. Filmore, Gus J. Foster, Floyd C. Foster, Earl A. Gibson, George W. Gilmore, Earl A. Good, Benjamin P. Gordon. Jesse C. Goux, William F. Guier, Joe Guy, Fay Green, Carl Wi. Grosvenor, Horace C. Hall, Edward F. Hamner, Arthur L. Hamilton, Orville E. Hawley, Dwight H. Harvey, Luzerne A. Herbstreith, Lloyd H. Hiatt, Dewey H. Hiatt, Marion G. Higley, Rolland C. Hinkley, Joe B. Holtzer, Henry Houghton, Leo J. lies, Merle T. Kinsey, William O. Lessen, Ernst Lewis, Roy Lindsey, Andrew T. Long, Roy Lyons, George W. Lyons Homer L. McElroy. Lawrence B. McGuffin, Frank L. Maguire, Mark Maher, Isadore R. Martin, Arthur A. Markley, William N. Maxwell, Dan K. Merz, Floyd H. Modeland, Harvey E. Monhollon, James C. Mull, John H. Munson, Charles D. Murphy, William H. Noel, Joseph R. Noel, William B. O'Brien, Earl A. O'Brien, Clyde E. Osborn, James W. Peterson, Raymond V. Pierce, Claude K. Ping, Lester O. Ping, Albert Raber, Walter E. Ray, Oscar N. Ray, William J. Rick, Harold S. Rife. Charles L. Riggs, I. B.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
15t
Hivers, Richard C. Roberts, Earl A. Roberts, Issas W. Rogers, Glen W. Ross, Earl W. Rutlidge, De-wey Schlagle, Dannie Schlagle, Allen Schwaub, John H. Bchone, Herman A. Scott. Leslie Seever, Ray H. Slattery, Thomas W. Smith, James D. Snavely, Nell Sowers, Homer Speer, Leroy J. Spear, Charley etahl, Harold J. Stirton, Charley B. Stirton, Chester B.
Tapsee, Lyman Thompson, Lester H. Thompson, Ivan R, Walls, Lawrence Warrick, William W. Watson, Harry Wewenes, Phillip N. Whittier, Clyde J. White, George E. Whiffen, Uridge Q. Williams, Eddie Wilson, Fremont J. Winzer, Charles A. Wright, Alvin R. Wylie, George R. Young, Carl H. Young, Arthur T.
Privates
Masquat, Henry A. Miller, William B.
168
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Company C of the First Kansas Infantry
Captain
Barmely, Frank
1st Lieutenant
Flok, William C. 2nd Lieutenant
Salisbury, John B. 1st Sergeant
Nelson, Earl F. Mess Sergeant
Hahn, Fred H. Supply Sergeant
Reed, Raymond J. Sergeants
Grennan, Fred L.
McCullough, Amer I4.
Kulling, Milton
Ball. Ross E.
Adams, George Li.
Wingett, Roy A. Corporals
Agnew, Patrick W.
Archer, Erna C.
Clark, Champ
Eptlng, Lindsay R.
Erantz, William O.
Gibson, John H.
Howe, Vincent H.
McCullough, Glen H.
Pierson, Ray S.
Sanders, Donald A.
Stockton. John
Sanderson, Austin M.
Gill, Glen E.
Polly, Byron G.
Crockett, Harry J. Buglers
McCullough, Ray
Thompson, Howard H. Cooks
Gibson, Charles
Munday, Charles W.
Gibson, Roy. Mechanics
Johnson, Louis C.
Pate, Roy Privates, 1st Class
Alexander. Clarence J.
Armstrong, Marshall B.
Clark, Rodney
Gangloff, Alvah C.
Hahn, Fenton
Hair, Clarence W.
Hosier, Richard F.
McAlister, John
McCullough, Carl H.
McCullough, Grover C.
Pierson, Austin R.
Wuerfele, Thomas B. Privates
Burdick, Frank
Bruner, Samuel S,
Bear. Ainsworth Bidleman, Chester W. Brinker, Harold J. Bull, Clyde Briles, Owen E. Beissel, Harold Briles, Robert A. Ball, Ira A. Boissel, Keith Brewer, J. Dewitt Busby, Arthur M. Congdon, Hobson Carter, Ralph M. Combs, Lee M. Carter. William A. Crocker, Glen Cantrell, Lon Coffman, Rist H. Cheshire, George B. Chadd, Alfred J. Combs, John E. Draper, Alva R. Davidson, Louis A. Dodge, Clayton M. Davis, Otis L. Dixon, Alfred L. Ellis. Melvin Ellis, Melvin Ellis, Harry Freeman, Charles Ford, Hugh G. Fry, Harris Emert, Herbert G. Fleming, Howard Flake, Leland Fosnight, Roy Fox, Earl Gill, Raymond F. Green, Ross A. Hugenot, Benjamin R. Hull, Clarence M. Harrington, Dan A. Hughes, Bert Hedges, Harold H. Ingersoll, Clarence Jeter, James H. Jessop, Frank R. Jones, Harold C. Johnson, John T. Kinney, Myron A. Koch, Harrison B. Kahnt, Arthur R. Knox. W^illiam R Lipe, Elmer Lyman, Issac Lytle, William T. Law, Dewitt Myers, Max Martin, Perry Manley, William A. Miller, Vinson W. McCullough, Fred Meyers, Joseph B. Mollenhour, Fred I* Mollenhour, George H.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
169
Moore. Frank Mardick, Charle-s McCullough Hames H. Means, John M. Neely, Albert Newlad, Forrest Newland, Forrest Nicolay, Owen D. Olson, Hugh R. Proctor, George L. Petschonek, George A. Phillips, Theodore Parcell, Earl Phillips, Murrel Phelan. Webster Proctor, Arthur A. Proctor, Clarence Rudolph, Samuel K. Ratliff, Orval S. Ream, Leland Lb Randall, Fred
Rockey, Evert C. Rockey, Loren Schneider, Mathew J. Shemberger, Forrest lA Stukey, Elmer E. Sipes, Ernest R. Supple. Howard Turner, Harry A. Tucker, Everett Tetor, Carl F. Thomas, Joshua Weigand, Harvey L. White, Lee P. Wingett, Caven Winterscheid, Claude V. Williams, Hames E. Williams, James E. Warren, William T. Watson, George Westerdale. Hesse P.
160
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Company D of the First Kansas Infantry
Captain
Trinjc, George G.
1st Lieutenant Aures, Robert A.
2iid Lieutenant
Tomlinson, Frank L.
Supply Sergeant Barton, George
Mess Sergeant
Tronjc, Lawrence P.
Sergeants
Blaisdell, Richard S. Bayse, Edmond H.
Corporals
Smith, Thomas Keefauver, Harry- Hackney, Charles S. "Willis, James Smith, Elvis m Snodgrrass, Tyler J. Ereaster, Harry C. O'Roark, Jack. Huggins, Robert
Mechanics EEayes, Raymond L.
Smith, Robert C.
Cully, Chilton L.
Vandoren, Gus W. Buglers
Marchall, George R.
Anderson, Harry S. Privates, 1st Class
Fisher, Frank
Hoffman, Harrison M.
Hamlin. Tom WL PriYates
Achey, Joseph C.
Anderson, Clair S.
Arnold, Eddie B.
Attebery, Chester R.
Ballard, William
Beckley, Leonard R.
Bagshaw, Dennis A.
Bennett, Marion B.
Bennett Donald A.
Bigham, Fred
Bigham, Emery H.
Bradley, Fay M.
Bradshaw, Jim F.
Bradshaw. Harry W.
Burgess, Ralph
Burd, William
Carlisle, Edd O.
Caylor, George W.
CJaylor, Mike E.
Crabtree, Albert
Creal, Harry E.
Cres, Walter B.
Copple, Murray T.
Corey, Lynn P.
Crist, Barnest
Cruet. Bllton S.
Dailey. Orval J.
Dale, Robert R.
Darlington, Fred P.
Dehart, Fred
Ferris, Lloyd G.
Finch, Harry W.
Ford, Carter
Freeman, Leslie M.
Freeman, Frank B.
Furry, Corbett J.
Gillenwater, Turner C.
Glavin, Michael E.
Graham, Clarence C.
Gray. Clarence A-
Hadden, George A.
Hamlin, Chester
Hammond, Frank
Hannon, Harry A.
Hardin, Ira L.
Haslett, Forrest B.
Hatfield. Joe B.
Hazen, Earl H.
Harris, Duenice J.
Henderson, Robert M.
Henry, Harry H.
Hernry, Peter
Hodges. McDuffIs
Hoffer, John W.
Holman, Benjamin A.
Hay, John C.
Hearen, Ernest S.
Jackson, Clifford
Jacobs, Floyd A.
Kershner, Floyd A.
Kuhn, Jesse W.
Lovewell, Peter M.
Markley, Noble
Metller, Dewey
Mullins, Chester L.
Mooney. William H.
MoBath, Colfac
McCoy, Elmer D.
McConnell, Harvey L.
McCaulley, James McDaniel, George W. McLean, Neil P, McMahan, Ira B. McNutt, Edward T. McNutt, Henry B. McRoberts, Noah Nelson, Harvey G. Oshlert. William I* Parham, Tom Parker, Ralph Peck, Earnest Plain, Frank J. Preedy, Paul PuUen, Wallace C. Pierce, James A- Quisenberry, Benson F. Reed, Francis T. Redd, Hugh R. Rice, Marion Riley, John P. Roach. Thomas A. Rowe, Clarencs Russell, Chester H.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNEj
161
Russon, Wallace G. Sanders, Archie C. Sliipman, Ralph Small, Delbert J. Smead, Raymond Smith, Lloyd Stanback, Alfred Stanback, Lon F. Taylor, Clyde H. Then, Charley B. Trigg, Clarence W. Tomlinson, Ralph Tuel, Gilba H. Tull, Simson Umphenour, Claude B. Umphenour, Calvin Im Umphenour, Earnest
Vohs, Henry C. Vohs, Lee B. Webb, Luther H. Weesner, Leo H. Weaver, Harley D. White. Fred A. Williams, Frank L. Witcher, David S. Witt, Albert J. Witt, Willis F. Wollard, John E. Worster, William Yates, John H. Young, James L.
Reservest Attached
Maxwell, Fred M.
162
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Company E of the First Kansas Infantry
Captain
Hudson, Ben S.
1st Lieutenant
Verchere, George A. 2nd Lieutenant
Byerly, Clifford W. 1st Sergeant
Porter, Armer Mess Sergeant
Stempf, Augrust P. Supply Sergeant Willis, Morse S. Sergeants
Walters, Charles Harman, Joseph R. Phillips, Lynne C Knaus, Scott Hayes, William M. Thomas, Roy Leech, Seth Couk, Cecil V. Corporals
Wiggins, Alexander T. Horney, Jeffry C. Leech, Clement Barrigar, Frederick N. Carothers, Harry S.
Fair, Archie V.
Mount, Guy L.
Ong, William
Sheperd, Orin A.
Brown. Harold N.
Burch, Cleo H.
Cady. King M.
Cohagen, Claire G.
Hampson, Thomas D. Jr.
Mount, Clarence I.
Russell, Orvid V.
White, Loyal H. Buglers
Pappert, Rudolph W.
Brown, Grnest L. Mechanics
Timmons, Hobart
Siler, Leo J.
Cooks
Milner, Carl H. Mussett, James R. Sawdy, Elmer F. Privates^ 1st Class Shea, George Sallee, Cleo O. Bonser, Dean V. Brooke, Louis Blinn, Charles O. Chambers. John B. Champman, Clarence J. Chapman, Clarence J. Chapman, Harley B. Cox, William K
Cox, Orval L. Dial, James C. Gill, Carl L. Gunby, Merle F. Hadley, William A. Keitzer, Harold A. Lewis, Jerry H Lucas, Paul E. Merrill, Ruah R. Miller, Evert Neighbors, Charles A. Nichols, William R. Russell, Delbert B. Rothgeb, Clarence Sargeant, Geo. R. Simms, Earl Shaffer, Edward Thatch, Lester White, Edward Privates
Adams, Walter B. Allen, James A. Allen. Ed E. Alexander, Clarence P. Beeman, Carl A. Beck, Ben H. Beck, Bert D. Bentley, Fred Brittain, William C. Camden, Milo Couk, Walter L Comer, Harry Cook, J. B., Jr. Cooley. Orin E. Cooper, Basil
Cantrall, Thomas B.
Cowan, Homer W.
Drake, Roy
Dial, Willis E.
Dannels, Guy
Donart, Clarence B.
Ellis, Karl D.
Elliott, Claude E.
Flinn, William A.
Gifford, Roy
Green, Iva L.
Graham, Jerry S.
Quatney, William W.
Hasty, Fre-d
Heiser, Paul C.
Hoff, Clarence D.
Hollingworth, Clarence
Hutchinson, Cecil
Hay den, Alva P.
Heins, Walter E.
Housley, William M.
Jones, Jay
Kirkman, Paul B.
Kingsbury, Edgar
Kingbury, Oscar
Keim, Stanley D.
Lombard, Albert F.
Lombard, Ernest H.
Lillie, Walter P.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
163
Lopshlre, Harold A. Moon, George Moore, John L. Morse, Milton R. Malone, Archie D. McMillan, Harry L. Moyer, Paul McKinney, John McAdaras. James B. McKinney, Hubert A. Offenbacker, Percy G. Offenbacker, Roscoe E. Orr, Loyd O'Leary, Edward Pringle, William J. Penwell, Samuel H, Powers, Harry J. Richardson, Charles H. Sparks Lyman C. Shufelt Roy M. Smith, Earl Smith, Bob
Shoup, Oren A. Shafer, Irven C. Siler, Albert W. Scott, James M. Thompson, Willie C. Taulbee, Herman E. Terry, Bruce M. Tice, Harry J. Troutman, Dewey Thayer, Ray N. Vermillion, Dorsey G. Verchere, Eugene Whaley, Emery M. Wells. Francis E. White, Forest B. Willoughby, Claude E. Willoughby, Claude E. Wolever, Harold R. Wyckoff, Elmer R. Wickman, Floyd B. West, John A. Yoakum, Bailey
164
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Company F of the First Kansas Infantry
Captain
Weltmer, Henry J. 1st Lieutenant
Haber, Oscar O. 2nd Lieutenant
Bi&elow, Albert S. 1st Sergeant
Jackson, Chas. J. Supply Sergeant
Rubert. Arthur A. Mess Sergeant
Brown, Reuben F. Sergeants
Conklin, Lester C.
Ball, James
Stewart, Walter L.
Taylor, Earle W.
McKee Chas. R.
McDermand, Loyal Corporals
Shaw, Chester L.
Shannon, Chas. E.
Craig, Homer D".
Davis, Elmer
Williams. Jay M.
Kreutzburg-, John H.
Dorei, Murlin S.
Britt, Lon W.
Weddle, Rhubert W.
Boyer, Carl B.
Miller, Virgil
Warden, Walter B.
Austin, Emery G.
Bush, George J.
Russell, Elmer E. Mechanics
Matson. Dan.
Davis, Herbert Cooks
Hunn, James
Miller, Edd Bugler
Linnell, William G.
Privates
Andrew, George Armstrong, Earle W. Askren, Leo Avery, John S. Bailey, Harrison D. Bergen, William A. Bergin, Richard P. Benshoff, David L. Bishop, Harold J. Britt, Lish Brunning, Pearl Caine, Carl C. Carter, Eugene B. Carson, Clifford J. Clowe. OrvlUe Compton, Walter L. Crandall, William C.
Crothers, Homer L. Cummings, George H. Curtis, Harold L. Dove, Edgar T. Dunkin, Ralph W. Dunard, Benjamin Ebelmesser, Robert B. Eichelberger, Henry A. Fenley, George Plemming, Henry A. Fordyce. Carl A. Fowler, John L. Galbraith, Geo. R. Good, Geo. L. Green, Frank B. Hardy, William E. Henson, Clyde R. Henninger, Ralph Hines, Samuel K. Hornbeck, Geo. W. Houston, Jack R. Howell, Ernest V. Hudson. Howard P. Hull, James E. Ivers, Merrill D. lies, Robert S. Jackson, John C. Jepson, Percy N. Jones, Ivan E. Jones, Jesse Johnson, Raymond J. Kidwell, Frank E. Kiner, Geo. F. Lacy, Raymond E. Laha, William A. Largent. Orville Lease, Arlie Levick, John W. Leibig, Carl F. Loftin, Delbert E. Longacres, Edward G. Lyons, Lorin P. McDaniel, Van L, McEnaney, Joseph B. Magers, Pete M. Mars, Albert Maure, Adolph F. Mize, Luther J, Morgan. Arthur R. Nass, John J. Nelson, Grant A. Nickels, Lloyd Ormiston, Thomas B. Overson, Edward M. Pittinger, Ray L. Potts, Wilfred H. Pucks, Francis T. Rinne, Theodore H. Rudbeck, Thomas Schurman, Aver R. Sechler, Homer P. Seever. Noble E. Seyler, John E. Shorb, Lyman Shupert, William B.
HEROES OFjTHE ARGONNE
165
Simmons, Clark M. Smith, Wilber M. Spicer, Horace R. Stanley, Frank F. Stetzman, Wilard H. Stice, Hoyt Stine Elba W. Stonbarger, Millard Stubinger, Jacob Stunz, Paul A. Swain. Harry J. Svreetland, Ernest A. Tietz, Evan J. Turner, Clarence L. VanDalsetn, Ralph E. Walker, Glenn A. Watson, George D. Weber, Clinton L, Weddle, Cecil M. Weddle, Marion L. Welborn, James B. Whaley, Harold L. Wiley, Hubert
Loss Discharged Corporals
Watson. Melvin D.
Gaston, James B. Cook
Weltmer, Ivan D. Privates
Baer, Rudolph
Dillon, William J.
Eichelberger, Will
Fahn, Joseph P.
Lawrence, Ralph E.
Soden, William M.
Sweetland, Glen I.
Truex, Byron E.
Watkins, Kenneth H. Transferred
Cole, John C.
Holbrook. Harold J.
Robertson, Arthur
Shannon, Alvin B.
Sticker Lay erne EL
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ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Company G of the First Kansas Infantry
Captain
Prichard, John H. 1st Lieutenant
Cooper, Harry A. 2nd Lieutenant
Golden, Ed F. Supply Sergeant
Masterson, Thomas S. Mess Sergeant
Parker, Harry B. Sergeants
Wegschelder, Charles B.
Comstock, Harry I.
McGrew, Harry
Runyon, Eugene
Abrens, Frank E. Corporals
Compton. Harry W.
Hoy, Chris J.
Ragin, Lewis Mechanics
Brown, George A.
McGill, George F. Cooks
Boatwright, Harry W.
Lockwood, Orville W.
Palling, Robert G. Buglers
Huff, Hubert W.
Mitchell, Harold A.
Privates, 1st Class
Abington, Robert B. Ausman, Joseph G. Bainum. George W. Baker, Carroll Carver, Ercy Cochran, Julian O. Cooper, Edward H. Daly, Thomas R. Frary, John F. Lyon, Harry A. Hudson, Bannus Harkey, Clair C. Mack, Wilson Power, Francis M. Scott, Herbert W. Scott. William M. Stufflebeam, Roy Thogmartin, Leo Privates
Ambler, Clem H. Asch, Francis G. Aus, Hurst Ayers, Henry Babbitt, Henry E. Barbarick, Clyde W. Bird, Asas G. Bolin, John H. Brady Harold F.
Brown, Frank S. Brophy, Francis J. Burns, John W. Carnes, Orval Games, Ray Carnes, Earl E. Carter, Orville B. Cassady, Ernest L. Chatterton, Clell C Clements, Fred R. Cooks, Chauncey C. Caberly, Cyrus L Coberly, Kenneth F. Conley, Earl E. Cooper Thomas N. Cowan, Jesse E. Cox. Rex A. Cullison, David E. Cummings, Harold Day, Carl H. Dean, Ernest Dinklage, Kenneth Dixon, Frank M. Downey, Ernest L. Duncan, Roy J. Ende«felder, Heinie C. Esicks, Loren L Galvin, Benjamin C. Garrison, Irvin Gilbert. James Gilmore, Henry A. Gillies, James Grace, Henry N. Gunsaullus, Frank H. Hagen, Earnest Hare, Fred A, Harpold, Frank Wi. Harpold, Ralph D. Henson, Everett W. Holstein, Mark M. Hoy, Dewey A. Hoy, George W. Hoy. Henty H. Hudson, Stanton Hutcherson, Lee Hyle, Harry E. Insley, Lester S. Keffer, Alva W. King, Floyd Koontz, Leonard F. Lewis, Lew L. Linn, Roscoe- Marquis, Marion A. Maxwell, Harvey McCargar, Claude B. McMillon. Jesse M. McGrew, Ace K. Meacham, Roy A. Meads, George W. Monroe, Lee R. Monroe, Sam L. Moody, Ernest L. Moore, Burris B.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
i87
Morehead, Harvard A. Morrow, Charles H. Motti, Earl F. Miller, Chester A. Nelson, Merl R. Neely, Clyde A. Newland, Robert J. Nicholson. Lee S. Patterson, Arthur L. Pepers, Arthur G. Phillips, Charles E. Pierson, Prank Porter, Frank C. Powell, Bernon I. Reynolds, Harley W, Riley, Ray C. , ^ Sawyer, Raymond G. Smith, Everett C. Smith, Chesley Springer, Raymond L.
Stalker. Alfred A. Stapp, Walter Stephens, William T. Storey, Earl R. Tucker, Gus D. Tucker, Roy J. Vail, Elmer W. Walker, Harry Li. Ware, Horace M. Wells, Vern L.. Wheaton, Dewey H. White, Otto B. Whitaker, Harry L. Woodard. Wallace I* Williams, William Wobbe, Harry L. Discharged S.C.D. Brown, Gus Cleland, George D. Lame, Arthur B.
108
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Company H of the First Kansas Infantry
Captain
Brownlee, Oscar C. 1st Lieutenant
Dorsey, Eli B. 2nd Lieutenant
Bowen, Emery J. Sergeants
Clarke, Prank E.
Walton Kendall A.
Skinner, Herbert Corporals
Price, Archie R.
Weed, Mahlon
Price. Robert
Ward, Clyde F.
Cheney, Harry L.
Dunkley, Frank Cook
Bushy, Edward
Bugler
Otis, Glen Mechanics
Stebbins, Cullen Privates, 1st Class
Carpenter, Miller J. Chase, Emerson W. Everley, Clarence J. Je-nkins, Charles W. Milner, Earl Olmsted. Orley L. Rothberger, Fred Scothorn, Earl Taylor, Alfred G. Privates
Ashby, Harry M. Ayers, Sam L. Amey, Russell S. Ackerson, Elmer H. Buchman, Joseph D. Baker, Glen Bell, John J. Butell, Earnest E. Bowersock, Lawrea^e H. Branson, Jefferson R. Benedict, Francis L. Bright, Clarence E. Counts, Milton J. Crow, David R. Clark, Bernal E. Cox, Hubert D. Criss, Richard T. Clark, John C. Corel, Charles W. Corel, Glen J. Conger, Erie L. Criss, George Carter, James G. HeForest, Robert Doyle, Roscoe M. Demeritt, Bv«ritt
DeForest, Lewis H Daugherty, George W. Daugherty, Thomas E. Dowers, Lilburn M. Davis, Albert R. Deskin, Lloyd Driggs, Frank H. Erwin, Claude D. Fetty, Andrew E. Fitts, Leslie Foster, Lloyd E. Fast, John C. Farell, Roy C. Griffin, Lester Griffin, Jasper W. Gilbert, Edgar F. Gibbs, Gordon E. Gaumer, Charles N. Grimes, "Vance L. Huss, Larce A. Hundley, Overton B. Hall, Elmer K. Hope, Charles H. Hite, Woodward V. Hockings, Orville O. Haight, Albert G. Harford, Gerald B. Haney. Roy Harger, William R. lies, Carl G. Johnson, Albert H. Jones, James E. Jaggard, Robert K. Jensen, Sherman L. Jewell, Roy C. Kastner, Kirk B. Koelzer, Albert L, Kinzer, Edward L. Kendall, Leland H. Lynch, Albert P. Lansing, Jack C. Langenderfer, Albert C. Lewallen, Harry L. Le Suer, Marvin J. Laster, Rollis Lavin, Eugene T. Miles, Horace B. Martin, Charles A. Main, Claude E. Monk, Francis H. Martin, Frank G, Murphy, Orville W. Mann, Willie Nesbitt. Robert C. O'Neal, Oliver B. Osborne, Clifton B. Ochse, Edward J. Pitts, Earnest C. Pinnick, Ira V. Pettibone, Victor H. Price, Wilson C. Phillips, Loyd "VT. Pierson, Oscar
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
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Proctor, Willard Peer, Charles A. Palmer, Ezra L. Ruby. Ralph D. Richardson, George M. Richardson, Daniel J. Rutherford, Robroy Rothberger, Max R. Robinson, Loren D. Robison, Elbert E. Shogrin, Arthur C. Schubert, Paul J. Smith, George W. Snow, Anthony E. Skinner, Harry C. Strahm, Allen D. Shumway, Ray C. Steinbring, Albert "W. Sandusky, Steve Sperling, Forrest
Stoner, Grover C Smith, Ray H. Trout, Henry D. Utterback, Ray 1* Wilber, Wesley A. Walters, Robert K. Wortman, Walter S. Weber, George B. Weaver, William T. Wells. Frank A. Zeller, George W.
Losses, Discharged
Brooks, Claude O. Michaelson Carl B. Wells, Nathan D. Fearing, Sherman Hageman, Harry D. Kasold, Arthur Yoder, Wren F.
170
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Company I of the First Kansas Infantry
tlJaptain
Crawford, George R. 1st Lieutenant
Scheleen, Arthur A. R. 2nd Lieutenant
Keller, Clede R. 1st Sergeant
Redlker, Irving- M. Supply Sergeant
Tolman, George C. Mess Sergeant
Apltz. Alford C. Sergeants
Broberg, Oliver W. Reed, Ollis W. McHugh, Dilts S. Ferrel, Don E. Brown, Duke C. Getty, Richard W. Corporals Lee, Joy O. Allis, Leland C. Rader, John W. Harper, Dennis K. Grooms, Leslie A. Newell, Clell A. Howe. Clarance B. Baker, Robert E. Dundore, Clemans E. Fraker, Thomas M. Mechanics
Lundsberg, Chester B. Foveaux, William Cooks
Cordts, Walter A.
Smith, Charles O.
Carlton, Lee S. Buglers
Rothrock, Thomas
Sawyer, Glen R. Privates
Ayers, John H.
Babcock, Dale L.
Balderson. George W.
Bartley, Percy D.
Bennett, Jony W.
Best, Harry E.
Bolin, Marcelin H.
Bradley, David F.
Bradley, Ralph M.
Bumbaugh, Albert B.
Burgess, Edmund B.
Byers, Verner M.
Carley, Charles W.
Carley, George W.
Casford, Howard J.
Chapman, Otis B.
Cobb, Joe T.
Coffey, Clarence W.
Comfort, Howard L. Cooper, Charles A. Day, Francis L. Dexter, Archie B. Dicky, Donald M. Doty, Dale W. Dugan, Frank M. Falconer, Ralph E. Farrell, Edward J. Fayman, Harold H. Ferrell, John D. Finnigan, John W. Fordyce, Wilbur F. Foster, Elwin J. Frankenpohl, Edward P. Freeby, Harold L. Fulton, Ralph Gardner, Richard A. Gittings, Bert W. J. Goshorn. Carl A. Gregg, Earl Gross, Martin Hamilton, Daniel B. Harrold, Earl Spencer Harrison, Benard W. Hayes, William W. Higginbotham, Charles L. Hodges, William F. Hoke, Eicil A. Ticlland, Joseph C. Holloway, Myles Holm, George W. Holt, George W, Hopper, Charles B.
Hurst B. Fredrick
Hutte. Dale N.
Johnson, Alvan A.
Jones, Maurice
Knisely, Elber M.
Kraft, George HL
Langner, Emil W.
Larson, J. Robert
Lockard, Virgil F.
Lowe, William S.
Lunday, Dewey W.
Lundberg, George L.
McBee. George W.
McKee, Joe H
Maddock, Ralph E.
Maluy, William B.
Manrose, Byron
Messick, Warren
Meier, Lawrence A.
Mitschler, Paul H.
Mortimer, Charles
Murphy, Dewey
Nelson, Frank
Nester, Cyrus J.
Newman. Frank N.
Osbourn, Ira
Osbourn, John M.
Paddock, James L.
Paddock, Victor V.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
171
Padgett, Fred M. Padgett, Merl L. Parrish, Tom H. Pearson, Varlourd Peters, Lewis E. Pillsbury, Hobart B. Rains, Harry L. Rains, Philip B. Reed, Harrison Reed, Samuel C. Reinders, Charley E. Rorig, Albert P. Sanders, Morton B. Schultz, John Scott, Meivin J. Selfridge, Palmer W. Shaver, John M. Shay, John H. Shirkey, Earl F. Slifer. Ralph Smith, Raymond L.
Stanley, Ralph R. Stevens, Roy C. Sumner, John N. Tangeman, Ralph B. Thierer, Jacob O. Thorton, Dewey Travis, Donald H. Unger, Ferdinand J. Urban, John M. Wakefield, Wallace H. Wallace, John W. Wallace, Walter C. Walters, David A. Weeks, Everett J. Weninger, Erwin Wlldinson, Harley Wr. Williams, George B. Wilson, Albert W. Woolheater, Harold B. Wymore, Percy F.
172
ROSTERIOF KANSAS UNITS
Company K of the First Kansas Infantry
Captain
McDonald, Lewis C. 1st Lieutenant
Work, Dan A. 2nd Lieutenant
Gillette, Prank O. Supply Sergeant
Spradlln. Albert F. Mess Sergeant
Keil, Carl J. Sergeants
Potter, Bruce B.
Dlackledge, Benjamin P.
Hampshire, Claude C.
Hiner, Merritt M.
Adams, Prank B. Corporals
Baker, Ottawa E.
Jones, Robert L.
Morris, Lloyd B.
Tippin, Curtis M.
Helton, Joe S.
Travers. Benjamin A.
Evans, Julius O.
Enslow, Walter L.
Neil, Arnold J.
Certain, Harold R.
Black, Warren C. Cooks
Stomp, George A.
Goodwin, Nile U.
Neil, Walter C. Mechanics
Melvin, Harry L.
Tyler, Charles Privates
Adams, Harry C.
Anthony, Walter C.
Acuff. Morse C.
Altic, Bennie E.
Blake, Jesse S.
Bowen, Jesse A.
Bryan, Emmett E.
Buckels, Pred S.
Bunyan, Harry
Ballanger, Clarence V.
Bell, Ralph O.
Bogart, Charles E.
Barnes, Robert T.
Branaman, Hugh A.
Brumit, William P.
Balsley. Ira L.
Blackledge, Walter M.
Barnes, Oliver E.
Beau, John H., Jr.
Brock, Otis H.
Borer, Charles J.
Cross, Joe B.
Cook, Paul D.
Caylor. L«land S.
Catuska, Clareniie D. Carter, Marion D. Crow, Jesse J. Carr, Robert Danforth. Harry T. Dunn, Harry A. Day, Vern H. Donald, Alden L. D'avies, Albert DeWolf, Henry P. Edington, Merle D. Engwall, Carl Enochs, Raymond G. Fergus, Malcom R. Fraker, Ray D. Faulkner, Orval H. Pishburn, Ray G. Gentry, Carey P. Freer, Floyd E. Greer, Thomas D. Greer, William C. Greer, Irving W. Graffham, Albert C. Graham, Frank O. Goff, Harley Gunn, Foster A. Gates, Truman R. Garst, Earl P. Harrold, Thomas Hunt, George T. Heiken, Eilert G. Hastings, Joseph L. Hootman, Lester Hanson, Louis H. Hunter Ora L. Hubbard, Albert Hugill, George Henderson, Lester J. Kinnard, Arthur R. Keene, Wallace Kepple, Edmund P. Kelsey, James D. Kirkpatrick, Joyce T. Kleinsorge, Edwin P. Long, John P. Lathrop, George A. Marconette, Aaron T. Melluish, Parker B. Miller, Frank Mills, John
McParland, Chester B. Miller, Max L. Mettler, Lee McDaniels, Walter Muntzert, Orlin E. Muntzert, Pred P. Mcintosh, Fred H. Morton, William H. Murry, Frank NeU, Hallie H. Newquist, Pred J. O' Conner, Henry L. Ortolf, Williani Orerbolt, Jack
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
17i
Ohmes, Michael J. Ohmea, Frank J. Ohmes, Wendell G. Osborn, Thomas E. Oakley, Ralph C. Payne, Harry Petty, Charles E. Price, Charles S. Ramsdell, Frank R. Reneau, Everett Reed, Charles E. Reimer, August C. Rowland, Clyde Ralston, Truman G. Smith, Irl E. Smith, Lewis N. Sutton, John I. Showen, William Staley, Lloyd M. Scott, Paul K.
Shotzman, Jacob W. Shuey, Ferguson A. Springer, William P. Snow, Ellis W. Soderstrom, Ralph A. Shoemaker, Orvie E. Seyler, Ovid Shroder, Neil B. Tedrow, Frank L. Triplett, David S. Walker, Charles F. Williams, Wallace Wick, James B. Winter, Wilson N. Welton, Vern A. Wilcox, Dewey J. White, Harry A. Losses, Discharged Adkinson, Wesley B. Smith, Edgar W.
174
ROSTER OP KANSAS UNITS
Company L of the First Kansas Infantry
Captain
Patterson, Earle T. 1st Lieutenant
Cannady, Paul A. 2nd Lieutenant
Phillips, Richard M. 1st Sergeant
Keller, Harry S. Mess Sergeant Allen, John F. Supply Sergeant
Dillman, Omar D. Sergeants
Haven, Forrest Conley, Ray Corporal
Nannings, Simon P. Cooks Lamborn, Carson T. McGowan, Ernest R. Branden, Oscar B. Buglers
Leighton, Vear V. Hicks, Ralph E. Mechanics
Hartshorn, Ray Naylor, Claud H. Privates, 1st Class Acton, James E. Blue, Clifford M. Crisler, Ulric F. Hardesty, Stanley B. Kershner, Joe D. Nanninga, Tjaart R. Parker, Willis Williamson, Claude R. Powell, Keith Smith, Daniel L. Ruble, Robert H. Robbins, Pies S. Smock, Elxery R. Wilson, Elmer R. Burlingame, Dudley Q. Hamilton, Herbert P. Lawton, Ray J. Lotton, Orrid Q. Moore, Earl H. McCoy, Leslie Thrasher, William A. Woods, Perry L.. Ashley, Lloyd E. Privates
Bauersfeld, Paul T. Barber, Frank Bowman, Lloyd B. Borders, Glenn W. Brooks, Willis P. Brown, John W. Breon, Leroy W. Brooks, Homer P. Blackman, Hiram F.
Burton, Charles S. Bransfield, Martin W. Bumgarner, Harry V. Cramer, Maley O. Carpenter, Lloyd C. Cook, Robert J. Covault, Eddie S. Cresson, Sig. Craig, Charles M. Campbell, Leslie J. Chester, V. Lynn Carthel, Edgar Davis, William T. Davis, Will Depew, Benjamin W. Derby, Neal E. Doty, Otis L. Dickey Eber, J. Dale, Keith E. Ellis, Lenard G. Farra, Verne L. Frost, Alvin L. Goodwin, Ira M. Gifford, Edward L. Griffitts, Rose C. Gilbert, James Hackney, Ira W. Henry, Charles H. Hugh, Bert F. Hurlock, Joe H. Holmes, Charlie H. Henrichs, Walter O. Ireland, Martin E. Jones, Olaj A. Jones, Robert W.
Jones, Roy O.
Jones, Milton
Johnson, Fred H.
Johnson, John E.
Johnson, Victor L.
Johnson, Herbert O.
Jordan, Wade A.
Kash, Frank
Kilby, James A.
Knotts, John J.
Knotts, Elias L.
Lee, Ralph H.
Lieurance, Clarence J.
Leonard, Lee L.
Leshley, Floyd.
Lynn, William T.
Lucas, Robert T.
Loter, William B.
McAdoo, Clarence
McCullough, Thurlew W.
McCall, Archie M.
McCoy, Ralph
McClendon, Charles
Martin, John E.
Mathis, Oren N.
Merrill, Walter D.
Moore, Charles F.
Mentague, Charles W.
Moffett, Roy J.
MUler, Earl L.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
17^
Mabis, Horace R. McClure, James C. MeiHig, William Henry Mehl, William C. Maupin, Emmett Munger, Louis C. Naill, Sidney R. Nokes, Clarence W. Parker, Bert L. Pruitt, Harry L. Plummer, Wade F. Pollock, Harry O. Ralph, Melvin L. Renner, Lee M. Rubert, James H. Reynolds, Mortimer B. Riho, Frank Roberts, Oscar R. Saferots, Carl L. Scott, Charles L.
Stewart, Raymon C. Sutley, Merle Stephens, Ova Sponcer, Henry Sweringer, Oral Snyder, John W. Skaggs, Lee Trueblood, Harry S. Tout, Rollie Van Wormer, Adrain Watts, Milton E. Weiland, Chancey Wells, Jessie H. Wilson, Loyd R. Whetsel, Henry W. Wiggins, Walter H. Wood, Sammie Woodward, William F. Williams, Tom L. Walz, Walter J.
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ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Company M of the First Kansas Infantry
Captain
Jones, Frank EL 1st Lieutenant
Daum, Merrill P. 2nd Lieutenant
Elmore, Frank B. 1st Sergeant
Bands, Frank C. Mess Sergeant
Peters, Shirley Supply Sergeant
Stortz, Frank Sergeants
Adams, Merle J.
Carpenter, Samuel L.
Court wright, WUliam W.
Deeker, Leonard E.
Hayes, Lusius B.
Humphrey, Harry L. Corporals
Aere, Joseph
Auchard, Virgil
Bloom, James
Coe, Fordyce B.
Hauser, Prank
Kirby, Glynn
Miles, Charles S.
Oliver, Archibald B.
Riley, Don
Robbins, Roy S.
Rust, Boyd
Spangler, Le Port
Smiley, Stanton
Ufford, Neil-
Webb, David W. Mechanic
Whitla, Lowell R. Cooks
Creek. William P.
Moyer, Samuel P.
Ruppenthal, Harold Buglers
Acre, Leonard
Plank, Ewart Privates, 1st Class
Auchard, Ralph
Campbell, Francis
Hattemer, Otto
Kelly, Carroll B.
Leis, Tracy P.
Manning, Robert
Masset, Addison R.
Rice, Ewart R.
Rice, Joseph
Riley, William S. Privates
Acre, Albert H.
Ashley, Harry B.
Austin. Verle
Ball, Charles M.
Bamett, Greorge
Blicks, Paul A. Bouton, Daln Brown, Karl Bryan, Joseph D. Bukovatz, John J. Bussh, Charles Carpenter, Walter T. Carpenter, Charles T. Carpenter, Robert H. Clary, Gamett S. Clawson, John H. Coe, Auburn S. Cottrell, Ray M. Couehman, Floyd H. Craig, James V. Cullen, Albert Curl, Hobart G. Draskowich, Mike J. Dye, Milton L. Edwards, John R. Eggen, Charles B. Ellsworth, Willoughby P. Eivans, Joe Fisher, Earl P. Frank, Verne Garrigues, Frank O. Gee, Merrill H. Gibson, Hugh H. Gibson, Phillip C. Gill, Wayne I, Grordon, Howard Griffith, William H. Grinstead, James R. Haines, Charles A. Hale, Milford W. Hammer, Byron Hart, Charlie E. Hart, Mark L. Haynes, Malsotn P. Hoster, Claude H. Holston, Verner H. Honick, Lewis E. Horn, Will R. Hughey, William N. Hynes, Fred L. Jenson, Paul P. Johnson, Lewis C. Johnston, John Kelly, Sherwin P. Kincheloe, Iven C, Krappes, John H. Krauss, Albert P. P. La Carte, Alrerez J. Lewis, Charles W. Legg, Edwin Laudblade, Leon W. Luse, Elgie Martling, Francis H. McDonald, Ira M. McGinness, Byron P. McGinness, Hugh T. McMurphey, John W. Mendenhall, Edgar L. Miner, Erie S. Mitchell. Basil L.
HEROES OFiTHEJARGONNE
177
Moore, Edmond E. O'Brien, Shamus Oehrle, Charles F, Olson, Forrest C. Owens, Seth J. Palmer, Opie L. Peterson, William J. Prebble, Fred Rader, Ralph R. Richter, Theodore H. Rodgers, Charles Harvey- Roe, William Rogers, John L. Rueker, Carl Rummell, Ross J. Runnion, Ray Schutter, Frank J. Smith, Frank Smith, Oden W. Smith, Wright W. Snyder, Ivan V. Stewart, Kenneth C. Stines, Leonard P. Thrower, Walter Tinklepaugh, Dunne Vanderbur, Carl E. Van Wormer, Horace L. Walker, Carl Warders, Charles E3. Whiteher, Andrew J. "Vhite, Oliver W.
Losses, Discharged Mechanic
Bailey, Arthur R. Privates
Kane, George C.
Kemp, Harley S.
McLaughlin, Walter H.
Powell, Ralph D.
Volok, Thomas
Whiteher, Harry Privates
Ashley, Harry
Brown, Karl
Craig, James V.
Cullen, Robert
Draskowish, Mike
Honick, Lewis E.
Johnson, Louis O.
Oehrle, Charles F.
Peterson, William C.
Richter, Theodore H.
Rodgers, John
Tinklepaugh, Dunne Losses, Discharged
Bryan, Joseph D.
Bukovatz, John J.
Fisher, Earl P.
Gibson, Phillip C.
Krappes, John B.
Lewis, Charles W.
178
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Initial Draft, Sanitary Detachment, First Kansas
Infantry
Major
Salisbury, Henry T. Captain
Durant, Ira E. 1st Lieutenants
Alford, Joseph E.
Barnes, Ralph E. Sergeants, 1st Class
Alphin, Wayne Sergeants
Curl, Chester L.
Silverthorn, Earl
Myers, William R. Privates, 1st Class
Anderson, Ivan H.
Buchanan, Dwight
Carman, Benjamin
Derby, Arthur Q.
Dumas, Harry
Engel, Herman
Greiss, Murray
Jones, Sam I.
McCormick, Norwood Martin, Earl L. Myers, John B. Russell, John C. Starkweather, Robert Privates Achining, Carl Bryde, Phillip Cooke, Charles H. Daniels, Charles B. Francisco, Clell Heron, William T. Hudson, Adolphus F. Hughes, Lawrence D. McAllister, Fred L. Nichols, Clifford Roberts, Harrold M. Thudium, Carl Woodard, Howard Wyatt, Wiley J.
Losses, Discharged
Golding, Ned.
Detachment Unassigned of the First Kansas Infantry
Private
Elchelberger, Will
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
179
Headquarters Company, Second Kansas Infantry 137th Infantry
Captain
Romey, Frank E.
Re^mental Sergeant Major
Robieson, Frank W.
Band Leader
Beeson, Otero G.
Battalion Sergeant Majors
Morrison, Reed Mitchell, Dalbert W.
1st Sergeant
Fink, Louis W. Sergeant Bugler
Black, Paul L. Color Sergeants
Noonan, Robert E.
Fagerquist, Reuben T. Supply Sergeant
Stewart, James H., Jr. Mess Sergeant
Palmer, Frank G. Band Sergeants
Olson, Ernest M,
Di Nino, Frank V. Band Corporals
Innis, Donald F.
Hawkinson, Carl W. Cooks
Bryant, James R.
Yeager, John B. Musicians, 1st Class
Glaze n, Roy J.
Sheffer, Wilhelm G. Musicians, 2nd Class
Shehi, Dan L.
Bagby, Charles A.
Young, Charles D.
Musicians, 3rd Class
Baer, James D.
Braithwite, Robert G,
Cool, Eugene B.
Davis, Howard W.
Huffine, Guy L.
Heck, James G.
Lichtenberger, Harley W.
McFadden, Harold M.
McGrew, Richard A.
Norton, Emra A.
Palmer, Chester B.
Reyonlds, Stanley A.
Scott, Cyrus W.
Wesley, Wendell P. Privates, 1st Class
Hanna, Ross
Ferguson, James F.
Trull, Leo
White, Ernest L. Privates
Carlton, V, Berne
Daugherty, Paul
Hoover, Donald D.
Harshman, Frank S.
McKay, Patrick
McBeth, Marcus V.
Robbins, Arthur B.
Robbins, Herman D.
Roberts, James
Sanders, Robert
Sturtevant, Ernest L,
Winterhalter, Daniel C. Horseshoer
Sampson, George K. Privates
Atwood, Arthur F.
Dixon, David W. Discharged
Fagerquist, Arthur C.
130
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Machine Gun Company, Second Kansas Infantry
Captain
Rexroad, Guy C. 1st Lieutenant
Benscoter, Frank J. 2nd Lieutenant
Campbell, Robert A.
Barthold, John, Jr. 1st Sergeant
Wilson, Ezra J. Mess Sergeant
Brown, Ray W. Supply Sergeant
Hyatt, Walter D. Stable Sergeant
Huston, Lester W. Sergeants
Parsons, Roy F.
Lunas, James B.
McKee, Edward W.
Shawhan, Leslie L.
Gibbons, Leon D.
Crow, Roy M. Corporals
Bates, Howard J.
MsLssoni, Alfred A.
Middlehurst, George S.
Winters, George W.
Lloyd, Frank L.
Nelson, William S.
Rider, Ned M.
Hagaman, Darrel P. Cook
Dralle, Albert E. Buglers
Arnold, Ray W.
Rexroad, Gerald Mechanics
Warnock, Earl C.
Green, Lewis F. Privates, 1st Class
Ferguson, John H.
Johnson, Roy V.
Fick, Paul F.
Kimzoy, Harland D.
Shiffer, Ray H.
McKenzie, Verl J.
Dill, Norman F.
Whelpley, Charles W.
Alexander, Paul W.
Baker, Chester W.
Barton, Sly Privates
Blackburn, Stanton E.
Brooks, Richard G.
Clark, Walter S.
Cline, Lester M.
Cramer, Wendell H.
Deming, Claude E.
Everett, Martin E.
Fiori, Seraphin
Ford, Leon A.
Frohwitter, William B.
Fowler, Homer F.
Grace, Phillip G.
Hamby, Lloyd W.
Jennings, Don A.
Jackson, Floyd E.
King, Frank
Klippel, Philip C.
Lang, Bert F.
Lockhead, Lewis R.
Lumm, Jesse
McGuire, Paul R.
Mauser, Roy A.
Nicholson, George T.
Ross, Bert F.
Seely, Guy
Shawhan, Harold R.
Shive, Myron L.
Snell, David L.
Stewart, John E.
Thompson, J. Arthur
Turner, Roy E.
Weaver, Henry J.
Weeks, Harold H.
Wentz, Ralph D. Losses, Discharged
Sergeant
Maltby, Arthur L. Horseshoer
Bates, Chester I. Cook
Nagle, Charles A. Private, 1st Class
Richards, Arba F. Privates
Buggelin, Charles F.
Elmes, Harry
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
181
• Supply Company, Second Kansas Infantry
Captain
Noonan, Alfred E. 2nd Lieutenant
iNixon, Jesse M. 1st Sergeant
Smith, Eustace Regrimental Supply Sergeants
Rohrer, Samuel J.
Snyder, Parker L.
Henney, Alfred K. Mess Sergeant
Daugher, James W. Corporal
Lantz, Dillard A. Cook
Haines, Walter H. Horseshoer
Dunham, Noah F. Saddler
Weatherman, Ferrell B. Waggoners
Adkinson, L»evo J.
Albrecht, Irvan
Battershell, John Brown, Harvey L. Carr, Robert E. Cecil, Aaron B. Clark, Ralph C. Collins, Charles L. Dopps, Lyman J. Duncan, Clyde Harrell, Edward Hershberger, Locke H. Huntsman, Charles L. Knight, Frank H. Lennen, Earl L. Leslie, Ansel E. Mallory, Harrison D. Manny, Ernest C. Manny, Ora A. McClure, Ernest A. McCowan, Oliver W. Ritterhouse, Lester A. Smith, Wilfred D. Smith, Paul J. Stewart, Charles B. Wainner, Ralph R. Warren, Mansford B. Wheeler, Sidney R.
182
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Company A of the Second Kansas Infantry
Captain
Barr, Frank E. 1st Lieutenant
Simpson, Paul J. 2nd Lieutenant
Kell, Emil G. 1st Sergeant Seymore, Theodore Supply Sergeant
Palmer, Earl J. Mess Sergeant
Branch, Ralph A. Sergeants
Dodman, Earl
Ford, Hobart A.
Bodkin, Charles W.
Waldron, Hugh
Hopkins, Thomas
Inman, Boyd
Dodds, Elbert L. Corporals
Banks, Clyde J.
Ingle, Millard T.
Sees, Harry A. M.
Martin, George F.
English, Clarence A.
Babrick, Earl
Ulmer, Charles
Olmstead, Earl O.
Gaskill, Louis W.
Stephens, William J. T.
Mathews,, Harry S.
Rouse, Harry L. Cooks
Grimes, Edward L.
McDuffs, Norman L. Mechanics
Shields, Eugene B. Privates, 1st Class
Grimes, Scott L.
Childers, Alva B.
Carter, Harris G.
Dunham, Frank V.
Hake, Herbert H.
Knox, Thomas N.
Martindale, Lyle M.
Offenstein, Rosa B.
Rector, Walter M.
Thompson, Leo V. Privates
Armour, Jack W.
Andrews, Robert P.
Barrett, Henry B.
Bennett, Carl
Bonner, Eugene B.
Booth, Otis P.
Brown, Robert R.
Brown, Herbert R. Brown, Guy C. Brewington, Glenn Burgett, Fred S. Carpenter, Sherman R. Ccisto, Clyde R. Cleary, Cecil E. Crafton, John W. Crafton, Wight M. Crist, Paul A. Daugherty, Victor M. Daisy, Raymond Davis, Laverne Dondelinger, Louis Drake, Shad Elliott, John S. Fintelman, William R. Fisher, George H. Fitzgerald, Jesse L. Fralick, Ransler C. Gay, Bryant W. Gilleland, Edgar E. Guy, Robert E. Hartman, Luther M. Heath, Don A. Hendren, Clyde M. Hendren, Paul Hicks, Ralph I.
Holcomb, Louis H.
Howell, Rex
Hull, Orval P.
Humbert, Lee R.
Jinks, Harry L.
Kelly, George W.
Kendrick, Francis A.
Kiehl, Dale M.
Kirk, Harvey F.
Lampe, George H.
Lickly, Morris J.
Lightner, George H.
Lindaberry, Joe
Lindt, Otto H.
Lish, Ira N.
Lusk, George B.
McAvey, Arch G.
McCartney, Jacob L.
McCool, Earl J.
McCorgary, Thomas A.
McDermott, Lra D.
Martin, Louis A.
Mason, Emmett M.
Milner, Champ O.
Minard, Frank B.
Mitchell, Earl S.
Moore, Homer R.
Morgan, Claude W.
Morris, William V.
Morrison, Harry K.
Norvell, Frank O.
Newcomb, Leland A.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
183
O'Hare, Vernard C. Oldfield, Charles H. Page, Tom L. Palling, William R. Pattinson, John R. Peacock, Elton D. Penny, George Phillips, Joe W. Pierce, Clarence O. Pitts, William A. Propp, Daniel R. Peterson, Harry T. Raly, Fred L. Reedy, Raymond Reeves, Harold E. Replegle, Bedford B. Robinson, Roscoe L. Rowe, Horace D. Sage, John F. Sampson, Roy E. Schmucker, Theodore I. Schreffler, Charles L. Schreffler, Clarence Q. Scott, Oliver W. Seal, Roy D. Shick, Floyd R. Silvius, Richard O.
Singleton, Grover F.
Smith, Ezekial P.
Sommerviller, William A.
Stine, George B.
Taylor, Walter W.
Templer, Alfred L.
Thompson, Orin L.
Townsley, John A.
Tillinghast, Frank L.
Treft, Charles W.
Truex, Galeb C.
Tyron, Harley D.
Walker, James K.
Whitecotton, Arthur E. H.
Wilcox, Edwin C.
Willard, Albert L.
Wilson, William H.
Wilson, Zynn M.
Winn, Newton R.
Wood, Frank E.
Cummings, Thad L. Private, 1st Class
Knox, Thomas W. Privates
Barritt, Henry E.
Lampe, Greorge H.
184
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Company B of the Second Kansas Infantry-
Captain
Berridge, Scott 1st Lieutenant
Gibson, Roy S. 2nd Lieutenant
Rennick, Clarence A. 1st Sergeant
Grubbs, Clarence O. Sergeants
Knox, Garrett "W.
Flynn, James "V.
Bird, Victor T.
Fairchild, Harold H.
Slaughter, James R.
Lambert, Emery W.
Jarvis, Russell J.
Long, Phillip
Dale, Harold Corporals
Mann, Harold
Horton, Francis A.
Lutz, Harry E.
Bradley, Walter Mechanic
Butrum, Clarence A. Cooks
Beems, Roger
Brumfield, Elmer D. Buglers
Young, Clarence O.
McGehe, Floyd A. Privates, 1st Class
Bailey, Arthur L.
Dennis, Herschel
Eaden, Roscoe
Karstetter, Frank C.
Morrissey, James L. Privates
Alexander, Harold L.
Alexander, Roy C.
Alexander, Wilmer
AJendorf, Jacob G.
Bair, Ralph
Baertch, Carl E.
Baldwin, Clifford G.
Baugh, Hilton
Barnes, Virgil
Barr, Ray
Baxter, Emmett
Benander, Arthur
Bossier, John W.
Bottom, John W.
Bradley, Jesse
Brown, Paul R.
Bronston, Byron E.
Blackwood, Fred J.
Brubaker, Stewart H.
Carlson, Edward G.
Caywood, Walter E.
Chrisman, Paul H.
Chrisman, Spencer
Christian, Robert R.
Christensen, James P
Clements, Harry C. Conklin, George D. Compton, Harry H. Curtess, Samuel W. Davis, Harold Day, Elmer Day, Roy C. Darling, Ernest G. Douglas, Ora Dunn, Jack Eby, Harry R. Earl, Isaac Henry Fees, Russell B. Forsberg, Clarence Fultz, Harvey Glendening, Perry W. Gray, William Hall, George Hannah, Cecil Harris, John T. Hart, Joseph C. Hartman, Elmer G. Hartman, Fred H. Heiselman, William H. Hickox, Charles M. Hill, Lee Hill, Paul N. Hollis, Doyle Holt, McKinley Ireland, Percy S. Johnson, Earl D. Kathrene, Charles Kesling, Opha L. Kidney, Emmett Kidney, Scott King, Ralph T. Kroth, Ralph T. Lewis, Charles Lewis, Worth A. Lines, McLin Lines, William Marion, Levi Michaels, Raymond E. Mitchell, Birt Mitchell, Clifford R. Mitchell, Clarence E. Mitchell, Thomas A, Miller, George N. Miller, Oscar Minor, Gilbert S. Musselman, Francis C. Meyers, Irenous C. Meyers, Claude L. McComas, Clyde C. McHenry, Milton McKinsey, Bert McKinsey, Ray McMurtry, Eugene McPherson, Charles W. McPherson, Clyde O. Nelson, Jesse Nicholas, Lloyd Nicho-las, Otis C. Osterhold, Frank Park, Charles E. Patterson, Harold Pointer, Virgil D.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
185
Pollock, Marion L. Priest, Walton E. Roby, Paul T. Rudy, Ernest A. Russell, Ralph V. Russell, Ray C. Sanderson, George W. Simmons, Leroy D. Simpson, Erwin C. Slate, Lee Slater, Meredith H. Smith, Lewis J. Stafford, David L. Stanley, Elmer Starkey, John W. Steele, Wilford C. Stephenson, George L. Stonebraker, James D. Stonebraker, Louis J. Sullivan, Earl D. Suter, Harold B, Thompson, Leon E. Thompson, Loren E. Thompson, Ross F. Tift, Rawlin L. Utterback, Frank R. Ward, Roy E.
Wyatt, John F.
Fletcher, Paul C.
McClacherty, John W.
Overgard, Ray
Patrik, Frank
Shoenberger, Russell Privates, 1st Class
Skinner, Owen G.
Spittler, Leaman
Stone, Herbert R.
Sweeney, Daniel K.
Stringham, Leon
Sweeney, Ross L.
Swick, Herbert T.
Temple, William
Thomas, Guy M,
Tunnell, Earl G,
Turner, Howard E.
Vierra, John
Wood, Morgan L. Losses, Discharged
Gilmore, Dave E.
Perkins, Clemet
Sturm, Guy €orp<M-al
Higbee, Roy B.
186
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Company C of the Second Kansas Infantry
Captain
McKenzie, Scott 1st Lieutenant
Quigley, Clarence H. 2nd Lieutenant
Scott, Louis R. 1st Sergeant
Deklyn, Ray A. Supply Sergeant
Momyer, Harry H. Mess Sergeant
Truex, Adelbert G. Sergeants
Redwine, Reginald F.
Burns, Frank L.
Roper, Samuel D.
Swift. Jay G.
Crouse, Charlie W.
Arth, Edgar J.
Heuiesen, Frank
Boylan, Brad
McGreevy, Urban
Lamoreux, Wayne Corporals
McFadden, William P.
Hunt, Albert D.
Kinniard, Eugene B.
Woodburn, Gustavus W.
Hook, John
Ruble, Charles A.
Wood, George C.
Breeden, Leo F.
Grubb, Floyd
Wilson, Roscoe
Johnson, Gilbert M. Mechanics
Pritchard, Paul E.
Locke, Thom'tB A.
Cooks
Girdner, Kelly W.
Morrison, I^imon W. Buglers
Scheufler, William P.
Soden, Walter G. Privates, ?.st Class
Ashpole, Archie
Alexander, Ira
Brown, Reid A.
Bertram, Walter E.
Chapman, Roscoe
Carleton, Raymond R.
Cowley, Stone O.
Drawbridge, Mason R.
Everitt, Lloyd G.
Gunn, Edwin R.
Heame, Floyd R.
High, Branch D.
Harvey, David
Jurgensen, William M.
Krebaum, Calvin V.
Keenan, John B.
Keller, Walter F.
Leadbetter, Alva Longmoor, Charles H. Meyer, August H. Mayes, Walter R. Petty, Oliver H. Robertson, Alexander L. Rinker, Roy L. Sipe, Charles L. Steadman, John P. Speck, Charles F. Wesley, Charles A. Yetschke, Clarence Privates
Armstrong, Bliss Brown, Henry F. Bryant, Levern Boebeck, Arthur F. Bortz, Andrew J. Bone, Bentley O. Bonham, Oscar L. Brodbeck, Ernest A. Blackburn, Jake M. Batman, Dilla Bedford, Charles E. Bright, Greorge A. Culbreath, Arthur Cook, Cecil F. Cates, Fred Clinton, Arthur Deines, Adam Dix, Buford Dyer, Roy Durbin, Charlie Ewlng, Jessie W. Fisher, Emmett M. Fritscher, Henry Graham, Morris T. Gabbert, Ernest C. Gooing, Mack Grubb, Walter S. Hoffman, Henry J. Hayes, James W. Highland, Royal G. Hoffman, Conrad Hargrave, William A. Hook, Henry Hardesty, Charles H. Hall, Hugh Jones, William J. Jones, Bee W. Jeffers, McKinley H. Karr, William F. Kenney, Guy J. Kruse, William H. Lynn, "Vemie O. Livesay, William O. McCracken, Harry McClure, Fred A. McCorkle, Owen W. McDaniel, Gerald McDaniel, Clarence A. McClure, Guy B. Mercer, Earl M. Mahoney, Denny Moore, Reuben W.
HEROESIOFiTHE ARGONNE
187
Nelson, Roy iN. Newell, George S. Orm, Ira E. Powell, Roy A. Powell, Harold Q. Quimby, Loy S. Radke, Albert L. Renfro, Aubry Richardson, Charles B. Speck, Earl Swab, Norman E. Stoskopf, Lester B. Snow, Elmer E. Scott, James L. Steenis, Richard J. Stone, John H. Sloan, Alva L. Sieker, Walter O. Shuck, Frank M.
Sullivan, William L. SegandoUar, Fred Skinner, Henry C. Sams, Lester L. Shook, Perry O. Tromer, William S. Tinnemeyer, John H. F. Trear, Patrick Talbott, Henry W. Tabler, Ivan E. Varner, Leo O. Wilson, Jack Warner, Earl L. Whaley, George B. Walker, Joseph W. Ward, Earl A. Wemmergren, Karl White, Clarence H. Wilson, William B.
188
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Company D of the Second Kansas Infantry
Captain
EUis. Fred E. 1st Lieutenant
Breese, Verne G. 2nd Lieutenant
Dorst, Harry B. 1st Sergeant
Hennessey, Clarence A. Supply Sergeant
Drake, John C. Sergeants
Canfield, Thomas N.
Marymee, Jamea C.
Gillilan, John A.
Bailey, Lawrence S.
Hull, Wayne G. Corporals
Greenshaw, Otis O.
Bretches, Lloyd
Coblentz, Luther
Hag-Strom, Granvil
Vague, Thomas R.
Gordon, Joseph A.
Larson, Willard E.
Sayler, George J.
Koehn, Alex R.
Stauffer, Marion W.
Ruggeri, Antonio Cooks
George, Charles A.
Minns, Paul J.
Parks, Harvey L. Bugler
Hill, Lloyd L. Mechanics
Dilley, Rufus F.
Malm, Andrew Privates, 1st Class
Caliway, Welborn
Clark, Arthur
Gronfur, Iver
Haga, George
Janke, Herbert
Roffman, Ray Privates
Adams, Melvin W.
Anderson, Edwin A.
Ash, Guy H.
Basinger, Pesca L.
Banman, Alvin K.
Banman, Daniel F,
Beranek, James M.
Blair, Bern B.
Blair, Arthur L.
Bowlby, Raleigh C.
Bretches, Dewey W.
Bias, Frank L.
Bishop, Lloyd A.
Bistline, George A.
Branton, Ralph L.
Case, Alex H.
Carrell, William W.
Chapin, Herbert M.
Clark, Francis M.
Clark, Donald S.
Carter, Clarence
Crouse, Harry R.
Cramer, Ward B.
Curtis, Charles H.
Cade, Carl D.
Dossett, Ralph R.
Duby, Jesse C.
Dugan, Lon T. Duhn, August W. Dyck, Frank E.
Privates, 1st Class
Ek, Emil Eller, John A. Finkle, Earl P. Fisher, Harold B. Fisher, J^Idney P. Eraser, Rosser C. Frye, Clifford C. Going, Verne E. Grant, Hiram E. Godown, Lester E. Haynes, Ivan R. Hayson, Fred G. Harger, Walter B. Harris, Vemer G. Hereford, Harold R. Helgeson, Carl M. Hook, Ernest D. Hill, John G. Ivey, Jack Ishmael, Clifton Jackson, Thomas W. Johnsey, Eddie L. Johnson, Elmer O. Kelly, Stewart S. Kelsey, Raymond G. Kellett, WiUiam F. Kutnink, Paul E. Krehbiel, Edwin G. Knowles, Elmer E. Lathwell, Earl J. Larson, Homer W. Lloyd, Leon S. Lloyd, Ivan L. Lonberger, Frank M. Lipe, Orville L. Lipe, Loran Luginbill, Arnold P. Maguire, Lee R, Magathan, Benjamin Magathan, Lemuel B. Maltby, George E. Merritt, Frank W. Messbarger, Uriel E. Mulnix, Ben R. McMurray, Fred L. McPhail, Ross McDougal, Earl M. Nelson, Ernest A. Nelson, Edward J. Nell, John H. Niggeman, William J. O' Bryant, Charles W. O'Bryant, Archibald M. Overbey, Claude R. Owen, Ray D. Parr, Evert R. Post, Floyd E. Pollitt, Dallas D. Pierce, Cecil A. Rariden, Edgar L. Ranstrom, Robert R. Rehtz, Herman Reid, Lester L. Rutledge, Paul R. Rutledge, Gayl N. Sandifer, William J. Santee, Harold P. Serviss, George E. Shaw, Joe R. Siebert, Howard Simpson, Paul M.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
189
Company E of the Second Kansas Infantry
Captain
Fleeman, William R. 1st Lieutenant
Wilson, Durward J. 2nd Lieutenant
Rankin, Harvey R. 1st Sergeant
Stewart, Donald P. Mess Sergeant
Houston, Rex C. Supply Sergeant
Cline, Frank B. Sergeants
Mather, Clarence T.
White, Louis D.
Potter, Donald C,
Wickendoll, Albert
Newton, Roy H.
Crippen, Dale L.
King, Fred W. Corporals
Davolt, Bert V.
Tucker, Morris J.
Ran say, Ivan G.
Beuttner, Harry G.
Brundige, Charles R.
Foster, Lester O.
Vaughan, Frank A.
Abbott, Seth J.
Edwards, Hobart
Short, Charley
Strobel, Howard E.
Woods, James H,
Ulmer, Joseph L. Mechanic
Gibbs, Leonard A.
Cooks
Cox, Lloyd B.
Campbell, James W.
Howe, Roy A. Buglers
Miller, Norman W.
Bergen, John K. Privates 1st Class
Anderson, Edwin A,
Blackball, Malcolm R.
Brace, Clayton W.
Cheatum, Claude E.
Clark, Milo G.
Donnell, Kenneth B.
Frye, Emmett A.
Hardwicke, John H,
Hobson. Floyd H.
Hodgson, Garrell D.
Houston, Thomas S.
Howe, Edgar E.
McCoUum, Archie D.
McKee, Arden H.
Moeser, Frank P.
Patton, Joseph R.
Peck, Ralph F.
Richards, James B.
Smither, William F. Tucker, Russel G. Ulmer, Harvey W. Vogt, John
Waggerman, Hubert L. White, Albert E. WTiitehead, William J. Zumwalt, Charles L. Privates
Ackley, Henry W. Altis, Charley C. Anderson, George C. Anderson, Pete C. Anderson, Ralph M. Barksdale, William W. Banres, Clarence C. Battin, Alfred H. Battin, William A. Black, John A. Bowen, Albert W. Brown, Earl F. Calbert, Lee M. Canfield, William R. Canfield, John H. Carter, Norman A. Coffelt, Terrill C. Cooper, Eldon L. Danner, Ira O. Davis, John S. Devore, Nicholas L. Foreman, Kay M. Fowler, Orville D. Fowler, William W. Fritz, Joe H. Fullerton, Robert W. Fulling, Vergil H. Goodrich, George W. Gosen, Dick W. Grosham, Floyd Griffith, Bertie R. Harrington, Joseph F. Hart, Ralph R. Hawkins, Roscoe O. Hill, William F. Hobbick, Howard R. Howard, George Ivey, Kellie M. Kenoyer, Earl Kenoyer, John E. Koon, Fred C. Lambertus, John W. Lewis, William W, Love, Joseph E. Lyons, Everett M. Malone, William L. Martin, Hillary R. Mawby, Felix M. McCamant, Donald G. McCollum, Claude V. McColm, Arthur L. McHone, William A. McMullen, Hubert R. Miller, Frank R. Nelson, Ely Parker, Kenneth R.
190 ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Pauls, Otto Williams, Claude
Porter, Russell B. Wilson, Otis C.
Poulton, Gleason B. Wilson, William H.
Powell, Ernest F. Young, Harry L.
Price, Frank M. Yowell, Benjamin W.
Sanford, George R. Zumwalt, Andrew J.
Schock, Ferrol B. T,o^^pq HiRrhAr^P^
Scott, Chauncey H. LiOsses, i/iscnargea
Scott, Clarence J. Sergeant
Seaman, Charley L. Hall, Claude H.
Shepherd, William P. rnrnnrals
Staley, Charlie E. w?kk5 n.«.^^ w
Stapleton, Raymond R. gP^^^' T?®?^f ® ^•
Stephenson, Fred L. g^cks Bert L
Stephenson, Leroy B. S^mJ?^' ^^^^^ P' ^
Stewart, Grant Williams, Charles B.
Stockton, Albert N. Mechanic
Stone, Fred Weaver, James H.
Truitt, Albert H. PHvafaa 1«t C\nw
Truitt, Alfred L. ^If* ® \io„ V
Watkins. Benjamin F. S^^^flxr i^^itt w
Watts, Emerson A. „ Parmley, Ernest W.
Whitehead, Charles E. Fnvate
Wiegel, Fay M. Atkinson, Floyd W.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
191
Company F of the Second Kansas Infantry
Captain
Smith, Clarence M. 1st Lieutenant
Thornbrough, Albert L. 2nd Lieutenant
Burgess, Carl E. 1st Sergeant
Bell, Joseph N. Mess Sergeant
Blsh, Frank Supply Sergeant
A'Neals, Albert Sergeants
Arnold, Manford F.
Barr, George S.
Stutzman, Robert H.
Edwards, Gilbert C.
Graham, Ira M.
Myrick, Edgar P.
Purdue, Paul Corporals
Fisher, Henry O.
Moore, Millard
Avary, John K. Cooks
Rice, Harry
Ridge, Jim
Creaghead, Harry Mechanic
Wonsettler, Oscar Buglers
Croan, Ephriam
Ingels, Vernon B. Privates, 1st Class
Artzberger, Harland
Armstrong, Willard
Bass, Lawrence
Blankenship, Bert M.
Deighton, George S.
Estes, Loy C.
Gregory, Miles H.
Hundley, Claud J.
Jenkins, Charles
Kirch, John H.
Litsey, Aden
Liockey, Paul
McAfee, Harrison
Michler, Don A.
Raymour, Grady P.
Rynerson, Russell
Shoup, Jesse R.
Sooby, Benjamin H.
Smith, Roger E.
Sherry, Thomas L.
Taylor, Brooks
Weeks, Wade R. Privates
Ackerman, Spencer C.
Anderson, Pro
Arnold, Archie L.
Allbritton, Jackson C. Artzberger, Raymond Brooks, Royce Barnett, Monroe Bindley, Mark R. Burson, Ralph A, Biehm, Harrison H. Barcus, Thomas O. Blecha, Frank J. Carrell, Carl Chalmers, Ray W. Chumbley, Arlice C. Craghead, Walter Couch, Earl E. Campbell, John C. Chears, Walter S. Croan, Reuben H. Croan, Howard O. Dahl, Frank Dupree, Roy L. Edgar, Hubert Evans, Thomas L. Force, Ora M. Flewelling, Ervin M. Ferguson, Arthur L. Gore, Louis R. Griffith, Earl Geer, Carl H. Gibbs, James Gibbs, Jesse Gode, Edgar H. Ginn, Floyd S. Gibbons, Albert W. Haff, Lawrence -Hawkins, Chester Hager, Charles S. Hoover, Carl Hennessey, Myron W. Haugh, George D. Howard, Harold D. Hoover, Arlie C. Jarvis, Ralph Johnson, Drvlll Jordan, Edmond Jordan, Ivel J. Johnson, Albert C. Keberlein, George J. McBride, Frank T. Myers, Harold J. Morris, Glenn W. Milton, Grant Milton, Harvey B. Milton, Elisha P. McVey, Jake H. Miller, Clyde H. Michler, Frank L. Murty, Lane Nairn, Guy W. O'Hanlin, Clyde S. Ostrand, Otto C. Ormord, Marshall S. Pittinger, Percival Preston, Orville Post, Walter E.
192 ROSTER OP KANSAS UNITS
Peck, Clifford H. Sterling, Earl
Parry, Rauland S. Sterling, Daniel L.
Pauley, Orville Teliver, Eimit R.
Parker, Reese H. Thomas, Alfred H.
Parks, Arthur H. Thompson, Edward T.
Quinn, Patrick Turner, Henry !•
Russell, Harry P. Turner, Sampson A.
Reynolds, Colman Watts, Earl N.
Raney, Carl Webb, James M.
Reynolds, Jack Walker, Albert A.
Ratcliff, Egbert R. Wilder, Thomas E.
Richardson, John A. Welch, Fred L.
Simmons, Charles B. Whitehurst, Harry V.
Simmons, Harold R. Witt, Clifton A.
Smart, Harry W. White, Walter A.
Sutton, Walter B. Williams, Floyd B.
Scott, Arthur Wheeler, Frank C. Shepherd, Ralph E.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
193
Company G of the Second Kansas Infantry
Captain
Harvey, Leslie E. 1st Lieutenant
George, Jesse E. 2nd Lieutenant
Harvey, Eh-nest S. Supply Sergeant
Lorenz, Ira V. Mess Sergeant
Gooch, John C. Sergeants
Lockhart, George A.
Widmoyer, Fred B.
Johnson, Thomas P.
Murphy, Robert C.
Jackson, Sherman N.
Hart, Verne C.
Spivey, Ora M.
Purton, John L. Corporals
Cowell, George S.
Popham, Harry A.
Spivey, Henry L.
Ballance, Carl A.
Hally, Maurice J,
Stanford, Samuel T.
Cowger, Irvin L.
Boner, Boyd H.
Davis, Roland E. Bugler
Berry, Ray W. Cooks
Dotson, Charles R.
Shaw, George Mechanics
Trout, Elmer J.
Muller, Victor W. Privates, 1st Class
Bennett, Freedom
Cross, Elsworth A.
Davis, Thomas C.
Ferguson, Guy W.
Pilcher, Robert E.
Smith, Henry H.
Stout, Clarence M.
Twombly, Roy Privates
Armstrong, Lee A.
Baker, Homer A.
Baker, George M.
Barrett, John F.
Baumgartner, David P
Beach, Paul C.
Bock, Arthur A.
Becker, James R.
Bending, Foster D.
Bilsland, Joseph L.
Bishop, Elson J.
Boyle, John H.
Boyle, Charles M.
Butt, Chester J.
Butterworth, "William M. Carpenter, Thomas P. Caughey, William M. Coleman, George J. Coleman, Thurston Collins, Jake J. Collister, William H. Conde, Arthur L. Cross, Alonzo F. Cross, Harry Conde, Lee E. Davies, George T. Delcamp, Boyd E. Dewey, Bert Domino, Fred E. Dorman, Bernie E. Dunham, Albert G. Dunlap, Robert J. Dykes, Clay W. Edwards, Harry S. Endicott, Clarence Felton, John B. Ferguson, Eugene R. Fletcher, Merton M. Frakes, James E. Gooch, Leslie L. Guise, Raymond C. Hall, Henry T. Harmon, John E. Harmon, Ralph E. Hartley, Roy Hazen, Walter B. Heaton, Harry G. Heberly, Otis J. Hewes, William H. Hostetler, Carl C. Hudsonpillar, Clarence Kephart, Lloyd R. Kifer, Russell S. Kuhnle, Fred W., Jr. Laymon, Ralph F. Lewis, Erwin H. Lott, Neely MahoUand, Ralph E. Marvin, Paul Matthews, Earl C. McCoUough, Frank R. McGaugh, Lyle B. McGavran, Boyd B. McKee, Chester G. Melcher, Henry J. Miller, Jesse Z. Minner, Dow J. Moss, Charles A. Muller, Ira E. Murdick, Reed W. Murdock, Mearl R. Murphy, Elyde M. Myrick, Eugene B. Nelson, John H. Newell, Elmer E. Parsons, John H. Perkins, Doan F. Pilcher, Arthur C. Pilcher, Clifford L.
194
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Popham, Glenn A. Postelthwaite, Glenn D. Potter, Forrest J. Press, Floyd S. Richards, Guy O, Rodgers, Charles M. Rogers, Lloyd V. Rose, Wallace Ruby, Chancy E. Sampson, Rexford B. Sargent, John Shreve, Carl R. Shrouf, Lester B. Siegrist, Carl J. Smith, Hugh R. Snavely, Irvin N. Sommers, Ora C. Standau William H. Starkey, Jesse G. Strait, Charles Sweeny, Joseph
Swoyer, Henry A. Swoyer, John R. Teasley, Earl Thompson, Earl D. Townsend, Esley Truitt, Verne E. Treadwell, Lee J. Vaughn, Fred G. Walden, Clarence B. Walden, Roy L. Ward, Frank R. Webster, Calvin S. Whipp, Russell B. Wickham, Clyde S. Woodman, Alvin H. Woods, Milton A.
Losses, Discharged
1st Sergeant
Stout, Ray
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
195
Company H of the Second Kansas Infantry
Captain
Vaughn, Fred H. 1st Lieutenant
Brown, William L». 2nd Lieutenant
Fulghum, Marshall W. 1st Sergeant
Crawford, George E. Mess Sergeant Supply Sergeant
Robinson, Ivan R. Sergeants
Beck, Eugene H.
Hodges, Will H.
Pierpont, Raymond
Rutledge, Cecil L.
Wallack, Walter M. Corporals
Patterson, Robert S.
Tharp, Lewis M.
Constant, Wallace
Stolp, Joy A.
Schantz, Herbert S.
Barker, Ellis T.
Jenkins, Fred T.
Kondall, Wayne
Garrett, James S.
Endicott, Ralph
Cunningham, Charles W.
Wylie, Ernest J. Cooks
Cook, Israel U.
Isonagle, Darrell D.
Isonagle, Cecil H. Buglers
Kinkaid, Emmot C.
Holt, Joseph E. Kechanic
Armstrong, Eldward H. Privates, 1st Class
Barber, Lawrence L.
Busby, Dean R.
Dobbs, James V.
Dow, William H.
Owens, Cecil P.
Robinson, Earl H.
Schifferdecker, George W.
Seaman, Homer ^
Tolles, Henry W. Privates
Abel, Henry G.
Allman, George V.
Anderson, James M.
Arnold, Edward R.
Ault, Earl C.
Baker, Harold A.
Baker, Noble H.
Baldwin, Charles W.
Barringer, Oliver P.
Bauer, Merle H.
Beii, Carl H. Blakey, Victor V. Bourdette, Robert C. Bratcher Ivel L. Burbsm, Fay E. Buss, Lloyd F. Carpenter, Lynn P. Chattam, Carl C. Clark, Lewis A. Collins, Joseph H. Conley, Floyd A. Privates Cornelison, Harvey R. Cornelison, Herbert A. Crisswell, John T. Crooks, Cecil E, Dillman, Jake S. Dunagan, John O. Eastin, Harvie Eiche, Frederick G. Faught, Lawrence Ferguson, Sidney F. Files, Lennis T. Fitch, Rupert O. Fleming, Thomas H. Foley, Mike E. Gardner, Chester W. Geoslin, Doris R. Gilford, Lon Gordon, Dewey O. Gresham, Henry H, Griffith, Glenn Hall, John H. Hartley, James A. Henry, Garfield R. Heat wood, Albert F. Hetherington, Marion L. High, Clarence E. Himes, Charles E. Hughes, William R. Ingalsbe, Lawson S. Jacobs, John C. Jacobs, Marvin Johnson, Irl Raster, Reuben F. Raster, Sleamon H. Rinsey, Albert E. Lawrence William H. Lorton, Hugh C, Mahannah, Harry M. Martin, William L. May, Jesse E. McCoy, Ernest O. McCreary, Lou McCreary, Walter McVeil, Emery W. Miller, Harold L. Myers, Max E. Nicely, John W. Narris, Leonard H. Osborn, Bert C. Psige, James H. Pinard, Eddie J. Pinion, William N. Powers, Oran E.
196
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Powers, William H. Prattsman, George 3. Rader, Otis M. Randall, Emil A. Roberts, Cecil L. Robinson, Earl A. Rodman, John M. Ronsick, Doll D. Roseberry, Howard Q. Rude, Robert L. Sanburn, Fred Sawyer, Lacey W. Schlotthauer, Jacob Sherwood, Hober C. Sleek, Bon A. Smith, Allen E. Smith, Paul S. Snyder, Dean P. Stocking, William E. Switser, Charles T. Thompson, Merville C. Thorpe, Elmer R. Tully, James B.
Underwood, Virgil T.
Vaughn, William A.
Wallace, Leow H.
Walton, Carrie E.
Ward, Max W.
Watkins, Herbert A.
Wells, Thomas
White, Llewllyn B.
Whitt, Jesse E.
Wimpey, Eugene F.
Wortman, Harold S.
Yarbrough, Glenn G.
Young, Daniel
Young, George W.
Young, Roy D. Losses, Discharged Privates
Collins, Emanuel N. Mess Sergeant
Dobbs, Glenn W.
Adam, Murel B.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
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Company I of the Second Kansas Infantrj
Oaptain
House, Earl A. 1st Lieutenant
Swift, Allender 2nd Lieutenant
Ricord, Pearl Supply Sergeant
Cerf, Charles Sergeants
Van, Y. Earl B.
Rasnic, Clyde J.
Jones, Donald P.
Ellis, James R.
Currie, Paul E.
Graham, George W.
Hampton, Augustus A.
Brownie e, James S. Corporals
Gilmore, Morris C.
Joy, Will J.
Covell, Tom G.
Dwyer, Daniel M.
Atterbury, Joseph H.
Almond, Roger P.
Fuller, Robert P.
Smith, Charles J.
Key, Shirley D.
Kiersey, Chester A. Cooks
Nichols, Alvin W. Privates, 1st Class
Avery, Earl P.
Covell, Chester W.
Lyon, Harold J.
Taylor, Arthur S.
Van Wagoner, George W.
Wertz, Percy J. Privates
Adkerson, Jakle
Allen, Guy P.
Anderson, Fred M.
Arnold, John H.
Auker, Burley B.
Barton, Horace C.
Barkhurst, Earl J.
Belford, Karl
Bentley, Anzel B.
Blanchard, Merlin P.
Boyd, Harrison L,
Bridwell, Walter C.
Brown, Carroll P.
Brown, Mile C.
Bundy, James I.
Clark, Henry E.
Clark, Thomas P.
Clegg, Fines N.
Colville, John A.
Colville, William B.
Cunningham, William W.
Cusick, Eugene
Dehner, Albert B.
D«nnia, George A.
DeVore, Albert A. DeVore, Elmer B. Doll, Claude B. Dorie, William F. Eastin, Jess A. Elliott, James V. Fay, Frank S. Frazee, Harry W. Gaines, Henry F. Gard, Edward E. Gillham, Phillip G. Glover, Clyde W. Graham, Edward Greenwood, Harold W. Greenwood, Lloyd D. Grover, Carl H. Haddox, McHenry B. Hamrich, Guy Harris, William B. Harrison, Everett S. Harvell, John M. Helms, Lewis E. Helvey, Charles W. Herrick, Harry P. Hess, Loyd S. Hormel, Lee J. Hudson, Thomas C. Jennings, Austin P. Jones, Ben E. Jones, Charles M. Junod, Louis J. Kaplan, Harry Kennedy, Milton J. Koons, James P. Kruse, Otto P. McCarroll, John C. McCoy, Leo E. McCullough, Frank H. McMillen, Carl B. McPeek, Lester R. Maher, Richard D. Melick, Allan H. Messer, Charles L. Minter, Charles O. M. Mitchell, Samuel R. Morris, Leo E. Passell, John B. Payton, Jess Ferryman, Floyd EJ. Petticord, Harold H. Pickrell, Todd R. Prohart, Lawrence Prothero, Joe H. Purinton, Wallace L. Quirk, Leo Ratcliff, Carter B. Reeside, Delbert C. Reynolds, Ernest R. Roberts, Earl M. Rodwell, Joe A. Rowsey, Walter W. Sauer, Grant L. Schafer, August Seales, Charles L. Seamans, Fred B.
198 ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Shank, Harvey L. Twyman, Fred J.
Shilling, Rudolph D. Walterschield, Henry Yf
Simms, Thomas M. Walton, Paul D.
Shinliver, Vinton C. Whiting, Fred H.
Sloan, William E. Whitton, Fred W.
Smith, Fred A. Wiley, Thomas L.
Smith, Harold I. Wilson, Albert
Stice, William Wine, Arthur G.
StoU, Frank M. Wood, Elbert R.
Taylor, Edward J. Wood, Harry G.
Teter, Earl F. Wood, Walter B.
Theroulde, Alfred O. Woodward, John J.
Titus, Joseph Yaple, Claude N.
Todd, Charles T. Yeager, Clarence P.
Trego, Claude E. Young, Henry W.
Tyson, Logan R. Whipple, Tracey
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
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Company K of the Second Kansas Infantry
Captain
Fry, Renelda T. 1st Lieutenant
Gilmore, Rex S. 2nd Lieutenant
Ball, Harry M. 1st Sergeant
Dabney, Earl A. Mess Sergeant
Lowell, Dunbar Supply Sergeant
Campbell, Joseph Sergeants
McClelland, James
McKay, Donald
McBride, Roy
Backus, Lon
O'Brian, Ira
Church, Roy B.
Miller, William H.
Becker, Leod D. Corporals
McGinley, Victor D.
Child, Charles
Hertwick, John P.
Bateman, James D.
Walters, William
Howard, Floyd T.
Dabney, Charles J.
Brighton, Harold
Snyder, Clarence
Cripps, Warren A.
Nichols, Byron D.
Engel, William
Hunter, Donald
Smith, E. Erwin
Mather, David £1
Bailer, Earl
Sewell, Harry Mechanics
Elliott, Thomas B.
Orton, Carl Cooks
Haines, Charles
McClary, James M.
Currey, Claud C. Buglers
Herron, Connie R.
Smith, Alva Privates, 1st Class
Adam, Chester H.
Bump, Ronald A.
Boice, Harold
Bramer, Harry A.
Carter, Clarence D.
Chandler, Charles A.
Damon, Samuel T.
Daugherty, Tom
Garcia, Joseph
Hase, Eugene E.
Hughes, Arthur B.
Hughes, Harry E. Hertwick, Charles I. Jacoby, James P. Johnson, Shelby Lang, Albert H. Lohner, Joseph H. Mallonee, Leo R. Otterstotter, Jes Spayd, John R. Staloup, Kenneth H. Terry, Floid Tucker, James E. Truax, Alva G. Woodman, James H. Walters, Mark Walters, Clyde L. Williams, Arnold D. Privates
Andrews, Harold R. Arnold Joe Atkinson, Calvin O. Boyle, David A. Babb, Verlin Blain, Howard W. Brasier, Frank Bircher, Gentry Bodine, George O. Biggs, James W. Brock, Charles B. Brown, Horace C. Bean, Roy L. Crimmel, Henry W. Cecil, Neil M. Crowe, Robert L. Coy, Clarence E. Carter, Harold Cook, Harry D. Chauteau, Fred L. Chapman, Lendal D. Canney, Charles E. Debo, Jerry Eppley, Glen O. Eckley, Bennle Evans, Charles H. Estes, Charles E. Foster, Raymond Gurtney, Andrew J. Gallup, Otis O. Guarnee, John H. Gamer, Lonie Graves, Peter Gard, Harry Geren, Charley Goodson, Agle B. Hutchlns, Howard L. HoUon, Claude L. Harlow, Albert M. Higson, Fred Hicks, Clyde Jones, Walter W. Jones, Lester Johnson, Joseph E. Johnson, James B. Kennedy, Fred Kerr, Clarence C.
200
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Krone, Jay Kinslow, William Latta, Ralph H. Lewis, Ferell J. McGuire, Will S. Meskee, George G. Murray, Ewing S. Murphey, Loy L. McLaughlin, George Morgan, Alford E. Mudge, Carl B. Newton, Frank C. O'Keefe, Thomas Owen, James E. Osburn, Curtis Philipe, Al Philo, Chester Pyle, George Peneazok, Joha
Rhodes, Walter A. Reeves, James Rusher, Loy L. Ringle, Foster G. Smith, Leonard E. Slater, Roy W. Shadday, Charles Stone, Rolla A. Thrapp, Roy Thiess, William L. Vance, Herbert Warner, Robert M. Woolam, Earl Wilson, Walter L. Weber, William N. Wilson, Lee E. Wassara, Paul B. Whitten, Samuel H. Warner, Alford A.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
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Company L of the Second Kansas Infantry
Captain
Clayton, J. Patterson 1st Lieutenant
Ericson, Arthur J. 2nd Lieutenant
Laird, Homer U. 1st Sergeant
Schwartz, Walter A, Supply Sergeant
Burt, Charles W. Mess Sergeant
Hartenbower, Grover C. Sergeants
Trusler, Victor T.
Meairs, Rufus C. Corporals
Steckel, William
Sheridan, Phillip
Anderson, John M.
Christensen, Oscar C. Cooks
Kappelmann, Otto T,
Waite, Erwin R.
Swarner, Frank Buglers
Mosley, Ira Privates, 1st Class
Brier, Arthur E.
Briley, Carl P.
Dewey, Lynn M.
DeWitt, Harold
Fry, Andrew F.
Green, Churchill
Portwood, Bruce T.
Son, Elmer
Wagley, Harold K. Privates
Ainsworth, Walter
Anderson, Clare J.
Andrews, Walter H.
Austin, Glenn R.
Bass, Howard W.
Beard, Owen
Bell, Russell L.
Blackwood, Merle A.
Blackwood, Virgil H.
Bond, Merritt
Boyle, Walter J.
Brandner, Fred A.
Brown, Harry M.
Brown, William R.
Campbell, Guy B.
Casstevens, Earl
Christensens, Earl
Colburn, Willard C.
Cottrill, Floyd B.
Cozine, Frank K.
Crabtree, Jake L.
Crain, George R.
Crist, Frank
Crites, Jesse C,
Crotts, Glenn F. Dietz, William P. Dianey, William J. Donaldson, Arthur W. Downey, John L. Dunham, Myron Francis Drury, Floyd Edwards, Hugh F. Filinger, Charles J. Foster, Jay Foster, Silas F. French, John W. Gadbery, Arthur R. Giddings, Chester C. Gifford, Harley W. Gillispie, Arthur Gr. Glaze, Theodore Grim wood, Thomas J. Gross, Louis H. Hampton, Henry M. Hassinger, George V. Hassinger, S. Earl Haworth, Fred J. Hobbs, Gerald Gordon Horn, Edgar E. Hosley, Charles R. Houghton, Ray Hughes, Marion H. Hunt, Charles W. Ireland, Charles E. Johnson, Russell W. Jones, Linn P. Kendall, Charles B. Kesler, Charles E. Kimble, Herman Knowles, Edward Layton, Elmer J. Lockwood, Lawrence B. Logan, J. Austin Lowther, Eugene T. Lynn, Francis McCracken, Jesse E. Madison, Clarence J. Madison, Roy L. Madison, Stanley C. Mastin, Owen P. Meyer, Clarence L. Meyer, Elmer Minner, Ernest C. Monroe, Jesse Rodney Morris, Clifford Myers, Harry A. Nelson, Richard R. Noakes, Charles C. Norris, Oren N. Oakley, Lester C. Olberding, Louie A. Pennington, Thomas J. Petty, John W. Pierson, Lea R. Posvar, Edmund Potter, David B. Prescott, Russell M. Purdy, Leslie L. RandaU, Lewis W.
202
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Rapp, Alfred L. Reeser, Joseph R. Ridgway, Merle Riegle, Roy Wilford Riggs, Clarence E. Rinard, Bernard I. Roberts, Richard Rohman, William C. Rumford, Elbert A. Runnels, Vernon Ryman, Ben F. Schaible, Harold M. Schoeck, C. Leonard Schoeck, Harry A. .Sellers, Leslie R. Shaft, Elvis C. iSidener, Marion M. Simpson, Chester C. Simpson, Otto E. Smith, James M.
Smith, Joyce D.
Solander, Howard D.
Spangler, Joseph E.
Spivey, William L.
Stackley, Christie
Stevenson, Charles E.
Stites, O. Russel
Strom, Leonard O.
Wahl, Charles J.
Williamson, Randolph
Wilson, James A.
Wisler, Charles S.
Wood, Wayne
Zieber, Warren Losses, Discharged Sergeant
Richards, John S. Privates, 1st Class
Cain, Louis A.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
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Company M of the Second Kansas Infantry
Captain
Perkins, Roy W. 1st Lieutenant
Holly, Ward P. 2nd Lieutenant
Shipe, Willard J. 1st Sergeant
Richardson, Andrew J. Supply Sergeant
Biggart, William W. Mess Sergeant
Wagstaff, Fred M. Sergeants
Lill, Cycril L.
Showman, Samuel E.
Dick, Harlow G.
Lindblom, Ralph A.
Morriman, Lewis
Brill, Daniel P.
Thompson, Eugene "W. Corporals
Anderson, Carl
Doran, William
Young, Charlie W.
Carroll, William
Carruthers, Roy
Mencher, John
Pitts, VoUie W.
Donaldson, Joe F.
Moran, Fred
Barnett, Earl B.
Peterson, James C.
Metzger, Fred
Lightfoot, Ernest
Crosby, Amos
Smith, Sam B.
Price, Irvin M. Cooks
Shephard, Luda B.
Smith, Van B.
Walden, Allen C. Privates, 1st Class
Adams, Clarence E,
Barnett, Sam
Bell, Rowan J.
Bennett, Merrill W.
Brassfield, William P.
Cannon, Paul A.
Carson, Hobart R.
Chambers, John L.
Draher, Leland C.
Flinn, Edwin G.
Freeman, Claude
Gentry, Vincent W.
Hilligoss, Claude
Kohr, Roscoe E.
Lindholm, Enfred Q.
Maloney, Jack E.
McDowell, James C.
Murphey, Charley A.
Markham, Harry R.
Pratt, Glenn A.
Snyder, James
Smith, Edgar L.
Smith, Charles O.
Spence, Fred L.
Taylor, Frank O.
Watson, Mark L.
West, Hedford S. Privates
Akins, Malcolm
Alley, Lawrence J.
Alexander, Frederick N
Anderson, William
Atkinson, Clarence
Bartels, Alfred B.
Benedict, Willard H.
Bolby, Claude E.
Bolby, James
Bolby, Maurice A.
Borst, Frank C.
Boyles, Arthur L.
Brimlow, George F.
Butler, Eugene G.
Davis, Lawrence E.
Davis, Lee
Ditto, Dorsa J.
Durant, Pearl Russell
Ethridge, John A.
Fry, Leonard M.
Fuller, Will J.
Fuller, William H.
Garrison, Roy L.
Gottberg, John Fred
Graham, Eugene S.
Griggs, John S.
Haley, Marvin
Hed, Clarence A.
Hickman, Fred H.
Hite, Hickman
Hopkins, William M.
Hulbert, Earl O.
Hurst, John H. C.
Hutton, Asa A.
Ingram, Lloyd E.
Israel, John R.
Johnson, Webster L.
Knox, Andrew R.
Kreuger, Richard A.
Larkins, James A.
Lewis, Frederick P.
Lindsay, John C.
Livingston, Edward S.
Malone, Walter C.
Manning, Lauren T.
Maxwell, Walter L.
Metcalf, Ival A.
Miller, Doster
Miller, Harry R.
Miller, Hugh J.
Moody, James
Musser, Joe D.
Nichols, Chester H. ' Oberg, John E.
O'Malley, Ed D.
Ordway, Guy O.
Orr, Wilbert E.
204
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Parkinson, Thomas G. Patterson, Richard L. Peake, William McKinley Pendergrass, Ernest L. Putsch, Roy Reardon, Daniel P. Reardon, Frederick M. Read, Edison Rose, Leroy A. Roseman, Aaron H. Roseman, Clair J. Rider, Bert A. Sanborn, Seth H. Schumaker, Ernest Seavey, August G. Seavey, Park N. Sommers, Clayton S. Sparks, Albert A. Spencer, Herbert Stahl, Emmett J.
Stanfield, Paul A. Stauffer, Walter D. Stigall, Charley H. Storer, Evert A. Sutcliffe, George A. M. Todd, John E. Toner, Leonard L. Vanatta, Milford P. Vaughn, Clyde J. Weaver, Vernon Whaley, William E. Whiteford, Guy L. Wilson, Clyde Wilson, Robert S. Willers, Raymond Miner, George D. Attached
Jones, Lester V. Tart, Gerald A. Newcomb, Wayne C.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
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Sanitary Detachment of the Second Kansas Infantry
Major
Evans, Charles S. Captain
Seiver, Charles M. 1st Lieutenant
Hawke, Charles C.
Kirkpatrick, Walter H. 1st Sergeant
Gregg, Harry S. Sergeants
Freark, Joyce
Glahn, Harry
Wilson, Glen Privates, 1st Class
Browning, Claude
Browning, Frank
Davis, Warren
Dicker, Ralph W.
Dressier, Elmer L,
Evans, Roger
Glahn, Eugene
Hale, George Miller, William L. Palmateer, Walter Pine, Ralph E. Watkins, LeRoy Willis, George H. Privates Draper, William Dunn, William Evns, Paul Kirchoff, Arthur L. McDonald, Andrew McKee, Gordon E. McKitrick, Edward Mifflin, Dee Moore, Howard Ramsey, Clay Slaughter, Robert Smitih, Harry R. Starrett, Joe Stevens, Walter J. Trackwell, Jesse Urlaub, Ernst A.
Detachment Unassigned, Recruits Second KanMS
Infantry
Privates
Hall, Levi M. Halley, James W. Hammer, Richard S. Hoffman, William M. Brady, John J. Burdick, Chester Irvin, Robert E. Jennings, James M. Sand, Roy E. Skiles, Charles E. Tedder, Bryan E. Turton, Humphery H.
Vermillion, Louin E. Warner, Aquilla R. West, Hershal R. Wilson, James Wilcox, Paul J. Wooley, Harry M. Winton, Geo. L. Davison, Ernest D. Eals, Philip S. Jacobs, Henry W. Patton, Renwick M. Taylor, Howard E.
Headquarters of the Third Kansas Infantry 139th Infantry
Colonel
Rowan. Willie McD. Lieut. Colonel
Sharp, Alex A- Majors
McClain, Baxter D.
Krause, Albert H. Campbell, Thoma* R. 1st Lieutenants Botkin, Paul O. Dudley, Hugh S. Sharp, John B.
206
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Headquarters Company of the Third Kansas Infantry
Captain
Haskell, John J. Regimental Sergeant Majo r
Cahill, Frank P. Musician Surgeant Majors
Brier, James M., Jr.
Roberts, Frank M.
Pitts, Albert Dudley Band Leader
Morse, Theodore Mess Sergeant
Quackenbush, Derwood B. Band Sergeant
Crouch, Alfred D. Sergeant
Parry, EYank H. Privates
Abell, Robert E.
Adams, Henry W.
Ball, Charles O.
Bannon, Howard W.
Black, Roy W.
Bowen, LeRoy P. C.
Brooks, Devon B.
Bruner, James
Cambern, Leon J.
Carter, Alfred B.
Crashaw, William L*.
Drum, Robert A.
Dutton, Lane A.
Dubreuil, Joseph E.
Ewan, Philip T.
Fleming, David Walter Fleming, James R. Foshay, Garret A. Fowler, Leroy J. Gaston, Dewey G. Greenman, Lloyd B. Greenlee, Samuel Rae Haage, William R. Hanstine, Paul H. Hart, Donald R. Hartley, Minor Joe Henderson, William R. Liff, Theodore L. King, Ernest E. Knopf, Roby J. Neville, Fred Nininger, Ora E. McCarter, Arthur Miles, Marion Miller, Karl D. Morris, Harold G. Mitchell, Ralph E. Quiett, William E. Royer, Harold J. Smith, Chas. J. Stitt, Earl D. Stitt. Orby J. Stocking, Clyde L. Towles, Roy S. True, Larkin M. Vernon, Leo R. Wagner, Francis E. Wheeler, Paul R. Wolfe, Eugene Zimmerman, Henry W.
Machine Gun Company of the Third Kansas Infantry '
Captain
Payton, William E. 1st Lieutenants
Wilson, Richard T. 1st Lieutenant
Hunt, George J.
Northrup, Lewis O. 1st Sergeant
Enfield, Alfred R. Supply Sergeant
Scott, Ewing C. Mess Sergeant
Barber, Ezra T. Sergeants
Teeters, Lloyd L.
Beck, Harold W.
Bean, Louis G.
Dickerson, James G.
Vance, Chas. P.
Ross, Edgar B.
Bennett, Webster S.
Frevert, Frederick E.
Corporals
Denton, Fred L. Doggett, Cleo O. Hair, James L. Pierce, Frank O. Card, Esmond Coman, James G.
Dewey, Willim M.
O' Flaherty, John F. Cooks
Miller, Claude
Miller, Earl Horseshoer
Ballard, Roy G. Mechanics
Womack, Chas. M.
Manthey, Will A. Musicians
Newton, Herbert F.
Robinson, Kenneth M. Privates, 1st Class
Boman, Ralph C.
Daigh, Clifford L.
Grover, George M.
Nickels, Lloyd O.
Jordan, Olin L.
Kennedy, Carl S.
Norton, Everette C.
Tippis, Leroy
Smith, James E.
Malcom, Canby H. Privates
Ard, David
Ball, Otey
Brouillard, Chas, B.
Baker, Walter J.
Brouillard, Albert L.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
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Bolln, Francis C. Cummins, Chas. C. Fishes, Chas, C. Farren, Glenwood G. Hoffman, Geo. L. Hale, Guy W. Heaton, Claude L. Hoke, Oscar F. Kirkpatrick, Jesse H. Krause, David L. Kane, Oscar K. Latimer, Burney F. Lee, Elmer Lenhart, Wendell O. Lindsey, Chas. H. Long, Lloyd E. Middleton, Carl S.
Milne, Dell P. Morrison, Lenard T. Marple, Earl L. Myers, John R. McCoy, Scott C. Noble, Donald J. Ritter, Archie D. Raisch, John M. Rutherford, Lloyd P. Sicks, Wilber A. A. Seals, Lionel A. Straub, Peter W. Sicks, Elsa C. Walker, George S. Waugh, William F. Parker, Madison J.
Supply Company of the Third Kansas Infantry
Captain
Going, James F. 2nd Lieutenant
Woodward, George K. Regimental Supply Sergeants
Blain, William J.
Bair, Homer R. 1st Sergeant
Thome, Donald Horseshoer
Emry, Elmer J. Saddler
Reed, Geo. A. Privates
Anderson, Harold G.
Benson, Loren R.
Blake, Hololm L.
Bonjour, Ira S.
Bragg, Henry A.
Brake, Carey G.
Corbin, Harold W.
Davis, John E.
Dennis, Paul Dorcas, Everette H. Forth, Arlie M. Garland, William A. Greeland, Donald C. Grant, Wilmar O. Harper, Thaddeus S. Hazlett, John L. Henry, Scott S. Holdren, Emmett G. Humphreys, James Humphreys, John E. Jacques, George L. Johnson, Donald W. Johnston, Walter F. Jones, Fred R. Keene, Arthur W. Langan, Joseph P. Mentzer, Harry A. Nordgren, Axel B. Russell, John V. Stanton, Geo. S. Watson, Fountain W, Zeek, Floyd L.
Company A of the Third Kansas Infantry
Captain
Dale, Edgar H. 1st Lieutenant
Bentley, Blanton U. 2nd Lieutenant
Barndollar, Charles W. 1st Sergeant
Trickett, Dean Mess Sergeant
Rees, Earle F. Supply Sergeant
Elliott, David S. Sergeants
Kiddo, Richard E.
Halsey, Ray N.
Brunner, Alfred C.
Burkhall, Walter H.
Jenson, Carl O.
Hickman, Walter C.
Bingham, Delmore L.
Bradbury, Frank W. Corporals
Dillon, Keith
Andrews, Rayma L.
Swearingen, Carl E. Pickering, Ben C. Meeks, Clyde Miller, Claude E. Wills, Carl I. Jones, Robert H. Askren, Bert Piner, George W. Cosier, Raymond E. VanWinkle, Earle B. Miller, Arthur M. Love, Blanton D. Shaubell, Harry D. Dana, Merle H. Fulks, John M. Mechanics Martin, Verne Curran, Lawrence A.
Cooks
Arnold, Clarence Walton, Grover C. Vermehren, William H.
Musicians
Metcalf, Seward E. Prashaw, Cecil J.
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ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Privates, 1st Class
Benefiel, Lelan J. Boom, Samuel J. Bricker, Raymond W. Bryson, Geo. W. Callow, Don C. Gathers, Charles P., Jr. Clark, Hugh W. Dooley, Floyd C. Giles, Floyd L. Gillespey, Walter A. Gray, Richard L. Harris, John D. Herrick, Ben P. Huddleston, Geo. R. Long, Roy D. MacHatton, Joe Matteson, Leo V. Nelson, Geo. E. Parrott, James D. Perry, Alva B. Renner, Floyd E, Rice, Harold S. Smith, Herbert E. Swan, Carlton S. Trough, Lloyd Vaughan, William Walton, Ellis P. Wise, Robert L. Privates Allen, James M, Anderson, Abraham B, Baker, Earnest H. Benefiel, Oral Bentley, Bruce M. Boston, Levi S. Brannan, Sam Bucher, Barney Bucher, Tilden Callow, James G. Carrlngton, Homer Cllne, Dave A. Cobb, Chas. R. Combs, Joel A. Cotton, Harry C. Cribbs, Arthur L. Crocker, Clyde T. Cundiff, Roy E. Davis, Chas. B. Davis, Harold W. Duckworth, Roy E. Elmore, Lester R. Fisher, Guy K. Pitch, Alfred C. Poshe, Jim M. Fuller, James C. Fuzzell, David W. Gillespie, Ward W. Glidewell, Marion D. Grady, George E.
Graves, Theo. R. Jr. Griffith, Jess L. Grober, Walter O. Haddon, Carl J. Hall, Orley L. Hancock, William L. Hanes, James B. Higginbottham, James H. Higgins, Edward H. Highley, Elmer N. Howe, Robert W. Hutson, Rufus H. Jewell, Frank Jones, Edgar L. Jones, Robert P. Jundy, Dewey Kindley, Field E. Lape, Earl D. Latta, James Latta, John Livingstone, Arthur D. Long, Baden H. Main, Harry L. Martin, Samuel J. IxcGee, Chas. E. Myers, Les. J. Page, Harold R. Papen, James D. Papen, Willard L. Patterson, Claude A. Pearson, Fl-ancis W. Pevehouse, John D. Pierson, William A. Ray, Montie W. Renner, Oluf G. Richardson, Guy D. Richardson, Roy S. Roberts, William C. Rogers, Ernest H. Sargent, Frank H. Scholes, Richard C. Seaton, Orville J. Sevier, Ernest Smith, Alden Spurlock, James B. Stephens, Max S. Straub, Joseph P. Sumner, Earl E. Tabor, Calvin A. Tucker, Max A. Vanderford, Earl B. VanvsdoU, Seef Wade, John A. Wallen, Henry J. White, Guy L. White, Roy W. Wilkus, John P.
Attached, Privates
Clingan, Hughett
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Company B of the Third Kansas Infantry
Captain
Walling, Guy N. 1st Lieutenant Smith, William A. 2nd Lieutenant
Kanaga, Clinton W. 1st Sergeant
Blevins, Jesse J. Corporals
Fish, Enoch E.
Burnaa, George
Vendel, Joseph J.
Lamer, Iceland S.
Blevins, Theodore R.
Rindon, Harry I.
Leach, Arnold F. Mechanics
Clark, Floyd Buglers
Trapp, Merle A.
Marshall, Marlin W. Privates, 1st Class
Gutschenritter, Samuel B.
Hoffman, John H.
Jenkins, Rosco D.
Kimmel, William M. Privates
Abbott, Dean R.
Anderson, Alba W.
Austin, Robert A.
Bacon, Elmer E.
Bateman, Lemuel E,
Barackman, Crawford K.
Blevins, William E.
Barackman, Donnel
Bliss, Stanley E.
Blockwiez, Birt
Boehme, Birt
Bousefield, Geo. H.
Brandon, Benjamin F.
Brandon, Francis
Brann, Everett W.
Brey, Marlin
Brown, Ira C.
Burnam, William M.
Carson, Robert O.
Chance, Benjamin H.
Conley, Loren
Cooper, David Jr.
Coons, Kenneth A.
Davis, Claud
Davis, Lester M.
Davis, Lewis E.
Davis, William L.
Denning, Leonard C.
Douglas, Joseph B.
Douglas, John J.
Duncan, Elmer E.
Early, Walter R.
Edwards, James H.
Ferris, Earl A.
Fletcher, Chas. W.
Fletcher, Clair C.
Fletcher, Louis
Ford, Glee A.
Frantz, Donald
Frazier, Omer O.
Frendle, Leonard D.
Gibson, Lucien P.
Gibson, Perry F.
Glock, John H.
Greeley, Chas. E.
Guay, John
Gutschenritter, Tom C.
H&gan, Tony C.
Hegendeffer, Earnest P.
Hammon, William Harr, Lloyd T. Harrison, Benjamin C, Hargis, DeWitt M. Hawkins, Floyd J. Hawkins, John L. Hays, John W. Hesser, Fred S. Hudson, Leslie A. Hudson, William B. Hull, Geo. W. Hull, Ralph W. Johnson, Enoch B. Johnson, William C. Karnes, Roland R. Keeling, James A. Kilmer, James T. Lancaster, Richard R. Langley, Arbie F. Langley, Ernest L. Lake, Artie C. Larkins, William J. Lillie, Homer F. Loveland, Floyd Mack, Arthur L, Mantin, Wilson M. Mayall, Claude Moore, Leslie L. Morton, Jason S. Miller, Grover C. Miller, Virgil W. Mott, Roy A. Neill, Robert N. Nichols, Ralph N. Olmstead, Hugh Owen, Albert A. Owen, Wade R. Parker, Philip Paull, Clinton R. Paulson, Roy Pottorf, Frank A. Pottorf, Fred G. Pratt, William M. Quaney, Lawrence F. Radcliff, George D. Ramsey, David W. Renfro, David B. Rettlg, Fred W. Robertson, Leo W. Robohn, Walter E. Robbins, Lawrence B. Rogers Clyde J. Scales, Lester B. Schultz, Everett Segraves, Victor L. Shiveley, Chas. W. Shumard, Arthur E, Sill, Richard I. Taylor, James R. Vandruff, Grover Vendell, William F. Vigus, Frank M. Walter, Austin M. Walters, Frank Wheeler, James R. Wheeler, William W. Williamson, Sherman H. Wind, Fred J. Winrick, Clarence F. Winters, Roy C. Witteck, John F. Yearout, Thomas P. Young, Clark Young, Karle C. Atkins, Lloyd W. Brown, Delmer D. Woods, William J. Rosenblum, Joe Robinson, Elwood 8.
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Company C of the Third Kansas Infantry
Captain
Perrigo, William H. 1st Lieutenant
Daugherty, Samuel A. 2nd Lieutenant
Hall, Charles O. Mechanics
Petit, Harry
Ker,by, Martin P. Cooks
Gouin, Forrest E.
Gaunt, Herman
Anderson, George W. Buglers
Allm, Noble
McGarry, James Privates
Arnold, Harry L.
Archbold, Geo. L.
Arveson, Archie L.
Asher, Gene L.
Anderson, Grover
Allen, Leslie
Bently, William E.
Brady, Raymond F.
Bauer, Leon
Brazil, Chester G.
Bedford, Chas. E.
Bassham, James C.
Beason, Henry M.
Barritt, Harry D.
Briddell. William S.
Ceas, Lester W.
Clark, John C.
Collins, Pat P.
Collins, Walter
Cox, Curtis
Cushing, Thos. L.
Delaney, Timothy W.
Diegleman, Joseph M.
Dietrich, Fred
Dietrich, William A.
Davenport, Leslie J.
Dempsey, Charles
Dean, George A.
Benty, Edward
Ellzey, Wesley A.
Estes, John W.
Egleston, Richard
Engler, Louis K.
Folck. Lilburn P. Jr.
Fentem, Harry
Fox, Chas. W. V.
Foley, Timothy J. Jr.
Ford, Loyd E.
Finney, Frank A.
Glenn, Arthur D.
Grant, Richard M.
Gormley, Earl C.
Grattan, William M.
Hull, Warren
Hines, William D.
Henry, George J.
Huitt, Edward
Hartong, Harry E.
Huey, Archie
Hurley, Daniel T.
Halfpenny, Gordon H.
Hunt, George F.
Holterman, Emil J.
Haag, Tom S.
Harding, David
Hadden, William
Hood, Martin
Insley, William E. Jerrard, Clyde H. Jennings, Ray L. Jones, Earl L. Jones, Odis K. Johnston, Harold Johnson, Virgil H. Kelley, Leo E. Kelley, Paul M. Kennedy, Clarence D. Kerr, Paul Knerr, Clare S. Kipple, Ray G. Leach, Thomas Leone, Felice McCormick, Thomas P. Mclntyre, Harry H. McKinney, Earl H. Maher, Charley W. Mallon, George W. Marcy, Fred H. Melching, Roy C. Miller, Henry O, Murphy, Howard P. Nelson, Gerald Nixon, Guy L. Nunn, Roy O'Meara, Charles J. O'Meara, Paul A. Otnes, Fred J. Otnes, John B. Palmer, Ewart G. Pegues, Henry S. Peterson, Albert V. Peterson, Carl E. Phillips, Charles W. Putnam, Alvin W. Randall, Leon Rathert, Louis E. Read, Emory W. Ray, Boyd E. Redding, Dennie W. Reiber, Carl S. Reilly, John J. Rivers, Leo B. Ross, Clyde J. Saterlee, Fred Schanlan, Leo T. Schraag, Willie S. Schroeder, Ben Schultz, Toney Schultz, Walter R. Scott, Walter N. Shafer, Andrew J. Shaner, William Smith, Charles L. Snell, Clyde R. Stansell, Benjamin H. Stiffler, Elmer Steinbruick, Adolph A. Storey, Fred L. Storey, William F. Surprenant, Carl B. Taylor, LeRoy G, Taylor, Raymond J. Thompson, Vance E. Tibbits, Earl P. Tressin, Morgan Upham, Ralph E. Valmer, John O. Vetch, Charles C. Vetch, George Vetch, John H., Jr. Ware, George E. Warnock, Charles L. White, Floyd Whitley. Frank
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Williams, Forrest H. Williams, Russell H, Wilburn, Will L. Wrakestraw, George J. Young-, Floyd Klingman, Oscar Attached Reservist, K. N. G. Ericson, Arthur W. Joyce, Paul O. Pride, Joseph Anderson, Earl O. Armstrong, Adrian R. Akins, Ernest C. Allen, Dewey W. Baker, Roy C. Bialachofski, Bill Brewster, Willard C. Brown, Clarence I. Burns, Monroe C. Bowman, Hezekiah K. Billingsley, Buell Briggs, Carl Black, Alston W. Carson, John L. Campbell, Guy E. Cox, William P. Cottom, Ira L. Crepps, Glenn Miller Campbell, Edward B. Coate, Frank D. Ellis, John R. Evans, Joe O. Elrod, Eddie H. Fields, Frank L. Fox, Homer D. Franklin, Roy E. Foster, Roy Gillen, Glenn C. Green, Corbin L, Glotrowski, Wlidslew F. Haines, William H. Hall, Cecil E. Hardman, Ralph W. Hepner, Roland R. Howard, Lewis Huffman, Clint luros, Thomas Johnson, Foster A. Kunz, Lawrence W.
Killion, Fred
Leach, Alfred E.
Miller, Frank O.
Murphy, George M.
Minote, Thomas
Medlen, Charley A.
Mumford, William S.
Martin, Walter W.
Murrell, Robert Lewis
McAfee, Dennis M.
McGhee, Clarence O.
Mclntire, Carmi L.
McAfee, William A.
Norris, Albre J.
Norris, Walter D.
Ostrander, Cecil H.
Parsons, Charles C.
Potter, Max
Plunkett, Newton
Powell, J. John
Reed, George W.
Reynolds, Ernest E.
Ross, William Wayne
Ryan, Floyd
Robertson, Martin E,
Smith, Benjamin F.
Skaggs, Oscar
Shane, James C.
Songer, Lee
Smith, Ed Frank
Stewart, Clarence W.
Sullivan, Ira J.
Summer, Servyl S.
Swiger, Fted O.
Trimble, Chester F. Thomiason, Buck Taylor, Earl Welch, Henry C. Williams, Hiram M. Wilson, Willard E. Wilson, William B, Veerkamp, Franz L. Wymann, Lee Wilson, Homer C. Ward, Charles H. Williams, Clint Williams, Floyd F. Williams, Henry
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Company D of the Third Kansas Infantry
Captain
Wark, George H.
1st Lieutenant
Nicholson, Angus J.
2nd[ Lieutenant
Wilson, Jesse H.
1st Sergeant
Grider, Roy N. Mess Sergeant
Rinehart, Stephan R. Supply Sergeant
Mitchell, Lesley H. Sergeants
Nance, Ward D. Herring, Keith Orgram, Hoyt R. Crandell, Clarence L. Adams, Alfred O. Belscamper, Floyd W. Bradley, Charles H. Taylor, Benjamin Corporals VanDeventer, Roland W. Straight, Alhert E. Raymond, Roy B. Mitchell, Lester A. Ramsey, Walter H. Johnson, Clarence E. Leatherrock, Wesley K. Chilcote, Ferrin H. Cochrane, William M. Bowen, Charles R. Edmundson, Morril H. Danforth, George N. Coleman, Glenn T. Cherry, Homer E. McCrory, Victor E. Rogers, Charles A, Hemphill, Lloyd
Mechanics
Mitchell, William A.
Lewis, Bret C. Cooks
Smith, Fred F.
Dodson, George W.
Prall, Joseph N. Buglers
Cooper, Austin G.
Franks, Robert A. Privates, 1st Class
Boles, Edward J.
Belscamper, Earl B.
Boles, Clarence C.
Booker, Harry C.
Bowen, Chester J.
Buster, Roy F.
Brown, Ernest B.
Boyer, Baldwin H.
Carrinder, Joe G.
Capps, Hubert
Cook, William E.
Corbitt, Joseph W.
Gilliland, David E.
Gullic, Jesse
Higgs, Arthur L.
Higgs, Ernest D.
Holden, Raymond T.
Jones, J. William
Koons, Frank W.
McCrory, Lyonell
McClelland, George W.
Storms, Everett E.
Stewart, James W.
Townsend, Willard E.
Todd, Dean N.
Worthen, Sidney L.
Wiley, Carter W.
Webb, Henry C. Privates
Smith, Benjamin F.
Company E of the Third Kansas Infantry
Captain
Lindenstruth, Robert W.
1st Lieutenant
Radford, Paul C.
2nd Lieutenant
Biddle, Humphrey 1st Sergeant
Coleman, Don P. Supply Sergeant
O'Connor, John W. Mess Sergeant
Radloff, Henry W. Sergeants
Faulkner, Howard G.
DeTemple, Allan J.
Powell, Alfred B.
Harding, George E. Corporals
Reilly, William D.
Cochran, Walter H.
Gist, Walter M.
Blochberger, Edward R.
Kerr, Len D.
Gronis, John D.
Perkins, Harry A., Jr.
Levene, Bernard W. Mechanics
Yates, Edward C. Cooks
Younger, David L,
Brenneman, Perry L. Buglers
Bagwell, Ernest M.
Kramer, Stephen G. Privates
Abel, Phillip A.
Babbitt, Fred F.
Barber, Royal E.
Bell, Hugh M.
Belz, Gus C.
Blake, John H.
Broughton, Lloyd D,
Brushwood, Clyde W.
Bursch, George W.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
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Campbell, Roy S. Carter, John V. Chambers, Ernest F. Collins, Ray L. Cooper, Robert E. Conley, Walter I. Courtney, Guy T. Crooks, Marion P. Crimpley, Corbett Denman, Glen M. Doherty, Paul M. Douglas, Oscar L. Douglas, William W. Downing, Robert A. Davis, Frank M. Ennis, Harry J. Fleeman, Thomas R. Fletcher, George T. S. Fitts, Austin Ford, Louis R. Fullum, Ray F. Fretz, Harry E. Gardner, Edwin S. Garvey, Harry O. Ginder, Roy F. Gouck, Kenneth S. Greene, Robert B. Guenther, Louis W. Hageman, Harry D. Hargrave. Chauncy H. Harrison, Guy M. Harris, Edwin M. Hillis, Gordon N. Hitzemann, Clarence A. Hoffine, Clyde M. Hunter, Earl H. Jackson, Ivan A. Karnes, Frank L. Kelsey, Harry R. Lake, Ralph E. Landes, Roy E. Leach, Elwood M. Leach, Ray E. LeRoy, Keith K. Levi, Morgan P. Meister, Paul E. Mentzer, Paul E. Miller, Edward J. Minger, Edward E. Mitchell, Sidney B. Morrow, Rowland C. Mosley, Dewey
Mueller, Paul E. Myers, Oscar L. McAttee, Eslie H. MacLaren, Larry A. McDonald, Charles J. McEnulty, Leo B. Nacher, Stephan A. Nitz, Edward A. Noel, George H. Overstreet, William Owens, Eugene C. Papenhausen, John Parrott, Lee E. Pearson, Leon H. Perkins, William H. Peters, Lyman D. Peters, Leslie L. Peters, Wallace J. Phillips, John E. Powers, Kenneth H. Ricketts, Fred A. Rogers, Ralph E. Root, Harvey O. Rosenkrantz, Ike Salsbery, Edgar R. Sample, Louie L. Schroeder, Temme W. Scott, Jesse W. J. Scott, Robert A. Shea, George Shea, Walter M. Shepard, Reginald O. Skinner, Joseph W. Slattery, Michael W. Smith, Robert B. Stevenson, Frank G. Strong, Harry N. Sykes, John Talbott, Butler R. Tomlinson, Marvin E. Trackwell, Ernest E. "Valentine, Delbert A. Ward, Charles P. Warren, Ben C. Webb, Harrel R. Wilson, Andy B. Wilson, Charles N. Wilson, Edward C. Wilson, George T. Wood, William H. Worley, Ellis O. Yarbrough, William H.
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Company F of the ITiird Kansas Infantry
Captain
Otten, Irving A. 1st Lieutenant
Clarks, Charles W. 2nd Lieutenant
Bare, Carl J. 1st Sergeant
Rice, Fred L. Mess Sergeant
Thuma, Lester C. Supply Sergeant
Stewart, Charles V. Sergeants
Neff, Raymond T.
Harmon, Karl M.
Reese, George W.
Mitchell, Ezra C.
Stratford, John R.
Stratford, Ray A.
Shyrer, Frank A.
Matthews, Neil Corporals
Sheen, Joe R.
McCurdy, Walter R.
Cookston, Harry B.
Oblander, Rhiney
Pickering, T. Arlie
Bredendick, Henry W.
McCauley, Robert M.
Jossi, Louis
Arnold, Lonzo Bert
Craig, Harry F.
Dautoenspeck, George W.
Holderman, Abraham J.
Perry, Frank H.
Smith, Edward M.
Dockery, Harry
Logan, Guy R.
Goff, Manuel B. Cooks
Whitcomb, Walter R.
Bedinger, Charles
James, John T. Mechanics
Hightower, Herbert H.
Tetrick, Henry C. Buglers
Houchen, Thomas E.
Stewart, Lester L. Privates, 1st Class
Barnheart, Henry T.
Biggs, Russell V.
Daniels, William O.
Fall, Albert
Fell, Charley E.
Graves, John F.
Greene, Claude W.
Green, Harry B.
Halfhill, Noah
Harden, Milton J.
Hood, George W.
Jackson, Lloyd V.
Lucas, William C.
Oakes, John A. Pirtle, Charles E. Plew, John H. Reser, Ralph Richardson, Oliver Richardson, Roy R. Ryan, Philip W. Sanders, Charles L. Sass, Fred Schmidt, Harry J. Shuck, Frank M. Smith, Joe J. Stanfield, Howard Bruce Stoltz, George W. Stoltz, Ray L.
Privates
Baker, William E, Blackwell, Virgil R. Blair, Charles E. Bressell, Philip Broadbeck, Ernest A. Brown, Joe O. Carter, James Levi Clark, Frank M. Clinton, Arthur E. Cole, Orville Collins, Clarence Correll, John L. Counts, John T. Counts, Harvey R. Crabb, Melvin Crans, Thurlow S. Daniels, Robert E. Darwin, Ernest Davenport, Lloyd E. Davy, Claude W. Ditto, Weir H. Doane, Jess Doores, Forrest L. Doyle, Delta W. Dugan, Sherman Dyer, Roy E. Emery, William H. Feely, Raymond B. Forristall, George C. Foust, Benjamin E, Gant, Tracy Gilliland, Claude K. Gist, Harold E. Gordon, James Gray, Claude E. Green, Otis C. Griggs, Harry Harrington, Lawnie E. Hayhurst, Clarence M. Herrington, Curtis C. Hufford, Glenn F. Hunter, Floyd N. Ingraham, Thomas C. Jackson, Charles V. Johnson, Earl Milan Kairschner, William L. Keithley, Henry T. Kniff, Walter Law, John H. Liggett, Lester
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
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Lindsay, Nat M. Love, Rama S. Lumm, Earl L. Lytle, Clyde W. Martin, Leslie Miller, Frank W. Mitchell, Elmer E. Morris, Wilbur B. Mullins, Oscar B. McGrew, Lewis A. Oblander, Charles J. Oliver, Ervin L. Palmer, Harry H. Pierce, Herschel W. Rader, Earl H. Randall, Henry E. Reese, Howard T. Rich, Hilbert E. Ricord, Edwin O.
Robbins, Ollie E. Russell, Cecil Earl Seery, John E. Sharp, Oliver Sheridan, Clarence E, Smith, Ray I. Spiegel, Oscar H. Stanley, Arthur G. Tillery, Lewis W. Vernon, Ernest F. Walling, Charles E. Whitmer, Kent O. Wilson, Charles Harrison Wilson, James W. Wilson, Karl F. Windsor, Fred Winterrowd, Guy P. Wright, Thaddeus A.
Company G of the Third Kansas Infantry
Captain
Snyder, Arthur W. 1st Lieutenant
Hanby, Edward V. 2nd Lieutenant
Bisenius, George P. 1st Sergeant
Gowley, Richard P. Supply Sergeant
Arend, Harold D. Sergeants
Murray, Charles T.
Knight, Robert R.
Florea, Wilbur C.
Bryant, Wilber J. Corporals
Wichers, Henry B.
Sexton, Joseph C.
Mitchell, George L.
Kimsey, Dan E.
Edwards, Harry
Bowers, Arthur W.
Blanks, Dean T.
Cook
Godfrey, Giles J. G. Buglers
Burch, Roscoe E.
Crum, Raymond H. Privates
Abrahams, Louis K.
Addams, Irvin
Akens, Charley R.
Akens, Frank M.
Allen, Vivian S.
Barnes, Sam
Bergier, Lieth J.
Bickle, Gale
Boyer, Harold J.
Bottorff, Glen W.
Bowman, John L.
Bryant, George T.
Burns, Eddie
Carmody, Thomas
Casey, Phillip T.
Coble, Glen C.
Catlin, Clarence A.
Cope, John G.
Cope, Roy Newton
Confer, Samuel A.
Covert, Louis L. Cox, LaRose Creamer, Forrest H. Gushing, Roy W. Dial, Lawrence E, Dillon, Donald Duffy, Clarence E. Earls, Gordan L. Elliott, Anderson Elder, Lawrence S. ' Emigh, William F. Fisk, Joe M. Flickinger, Bert D. Fischer, William F. Goheen, Maurice. S. Gibson, Grover C. Gill, Joe J. Gorham, Arthur Greeman, Benjamin Griffiths, Floyd L. Hauptle, August J. Henderson, Arthur W. Henderson, Walter P. Hettinger, Lloyd M. Home, Arthur B, Hull, Floyd E. Hull, Laurel W. Haverty, Leroy Havner, Ben C. Higgins, Edward J. Irey, John M. Jones, Harry E. Jones, John Jones, Lawrence L. Jones, Ralph H, Johnston, Harry A- Johnston, Vearl V. Jack, Russell Jackson, Earl A. Kaup, John C. Killinger, LeRoy Kirschbaum, Henry Kisling, John W. Ladow, Aubrey L. Latham, Edgar P. Lee, Ben Love, Charley Lynch, Harvey W. Lingo, William H. Logan, Homer T. Lovem, Archie McCormick, Alfred B.
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ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
McConnell, Charles EL McCune, Kay E. Marzolf, Milton J. Maxwell, Ray D. Miller, Frank B. Montoro, Thomas L. Morrell, John S. Moyer, Harry E. Malcolm, OUie M. Murphy, Will Nasman, Eddie L. Neifert, Jesse G. Parmelee, Dickinson L, Phillips, Harry Raff, Rea Randall, James R. Ray, Charles O. Ray, Ralph P. Reddick, Earl E. Reddick, William J. Remick, Glenn W. Richardson, LeRoy Richardson, Wayne J. Robinson, Charley L. Rollins, Vern Reeder, Carl W, Schellinger, William H. Sharp, Chester Sharp, Gordon Sheets, Lawrence O. Smith, Albert
Smith, Charles M. Smith, Frank Smith, Harold C. Smith, Milton H. Smith, James O. Smith, Zeb Sower, Jacob Stansbury, Vaughn L. Stokes, Earl R. Sutton, Cecil A. Schoonover, Lee L. Talbott, Richard W. Teten, John J. Thrasher, Robert E. Thomas, Dewey O. Treaster, Oscar N. Turner, Carl M. VanCleave, Clifford M. Ward, Paul Walker, Earl R. Well, Donald K. White, John N. Wideman, Fred E. Winter, Andrew T. Walters, Bastian J. Williams, Albert J. Wright, William L. Yager, Herman Young, Lawrence P. Zumwalt, John D.
Campany H of the Third Kansas Infantry-
Captain
Browne, Charles H. • 1st Lieutenant
McManigaJ, John W. 2nd Lieutenant
Lucier, Ralph F. Mechanics
Lackey, Roy R.
Tabbron, John W. Cooks
Clark, Homer L.
Lash, Harlow W.
Dunanan, Merle L. Buglers
Seeds, Robert R.
Wood, Charles J. Privates
Anderes, Albert
Anderson, Arvld H.
AUgire, Ray R.
Alstrom, Carl W.
Alpin, Robert W.
Armstrong, Harry A.
Aspley, Roscoe W.
Ballweg, Clarence J.
Barkley, Elmer W.
Blair, Oberton J.
Boyd, John E.
Boyer, Homer E.
Brenner, Sidney C.
Brinkmeyer, William F.
Brinkmeyer, John A.
Buchanan, Dewey H.
Buchanan, Frank L,
Buchanan, Harry W.
Buchanan, Paul
Buchanan, Ward
Burton, Simeon S. Cairns, Charles B. Callahan, Holly W. Callahan, Joe H. Campbell, James E. Cashman, John L. Chesnut, Raymond L. Cooper, James M. Cox, Joseph H. Crumrine, Harvey W. Curran, Mark S. Cutler, Dale J. Cutler, James R. Daniel, Jesse J. Davis, Arch W. Davis, Frank E. Dawson, LeeRoy Day, Willard L. Dayton, Howard S. DeHaven, Walter J, Deamgion, Sam Dixon, Clarence E. Dobkins, John M. Dower, Jesse R. Duffy, Isaac Dyer, Vaughn Eaves, Everett Eckley, Charles T, Elwick, Fay A. Etherington, George W. Ewing, Rexford E. Fisher, Grant H. Foltz, Carl H. Foltz, Edward J. Foltz, John A. Eraser, Leslie A. Frey, John Garten, William H. Gibbs, Glenn I.
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Gish, Jacob M. Gish, Ray W. Hall, James E. Harris, Ralph M. Hawthorne, Coe Haynes, Quin H. Herman, Walter R. Heskett, Alvin Issitt, George E. Jeffcoat, Melvin E. Jones, Aaron E. Jordan, Frank B. Jordan, Harold M, Kauffman, Clarence E. Kauffman, Clyde L. Kehler, Ward G. Kirk, Charles G. Larkin, James E. Leshley, Blake Lewis, Robert R. Lioader, George L, Loader, Robert K. Lucier, Alcide J. Luck, Charles J, McCosh, Harry P. McNeal, Ellis A. Machen, John E. Mann, Alie A. Merillat, Harve G. Monroe, Elmer L. Nemec, William M. O'Neal, Willie H. Parks, Everett L. Parson, Clint Paul, William H. Poe, Charles N. Porter, Ray Rector, Mahon R. Reep, Elmer L. Reese, Claude E. Reid, George A. Romberger, Roy B. Russell, Roy R.
Sampson, Clarence A. Savidge, Arthur W. Savidge, Ernest R. Schneider, August G. Schneider, Kellen A. Seip, Howard L. Shannon, Clarence L Sherman, Ralph S. Sherwood, Roy C. Shiry, Alonzo D. Shockey, Fred M. Shook, Anthony Shook, Grover C. Shook, Wilbur V. Shoop, Clarence W. Shuey, John S. Shum, Lawrence E. Siemers, John F, Simpson, Clarence A, Smith, Albert W. Smith, Otto C. Sparwasser, Edward W. Steinborn, George Steyer, Clark Strowig, Olin R. Stuck, Mervin L. Stuck, William J. Sutton, William H. Swanger, Elmer H. Tate, William E. Tober, Claude A. Turner, Ray Tweed, David VanDoren, Chester G. Viola, Ralph H. Walters, Harry E. Wigham, William E. Wilson, Buck M. Wilkie, David B. Yeadon, George W. Yeadon, Henry Attached
Leshley, Floyd
Company I of the Tlhird Kansas Infantry
Captain
Garrett, James B. 1st Lieutenant
Guilfoyle, Matthew 2nd Lieutenant
Martin, Ralph W. Privates
Abbott, Lloyd E. Adams, Arthur E. Adam, Wilbur L. Anderson, Clarence L. Anderson, Vivian C. Annis, Edward C. Arbuckle, Frank Arnold, John W. Arnold, Percy H. Asling, Fred Baird, Hoyt G. Bane, George E. Barrett, Daniel Barrett, Samuel Behring, Harry C. Blythe, Harold J. Bress, Charles W.
Buckley, Bollie V. Burns, Ambra Brock, John Calkins, Arthur Calkins, Harvey A. Callahan, Charles P. Cameron, Robert S. Chapin, Clarence C. Clark, George R. Costello, Joseph J. Crisp, Edgar E. Culver, Harold E. Darling, John Davis, Tom D. Douglas, Levern Doyle, Joseph L. Duggan, Patrick J. Dunn, Jesse L. Edens, Harry H. Elliott, Worley H. Falen, Martin R. Fisher, Elmer C. Fisher, Samuel L. Galloway, Frank C. Giltner, Frank E.
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ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Goodrich, Fred E. Haage, Jennings B. Haclder, Hermis C. Hammond, Paul H. Hamer, Phillip W. Harrison, Louie Hartley, James M. Haverstock, Dewey i Hernisen, Elmer Hodgson, George W. Hoskins, Frank E. Howell, Marshall K. Hudson, John M. Hudson, Steve Jenkins, Sidney Kandt, Martin C. Kearn, Earl R. Keefer, Samuel B. Kiser, Charles H. Kistler, John J. Kochenower, Walter A. Kahl, Frank W. Kohler, Erwin F. Krause, Erphine A. Krause, John A. Longhofer, Fred Longhofer, Godfrey P. Lundine, Arthur G. McClaran, Carey R. McCaleb, Ernest T. McDiffett, Lorenzo W. McMurray, Harold D. McWilliams, Earl J. Maddix, Earl C. Metcalfe, Albert L. Meyers, Harvey R. Meyers, Thomas D. Miskey, August L. Moors, Clarence C. Moorehead, Fred D. Morris, Robert O. Mulkey, Myron M. Murphy, Ray H. Neis, Clarence H. Nichols, Harold C. Normandin, William H. Oldfield, Louis D. Oldfield, Willie Oneil, John J. Pabst, Charles E. Pegorsch, Henry A. Pfeister, Simmle C. Phillips, Fred P. Pio, Jesse L.
Potts, Albert S. Price, Ronald H. Pugh, Carl D. Rader, Procter E. Reber, Otto A. Reed, Alonzo L. Rigney, James A. Rogers, Thomas R. Rupert, Evert Ruyle, Lawrence R. Schrader, Herbert C. Schrader, Robert F. Schrolick, Martin W. Schump, Joseph P. Schump, Paul J. Seely, Dwight H. Sell, Vernon D. Sheehan, Francis W. Sheridan, Delmer R. Shipley, Perry Smith, Cecil E. Smith, Roy H. Spady, Alex Staley, Harvey H. Steinberg, Shirley Sterling, Joseph A. Stevenson, Luther C. Sturgis, Harold D. Strunk, Milton Thomas, Carl A. Tullis, Harvey W. Vanderpool, Clarence T. Vansickle, Jack Vaughn, Floyd Volkman, Arthur W. Wager, Claude H. Walker, Arthur H. Walker, Earl R. Wakefield, Fred Ward, Ison R. Waylan, Harold E. Weaver, Harold W. Webster, Clyde E. Wiggins, Horace E. Wilde, Lavern P. Wilde, Teddy L. Williams, Arthur J. Williams, Charles D. Wilson, Mark E. Young, Leo H. Combs, Harry L. Hopper, Charles A. Stephens, Harry H, Tebo, George H.
Company K of the Third Kansas Infantry
Captain
Randall, Howard M. 1st Lieutenant
Brewster, George C. 2nd Lieutenant
Kaster, John P. 1st Sergeant
Sheets, Frank R. Supply Sergeant
Gilchrist, Walter C. Mess Sergeant
McDonald, Harvey Sergeants
Freeburne, Cecil
Weede, James A.
McArthur, John C. Kobel, George W.
Cooks
Shea, James L.
Pi*ivates
Albrecht, Henry G. Adams, Carl E. Atkinson, Louis D. Anderson, George A. Adams, Arthur Abbey, Frank L., Jr. Adams, Donald P. Armstrong, Lloyd H. Baker, Marvin S. Burgener, Leo I. Blough, Vernon L.
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Blaylock, Herbert J. Barr, Harry R. Burdick, Roy E. Bassett, Leroy H. Black, Rex R. Brogdon, John I. Barker, Roy B. Britt, A. Earl Carter, Milo O. Carter, Frank E. Coppock, Charles Cox, Floyd L. Cox, John E. Chambers, Walter E. Chester, George M. Cryderman, Wayne V. Corley, Joel V. Corley, John C. Crow, Lloyd W. Davis, Evan L. Deshner, Walter H. Dunmire, Joseph A. Dohner, Rutherford B. Egbert, Rollin E. Errett, Jay H. Eshom, Charles H. Eversull, Stephen B. Ferguson, Roy French, William P. Finnell, Lauren Fowler, Clarke D. Fuller, Ellis B. Eraser, Gilbert S. Fieth, Milton E. Freeburne, Clarence Gilchrist, William B. Grochowsky, Jacob Griswold, Oberly A. Geisick, Henry Gradert, John F. Henry, Lawrence G. Hankins, James L. Holle, Frank J. Hoppe, Eugene A. Hoffman, William Hall, Harry L. Hoffman, Carl C. Hampson, T. Carlyle Hartman, Joseph W. Hutton, Leroy J. Huey, Frank G. Hammond, Harry Hartman, William L. Hardin, Ellis L Hamilton, Thomas D. Harris, Weston V. Hopkins, Mjo-on E. Ingold, Walter T. Isham, Leroy G. Jewell, Carl L. Kinard, Fred E. Keeppen, Hancel G. Knee, James C. Landes, Adolph H. Lantz, Chauncy M. Liggett, Astin A. McGlassen, John A. Merritt, Cecil
MUler, Wilbee P. Moffett, Charles C. Murdock, Delbert McMillan, Ralph E. Morgan, Earl A. Morrison, Thomas L. Newfeld, Thomas S. Patterson, Edward C. Pace, William L. Payne, Charles H. Fletcher, Paul Quigley, Edward D. Renick, Harry H. Rogers, Harold A. Reid, William J. Royer, Paul Rhoads, Marvin E. Reid, Marion C. Roberts, Erskine Rogers, Walter K. Ragsdale, Lawrence B. Rodenbaugh, Allen H. Sims, Ottis M. Stewart, Wellington Stockman, Francis J. Small, Charles L, Scott, John L. Simpson, Orin S. Schertz, George H. Snyder, John B. Shacklett, Glen E. Starrett, Royce E. Slaymaker, Charles E. Sawyer, Gordon W. Smith, Carleton S. Sisson, Arthur R. Simpson, Duke B. Sperry, Frank L. Stone, Edward A. Smith, Emmett E. Swengle, Elmo S. Schell, Oscar J. Sands, Ewart W. Timmons, Harley N. Timmons, Franklin P. Thompson, Marvin B. Terry, McKinley Ulery, Audily W. Vandine, Robert W. Warner, Merle B. Williams, Walter R. Welsh, Willard Woodley, Homer Walden, Francis W. White, John S. Warner, John G. West, Paul L. Whitesell, Arthur P. Wing, Norris N. Wolter, Fred W. Zimmerman, Harvey F.
Attached
Gragg, George L. Powell, Arthur P. Bainbridge, Roy T. Young, Robert B. Cummings, Thad L.
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Company L of the Third Kansas Infantry
Captain
Crow, Thomas L. 1st Lieutenant
Black, Asa R. 2nd Lieutenant
Haupt, William H. Sergeants
Wynn, Byron F.
Greenway, Raymond
Hyndman, Eugene B. Corporals
Hamel, Arthur A.
Winfield, Joseph M.
Lowry, Delwyn B.
Halcomb, John S.
Ross, William H.
Netherton, Charles E.
Renn, George S.
Beattie, James I.
Holt, Elmer M.
Marshall, Thomas B.
Humphrey, Earl D.
Clark, William C.
Kellog, Frank H.
Robinson, Ronald W.
Schwinn, Thomas Mechanics
Lovingfoss, Harold C.
Spencer, Frank F. Cooks
Collins, Claude H.
Camp, Daniel C.
Burscough, Guy E. Musicians
Nixon, F^ed
Bell, Cecil V. Privates
Anderson, Archie N.
Ash, Carl
Anderson, Walter J.
Allen, John
Burcham, Grant F.
Brubaker, Claude H.
Beatty, Charles L.
Burson, Ray E.
Brown, Fawn D.
Botkin, Elmo
Barner, Lee M.
Black, Guy A.
Banghart, Merle R.
Botkin, Jay
Beattie, Harold R.
Bunker, Wiley H. M.
Blank, Floyd E.
Baldwin, James M.
Cecil, Carl L.
Casselman, Philip J.
Clark, DeWitt T.
Caples, Russel B.
Carson, Clifford
Cowherd, William A.
Crowdus, William W.
Campbell, Enor C.
Collins, Glen
Clark, Luther A.
Corey, Sam Derington, Edwin B. Dobbs, Kenneth S. Dailey, Ralph D. Dawson, Benjamin H. Doramus, Elmer C. Dust, Pete Ekland, Ralph L. Edmonson, Dale E. Eads, David R. Elsas, Charles H. Foster, Alfred E. Ford, John T. Gardner, John A. Ginder, Walter E. Gaines, Wilbur S. Gardner, Arthur J. Goff. Cleo C. Gowers, George L. Gwinn, Willis P. Gift, Floyd W. Hollingsworth, Ralph Hamel, Melvin A. Hainsworth, Avery L. Hainsworth, Ralph B. Hopper, Frank C. Heasty, Kearns R. Henderson, Wesley A. Higgins, Joe L. Jones, Sumner Jones, Fred L. Kanage, Sterling G. Kohl, Williard B. Kennison, Frank N. Kohler, Lewis Kublus, Charles M. Laird, Thomas E. Lewis, Charlie A. Long, William N. Lane, David W. Logan, John Mathews, Whit O. Marshall, Fred L. Morrell, Floyd B. Meyer, Walter O. Meredith, Warren C. Mains, Fred L. Maxon, Emery L. Mosby, Harry Maynard, Aaron A. Mayes, Curtis L. McCombs, Nathaniel G. McNally, Bryan T. McKinney, Alex E. McFarland, Oral R. McCabe, Delbert E. McCuen, Charles L. McGreavy, Thomas W. Nickerson, EllswortJi N. Overby, Jesse M. Ostrander, Ray M. Poirier, Victor G. Phelps, William A. Patterson, Richard B. Potucek, Charles W. Powell, Walter M. Quinby, Albert M. Rothrock, Ray R.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
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Riner, Howard W. Rorick, Charles A. Swift, Claude J. Smith, Charles E. Sparr, Orville Snyder, Carroll D. Sullivan, Clyde R. Stewart, Harry L. Sunderland, Roscoe L. Stone, Robert R. Strohmeier, Rex R. Shaffer, Charles P. Scrivens, Rolla E. Tooley, Chester N. Threlfall, John H. Tennant, Warren A. Tucker, Hobart B.
VanHorn, Harry E. Vaughn, Warren Z. Whittaker, Walter W. Wilson, Lorn T. Wilson, Roscoe Winsor, Glenn H, Waugh, Joseph E. Walker, Joseph E, Williams, Claude D. Young, John E. Zook, Russell A. Attached Parker, Thaddie M. Waid, Arthur
Discharged
McKinley, William A.
Company M of the Third Kansas Infantry
Captain
Allison, George L. 1st Lieutenant
Burkholder, Edwin V. 2nd Lieutenant
Carpenter, William R. Privates
Applegate, Oscar C. Bray, Earl W. Bray, Francis E. Brown, William J. Brown, Curtis Brunner, Henry Brening, George T. Buffington, Harry W. Buffington, Charlie H. Bullock, Clyde Barton, Luther L. Beisel, Gotfred P. Bibler, Meade O. Booth, Ernest L. Bauerle, Charles W. Baker, John P. Blackburn, Russell W. Bates, Delano E. Buffington, Walter O. Boes, Charles W. Carney, Fred J. Castle, Roy C. Caswell, Arthur B. Childs, Guy E. Converse, Floyd F. Cooper, Albert E. Cooper, Milburn M. Crist, Morris Christian, George i Doron, Arthur W. Downey, Elmer G. Dodge, William J. Doering, William Deal, Clarence E. Druse, Martin F. Dures, George W. Eichenour, John W. Evans, Ernest R. Fisher, Anthony Flook, Herman E, Fitch, Charles L. Fawley, Wilbur O. Friesen, William Fisher, Frank France, William P. Foth, Jona
Foth, Fred W. Gerhardt, John H. Goodman, Nolan G. Goodman, Lafe Grimes, Bruce H. Hammer, Park S. Hanneman, Abraham Hayes, Everett P. Herndon, Charles D. Herbel, Andrew Holmberg, Charles H. Hopper, William P. Honn, Calvin Houlton, Carroll V. Hugo, John R. Hulett, Virgil W. Hunt, Blaine A. Hurt, Harold H. Hopkins, Myron E. Hadel, Henry W. Jacka, Alfred P. Jaeger, Harry C. Kmet, John E. Keazer, Kenneth Kline, Henry Kelther, Neil Krause, Isaac Larsen, Robert Lawrence, Adrian E. Lovelace, Joseph Lovelace, Herbert Lawrence, Edward Loveless, Paul C. Linn, Earl J. Martin, Henry S. Miesse, James W. Mackie, Frank J. Murry, Andrew A. Martin, Tolbert S. Monroe, Lawrence R. Miller, Walter J. McClure, Norvie J. McClellan, John I. May, Alexander J. May, Adam E. Matthews, Clarence L. Newcomb, Wayne C. Noll, Archie R. Niederhauser, Charlie C. Navrat, Joseph Potter, Kent B, Potter, Floyd Piper, William O. Patterson, Harry O.
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Pauls, Rudolph Raley, Frank O. Reiswlg, Dave Riddle, John Roberts, Orville O. Rollings, Harry A. Rollins, James C. Ramsey, Garland Shepperd, Charlie B. Sims, Robert D. Straubs, Heron S. Shultz, Fred Siegenthal, Albert Sailer, Arthur H. Schmidt, Alvln Sellers, August Schmidt, Richard M. Smith, Isaac R. Shimic, Albert Shahan, Winfield F. Shields, Albert J. Sparks, Warren Thomas, Thomas J. Tajchman, Louis Tipton, Chauncey E. Tarrant, Andy F.
Trear, Barney H. Urbanek, Philip M. Urbanek, Enos Vadakin, Athol G. Vance, Harry M. Vogan, Orval C. Varelman, George E. Wachholz, August Wight. Ollie O. Weinmeister, Harry, Jr. Winner, Claude S. Weadon, Frank M. Williams, Stephen C. Wikus, Julius L. Wells, John J. Willhite, Desmond R. Wheeler, Lewis H. Wilcox, Harry M. Walle, Paul J. Wheeler, James A. Zeih, Jacob, Jr. Zeih, Henry Zeiner, Earl S.
Attached
Fox, George L.
Sanitary Detachment of the Third Kansas Infantry
Major
Smith, Henry D. 1st Lieutenants
Webb, Herbert M.
Coffman, John F.
Harrison, Eugene 1st Sergeant
Dreyer, Arthur N. Sergeants
Read, Lathrop B., Jr.
Schropp, Martin A.
MacLeod, Percy A. Privates, 1st Class
Bonar, Verlin E.
Bonesteel, Guy M.
Combs, George M.
Duer, Alva O.
Erps, Harry R.
Fuhrken, Arnold C.
King, Fred E.
Lull, Sherman F.
Lull, Elmer
McLeod, Alvin C.
Philbrook, Merell F.
Stoffle, Herbert F.
Turner, James A.
VanDewalker, Earl G.
Whetstine, Sylvester B. Privates
Allen, William H.
Close, Gilbert C.
Durst, John
Featherkyle, Leo P.
Fetrow, Ward W.
Gray, Robert C.
Howe, Edward C.
Johnson, Frank P.
Kelly, Newton B.
Lecuyer, Albert F.
Steele, Oliver P, Jr.
McLeod, Fred J.
Swan, Bradford L.
Wright, Paul C. Attached Private
Gray, Earl R.
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Headquarters Company of the First Kansas Field
Artillery 130th Field ArtiUery
Captain
- Mills, Arthur M. 1st Lieutenant
McFarland, Frank H. Regimental Sergeant Major
Cummings, Earl R.
Band Sergeant Major
McGaw, Stewart M. 1st Sergeant
Rhule, Grover C. Stable Sergeant
Johnson, Rupert A, Supply Sergeant
Blakely, Charles G., Jr. Mess Sergeant
Ringgenberg, Joseph C. Sergeants
Seine, Robert F.
Kreger, John B.
Spielman, Harold Q.
Sproat, Philip H. Cooks
Neely, Frank B.
Leiss, Walter H. Privates
Anderson, Ben F.
Anderson, Oscar R.
Barbour, Lancewell M.
Bothwell, Earl
Bulkley, Henry H.
Carson, Harry
Collins, Joe P.
Crowell, Harlow
Debauge, Joseph A.
Dittmer, Otto H.
Felker, Charley E.
Fichtner, PYank R.
Fritz, Edwin A.
Gardner, Vance G.
Goodsell, Clyde M.
Gregory, Edwin M.
Hanson, Harry P.
Hey, Roscoe E.
Jenkins, "William E.
Johnson, Arthur E.
Johnson, Arthur V.
Johnson, Carl V.
Johnson, Richard
Kessinger, Mervin R.
Kiesow, Herman P.
Kistler, Herbert D.
Larson, Albin L.
Leander, Gus
Lynch, Patrick A. McArdle, Albert H. McFall, Robert R. Main, Clarence L. Mainey, Francis A. Marchetti, Latt Marshall, Joseph O. Mauzey, Joseph H. Neiswender, Chester P. Nicholson, John H. Parrish, William W. Phillips, Robert A. Powers, Louis A. Sawyer, Raymond M. Sharpless, Samuel Shipley, Roderick J. Shultz, Joseph Skinner, Rexford G. Smiley, Harold A. Smith, George Thatcher, Kenneth T. Vann, James A. Wilkerson, Clyde Williams, Earl M. Wilson, Harvey Zercher, John A. Ziegenbein, Hamer L.
Band Leader
Morrison, Thomas S.
Assistant Band Leader
Main, David W. Band Sergeant
Smith, Daniel I. Band Corporals
Miller, Martin G.
Eckert, Fred
Gibbs, Karl M. Third Class Musicians
Barnes, Bryant
Bowman, Fred W.
Bowman, Vernon E.
Browne, Richard H.
Dennis, Loyd H.
Hammer, Claude T.
Henkle, Elgin G.
Hough, Byron
Maxwell, Paul M.
Montgomery, Charles Z.
Morris, Clyde R.
Peterson, Tell
Ramsey, Fred A.
Ritts, Alvin V.
Russell, Homer
Sinclear, Jack W.
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Supply Company of the First Kansas Field Artillery
Captain
Mayhew, Thomas A. 1st Lieutenant
Porter, Benjamin H. Privates
Ahrens, Fred W. Baker, Alma Bair, Raymond P. Bilello, Frank H. Conoway, Clyde E. Cooper, Arthur Dal ton, Aaron V. Dow, John C. Fike, A. I. Foster, Edwin A. Prye, Ed Frost, Jack Halsey, Marian A. Hawk, Jo Fuqua Hendricks, Eli
Houck, Frank M. Johnson, Roger W. Morgan, Earl Mouror, James R. McAuliffe, William J. Porter, Earl L. Porter, Samuel P. Shinn, Clarence A. Stimson, Ray A. Stimson, Cleo Shelden, Benjamin W. Schmidt, Gus A. Saxon, Keene Thrift, Claude M. Winstead, Dewey E. Wood, Ernest E. Workman, Charles W. Whitehead, Fred B. York, Solomon E. Zartman, Oscar B.
Battery A of the First Kansas Field Artillery
Captain
Macleen, William P. 1st Lieutenant
McFarland, Paul T.
Anderson, Nels A. 2nd Lieutenants
McKee, Donald F.
Maclean, Hugh A.
Rowles, Leslie 1st Sergeant
Wilson, Clarence E. Supply Sergeant
Kennedy, Edgar C. Stable Sergeant
Domme, George Mess Sergeant
Coon, Edgar R. Sergeants
Link, William C.
Whitaker, Thomas C.
Kennady, Homer P.
Maxwell, Albert
Goshorn, Robert E.
Mariner, Zoe O.
Bakar, Clarence E.
Brantingham, George L.
Rogers, Glenn W. Corporals
Bell, Edwin P.
Murphy, Charles
Baker, George P.
Critchfield, Otto B.
Tamqury, Ernest C.
Fulton, Marshall T.
Morehouse, Edgar
Beerbohm, Fred W.
McArthur, Charles E.
Thomas, Theodore
McGee, Chauncey
Woods, Arthur M.
Beals. Herbert J.
Smith, James B.
Stone, Alpha
Young, Ralph M.
Bracy, Willard R.
Fable, Frank
Irvin, Leonard D.
Jarrell, Archibald W. Cooks
Towles, Glendon
Cavert, James M.
Woolworth, Cecil I. Chief Mechanics
Stewart, George D.
Hammond, Harry L.
Wiesner, Isidore A.
Ireland, George I. Horseshoers
Goodell, Edward S.
Pepper, Lee V. Saddler
Bolibaugh, Louis Buglers
LaFromboise, Roy
Sweeney, Paul
Kaufman, Paul T. Privates, 1st Class
Gum, Horace L.
Lesher, Cecil S.
Lyons, Reed M.
Norris, Lewis M.
Parry, Thomas H.
Randall, William N.
Smith, Marshall
Privates
Ackerman, James R. Adams, Delbert Adams, Dennis Adams, John Albro, Fred Anderson, Charles B. Arnold, Herman
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
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Austin, WiUard D. Barthel, Harold S. Bennett, George L. Bettinger, Osbern D. Bower, Camile J. Bower, William Boyer, Harry F. Brookish, Maurice Brubaker, Albert T. Buckley, Lyle H. Bundy, William D. R. Carnahan, James J. Carnahan, Robert A. Carroll, James W. Chacey, Doyle L. Chambers, William L. Chappelle, Oscar H. Cole, Sumner W. Conklin. Arthur L. Cook, Elijah W. Cooper, Harry E. Cunningham, Walter Davis, Ralph H. Decker, Claud R. Denner, Payton L. Dickerson, Curtis Diehl, John P. Dietz, John P. Down, Harry E. Eddy, Jesse A. Eagle, Arthur L. Eagle, Robert L. Evans, Thomas Frederick, Guy L. Freeman, Martin J. Freeman, Max C. French, Charles H. Fronke, Arnold C. Gable, George D, Gardner, Carl S. Gohrt, Edwin E. M. Gillette, Kenneth R. Givens, George E. Gracery, William P. Gregory, Leonard L. Groff, Webb W. Grunthal, Walter C. Ball, Kenneth W. Hammer, Howard P. Hastings, Irving R. Haynes, William C. Hazel, Ernest C. Hed, Joseph A. Heberling, Junius L. Henderson, Edwin A. Henry, Arthur P. Hensel, Hiram F. Henson, Vernon A. Holland, Clifford R. Irish, Floyd E. James, Walter E. Johnson, Clifford O. Johnston, George F. Kane, John T. Kaufman, Stanley
Keim, Harvey D. Kiene, Edward A. Kirby, Vance Kling, John Laird, Leslie Lang, Carl G. Langen, William V. Lent, Roscoe W. Lindemann, Richard W. McCorkill, Walter M. McConnell, Charles N. McKnaught, Charles D. McMurtry, Harold G. Mair, Earl L. Martin, Zack Mauzey, Perc E. Miles, Winslow F. Moore, George S. Morey, Charles T. Morgan, Ralph G. Morrow, Arthur C. Newman, Clifford A. Norris, Walter B. Palmer, Roy H. Patterson, Mahlon H. Phillips, William H. Price, Harrison L. Rafferty, Owen J. Rains, George O. Rees, William Reinoehl, Carl R, Richards, Kenneth V. Robbins, Harry L. Robinson, Ellis A. Rooney, Robert Rosner, Albert S. Rowley, Earl S. Saunders, Galen W. Scahlon, Frank J. Schwab, John B. Smith, Albert E. Smith, Marion A. Springer, Harold G. Steinmetz, Henry O. Steinmetz, Ivan Stewart, Samuel G. Stice, Glen C. Stockton, Lee Swearingen, Maurice Tanner, Charles W. Thomas, John E. Torrence, Howard Tweedy, Robert D. Uphouse, Thomas R. Wallace, George B. Ward, Charles E. D. Warner, Lorraine D. Watson, Alex C. Werner, Ed G. Whitaker, James M. Willett, Albert E. Workman, Lester Wright, Harvey W. Sellars, Fred E.
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Battery B of the First Kansas Field Artillery
Captain
Amick, John S. 1st Lieutenant
E?dwards, Charles E.
Jennings, Dana T. 2nd Lieutenant
Spotts, Ralph H.
Troutman, John F. 1st Sergeant
Fink, Louis O. Mess Sergeant
Rice, William I. Supply Sergeant
Baker, Milton L. Sergeants
Battin, Charles T.
Jones, Harold M.
Ogden, Raymond C.
Ritter, Clair A.
Winey, Willard L. Corporals
Davis, Earl E.
Dunkley, Georg-e
Thomasson, Russel W. Cooks
Horr, Worthie H.
Kemper, Hollis D.
Talbert, Leslie A. Mechanics
Nottingham, Harold E.
Reed, George O.
Samuel, Ralph C. Buglers
Bishop, Howard L.
Blackbird, Thomas
Picketts, Tom A. Privates
Abbott, George
Aldrich, Earl W.
Allen, Fredria R.
Arnold, Lewis W.
Barnd, Richard
Baumgartner, Carl H.
Bear, Abe
Bennett, Alfred S.
Bradstreet, Edward D.
Brass, Edward B.
Bray, Floyd E.
Breakey, George D.
Brown, Rufus Earl
Bruner, Dreyfus F.
Buckner, Claude E.
Burns, Edward
Cain, William G.
Carr, Harry
Carter, Russell D.
Chissoe, William
Chupo, Moses
Clarke, Byron L.
Coffin, George E.
Conner, Charles A.
Comrad, Howard
Coogan, John L.
Cooper, Edward O.
Couteau, Herbert
Cox, Edward R.
Creel, Howard E.
Curry, Everett
Dailey, Jasper A.
Dale, Allen P.
Davies, Thomas D.
Davis, Jesse W.
Deere, Daniel Dougherty, Joseph C. Dove, Charles M. Duvall, Thomas Ellis, Blair Ellis, Otto Elston, George Evinger, Labon E. Ewing, Walter Fairbanks, Samuel P. Fletcher, Zell Forgey, Jesse J. Gettinger, Elmer Gibler, Eugene E. Gooselaw, Henry Gordanier, Glenn L. Gotts, Harry Goulette, Preston Graves, Ezra T. Griggs, Eugene Hadl, Vitus Hafmoon, Edgar Harding, Frank E. Harjo, Johnson Harvey, Samuel J. Heiken, Ernest H. Helm, Bryan Henderson, Earl M. Hill, Samuel Holt, Frank M. Hopper, Ralph G. Humphrey, Wilbur J. Hunter, Floyd L. Hunter, Issac Ingles, James A. Ingram, Irwin Jewett, Mark Johns, William N. Johnson, John O. Jones, William M. Justice, Edward S. Kane, Lawrence W. Karns, Warren A. Kerschen, Carl N. Kilbuck, Jerry King, George W. Kingsley, Volney Kerby, Elton A. Kirkpatrick, Dewey M. LaDeaux, Antoine LaMere, Charlie B. Lange, Leo H. Lemberber, Lloyd E. LeRoy, John F. Lind, Lloyd L. Lowrey, Lyman McCabria, Harry G. McCurtain, Grene McKittrick, John McPherson, Raymond C. Maddox, Dewey Mannschreck, Orval Martin, William Harry Meadows, Roy W. Mears, Gus M. Miller, Fred H. Mills, Lloyd R. Murie, Lawrence Neanomantuby, Jacob Oakley, George Oatman, Arthur C. Okeson, George N. O'Niel, Donald B. Oswalt, Arthur Otto, Edward A. Owens, Miles M.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
227
Pate, Goldy M. Peacock, Phillip Pepper, Robinson Phegley, Homer Elwood Phelps, Lawrence Pickens, William Pieratt, William E. Pollock, Harris Prettyboy, Benjamin Puckett, Clarence E. Rairden John R. Randall, Chas. B. Randall, Richard Reed, Homer C. Reed, James A. Reinhart, James A. Reneau, Lee E. Richmond, Alfred B. Risley, Chester Romero, Ralph Rooks, Edward F. Russell, Jacob B. Saunders, Henry W. Schramm, Joseph P. Shelton, Oakley R. Shoemaker, Lee W. Shovlin, John E. Sloop, Ernest W. Smith, Leon E. Sockey, Rafe
Starnes, William D. Stewart, Clarence A, Taylor, Charles M. Thompson, Harry H. Tompkins, Amzie T. Tracy, John R. Trammell, Joe W. Trock, Elmer L. VanNess, William D. VanWey, Guy S. Venard, William L. Vandegrift, Vernel K. Vandegrift, Vertol J. Vitt, Otto L. Walrod, Carl White, Alvin White, Elmo E. White, Frank H. Williamson, Roy Winkler, Frank E. Woodward, Merritt Tardy, William Simmerman, Clyde R. Bates, George Helwig, Paul M. Hodges, Stephen E. Johnson, Arthur G. Judd, Earl C. Martin, Murry
Battery C of the First Kansas Field Artillery
Captain
Hughes, James C. 1st Lieutenant
Curran, Hal
Zickraf, Peter L, 2nd Lieutenant
Broadlick, John N.
Blair, John H. 1st Sergeant
Wofford, John E. Stable Sergeant
McCoy, Bob M, Sergeants
Brown, Charles M.
Goodwin, John W.
Woodard, Fred E. Corporals
Wolfe, Cecil E.
Billings, Earl K.
Wilson, Edward
Bruce, Estel V.
Cockerill, Carl L.
Holmes, Frank
French, Arthur M,
Frages, Henry G.
Wright, Arthur L. Privates
Adamson, Harry B.
Allison, Robert E.
Arkle, John P.
Azember, Nick
Barnthouse, William M,
Benedict, Frank G.
Bennett, Ames F.
Billard, Ernest
Black, Albert S.
Black, Chas. R,
Boissier, Elie
Boissier, Leon Bone, Alexander H. Bordin, Achille Boothe, Daniel L. Bridgewater, Clyde E. Bridgewater, Paul A. Britton, Andrew R. Jr. Budde, Frank H. Buehre, Frederick A Burdick, Clyde R. Burger, Waldo Y. Burnett, Joseph R. Bicknell, Edgar S. Cadwallader, Ardell Cameron, Jerry Campbell, Bill H. Chaffins, Frank Chancellor, John A. Chancellor, Roy E. Choat, Oscar Chrysler, Leo F. Copley, Roy C. Cordray, Otis Craft, Clarence A. Crelly, Harold J. Courtney, Reginald R. Cowden, Harry D. Condy, George R. Jr. Davis, Clarence Davis, John W. Decuyper, Fernand Degan, David W. Degan, Sam M. Delaney, Patrick J. Deruy, Henry Diehl, Oscar J. Dodson, Fred M. Doss, Hollis C. Easom, Lewis E. Elliott, Daniel Ermey, Fred L.
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ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Etzel, Charles W. Everitt, Robert C. Ewalt, Theodore EJyestone, Hal J. Fairchild, Elza O. Fairchild, John W. Feldman, John F. Ferguson, John Fichtner, Clarence E. Flottman, Arnold L.. Flores, Florence Fougnie, George Frankes, Charles E. Frsitoe, Frank B. Fuller, Benjamin A. Fullum, Earl E. Francis, Wolfe D. Geier, Lloyd E. Gillin, Mark B. Goodman, Ewart Y. Graham, Andrew Henderson, Fredie Henson, Charles K. Hill, Ira T. Hill, John F. Holcomb, Leroy F. Hooton, John Huffman, Arthur W. Hughey, Leslie W. Hughey, Verne E. Ingalsbe, Meryl T. Inglis, Edward Jarrell, Kelsey A. Johnson, Russell Jones, Lloyd C. Kasper, Arnold J. Kautsman, Thomas A. Keady, Loyd C. Kelley, Lewis M. Kelso, Jorden Kelso, William M. Kent, Alpine N. Kincaid, Max G. Knoll, John J. Kubas, Frank Lear, Benjamin Lemler, David W. Littleton, Bowman T. Lutz, Elmer L. Lux, Lester A. Lynd, Lloyd A. Mackey, Irven Ligatt, Herbert H. Mallen, Thomas D. May, Walter C. Maylen, William McElhenie, George McHaley, Roy Michie, Troy W. Manning, Edward A.
Middleton, Robert W. Miller, Shelby V. Minerd, Sylvester L. Mingori, Louis Modlin, Charles R. Montgomery, Frank O'Connor, Bryan J. O'Donnell, Mathew J. Osborne, William C. Owens, Oscar Page, George E. Patterson, Tyler C. Painter, John L. Parsons, John L. Pigg, Robert F. Powers, Harold C, Quackenbush, Landon O Reeder, Bufford Renison, Loyd Didley, William Rodgers, Harry L. Ryan, Howard T. Schenck, William J. Schneider, Jacob J. Sandbickler, Emile Sells, Dewey P. Shields, Frederick B., Jr. Schirk, Rudolph R. Schnebly, George J. Spoonhour, Edward E. Staff, Arthur E. Starchich, Frank Jr. Sullivan, Martin B. Tatham, Harry Thomas, Asa A. Toussaint, Albert R. Trogdon, Ray Ulery, Charles E. Vanderville, Cezar Vandris, Augustus VanMeter, Charles R. Vantrepotts, Fernand VanVoast, Deforest Vessadini, Pete Walker, Blaine E. Walker, Leonard E. Watters, Ellington W. Wery, Joseph L. Whitten, Jewel C. Williams, Winferd M. Wilson, Willim L. Winters, Robert C. Wofford, Raymond J. Wolf, William W. Woodbury, Forrest G. York, George Losses, Discharged, S. C. D. Robinson, Arden Bell, Galen M. Gibbons, Alfred F.
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Battery D of the First Kansas Field Artillery
Captain
Brady. Willim H.
Burnett, Clanrold A.
Pomercy, Dwight A. 2nd Lieutenant
Fenton, Gerald B.
Bass, William W. Sergeants
Hyndman, James M.
Young, Earnest B.
Llepman, Morres V.
Cockerill, Clay R.
Wharton, J. P. Corporals
Dixon, Fremont
Hussey, Charles
Bouck, Harry W.
Broadlick, Robert
Reed, Robert M.
Flottman, Edward A.
Logan, John
Wilson, Bryan
Fern, John P.
Quinn, John A.
Nett, Bert D.
Tyrk, John C.
Haney, William B.
Russell, Richard Privates
Adams, Worlie W.
Allister, James
Anderson, James W. Jr.
Armstrong, Albert L.
Beck, Harry B.
Blaker, Lynn D.
Bollinger, Harlow
Bower, Harry D.
Bradfield, Ellis H.
Broderson, Chester B.
Brooks, Orville
Brown, Carl B.
Brown, Joseph
Buchanan, William L
Buckeye, Harry J.
Bullington, Elmer
Butler, Abraham O.
Chancellor, Chester A.
Cherry, Gustave
Christiansen, Otto
Clark, Alva E.
Clinkenbeard, Clarence
Coley, Joe L.
Colwes, William W.
Condit, Ray M.
Cooper, Walter G.
Crosaglia, Joseph
D'Haillecourt, Desire
Dawson, William E.
Dorris, Walter W.
Duffy, Michael
Basom, Harry
Edwards, George
Eisenbrandt, Henry L.
EJppinger, Clyde Eyer, Herbert L. Frame, Floyd F, Francisco, Ralph P. EYeeman, Frank Gerhard, Henry Glitten, James E. GoUe, August Goodwin, Dovie Graham, Robert L. Graham, William A. Gugello, Pete Hamblin, Robert W. Hamner, Fred Hamsher, Samuel J. Harrigan, Joe A. Harshfield, William B. Heatwole, Harry G. Helms, Alvia Helms, Dewey Heslet, Raymond L. Highbaugh, Swan L. Hill, Davis C. Huckaby, Loren Hughes, George L. Irwin, Paul H. Izatt, William A. Jarivasi, Dominic Jenkins, Earnest P. Jones, Andrew J. Jones, David T, Jones, Frank R. Kingston, Ozena Kirby, John Kittle, William T. Kreiger, Amos H. Kuppersmith, Edward Lamb, Warren Lauer, George L. Leigh, Tom Lemaster, Leonard O. Lewis, Roy Loomis, Frank McAlhaney, Raymond I McCain, Paul T. McCoy, Dallas P. McDaniel, James A. McFarland, Lester McAlhaney, Raymond L. McGinnis, Edward D. McClothlin, James M. McManus, Richard A. ^ McMurray, Earl C. ^ Mavery, Jesse March, Charles A. Martin, Joseph H. Maxwell, Donald C. May, Gordon J. Minter, Marvin E, Moore, Archie A. Morris, Decalb Nehon, Ramage N. Newton, William A. Nichols, Estrl F. Nielson, Robert
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Nightingale, Wilfred H Nute, Benjamin J. O'Dell, John G. Overmeyer, Charles C. Prettyman, Quincy W. Province, John T. Quinlan, Raymond A. Racy, Clifford N. Racy, William Reinhardt, Floyd E. Richard, Edward A. Richard, Jules Restau, Ervin O. Robison, John A. Rohinson, Lorraine H. Ross, Charles F. Ross, Randal N. Russell, William Sanders, Ernest A. Sayles, Floyd E. Schmiedler, Aloysius Scholes, George H. Seaman, Herbert H. Seleman, Herman Shead, Elza B. Sheets, Frank L. Shirley, Otis M. Sills, William T. Skinner, Eugene A. Smith. William H. Spegal, Alonzo P. Stewart, Charles Stoffer, Frank M.
Stroud, William V. Thiolet, Theodore Thompson, Samuel Timmons, Warren M. Tipton, William A. Towery, Robert C. Van Hall, Julius F. Vance, Joseph E. Volkert, Louis E. Walker, Augustus Walter, Alva J. Ward, James Welsh, Edward Jr. White, Charles W. Whitney, Arthur W. Williams, Orvil, A. Wilson, Floyd O. Wilson, Marion Wood, Frederick Wood, William S. Work, Earl Worrall, John L. Zinn, Ralph E. Zurek, Bryan
Losses, Discharged
Cowan, James H. Hubbard, Albert M. Neeks, Albert Oberto, Joe Quigley, Julian F, Shinn, Marshall E. Van Meter, Elbert
Batftery E of the First Kansas Field Artillery
Captain
Hoyt, Phil S.
1st Lieutenants
Poindexter, Erly W. Orlander, Frederick H.
2nd Lieutenants
Barker, Roger L. Russell, Glenn A.
1st Sergeant
Householder, Victor H.
Supply Sergeant
Anderson, Carl E.
Stable Sergeant
Reed, Walter J.
Sergeants
Cheak, Lucian Laird, Benjamin, H. Holder, Edward F. M. Ingle, Truman L. Amidon, Edward C. Wall, Courtney, C. Corporals
Gray, George H. Cass, Joseph Miller, WiUiam E. Dahlgren, Earl W. Campbell, William E. Chambers, Thomas A. Harris, Orville Hedstrom, Algot G. Millikan, George N. Larson, Carl J. E. Mount, Bert
Buglers
McBratney, Robert R.
Patton, W. Sidney Cooks
Gayman, Thomas
Lemmon, Sturling
Wagner, Raymond W. Privates
Anderson, Lwrence J.
Audas, Howard H.
Baker, Edwin M.
Barker, Edward D.
Ballenger, Edward
Baughey, Leslie A.
Beauchamp, John A.
Belan, John
Bender, Cecil
Bigham, George P.
Black, Leroy E.
Bolande, Harold E.
Bradley, Raymond P.
Bratschie, Fred S.
Bridendolph, Neil
Brockwell, John B.
Bronson, Richard T.
Brown, Myron D.
Burns, Fred E.
Burditt, Henry
Burchfield, Leslie K.
Campbell, Charles E. Jr.
Cargill, William F.
Coleman, Clyde D.
Conklin, George E.
Conley, Edward P. Jr. Corcoran, Ben O. Copewycz, Walter Cowles, Elisha C.
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Cowles, Lucius L. Crofton, James J. Crumpley, Horace Davis, Joe DeGroff, James S. Dempsey, Archie D. Dennett, Robert W. Donohue, James L. Donnovan, William J. Eaken, William L. Edmonds, John H. Evans Richard J. Fennelly, Leo L. Fisher, Frederick H. Fisher, Joseph C. Franey, Frank "V. French, Charles L. Gatewood, Harley B. George, James M. Giles, Clinton B. Gleason, Joseph T. Glidden, Lyle B. Gossage, Melvin McK. Gough, John B. Gravatt, Homer Griffin, David Grimes, John A- Gross, John W. Grove, Charles V. Gustafson, Carl Hanauer, Edward T. Hansen, Martin Hargreaves, Fred E. Hauf, Earl O. Hindle, Joe O. Holden, Herbert G. Howell, Charles O. Hughes, John J. Jr. Hurd, Virgil L. Hurralbrink, Herman W Isenhour, William H. Jewett, Chester C. Jobe, Charles Johnson, Chester E. Johnson, Floyd A. Jomowkvich, Joe Jones, George H. Kerns, Charles W. Klebansky, Samuel Koons, Charles D. Korasic, John F. Krehm, George J. Laird, Earl Larson, Harold A. Laughlin, Thomas J. A. Leinbach, Barto J. Leinbach, Charles B. McConnell, John J. McCulley, James C. McDonough, Thomas L. McGill, Ronald F. Mclntyre, Claude McMahon, Joseph McMurray, Elmer H. Mackey, Carl L. Manning, Robert E. Markowitz, Daniel
Markley, Charles J. Marshall, Arthur R. Meier, Charles W. Martel, Arthur H. Miller, Henry L. Millikan, Roy E Misell, Robert L. Mitchell, Ernest W. Morrison, Ovid T. Moss, Evertt R. Motis, Nicholas Mullies, Ralph W. Noel, James P. Noll, Paul R. Nystrom, Arthur G. O'Niel, Fred P. O'Rourk, John F. Odgers, Sheldon P. Olson, Walter O. Osborn, Robert Perley, George R. Pfeiffer, Wilbur C. Reardon, Daniel J. Rice, George H. Rice, Samuel R, Rohl, Anthony J. Sawyer, John W. Schiller, George W. Scheicher, George L. Schooley, Glenn G. Schraer, Clifford B. Shaw, Cornelius R. Simpson, Frederick Sims, Martin D. Smith, Clarence M. Smith, Frank Smith, Harry B. Smith, Jesse E. Sprowl, David A. Sprowl, Marshall R. Staniforth, Fred Sterner, Charles Stewart, Walter W. Swan, Edward R, Talkin, Andrew H. Taylor, Henry J. Thomas, Jerdon L. Thomas, Roy G. Thurgate, George M. Torrey, John T. Trantum, John T. Valentine, George Vaughn, James M. Walker, Charles P. Walker, Hugh O. Walters, Herman L. Williams, Claude J. Williams, Earl H. Williams, John M. Williams, Lucian Q. Wilson, Edward P. H. Wood, Charles D. Wright, Walter Zelenok, George A Losses on Account of Dependents Kitchen, William
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Battery F of the First Kansas Field Artillery
Captain
Sauers, Birdie E. 1st Lieutenants Priest, Frank T. Wooley, Daniel W 2nd Lieutenants Bleckley, Erwin E, Simons, Bert 1st Sergeant
Klein, Randall T. Mess Sergeant Moore, Eric C. Supply Sergeant
McMillan, Claude V. Stable Sergeant
Schultz, August A. Sergeants Flournoy, John J. Copeland, Frank T. Ryan, Elmer E. Howse, Edward J. Lemmers, Ftank D. Corporals Carter, Ray P. Mathias, Joseph J. Hackelman, Charles B. Logate, James E. Stippich, Chester V. Scanland, Merle C. Barrows, Charles F. Ross, Elbert S. Scott, William F. Geeslin, David M. Shambaugh, Cloy D. Cambell, John A. Bachman, Ray Chief Mechanic
Andrus, Rollie H. Horseshoers
Lyons, Arthur B. Graham, Arthur W. Mechanics
Clardy, WUliam N. Oilman, Orville J. Dennis, Wilford A, Saddler
Spidle, Charles N. Cooks
Lakey, Elmer Weaverling, Clarence A Buglers
Jones, Wilbur H. Wikoff, Charles W. Kelley, Donald F. Privates Allon, Russell T. Axline, Andrew A. Bailey, Cecil W. Baker, Paul E. Baumunk, John L.
Beach, Glenn A. Bolan, William C. Brewer, John Henry Brosius, Chauncy G. Brown, Cycril M. Butts, George W. Camp, Wayne C. Caplinger, Robert F. Carroll, William L. Clinton, Sylvester J. Coghill, Floyd V. Cone, John F. Crawford, James E. Davis, Edmund D. Davis, Harold W. Dean, Glenn L. Devaughn, Walter B. Devins, George F. Dewey, Harvey J. Diehl, Paul A. Doherty, Joseph E. Donelon, William M. Duckworth, Harry U. Everitt, Vern D. Flournoy, Hubert E. Freizzell, Elton S, Gabrielson, John A. Gable, Ivan C. Gardner, Lester H. Gray, Glenn N. Gray, Lyle H. Gray, Lowell C. Gray, Claude W Glaves, Virgil E. Grey, William J. Guy, Kenneth E, Hackney, Ewing S^ Hall, Joseph H. Hall, Roy L. Harbaugh, Fred B. Harris, Herschel G. Harrison, Russell B. Hatfield, Harold B. Haynes, James W. Hays, James E. Holphey, Earl H, Helmers, Edward T. Henrickson, Sven E. Hester, Perl M. ■ Higdon, Hobart F. R. Himmelwright, Homer f^ Hitchner, George Hodges, Edgar A. Holland, Harry L. Horn, Fred Howerton, Thomas W. Hughey, Clyde D. Ingram, Charles M. Ink, Ira M. Jackson, Virgil E. Keck, Edward E. Kennedy, Jesse E. Kerr, Luther Keys, Oliver Kiddo, Lyman C. G.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
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King, Ray B. Klee, Charley Klee, John J. Knipp, Raymond A. F. Knox Ralph S. Kuechenmeister, Emil L. Lee, Clarence M. Lee, James H. Lee, Merritt R. Letter, Rufus Lynn, Ben H. Marshall, Virgil Marchall, William M. Miller, Clayton C. Moore, Harry W. Moore, Harry E. Moore, Ralph A. Mourning, Fred W. Mueller, Henry R. Myers, Claude R. McConnell, Paul J. McCormick, Homer L. McCoy, Carl W. McNally, Frank E. Neal, Lester E. Negley, Cyril G. Offenstein, Henry J. Osier, James D, Overstreet, Arthur D. Oyler, Jesse R. Padgett, Milo W. Panier, Guy R. Patterson, Edgar Payne, John N. Peacock, Lawrence A. Pence, Harold H. Phillippi, Murrell L. Phillips, William P. Pierce, Edwin P. Pierce, Harvey H. Prier, Harry Rambo, Carl W. Randall, Ralph A.
Rice, Herbert O. Richards, Stanley B. Richardson, John F. Roberts, Walter B. Rogers, George C. Rouse, Wallace T. Jr. Ruble, Adrain A. Rudd, William L. Ruffridge, Michael A. Sence, Leslie B. Schnert, Merle F. Schooley, William O. Shaw, Andrew F. Sheperd, Fred W. Smith, June B. Smith, Robert M. Snock, James W. Sparks, Reed C. Stanley, Lawrence Stoon, Fred Stevens, Merville O. Stravio, Fred G. Surtees, Baisel L. Sweetland, Zephyr K. Torry, Floyd C. Thompson, James C. Truex, Lewis H. Truitt, Harvey G. Violette, Harold S. Walker, Chester L. Watson, Elmer E. Waugh, Maurice C. Wetterhold, Arthur R. Whittaker, John P. Willett, Francis W. Williams, Fred M. Wilson, Charles I. Wilson, Max G. Winn, Caleb E. Witt, Earle C. Wood, Karl A. Yeager, Raymond W.
Detached Medical Department of the First Kansas Field Artillery
Sergeant, 1st Class
Robbins, Harry E. Sergeants
Simpson, Harry S.
Whitehead, Floyd S. Privates
Akers, Claude
Bird, Havert L.
Bailey, James H.
Bratton, Kenneth B.
Davis, Harry J.
Hamilton, James R.
Jones, Edwin R.
Jones, Fred L. Kimes, Maurice J. Klina, Harry E. Lockwood, Phil R. Morrison, Jesse E. Rowe, Orville W, Schock, Gus C. Shore, Alonzo P. Scholtz, Arthur H. Walker, Marcus V. Warnock, Harold L. Wilson, Charles O. Yonkers, Harry A.
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Kansas Engineer Battalion 110th Engineers
Sergeant Major
Reese, Raymond M.
Master Engineers, Junior Grade
Northrup, Burt
Lewis, Oliver A. Steinmetz, Milton Stacey, William A. Martin, Elmer C. Thorpe, Delmar
Company A of the Kansas Engineers Battalion
Oaptain
McLane, Glenwood L. -1st Lieutenants
Crawford, Hugh W.
Tillotson, Luther R. -2nd Lieutenant
Finney, Roy A. 1st Sergeant
Wright, Philo A. Sergeants, 1st Class
Dingelstedt, Otto E.
Gaw, Richard M. Mess Sergeant
Stewart, William F. Supply Sergeant
Smith, Philander Stable Sergeant
Haggard, Ashley P. Sergeants
Baker, Alfred G.
Firestone, Clifford L.
Fletcher, Claude C.
Caywood, Hugh T.
Stevens, Hal
Mclntyre, John
Logan, Vernon L.
Deane, John F. Corporals
Terrill, Edmund J.
Irons, James P.
Hill, Clarence J.
Vernson, Harry W.
Hughes, Jay B.
Chandler, Geo. L.
Palmer, Gustave J. F.
Kanode, Lynn H.
Stephen, Earle D.
Moreland, Alban R.
Holliday, Wilbur N.
Purdy, Donald C.
Thurman,, Robert S.
Whipple, Harold C.
Smith, Frank W.
Horseshoer
Lane, John A.
Buglers
Davis, Homer N. Osborn, Lindsay C.
Cooks
Ellis, Harold H. Quigley, Earl Privates, 1st Class
Berlin, Brooks Cavenee, Fred Cowgill, David M. Cheney, Albert R. Daeschner, Frank R. DeGroat, Bruce Billon, Clyde W. Eagan, Vernon R. Eberhart, Sidney P. French, Raymond E. Gaston, Eldridge Geiger, Jesse C. Gress, Roy K. Hockett, Ray L. Janney, Walter C. Knight, Raymond A. Lindsay, Junior S. Lingo, William E. Monroe, Donald F. Prewett, Vance V. Pringle, Ray A. Rees, George D, Umpsted, Clarence C. Wakeman, Clyde L. West, John W. Jr. Williams, Milo Ellsworth Wilson, William Ray Winters, Ray
Privates
Anderson, Robert A. Baker, David D. Balston, Hobart Barner, William E. Barrett, Gordon A. Beers, Dorsey L. Beers, Glenn E. Bell, Tobe E. Bender, Harry E. Birdsall, Walter H. Brel, Henry E. Brooks, Hayden H. Brown, William T. Jr. Burke, Chester L. Burke, Otto J. Bushnell, Hurbert J. Cahill, Joseph E. Campbell, Joseph M.
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235
Canfield, Harry P. Cassady, Floyd A. Catansaro, Theodore J. Chessman, Charles A. Church. Richard B. Colbert, Walter W. Colvill, George B. Cooper, Charley J. Crum, William F. Curtis, Charles H. Davis, Marvin B. Dorris, Frank Jr. Dugan, Frank T. Dutro, John D. Edwards, James W. Eggert, Henry A. Ekston, Martin H. Fagan, Joseph C. Forney, Abram H. Hall, Selby H. Hamilton, Edwin G. Henry, Ed. H. S. Henica, William C. Higgins, LaMoine M. Hoselton, Purdy Jarus, Emil Charles Johnson, Roy D. Kelsey, Charles B. Kittell, George J. Kirkpatrick, Edward R. Koons, Howard W. Lawrence, Robert K. Lemly, Paul R. Levey, Earl R. Long, Claude O. Lowe, Willoughby, M. Martin, Edwin Miller, Willis C. Mountfortt, Wade Jr. McLaughlin, David McNeal, Charles E. McWilliams, Calvin S. Owings, Glen R. Painter, Edward L. Parker, John O.
Piper, Franklin E.
Potter, Seymour
Reneau, William A.
Rigsby, Charles B. Roberts, Clifton
Roberts, Lloyd R. Rowan, Tom L.
Russell, Virgil B.
Scovel, Raleigh
Scudder, Benjamin H.
Sharkey, Charles T.
Sloane, Charles A.
Smith, Leonard F.
Spencer, Marion A.
Stephens, Frank L.
Stewart, Robert B.
Stratton, William
Talbott, Verne H.
Tann, William E.
Timmins, Homer H.
Timmins, Vaughn B.
Townsend, James F., Jr.
Trotter, RoUand L,
True, Guy Herbert
Van Hart, Harold H.
Veltrop, George
White, Myron E.
Willard, Sherman K.
Whitmore, Verne R. Losses, Discharged
Dano, Raymond J.
Ruble, Roland O.
Stephan, Thomas A.
Street, Gordon F.
Thompson, Leroy
Tomlinson, William A. Updegrove, Eugene A. Wardin, William L. Williamson, Melvin L. Privates Adamson, Paul D. Allen, Fred R. Amis, John C. Anderson, Leroy P. Barnes, Arthur R. Battey, Eugene F. Bell, Alexander R. Bell, Robert P. Bonebrake, Frederick T. Blevins, Earl F. Brown, Ernest L. Bunce, Earl J. Bunce, Frank E. Burke, Eugene R. Burtch, Russell A. Calderwood, Will B. Campbell, Harry W. Carlson, Willard F. J. Clark, George A. Clayton, James I. Clements, Charles W. Compton, Allen T. Cress, Howard R. Crowder, Leslie E. Currens, Raymond L. Dean, John S., Jr. DeWolfe, Amos C. Dillon, Dale C. Doak, William Dungan, Lee Elliott, John P. Ellison, Frank Ewell, John L. Felder, Mathew Finuf, Harrison Ford, Elmo A. Ford, John J. Foulk, Albert C. Friend, John M. Gaines, Thomas J. Garrett, Harold E. Garvie, Hugh A. Guyer, Ray H. Hall, Jay Hall, Seldon G. Harrington, P. Wallac* Dewitt, Henry W. Hill, Richard L. Huffman, Claude L Huntsinger, Ivan Ice, Lloyd Jessop, Charles T. Justice, Robert J. Keeney, Leroy C. Keeses, Gerald B. Ketchum, Omar B. Linscheid, Otto P. Light, John C. McClain, Lige D. Magill, Laurus A. Magill, Wilbur S. McBride, Andrew L. Martin, Ray P. Mason, Ray B. Mason, Robert W. Matthews, David W. Minturn, Benjamin E. Morriss, Clarence M. Norris, Fred F. O'Leary, Dorman H. Oman, Ralph W. Owen, Joseph J. Pinet, Eli P. Polls, John R. Ralney, Robert L.
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Randall, Charles Reld, Theodore C. Riley, Edward S. Rogers, Willard B. Rucker, Harvey D. Sackett, Lucien E. Schaub, Lee R. Scrlbner, John C. Shrader, Paul R. Sills, Shellis H. Simmons, Chester T. Singleton, William S. Talbert, Joseph H.
Taylor, Glen Thurman, Harold D. Welch, David Welch, Howard M. Wiley, Alfred B. Worrall, Anton W. Wilson, John G. Ball, Eddie R. Furlong, Clarence E. Martin, Glen Piper, Albert Vier, Shellie V. Whitecotton, Fred
Company B of the Kansas Engineers Battalion
Captain
James, Darl S.
1st Lieutenants
Brownlee, Harold J. Weidlein, William D.
2nd Lieutenant
Hudson, Hubert R.
Ist Sergeant
McCarty, Leon B.
Sergeants, 1st Class
Barnhart, Oliver F. English, William J. Snyder, Wenslow P.
Mess Sergeant Nevin, Harry L.
Supply Sergeant
Ronayne, Frank J.
Stable Sergeant
Roberts, Justice L.
Sergeants
Forney, Roy S.
Proudfit, James H.
Weibel, Leo N.
Spratt, Robert C.
Ficken, Benjamin F.
Conrey, Stephen L.
Dryden, Paul L.
Bell, Roy H, Horseshoer
Coles, Harry R. Saddler
Walker, Fred R. Buglers
Harris, Hector W.
Nicholson, Floyd S. Cooks
Dittrich, Louis
Whittington, John H.
Anderson, Harbert V.
Corporals
Weidlein, Glee T. Wilson, Harry L, Kelley, Raymond B. Madden, F^ank A. Brazille, Edward T. Foster, Fred V. McCallum, Donald J. Webb, Walton H. Trotter, Nathan P. Stephens, Hollis H. Brigham, Arthur Perry Vest, Edwin A. Feller, George C. Drury, Andrew W. Winn, Edward L. Rau, Eugene E. Willis, James W. Angle, Roy Privates, 1st Class Becker, Jonas P. Bottum, Charles A. Carmichael, Lachlan Cooper, William C. Craven, John J. Edmonds, William Henry England er, Arthur R. Foster, Guy A. Heinmann, Charles T. Hoyt, Raymond A. Lane, Frank C. LePort, Fred R. McAvoy, Bernard F. MacDuff, Irl G. Moon, Alva L. Norman, Frank R. Porter, Will A. Ramsey, Arnold G. Reardon, John Seineke, Max E. Roberts, Clarence Smith, Gardner M. Smith, Orliff E. Strohmyer, William E. Thomas, Clifford A.
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Company C of the Kansas Engineers Battalion
Captain
Hudson, Orlin 1st Lieutenants
Fisher, Charles R.
Rouse, Carl E. 2nd Lieutenant
Barclay, Herbert T. 1st Sergeant
McCoy, Charles A. Sergeants, 1st Class
Henschel, Ramsey C.
Nelson, Henning F.
Tucker, Arthur L. Mess Sergeant
Schwitzgebel, Charles F. Supply Sergeant
McLanahan, Orville W. Stable Sergeant
Gilmore, Walton W. Duty Sergeants
Dells, David P.
Gosney, Thomas W.
Van Doren, Robert H.
Frick, Wallace H.
Gibson, Foster M.
Dissinger, John E.
Crooks, Reed M,
Yam ell, George W. Corporals
Austin, Charles E.
Bakeman, J. P.
Bruce, Guy S.
Faulkner, Ward
Hill, Charles A.
Humphrey, Ralph
Merriam, Charles W.
McMillen, Delbert
Miller, Max
Miller, Harry W.
Nelson, Len B.
Russell, Charles F.
Sack, Norman R.
Snow, Leon J.
Shackelton, Fred J.
Stewart, Harold E.
Shannon, Harold E.
Toole. Wilbut N. Horseshoer
Bankin, Walter S. Saddler
McMickell, Harvey D. Buglers
Alley, Worth B.
Payne, Elias B. Cooks
Thenney, Ernest
Dell, Raymond H,
Pickett, Oliver B. Privates, 1st Class
Albin, Ira F.
Dill, Bruce L. Evans, Joseph R. Fleener, George C. Frater, Robert A. Gardner, Harold B. Gentry, John P. Harwood, Arthur W. Hendricks, Garry T. King, George R. Knauss, John D. Lanctot, Sheridan E. McFarlane, Joseph T. Martin, Ward Martin, Bruen L. Northrup, Floyd L. Palmer, Edward G. Rhodes, Gerald F. Reed, Ruben R. Rowan, Thomas M. Savage, Frank M. Sicking, Walter A. Smith, John D. Talpey, Frank A. Tracy, James R. Thurston, Bryan E. Verdieck, Arthur Wetzig, John R. Wirth, John A. Wisely, William W. Walter, Charles E.
Privates
Allen, Albert A. Barker, Thomas Y. Bennett, James A. Brading, Roy W. Brown, John N. Condon, Robert E. Cosintino, John Crane, Milo A. Crawford, Jess Conroy, Curtis W. Deems, Frank L. Dessert, Harry H. Dimmitt, Austin Duncan, John H. Eaton, Robert R. Edwards, William E. Farber, Henry C. Flinn, Roy W. Glassco, James S. Graham, Harry E. Graham, Wilbur E. Gray, William R. Grieshammer, Nicholas Ragan, Eugene J. Hamacher, Herbert H. Harvey, Hayden W. Haslip, Charles R. Henricks, Charley E. Hendricks, Jesse H. Hethcock, Jesse H. Holverstott, Claud T. Hoover, Merle W. Horrell, Jay R.
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Heckert, Eugene D. Humphrey, Walter F. Johnson, Carl F. Johnson, George A. Johnson, Ishmael Ivy, Thruman Keegan, John F. Kilmer, James A. Knutson, Arthur J. Kloster, Elmer A. Lamb, Frank Kambert, Robert E. Layson, Robert C. Lane, Charles H, Lloyd, Everett R. Lovejoy, Fred Lucas, "William F. McGreary, Leo R. McKoown, Robert H. Mackie, Lyman S. Major, Everett O. Mateer, Frank D. Morris, Harold E. Morrison, Ralph W. Newton, Ralph W. Netteton, Francis J. Pavlu, Albert J. Perkins, George T. Perkins, Harold L. Plunkett, James W. Pierce, Harry H.
Raddant, George T. Rice, Howard B. Riley, David F. Rodewald, Albert T. Rossner, Lome L. Sebree, Heise H. Shields, Edward B. Shultz, George J. Smither, Webster D. Sprague, Arthur G. Storey, Bert W. Styrgis, Joy F. Summers, George F. Tedder, Norman C. Thomas, Lee R. Thomson, Gerald R. Thomson, John L. Underwood, Tillman Van Houten, Herbert H. Van Pelt, George C. Voltz, George D. Weber, August, Jr. White, Joseph L. Wendt, George C. Westendick, Philip H. Williams, Charles D. Willard, Harry L. Williams, Ira R. Wood, Albert B. Losses
Nunter, Frank A.
Detached Medical Department of the Firs* Battalion of Kansas Engineers
Sergeant
Brier, Archibald J. Privates
Hawley, Leslie H.
Holmes, Rodney J. Holtwick. Charles J. Pardon, Charles V. Ramsey, John D. Sendson, Harold M.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
Kansas Engineer Train
Captain
Eewis, Robert W. 1st Lieutenants
Vincil, Peake
Beauchamp, Lennon P. 2nd Lieutenant
Gaither, Donald Master Engineers, Senior Grade
Sanders, Ernest
Hunt, William R. Master Engineers, Junior Grade
Douthat, Lee A.
Oakleaf, Lovell R.
Dreher, Charlie
Rowland, Dan W. 1st Sergeant
Chappuie, Gordon Sergeants, 1st Class
Morgan, Will C.
Hereld, Roy Battalion Supply Sergeant
Matthews, Dean V. Supply Sergeants
Smith, Robert R.
Brinkham, Floyd W. Stable Sergeants
Overfield, Roy
Travis, Chester E. Sergeants
McCue, James B.
Hill, John R.
Blades, Ralph C.
Davidson, Frank
Todd, Earl C.
McCollum, Eugene F. Corporals
Jones, Albert S.
Evans, George A.
Frisinger, Chester A.
McEvers, Maurice A.
Small, Orloe D.
Smith, William A.
Bloom, George L.
Ebner, Clyde T.
Navarre, Henry C.
Cooper, Hutchison Horseshoers
Bixler, John L.
Hathaway, Claude W.
Fields, Claude B.
Murray, Lloyd M.
Ditts, Olin H. Saddler
Robertson, Walter F. Wagoners
Allen, Ben S.
Anz Elmo, Nicola
Anderson, Howard M.
Addington, Albert T.
Allred, Ivan A. Baldwin, Calvin R. Bennett, John R. Brown, George O. Buntin, Homer H. Blalack, Pearl Carr, Charles A. Callahan, Owen Catlin, Courtney L, Carter, Howell H. Carlson, Harry E. Campbell, Lester E. Cobb, John L. Cooper, Robert F. Crane, Fred A, Culver, Willard K. Dack, Harry G. Degarimore, Eddie Doop, Jesse Dobson, Glen Drybread, Ephriam Eastin, Homer F. Elliott, Verl Edmunds, Walter J. Earlow, Danzel M. Eleenor, William V. Gardenshire, Malcolm H. Gardner, Henry I. Howe, Claude E. Henderson, John S. Healer, Thomas Holton, Floyd A. Henderson, Homer J. Hyler, Denver H. Hole, James M. Jackson, Ivan Jones, Robert S. Johnson, Samuel K. Krone, Edward F. Long, Oscar Lusby, Henry H. Lusby, Everettt E. McClure, Roy A. McGee, Paul C. Mcintosh, David A. Moss, Charles H. Main, John P. Murray, Orville O. Meyer, Emil J. Mensch, Ray S. Marshall, Hal E. Morse, Milford J. Malcolm, Ira E. Milton, Wood E. Murray, Lynn R. Metcalf, Harold W. Navarre, Guy W. Navarre, Otto Parshall, George S. Rains, Crit Renner, William Rundell, Lee S. Rowland, Alfred L. Saladin, John H.
240
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Schoenfeldt, Carl J.
Sloan, Julius C.
Shunk, Guy E.
Schulz, William C.
Taylor, Theodore
Taylor, Ogle
Tuttle, Thomas P.
Van Cleave, Everett E.
Vance, Willis W.
White, Guy S.
Wahl, William A.
Witt, Sterling
Wetzel, Guy
Watt, Everett P.
Ziegler, Noland T.
Winchester, Burt C.
Schreck, Edward G.
Strassberg, Herman
Spelman, Joseph F.
Sutton, Sewall
Sutton, Newton
Richardson, Lloyd M. Cooks
Murray, Thomas D.
Hunt, William H.
Forman, Lew R. Buglers
Holdren, John
Dennis, Harlan A.
Roads, Harold B. Privates, 1st Class
Allen, Carl K.
Allen, Vernon
Bauer, George F. Clifford, Homer L. Carpenter, Orville W. Decker, Robert J. Bopst, William O. Hoover, Ora Hosier, Merle Nicholson, Chauncey I. Mann, James Mibeck, Jacob G. Oakleaf, Paul B. Ray, Dennis Shy, John W. Sutton, Ward Thompson, Jack Springer, Job Stephens, James M. Swisher, William Z.
Privates
Bircher, Archie C. Dougherty, Henry W. Hayes, Jack W. Hilyard, Lee P. Mears, Herbert E, Moews, George Marling, Ben W. Neary, William J. Owen, Frank G. Parker, Benjamin F, Pinegar, George D. Price, Charles E. Roszel, Hugh D. Russell, Lonnie E.
Headquarters Detachment of the First Kansas Field Signal BattaUon
Sergeant, 1st Class
Smith, James E. Sergeants Loomis, Earl H. Waugh, Neal B.
Privates, 1st Class
Dubreuil, Louis T. Meeker, Cloise C. Miller, Benjamin J. Partridge, Clare A. West, Vernon B.
Supply Section of the First Kansas Field Sigrnal
Battalion
Sergeant, 1st Class
Crake, Walter L. Privates, 1st Class
Curtis, Lloyd F.
Downing, John F. Fraelich, Henry H. Lafromboise, Floyd B. Neese, Olave L.
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110th Field Signal Battalion.
Company A of the First Battalion Signal Corps,
Kansas National Guard
Captain
Stahl, Elmer G. 1st Lieutenant
Carswell, William C. 2nd Lieutenant
Thomas, Chester H. 1st Sergeant
Orrel, Galpin H. Sergeants, 1st Class
Anderson, Mahor M.
Burdick, C. Dale
Thacher, Safford D.
Warner, John C.
Ziesenis, Harry C. Sergeants
Wiss, Quirin A. Privates
Beasley, William A.
Bechtel, Roy M.
Beisner, Cecil H.
Butler, Eugene U.
Campbell, Elmer
Carlson, Victor E.
Carlson, David L.
Carris, Roy O.
Carson, George W.
Caskey, Edmund L,
Chappelle, Archie
Charlesworth, Firth
Coffman, Harry
Coakley, Claude
CorklU, Paul D.
Cox, Harry E.
Coykondall, Arthur
Douglas, Em. H,
Effinger, Ralph C.
Erskine, Edgar M.
Erskine, James R.
Estep, Dale
Fairchild, Howard
Ferguson, George
Ferrin, Harley A.
Ferris, John Firner, Henry Foster, Roy C. Granger, Harry W. Gregory, Ivan D. Hauber, John F. Henley, Brynn Henley, Frank Henley, Stephen Hughes, Avis S. Jamison, Rajonond Linsberg, Arthur Mohrwein, Roy H. Meier, Leo S. Mohrbacker, Byron C. Moore, Clyde S. Mooring, Ernest L. Neeley, Fren L. Ness, Burt R. Nicholson, Edward L. Paulson, Kurtz L. Punches, William R. Scott, John F. Shaffer, Don Shaffer, Paul Sharpless, Fred S. Short, Calvin S. Stone, Francis B. Stone, William A. Sutherland, Kenneth L. Sutton, Alpha E. Swink, Bert Taylor, William E. Titus, Martin D. Tucker, Claude H. Urie, Rolland W. Wall, James W. Ward, Meade L. Whitney, Curt K. Woods, Leonard D. Woods, Morris D, Yewell, Roy C. Ziesenis, Roy C.
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ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Company B of the First Battalion Sigrnal Corps, Kansas National Guard
Captain
Cox, Walter, Leo
1st Lieutenants
Donald, ^illis L.
Freeman, Grover C. M. S. E.
Clawson, Millard E. Sergeants, 1st Class
Womack, Ralph J.
Kernal, Delbert L.
McFarland, William F.
Anderson, Eric E,
Neal, Harry A. Sergeants
Young, Uoyd M.
Lott, Joseph C.
Anderson, Gustav C.
Roberts, Harold M.
Hershkowitz, Martin
Cox, Herschel D. Corporals
Fowler, Iver F.
Anderson, Frank D.
Adams, Charles H,
Pavis, Frank C.
Knock, Earl R.
Shapel, Amel
Newman, Albert H.
Brownfield, Maro
Olliver, Myler D.
Wright, Kenneth
Frederickson, Judson C. Cooks
Gay, Hubert L.
Varner, George H. Horseshoer
Murphy, Joseph T. Privates, 1st Class
Anderson, Ralph L.
Anderson, George W.
Bass, Orean H.
Brolliar, Albert W.
Benson, T. Wyllys
Beatty, Areotus F.
Chilcote, George J.
Charles, Frank A.
Dulinsky, Mount C.
Davis, Lee F.
Florence, Albert F.
Fryer, Russell C.
Frevert, Robert E.
Hayes, Glen W.
Hurlock, Clyde E.
Harper, Frank W.
Horton, Robert A.
Hepler, Laurence G.
Jackson, John A,
Jones, Joseph C.
Lane, Roy
McKarnin, Sylvester
Moore, Carl E.
Myers, Benjaman
Price, Carl M.
Pittsenberger, Samuel S.
Smith, Clarence D.
Smith, Jesse F.
Shapel, Phillip
Steele, Oliver H.
Stillwell, Loy W.
Vincent, Guy M.
Warford, Clarence L. Privates
Campbell, Chlore W.
Canty, Earl C.
Daniels, Albert H.
Dixon, Paul
Eraser, Howison J.
Hilton, Emery
Hardwick, Oliver B.
Jones, Raymond E.
Kelley, Thomas J.
Leighty, Vaughn
Martin, Joseph A.
Milne, John A.
Provost, Francis T.
Owens, Ferdinand L. Losses, Discharged, Dependents
Davidson, William J.
Hale, Ray R.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE.
243
Company C of the First Battalion Signal Corps, Kansas National Guard
Captain
Bayless, Claude C. 1st Lieutenants
McClintock, Carl A.
McGlynn, Jesse
Coffey, James V.
Whitmore, Floyd P. 1st Sergeant
Waddell, James W., Jr. Mechanics
Douglass, Charles H, Cooks
Cannon, Richard L.
Hendrix, Mont W. Privates
Adams, William E.
Armstrong, Frank L.
Arnold, Claude A.
Babb, George S.
Baker, Marvin S.
Bachman, Fred H.
Bell, Carl A.
Bell, Everett I.
Branson, Otis D.
Burt, Lee E.
Coston, Donald L.
Chilcott, Frank E.
Cooper, Donald J. W.
Davis, George A.
Edmondson, Benjamin F.
Elcock, Charles H.
Foster, Marion Y.
Graves, Harlan
Greer, William A.
Gregory, Thomas E.
Griesinger, Frank R.
Grove, Henry L.
Hanna, Robert
Harpster, Claude
Henn, William C.
Holdren, Don R.
Huggins, Foster M.
Hutchinson, Roland E. Irwin, Paul S. Johnson, Emmette M. Johnston, Garold R. Jones, Louis V. Kessinger, Vern C. La Grant, Earl W. Lane, Walter O. Lawson, William E. Latta, William E. Lauer, Earl D. Magie, Albert E. Marks, Carl Percy Masterson, William F. McFall, Oscar L. McQuiston, Earl H. Moore, Harry C. Moore, Jesse L. Myers, John M. Murphy, Frank Nettls, Walter H. Nutter, Earl I. Price, Evan J. Priest, Howard O. Richman, Phillip Roberts, Thane O, Rodman, Burton H. Saunders, Julian L. Shires, Benjamin C. Shockey, Orville Skean, Byron A. Sloan, Virgel D. Smith, Otho G. Throckmorton, Adel F. Toennies, Benjamin P. C. Waldron, Wesley F. Watkins, Myron J. Webb, Joseph W. Weidman, Richard Thomas White, Rodger L. Wright, William E. Williams, Floyd Wohlford, William W. DeVier, Cecil J.
244
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Medical Department of the Firi^ Battalion Signal Corps, Kansas National Guard
Privates
Ausmuse, Philip Clark, Arthur H. Dale, Henry L.
Tucker, Lynn E. Waite, Frank B. White, Verne D.
Field Hospital No. 1 of the Kansas National Guard
llOth Sanitary Train 139th Field Hospital
Major
Hammel, Seth A. 1st Lieutenants
Lindsay, Merrill K.
Rogers, Henry S.
Jackson, Dana O.
Jones, Harold H.
Boggs, Frank C. Sergeants, 1st Class
McCoy, Milton E.
Hawkins, June A.
Piepenburg, Aaron L Sergeants
Herman, Ralph S.
Gurtler, Albert C.
Goheen, Ira L.
Logan, Glenn F.
Dewey, Thomas E.
Johnson, George C. Cooks
Gould, Charles R.
Oge,8, Edward M. Horseshoer
Luker, George F. Mechanic
Dickman, Fred M. Farrier
Reffelt, Rudolph P. Saddler
Burns, Earl J. Bugler
Deimler, Ralph W. Privates, 1st Class
Akey, McKinley
Arbuthnot, Sidney
Bingham, Earl O.
Blevins, Howard W.
Conard, Morton D.
Dunn, John
Gage, R. Merrill
Geiser, Walter J.
Harrison, George C.
Hickey, Granville C.
Hinds, David H.
Holcomb, Allie E.
Hoyt, Charles B.
Hughes, Herbert F.
Jones, Ernest Kennedy, Carl P. Lyon, Charles B., Jr. McCarter, James C. McGrew, Nathan W. Riddle, Dudley McD. Root, Jesse F. Runneals, Cecil H. Sailer, Ernest E. Staerkel, Max G. Swearingen, Ralph M. Taylor, Henry H, Thompson, Edward W. Walp, Charles L. Weaver, James B. Wells, George D. Wright, Myron A. immerman, Joseph F.
Privates
Anderson, Christopher Axe, Guy J. Bennett, Charles A. Buck, Lloyd W. Burghart, Casper Burns, Claude T. Carney, William N. Chapin, Dean W. Cratte, Irving F. Evans, Harold C. Graham, Harry L,, Jr. Hamilton, William L. Hammond, Noel R. Harrell, James M. Laine, Maurice D. Ludington, Fred G. McClave, Edison W. McDaniel, Ralph W. Meredith, Roscoe A. Murphy, Paul Nye, Robert W. Parish, Glen L. Peck, Kenneth L. Scharping, Erwin E. Shehi, Winfield Shirk, Harold L. Silk, Max H. Stevens, Francis J. Stewart, Roy Townsend, Goley Widener, Mark V.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
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Field Hospital No. 2 of the Kansas National Guard 140th Field Hospital
llOth Sanitary Train
Major
Phillips. Carl 1st Lieutenants
Cornell, John C.
Bennett, Charles C.
Rea, James G.
Mosley, Charles L.
Bunton, Joseph C. Sergeants, 1st Class
Courtney, George W.
Cranford, Charles W.
dinger, Raymond C. Sergeants
Bailey, Homer F.
Dick, Frank N.
Fowler, Merle
Hodge, Lester D.
May, Ralph E.
Simon, Loren K. Cooks
Ayers, Maurice F.
McClary, Carl
White, Ira E. Privates, 1st Class
Birt, Roy H.
Brown, Seth G.
Burton, Marion T.
Debolt, William H.
Dent, Rawley J.
Elwyn, Russell H.
Funk, Arthur C.
Graham, John S.
Green, Charles H.
Harlow, Mack
Hendrickson, John H.
Jeffrey, Richard C.
Kimmey, Virgil A.
Lietnaker, Cherry E.
Ott, Archie L.
Parker, Glenn M.
Prall, John D.
Rule, Albert B.
Rule, Herbert E.
Sage, William H.
Sayers, Hugart A.
Storey, Edward M. Thorpe, Lewis M. Von Buhn, Herman Van Home, Ralph Wheat, Lewis H. White, James L. Willard, Donald M. Agnew, Frank T, Babcock, Dewey Z. Bicknell, John R. Campbell, Russell Caldwell, Dalton L. Carr, Byron H. Carson, Clyde F. Clark, Orville P. Cummings, Dewey V. Davis, Bert L. Foxworthy, Carl Gates, William J. Gebhart, Bert A. Genamell, Harry A. Griggs, Morton R. Hacker, Charles L. Hammell, Lee A. Harlow, James H. Hayes, Alfred L. Jagger, Buel W. Johnson, Earl W. Jones, Alpha L. Keiter, Cecil E. Locke, William H. Pittser, Ollie F. Rafferty, Virgil J. Ratliff, Charles C. Reynolds, William L. Shrewsbury, Charles L. Seller, Ralph G. Sparks, Albert R. Spear, Alfred Stevens, Wilbum W. Stewart, Allen L. Snyder, Roy Todd, Alvin L. Vandervort, Earl J. Wendell, John P. Workman, Charles B. Wolverton, Jaxik L.
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ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
First Kansas Ambulance Company 140th Ambulance Company
1st Lieutenants
Rhodes, William L.
Mangun, Clarke W.
Jones, Tiberius L.
Hartman, Ralph C.
Glover, Harold M. Sergeants, 1st Class
Pierce, FYank B.
Wilson, James C. Sergeants
Lyon, Charles J.
Cole, Frank R.
Holcombe, Robert F.
McGhan, Francis L».
Wolf, George O.
Singer, Walter T.
Henderson, George Corporals
Perkins, Robert G.
Thompson, Bruce M.
Gott, Henry V.
Harrington, Ralph G.
Wortman, Paul A.
Heinze, Fred C.
Douglas, Jodie A.
Abbott, Roy C.
Leep, Bernard C.
Baker, Claude M.
Cheever, Wert S. Cooks
Hackler, George H.
Speckin, Paul A.
Hartig, Cyril M. Musicians
Street, Elijah M.
Feurt, James B. Mechanic
Garwood, Leslie C. Farrier
Herod, John L. Horseshoer
Powers, William A. Saddler
Asman, Fred Privates, 1st Class
Atkins, Theodore W.
Atkinson, Russell J.
Bailey, Edward R.
Bangs, William G.
Barber, Harry A.
Beaumont, Rasnuond L.
Bishop, Roger S.
Blankenship, Elihue H.
Bohanon, Frank
Brainerd, Rowe H.
Brown, Ernest M.
Bullard, Harry J.
Burkett, Lloyd L.
Buzard, Reginald L.
Cannon, Carl P. Caraway, Sidney Campbell, John F. Chandler, Walter T. Childers, Lloyd D. Chiles, Ray W. Clark, Paul M. Clendening, Robert Commons, Claude E. Conklin, Elmer E. Cook, Homer N. Coons, Henry A. Davis, Alfred A. Duke, WUliam R. Dunn, Paul W. Ehn, George A, Erickson, Elliott Feehan, Walter J. Ferguson, Marvin P. Ferguson, Winfield S. Fisher, Harold E. Gifford, Melvin R. Gilhaus, George J. Girten, Sylvester H. Goes, Louis E. Gordon, Clyde W. Gordon, Lynell Gray, Edward F. Gregg, James F. Gregory, Vernon L. Grisham, William B. Haley, Jacob Hall, Stanley L. Hankins, Staten M. Harden, Wesley G. Harding, Orville Hawk, William M. Herd, Frank P. Holcombe, Walter M. Holmberg, Arthur F. Hood, Otto D. Horner, Jack Hudson, Lemuel S. Hundley, Dare Hutton, John Wm. Hicks, William B. Ingrahm, John D, Irvine, Harry L. Jackson, Owen Juones, Royston Johnson, Roy L. Justice, John A. Lee, Roland H. Logan, Carl A, Logan, Combe D. Lioman, Ambrose R. Long, Edgar A. Manley, Mervin C. Martin, Clarence E. Mays, Lee R. McCarthy, Bernard J. McCoy, Chester S.
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McCuUey, Rose H. McDaniel, William R. McFadden, Wiley G. McKinney, Hugh P. Mendon, Jerome F. Mitchell, John W. Moore, Horace H. Morse, Darwin D. Oconnor, Bert Owens, Clarence H. Patterson, Leo M. Philibert, Bert Probst. Arnold W. Prater, Robert E. Quinn, William R. Raybum, Otto E. Reid, Jesse B. Richardson, Paul E. Rock, Edward A. Schaefer, William C. Shahane, Walter H. Smith, Everett A.
Smith, Claud A. South, Vernon B. Stewart, Jack Strong, Ralph A. Swan, Leslie N. Swanson, Carl A. Swanson, Edgar F. Swartz, Arden E. Swenson, Bernard M. Tonn, Edward Toynton, Clyde G. Veitch, Caleb C. Vestal, Moody D. Walsh, John Walton, Floyd G. Webster, John D. Wilhite, Harry E. Wood, Clarence M. Woodruff, John R. Wright, James F. Wurtz, Joseph N. Ziegler, Carl E.
Second Kansas Ambulance Company 139th Ambulance Company, Kansas City, Kansas
Ist Lieutenants
Tenney, Edwin R.
Speck. Richard F.
Adamson, Adam E.
Bondureant, Alpheus J. Sergeants, 1st Class
Rowland, Charles G.
Adams, James A. Sergeants
Hadley, Vernon A.
Leady, Roscoe B.
Markley, Algernon
Parsons, John D.
Thomas, Chester L.
Falconer, Clarence E.
Carson, Edward T. Corporals
Hovey, Clarence E.
Ward. Clarence S.
Knight, Robert R.
Weirshing, Guy
Dugan, Rollo C.
Toler, Roy P.
Robinson, William O.
O'Dowd, Benjamin H.
Roach, Norvin M.
Alleman, Neal D',
Christian, John W., Jr. Cooks
Toohey, Paul A,
Karbach, Albert R. Musicians
White. Frederick R.
Keck, Kenneth G. Privates
Addison, James W.
Anderson, John W,
Anderson, Willard C.
Adams, Ernest T.
Barne-s, Joe
Bailey, Clarence E.
Barnett, Benjamin
Brown, Kenneth Baum, Earl W. Baum, Eldon E. Blackwell. Joseph P. Blazer, Robert T. Bradbury, Claude L. Brennan, Edward W. Briggs, Clarence Briggs, Junior Brown, Guy ^ ™ «
Brunell, Ferdinand F. C. Buckles, Doyle L. Buckley, Lee E. Childs, Wesley M. Carter, Edward Church, Romulus B. Cline, Ernest R. Cole, Charles R. Conquest, Victor Corbett, Joseph F. Coyle, Walter E. Crowley, John J. Davidson, Vernie A. Dennis, Jesse A. De Talent, Edward C. Finley, Harold H. Flagg, Paul E. Flesher, Clarence W. Foster, James R. Gibson. Walter N. Gregar, Mike G. Goff, Melvin W. Hallquist, Hugo F. Hamman, Albert B. Hart, George M. Hendricks, William R. Hinze, Edward W. Houston, Herbert S. Bueben, Paul T. Ise, Frank H. Jackson, Dale B. Jenkins, Robert C. Jenner. Clifford M. Jesson, Joseph J. Johnson, Andrew
248
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Johnson, Roy E. Jones, Jacobus F, Jenson, Henry M. Kocher, Ernest J. Kemper, Eug-ene L. Locke, Lloyd B. McClenahan, Joe S. McNabb, Fred R. Martin, William R. Miller, Samuel C. Minniear. John R. Moore Chester Murray, Frank H. Nelson, Oscar P. Oeilrich, Clarence E. Parimore, Roy C. Pedago, Ellis Piatt. William C. Pring-le, Kenneth W. Putman, Lawrence A. Rebeck, John M,
Raid, Alex Reid, Roderick V. Rewerts. Fred C. Richmond, Lloyd Russell, Thomas C. Schenke, Harold W. Siebers, Frank A. Sherrell, Clarence W. Smith, Glen E. Stalcup, Ernest F. Stewart, Chester B. Still, Robert Stutes, Chester A. Talmadg-e, Abram J. Van Cleave, Donald W. Vesper. Harold E. Wte,lker, John W., Jr. Weaverling. Jacob C. Williams, William J. Wolf. Jonathan A. Coving-ton. Vand D,
Medical Department of the Kansas National Guard Advance Unit Train, Ft. Riley, Kansas
Lieutenants
Siever, Charles M.
Alford. Joseph S.
Hawke, Charles C.
Lindsay, Merrill K.
Jones, Harold H.
Barnes, Ralph C. Sergeants, 1st Class
Gurtler, Albert C.
Hawkins, June A. Sergeants
Wilson, Glen
Glahn, Harry
Allphin, Wayne Myers, William Logan, Glenn F. Dewey, Thomas E.
Privates, 1st Class
Arbuthnot, Sydney Glahn, Eugene Hale, George Holcomb, Allie A. Hughes, Herbert F. Jones. Sam I. Starkweather, Robert Taylor. Henry H. Weaver James B.
De^tachment Medical Corps of the Kansas National
Guard
Major
Martin, Emanuel N.
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Train Headquarters of the 110th Aitununition Train
Motor Battalion Headquarters of the 110th
Ammunition Train
Fitzpatrick, Fred R. Fowler, E. Fred George, Jesse E. Murray, Joseph W. Kane, William T. Alley, J. Lawrence Aton, Ross Bauer, George F. Bish. Frank Bonner, Alpha O. Boone', Hudson W. Caull, Nicholas Conwell, Daniel D'enyer, Lee C. Flinn, Edwin G. Geisinger, Clayton Green, John K. Hyland, Charles A. Kientzle, Fred F. Lamberton, Walter S. Lape, Earl D. Ling, Lyman W. MacDonald, William S. McDonough, Arthur L. Parker, William A. Powell, Rober K. Ross, Carmine Shafer, Raymond L. Stout, Elihu V. Thrower, Zack
Turner, Martin R. White, Lawrence P. Wildman, Charles E. Allen. Ellis A. Aubughon, Clifford W. Ballweg, Clarence J. Bliss, Harry R. Boyd, Morris M Bullock, Athen G. Durdick, John H. Carroll. Lawrence A. Cooper, Joseph D. Craven, Henderson A. Dapron. Oliver L. Dobbs, James V. Dormer, Charley H. Duley, Andrew E. Edwards, Darsie E. Fletchall, Delbert E. Gross, Walter A. Hill, Ormond P. Kriege, Oliver W. Matosh, Frank J. Olson, George W. Payne, William C. Powers, Chester P. Saling. Thomas W. Swaim, Wiley P. Wiggins, James B.
Ordnance Detachment of the 110th Ammunition
Tram
Alpaugh, Russell E. Barnes, Lawrence A. Barton, Oliver E. Brown, Everett J. Budd, Samuel M. Cashman, Patrick J. Cowgill, Isaac M. Hesik, Frank J. James, Farris Lackey. Ray R. McCann, James J.
McElroy, George A. Marrs, Carl Paisley, William E. Riordan, John J. Reid, Roger E. Rodie, Andres Sailer, William H. Smalley, Thornton Sennenberg, Peter S. Stuart, Allen P. Tobias, Davis D.
250
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Company A of the 110th Ammunition Train
Oliver. Alexander S. Lawrence, Arthur Richards, Thomas N. Adam, Richard E. Albrecht, Albert Anderson, Arthur S. Anderson, William M. Arnzen, August W. Ashmore, Arthur S. Bailey, Liee L. Ball, Charles M. Barrett, John P. Beck, Harold W. Bell. Joseph N. Bertus, Martin A. Berry, Thomas F. Bird, Raymond T. Birmingham, Claud S. Blue, Clifford M. Bourland, Elmer B. Brand, Keller Brusco, Henry Brulez, Charlie Li. Byers, Edward N. Byers, Roy C. Callison, Albert L. Carpenter. Robert H. Chandley, Francis M. Childs, George C. Clark, Williard H. Coffee, Richard M. Cooper, Charles Cowdrey, John M. Cox, Curtis M. Cox, Glenn Cox, Samuel IL Cutler. Loren Cutright, Alva B. Dailey, Alva C. Daniels, Fred H. David, Moritz W. Dockery, Harry Due, Olof Duncan, John F. Dyer, Robert R. Esser, Jacob M. Farmer, Milo Ferguson, Ashton E. Finch. Will Fleck, Edwin P. Fox, John W. Freier, Richard Gates, Fred W. Geiger, Edward Gleason, Martin A. Greenberg, Morris Goetza, Albert L. Griffis, Charles A. Grimes, William M. Gunderson, Henry Gustafson. Harry A. Hall, Henry H. Hamilton, Vaughan S. Hampton, Carl L. Hansen, Albert C. Hand, Emitt Harr, Raymond L. Hereford, Thomas G. Herman, Joseph He-ster, Robert H. Holle, John L. Huffman, Jerry F.
Howland. Ralph R. Jennings, James W. Jones, Jack Kisby, George Knickerbocker, William J. Kuschel, Richard W. Lang, Theodore Light. Crofford B. Mann, Alie A. Mann, James McGrath, John Metcalf, Henderson Mercier. Lee R. Miller, Merl F. Mills, Richard D. Montgomery, Marshall Moore, Clyde L. Morgan, Will C. Mursinna, LeRoy C. Myers, Earl Nelson, Bels Nicholson, James Morris, Alma L. Odell. Joe D, Oles, Lawrence M. Parsons, Dell D. Patton, Herbert J. Pietsch, Leonard C. Pomije, Louis W. Powell, Alfred B. Powers, John L. Springer, Jesse E. Price, Emitt Ray. Dennis Read, Emory W. Reeves, Russell R. Reedy, Sam J. Rice, Orien D. Richardson, Lemuel B. Riggs, Edwin C. Ritz, Charles Roe, John H. Ross, Frederick G. Saunders. S. Gordon Scarsaletti, John Schedel, Charles F. Shoemaker, Orrin G. Smith, Clarence E. Smith, Herbert P. Smith, Carl C. Smith, Floyd Snodgrass, John W. Spencer, James E. Springer, Jesse E. Stamper, Marvel C. Sterling, William T. Stone, Rollo A. Straub, Joseph P. Stuck, Mervin L. Swepston, Melvin Taylor, Ernest D. Teel, John F. Trimm, Lee Roy Trout, LeRoy E. Troxel, Benjamin S. Wade. Willie C. Warren, William W. Williamson, Claud R. Wilson. Harold Willyard, Rufus L. Woodward, Richard L. Zarosky, Frank
HE: vOES OF THE ARGONNE
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Company B of the 110th Ammunition Train
Allen, Jesse R. Anderson, John A. Attaway, Thomas E. Ball. Frank M. Ballard, Mark D. Barber, Ezra T. Barber, Lawrence L. Batts, Frank I. Borning, Ludwig Birrell, Wilfred J. Blair, Seth D. Blevins, Jesse J. Blumberg, Henry Branch, Richard E. Brewer, Pascle N. Burleson, John B. Butler. Jame F. Calhoun, Sanford W. Carlson, Martin C. Carring-ton, Homer Carter, Wyatt W. Casey, John M. Chappee, Evan J, Chappee, Roy H. Clayton, Morgan S. Coffman, George L. David, Orla G. Denton, Samuel H. Depew, Jack P. Edwards, Jessie L. Egleston, Richard E. Eldridge, Hugh S. Elliston, Glenn S. Fanter, Harry H. Faulkner, Garland Fish, Enoch E. Graser, Leslie A. Gibson, Raymond G. Gilmore, Charles L. Graves, Raphael M. Grothaus, Carl L. Hamner, Byron Hawkins, John L. Henderson, Roxie V. Hesse, Edwin C.
Holton. SIpm. Hooker, Henry O. Jenkins, Roscoe D.
Johns, Earl E.
Kairschner, William L.
Keller, Harley E.
Kennedy, Clarence G.
Kenny, William A.
Kline, Harry
Klingman, Oscar
Knox. William P.
Kreiger, William F.
Kuydendall, Herman
Lancaster, Richard R.
Landis, Charles D',
Langenderfer, Albert C.
Lee, Alfred
Levene, Bernard W.
Lewis, Bret C.
Lisch, Charles R.
Lorton, Hugh C.
Macon, Perry G.
Magoon, Woodson B.
Marshall. Henry G.
McClure, Alison E.
McCrory, Victor E.
McWllliam, Emmitt McWilliam, George Myer, William E. Miller, John V. Miltonberger, George W. Moorman, John U. Morrison, Clarence R. Mulkins, Wilbur E. Murphy, Frank J. Newberry. Leland Nordin, Newton C. Norris, Dale A, Norris, Thomas J, O'Brien, Charles M. Owen, Hubert Owens, Cecil P. Pabst, Fred Patterson, Robert L. Pennington, Colder G. Peterson, Oscar R. Phillips, Loren Pigett, Lemuel A. Powell. Chalmers W. Powers, Earnest Rader, Earl H. Read, Sidney C. Reichart, Lawrence T. Richardson, Roy S. Rives, Floyd Rogge, August Rothberger, Fred Sanders, Earl Sanders, Lee Schierkolk, John H. Schulse, Gustave C. See. Lewis E. Seitz, Jean A. Sharpe, Charley S. Sherbine, Aaron H. Skinner, Merle L. Skinner, Harry C.
Slack, Frank C.
Sligar, Martin F.
Smith, Emerson
Smith, William T.
Soder, Frank J.
Stanley, Clarence
Stebbins, Cullon C.
Steele. Bernard B.
Stookey, Fred
Stuart, Ross C.
Summers, Wiley
Sunderman, Rufus J.
Swope, James F.
Townley, Dallas T.
Turner, William H.
Urmey, John C.
Utter, Carl W.
Vance, Charles P.
Vaughn, David F.
Viers, Robert C.
Whalen. John B.
White, Charles A.
Wilkus, John P.
Williams, Wade
Winter, John
Wolfe, Ray
Worsham, Emanual
Yahn, Leroy J.
Young, Clyde
252
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Company C of the 110th Ammunition Train
Anderson, George M. Ank, George T. Atkinson, Andrew S. Banning. Fred B. Barnes, Sam Barron, Jacob Bell, Clarence H. Berge, Albert F. Bickle, Gale Billings, Joseph A, Blair, Oscar Blick, William H. Bradley, Joseph L. Brannigan, James P. Braun, Melville F. Brinker, Benjamin H. Brost. David Budrow, Lee G. Calvert, Thomas R. Campbell, Reuben E. Cannon, William Carinder, Joe G. Carver, Merle F. Cecil, Aaron B. Christensen, Carl A. Cobaugh, Daniel F. Conti, Jaseppe Coskey, George A. Cox. Grover L. Cullinan, Thomas J. Damon, George N. Daniel, Jesse J. Deskin, William A. Dietz, Pascal R. Drinkwater, Frederick A. Duggan, Patrick J. Elliott, Hoyt J. Emigh, William F.
Ewing, William E.
Eyles, Edward E.
Farris, Stark
Ferguson. Stephen C.
Flesner, William F.
Florea, Wilbur C.
Franks, Robert A.
Frees, Ferris C.
Frost, Richard G.
Gibson, Perry F,
Gettys, William H.
Graf, Frank, Jr.
Hamer, Richard S.
Hawkins, Jesse W.
Helt, Millard F.
Holde-n. William
Holton, Alva H.
Horton, James T.
Jackson, Arnold T.
Jensen, Palmer O.
Johnson, Frank A.
Johnson, William E.
Kappelmann, Otto T.
Kelly, John J.
King, Marvin C.
Kiser, Charles H.
Kachonower, Walter A.
Kulish, Morris
Leake. Lowell L.
Leslie, Ansel E.
Lewis, Roger G.
Lynn, Frank L.
McAfee, Lotis McAnelly, Joseph R. McBurney, George W, McCabe, Charles E. McCrory, Lyonell McCulley, Bert McElroy, Urish G. Mansfield, Leonard J. Martin, William A. Merriott, Clarence W. Miller, Claud Miracle, Chester A. Montgomery, Noah M. Morrison, Bert Nagel, Harry W, Nance, Roy F. Neff, George W. North, John H. Ohlhausen, Archie Pforts, Fred Phillips, Bartley Pickett, Chester Piper, Charles D. Popendieker, Fred Purvis, Charles A. Reed, Chester C. Reed, Harvey T. Reed, Perry Reed, Rollie Reese, Claude E, Reiter, Clair C. Reister, Laroy M. Rivers, James
Roberts, Cecil C.
Rogers. Arthur V.
Rose, Marshall Ryan, Edward J.
Schmidt, Louis
Schwab, John A.
Seaman, Jonah D.
Schulte, John D. Search, William L.
Seelig, Ralph
Shelton, Charles H.
Sidmon, Edward H.
Skidmore, Arthur L.
Smith, Byron E.
Smith. Floyd
Smith, William A.
Sorrentino, Gennaro
Stephens, Marcus I.
Stewart, Henry D.
Strand, Alfred
Stumpi, George J,
Swanson, Victor L.
Swinney, Reuben A.
Testerman, Clyde F.
Truitt, James W.
Tucker, Arvil H.
Tweston, Richard H.
Waller. Robert W.
Warne, Clarence T.
Watson, Glen M.
Wentz, Ellsworth L.
Westerberg, Francis P.
Williams, Emmett
Willman, Dale A.
Winter, Raymond G.
Wise, William B.
Zacharias, Fred
Zimmerman, Samuel H.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
253
Company D of the 110th Ammunition Train
Privates
Adam, George Vern Aldrich, George W. Arnold. Ray Babbitt, Robert S. Bartmess, Merle Barton, Luther L. Beauchamp, James A. Beisner, Fred William Board, Andy Simle Bollinger, William Boyd, Clarence L. Boyd, John R. Boyer, Clyde E. Braddock, George W. Brannen, Robert R, Bremer. Clarence L. Brockmeyer, Edgar W Brooks, Noah Brothers, Phillip E. Bruce, Grover L. Buckallow, Earl W. Bundridge, Soloman W. Buster, John R. Caldwell, George O. Callahan, Robert E. Callaway, William P. Carl. Edwin G. J. Carter, David M. Cheap, George L. Cirella, Domenico Ciummo, Michele Clark, Ben R. Cleston, John W. Clavenger, Jesse C. Conlon, William J. Cook, Charles D. Cook, John W. Cooper, Philip Crowder, Cleo W, Cunningham, Frank Darnell, Purl Deitrich. Carlton Delaney, Timothy W. Dell, Garland W. Denhardt, Lucian O. Di Simone, Guiseppe Duncan, Ben E. Dunlap, William E. Elliott, William H. Fanogleo, Andrew Fox, Charles W. Freeman, Alvin D. Fuqua, Claude Gebauer, Clifford W. Giltner. Frank E. Goolsby, Robert F. Gregory, Clifford B. Gross, Joseph A. Haff, Vernon V. Haines, Roy C. Graves, Carl B. Hamrick, David E. Harbin, Frank Hardister, Orbis Howard, William R. James, Robert L. Jones, David C. Karraker. Francis M. Key, Harry Kiplinger, Lyman M. Kirk, Raymond L.
Klapper, Charles J. Knight, Frank H. Kerns, Marion D. Lance, Kelly Langford, Leslie C. Lawyer, Ernest W. Lingenhag, Charles Malcomb, Ronald "VJ Markham, Clarence L Marks. John R. Mattera, Salvatore Melton, Thomas Mendenhall, Charles R. Miller, Carl R. Mills, Eugene Clark Milton, James F. Moffet, Robert Montgomery, Oscar W. Moore, Hersol E. Motes, Frank M, Moyer, Charles C. Nelson, Robert Ogle, Harley Orf, Edward H. Owen, James F. Peterman, William P. Piersee'. Charley Plagens, Henry Porter, Jackson Perry Price, Ronald H. Price, Robert A. Railsback, Bryan Rathman, Otto Reese, Victor Roub, Clark D. Russell, William A. Saintey. Ralph Sanders, Joseph Sargent, Raymond Forest Sasse, Charles Scheffel, Herbert F. Schleusner, Lawrence R. Schulz, Tony Sealey, Dwight H. Shakens, John Shears, Clarence Skelly, Edward J. Smith, Samuel S. Stamper, Grant A. Sterling, Ralph W. Story, Thomas C. Stropkai, George P, Taylor, Donald G. Trich, James H. Thacker, Albert Turner, Ruby L. Van Dusen, Thomas R. Van Krik, Albert F. Warner, Joseph R. Wells, William O. Welsch, Conrad A. Weaver, James O. Wevodan. Irvin C. Whitcomb, John H. White, Lester O. Whitman, Charles J. Wiggins, Lester O. Willsford John H. Wiley, Lloyd Thomas Willis, Bernard C. Workman, Leon H.
254
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Headquarters Company Horsed Battalion, 110th Ammunition Train
Bennett, Merrill W. Bodkin, Charles W. Bopst, William O. Brown, Harold W. Burnaw, George Clayton. Harry W. Deffenbaugh, Orville A. Elvy, Louis V. Fry, Lester V. Gamber, Glenn G.
Graham, George Hampton, Augustus A. Jellison, Charley Jenkins, Archie G. McVicar, Russell A. Moore, Eugene H. Oakleaf, Lovell R. • Tillinghast, Frank L. Ulmer, Charles Cookson, William K.
Company E of the 110th Ammunition Trairi
Akins, T. F. Albert, William H. Alexander, Columbus R. Anderson, Arvid Andrews, Richard Arehart, Frederick M. Arnell, James W. Bailey, Lawrence S. Bainter, Roy C. Ballinger, George Barkow, Fred Barnes, Edgar V. Basset, LaRoy H. Belcher, Luther G. Bellamy, John J. Blau, Fred Biasing, Daniel Blasky, Frank A. Blumanhourst, Alfred Bockelman, Arthur M. Bowers, Harry F. Boyer, Homer E. Burke, Daniel Burk, Virgil E. Burton. Otto E. Burns, Stacy Buttenhoff, Charles Brassfield, Wm. P. Bright, Albert E. Brannon, Geo. J. Brown, Wm. V. Brown, Fred Brown, Howard A. Bruce, Earl C. Callaway, John W. Capps, Clarence R. Carlisle, Arthur Case, Albert B. Case, Frank L. Chambers, Lyle R. Chaplin, Charles C. Chrisman, Ivan Christmas, Leslie Clark, George L. Claycamp, Fred G. Clingan, Hugett Coleman, Glenn T. Collins, Nata Collins. Joseph Cook, Delphius L. Cook, Grover Correll, Charles S.
Cosby, Belton S. Crough, Saniel J. Crow, Jesse F. Crothers, John A. Curtis, Loyd F. Crissman, Merle P, Dale, Homer A. Davis, Calvin H. De Boice, Ray Deaton, Wilsy De La Motte, Henry Dick, Bernard P. Dodson, William H. Doyle. Francis J. Drake, John C. Duncan, Orba D. Durbin, Roy L. Dyer, Roy L. Easin, Augustus J. Eckel, George H. Elder, Charles W. England, John L. Erickson, Arthur W. Felzien. Edward H. Fisher, Russell Ei. Fischer, Paul F. Freeburne, Cecil Free-land, Harold G. Gansior, Louis Gates, Fred Gartimmer, Aloysius Gibson, Wm. R. Gillham, Horace T. Garner, Walter Geibler, Edmund Gillilan, John A. Graham. Robert E. Griffith, Horace F. Hagerud, Bonnie Hahn, Virgil J. Harbin, John W. Havins, Thurman Hanks, Sefelt Heitzman, Williard. Hladek, Charles P. Holabaugh, Earl P. Hollis, Marion O. Howard, Luther G. Howard. Otis M. James, Fred Johnson. Oscar B. Kimball, Byron R.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
255
Knight, Robert R. Knox, Wm. A. Korsvlk, Gustav V. Liiberopolus, E. C. Loyd, Terrence "V. P. Lyons, John Martin, Luclan V. Mark, Raymond O. Mathis, Robert H. Massey, "Wm. S. McCaulley, Alton N. McDonald, Eugene E. McKee, Edgar E. McShane, Theobald E. McWhorter, Wm. H. Merriott, Homer L. Meisner, Fred W. Millberger, Henry Milburn, Roy E. Milton, Albert E. Mofield, Wm. H. Mitchell, Oliver C. Morian, James A. Murphy, Hugh P. Myers. Boyd A. Neiman, John J. Nelson, Gerald Packwood, Florence C Penrod, Brodie Phillips, Jesse T. Piland, Jasper Plunkett, Newton Pollock, Clarence Pride, Joseph C. Rathbone, Arthur R. Reynolds, Green, Jr. Rixon, Jesse E. Rogers, Frank Rosander, Arvid Rogers, George
Routh, Louis W. Roach, Walter F. Robinett, Richard E. Sallee, Willis G. Schimank, Emil Schnoutze, Walter C. Shaw, Alexander C. Sharp, Ferdinand F. Sheets, Frank R. Shults, Elmer Sicks, Wilbur A. Sims, Luther G. Simpson, John See, Geo. E. Smetana, John Smith, Ernest T. Smith, Wm. M. Smith, Wm. W. Smith, Reub. Ww Sorenson, Jack Summers, Walter E. Sullivan, Floyd E. Sutherland, John H. Steuber. John R. Swengel, Elmo S, Swift, Jay G. Schneider, Clifford B. Templin, Frank H. Todd, Cecil H. Trojacek, Antone L. Tyl6T, Cecil E. Vance, Coy C. Vick, Garland L Wages, Andrew F. Welch, John R. Wilkerson, Benj. F. Worich. Jerry S. Wright, Russell G. C. Zern, William R. Austen, Gordon F.
256
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Company F of the 110th Ammunition Train
Cunningham, Raymond M. Penrose, Ray G. Smith, Clarence M. Alexander, William G. Allcorn, Leslie S. A'Neals, Albert Arnold, Jack R. Barg-er, Roy E. Barr, George B. Bingham. Frank P. Blake, Martin Blalock, Jacob G. Bonjour, Chester L. Bowman, Claybourne Brock, Ernest Burgess, Stanley WV Butler, Grover C. Butler, Hampton Byrd, Walter M. Carmel, Herbert L. Chapman, Clarence R. Cikanek. Antone Clack, Elmer R. Coffman, Reuben A. Conner, Clarence R. Conrad, Daniel L. Cook, Edgar A. Cox, Benjamin F. Crockett, Clarence W. Curry, Samuel G. Curtis, Cicil E. Davis, Joseph W. Dean, Clyde F. Despain, George Dexter, Lome T. Dix, Charles Doherty, John W. Dufft, Daniel W. Edmiston, Robert S. Ellis, Other H. Fassee, Samuel A. Ferguson, Arthur L. Fisher, Henry O. Ford, Henry Forman, Murphy F. Gaines, Arthur L. Geddes, Robert D. Gennette. Omer Glenn, James D. Graham, Joseph A. Graves, John R. Green, Jesse E. Gregory, Miles H. Gregory, Charles Grimes, James A. Gunckel, John H. Guffy, Henry Hackenberg, George W. Hall, Henry C. Hall, James M. Hallmark, Elsie Hambleton, Earl L. Hamilton, Andre-w J.
Harriman, Fred L. Harrison, Franklin F. Hauser, Frank L. Heaton, John M. Hensroth, August Herman, David S. Hilburn, John L. Hildebrand, Anton Holder, Lucern Holm, Otto E. Hooten. Davis W. Hooser, Glen J. Horn, Henry W. Horner, Loren T. Horton, Lindsey L. Huerter, William E. Hull, Oren Hutchings, James R, Jacobs, John C. Jacobson, Paul E. Jewell, Frank Johnson, Johnnie S. Johnson, Right E. S. Johnson. Robert Johnson, William G. Johnston, Walter F, Jones, Richard N. Joy, Will J. Julien, Clifford C. Karns, James G. Keller, John C. Kerr, Clifford J. King, Ira E. Kinghorn, Loyd E. c Kirby, Arthur L. ' Klein, Adolph S. Kramer. Earl Lawrence, Fay F. Lee, Homer E. Leivan, Earl F. Lewis, Leroy Linson, Walter V. Lowcock, Francis E. Luttrell, Claude Main, Robert Manly, Homer W. Marney, Carl L. Masieller, Emery L. Massey, Thomas A. J. McAfee. Harrison M- .'ty, Charlie Mt;^«,j^hey, James T. McCrory, Carl W. McCreary, Owen M. McHugh, Dilts S. McNabb, Chester G. Merk, Claude Michler, Don A, Miller, Arnold C. Miller, Charles J. Miller, William H. Morgan, Carl P. Morgan, Lee R.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
257
Morris, Abner Murphy, Howard A. Neal, Clarence G. Nelson, Earl C. Newton, Perry I. Northup, James E. Nyberg, Melvin Olofson, Charley P. Omdahl, Alfred Owens, Dock I. Parsons, Cress Peckham, C. Bart Pfrang. John E. Pittenger, Percival Pichot, Louis H. Polk, William S. Queen, James S. Queen, Thomas C. Ramer, James E. Rice, Harry Rig-el, Albin F. Roach, Evans L. Hubert, Arthur A. Rudolph, Samuel Schroller, Rudolph P. Seale. Carl N. Shandrick, Mike Shaw, Grocer C. Shepard, Thomas L. Sherry, Thomas L. Simmons, Wfilliam B.
Skalicky, Ernest Smith, Georg-e F. Smith, Herman Smith, Rog-er E. Smith, Thomas C. Starner, Harry T. Stevens, Walter W. Stroud. Carl B. Stambaug-h, Sydney B. Stump, Harvey F. Stutzman, Robert H. Sutton, Walter V. Tolman, George O. Tryon, John L. Vanderhyde, Fred Waters, Anson C. Walter, Eugene Wasserman, Ernest Wax, Herbert E. Wege, Robert F. W«iler, Simon Warner, Joseph B. Whearty, Roy E. Whitley, Homer Wurtz, Joseph J. Wurtz, Matthias A. Yeager, Oscar J. Yoos, Roy S. Young, George T. Zwahl, Ernest
258
ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS
Company G of the 110th Ammimition Train
Adams, Walter K. Adcock, Thomas C. Addlngton. Albert T. Allen, Carl K. Allen, Vernon Anderson, Howard M. Anzelma, Nicola Barnes, James P. Barrett, William H. Beeman, Everett Bennett, Edward C. Bennett, John R. Bixler, John L. Blalack, Perl Booker, Samuel F. Boley, James Boyd, Ruette Bower, Robert W. Brinkman, Floyd W. Brown, Berrah B. Brown, George C. Callahan, Owen B. Carpenter, Orville W. Carr, Charles Carter, Artie Conn, Roy J. Conway, George M. Cook, Alfred J. Cook, Robert H. Cooper, Hutchson Cooper, Robert F. Curtis, Jett P. Davis, Charles B. Delaney, John E. Depe-w, Ray E. Doerkson, Aber A. Douthat, Lee A. Doop, Jesse Dougherty, Henry W. Dreher, Charlie Eastin, Homer F. Evans. George A. Farlow, Denzel M. Fe-ncel, James A. Fields, Claude B. Fleek, Lawrence Ford, Clyde J. Forman, Lew R, Freeman, Clark L. Fromme, Moritz P. Fullerton, Offa C. Grandi, Carl P. Greub, Emil W. Grier. William T. Harmon, Claude Harmon, Fred Hargadine, Rufus H. Hathaway, Claude W. Hegwer, Julius B. Hemphill, Owen B. Henderson, John S. Hill, John R. Holle, Fred A.
Howze, Thomas Hobbs, Roy V. Hosier, Merle Hunsinger. Jack Hurt, Thomas J. Jackson, Ivan Johnson, Arthur T. Johnson, John P. Jones, Ralph E. Kitts, William Z. Krafft, Edward W. Laird, Wesley S. Lay, Sam H. C. Leiker, Peter Lovendahl, Marion O. Loeffler, Jacob Long. Roy D. McCollum, Eugene F. McGee, Paul C. Mcintosh, David A. McNeal, Glena B. McNeal, Harry Main, Harry L. Marling, Ben Ww Mensch, Ray S. Malicky, Charles Milton, Wood E. Mitchell, Thomas L. Morse, Milford J. Moore, Ward C. Murray, Lloyd M. Murray, Lynn R. Myers, Murrell H. Navarre, Guy W, Navarre, Henry C. Neary, William J. Nichols, Noah L. Nobles, Frank Owens, Ben T. Penrod, Elbert B. Plummer, Charle-s Porsch, Arthur T. Pugh, Major A. Pugh, Wesley Renner, Floyd Renner, William Reay, Charles R. Richardson, Lloyd M. Robertson. Walter F. Rolland, Alfred L. Rowland, Dan W. Rundell, Lee S. Sanders, Charley Sanders, Ernest Schell, William A. Schoenfeldt, Carl J. Schreibe. William J. Schroll, Clyde J. Sevier, Ernest Sharp, Oscar H. Shoemaker, John Snodgrass, Ernest G Smith, Mark J.
HEROES OF THE ARGONNE
269
Smith, William A. Stephems, Clarence H. Sims, Huston, Stone, Bennett ML Taylor, Ogle Taylor. Theodore Templin, Leslie F. Thompson, Jack Todd, Earl C. Trawick, Paul R. Ulmer, Lew R.
Van Cleave, Bverette B. Vance, Willis W. Van Slyke, Harry L. Warfield, William Wells, William A. Whetstone, Fred N. Winchester, Bert C. Wilkinson. Ray Wofford, Moses C. Wright, Hayne V. Yeager, Raymond C.
Sanitary Detachment of the 110th Ammunition
Train
Amos, Darwin W. Browning, Claud Baldridge, Floyd K. Covington, Van D. Draper, William Darby, Wells Freark, Joyce Garrod, Robert O. Glahn, Eugene Howell. Joe B.
Kitchen, Roy C. Moeck, John B. Morse, Alpha J. Murphy, Paul Ogee, Edward M. Swan, Leslie- N. Williams, Ernest W. Williams, Richard C. Wilson, Glen Zlegler, Carl E.
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