Ripley County's part in the world war, 1917-1918

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SPIRIT OF THE FLAG

In the hope of the wonderful blossoming time,

That the coming of Freedom should bring to the earth,

Was the fag of our fathers unfurled in the days

When the storm of the world gave our nation its birth.

As the starry flag waves see new meanings unfold!

All the azure and rose of a beautiful morn
In our standard is lifted to bloom like a flower

That at last from the centuries' waiting is born.

'Tis America's flag that's the hope of the race;

'Tis America's freemen are calling it out
In a cry that will ring like a bugle at dawn,

And at length from all nations bring ansivering shout.

Let our flag, then, wave on with its spirit of truth,
And the watchword entwined in its every fold

Be the glorious words, "Elevate, elevate all!"

For the promise of Heaven these pregnant words hold.

O America's manhood, awake to your rights!

Learn to read what the flag and its spirit must be.
Clear your eyes of the mists that are blinding them now,

And 'wash clean in the ether the flag of the free!

— Elizabeth Stewart Ross.

RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART
IN THE WORLD WAR

1917-1918

COMPILED UNDER THE DIRECTION
AND CENSORSHIP OF THE

RIPLEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

EDITED BY

MINNIE ELIZABETH WYCQFF

COUNTY WAR HISTORIAN

Batesville, Indiana
1920

ISHING CO.

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DEDICATION

To the Ripley county soldiers and sailors, living and dead,

who wore the khaki or the blue, and thus offered

their lives, one and all, on the altar of their

country's service in its hour of need, this

record of their county's and their own

activities during the World War,

is gladly, reverently dedicated.

June 1, 1920.

COPYRIGHT 1920

MINNIE ELIZABETH WYCOFF

BATESVILLE. INDIANA

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

INDEX

PART I

Hoiv We Kept the Home Fires Burning

Page
General Narrative 13

Red Cross Report 25

Council of Defense 42

Liberty Loans -. 49

Woman's Committee, Third Loan 59

War Savings Movement 60

Food Administration 66

Food Conservation 72

W. W. C. of Batesville and Laughery Township 74

Armenian and Syrian Relief 76

Knights of Columbus 77

Y. M. C. A 82

Y. W. C. A 84

Library War Service 85

Fuel Administration 87

Liberty Guards 91

Liberty Girls 97

War Mothers 100

U. S. B. W. Reserve 105

Soldiers' Employment Bureau 112

War Labor Board 113

Four-Minute Men .•: 115

Fourteen-Minute Women 116

Educational Propaganda 116

Child Welfare Work 117

Ripley County Draft Board 119

PART II

With the Boys "Over Here" and "Over There"

Page
First Division 128

Second Division 130

Third and Fourth Divisions 132

Thirtieth Division 133

Thirty-Third Division 137

Rainbow Division 137

Ordnance Repair Service 140

Total Casualties of the A. E F 141

Air Service 142

Hospital Service 145

Headquarters Service 146

Military Police 148

Supply Service 148

Musicians 149

Miscellaneous 150

As Told in Many Letters and Narratives 159

(a) William Robinson's Story 178

(b) Our War-Prisoner's Story 180

(c) An Engineer's Story 198

(d) Diary of Everett Hart 201

(e) From Our Y. M. C. A. Man 219

Our War Nurses 223

A Final Round of Army Shrapnel 229

(a) An English Family's Record 245

(b) A History of Service, 53rd Infantry 247

Our Medal Honor Roll 253

Citations 262

Gold Star Honor Roll 265

The Almost Gold Star Honor Roll 300

Tribute to Ripley County's Dead 305

Honor Roll of Service Men 311

Wa: Poems 376

Addendum 387

PHOTOGRAPHS

Part I

Page

Red Cross Officers 26

Council of Defense 43

Float in Batesville Parade 48

J. A. Hillenbrand, Liberty Loan Chairman 50

Liberty Loan Chairman No. 1 53

Liberty Loan Chairman No. 2 57

Canfield's Drum Corps 59

Naval Band, Great Lakes, III 63

Eureka Band, Batesville Parade 68

Airplane Landing 69

War Exhibit Train 71

Edward Laughlin's Airplane 73

War Exhibit 75

Liberty Guards, Co. "B." 90

Liberty Guard Officers, Co. "B." 95

War Mother Officers 99

War Exhibit Train 118

Fair-Grounds Hail 127

Part II

First Division Men 131

Second Division, F. A. and Seventh Division Men 135

Rainbow and Sixth and Seventh Division Men 139

Miscellaneous Group 143

Thirtieth Division Men 147

Ninety-First Division and Machine Gun Battalion Men 151

Medical Officers, No. 1 156

Medical and Dental Officers No. 2 160

Army and Navy Commissioned Officers 163

Ordnance, Q. M. C. and Headquarters Men 167

Thirty-Seventh Division Men 171

Marines and Musicians 175

In a Dugout in France 178

Our War Prisoner 180

Thirtieth to Thirty-Ninth Division Men 181

Miscellaneous Service Men 185

M. P., Eighty-First to Eighty-Fourth Division Men 189

Engineers 195

Coast Artillery 205

Air Men, Engineers, Remount Men 213

Military Officers 217

Our Y." M. C. A. Secretary 219

Army Nurses ■-•• 226-228

Navy Men 230

Hospital Service Men 236

Special Service Men 238

Two Methods of Travel 249

Medal Honor Roll 253-260

Citations Men 261-3-4

Gold Star Men 265-304

Mrs. Neil McCallum 305

Batesville War Memorial 311

War Exhibit Views 374

S. A. T. C.'s and Miscellaneous Service Men 375

PREFACE

It is with due recognition of the importance of
an accurate and complete record of Ripley county's
war activities in the recent great conflict, both at
home and with the boys in camp, on battle-field or
in the navy, that this little volume has been care-
fully compiled. No effort has been spared to make
it reliable as an authentic record of our two and
more years' participation in the World War.

Thanks are due to the county chairmen of the
various war organizations for their reports. Also
to the War Mothers for their help in collecting the
soldiers' and sailors' service records for the state
and county honor rolls. Thanks are due to each
of our five county papers for their help in carrying
notices, articles and so forth in connection with the
collection and publishing of our history. Mr. Harry
Monroe of Batesville deserves special credit for
furnishing practically all of the war pictures for the
book aside from individual photographs.

If an historian had been put to work at the be-
ginning of our part in the war, we should doubtless
have kept a few things that are lost to us. But it is
believed that the essentials remain and will prove to
be entirely trustworthy as a record of Ripley coun-
ty's World WTar service at home and abroad.

Minnie Elizabeth Wycoff,

County War Historian.

FORE WORD

Ripley county lies in the southeastern part of Indiana. It is sepa-
rated from Ohio by Dearborn county, a width of about fourteen miles,
and from the Kentucky boundary by Ohio, Switzerland a'nd Jefferson
counties, a distance of twelve to fifteen or twenty miles. It is bounded
on the west by Jennings county and north by Decatur and Franklin
counties. It is irregular in shape, being about twenty-seven miles by
nineteen miles in extent north and south, east and west, respectively.
Its area is two hundred eighty-eight thousand acres, and averages from
nine hundred to eleven hundred feet in elevation. It is drained princi-
pally by Laughery Creek with its tributaries, which crosses the central
part of the county, and flows east between Dearborn and Ohio counties
to the Ohio river. Otter Creek, Old Kentuck and Little Graham
creeks drain the western and southern parts of the county.

The first permanent settlements were made in 1814-15. The early
settlers were nearly all pioneers from Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

There are no very large towns. Batesville, in the northern part of
the county, with a population of less than three thousand, is the largest
town. It has city government, and is situated on the Big Four railway
not far from half the distance between Indianapolis and Cincinnati.

Milan and Osgood, on the B. & O. R. R., near the center of the
county, are the next two towns in size and importance. Holton, on the
B. & O., Versailles, the county seat, five miles south of Osgood, Sun-
man, on the Big Four, near Batesville, Napoleon, Friendship, Cross
Plains and New Marion, are the other principal small towns, ranging
from three hundred to nine hundred in population.

Farming is the chief industry. Much attention is given to dairying
and poultry raising. Saw-milling and flour-milling are important occu-
pations.

Furniture, coffins, coffin-metals and mirror glass are manufactured
at Batesville. There is also a garment factory and a baby-shoe factory.

Milan has a veneer mill.

The population of the county is about twenty-one thousand. There
are only a few very wealthy people in the county, and not a large num-
ber of extremely poor. The greater number of Ripley county citizens
are prosperous, progressive, and patriotic. They are proud of their
Civil War record. Two Grand Army Posts still survive at Batesville
and at Versailles. In every parade held during the World War the

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G. A. R. veterans were made a feature, it at all possible. Four Ameri-
can Legion Posts have been organized to June 1, 1920, at Versailles,
Osgood, Milan and Batesville.

Commissioned high schools are held at Batesville, Milan, Versailles,
Osgood and Holton. Certified high schools at Napoleon, Sunman and
Delaware.

In education, industry, intelligence and thorough Americanism,
Ripley county ranks with any other county having its parallel of natural
advantages. It has sent teachers, editors, authors, artists, statesmen and
soldiers forth to serve their country and mankind. Its soldiers have shed
their blood in every war of our common history since the organization
of the state and its admission into the Union in 1816. Now, at the
close of the World War and the opening of the new year of 1920, a
record of its activities during the war seems fitting and eminently proper
as a special memorial to those who offered their lives that the peace
and prosperity of their homeland should be secured.

PART I

HOW WE KEPT THE HOME FIRES
BURNING

On March 26, 1917, a number of citizens met in the courthouse
at Versailles to discuss plans for co-operating with the State and Federal
Governments in a general movement for preparedness. Dr. Tony E.
Hunter was made chairman of the meeting and Frank Thompson sec-
retarv. Addresses were made by Judge F. M. Thompson, Senator R.
H. Jackson, Prof. Hale Bradt, Dr. R. T. Olmsted and Prof. P. V.
Voris in favor of organizing all the resources of the community to pre-
pare for the defense of the lives, property and rights of our citizens.

The chairman appointed a Committee of Public Safety with author-
ity to appoint such other sub-committees as might be necessary. A second
meeting was appointed for Friday evening, March 29th, for the purpose
of organizing a company for military drill. The general government
everywhere was organizing to protect bridges, railways and public
buildings.

A detachment of the Third Ohio National Guard Regiment was sent
to guard the bridges of the B. and O. Railway near Delaware and Hol-
ton in Ripley county. Guns had been mounted along the Ohio River
ports. The soldiers pitched their tents at the High Bridge near Osgood,
and near Nebraska Station at the bridge west of Holton, and proceeded
to do picket duty day and night.

The first armed ship to sail from an American port was sunk on
April 1st, near Brest, France, by a German U-boat, without warning,
and with the loss of about twenty men ; this, occurring the day before
Congress met, changed the attitude of some of the peace-at-any-price
representatives.

On April 7, the day following the President's declaration of a
state of war between this country and Germany, in accordance with a
call of Governor Goodrich and the Indiana Committee on Food Pro-
duction, meetings were held at the courthouses in every county seat of
Indiana. About two hundred citizens attended the meeting at Ver-
sailles at 1 :30 p. m. Professor Anderson, of Purdue University, ad-
dressed the audience, explaining some of the ways in which food produc-
tion could be increased without increasing the acreage, namely, by test-
ing and treating seed before planting.

County Superintendent Chas. R. Hertenstein explained the reason
for the hurriedly called meeting, that of economic preparedness made
necessary by our entrance into a great war, the duration of which no
one could foretell. He quoted the Governor in saying: "Next in im-
portance to the men who go to the front, to defend the honor of the

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nation, is the conservation and the production of the food supply, and the
men who perform this task are no less patriots than the men in the
ranks."

State Senator R. H. Jackson read a letter from the Governor ex-
plaining the shortage of potatoes and wheat already existing in America,
the poor outlook of the 1917 wheat crop of the world, and the great
shortage of cattle and hogs of the United States. Statistics showed that
we had fifteen million more people than ten years before and ten mil-
lion less cattle. A set of resolutions outlining the situation and plan-
ning for a patriotic organization was presented by a committee appointed
to draft them.

These resolutions declared the loyalty of the citizens of the county,
their recognition of the menace in the German attitude, their condem-
nation of the ruthless submarine warfare as declared and carried out by
Germany, their recognition of the gravity of the food situation of the
world, and the duty of all citizens to take immediate steps to prepare
for any and all possible emergencies. They were unanimously approved
and adopted.

The organization was planned to include the entire county and
named accordingly, "The Ripley County Patriotic Food Association."
The following officers were elected: President, John A. Hillenbrand,
of Batesville; vice-president, Edgar Smith, of Milan; secretary, E. J.
Bryant, of Benham. It was agreed to complete the organization by
townships as rapidly as possible. The resolutions on food production as
presented by the chairman of the committee were as follows:

"Resolved : Whereas, The United States is facing the greatest short-
age in food supplies that this country has ever known, and has entered
what promises to be the most strenuous conflict our country has ever
been engaged in ; and,

"Whereas, Our nation looks to Indiana for its full quota of men to
prosecute this great war, and for more than her share of food to main-
tain our army and navy, and civilian population, and realizing that the
man who grows food is no less a patriot than the man who shoulders a
gun, that the citizens of Ripley county adopt the following measures in
order to stimulate food production and to conserve our resources to the
fullest extent. In order to accomplish this end we feel the necessity of
organizing our county with committees to further all branches of pro-
duction and to aid in the conservation of food products."

Indiana was the first state in the Union to take steps to handle the
food situation, though papers throughout the nation were carrying arti-
cles on the seriousness of the problem. Governor Goodrich conceived
the plan and appointed a State Committee on Thursday, April 5, which,
in forty-eight hours, had the counties organized.

The following committees had been arranged at Ripley county's
meeting: Corn Production, Potato Production, Home Garden
and Vegetable Crops, Food and Live-Stock Production, Dairy
Production, Home Projects for Boys and Girls — namely: Corn, Pig,
Poultry, Garden and Dairy Clubs. Food Conservation Committees,

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and sub-committees on each subject were planned and immediately or-
ganized during the following week in the eleven townships of Ripley
county.

The county papers came out the week after April 6 with cuts of
the Stars and Stripes and the pledge of allegiance on their front pages.
The state superintendent asked that the schools be opened with this
pledge and the singing of the "Star-Spangled Banner," which was gen-
erally observed for a time. Patriotic meetings were held all over the
county; that at Batesville, on April 23, being one of the largest. A
parade, in which the various lodges and the school children took part,
formed the main feature of this meeting. Three bands played for the
march, and about thirty-five hundred people were in line, carrying flags.
Homes and public buildings were decorated all over the city with flags
and bunting. Flag poles were raised at many school houses throughout
the county and at the courtyard at Versailles.

The bells on all public buildings rang at nine o'clock p. m. on Mon-
day, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings of the week of June
11 to 17, to mark the progress of the First Liberty Loan. They were
tolled at five minute intervals each, four times on Monday, three times
on Tuesday, twice on Wednesday, and once on Thursday, reporting in
this way the number of days left in which to buy bonds. As the tolling
bells echoed from town to town on the quiet evening air, it came home
to all, young and old, rich and poor, high and low, that we were all a
fundamental part of the mighty world struggle, whose battle-fields lay
along the borders of France and Belgium. That upon us, as civilians,
the future of the world depended as truly as upon the men in uniform
who should go forth to those bloody fields.

Mrs. A. H. Beer, of the Ripley County Council of Defense, Mrs.
Lyttleton Reynolds and Mrs. C. S. Royce, all of Versailles, were sent
as a committee to Greensburg, on Tuesday, July 10, to hear the plans
of Mrs. Mary Boyd, of Indianapolis, who was the head of the Woman's
Department of the Indiana Council of Defense for Knitting Socks for
Indiana Soldiers. The state had asked Ripley county to furnish ninety-
five pairs of socks before September 1, 1917. Indiana was the only state
having such a commission at that time. Other states planned to watch
Indiana, and, if the plan succeeded, to adopt it also. Each soldier was
to be furnished with four pairs of hand-knit socks.

Mrs. Beer called a meeting at Versailles, on July 21, to instruct the
women of the county in the work, and to hand out the material. This
was apportioned by townships and the work was completed in a short
time, one hundred five pairs being furnished. The Council of Defense
gave out the required knitting needles and instructions with the yarn.

The socks were found to be entirely satisfactory but the method of
distribution became such a difficult problem that the further work of
equipping the soldiers with woolen garments was left to the Govern-
ment and to the Red Cross. The Ripley County Council of Defense,
however, locally, at the request of the Red Cross women of the county,
in September, 1917, agreed to furnish a s\ffeater to each Ripley county
soldier.

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On the same date as the "sock meeting" at Versailles, July 21, which
was also National Draft Day, a district meeting of Red Cross workers
had been held at North Vernon, Jennings county, Indiana. This meet-
ing was instructed by Mrs. Belmont-Tiffany, of New York City. Mrs.
Tiffany had organized the New York Red Cross workshops in 1914,
and efficiently supervised them up to the entrance of the United States
into the World War. Indiana's call for an organizer was met by Mrs.
Tiffany's coming in person to supervise the establishing of Red Cross
workshops in every part of the state.

The membership organization was practically completed in every
township during May and June.

Mrs. Minnie E. Wycoff, of Batesville, was appointed county su-
pervisor of Red Cross work by the executive board of the Ripley County
Chapter and went to North Vernon on July 21 as chapter represen-
tative. Several other Red Cross members from Osgood and Holton
were at the meeting. Mrs. Tiffany showed the hospital garments to
be made; explained the requirements and gave details of organization.
In the afternoon she gave a most inspiring address, relating the history
of the Red Cross, and showing the terrible, immediate need of the armies
on the battle-fields.

During the months of August and September the Ripley county
Red Cross shops were organized and opened in every community except
those of Washington and Delaware townships, which failed to organize
till the spring of 1918. The Delaware Junior Red Cross was organ-
ized in the winter of 1917, however, under the leadership of Miss Hazel
Edwards.

The Council of Defense, accordingly, asked Mrs. Wycoff, as super-
visor of the Red Cross work, to take the management of the sweater-
knitting for the home boys also. The work was given out to the Red
Cross branches during November and December, 1917, the aim being
to send the sweaters as Christmas gifts. One hundred and seventy-six
pounds of khaki yarn was bought at an average of three dollars per
pound. From this yarn one hundred ninety-three sweaters were knit
and given to the Ripley county soldiers. J. F. Lochard, president of
the Council of Defense, accompanied by Mrs. Lochard, and George
Sparling, of Osgood, took the largest consignment in person. This
went to Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky. All the first selective men in
the county were sent to Camp Taylor for training. The other sweaters
were mailed by parcels post to various camps, nine going overseas to
boys in the First and Forty-second divisions, which had already sailed
for France in July and November, respectively. About two hundred
fourteen names were on our service list at Christmas, 1917, but it was
impossible to secure the addresses of all the volunteers and regulars,
though the Council of Defense asked, through the county papers, for
the names and addresses of all enlisted men. A further Christmas treat
was supplied to all soldiers from the county who could be reached, by
boxes of fruit, jellies and home-made "eats" of many kinds. The county

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tried to leave nothing undone to make our first "War Christmas" as
cheerful as possible to the boys in camp.

By request of the War Recreation Committee, the five Ripley county-
newspapers were sent weekly to the training camps. The editors kept
mailing lists of local service men and mailed the papers individually to
them throughout the period of the war. Families and friends also for-
warded papers and subscribed for absent soldiers and sailors that the
boys might know, not only the home news, but the reports as to how the
"people back home" were supporting them through the Liberty Loan,
Red Cross and other agencies.

This first Christmas brought its gloom to the county, also. In the
early spring, shortly after America's entrance into the war, two of our
boys had died in camp: Charlie Sandifer, of Benham, at Norfolk, Va.,
and Adlai Wilson, of Milan, at Columbus, Ohio. In December oc-
curred the first death in battle of a man from our county, when James
Alva Francis, of Osgood, went down with the destroyer Jacob Jones,
torpedoed off the coast of England, December 6, 1917. This casualty
was confirmed at Christmas time, and two boys were sent home on
Christmas day from Camp Taylor, for burial : Eugene Deburger, of
Versailles, and William Lindauer, of St. Magdalene, both having died
of pneumonia. Several others were seriously ill at Camp Taylor, and
the unprecedentedly severe winter made the rigors of camp life unex-
pectedly serious.

The draft board had worked incessantly during the summer and fall
sending all the men the camps could accommodate during September and
October. Various drives for funds, Y. M. C. A., Library, Y. W. C.
A., Red Cross, and so on, went forward without cessation. The Lib-
erty Guards organization was begun at Batesville in November, with
A. B. Wycoff as county organizer. Food laws were being passed by
the national organization and put into effect by the local executives in
every county. Men were enlisting in the army and navy or marines
every week. The service flag with its one, or two, or three blue stars
began to shine from windows everywhere. At the beginning of 1918,
as already noted, Ripley county had five gold stars on the service flags
of as many saddened homes.

A War Relief Association was organized at Versailles in November,
1917. The plan was to pledge at least one thousand members who
should pay fifty cents each month toward a war fund so as to save the
time and energy required in conducting so many separate campaigns.
The work was divided by townships but the solicitors failed to secure
the necessary number of signatures, and the movement came to nothing.
The idea, however, was not relinquished, and the County Council of
Defense later requested an appropriation from the county funds. The
organization for handling this appropriation was called the United
War Work Campaign Committee, of which T. H. Thompson, of Milan,
was chairman, and Robert Borders, of the same place, was treasurer.
In this campaign Ripley county contributed $22,841.52 towards the
$170,500,000 fund, which was divided nationally as follows:

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Y M C A $100,000,000

Y. W. C. A 15,000,000

National Catholic War Work (K. of C.) 30,000,000

Jewish Welfare Work 3,500,000

War Camp Community Service 15,000,000

American Library Association 3,500,000

Salvation Army ' 3,500,000

The money turned over to this committee by Mrs. Laura Beer,
treasurer of the Ripley County Council of Defense, was $20,000, re-
ceived as follows :

Versailles $ 533.36 Johnson Tp..., $1,548.68

Washington Tp 890.92 Brown Tp 1,661.92

Shelby Tp 1,803.86 Franklin Tp 1,332.85

Milan 586.28 Otter Creek Tp ., 1,884.61

Jackson Tp 968.51 Adams Tp 2,312.50

Sunman 493.09 Laughery Tp 843.32

Batesville 2,037.34 Delaware Tp 1,049.85

Center Tp 1,016.68 Osgood 1,036.83

Donations received and accepted :

C. V. Smith, Chairman Versailles and Johnson Tp $ 253.40

H. L. Akers, Chairman Brown Tp 327.78

J. F. Holzer, Chairman Shelby Tp 139.40

Geo. Laws, Chairman Franklin Tp 495.26

W. R. Castner, Chairman Otter Creek Tp 118.69

Clinton Shook, Chairman Jackson Tp 233.30

L. A. Burns and Geo. C. Bos, Chairmen Adams Tp 513.10

M. F. Bohland, Chairman Laughery Tp. and Batesville 401.50

V. A. Wager, Chairman Osgood and Center Tp 273.50

Victory Girls of Ripley Co 17.10

Interest on deposit 68.22

Total receipts $22,841.25

The funds paid by townships were apportioned according to tax-
ation.

Payments were made by the treasurer, Robert Borders, to the state
treasurer, Stoughton A. Fletcher, as follows:

December 28, 1918 $10,000.00

January 20, 1919 12,000.00

March 11, 1919 768.22

April 15, 1919 70.00

Cash Credit of U. W. W. C, October 18, 1919 3.03

The U. S. Public Reserve was organized with the following town-
ship chairmen :

Center township, George Sparling; Brown township, Frank Sieker-

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man ; Adams township, E. R. Behlmer ; Delaware township, Fred
Smith; Franklin township, Thomas H. Thompson; Jackson township,
Jacob A. Meyer; Johnson township, Walter Smith; Laughery town-
ship, John Nickol; Otter Creek township, D. C. Yater; Washington
township, Ora Peters; Shelby township, John Holzer.

The object of this movement was to secure a list of men available
for war industries in Ripley county so they could be indexed and classi-
fied to be held in reserve for vacancies in the industrial institutions
where most needed, and best fitted to perform the work required. Ship-
building was the main industry requiring men at that time, and a num-
ber of Ripley county men were sent into the work. A few went into
airplane service at Dayton, Ohio, and the Automobile Wheel Works,
at St. Mary's, Ohio.

The Lutheran churches of the county made a special collection
among their members to help raise the national fund of $750,000 re-
quired for their plan to look after the welfare of their members serv-
ing in the army and navy.

Meanwhile various disturbing reports came out in the newspapers
every week. A large herd of hogs in a nearby county were poisoned by
being fed ground glass. The hoof-and-mouth disease broke out among
cattle. Foodstuffs seemed to be tampered with occasionally, with a
view to poisoning, no one being able to discover the persons responsible
for these alleged acts as they were usually not proven.

County meetings were held from time to time. September 26,
1917, the Council of Defense called a meeting at the courthouse in
Versailles, at 2 p. m. This was one of a group of meetings addressed
by John Chewning of Rockport ; Homer Elliot, of Spencer; John F.
Riley, of Hammond, and John W. Spencer, of Evansville. It was for
the purpose of planning and inspiring more thorough organization for
all lines of war work.

The appointment of the county Four-Minute Men was announced at
this meeting as were several important committees on organization.
Speeches were made by the ministers of the county who were in attend-
ance. Each told how he was inspiring and upholding patriotism in his
own congregation by service flags, news from the front, and so forth.

In October, 1917, the Council of Defense sent out a call to all land-
owners to sell or give away waste timber for fuel as the scarcity of coal
threatened to cause much distress. Many people bought wood to help
out the short coal supply for their stoves and furnaces. A number of
farmers were glad to give away tops of trees from their timber lots for
the work of cleaning the ground, so that many people, unable to pay
the high cost of wood and coal, were able to secure fuel in this way.

The Christmas mail for 1917 had no restrictions other than the reg-
ular postal regulations, except that parcels for overseas men had to be
mailed by November 15 to insure delivery by Christmas. The zeal of
families and friends in sending numerous and large packages of gifts
caused such a congestion in the New York postoffice, through which all
foreign mail had to pass, that the last packages were not cleared out

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until the following June. This condition led to the opening and inves-
tigating of five thousand packages by the postoffice department. It was
learned through this investigation that a large part of the gifts were
unnecessary or undesirable, so that a regulation was passed early in
1918 restricting the mailing of any package to an overseas man without
a request for the articles by the man himself. This request had to be
O. K'd. by the soldier's superior officer. Postmasters were instructed
to receive no packages without this written request. For the Christmas
of 1918, arrangements were made for the Red Cross to handle the pack-
ages for overseas. Committees were appointed in each branch to care
for this work. Regulation boxes, three by three by nine inches, were
sent out. The weight was limited to thirty-two ounces. Every box had
to be inspected, wrapped and sealed by the Red Cross. As in 1917, they
were to be mailed before November 15. Only one box could be sent to
each soldier. To insure this result, the soldiers were issued coupons
which they mailed to their mothers, sisters, sweethearts, or whomever
they wished. So many soldiers could not be reached in time with these
coupons, or failed to send them after receiving them, that the Red Cross
was later instructed to issue coupons to relatives and friends upon their
affidavits that but one box would be sent to each soldier. The time was
extended to November 30, and the last packages were mailed on that
date. Practically every boy and girl overseas was sent a Christmas box,
some being sent more than one, after all, since the coupon plan made it
possible for a box to be sent from more than one Red Cross branch, when
friends and families did not find it convenient to confer on the subject.

With the sailing of transports in the early spring, the draft activity
was resumed, twenty-four men leaving for camp on March 29, 1918,
thirty-one on April 26, fifty-three on May 27, forty-nine in June, and
so on until the signing of the armistice stopped the call for men.

In February, 1918, a mass meeting of all war organizations of the
county was held at Versailles, special attention being given to Red Cross
and food conservation work. This meeting is reported in detail in the
Food Administration report.

A county meeting of women war workers was held at Osgood on
March 21, 1918, the main purpose being to prepare for the women's
part in the third Liberty Loan. On April 6, 1918, the third loan was
started with patriotic meetings everywhere to celebrate America's entry
into the World War and win the loan in the shortest possible time. A
parade with historic floats was made the feature leading up to the
speeches in the larger towns.

On April 18, 1918, the county was shocked by the sudden death at
Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss., of Med. First Lieut. Tony E. Hun-
ter, of Versailles, who had succumbed to influenza-pneumonia, later
recognized as a forerunner of the terrible plague to spread over the
world during the year, reaching America in the early autumn of 1918.
Practically his entire regiment, the 149th Infantry, was in quarantine
and several deaths resulted. Thornton Roberts, of Elrod, who had died
of the same disease at Camp Gordon, Georgia, was buried at Green

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Chapel at the same hour as Lieutenant Hunter at Versailles. Later,
about the middle of May, Edward Hudson, of New Marion, succumbed
to the same malady at Camp Sevier, North Carolina, and was sent home
to Shelby township for burial.

On May 12 a memorial was held at the Union Chapel, in Sunman,
in honor of our first soldier killed on the battle-fields of France, Cor-
poral Kenneth Diver, who was reported, "Killed in action, April 28,
somewhere in France." A few weeks later a second overseas telegram
reported Harry W. Smith, of Pierceville, killed in battle on May 29.
A little later on a third message told of the death in battle of Gilbert
Sutherland of Napoleon.

Every week more and more families received the little printed card,
"Arrived safely overseas," and signed with their soldier's name.

The newspapers began to publish long casualty lists as the spring
offensive developed into the summer's fighting. Names, forever to be
uppermost in many minds, began to be heard : Chateau-Thierry, St.
Mihiel, the Hindenburg Line, Verdun, Meuse-Argonne, Sedan. Yet
from July until late in September no new Ripley county names ap-
peared among the killed. Then they began to come in until fifteen
names had beeen reported "killed in battle" and the final overseas num-
ber rolled on until in February, 1918, it rounded to twenty-two. The
terrible influenza epidemic, beginning in September, 1918, and continu-
ing throughout the winter, brought our full total of casualties up to
forty-two.

Memorial day, 1918, was peculiarly appropriate as a day of mem-
ories: "Lest we forget," being the burden of the sentiment voiced.

The Red Cross began presenting memorial brassards of black cloth
with heavy gold cord stars to the parents of soldiers and sailors who
were making the "supreme sacrifice."

As every one knows, until July, the tide of war had rolled on stead-
ily toward Paris. The world read anxiously from day to day for the
magic word of a turn in the German advance but it was not until the
Fifth and Sixth Marines of the dauntless Second Division helped to
turn the tide at Chateau-Thierry that their onward march was checked.

From July until the armistice was signed, on November 11, 1918,
our own Ripley county boys helped to carry the flag victoriously for-
ward from point to point, finally to march triumphantly across the
Rhine.

July 4, 1918, was used by the nation as a special rally day. Every
community had its speakers and programs. Community singing was
urged and the nation sang, not only the old patriotic songs, but the new
songs to which the boys overseas were marching to battle. The Presi-
dent's message was read at all these meetings, the "Star-Spangled Ban-
ner" and "America" were sung as opening and closing odes and the flag
saluted by orders of the local Councils of Defense.

In April, 1918, blanks were sent out for registering the women of
America for war service. Committees were arranged in each locality
in Ripley county and several hundred women were registered for dif-

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ferent kinds of work, nursing, Red Cross, emergency, and so on. These
cards were sent in to county and state headquarters and filed for future
use. Several months were required to complete the filing of the cards
and the coming of the epidemic followed so quickly by the close of the
war, prevented much practical result from this registration. The effort
proved, however, the loyalty of our women who came forward to offer
either full or part time, as it was possible for each to do, in whatever
service she was able to perform.

Among the many educative features of the war were the exhibit
trains sent out along the railways to show captured guns, equipment
and war relics of all kinds. A most interesting collection was shown
at Batesville, in April, 1919.

The moving picture theaters showed war films and war-story films
throughout the entire period of the war. Some of the most interesting
and educative films sent out by the War Propaganda Department of
the Government, that came to Ripley county, were Ambassador Ger-
ard's "My Four Years in Germany," "The Kaiser, the Beast of Ber-
lin," and the "Sinking of the Lusitania."

German helmets, coins, small arms, and so on, were sent by indi-
vidual soldiers as souvenirs and many of them were put on public
display.

The agricultural work of the county was influenced by various or-
ganizations. The food clubs, pig and poultry clubs, and so on, were of
more or less effect in different communities. War gardens were culti-
vated in connection with many schools and in most of the towns waste
ground was reclaimed for cultivation. More intensive methods were
studied and adopted. E. L. Shoemaker was county agent until the
spring of 1919, when he was succeeded by Calvin M. Griffith. A dem-
onstration of farm machinery was held at Batesville, in April, 1919, as
a culmination of interest developed during the war, principally. Many
boys of the Boys' Working Reserve worked on farms during vacation
and even for short periods were dismissed for emergency work during
school terms.

Smileage books were planned in the spring of 1918, named from
their resemblance to railway mileage books. Each contained a number
of tickets to chautauqua and other entertainments to be given at the
various cantonments and were sold to relatives and friends at home, who
mailed them as gifts to the boys in camp. This work in Batesville was
ably managed by Mrs. Bertha Behlmer, who sold seventy-five one-dollar
books, the largest number reported from any one town. These pro-
grams were part of the work carried on carefully by the government to
give the boys wholesome entertainment as a counteraction to the evils
of camp life as illustrated in the history of armies in all ages. Exhaus-
tive Government reports, as well as those of individual workers, prove
that the American army is the cleanest and healthiest of any in the
world or the history of the world.

The last county war-work meeting in Ripley county was held at
Versailles on September 28, 1918, in connection with the town's annual

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Fall Festival and A. H. Beer's Pumpkin Show. An aeroplane, No.
39329, from the Dayton, Ohio, flying fields, visited the county during
the day, coming to Batesville at 9 a. m., where it alighted for a short
visit. After distributing Fourth Liberty Loan literature in liberal show-
ers over the city it proceeded to Osgood, stopping there over the noon
hour. In the afternoon it circled over Versailles during the parade,
dropping its pamphlets like snowflakes. This parade was led by the
Batesville Liberty Guards in their new regulation uniforms and equip-
ment, followed by the Batesville Liberty Girls and Batesville Boy
Scouts. The fourth large feature of this memorable parade was the
Ripley County Red Cross marching by branches and auxiliaries, all in
their striking uniforms of white with red crosses on the simple white
head-dresses, each unit distinguished by its own banner, while individ-
ual members carried small United States flags.

Captain Guest, of the English army, gave the principal address of
the day.

The following week the "flu ban" edict was announced by the health
authorities at Indianapolis, and all public gatherings were at an end.

On November 8 the first unverified report of the signing of the
armistice spread from coast to coast. Bells rang, whistles blew, and
the wildest joy reigned for a few hours until it was learned that the
celebration was premature. With the actual signing on November 11,
however, the joy bells broke forth again and rang for hours from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. Factory whistles blew. Parades were formed.
Every conceivable noise-making device contributed to the uproar. For
one day the nation went mad. Riots in cities and camps occurred. In
Ripley county the enthusiasm- reached the highest point since the begin-
ning of the war. Yet among the laughing, shouting people were those
who cried or went about quietly with white faces, for not all our boys
were to come home. Twenty-two lay buried in France, some of them
in that very "Flanders Field where poppies blow, between the crosses,
row on row." Others lie in the family burying grounds of the county,
and there is no community that has not its gold-star hero. Every town-
ship gave its quota of lives to the cause of human liberty.

By townships they are as follows: Brown 7, Adams 3, Otter Creek
1, Washington 4, Franklin 6, Jackson 2, Shelby 7, Laughery 3, Dela-
ware 1, Center 3, Johnson 5.

Following the armistice the winter of 1918 saw the war relief work
going forward. The boys began returning to their homes in Decem-
ber, but demobilization could not be accomplished in a short time.

The Army of Occupation had to remain along the Rhine until peace
was finally signed by Germany on June 28, 1919.

The Victory Loan was made in April, 1919, with the ringing of
happy bells and the grateful knowledge that this loan was to help bring
our boys home. Red Cross activities were turned from hospital work to
refugee relief.

Memorial day, 1919, was used as a special day for remembering the
World War dead. Fitting services were held throughout the county,

26 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

the returned soldiers everywhere being invited to wear their uniforms
and take part in this first national Memorial day for their fallen com-
rades.

The Council of Defense, town boards, and individuals began to
plan memorials. In Ripley county, the first memorial tablet was placed
in position at the city hall in Batesville, on May 29, 1919. It con-
sists of a metal scroll carrying the names of Batesville and Laughery
township's honor roll. This is framed in a heavy black wood case,
colonial style, glass-covered in front, the supporting posts topped by
two gilded eagles with hovering wings. The memorial contains one
hundred seventy-one names.

On Armistice Day, 1919, a welcome home was given by the city fire-
men of Batesville, and a tree planted on North Park avenue for each
soldier of the town or township who had given his life in the war,
namely, for Hugo Prell and John Bland, killed in battle, and Roy
Fruchtnicht, who died in camp during the epidemic of influenza.

Various townships held Welcome Home days throughout the sum-
mer and autumn. Brown township gave two days during the Friend-
ship annual fall festival. A part of the 83rd F. A. from Camp
Knox, doing field recruiting duty, attended and gave an extra military
touch to the occasion.

The County Welcome Home was given at Osgood on September
26, 1919. A parade of uniformed returned soldiers and sailors, and
a feast of which the main feature was the famous Kentucky burgoo,
were the striking points of the celebration. About three hundred re-
turned soldiers and sailors took part in the day's festivities. Many
soldiers were still in camp and overseas,- but comparatively few who
could do so failed to attend.

Franklin township set memorial trees for its gold-star men in the
Pierceville Memorial Park in September. The men so honored there
were: Harry W. Smith, Earl Downey, Philip Levine, Samuel Heis-
man, Chris Endres and Roy Raney.

The various organizations of the county continued their work so
long as any call for their activities existed, the Red Cross enrolling for
civic service as the war service was concluded.

Surely for all who toiled at home, in workshop, in field, at new
and old tasks, as well as for those who went forth to battle, there came
a vision that must remain forever. A vision, not of men working,
each for himself, against all other men, but a nobler vision of each
working for the good of all the rest, and all striving together mightily
for the shining goal pointed out by the seers among them. The symbol
they set for us to follow is the flag and each forward step adds a new
meaning, until at last "government of the people, by the people, and
for the people" may be perfected.

The "meatless" and "wheatless" days, the "gasless" Sundays, the
restriction of building except of necessity, the general conservation of
all standard products of food, fuel and clothing, the numberless Red
Cross benefits, the earnest striving forward to produce more, save

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more, and give more, both of time and service, than before the war
was thought possible, lifted our people into a clearer atmosphere where
not what you can win for yourself but what you can do for the general
good is the measure of a man.

History of Ripley County Chapter A. R. C.

Written by Clarence H. Andres, Chairman

"But the right is more precious than peace and we shall have to
fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts.

"To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, every-
thing that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those
who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend
her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and hap-
piness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can
do no other."

(From President Wilson's address to Congress April 2, 1917.)

When President Wilson, as the spokesman of the American people,
in concluding his war message to Congress on April 2, 1917, pledged
the lives and the fortunes of his countrymen to the task of bringing de-
mocracy to the oppressed people of Europe, not all of us then appre-
ciated and fully understood the significance of those memorable words.

When a few months later we began to accompany our sons, our
brothers and our sweethearts to the railway stations, there to take
leave of them and bid them God-speed previous to their entrance into
the military and naval service of our country, the President's words
took on a greater somberness and their real significance literally stamped
itself upon our very hearts. No one but those who witnessed the scene
enacted when a mother or sister said a last goodbye to a son or brother
who was about to be enrolled in the service of his country, could
really appreciate the significance of that grim word — war.

We had been reading in our daily papers since that fateful August
4, 1914, when Germany declared war on Belgium, about the horrors,
the suffering and the misery that had become the lot of the stricken
people of those European countries engaged in the war against German
aggression and Prussian arrogance. We had been reading about the
privations and the hunger endured and the sacrifices that were being
made daily by those men, women and children who were doing their
utmost to stay off a merciless foe intent upon despoiling their country,
their homes and the things that were dear to them, and we devoutly
hoped and fervently prayed that our country would be spared the
horrors of war and that we would not be called upon to enter the
blood-stained arena brought into being by the Kaiser and his war lords
across the sea.

However, it soon became apparent that our army and navy would
have to put an end to what diplomacy had tried to avert — war. The

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events that preceded our country's entry into the world war are now
a matter of history — events with which every citizen of our country is
now familiar.

The American people, as a whole, were slow to believe that Ger-
many, or rather the men at the head of her government, were almost
entirely devoid of honor. We at first believed the war in Europe a
strictly European affair and early in the struggle declared to the world
our neutrality, never, however, for an instant denying ourselves the
right to trade with the belligerents in accordance with the customs,
usages and provisions of that rule of action that prescribes for the con-
duct of nations, known as international law.

The United States did all in its power to keep out of the world
conflict and on several occasions President Wilson endeavored to
bring about peace between the warring nations; however, the war was
to go on and we were to become one of the belligerents. It seemed that
despite our efforts to keep out of the conflict the Almighty who shapes
the destinies of men and nations and who had endowed our country
with strength and vigor and lofty ideals had decreed that America be-
come a party in this struggle so as to save the world's civilization.

As early as 1915 it became evident that Germany or the Central
Powers had the United States infested with thousands of spies who
until the moment the United States declared war on Germany, con-
centrated their efforts on destroying grain elevators, arsenals, ammuni-
tion factories and in spreading propaganda which would create sym-
pathy for Germany among the citizens of the United States.

The history of submarine operations by the Central Powers is one
long record of outrages perpetrated on American citizens and American
property; a succession of protests of the United States headed by
President Wilson, and of assurances and promises made and later
violated by the German and Austrian governments.

The sinking of the Lusitania, in which one thousand one hundred
ninety-eight lives were lost, of which one hundred twenty-four were
Americans, aroused the fire and the fighting spirit of America. A
series of outrages perpetrated against Americans and American prop-
erty widened the breach and when, after President Wilson's warning
to Germany to discontinue her submarine policy, Germany announced
on January 31, 1917, her intention to sink all vessels in the so-called
"war zone" around the British Isles, the United States government
on February 3 severed diplomatic relations with Germany, Count von
Bernstorf, the German ambassador, was handed his passports, and
Congress on April 11th declared that a state of war existed between
the United States and the Imperial Government of Germany.

Almost immediately America' began to mobilize her men, her money
and her natural resources so that we might quickly put an end to the
gory spectacle being staged in Europe. Numerous slogans were phrased
and came into existence almost overnight. It was said, "Men and
Money Will Win the War," "Food Will Win the War," "Ships Will
Win the War" — all of which proved true.

30 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

Although \\z had been reading about the wonderful work being
done in all of the war-ridden countries of Europe, we did not at first
realize the scope and magnitude of the work that had been undertaken
by the American Red Cross which, as an institution, previous to our
country's entry into the war, was of comparatively small proportions.
When a few weeks later the American Red Cross announced its inten-
tion to establish a chapter in every county of every state in the Union,
Ripley county was among the first in the state to answer the call.

On May 31, 1917, the first steps preparatory to getting a chapter
of the Red Cross in Ripley county were taken when the following per-
sons met and signed a petition for a charter for the organization of Rip-
ley County Chapter, the charter being issued a few days later. The fol-
lowing are the original petitioners: Mrs. H. C. Canfield, Mrs. W. J.
Gelvin, Mrs. G. M. Hillenbrand, Mrs. A. W. Romweber, Mrs. Wm.
Wessel, Mr. George A. Baas, Mr. Frank Walsman, Mr. Neil McCal-
lum, Mr. Edward F. Brockman, Mr. Clarence H. Andres, all of
Batesville.

The following officers were elected : Chairman, Clarence H. An-
dres; vice-chairman, Frank Waisman ; secretary, Neil McCallum ;
treasurer, George A. Baas.

Branches and auxiliaries were established in the remaining ten town-
ships in quick succession in about the order given below:

Napoleon Branch — Chairman, Perry N. Brown; vice-chairman,
Harry W. Behlmer ; secretary, Dr. E. E. Heath ; treasurer, George W.
Schmidt.

Versailles Branch — Chairman, Mrs. Clara A. Henderson; vice-
chairman, J. Francis Lochard; secretary, Mrs. Ida R. Lochard; treas-
urer, Walter H. Smith.

Osgood Branch — Chairman, V. A. Wager; vice-chairman, Mrs. J.
S. Bilby; secretary, Mrs. G. M. Beldon; treasurer, Miss Lou E.
Stansbury.

Milan Branch — Chairman, Mrs. H. C. Puffer; vice-chairman, Mrs.
J. H. Bergdoll; secretary, Mrs. W. E. Lewis; treasurer, Robert
Borders.

Sunman Branch — Chairman, Mrs. Ruth Ahrends; vice-chairman,
Mrs. Lurenia Robinson; secretary, Miss Alma Wetzler; treasurer, L.
A. Bruns.

Holton Branch — Chairman, M. R. Scott; vice-chairman, Naomi
McClure; secretary, Irene Ward; treasurer, O. P. Shook.

Cross Plains Branch — Chairman, Thomas R. Humphrey; vice-
chairman, John Fuller; secretary, H. J. Miller; treasurer, D. G.
Gordon.

New Marion Branch — Chairman, Mrs. Vina Bovard ; vice-chair-
man, John Holzer; secretary, Edward Fischer; treasurer, Hayes
Schaffer.

Elrod Branch — Chairman, W. G. Fleming; vice-chairman, Mrs.
Wm. Gloyd; secretary, Ruby Elrod; treasurer, John T. Elrod.

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Delaware Branch — Chairman, Mrs. Herman Menke; vice-chair-
man, Mrs. Ada Dole; secretary, Rhoda M. Schmidt; treasurer, Mrs.
Mary Koechlin.

Morris Branch — Chairman, B. H. Kroenke; vice-chairman, John
M. Zillebuehler ; secretary, Emma Walsman ; treasurer, Geo. C. Bos.

The First Red Cross War Fund Campaign

(June 18-25, 1917)

The period of time beginning Monday, June 18, and ending Mon-
day, June 25, was selected by the National Red Cross for the purpose
of conducting a campaign to raise one hundred million dollars, of which
amount the state of Indiana was required to raise one-half million.
Ripley county with a population of approximately twenty-one thousand
was given a quota of $6,500. This, at first, seemed to be an exceed-
ingly large amount to ask of the people of this county; however, the
chapter proceeded to organize the county with a view to raising the
amount asked for, if at all possible to do so.

Previous to this the Batesville chapter conducted a membership
campaign on Memorial day in connection with the demonstration ar-
ranged for that day by John A. Hillenbrand, chairman of the Liberty
Loan, and succeeded in enrolling three hundred and twenty-five
members.

Chairman Andres appointed an executive committee of five to act
with him in conducting the war fund campaign and the chairman of
each of the branches then established in Ripley county was requested
to appoint a like number to act with him in conducting the campaign of
that particular branch or township. Some days previous to the open-
ing of the campaign a letter was addressed to every minister in Ripley
county. The ministers were asked to read it from their pulpits, the
letter being an appeal to every man, woman and child to make a contri-
bution to the Red Cross war fund. To further the publicity of the cam-
paign a publicity committee consisting of Charles Thompson, of Ver-
sailles; Richard Beer, of Osgood; Peter Holzer and Neil McCallum,
of Batesville, was appointed to have charge of the newspaper publicity
connected with the raising of the amount required of Ripley county.
Below is a copy of the report submitted bv Chairman Andres on July
5, 1917:

Total funds in bank as follows:

Batesville $2,903.69

Versailles 778.00

Holton 850.75

Osgood 776.45

Milan 802.00

Sunman 765.50

Napoleon 200.00

New Marion 98.00

Total.: $6,354.39

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The Cross Plains and New Marion branches had but recently been
established and had not yet completed their campaign for the war fund.
Ripley county made an excellent showing and her people again demon-
strated in a practical manner, as they had so often done before, their
patriotism and loyalty to our country.

During the early part of August, 1917, the chairman of the chapter
appointed Mrs. Minnie E. Wycoff, of Batesville, chairman or super-
visor of sewing and hospital supply work, which selection proved to be
a most fortunate one. Due credit will be given Mrs. Wycoff for her
devotion and her zeal in the work of the Red Cross in the latter part
of this article. Mrs. Wycoff proceeded to organize the women of the
county and she met with ready responses everywhere.

While the war opened up many fields of activity for the patriotic
women of our country, none appealed so strongly as the work of the
Red Cross. This was only a natural condition. Sentiment and the
mother instinct prompted this. It was the Red Cross that took the place
of mother in the training camps, on the transports and even on the bat-
tle-field. It was the Red Cross that nursed the boys back to health,
eased their pains and provided all those little comforts that mother was
wont to provide for her boys at home. And did someone not praise the
Red Cross in those beautiful and sentimental words, "The greatest
mother in all the world?"

Under Mrs. Wycoff's direction Red Cross shops and sewing rooms
were established in every part of the county and it was but a short time
until the good women of Ripley county were supplying more than their
quota of hospital garments and supplies.

The first shipment of garments and hospital supplies was made dur-
ing the month of September following, and the shipments continued
with due regularity from that time on until the war came to an end.

Mrs. Wycoff also organized the Junior Red Cross in the county.
This work was begun in September of 1917. The Junior Red Cross
had a large membership and under Mrs. Wycoff's direction did excel-
lent work. Its activities are more fully discussed in another chapter
of this book.

THE RED CROSS CHRISTMAS MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN

This campaign, like the war fund campaign of some months pre-
vious, was national in its scope. It was conducted under the direction
of the chairman and the other officers of the chapter. Preparations for
the so-called drive were begun by the chapter the last days of November.
The campaign began December 17 and closed Decmber 24, Christmas
eve, 1917. The purpose of the campaign was to add ten million new
names to the membership roll of the Red Cross. "Every American
home a Red Cross home," was the slogan. Ripley county chapter was
asked to add enough new names to its membership roll to bring the total
up to four thousand five hundred.

For this campaign each of the branches effected an organization
which in turn appointed solicitors so that a thorough canvass could be

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made and every person be given an opportunity to become a member of
the Red Cross. One dollar was the price of a Red Cross membership.
The result of the Christmas membership campaign was as follows.
Total number of new memberships secured:

$1.00 $2.00 Branch

Membership Membership Total

Batesville 828 8 836

Sunman 439 11 450

Holton 377 6 383

Versailles 290 5 295

Napoleon 264 30 294

Osgood 229 7 236

New Marion 177 1 178

Milan 157 2 159

Friendship 97 .... 97

Cross Plains 6 2 8

Total for county 2,864 72 2,936

It will be seen from the figures given above that two thousand nine
hundred thirty-six new names were added to the membership roll of the
county, making a total membership of more than six thousand, not in-
cluding the Junior Red Cross.

SECOND RED CROSS WAR FUND CAMPAIGN

This campaign, like that waged for increased membership, was na-
tion wide. The campaign was to last one week, beginning May 20 and
ending May 27, 1918. Its purpose was to raise one hundred million
dollars for war work. Ripley county's quota was $9,000. The chair-
man of the chapter appointed Mr. Michael F. Bohland, of Batesville,
as the campaign manager. Mr. Bohland began his work with a vim
and a vigor that presaged certain success at the outset. Mr. Bohland
began his campaign after appointing the following committees:

Executive Committee — Clarence H. Andres, Batesville; Ruth E.
Ahrends, Sunman ; Perry N. Brown, Napoleon ; Rev. M. R. Scott,
Holton; V. A. Wager, Osgood ; Mrs. John Bergdoll, Milan; Mrs.
Vina Bovard, New Marion ; Bertha McCoy, Benham ; Thos. R.
Humphrey, Cross Plains; Miss Grace Ricketts, Friendship.

War Fund Committee — Will J. Gelvin, Batesville; C. J. Doll,
Batesville; W. W. McMullen, Sunman; George C. Bos, Morris; Clin-
ton Shook, Napoleon; W. P. Castner, Holton; James H. Noyes, Os-
good; Carl V. Smith, Versailles; John Holzer, New Marion; John S.
Benham, Benham ; Marshall Spangler, Friendship ; Jesse Jarvis, Cross
Plains; Fred Schmidt, Osgood; Henry Voss, Milan; Fred Lamb,
Milan; George Laws, Milan.

Speaker's Committee — Rev. M. R. Scott, chairman, Holton ; A. B.
Wycoff, Batesville; Thos. E. Wilson, Osgood; Rowland H. Jackson,

34 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

Versailles; James H. Connelley, Milan; F. M. Thompson, Versailles.

Finance Committee — George A. Bass, chairman, Batesville.

Publicity Committee — J. H. Letcher, chairman, Milan Commer-
cial, Milan; Peter Holzer, Batesville Herald, Batesville; Donald Mc-
Callum, Batesville Tribune, Batesville; Richard Beer, Osgood Journal,
Osgood ; Chas. Thompson, Versailles Republican, Versailles.

Woman's Committee — Mrs. Luella Butler, chairman, Osgood.

List Committee — H. C. Canfield, chairman, Batesville; George M.
Hillenbrand, Batesville; Mrs. A. W. Romweber, Batesville; Mrs. V.
W. Bigney, Sunman ; Thos. Laws, Milan ; Dr. R. A. Freeman, Os-
good ; John A. Spencer, Versailles.

Below is the quota assigned to each township :

Adams $ 975.00

Brown 800.00

Center 875.00

Delaware 500.00

Franklin 925.00

Jackson 475.00

Johnson 925.00

Laugherv 325.00

Batesville 1,025.00

Otter Creek 750.00

Shelby 1,000.00

Washington 425.00

A series of meetings was held in all the townships of the countv.
The campaign closed with a county meeting at Versailles, on Sunday
afternoon, May 19, the Batesville Liberty Guards giving an exhibition
drill, and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Horace Ellis de-
livered the address. Also Mrs. Alice French, president of the War
Mothers of Indiana, spoke in the interest of the War Mothers.

Soon after the close of the campaign, Chairman Bohland was able
to report that Ripley county had subscribed her full quota of $9,000.00.
The people of Ripley county had again shown in a substantial manner
that they were backing up our boys on the firing line.

CHRISTMAS ROLL CALL MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

The signing of the armistice on November 11, 1918, had brought to
a close the great World War and the people of America were asked by
the American Red Cross to show their gratitude for this memorable day
by universally becoming members of the Red Cross. Those persons who
already had a membership were asked to renew it ; those persons who did
not have a membership were asked to buy one during the week of De-
cember 16-23.

The chairman of the chapter appointed Wm. D. Robinson, of Ver-
sailles, to act in the capacity of county manager for the roll call drive.
Mr. Robinson effected an excellent organization and made a splendid

RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR 35

showing although he was greatly handicapped in his efforts on account
of the epidemic of influenza which was raging so terribly in different
parts of the country at that time.

The following report is copied from current issues of the county
newspapers: 1455042

''The 1918 Red Cross Christmas roll call membership campaign in
Ripley county resulted in the obtaining of 5,546 new members or re-
newals, which, with the life and patron members who joined during the
organization campaign, gave the Ripley County Chapter of the American
Red Cross a total membership of 5,631, exclusive of the membership of
the Junior Red Cross.

W. D. Robinson, of Versailles, acted as county campaign manager
and Mr. Robinson had every cause to feel gratified by the results, for
the campaign throughout was conducted under very adverse conditions.
The weather conditions were such as to work a hardship on the solici-
tors, especially throughout the country districts, and some sections of
the county were under the influenza ban, so that the various township
campaign managers and their committees were to be congratulated upon
the results obtained under such adverse conditions.

In Laughery township, Rev. Schreiber was in charge of the cam-
paign in Batesville and Rev. Flautz of the campaign in the township.
The latter was assisted by George H. Goyert and the trustees of St.
Paul's congregation. Each of the city ministers appointed a committee
from his congregation, the Bethany committee being appointed by
Thomas Patterson. Rev. Schreiber appointed an executive head from
the ministerial body for each ward in the city and we publish the result
in Laughery township as reported by the various war and precinct
chairmen.

BATESVILLE BRANCH

Ward One — Rev. L. A. Schreiber.

Annual members 259

Magazine members 10

Ward Two— Father Adalbert Rolfes, O. F. M.

Annual members 352

Magazine members 22

Contributing 4

Ward Three — Rev. A. Langendorff.

Annual members 231

Magazine members 21

Contributing 2

Precinct One — Rev. H. Flautz

Annual members 232

Magazine members 32

Contributing 1

1,166
3

36 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

Life members 44

Patron members 2

1,212
CROSS PLAINS BRANCH

(Including Benham and Friendship Auxiliaries)

Annual members 416

Magazine members 4

420

DELAWARE BRANCH

Annual members 299

Magazine members 13

312

ELROD BRANCH

Annual members 227

Magazine members 3

230
HOLTON BRANCH

Annual members 490

Magazine members 10

500
Life members 10

510

MILAN BRANCH

Annual members 481

Magazine members 4

485
Life members 5

490
MORRIS BRANCH

Annual members 275

Magazine members 3

278

NAPOLEON BRANCH

Annual members 288

Magazine members 18

306

RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR 37

NEW MARION BRANCH

Annual members 394

Magazine members 3

397
OSGOOD BRANCH

Annual members 447

Magazine members 3

450
Life members 10

460

SUNMAN BRANCH

Annual members 442

Magazine members 18

Contributing member 1

461
Life members 7

468
VERSAILLES BRANCH

Annual members 537

Magazine members 4

541
Life members 7

548
RED CROSS SEWING AND KNITTING

Batesville branch was organized into auxiliaries for convenience in
work as follows :

St. John's Auxiliary — Chairman, Mrs. Dora Fischer.

St. Louis's Auxiliary — Chairman, Mrs. G. M. Hillenbrand.

Knitting Committee — Chairman, Mrs. A. W. Romweber.

Catholic Girls' Auxiliary — Chairman, Miss Rose Meyer.

St. Mark's Auxiliary — Chairman, Mrs. Henrietta Wessel, until her
death, February 1, 1918; Mrs. Gus Behlmer; later Mrs. Henry Schu-
macher.

C. O. U. Girls' Auxiliary — Chairman, Edna Richter.

First M. E. Auxiliary — Chairman, Mrs. Ed Schultz.

First M. E. Girls' Auxiliary — Chairman, Miss Sophia Nickel, Miss
Ethel Schultz.

38 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

New Salem Auxiliary— Chairman, Miss Carrie Thackery.

Bethany Auxiliary — Chairman, Mrs. Bertha Behlmer, Mrs. Henry
Bauman.

Wesley Chapel Auxiliary — Chairman, Mrs. Ida Winsor, Mrs. Em-
mett Mann.

Auxiliaries in other places were organized as follows:

Napoleon Auxiliary, Jackson township, Mrs. Mary Letzler, chair-
man.

Titusville Auxiliary, Shelby township, Mrs. Pearl Titus, chairman.

Delaware Auxiliary No. 1, Fink's church, Mrs. Mary Menke,
chairman.

Friendship Auxiliary, Friendship, Mrs. Mary Koechlin, later Mrs.
Ketenbrink, chairman; Miss Clara Otto, secretary; later Miss Grace
Ketenbrink.

Benham Auxiliary, Mrs. Bertha McCoy, later Mrs. Lizzie Hyatt,
chairman; Miss Lola Dollens, secretary.

Pierceville Auxiliary, Franklin township, Mrs. Belle Tinder, chair-
man.

Green Chapel Auxiliary, Washington township, Mrs. Bessie Shep-
herd, chairman.

Stringtown Auxiliary, Washington township, Mrs. Alice Gault,
chairman.

Craven's Corner Auxiliary, Mrs. Lottie Craven, chairman, Mrs.
Craven succeeded Mrs. Fleming as branch chairman of Washington
township in October, 1918.

JUNIOR RED CROSS AUXILIARIES 1917-1918

Batesville Juniors — J. F. Hoing, chairman; director of work, Miss
Jennie Elmore; 190 members; $47.50 dues; refugee garments made, 25;
supplies, 27 pieces.

Osgood Juniors — Miss Leona Stewart, chairman; 45 members;
$11.25 dues; refugee garments made, 29; hospital bags, 31.

Delaware Juniors — Hazel Edwards, chairman; 59 members; $14.91
in treasury ; hospital supplies made, 30 ; sweaters, 5.

Tanglewood and Cedar Creek in Johnson township, Mud Pike and
Laughery Bridge in Delaware township, Bates Ridge in Brown town-
ship, organized Rural School Junior Red Cross auxiliaries. Chloe Bra-
ley, Margaret Smith, Emma Gault and Grace Showers, Mary Mul-
ford and Lelia Smith were the respective heads of these smaller aux-
iliaries.

CHAPTER SCHOOL COMMITTEE JUNIOR RED CROSS,

1918-1919

Chairman and supervisor, Minnie E. Wycoff. Tora McCallum,
Mrs. G. M. Hillenbrand, Mrs. Anna Wachsman, associate members.

RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR 39

1918-1919 SCHOOL AUXILIARIES, JUNIOR RED CROSS

Batesville — Miss Leona Stewart, director of work; school commit-
tee, Anna Wachsman, Sophia Nickel, Flossie Ward, Leona Stewart,
Catherine Mann, J. F. Hoing.

Batesville Juniors, 1918 and 1919 report — Twenty-seven new mem-
bers; dues, $6.75.

Osgood — Chairman and director, Mrs. Mercy Bilby Humphrey;
no new members; no dues.

Milan — Chairman and director, Mrs. W. E. Lewis; 93 members;
$23.29 dues.

Delaware — Chairman and director, Miss Hazel Edwards; 51 mem-
bers; $21.95 in treasury.

Napoleon — Chairman and director, Miss Violet Toph; 85 mem-
bers; $7.06 dues from new members.

Sunman — Chairman and director, Miss Frona Alexander; 76 mem-
bers; $19.00 dues.

New Marion — Chairman and director, Mrs. Goldie Michel; 44
members; $5.75 dues.

Holton — Chairman, Wilbur Furlow ; no report.

Batesville Parochial School Committee — Chairman, Mrs. G. M.
Hillenbrand; 55 members; dues, $7.00 from new members.

Laughery Bridge Juniors — Chairman, Mary Mulford; 5 members;
$1.25 dues.

JUNIOR RED CROSS REPORT OF WORK DONE IN THE
COUNTY FROM SEPTEMBER, 1917, TO JUNE, 1919

Batesville Junior Red Cross — Hospital supplies, 127 pieces; refugee
garments, 46; wool scarfs, 10.

Mud Pike Junior Red Cross — Hospital supplies, 35 pieces.

Tanglewood Junior Red Cross — Hospital supplies, 12 pieces.

Osgood Junior Red Cross — Hospital supplies, 230 pieces; refugee
garments, 215 pieces.

Milan Junior Red Cross — Hospital supplies, 199 pieces; refugee
layettes, 6, equaling 210 pieces.

Delaware Juniors — Knitted garments, 12 pieces; hospital supplies,
80 pieces; refugee layettes, 5, equaling 175 pieces.

Cedar Creek Junior Red Cross — Knitted articles, 15 pieces.

Napoleon Junior Red Cross — Hospital supplies, 24 pieces.

In 1917-1918 the Junior work consisted entirely of sewing and
knitting. Sweaters, wristlets, scarfs, rugs and wash cloths were the arti-
cles knitted by Ripley County Juniors.

Infant layettes, dresses and underwear for children, capes, skirts for
women, handkerchifs, property bags, ice-bag covers, aprons, caps and
operating leggings were made by different auxiliaries. Also pillow cases
and towels.

The layettes were made principally during the vacation of 1918.
Each layette consisted of thirty-five pieces, making a full supply of
clothing for an infant. The layette included a knitted hood and

40 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

bootees, blanket, cape, extra hood, slips, gowns, shirts, bands, diapers,
bag of sundries and wash cloths. Sixteen complete layettes were made
by the Osgood, Milan and Delaware Juniors.

The Junior work planned for the winter of 1918-1919 was almost
entirely prevented by the epidemic of influenza which closed our schools
for weeks and months at a time, beginning the first of October, just when
the rural schools were opening, and not disappearing entirely until the
schools were closing in the spring. The main work for the year was
the Modern Health Crusade, the supplies being furnished by the Anti-
Tuberculosis Association, the pupils being organized into crusade units.
About five hundred children in Adams, Jackson, Shelby and Franklin
townships won the different buttons given as rewards in health chore
work. Otter Creek township organized, but accomplished nothing
further. An assignment of five hundred handkerchiefs was completed
by the auxiliaries organized the year before, but no further work could
be attempted. Complete reports on the health crusade work can not be
secured as the epidemic demoralized all organization and made con-
sistent and reliable records an impossibility.

The Juniors were called on for help in all regular Red Cross drives,
in the various entertainments given to raise Red Cross funds, in all forms
of war activities, in parades and public programs.

The Delaware Juniors were especially active, giving entertainments
to raise funds and in giving drills in patriotic programs. The final Red
Cross rally in connection with other organization rallies at Versailles,
on September 28, 1918, just before the "flu" ban descended like a pall
on Indiana, found the Ripley County Juniors at the height of their en-
thusiasm. Delaware and Milan Juniors carried banners and had their
special part in the parade. With the beginning of the armistice on No-
vember 11, 1918, and the long siege of "flu" lasting into the spring, the
organizations found themselves unable to execute what they had planned,
and what they would have done under normal conditions.

All children of school age are eligible to membership in the Junior
Red Cross, twenty-five cents paying the dues. They are allowed to wear
the regular Red Cross button. Children over twelve are eligible to reg-
ular Red Cross membership, and, as is well known, no age bars one from
this regular membership.

SUMMARY OF WORK OF RIPLEY COUNTY CHAPTER

AMERICAN RED CROSS, FROM MAY, 1917, TO

JULY, 1919

Knitting — Sweaters for Ripley county soldiers, 193; sweaters for
Red Cross, 301 ; helmets for Red Cross, 46; wristlets for Red Cross, 60
pairs; mufflers for Red Cross, 28; wool socks for Red Cross, 1,814
pairs; stockings for refugee children, 392 pairs; ambulance robe, 1;
wash cloths, 270; scrub rugs, 292; hoods in infant layettes, 26. Sewing:
Surgical bandages, 740; hospital garments, 4,167; hospital supplies,
7,512; refugee garments, 1,832. Second-hand clothing, 6,831 garments;
second-hand clothing, 8,410 pounds weight. Nuts for gas defense, 576

RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR 41

pounds. Comfort kits and cases for soldiers, 1,087. Liberty guards,
90 pairs leggings. Second-hand linen shower, 319 pieces. Nurses
through influenza, $499.60; local relief, $9.43.

Among the women who deserve especial credit as knitters are Mrs.
Elizabeth Webster, Mrs. Elizabeth Alexander, Mrs. Ruth Ahrends, all
of Sunman; Mrs. Elizabeth Hunter, of Milan; Mrs. Magdalena Price,
Mrs. Hedwig Schrader, Mrs. Elizabeth Hammerle, Mrs. Margaret
Schiller and Mrs. John Hillenbrand, Sr., all of Batesville; Mrs.
Amanda Cooper and Mrs. Anna Black, of Cross Plains; Mrs. Josina
Brinson, of Titusville; Mrs. Louisa Siekerman and Mrs. Jane Gilland,
of Friendship; Mrs. Mary Michel, of Delaware; Mrs. Philip Seelinger,
of Holton; Mrs. G. W. Cox and Mrs. Catherine Kenan, of Osgood.
All these ladies are either elderly or infirm, or especially burdened with
other duties, as in the case of Mrs. Ahrends, who was chairman of the
Sunman Red Cross branch. Mrs. Siekerman and Mrs. Gilland are
war mothers, as are also Mrs. Ahrends, Mrs. Schrader, and Mrs. See-
linger. Several of them knit for the soldiers of the Civil War. and
eight of them are widows of Civil War veterans.

The nation's most gifted writers will pen for the benefit of those
who come after us the story of America's activities during the great
World War. The pages of history will record imperishably the brav-
ery and the gallantry of the American men who covered themselves with
glory while fighting under the Stars and Stripes at Chateau-Thierry,
in the Argonne, in France and in Belgium. A splendid tribute will be
paid by historians to the men who upheld the traditions of the American
navy while performing its task of ridding the sea of the submarine so
that millions of their comrades in arms might cross the sea without
mishap to give battle to the Hun.

Our fighting men themselves, together with the people of all the bel-
ligerent nations, will always pay homage to the American Red Cross
nurse who left home, relatives and friends to brave the dangers and
hardships of war and pestilence and disease so that she might take the
place of mother in the cantonment, upon the battle-field and in the hos-
pitals behind the firing line.

The local chapter is justly proud of Ripley's "Roses of No Man's
Land": Miss Bertha Greeman, Batesville; Miss Vivian Wiebking,
Napoleon; Miss Martha Delay, Holton; Miss Caroline Maffey, Milan.

AN EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE

The services rendered by those good women, who, under the direc-
tion of the state chapter of the American Red Cross, came to our county
to nurse and care for those of us stricken during the epidemic of influ-
enza that raged so terribly and so relentlessly in parts of Ripley county
during the closing months of 1918, will for all time be remembered and
appreciated.

The chapter acknowledges its gratitude to the following nurses in
particular: Miss Esther Parsons, Miss Nell Vernon, Mrs. Payson
Miss Lillian Vogelsang, Miss Bertha Custer.

42 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

WORDS OF APPRECIATION

To serve in the capacity of county supervisor of sewing and hospital
supply work required a woman possessed of executive ability, good judg-
ment, pleasing personality, a full understanding of the necessity and
magnitude of the work contemplated, and, above all, a woman in sym-
pathy with the spirit of the times, so that she might enthuse and inspire
those with whom she would come in contact so as to create in them an
ardent desire to do a worth-while service.

The good work done by the women of Ripley county is in a large
measure due to the inspiring leadership and untiring efforts of Mrs.
Minnie E. Wycoff, of Batesville.

While many persons in the county were, by reason of their activities
in Red Cross work, entitled to receive a Red Cross medal or badge, the
committee on awards voted that honor to Mrs. Wycoff alone — a sig-
nal distinction and honor for an exceptional service rendered.

CONCLUSION

The foregoing is a brief history of the activities of the Ripley County
Chapter of the American Red Cross during the great World War.

It was written not to extol or praise the deeds of those persons who
participated in the work that the Red Cross in Ripley county accom-
plished, but for a greater and worthier purpose: to make known to
those who will come after us that the men, women and children of
Ripley county who were not privileged on account of certain circum-
stances to take their places with the boys on the firing line did their full
duty to the men who wore the uniform of our country, and we cherish
the hope that our posterity will learn and realize through the medium
of this short history of Red Cross activities in Ripley county, that we,
like the good Americans of a previous generation, love America and the
things that she stands for, and that we, like the boys who engaged and
defeated the Hun in battle on land and sea, were at all times willing to
give our all, if need be, so that, in the words of the immortal Lincoln,
"government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not per-
ish from the earth."

Home Service Section of Red Cross

Peter J. Holzer, of Batesville, as the Red Cross home service secre-
tary, appointed sub-committees in all the larger towns to aid in giving
local relief, information and help of any kind to all enlisted men and
their families.

The greater part of the work was confined to tracing out missing
Liberty Bonds, securing payment of delayed allotments or wages, and
in locating missing soldiers and sailors, or ascertaining, if possible, why
the letters written to soldiers were not received by them. So many
things caused confusion in the delivery of mail that many soldiers failed
*o receive any mail during months of overseas service, and many times

RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR 43

the families at home failed, likewise, to hear from the soldier between
the two cards announcing, first, his safe arrival overseas, and second,
announcing his safe return to the United States.

The close of the war brought an increase of duties to the home serv-
ice section, which sent out questionnaires in the spring of 1920 to all sol-
diers and sailors covering every possible point on which the Red Cross
could continue to render service, feeling that unless personally reminded
some of the men would fail to realize that the home service section was
designed for peace as well as war service.

Council of Defense

J. F. LOCHARD

When the dark war clouds that hovered over Europe for almost
three years began to drift towards the American continent and it be-
came evident that we could no longer keep out of the awful conflict that
was devastating Europe, plans were being worked out at Washington
as to the best methods to be pursued for the welfare and protection of
our country.

An organization known as the National Council of Defense was
created, whose business it was to carry from Washington to the people
the messages and measures of the National Government and to transmit
back to Washington the real conditions that existed throughout the rural
districts and cities of the nation. An organization had to be formed that
extended from Washington down to the school district in every com-
munity. Hence, the National Council of Defense in Washington, the
State Council of Defense at the capital city of each state, the County
Council of Defense in each county seat, the Township Council of De-
fense in each township and the school district organization in each school
district made it possible for the Government to get to the people all its
plans for the carrying on of the great war and to get back to Washing-
ton a report from the people. Through this organization it was possi-
ble for the Government at Washington to keep its hands upon the pulse
of the nation.

In the building up of this organization, appointments were made so
that all classes might have a voice in the council rooms. The County
Council of Defense of Ripley county, Indiana, consisted of the follow-
ing named persons, who were designated and appointed by Judge Robert
A. Creigmile, judge of the sixth judicial circuit of Indiana, and ap-
proved by Governor James P. Goodrich of Indiana, namely: Anthony
W. Romweber, of the city of Batesville, a representative of the manu-
facturing interests of Ripley county, Indiana; Harry W. Behlmer, of
Napoleon, a representative of the merchants; Oliver P. Shook, of Hol-
ton, a representative of the millers; Fred W. Kline, of Milan, a repre-
sentative of union labor; Ed. G. Abbott, of Milan, a representative of
the agricultural interests; Mrs. Laura Beer, of Versailles, to represent
the women's interests, and J. Francis Lochard, of Versailles, to be a

RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR 45

general representative of the county. J. Francis Lochard was desig-
nated as the chairman of the county organization.

The County Council of Defense held weekly meetings at the court-
house in the town of Versailles, Indiana, all members of the organiza-
tion serving without any compensation. They gave their active support
to all war work in the county and assisted in every way possible to pro-
mote the sale of all Libertv Loan bonds, war savings stamps, the rais-
ing of funds for the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A.. Y. W. C. A., K. of C,
and all other activities, keeping in mind all the time that their principal
duty was to keep the people informed of the Government plans in the
war and transmitting back to Washington a report of the true condi-
tions that existed in the county.

No organization can get very far without some finances, and steps
had to be taken to secure the necessary funds for carrying on the work
of the organization. The first money the Council of Defense secured
to finance its work was borrowed from the Versailles Bank on a note
signed by the members of the Council of Defense. Other funds were
furnished to the Council of Defense by the Ripley County Council,
making an appropriation out of the county treasury of the county.

Mrs. Laura Beer was selected as the secretary and treasurer of the
organization in the county and her reports as such show that she has
received the sum of $1,946.08 and made disbursements to the amount of
$1,946.08.

We desire to quote, for the benefit of our readers, the following
tribute to the Council of Defense system by Grosvenor B. Clarkson,
director of the Council of National Defense, which will give you the
details of the work that was to be done through this organization:

"Here at home there have been armies, too, and they have performed
a marvelous task. They were created without mandates ; they were
welded into cohesive form by suggestion rather than by order ; they were
galvanized from beginning to end by the mighty force of voluntary co-
operation ; and they went into the home stretch with a power which
nothing could have stopped. These were the armies of production —
production not alone of guns and steel plates and soldiers' shoes, not
alone even of visible things, but production of energy, of thought that
made the sword a flaming thing of optimism to offset the stupid pes-
simism of people who criticized but had nothing tangible to contribute,
of the immortal spirit of 'carry on,' of above all, unification. For it
has only been within the past year that this nation has completely real-
ized that after all it is, properly introduced to itself, but a partnership
of one hundred million persons. Out of all this has grown one of the
great lessons of the war to America : the interdependent of social ef-
fort, the effort which in the last equation must keep a nation wholesome
in peace and which must furnish the continuing tireless force behind the
cutting edge in time of war. This, then, though it is stated loosely, was
our task here at home.

"In the vast work of unification, in the carrying from Washington
to the people the message and measures of the National Government,

U RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

and in the transmission back to Washington of the moods and aspira-
tions of a people at war, the council of defense's system, with its more
than one hundred and eighty thousand units set down in almost every
hamlet of the country, played a definite, stirring, and highly fruitful
part. One of the phrases with which Congress created the Council of
National Defense is this: 'The creation of relations which will render
possible in time of need the immediate concentration and utilization of
the resources of the nation.' It was under this authority that the na-
tion-wide council of defense system was brought into being, just as it
was possible as well as necessary for the council under the same author-
ity to bring about the mobilization of our industrial, labor and scientific
forces for the national defense.

"On May 2, 1914, the Council of National Defense called in Wash-
ington a conference of the states. From this meeting, which was ad-
dressed by the President of the United States, by the chairman of the
council, and by several members of the cabinet, sprang the council of
defense system as we now know it. Co-operation was established be-
tween the state divisions of the woman's committee of the Council of
National Defense and the work was everywhere got under way. It
consisted, in the first instance, of explaining and transmitting to all com-
munities of the country the policies and the programs of the various fed-
eral departments and war agencies. Educational propaganda necessary
for the proper emphasis of war measures essential to victory was pre-
pared in Washington, and through the Council of National Defense
forwarded at once to the state councils of defense and to the state divi-
sions of the woman's committee, where immediate decentralization of
the message to be conveyed or of the work to be done took place. In
this way the council of defense system served in the mobilization of
resources and materials, and it stirred the communal conscience, and, by
extension, the national conscience, to a realization of the problems inci-
dent to the winning of the war. With the personnel almost wholly
voluntary throughout, the original machinery became an extensive and
elaborate mechanism, but one which has always stood up under the
stress and strain put upon it, no matter how involved and taxing the
task. Today, the council of defense system comprehends one hundred
and eighty-four thousand four hundred units, made up of state, county,
municipal and community councils of defense.

"Under the direction of the Council of National Defense at Wash-
ington, composed at the top of its structure of six members of the cabi-
net, headed by the Secretary of War, the work went forward. Toward
the end of the war, the direction of the work was, as you know, con-
centrated into the field division of the Council of National Defense un-
der the chairmanship of Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior.
The programs of the War, Navy, Agriculture, Interior and Labor De-
partments, the Food and Fuel Administrations, the Shipping Board,
the U. S. Employment Service, the Children's Bureau, the Bureau of
Education, the American Red Cross, the National War Savings Com-
mittee, the several Liberty Loans, the Commission of Training Camp

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Activities, and the various other official and recognized agencies united
in the common task of war, were sent in complete form to the states
and there made clear to the communities and translated into action.

Many of these programs, and more especially those involving the
exercise of extraordinary powers or the responsibility for handling im-
mense funds, required the creation of separate machinery, which,
radiating from the national center to the small localities, would concern
itself exclusively with the fulfillment of the special program of the
administration and be directly and fully responsible therefor. In the
creation of this special local machinery, the councils of defense and the
divisions of the woman's committee bore a large part. To your prompt
and effective aid the remarkably quick and yet wholly sturdy growth of
the Food Administration, Fuel Administration, the United States Em-
ployment Service and other great war administrations and agencies is
in large measure due. Even those established departments, which, like
the Department of Agriculture, had already spread a network of local
agencies over the country, were through your assistance enabled to make
this network rapidly finer, more complete and ready to meet the strain
of war. Your aid to these Federal departments and administrations,
however, by no means ended there. You provided to them facilities
and assistance which were needed by all alike, first by one, and then by
another, and which therefore could be provided with economy only
through a central organization, and you have made available to them
resources and public co-operation which no special agency alone could
command. Your extensive publicity organization, which, because it
was always at work and at work everywhere, was unparalleled in the
effectiveness and extent of its contact with the press and in the vigor
and completeness of its speakers' bureaus ; your contact with the people
themselves through your community councils, and your complete en-
listment, organization and leadership of the women of America, have
been a mighty source of power from which arose much of the strength
of these local Federal bodies. In addition to bringing these local
Federal agencies together in your state and county war boards, you
have fused their energies and those of the state into one harmonious
and effective power, and have brought into their councils the viewpoint
of the state and locality, which increased the effectiveness of each or-
ganization through leading to a closer adjustment of programs to local
needs and conditions.

In such of the great war programs as did not inherently require the
creation of extensive local machinery, you have assumed the full con-
duct of the work. You have thus saved to the nation, at a time when
economy was vital, the tremendous expense of creating elaborate new
administrations, ramifying in ever-increasing multiplicity throughout
the land ; and you have made possible the conduct of brief and im-
mediate emergency tasks when lack of time, as well as inordinate ex-
pense, would otherwise have made impossible the provision of the ex-
tensive organization requisite to meet the brief but imperative need.
Almost without additional expense or the creation of additional or-

48 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

ganization, you have, under the leadership of the War Industries Board,
regulated and curtailed non-war construction through the action of
tribunals sitting in every county in America. You have conducted for
the Children's Bureau its children's year program by creating a special
organization extending to counties, towns and even school districts.
You have relieved railroad congestion through extending and facilitating
motor transportation. You have brought to the people a message of
economy and thrift and have made practical application thereof through
supervising the solicitation of funds by voluntary war agencies and co-
ordinating their work in the interest of economy of resources and
effort. You have aided existing social agencies to meet the strain of
war and recruited thousands of nurses to fill the emergency need of the
hospitals at home. You have met the problems of housing in centers
where intensification of war work has led to congestion. Through
speakers and the press, through personal contact, through community
singing and the organized fellowship of war workers in community coun-
cils, you have aroused throughout the nation a desire for service; you
have brought before the people an intelligent vision of how that service
could best be rendered, and you have upheld their faith and enthusiasm
throughout the trying months of the war, thus winning the high title
of being the special guardians of civilian morale. The strength of your
organization and your prompt and effective execution of Federal pro-
grams and requests led President Wilson, on October 26, 1918, to
request of every department or administration in Washington, when
they were considering the extension of their organization or new work
to be done in the states, 'to determine carefully whether they can not
make use of the Council of Defense system' through the Council of
National Defense in Washington.

"Not only in the execution of Federal programs, however, have you
rendered distinguished service. From their origin, councils of defense
and divisions of the woman's committee have been vigorous and re-
sourceful in devising independent programs and independent amplifica-
tions of Federal programs, to meet the peculiar needs and to make avail-
able for national service the special resources and opportunities of their
states.

"Your work and the democratic nature of your organization have
also led to great permanent benefits. You have awakened a nation-
wide interest in the welfare of our children, in the assimilation and
Americanization of our foreign born, in healthy group recreation and
social expression and in wise non-partisan community organization.
You have made the communities sensible of their own needs and op-
portunities and strong in action to meet them. You have developed the
means of translating the new interests which you have aroused into
effective action, and the work which you have done and the organiza-
tion which you have established may fittingly be maintained as perma-
nent monuments of the war.

"Thus during the war you have, on a non-partisan basis throughout,
strengthened and upheld the hands of the Federal Government, you

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49

have made available to it the great resources of your state and you have
brought the people to the Government in effective and understanding
service."

TOWNSHIP COUNCILS OF DEFENSE

The Township Councils of Defense were organized in October,
1917, by a committee appointed by the County Council of Defense.
The members of this committee were A. B. Wycoff, Peter J. Holzer
and M. F. Bohland of Batesville, who traveled throughout the county
helping the various townships to perfect their local organizations.

It was the duty of these township councils to receive all war news
and propaganda from the County Council of Defense and distribute
it to the people of their township. To organize committees for work
on all Liberty Loan, Red Cross or other drives for funds; to arrange
for public meetings and to report any disloyal acts or talk that might
occur among the people. This last was a rather delicate duty but
was handled very tactfully by the various councils. A number of mis-
taken citizens were called before the County Council occasionally for
examination, but only one or two prosecutions were made in the county.
These failed to convict, thus proving the mass of Ripley county people
to be thoroughly American or open to reason. No overt acts were com-
mitted in the county at any time, and a very small number of people
failed to respond to the various national calls for money and men.
Ripley county's quotas in the various drives were usually oversubscribed,
and the amounts raised in minimum time. There was no real resistance
to the draft, and the war work was carried on in all sections, promptly,
efficientlv and harmoniouslv.

frr.V" J

Float in Liberty Loan Parade, April 6, 191S, Batesville

Liberty Loan Report

J. A. Hillenbrand

When on April 11, 1917, Congress, in response to President Wilson's
message of a few days previous, declared that a state of war existed
between the United States and the Imperial Government of Germany,
the people of our country began immediately to mobilize the nation's
resources in order to quickly put an end to Prussianism and all that the
term then implied.

The citizens of Ripley county without exception were immediately
in accord with the spirit of America; they, like those of the other
counties of the great state of Indiana, began to enter upon those activi-
ties decreed by the officials of our Government as essential so that we
might soon bring to a close the awful carnage across the Atlantic.

When, through the operation of the Conscription Act passed by
Congress in April of that year, the youth of the land began to don the
khaki, it at once became apparent to the more practical and far-seeing
patriot that money, money and more money would be necessary to
properly equip the boys who were to wage a righteous war to make
the world a decent place to live in. Consequently, when our Govern-
ment made known its plans to finance the war, patriotic citizens, with a
practical knowledge of economics and finance, began to mobilize their
workers and the money of the country in order to make it possible for
our Government to put the "doughboys" on the firing line, sustain and
keep them there until they could successfully finish the job.

Ripley county did its full part in helping to finance the war. The
various Liberty Loans became a series of successes and in order that
future generations may know that the citizens of Ripley county who
remained at home did their full duty to the boys who wore the uniform
of their country, it is well that a record be made of their activities and
their sacrifices. Therefore, this brief history of the five great war loans.

Probably the first work done in connection with the financing of
the war in Ripley county was the action taken by the Hillenbrand
interests of Batesville, when during the first days of May, 1917, they
addressed a circular letter to their some six hundred employes urging
the purchase of the war bonds about to be issued by the Treasury De-
partment and expressing a willingness to advance to any employe who
was not then financially able, the money with which to avail himself of
the opportunity being offered by our Government.

John A. Hillenbrand, of Batesville, president of the Hillenbrand
Company, and at the time president of the First National Bank of that
city, was appointed state chairman to serve as chairman for the first
Liberty Loan for Ripley county.

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51

THE FIRST LIBERTY LOAN

(May 14 to June 15, 1917)

The first organization meeting was held at Batesville, on May 29,
1917, at which were present representatives of the various banks of
the county. Upon the recommendation of County Chairman John A.
Hillenbrand, C. F. Childs, state chairman of the Liberty Loan Dis-
tribution Committee for Indiana, appointed the following local chair-
men for Ripley county :

Christ Nieman, Sunman ; Wm. Leslie, Osgood ; C. W. Laws,
Milan; Charles H. Willson, Versailles; George W. Schmidt, Na-
poleon; Wm. P. Castner, Holton ; E. T. Coleman, Cross Plains;
Wilkie Lemon, Friendship.

Ripley county, with a population of a little more than twenty-one
thousand, was assigned a quota of two hundred and sixty-three thousand
six hundred dollars. This on a basis of eight per cent of the total bank-
ing resources of the county which at that time amounted to $3,295,000.-
00. The banks of the county were asked to make the solicitation and
distribute the bonds and each bank was given a quota based upon its total
banking resources. The bankers were asked by Mr. Hillenbrand to
call a special meeting of their board of directors and arrange for each
bank employe as well as each bank director to devote at least one-half
day of that particular week to soliciting Liberty Loan bond subscriptions.

The total subscriptions up to Thursday, June 7, amounted to

John A. Hillenbrand

52 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

£96,000, five hundred forty subscribers having pledged or subscribed
for that amount. On June 14 the county chairman reported a total
subscription of $110,200. On June 21 the total subscriptions amounted
to $177,050, with nine hundred subscribers. When the county chair-
man submitted his final report on the first Liberty Loan it showed that
the people of Ripley county had subscribed for $177,050 worth of
bonds, falling short $86,550 of the county's allotment. While, as will
be seen from the figures, Ripley county did not subscribe for her entire
quota of bonds of the first issue, Chairman Hillenbrand expressed his
satisfaction with the showing made and complimented the people of
Ripley county very highly.

Below is the quota assigned to each of the banks and the amount
of subscriptions taken:

Quota Bonds Sold

First National Bank, Batesville $21,360 $33,650

Batesville Bank 47,760 30,000

Sunman Bank 28,800 30,000

Milan Bank 20,570 22,250

Riplev Countv Bank, Osgood 52,000 15,000

Versailles Bank 28,880 12,050

Farmers' National Bank, Sunman 17,870 9,000

Napoleon Bank 16,400 9,000

Holton Bank 13,840 6,000

Friendship Bank 10,640 5,000

Cross Plains Bank 11,520 2,600

Osgood Bank 11,360 2,500

$177,050

Not only did individuals purchase the bonds but they were also taken
by fraternal societies and organizations of divers character.

THE SECOND LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGN

(October 1 to October 27, 1917)

The campaign for subscriptions for bonds of the second Liberty
Loan issue began in Ripley county on Monday, August 1, 1917. Ripley
county was assigned a quota of ten per cent of her banking resources, the
quota being $380,000. John A. Hillenbrand, of Batesville, who was
again appointed to serve as county chairman for the second Liberty Loan
in Ripley county, appointed the following as the local chairmen :

Charles L. Johnson, cashier Batesville Bank, Batesville; John H.
Wilker, cashier First National Bank, Batesville; Louis Bruns, cashier
Sunman Bank, Sunman; John Minger, cashier Farmers' National
Bank, Sunman; George W. Schmidt, cashier Napoleon Bank, Na-
poleon ; Wm. C. Leslie, cashier Ripley County Bank, Osgood ; B. L.
Vawter, cashier Osgood Bank, Osgood ; F. M. Laws, cashier Ver-
sailles Bank, Versailles; T. W. Laws, cashier Milan Bank, Milan;

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Wm. P. Castner, cashier Holton Bank, Holton ; D. G. Gordon, cashier
Cross Plains State Bank, Cross Plains; Wilkie S. Lemon, cashier
Friendship Bank, Friendship.

The county chairman also in this instance requested the local chair-
men to appoint committees to assist them in the work of getting sub-
scriptions for bonds of the second Liberty Loan issue.

Below is the quota, the number of subscriptions taken, and the total
amount of bonds subscribed for as reported by Chairman Hillenbrand
on November 1, 1917:

No. of Sub. % of

Subscribers Bank Quota Taken Quota

51 Ripley County Bank, Osgood $66,500 $24,050 36

640 Batesville Bank 60,000 80,000 133

146 Sunman Bank 40,000 67,500 164

131 Milan Bank 37,500 37,500 100

51 Versailles Bank 37,000 28,000 76

214 First National Bank, Batesville.. 30,000 52,250 165

44 Farmers' Natl. Bank, Sunman.... 24,000 14,600 61

50 Napoleon Bank 20,500 15,100 74

85 Holton Bank 19,000 22,500 118

41 Osgood Bank 19,000 12,500 66

52 Cross Plains Bank 14,500 14,500 100

75 Friendship Bank 13,500 12,000 90

1,586 $380,500

As will be seen from the foregoing figures, Ripley county exceeded
her quota in the amount of $500. The total number of subscribers
was one thousand five hundred eighty-six.

THE THIRD LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGN

(April 6 to May 4, 1918)

John A. Hillenbrand, who had served as county chairman for the
first and second Liberty Loans, was again appointed to serve as the
chairman for the third Liberty Loan campaign in Ripley county. At
a meeting held at Versailles on March 27, 1918, at which the county
chairman presided, the Woman's War Council was extended an invita-
tion to participate in the campaign. The following persons were ap-
pointed to serve as chairmen for their respective townships:

Sunman and Adams township, Louis A. Bruns; Delaware town-
ship, Fred Smith; Osgood and Center township, Wm. Leslie; Shelby
township, Wm. A. Green; Versailles and Johnson township, Frank M.
Laws; Otter Creek township, Wm. P. Castner; Washington town-
ship, W. E. Smith; Brown township, D. G. Gordon; Milan and Frank-
lin township, T. W. Laws; Jackson township, George W. Smith;
Batesville and Laughery township, Charles L. Johnson.

1. Darius G. Gordon. Cross Plains. 2. Louis A. Bruns, Sunman. 3. Nora B. Gookins. Napoleon.
4. John Minger, Sunman. 5. Wm. Castner, Cashier Holton Bank. 6. Brainard Vawter, Osgood.

RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR 55

Ladies' Committee: Delaware township, Mrs. Henry Gookins;
Jackson township, Mrs. Emerson Behlmer; Johnson township, Mrs.
Carl Smith; Otter Creek township, Mrs. D. C. Yater ; Adams town-
ship, Mrs. W. W. McMullen; Center township, Mrs. V. A. Wager;
Laughery township, Mrs. Neil McCallum ; Brown township, Miss
Martha Winkler; Shelby township, Miss Georgiana Spears; Franklin
township, Mrs. Walter Beer.

Publicity Chairman: Mrs. Peter Holzer, Batesville.

Committee Chairman: Mrs. Luella Butler, Osgood.

Secretary-Treasurer: Mrs. B. L. Vawter, Osgood.

Ripley county was assigned a quota of $330,000. The report made
public by Chairman Hillenbrand on April 18 was to the effect that the
citizens of Ripley county had purchased bonds of the third Liberty
Loan issue in the amount of $415,500. On April 19 the county
chairman received a telegram from the manager of the Chicago Federal
District asking that an effort be made to raise an oversubscription in
the amount of fifty per cent, thus making a new quota of $495,000. On
Thursday, May 16, there was published in the county papers Chairman
Hillenbrand's final report, a copy of which is given below:

Quota Subscribers Sales Per cent

Sunman $ 8,500 94 $42,950 505

Batesville 34,000 623 92,250 275 1/3

Versailles 9,000 60 21,700 241 1/9

Jackson Township 16,500 127 31,550 191 1/5

Johnson Township 25,500 124 46,900 184

Brown Township 28,000 248 46,300 165 1/2

Laughery Township 14,500 170 32,000 158

Milan 10,000 75 15,750 157 1/2

Washington Township 14,500 55 20,650 142 3/7

Delaware Township 17,500 165 24,250 138 1/8

Osgood 17,500 151 23,100 131

Franklin Township 22,500 74 28,850 128

Adams Township 38,500 256 48,650 127

Shelby Township 30,000 114 35,500 118 1/3

Center Township 17,000 66 17,300 101

Otter Creek Township 31,500 253 38,200 121 1/4

$335,000 2,655 $557,600 166 1/2

Ripley county was the thirteenth in the state to oversubscribe her
quota and ranked sixteenth among the counties of the state in the
amount subscribed over and above that quota.

THE FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGN

(September 28 to October 19, 1918)

On August 26, 1918, John A. Hillenbrand was again selected as
chairman of the fourth Liberty Loan campaign of Ripley county. He

56 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

met with the bankers of the county at the courthouse at Versailles to
effect an organization for this campaign. Provision was made to or-
ganize each township by school districts, and committees were appointed
to solicit subscriptions for bonds in each of these districts. The cam-
paign in Ripley county began on Saturday, September 28, and lasted
but a few days. The persons who served as chairmen in the various
townships during the third Liberty Loan campaign were reappointed
by County Chairman Hillenbrand to serve in the same capacity for the
fourth loan, with one exception: Fred R. Papenhaus, of R. F. D.,
Osgood, was appointed chairman for Delaware township to succeed
Fred Smith, who was unable to serve.

The quota assigned to Ripley county was $750,000. The time set
apart for the fourth Liberty Loan campaign in Ripley county was the
occasion of a visit of an airplane to Batesville, Versailles and other
parts of Ripley county, probably the first airplane that visited this part
of the state. Its visit created a great amount of interest with resultant
increased enthusiasm and contributed materially to the success of the
fourth Liberty Loan. Below is a report of the fourth Liberty Loan
campaign in Ripley county:

Quota

Batesville and Batesville Bank

Laughery Township $1 13,000

First National Bank, Batesville

Sunman and Adams Township 88,800

Farmers' National Bank, Sunman

Sunman Bank

Versailles and Johnson Township 86,800

Versailles Bank

Brown Township 73,900

Cross Plains Bank

Friendship Bank

Osgood and Center Township 72,600

Osgood Bank

Ripley County Bank

Milan and Franklin Township 68,900

Milan Bank

Otter Creek Township 56,500

Holton Bank

Jackson Township 41,300

Napoleon Bank

Delaware Township 38,900

Shelby Township 75,900

Washington Township 33,600

Subscribers
505

Amount
$ 76,300

265

68,000

174
248

37,300
65,400

357

106,950

162
142

40,550
39,350

119
281

27,500
92,500

441

99,159

393

74,500

165

46,050

$750,200 3,252 $773,559
Subscriptions taken from persons living

in surrounding counties 86 19,200

3,166 $754,359

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THE VICTORY LOAN

(April 21 to May 10, 1919)

For this loan Ripley county was assigned a quota of $550,000. The
campaign was begun in Ripley county on April 21 and ended by night-
fall of the same day. Very little effort was required on the part of the
chairman and his organization of Liberty Loan workers to "finish the
job." On April 3 Chairman Hillenbrand addressed a letter to the
people of the county through the press, making it known that the same
persons who had made the solicitation for subscriptions to bonds of the
fourth Liberty Loan issue would make the canvass for the Victory Loan.
While the banks of the county expressed their willingness to subscribe
for practically the entire quota assigned to Ripley county, the chairman
insisted that the people of the county who had so generously subscribed
for bonds of previous issues at a lower interest rate be given an oppor-
tunity to purchase the Victory Bonds. A report giving the number of
subscriptions and amount of bonds sold by each bank in the county
follows :

Subscriptions Amount

Batesville Bank 269 $100,500

First National Bank 162 73,000

Cross Plains Bank 44 28,800

Friendship Bank 77 57,100

Holton Bank 55 27,750

Milan Bank 172 80,100

Napoleon Bank 70 26,500

Osgood Bank 56 30,000

Ripley County Bank 125 92,150

Farmers' National Bank 77 40,050

Sunman Bank 163 76,600

Versailles Bank 103 58,300

Totals 1,373 $690,850

SUMMARY OF THE FIVE LOANS

Report of the number of subscribers and total amount subscribed by-
each bank in Ripley county for the second, third, fourth and fifth loans
floated by the United States:

Amount Number of

Loans Subscribed Subscribers

Batesville Bank,

1

(Not on record)

Batesville, Ind. —

2

$75,000

640

3

61,000

486

4

76,500

511

5

101,000

160

1 Chas. L. Johnson, Batesville. 1. Wilkie S. Lemon, Friendship. 3. Wm. A. Green, Trustee
Shelby Township. 4. Wm. C. Leslie, Osgood. 5. F. M. Laws, Cashier Versailles Bank. 6. Thos. W.

Laws, Milan.

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59

Amount

Number of

Loans

Subscribed

Subscribers

First National Bank,

1

(Not on

record )

Batesville, Ind. —

2

52,250

158

3

50,500

362

4

68,000

275

5

92,000

155

Cross Plains Bank,

1

(Not on

record)

Cross Plains, Ind. —

2

14,500

227

3

26,550

150

4

33,800

133

5

37,250

43

Friendship State Bank,

1

(Not on

record)

Friendship, Ind. — -

2

12,000

75

3

20,500

120

4

39,350

188

5

57,100

80

Holton State Bank,

1

(Not on

record)

Holton, Ind. —

2

20,000

76

3

45,000

250

4

74,500

393

5

30,000

87

State Bank of Milan,

1

(Not on

record)

Milan, Ind.—

2

35,000

140

3

65,000

191

4

99,150

441

5

84,400

211

Napoleon State Bank,

1

(Not on

record)

Napoleon, Ind. — ■

2

15,000

43

3

27,750

150

4

46,050

333

5

26,500

90

Osgood State Bank,

1

(Not on

record)

Osgood, Ind. —

2

12,500

43

3

20,900

115

4

27,500

125

5

30,000

60

Ripley County Bank,

1

(Not on

record)

Osgood, Ind. —

2

28,000

52

3

63,000

272

4

92,500

604

5

92,150

125

Farmers' National Bank,

1

(Not on

record )

Sunman, Ind. —

2

14,600

44

3

48,000

102

4

37,300

175

5

45,000

82

60

RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

Versailles Bank,

1

(Not on

record)

Versailles, Ind. —

2

28,000

57

3

65,150

233

4

106,950

357

5

58,300

113

Sunman Bank,

1

(Not on

record)

Sunman, Ind.

2

68,000

146

3

86,800

362

4

65,400

248

' 5

111,250

345

While much credit is due the various banks of the county, the
members of the various soliciting committees, the speakers, and, in fact,
all those persons who took an active part in the campaigns, the success
of the five great war loans in Ripley county is due primarily to the
patriotism and loyalty of our citizens. Ripley county, as stated else-
where in this article, did her full duty in backing up the boys on the
firing line, and our children and children's children will in the years to
come have just cause to feel proud of the achievement of those who will
then have gone before them.

REPORT OF WOMAN'S COMMITTEE FOR

THIRD LIBERTY LOAN

State Chairman: Mrs. Fred H. McCulloch, Ft. Wayne, Ind.

Township Chairmen: Jackson township, Mrs. Emerson Behlmer;
L.-.ughery township, Mrs. Neil McCallum; Brown township, Mrs.
Carl Smith; Otter Creek township, Mrs. D. C. Yater ; Adams town-
ship, Mrs. W. W. McMullen; Center township, Mrs. V. A. Wager;
Laughery township, Mrs. Neil McCallum ; Brown township, Miss

Can ft eld's Drum Corps — Liberty Loan Parade, Batesville, April 6, igiS.

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Martha Winkler; Franklin township, Mrs. W. A. Beer; Shelby town-
ship, Miss Georgiana Spears.

Approximate number of workers, one hundred twenty-five.

Total amount of bonds sold by women during the third
Liberty Loan in Ripley county, $141,050. Total amount sold by
women in the state, $23,623,750.

A county conference for the purpose of organization was held at
the assembly room of the library at Osgood, April 24, 1918. Mrs.
Moll and Mrs. Brigham, of Indianapolis, gave interesting and inspiring
talks on why and how to organize Food Clubs and Woman's Liberty
Loan Committees.

After each township chairman appointed her assistants, these
committees then met and co-operated with the men's committees of
their townships for final formation of local plans for the drive from
April 6 to May 4. The women's committees assisted at all Liberty Loan
meetings, distributed Liberty Loan literature and posters throughout
their districts, and did their part to instill the spirit of the Liberty
Loan in their community. Our county four-minute women also re-
sponded nobly at various times, giving four-minute talks in behalf of
the loan at the theaters and other meetings.

Opportunity for greater and more valuable service knocked at
our doors, and wide did we open the doors since the enlarged vision
of our responsibilities made us move forward with greater determina-
tion to meet the obligations that awaited us. The financial report was
made possible because the wonderful women of our county were so
eager to do Liberty Loan work, for they realized, as only wives, mothers
and sweethearts could, that the necessary equipment of our vast army,
both overseas and at home, could not be supplied without selling the
loan to the people. The women of our county carried on this work
willingly without counting cost or sacrifice, feeling it a sacred privilege
to have so small a part in helping their boys and their country.

This same spirit and splendid results would have prevailed during
the fourth loan if the women's committees could have secured the co-
operation of the men's committees, which they justly deserved.

Mrs. Luella Fink Butler,
Chairman of Woman's Liberty Loan Committee of Ripley County.

War Savings Movement

Neil D. McCallum

With the preparations for war assuming gigantic proportions, and
the absolute necessity for greater and greater speed in the preparations,
the expenditure of money by the billions to equip and maintain our
fighting forces was found necessary, and it became the business of the
Treasury Department to seek every available source of keeping its
coffers replenished, that the work of mobilizing, training and caring

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for our soldiers and sailors might not be hindered, but move on speedily
and steadily that the war might be won in the shortest time possible.

Through the Liberty Loans a great part of this money was raised,
but the Treasury Department, not knowing how long the war might
last, nor how much money might be needed ere it ended, instituted a
plan known as the war savings plan, by which it hoped to encourage
economy and thrift in every home, and to teach the small wage earner,
who wished to contribute to the great cause, and who found it not
possible to spare from his earnings a very large sum at one time, but who
could, by economy and industry, manage to save a little from time to
time, thus materially aiding his government and giving him a profitable
investment besides.

It also hoped to call to its aid in this great war savings movement
the school children of America, and enlist their services by inculcating
in them, through their teachers, habits of self-denial and economy with
their little earnings and spending money, that every penny might be
turned into this war savings fund to help win the war.

Briefly, the plan was as follows: Upon payment of 25 cents for a
thrift stamp, a card with sixteen spaces for pasting sixteen 25-cent
stamps was given you. When you had purchased sixteen thrift stamps,
or $4.00 worth, you were entitled to exchange your card full of thrift
stamps for a war savings stamp, by paying in addition a slight sum,
this depending on the month of their purchase, according as their inter-
est accumulated each month. This stamp would be worth in five years
$5.00. Or, if you had the price of a war savings stamp on hand, you
might buy it outright, without purchasing any thrift stamps, or, any
person might buy as many as he chose, up to $1,000 worth, the maximum
amount any one person might own.

Immediately upon announcement of the plan by the government, the
thrift stamps and the war savings stamps were placed on sale at the
postofHces, stores, banks, and numerous public places, rural carriers
playing a prominent part in their sales in rural districts.

In December, 1917, their sale began, and in every part of the
country people responded liberally, for not only were they giving the
use of their money to their country, but they realized the war savings
stamps were a safe and profitable investment. The Government hoped
by these small contributions to raise two billion dollars in a year's time
or up to January 1, 1919.

Organizations of states and counties began immediately and John A.
Hillenbrand, who was also serving as county chairman of the war
savings movement for Ripley county in December, 1917, began
to organize Ripley county for the sale of its quota of war savings
stamps.

Mr. Hillenbrand appointed the following committee to serve with
him : J. Francis Lochard, Versailles ; O. R. Jenkins, Osgood ; Charles
Hertenstein, Versailles; William McMullen, Sunman ; Davidson Yater,
Holton ; Thomas Laws, Milan ; G. A. Baas, Batesville. They planned
to start their campaign for sales immediately after January 1, 1918,

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though in a number of places in the state the campaign began in
December, 1917, but Ripley county was not organized to begin ear-
nestly at that time, although the sale of stamps was fairly launched in
most parts of the county.

On December 29, 1917, the employes of the Hillenbrand interests
of Batesville met and organized a war savings society, pledging
themselves to systematic saving; to refrain from unnecessary expendi-
tures; to encourage habits of thrift and to invest their savings in war
savings stamps. This step on their part encouraged greatly the sale of
stamps, not alone amongst themselves, but amongst the people of Bates-
ville and vicinity.

While it had been planned by the county chairman and his com-
mittee to inaugurate a campaign for the sale of stamps on a large scale
immediately after New Year, 1918, the terrible blizzard and continuous
cold weather throughout January made it impossible to attempt an
organization of the entire county that could be relied upon to give
effective service, so there was a lull in the movement, although the sale
of stamps everywhere possible was going on.

When the weather became fit, the big drive for large sales began
in March, 1918, when Mr. Hillenbrand and his committee began the
organization of each township.

Riplev county's quota of war savings stamps to be sold by January 1,
1919, was $389,040, or $20 per capita. Up to March 1, 1918, through
the various postoffices, banks and schools of the county, a total sum of
$53,948.70 worth of war stamps had been sold, or about 14 per cent
of the county's quota.

With each township organized the members of the various com-
mittees went to work with the usual zeal exhibited by the people of
Ripley county, and by general publicity, by advertisement, by public
meetings, through the postmasters and the rural carriers, and through
the schools, the sale of stamps began in earnest, the end of March
showing the total sales for March of $27,523.93 and a total of all
sales to date of $81,372.63.

On May 1, the sales for the period to that date showed a total of
$102,824.67 or about $5.31 per capita, whereas $20 per capita was the
quota assigned.

On April 1, 1918, Mr. J. D. Oliver, state chairman, appointed
John A. Hillenbrand, chairman of the Fourth Congressional District
in addition to being chairman of Ripley county. Niel McCallum was
appointed vice-president of the Fourth Congressional District. Mr.
McCallum visited every county chairman in the district and in several
of the counties assisted the county chairman in getting the county
organized.

The Fourth Congressional District was composed of eleven counties,
Bartholomew, Brown, Dearborn, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings, Jefferson,
Johnson, Ohio, Ripley and Switzerland. With this additional task
before them, the chairman and vice-chairman set out, not only to make

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their own county of Ripley do its duty, but the counties of this district
as well.

On May 6, 1918, a district meeting was held at Seymour — it was
a representative gathering of all the districts in the state, chairmen,
committeemen, postmasters and all those vitally interested in putting
over the sale of war savings stamps being present to exchange their
views and opinions, and to glean from their fellow workers various
plans and devices for effecting sales of stamps.

Joseph D. Oliver, director, and Frank E. Herring, vice-director of
the war savings stamps movement in Indiana, were both present at the
meeting, and presented before their co-workers the decision of the
Government to try to raise the two billion dollars by July 1, 1918, in
sales or pledges, instead of extending the time up to January 1, 1919, as
had been originally planned. Therefore, it was agreed at the meeting
that every county should begin, without delay, a strenuous campaign
for raising its full quota as soon as possible.

Ripley county being thoroughly organized, undertook the task im-
mediately, and during the first week in June a campaign was con-
ducted in every township with the following results:

Adams $ 8,131.61

Brown 12,668.25

Center 9,056.00

Delaware 352.00

Franklin 8,077.00

Johnson 410.00

Jackson 4,777.00

Laugherv 13,846.50

Otter Creek 4,478.25

Shelbv 4,000.00

Washington 3,500.00

Total $77,306.61

Jackie $' Hand, Victory Loan, 1919, Great Lakes, Illinois.

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The Government now decided to close the campaign for the war
savings stamps on June 28, 1918, and President Wilson and the
governors of all the states issued proclamations designating Friday,
June 28, as War Savings Day, upon which date all were expected to
purchase stamps or to pledge themselves to do so to the full extent of
their ability, that the entire quota for the county, the state and the
Nation might be met on that date, thereby doing away with constant
solicitation for sales.

Extensive and thorough preparations were made by Mr. Hillenbrand
and Mr. McCallum for this climax to the campaign, not only in
Ripley county, but in the district as well. A program in compliance
with requests from the Government was carried out in every school
district and at every meeting place on that day, as follows:

1. Reading the Proclamation of the Governor of Indiana.

2. Reading the call from the State Director of the Indiana War
Savings Committee.

3. Announcing the unsold \ quota for the year of war savings
stamps for the township or school district or other division in which
the meeting was held.

4. Reading the names and the amounts on such pledge cards as
had been filed for credit to the June 28 drive by those who, for justifi-
able reasons, could not be present at the meeting.

5. Reading the names and listing the amounts on the pledge cards
of those present.

6. Adding the amounts of all pledge cards by a committee of three,
of whom the secretary should be chairman, and announcing to those
assembled whether or not the quota had been met. The total sum
pledged was immediately to be telephoned or telegraphed to the county
chairman.

7. Appointing a committee of five, of whom the presiding officer
and secretary should be members, to compile a list of property owners,
wage earners, taxpayers and others included in the call who were not
present at the meeting, and who had not previously filled out and
delivered pledge cards to authorized solicitors or war savings repre-
sentatives, the list to be prepared as soon as possible; the original to be
sent to the state director and a copy filed with the county chairman.

8. Community singing of "America" or "Star-Spangled Banner."

9. Dismissal.

The day was a very significant one, for it became practically
obligatory upon every taxpayer and wage earner to purchase, or pledge
to purchase stamps if he did not wish to be classed as unpatriotic.

Every citizen had been sent a notice previous to War Savings Day
designating the place he was to report that day to pledge the amount
of his purchase, providing he had not already pledged an amount upon
solicitation. The zeal, the earnestness and patriotic endeavors put
forth by the large group of willing workers in this "finish" campaign
for war savings stamps bore good fruit, for when the totals were
compiled, following the "big War Savings Day", Mr. Hillenbrand

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was gratified to learn that Ripley county had kept up her "over the
top" reputation, figures showing that with her year's quota of $389,040
to be met, old Ripley had, with cash sales and pledges a total of $423,-
206, having exceeded her quota by $34,166.

During the week previous to and on Friday, June 28, a total of
$233,410 worth of stamps were sold or pledged, the following showing
the apportionment assigned each township, the amount of sales and
pledges, and chairmen of each :

Cash Sales

Township

Quota

and Pledges

Chairmen

Adams

$ 21,011

$ 25,190

Louis Bruns

Brown

18,011

26,665

Wilkie Lemen

Center

20,584

22,000

O. R. Jenkins

Delaware

11,136

12,905

Henry Bultman

Franklin

17,512

21,890

Thomas Laws

Jackson

11,614

16,045

Harry Behlmer

Johnson

21,011

19,040

Chas. Hertenstein

Laughery

30,751

37,810

G. A. Baas

Otter Creek

16,729

12,365

Davidson Yater

Shelby

22,190

27,000

Dr. Cramer

Washington

8,695

12.500

Edgar Smith

Total

$199,244

$233,410

Not alone did Mr. Hillenbrand and Mr. McCallum have the satis-
faction of seeing their own county exceed her quota, but the Fourth
District, of which Mr. Hillenbrand was also chairman and Mr.
McCallum vice-chairman, as a whole made a wonderful showing,
ranking second in the districts of the state, which is very creditable,
considering the resources of some of the counties of the district, and
Ripley county ranked fourth in the state and second in the district.

One of the counties of the Fourth District, Johnson, bears the
distinction of being the first county in the United States to exceed its
quota, getting this honor by a slight margin only, as Ohio county, in
the same district, was a strong contestant for this honor, and, small as it
is, made a brilliant record for war savings stamp sales.

In recognition of the splendid work done in Ripley county during
the campaign, a letter of commendation was received from Mr. J.
Oliver, director of the Indiana War Savings Committee, to the local
newspapers, as follows: "As director of the Indiana War Savings
Committee, I should like to give public expression through your
columns of my earnest appreciation of the untiring efforts of County
Chairman John A. Hillenbrand and his zealous co-workers in the
war savings campaign, and particularly the special effort which
culminated in the drive on June 28, when your county was one of the
first to go "over the top" and reach its goal. I congratulate the resi-
dents of Ripley county on the enthusiastic and patriotic manner in

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which they have responded to the call of duty, and I would especially

urge your county organization be not allowed to disintegrate, but be

kept together to the close of the campaign. Sincerely yours, J. D.
Oliver, State Director."

Thus, while the sale of war savings stamps did not end with this
campaign, the solicitation for sales practically ceased with the June 28
drive, and through the rest of the year pledge cards were redeemed and
investments constantly made by those who had money to spare.

Ere the close of the year, November 1 1 brought a great change in
the outlook for America and for the world, and the war savings stamps
movement was lost sight of in the coming of peace and the return of
the soldier boys. All faces eagerly turned toward the scene of conflict
waiting for the ships that arrived day by day with their precious cargo
of America's bravest and best, whose dauntless courage and bravery
was, in a large measure due to the power "behind the guns" in which the
little thrift stamps and its "big brother," the war savings stamp, played
their parts with as much skill and success as did the larger Liberty
Bond, and the small investor, proportionate to his earning capacity,
merits as much gratitude from his nation and her defenders as the
holder of larger investments, all, both little and great, a mighty force
"behind the lines" for their country and their God in the establish-
ment of peace.

Food Administration

The war in Europe had so affected the food supply of the world
that long before the entrance of America into the World War, we had
felt the need of conserving our resources for ourselves, as well as to
supply the needs of the warring nations. With the declaration of a
state of war between America and Germany on April 6, 1917, the food
situation in many ways became acute. Herbert Hoover was sent to
Belgium to try to save the oppressed people from starvation. It became
our immediate duty as an ally to feed, not only the Belgians, but the
rest of our European allies as well. We had at once to raise, feed and
equip an army of several million men. These several million men had
to be taken from our fields and factories, as well as from desks and
offices. That meant a shortage of productive labor from coast to coast.
Fewer hands on the great northwest wheat fields ; fewer hands in the
mills, in the workshops, everywhere, while, at the same time, the output
of our fields must be multiplied as much as possible. To meet these
sudden gigantic needs, various plans had to be made. Our best
trained men were called from everywhere to help in the crisis of our
affairs. To meet the food situation, a Food Administration Bureau
was created at Washington which labored to learn how to save what
food we already had and to increase production as efficiently as possible.
Sunday, July 1, 1917, was set as National Food Conservation Day.
All ministers were asked to preach on the subject in their various
churches on that day.

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In August, 1917, the President fixed the minimum price of wheat
for the 1917 crop at $2.20 per bushel. The price for the 1918 crop
was set at $2.00 per bushel.

Food pledge cards asking housewives to observe certain strict con-
servation rules were sent out for signature. The first, somewhat loose,
general plan of appeal did not succeed as had been hoped. The women
did not sign the cards in any great numbers. They did not under-
stand the necessity for doing so. Also, many feared they might pledge
themselves to respond to unknown demands. So very few signed
pledges went back to Washington that a better plan for securing the
support of the women of America had to be worked out. New methods
of instruction and distribution of the cards were carefully planned.
Meetings were held to explain the need, the entire necessity for the
strictest conservation of food. To feed our soldiers already pouring
into the cantonments and overseas the people at home must sacrifice
and save. To win the war in the shortest possible time with the least
expenditure of our own men, we must feed the allied soldiers so that they
might hold the trenches and share the fighting with our men when they
should finally be ready. These plans eventually developed into a house
to house canvass and the Food Administration cards were hung in
practically every home in America. These cards pledged the house-
wives to follow all rules of the Food Administration as they should
be given out from time to time. Recipes for using wheat substitutes,
fat substitutes and sugar substitutes were printed and distributed broad-
cast. The three great food staples had to be conserved if the war was
to be won against the Central Powers.

State administrators were appointed, who in turn appointed county
administrators. J. H. Bergdoll, of Milan, was appointed for Ripley
county.

A mass meeting was called by the Council of Defense at the court-
house in Versailles, on September 26, 1917, for the purpose of organizing
more intensely along various lines for war work.

Groups of speakers had been sent out by the state to address these
meetings, which were held over a period of a few days, the state being
divided into groups of counties. Decatur, Ripley, Dearborn and
Franklin counties constituted one group. The speakers sent to these
counties were John Chewning of Rockport, Ind., Homer Elliot of
Spencer, Ind., John F. Riley of Hammond, Ind., and John \V. Spencer
of Evansville, Ind.

The four-minute men were appointed at this meeting, at which all
war organizations were represented. The speeches gave plans for
closer organization and data, and plans to be used in making addresses
and completing this organization work.

Meetings were held all over the county during Septembr, 1917, b>
Oscar Swank, a hog-growing expert, who explained how to produce more
hogs in the shortest time and with the least amount of labor and capital
possible. Pig clubs were organized, and the various towns made new

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rules allowing pigs to be fed within the town limits under certain
regulations along sanitary lines.

The United States Food Administration Law was passed on August
10, 1917. Its purpose as outlined was as follows: "To provide for
security and national defense by encouraging the production, conserva-
tion of supply, and control of distribution of food products. Its hopes
were threefold : To so guide the trade in fundamental food commod-
ities as to eliminate vicious speculation, extortion, hoarding and waste-
ful practices, and to stabilize prices in the essential articles.

Second : To guard our exports so that against the world's shortage
we retain sufficient supplies for our own people, and to co-operate with
our allies to prevent inflation of prices.

Third : That we stimulate in every manner within our power the
production and saving of our food in order that we may increase exports
to our allies to a point which will enable them to properly provision
their armies and feed their people."

Mr. Bergdoll was appointed as food administrator in December,
1917. He immediately announced in the five county papers the purposes
of the Food Administration, and toured the county as rapidly as possible,
calling on all dealers in food commodities and establishing a mailing
list so that each could be notified promptly of changes and new regula-
tions as they were issued by the Food Administration.

Milk dealers were notified not to advance prices without permission
of the county food administrator.

Flour and sugar were to be handled until further notice, as follows :
Only one-eighth to one-quarter barrel of flour could be sold at one time
to consumers in towns and villages. Only one-quarter to one-half
barrel of flour to consumers in country districts.

Sugar could be sold to consumers in towns and villages only in two

Liberty Loan Parade, Fair Grounds, Batesville, April 6, iq/8, Eureka Band.

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or five pound lots. To consumers in rural districts only in five or ten
pound lots.

A mass meeting of retail grocers was held at Osgood, Friday, Janu-
ary 11, 1918, at 1:30 P. M., to elect a delegate from Ripley county
to the Federal Food Administration at Indianapolis, on January 15.
Will D. Vayhinger of Osgood was elected and attended the meeting.

The papers and magazines were filled with war-time recipes. One
famous sample provided for an entire meal in one dish as follows:

"Dried Peas With Rice and Tomatoes. — One-half cup rice, two cups
peas, six onions, one tablespoonful salt, one-quarter teaspoon pepper, two
cups tomatoes. Soak peas over night in two quarts of water. Cook in
this water until tender, add rice, onions, tomatoes and so forth, and
cook twenty minutes."

On February 2, 1918, the following flour rules were put into effect:
One sack of twenty-four and one-half pounds to one family at one time.
Substitutes in equal amount at same time. Barley, buckwheat, corn
flour, corn meal, corn starch, corn grits, hominy, oatmeal, potato flour,
rice, rice flour, rolled oats, soy beans, sweet potato or rye flour were all
allowed as substitutes.

Records had to be kept to prevent hoarding. Millers were not per-
mitted to sell in different amounts.

Tuesday of each week was set aside as meatless day. Monday and
Wednesday of each week as wheatless days. No wheat flour could be
used on these days except in soups and gravies, or as a binder with corn
meal or other cereal breads.

One meatless meal and one wheatless meal was to be observed every
day. No pork was to be served on Tuesday or on Saturday. Fish,
poultry and eggs could be used instead. Every day was to be a fat and
sugar saving day by making less use of both.

Plane 3932Q, Fourth Liberty Loan, September 28, iqiS.

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All this conservation was asked to be given voluntarily by the
people of the United States. The signatures to the pledge cards prom-
ised to conform with these rules and the Government hoped to escape
taking coercive measures.

Another county conference was held at Versailles, on February 13,
1918. The schools of the county were dismissed so that the teachers
and as many pupils as possible might attend. These meetings were not
easily held, as the winter of 1917 and 1918 was the most severe in our
history, the storms of December 8th and January 12th continuing
two weeks in each case with several feet of drifted snow, zero weather,
sleet and wind, causing unheard of hardship owing to scarcity of coal
and food. Owners of timber had been asked to sell or give away all
available tops, branches and refuse timber as fuel and had thus aug-
mented the coal shortage to some extent.

Mrs. J. H. Bergdoll had been appointed as chairman on home eco-
nomics and conducted an interesting session in demonstration of her
subject at this February meeting.

C. H. Andres, as Red Cross chairman, showed moving pictures of
Red Cross work at the Austin theater.

The Versailles Red Cross served dinner to the crowd and added
to their local Red Cross fund in this manner, as well as serving
war dishes, breads and so forth, in line with food conservation plans.

Miss Elinor Barker talked on "Food Conservation," addressing the
crowd in the afternoon. Judge Sample gave the main address on the
"Help-Win-the-War Slogan" topic. A returned Canadian soldier fur-
nished the war experience talk.

A woman's war workers' meeting was held at Osgood, at the
public library, on March 21, 1918.

The Council of Defense had appointed the following chairmen :

Enrollment and Women's Service, Laura Nelson, Osgood.

Food Conservation, Laura Nelson.

Food Production, Mrs. J. A. Hillenbrand, Batesville.

Child Welfare, Mrs. W. W. McMullen, Sunman.

Liberty Loan, Mrs. Luella Butler, Osgood.

Red Cross and Allied Relief, Mrs. F. M. Laws, Versailles.

Health and Recreation, Mrs. C. W. Gibson, Batesville.

Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies, Monta Royce, Ver-
sailles.

Educational Propaganda, Sophia Nickel, Batesville.

Publicity, Mrs. Peter Holzer, Batesville.

Special Committees, Mrs. James Hazelrigg, Napoleon.

Chairman, Fourteen-Minute Women, Monta Royce.

List of Fourteen-Minute Women: Mrs. Pearl Copeland, Ver-
sailles; Mrs. Luella Bilby, Osgood; Mrs. G. Herman, Osgood; Mrs.
J. H. Bergdoll, Milan; Mrs. May Laws, Milan; Mrs. Minnie E.
Wycoff, Batesville; Mrs. Tora McCallum, Batesville; Mrs. Sherman
Gookins, Napoleon.

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These women were called together at this time to receive the plans
for their special lines of work. The meeting was particularly for the
purpose of instruction for the Third Liberty Loan drive and for special
food conservation plans.

On May 23, 1918, flour and sugar cards were issued by the Food
Administration. One and one-half pounds of Hour and three-quarters
pound of sugar were allowed for each person for one week. Twenty-
five pound lots of sugar for canning purposes only were to be sold.
This time penalties were fixed for failure to comply with these rules ;
a $5,000 fine or six months in jail were the extreme penalties imposed.

On and after July 15, 1918, all wholesale egg and poultry dealers
had to have a license. This included all retail and country grocers and
hucksters who bought eggs from farmers for sale to commission men or
shippers. Licenses were secured from the License Division, Law De-
partment, United States Food Administration, Washington, D. C.
After that date all eggs had to be candled ; every case had to contain the
license number of the dealer, name of dealer, and date on which eggs
were candled.

These rules were issued by the Indiana Egg Dealers' Association at
Indianapolis.

Wholesale egg dealers were not allowed to buy from unlicensed
dealers. No cases were allowed to be shipped without the certificate con-
taining license number and name of dealer with date of candling of eggs.

The sale of eggs on the loss-off basis was abolished.

On July 5, 1918, the following beef order was issued to hotels and
restaurants : Beef, except steaks, may be served in any order from 1 1
A. M. to 2 P. M. on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Steaks
may be served from 2 P. M. to 10:30 P. M. on Tuesday, Thursday and

War Exhibit Train, Batesville, JQIQ.

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Saturday. By-products, such as tongue, liver, heart and so forth, can be
served at all times. No beef under five hundred pounds weight was
allowed to be used.

As the wheat crop of 1918 was harvested and turned into the mar-
ket new regulations were issued as follows, on August 29th :

Four parts of wheat flour to one part of substitute flour should be
used by every one. No limit as to amount of flour purchased was made.
All bakers and consumers were compelled to use the 80-20 per cent
rule in baking.

The amount of sugar allowed to each person had been reduced to
one-half pound per week for a short time during the fall of 1918. The
amount of canning sugar to one family was finally limited to twenty-five
pounds, though many families, buying in twenty-five pound lots, had
used up to one hundred or more pounds before this order was passed.
The final canning regulations allowed but ten pounds at a time, 'up to
twenty-five pounds total to each family.

The sale of canning sugar was suspended entirely in October.

Restrictions on the sale of all foodstuffs were removed after the
signing of the armistice in November, 1918. Consequent restrictions
and regulations belong to the after-the-war period.

The people of Ripley county proved, as a whole, to be adaptable and
truly patriotic. But few violations of the food laws were discovered.
A number of arrests for the hoarding of sugar and flour were made at
different times but the intent of most of our citizens was to obey the
Food Administration regardless of inconveniences involved. No real
suffering because of these laws was reported. The larger number of
people were glad to "do their bit" in this, as well as in other ways.

The final work of the Food Administration in 1918 was a meeting
at Versailles, on Friday, November 29, for the purpose of organizing
food clubs throughout the county.

During the summer of 1919 the shortage of the sugar supply caused
a resumption of duty by the Food Administration to control the prices
and to receive an equitable distribution of the available sugar.

Coun ty His to ria n .
FOOD CONSERVATION

"To minister to those in need,
To bravely meet life's toil and care,
To bind up stricken hearts that bleed,
To smile though days be dark or fair;
To scatter love and live the good —
This is the crown of womanhood."

The war brought a very clear and powerful emphasis to the word
"Conservation." And in August, 1917, our country had already seen
the immediate need of conservation of food, so I was asked by the
County Council of Defense to take up the work of distributing the food
conservation pledge cards throughout Ripley county for our women to
sign.

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Every woman who signed a card pledged her willingness to conserve
all she could in her own kitchen to the best of her ability. The
twentieth day of February, 1918, 1 was officially appointed by H. E.
Barnard, Federal food administrator of Indiana, to act as county presi-
dent of United States Food Clubs. The organization plan of the clubs
was to appoint township presidents, and each township president to or-
ganize food clubs and appoint food club presidents, thus making a
thoroughly organized community.

The township presidents were as follows:

Center township, Mrs. E. Maud Bruce.

Johnson township, Mrs. Monta Royce.

Laughery township, Miss Sophia Nickel.

Adams township, Miss Myrtle Stille.

Delaware township, Mrs. Herman Menke.

Jackson township, Mrs. Ada Myers.

Shelby township, Miss Georgiana Spears.

At the meetings of these clubs, literature furnished by the state was
distributed among the ladies and these leaflets contained recipes on how
to save the wheat, meat and fats. Our four-minute women did a noble
work in our clubs, too. Only seven townships in our county organized
these clubs, but practically every woman in the county received litera-
ture, as every school child was given literature to take home.

At this time our sorrows were akin and prompted our desire to do
for others. By these little acts of service there was a network of friend-
ship woven throughout our county. I can not refrain from expressing
my sincere gratitude for the splendid assistance you women of Ripley
county have rendered. It was your efforts and those of others associated
with us that made possible the proud record of Indiana and helped to
cause the defeat of the arch enemy of civilization.

Mrs. Laura Row Nelson,
President of United States Food Clubs of Ripley County.

Aeroplane and Pilots, Batesville, September 2g, igiS.

Woman's War Work Council of Batesville
and Laughery Township

The ever-growing demands made upon women for service of every
kind in the work behind the lines led some of the women of Batesville
to a discussion of the advisability of forming some sort of organization
for war work.

Accordingly, in pursuance to call, a number of the women of the
city met at the city hall on the evening of January 7, 1918, for thd
purpose of effecting such organization.

Miss Sophia Nickel acted as temporary chairman, and, after ex-
plaining the purpose of the meeting, a permanent organization known as
the Women's War Work Council of Batesville and Laughery Town-
ship was formed, with Miss Sophia Nickel as chairman, Mrs. A. W.
Romweber, vice-chairman, and Mrs. Niel McCallum, secretary-treas-
urer. An executive board, composed of the above-named officers and four
women appointed by the chairman, Mrs. Will Gelvin, Mrs. G. M.
Hillenbrand, Mrs. H. J. Walsman and Mrs. A. E. Wachsman, was
formed, its duties being to consider and discuss the various problems
concerning war activities as they presented themslves, and to decide on
the manner of procedure.

Realizing that canvassing the city for various drives, distribution of
cards, literature and pledges would be one of the main tasks which
the women would be expected to perform, the city was divided into
districts, with a chairman for each district, she to appoint the members
of her own committee to serve with her in whatever work was assigned
to them, and with these appointments made, the organization was com-
pleted and proved to be a wonderful help in conserving time and energy
and in maintaining promptness and efficiency in war work.

The following are the names of the district chairmen appointed :
Mrs. Ida Goldschmidt, Mrs. E. B. Schultz, Mrs. E. E. Taylor, Mrs.
Russell Downey, Mrs. Joseph Boehmer, Mrs. Henry Schumacher,
Mrs. Henry Behlmer, Mrs. Wesley Schultz, Mrs. M. L. Samms, Mrs.
Will Behlmer, Mrs. John Puttman, Mrs. A. T. Nutter, Mrs. William
Wessel.

The latter, Mrs. Wessel, was suddenly taken away by death, and
Mrs. Puttman and Mrs. Nutter resigned for various reasons, Mrs.
Puttman's place being filled by Mrs. Will Barnhorst. The other
two places were left vacant and the remaining eleven chairmen took
over the entire work.

The women performed their part of the Liberty Loan drive with
splendid success; distributed food conservation material from time to
time; carried out the child welfare movement, conducted the registra-
tion of women, holding a special public meeting previous to registra-
tion day for an explanation of its requirements; took complete charge
of the Red Cross drive in May, 1918, and finished the canvass in one
day, more than raising their quota.

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Whatever war activity was required was first submitted to the
members of the executive board, who agreed on the plan of carrying on
the work, and the various women chairmen of the city carried out the
instructions of the board faithfully and well, all working together in
perfect harmony, to the end that Batesville ranks high in efficiency and
in her systematic method of performing her war duties, no small part
of which is due to the willingness to serve, the ability to do, and the
patriotic zeal and fervor of her womanhood.

(Signed) Mrs. Xiel'McCallum,

Secretary War Work Council.

liar Exhibit, Batesville, iqiq.

Armenian and Syrian Relief Drive in
Ripley County

Campaign Week — -January 25 to 31, 1919

The peoples of the world have learned to look to the United States
of America for leadership in ideals and morals, for fighting forces when
great questions of right and wrong confront them, and for money and
supplies when they find themselves in need.

Our country, after deciding on the path of duty, was not slow in
responding to every call made upon her. She gave freely of her choicest
manhood and of her money and furnished the balance of power which
defeated a world enemy. When the call came from the Near East for
the persecuted and starving Armenian and Syrian peoples, America
heard and heeded the call.

The quota for the United States in this drive was thirty million
dollars. Indiana's quota was six hundred twenty-nine thousand and
one hundred seventy-two dollars, and Ripley county's quota was three
thousand three hundred dollars. Our county has been as prompt in
meeting her obligations as our country. Ripley county contributed
promptly and liberally in this drive. Mr. George A. Baas, of Bates-
ville, was appointed county treasurer. The following chairmen for
the townships were appointed and quotas assigned as follows:

Amount

Quota Received

L. A. Bruns, Sunman, Adams Tp $470.00 $478.15

Fred R. Papenhaus, Osgood, R. F. D., Delaware Tp.. 175.00 175.00

B. L. Vawter, Sunman, Center Tp 345.00 346.00

E. B. Schultz, Batesville, Laughery Tp 485.00 755.50

Thomas H. Thompson, Milan, Franklin Tp 325.00 325.00

James Hazelrigg, Napoleon, Jackson Tp 165.00 189.50

Wm. F. Wilson, Butlerville, Shelby Tp 300.00 304.75

W. D. Robinson, Versailles, Johnson Tp 345.00 349.00

H. A. Cass, Holton, Otter Creek Tp 315.00 315.00

Wm. Meyer, Dillsboro, Washington Tp 145.00 153.00

W. S. Lemon, Friendship, Brown Tp 280.00 280.00

The above report also gives the amount received with an oversub-
scription of three hundred seventy dollars and ninety cents. For the
splendid results I am indebted to the township chairmen, the support of
the county newspapers, as well as the liberality of our citizens.

Will J. Gelvin, County Chairman,

Armenian and Syrian Relief Drive.
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"Everybody Welcome"

M. F. Boh land

On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus dared to cross the
dark and turbulent waters of the Atlantic and plant for the first time
the cross of Christianity on American soil. Some thirty years ago, a
number of Catholic young men in a small village of Connecticut banded
themselves together and called themselves the "Knights of Columbus."
Their purpose was to so live that the great work accomplished by
Christopher Columbus might not perish from the earth. Their ideal
was to emulate the example of their noble patron as nearly as practicable
and to live the lives of true Christian and Catholic young men in every
respect. This organization, which originally numbered approximately
twenty-five, now has a membership of half a million, and is one of the
greatest religious organizations that has ever been founded.

During the terrible trouble with Mexico, prior to the World War,
the officers of the Knights of Columbus established recreation and rest
camps along the Mexican border, for the sole purpose of entertaining the
boys in khaki. Eagerly these noble sons of America welcomed the op-
portunity to serve. They had the organization and the resolution to
accomplish great things. They cheerfully bore all expenses without any
assistance. These recreation and rest barracks became extremely popular.

When the United States entered the World War, the Government
officials called upon the organization to assist in taking care of the boys,
in conjunction with the Salvation Army, the Young Men's Christian
Association, and the Jewish Relief Association. Eagerly they arose to
the occasion. Buildings were erected at practically all the cantonments
and army and navy camps, and men of sterling ability were placed at
the head of these stations, so that the boys were properly taken care of
at all times. At no time during any period of the war work performed
by the Knights of Columbus were members of the organization the only
ones who participated or who received consideration at the recreation
places, but "EVERYBODY WELCOME" was printed in large type
on the buildings. These buildings were not alone built at all possible
places within this country, but the K. C. followed the boys across the
seas into strange lands, and there took care of their every possible need,
both temporal and spiritual, not only having huts at the places where
the boys received their final training, but they followed them into the
front line trenches and there served delicacies to the boys who were so
ready and willing to follow the Stars and Stripes.

The organization saw that it was going to be put to an extra-
ordinary expense and so they made an appeal to each and every loyal
Knight of Columbus for assistance and called for a million-dollar war
fund. This sum was to be raised by a personal visit and soliciting of all
Catholics for contributions and all members of the organization for
subscriptions in addition to the regular two-dollar membership assess-
ment.

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The Knights of Columbus Council No. 1461, Batesville, Indiana,
was called upon to assist in raising the sum of money necessary to carry
out the project. At the time of the first drive, Batesville Council had
a membership of one hundred and twenty-nine, which meant the raising
of approximately double that amount. The Grand Knight, Michael
Benz, Jr., called a meeting for discussing ways and means to raise this
money. Plans were outlined by which each and every member of the
organization was asked to make a voluntary contribution for the amount
which he could readily give for the purpose without embarrassment.
The members of the Batesville Parish were also invited to assist in
raising the quota. Anthony W. Romweber, lecturer of the council,
was appointed general manager of the drive. Literature was dis-
tributed to the members of the council, and on Sunday, July 22, 1917,
the members of the council and the good people of Batesville Parish
responded most nobly and $485.00 was raised in this one day drive,
approximately double the amount called for. Throughout Indiana
$93,000 was raised in the same manner and on the same day.

In the months following, the work on the K. C. buildings progressed,
a large number of new secretaries were appointed, great quantities of
supplies were purchased, and about the first of May the amount which
had been subscribed in such a short time was utterly exhausted and more
money was an absolute necessity. The splendid men directing the war
activities voted that another war fund be raised. This was sanctioned
and met the approval of the Secretaries of War and of Navy. It was
realized at this time that the war was a fight to the finish and that it
would require large sums to defeat the enemy. Sixteen million dollars
was asked for in the second drive, which took place May 5-12, 1918.
Batesville Council was again called upon to raise a substantial portion
of this vast amount. Oldenburg, in Franklin county, owing to the
large number of Knights of Columbus who belonged to the Batesville
Council, was added to the list of Catholic parishes from which to raise
this sum of money. Anthony W. Romweber was again appointed
general manager of the drive. The following committees were ap-
pointed :

Oldenburg — George Holtel, chairman; August J. Hackman, Jr.,
secretary and treasurer; Rev. Hugh Staud, Bernard J. Kessing, Paul A.
Munchel, George Munchel, Harry Burdick, William Hoelker, Leonard
Blank, Frank Heppner.

Morris — Charles J. Bramlage, chairman; Rev. Michael Wagner,
John M. Zillenbuehler, George F. Siefert, Maurice Volz, John Prickel,
Henry Reuter, Harry Gauck, Thomas Riehle.

Napoleon — Edward Buckley, chairman; William Bruns, treasurer;
Rev. John C. Rager, Fred Wagner, Henry Mehn.

Osgood — Jacob Young, chairman ; O. R. Jenkins, Rev. George
H. Moss, George Dopp, John McEvoy.

Milan — Charles N. Peters, chairman; Rev. George H. Moss,
Horace King.

St. Nicholas — Edward Retzner, chairman; Rev. John Rapp, Frank
Federle, Anthony Forthofer.

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St. Magdalene — Dr. John H. Hess, chairman ; Rev. George J.
Schiedler, Alex Miller, Dr. Fred Kremer, Lawrence Miller, John
Kremer. John Reibel.

St. Pius — Bernard Puente, chairman ; Rev. John Rapp.

Batesville — C. J. Doll, chairman; C. H. Andres, assistant chairman;
Herman J. Obermeier, treasurer; Rev. Adelbert Rolfes, John H.
Boehmer, Frank Thiel, John A. Hillenbrand, August Hackman, George
M. Hillenbrand, Aloys M. Roell.

The following quota was assigned to the various parishes under
the jurisdiction of the Batesville Council:

Church Membership Quota

Oldenburg 1,057 $ 39.00

Morris 527 219.00

Napoleon 321 133.00

Osgood 224 93.00

Milan 80 35.00

St. Nicholas 315 131.00

St. Magdalene 400 166.00

St. Pius 115 48.00

Batesville 1,175 488.00

Total quota $1,750.00

The campaign was on. A large number of prominent people
throughout the country regardless of creed endorsed the movement and
subscribed to the fund. The success of the drive may best be expressed
in a survey of the following results from the various parishes:

Oldenburg $1,070.00

Morris 251.39

Napoleon 146.75

Osgood 133.40

Milan 114.50

St. Nicholas 145.00

St. Magdalene 200.00

St. Pius 33.00

Batesville 1,08'1.60

Versailles 12.00

Total subscription $3,187.64

Without effort, without a committee soliciting funds, the good
people of Versailles contributed $12.00 to raise the amount. Every-
body helped put this drive over, not only the members of the Knights
of Columbus and members of the various Catholic churches, but non-
Catholics as well, responded most nobly to the cause which they felt
ought to receive the commendation and support of every loyal American.
It was a plan of gigantic magnitude for such an organization to under-
take. Every loyal citizen saw the need of recreation work and was
pleased that the Knights of Columbus had taken up a branch of the

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work. They all felt satisfied that with the great struggle in Europe at
its height, the boys not only needed religious but also the recreational
advantages. For that reason, if for no other, the drive was so popular
and so readily put "over the top". For every dollar sent into the
organization one dollar and one cent was turned over to the manage-
ment of the organization, showing that the Knights of Columbus were
not actuated by a mercenary desire but believed that too much could
not be done for the vast sacrifices that were being made in Europe.

The Knights of Columbus shared in the benefits of the united war
fund campaign and received a certain portion of the amount received on
the drive, but it was not a separate Knights of Columbus drive, but
was connected with seven other organizations, viz:

National Catholic War Council, K. C.

Jewish Relief Board.

Young Men's Christian Association.

Young Women's Christian Association.

Salvation Army.

American Library Association.

War Camp Community Service.

Again the good people of Ripley county responded most generously.
The vast sums of money which were delivered to the supreme officer of
the Knights of Columbus, under the leadership of the supreme knight,
James A. Flaherty, was expended with but one idea in mind, and that
was for the welfare of the boys who were doing the fighting for the
"stay-at-homes".

Not one cent of the money delivered to the organization was wasted.
Vast quantities of supplies were shipped across and nothing went to
waste. At the close of the war the Knights of Columbus had established
two hundred and fifty recreation halls, and over one thousand secre-
taries constituted the personnel of these establishments. In the home
camps and cantonments over three hundred buildings were erected in
army camps and naval stations. The hospitals and barracks were
superintended by three hundred and fifty secretaries. No charge was
made for anything received at these stations. Stationery to write to
the folks back home was distributed most generously. Entertainments
of all sorts were a portion of their daily routine. The best speakers,
actors and entertainers were secured to give their talks and sketches.
Baseball and all athletic sports were open for their enjoyment. Quite
a large number of the soldiers were Catholics and for these the Knights
of Columbus provided chaplains and places of worship. The chaplains
did noble work in the front line trenches, not only for those of their own
denomination but for all those who needed spiritual help and guidance.

Immediately after the armistice was signed the Knights of Columbus
organized employment bureaus in all the large cities and secured em-
ployment for the vast number of returning soldiers. In this way the
Knights of Columbus showed their true metal in assisting the boys to
get back to their proper stations in life.

Batesville Council No. 1461 Knights of Columbus has lost nothing
through its splendid war work. It materially assisted in raising Ripley

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county's quota in the five Liberty Loans, the war stamp campaigns, the
Red Cross, the Young Men's Christian Association, Jewish Relief and
Armenian campaigns, and it practically handled the first drive in Ripley
county's quota by itself. At the beginning of hostilities, in April, 1917,
the council had a membership of one hundred twenty-nine and at the
present time it has a total membership of two hundred thirty-three, be-
ing one of the strongest fraternal organizations in the county. That
in itself is ample payment for its part in helping win the war. The
following members were in the service :

Hugo M. Benz, B. M. 2d cl.
Sgt. Leo M. Benz
Sgt. Grover M. Benz
Pvt. Randolph Benz
Pvt. Peter J. Berger
Sgt. Walter J. Bierbusse
Q.-M. Sgt. Francis J. Blank
Pvt. Leonard Blank
Sgt. Walter W. Bloemer
Pvt. Louis F. Boehmer
Pvt. Frank N. Burst
Pvt. William E. Burst
Pvt. William B. Dietz
Pvt. Walter J. Dirscherl
1st cl. Pvt. Frank B. Eckstein
Pvt. Henry W. Eckstein
Corp. Harry A. Engei
Pvt. William M. Ensinger
Pvt. John P. Faust
Corp. Daniel J. Foley
Sgt. J. Frank Gauck
Pvt. Charles H. Gauck
Pvt. William Gindling
Pvt. Richard O. Gutzwiller
Corp. William A. Gutzwiller

Pvt. Jacob J. Hoff

Peter Karbowski, 2d. cl. fireman

Sgt. Joseph F. Lindenmaier

Pvt. Sylvester Lindenmaier

Corp. August L. Merkel

1st. cl. Pvt. Frank H. Meyer

Pvt. Joseph B. Meyer

Pvt. Cornelius J. Miller

Pvt. Herman Moormann

Corp. Lawrence J. Nickol

Sgt. William L. Nordmeyer

George C. Oilier, 1st. cl. seaman

Pvt. William P. Orschell

Pvt. Joseph W. Oswald

Pvt. Theodore J. Reibel

Pvt. John J. Sahm

Sgt. 1st cl. Arthur J. Schene

Pvt. John H. Schoetmer

Pvt. Anthony Stein

Pvt. Albert F. Tekulve

Pvt. Harry J. Waechter

Pvt. Vincent Frank Walpe

1st cl. Pvt. Florentine Weigel

Corp. John H. Wernke, Jr.

Sgt. Joseph Wintz, Jr.

The name of the Knights of Columbus organization will be seen
through the vista of years as a beacon light, peering through the dark-
ness of war, and its name shall be cherished and its work praised in the
centuries to come. No greater honor, no more fitting praise can be
given to these noble Knights than

"Mid shot and shell, on field, on trench,
The Knights e'er bore their part,
To help console, relieve, aye save,
They strove with hand and heart.

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'Tis more blessed to give than receive;

'Twas this the Master taught;
They gave all, refused fee or price,

With love their gifts were fraught.

Their huts were ever open wide ;

None barred, all creeds were one,
To toil, to serve, for God and Flag,

And e'er till victory won.

Hand in hand with every man

That sought to aid the cause,
Their deeds were done for liberty,

Justice and freedom's laws.

Man's brotherhood shall nearer be

If service prove our aim ;
As blessed Peace bids all rejoice,

Go seek it in His name."

Y. M. C. A. Reports

The first call for Y. M. C. A. funds was sent out in May, 1917.
The organization had already demonstrated its worth as a moral force
among men of all ranks on the Mexican border, in the United States
and on the battle-fields of Europe. The Nation's military leaders issued
an immediate call on the Y. M. C. A. when war with Germany was
declared. The burdens placed upon it drained its resources so that a
new fund of $3,000,000 was at once needed. Ripley county's allotment
was between $500 and $600.

The Christian men of Versailles met on Sunday, May 13, and
elected as county chairman Hale Bradt of Versailles, and as treasurer,
Charles L. Hyatt of Versailles. A. H. Beer was assigned to organize
Johnson township; Hale Bradt, Washington; Howard Akers, Elmer
Livingston and Lewis Arford, Brown; C. L. Hyatt, Hale Bradt, C. S.
Royce and F. M. Thompson, Shelby; W. D. Robinson, Franklin;
Charles R. Hertenstein, Jackson; Francis Lochard, Laughery; Clint
Carnine, Delaware; Rev. T. J. Hart, Center.

The Laughery township apportionment of $100 was raised in two
hours on Monday morning.

May 27 was set as Y. M. C. A. Rally Day in Ripley county. Hon.
Rollin Turner of Greensburg addressed the men at the M. E. church in
Versailles. At the same time a woman's meeting was held at the Baptist
church, which was addressed by Professor Wiley of Greensburg.

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Hale Bradt, Ripley county Y. M. C. A. chairman, reported a total
of $756.15 turned in on the fund, with one township not yet reported.
Five hundred dollars only had been set as Ripley's quota.

A permanent organization was effected, to be known as the Ripley
County Y. M. C. A. Co-operative Society, the officers elected for the
drive to serve as officers of the organization.

The final report, June 7, 1917, on this first Y. M. C. A. collection
will be of interest :

Johnson .' $ 89.50

Brown 91.25

Washington 25.00

Shelbv 59.50

Franklin 81.50

Otter Creek 60.00

Adams 101.50

Tackson 48.00

Laughery 100.00

Delaware 26.35

Center 100.00

Total $782.61

Final total $799.11

A county meeting was held at Versailles on November 4, 1917, to
organize for a second drive for Y. M. C. A. funds. The national
quota was for $35,000,000. Indiana's share of this quota was placed at
$350,000. W. D. Robinson was to succeed Hale Bradt as chairman in
Ripley county, Mr. Bradt resigning to go into the army Y. M. C. A.
work.

A second rally meeting was held at Versailles on Sunday, November
18. D. E. McCoy was elected as county treasurer. A rousing program
of speeches, music, and oratorical readings stirred patriotism in the
hearts of all who could crowd into the auditorium. The reports on the
fund were as follows:

Adams township $ 613.15

Brown township 262.80

Center township 421.85

Delaware township 292.00

Franklin township 401.55

Jackson township 222.15

Johnson township 390.75

Laughery township 853.05

Otter Creek township 352.50

Shelby township 325.50

Washington township :.... 135.10

Total $4,270.53

The direct object of this second campaign was to raise $5,000,000.
Ripley county was in the Fifteenth District, which included Decatur,

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Shelby, Ripley, Franklin, Switzerland, Ohio, Dearborn, Rush, Jefferson
and Jennings. These counties were asked jointly to raise $58,000 of the
fund.

H. P. Scott, Y. M. C. A. secretary at Greensburg, was put in
charge of the campaign. It was planned to enlist ten thousand boys
who would agree to earn and give at least ten dollars each, by April 1,
1918.

This additional money was required by the rapidly expanding work
of the Y. M. C. A. in the cantonments and in the camps in France. It
was estimated that it would require $750,000 to heat the "Y" huts in
France during the winter of 1917. The total fund for the year was
to amount to $35,000,000 by June 30, 1918.

Subsequent calls for the Y. M. C. A. funds were met by the United
War Work Fund so that the special Y. M. C. A. organization had no
further work to do.

The names of the township chairmen as permanently organized are
as follows:

Adams township — Chris. Kassendick, L. A. Bruns, Sunman.

Brown township — Darius G. Gordon, Cross Plains.

Center township — Rev. Ora Cox, Osgood.

Delaware township — Elmer Bode, Osgood, R. F. D.

Jackson township — William Borgman, Batesville, R. F. D.

Johnson township — A. H. Beer, Versailles.

Laughery township — A. B. Wycoff, Harry Schwier, Batesville.

Franklin township — Dr. Bine Whitlatch, George E. Laws; treas-
urer, Robert Borders; secretary, J. H. Connelley.

Otter Creek township — Prof. C. E. Limp, O. P. Shook, H. A. Cass.

Shelby township — Hayes Shaffer, New Marion.

Washington township — W. E. Smith, Milan.

Y. W. C. A. War Fund

Mrs. Margaret Ruoff of Osgood was appointed to serve as county
chairman for raising the Y. W. C. A. war fund quota. The total
reported for the first drive ending January 31. 1918, was:

Adams township $ 58.35

Brown township 12.15

Center township 100.00

Delaware township 5.25

Jackson township 52.15

Johnson township 61.10

Laughery township 52.00

Otter Creek township 81.00

Washington township 17.30

Franklin township 48.25

Shelby township 8.50

Total $496.05

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One hundred thousand dollars was assigned to Indiana. Five
hundred and seventy-five dollars was given as Ripley county's quota.
The figures will show we need not be too proud of our record here, as
we did not reach the quota.

Mrs. Ruoff resigned from the chairmanship of the work in the
spring of 1918 and Mrs. A. V. Harding was appointed to succeed her.
Mrs. Harding distributed a large amount of educational matter through-
out the county, but, owing to the large number of other collections,
meetings, etc., with the final epidemic of influenza, checking all work,
no other drive was initiated by the Y. W. C. A. until the spring of 1919.

At this time Mrs. E. H. Woodfill of Greensburg was made district
chairman of the group of counties surrounding Decatur. She ap-
pointed Mrs. Tora McCallum and Mrs. Minnie E. Wycoff of Bates-
ville as a committee to carry on the new drive for funds in Ripley
county. The assessment was for $221.00. Mesdames Wycoff and
McCallum, having too many duties already, asked Mrs. Luella Bilby
of Osgood to take up the work for the county. The Salvation Army
drive was on at the time, and for various causes Mrs. Bilby was unable
to launch any campaign, and the district chairman, finding the same
difficulties in other parts of the territory, suspended the request and the
fund was never raised.

The purpose of the Y. W. C. A. fund was to look after the welfare
of Red Cross nurses, laundresses, operators, and other women workers
about the military camps, and that of the women workers in munition
and other war work plants. Also to keep up Base Hospital Y. W- C. A.
huts in the war zone for nurses, and to look after destitute women and
children of the war stricken regions.

Hostess houses were built at the different cantonments where
soldiers could receive and entertain their visitors. These houses were
built on the general army plan, with a large reception room or parlor,
dining rooms and upstairs bedrooms. A piano and other musical instru-
ments, books and magazines and games were supplied. Here the
mothers, wives and sweethearts of the men in service could meet their
soldiers in the atmosphere of home. They proved to be a source of
much real good in many ways.

Library War Service

When the United States was drawn into the "world conflict", and
our Government was busy building ships, aeroplanes, weapons and
ammunition, and men were being trained at the cantonments, it was
realized that something more was needed to make our soldiers efficient
fighters.

"The morale of the Army is the hidden force which uses the
weapons of war to the best advantage and nothing is more important in
keeping up the morale than a supply of really good reading for the men
in their hours of enforced inactivity." — Henry Van Dyke.

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It was realized that it was as important to supply our men with
suitable recreation and diversion in lonely moments, and to give them
intellectual and moral stimulus as well as physical training.

In order to supply this need every librarian was called upon to
collect books, and to see that a portion of the library funds be turned in
for use in establishing camp libraries for our soldiers. Batesville had a
library organization (for the purpose of establishing a library) but no
funds. So the people were asked to donate books — books they had
read — books of their own library, also magazines. A goodly supply of
magazines came in, and these were immediately sent on by mail. The
book drive was not very successful and resulted in but a half dozen
books.

While the book collection was a help, it was soon found that to
establish the libraries, and put in a supply of books, money was needed.
The Government asked the American Library Association to assume
responsibility' and a million dollar library war fund drive was launched
September 24-29, 1917. Of this, Indiana was asked to supply $125,000,
and Batesville's quota was $105. Committees were appointed in the
various churches to aid in this work. Every dollar donation was a book
plate donation — which meant that every one that gave one or more
dollars would be given book plates on which their name and address was
written. Plates were pasted in the books, which made the books more
like personal messages from folks back home.

This collection amounted to $130 in a short time. This drive was
followed by what may be termed a continuous book drive, for it was
necessary to replenish the libraries, for besides the many new men that
were continually streaming into the service, there were wounded men
that needed books next to surgical care and nursing. So more books
were collected, and in May, 1919, twenty-one books were sent to New
York. These, no doubt, found their way to hospitals, where there were
so many convalescing soldiers.

Sophia C. Nickel, Librarian,

Batesville High School Library.

OSGOOD CARNEGIE LIBRARY REPORT

The librarian at Osgood, Mrs. Clara B. Jones, distributed in Os-
good and vicinity one thousand two hundred and fifty leaflets on "Food
Conservation" at the beginning of the war work in 1917.

When the call for books for the soldiers' libraries came from the
state two hundred and twenty-five books were donated.

Ten dollars was given to the soldiers' library fund at a later date.

The assembly room was open at any and all times for the use of
war workers. It was used for thirty-six public meetings by the Red
Cross, War Mothers, Liberty Loan committees and so on. The library
was made the central meeting and distributing point for all war activi-
ties of Osgood and Center township and also for many of the county
meetings not held at the county seat at Versailles.

Fuel Administration in Ripley County

H. J. Walsman

Owing to the shortage of coal occasioned by the extraordinary de-
mands of all industries, the demand of all shipping, both by land and
sea, and the drain on the working forces of the mines caused by the
miners either volunteering or being conscripted into the military service,
this country in the spring and summer of 1917 came face to face with a
fuel problem such as had never been thought or dreamed of before.

A tendency on the part of the coal producers to advance prices during
the spring and summer caused the Government to create and set in
motion a piece of machinery known as the Federal Fuel Administration,
whose office should be to control the production, distribution and price
of coal and coal products used for fuel.

During the time this machinery was being created, the public was
repeatedly advised through the public press not to buy coal at the prices
prevailing, as the prices would be lower as soon as the distribution would
pass under the control of the Government. Acting upon this advice,
consumers who ordinarily bought and stored their winter's supply of
coal during the months of spring and summer, made no attempt to
secure coal, and the distributors and producers, not knowing what the
attitude of the Fuel Administration would be as to price and manner
of distribution, made no provision for an accumulation to take care of
the demand which of necessity would come in the fall and winter.

The months of the summer of 1917 passed by with possibly only ten
per cent of the usual number of conumers supplied with coal ; fall came
on and still the uncertainty of the fuel problem remained. Such con-
sumers as in desperation were willing and anxious to secure coal at any
price during the months of September and October could not be supplied
owTing to the fact that distributors and producers had no stocks on hand
and the demand on the mines and transportation by the war depart-
ment prevented coal coming into the dealers' hands in any but very
limited quantities.

By October 20, the Fuel Administration machinery had reached such
a stage that a national administrator in the person of Dr. H. A. Gar-
field had been selected and appointed. Each state was to select a state
fuel administrator, and for some reason there was considerable delay
in the selection of the administrator for this state ; but, finally, the ap-
pointment of Evans Woollen, a banker of Indianapolis, was announced,
and later events proved that no better selection could have been made.
Each county was to have its county fuel administrator, who was to bo
recommended to the state administrator by the County Council of
Defense and the business organizations of such county. The selection
and appointment of H. J. Walsman, of Batesville, as the administrator
for Ripley county was made on November 1, thus completing the
machinery for this county.

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The Federal fuel administrator most wisely laid down very few
fixed rules governing the state and county administrators, and in this
state no ironclad rules whatever were made by the state administrator,
but rather, in conferences called for the purpose, he consulted with the
county administrators as to their ideas in handling matters pertaining
to the state as a whole, and put it up entirely to the county adminis-
trator to handle the affairs of his particular county. This proved to be
a most effective way in disposing of some matters which might have
proven rather preplexing had they been handled otherwise.

Scarcely had the county fuel administrators been appointed, and
before they had an opportunity to familiarize themselves with their
duties, the rigors of winter set in and the cry for fuel became most
urgent. Most of the dealers in the county were out of coal and now
the arduous duties of the county administrators began. Application
blanks, guarantee bonds, and such other printed matter as was neces-
sary was furnished and immediately placed into service and the limited
quantity of coal allotted to the Fuel Administration by the Government
began to be distributed on orders approved by the county administrators.

About December 1, winter set in in earnest with a heavy snow that
did not entirely melt away for nine weeks. During the entire month
of December the thermometer ranged considerably below normal and
with the beginning of the new year matters grew more serious, and
the climax was reached on January 12, 1918, when, after several days
of heavy snowfall, the thermometer dropped to a record-breaking level,
in some instances as low as twenty-five to thirty degrees below zero. Sat-
urday, January 13, will go down in history as the coldest and most dis-
agreeable day experienced in many years; the high winds, prevailing all
night of the 12th and continuing all day of the 13th, drove the light
snow into every crack and crevice, thus adding to the discomfort of those
who were unfortunate enough to be out of fuel.

The towns and villages in the lower end of the county were more
fortunate than those in the northern part, owing to the diligence of
the dealers in securing coal through the offices of the county fuel ad-
ministrator wherever it %vas possible and also on account of being able
to secure more wood for fuel. Batesville, with a larger population and
practically no wood to rely on, reached a very critical stage several
times. Fortunately, the public and parochial schools had early in the
season filled their coal bins, and these were called upon by the county
fuel administrator a number of times to supply families who were
entirely out of fuel. This coal was furnished in hundred-pound lots
only to those who had secured permit cards from the fuel administrator.
Owing to Oldenburg's close proximity to Batesville, the people of that
community naturally looked to the Ripley county administrator for help
in their time of distress. Through the generosity of some of the manu-
factories and the general spirit of unselfishness in the hearts of all the
people, Oldenburg was helped and the heating plant of the academy
was kept from freezing and the school enabled to continue without
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churches were compelled to close for several weeks on account of not
being able to secure fuel ; but in every instance where the aid of the
county fuel administrator was sought, ample fuel was provided, so no
school or church in Ripley county was compelled to close on that
account.

The conservation of every pound of coal became so essential through-
out the country that an order was issued by the Federal fuel adminis-
trator calling for lightless nights and heatless days. This order applied
to all manufacturing plants not engaged in making war materials or
foods as well as to all mercantile establishments, stores and offices. It
is estimated that millions of tons of coal were saved by the elimination
of the electrical advertising displays and the excessive lighting and heat-
ing of business houses in the large cities and the closing of business
houses of all kinds on Sunday and Monday for a period covering about
a month. The saving was not so material in Ripley county since the
fuel consumed in generating electricity for advertising purposes was a
very small matter, but the business people of the entire county entered
into the spirit most heartily, and almost without exception conformed to
the ruling without pressure being brought to bear. To further assist
in conserving fuel, the churches in several of our cities and towns volun-
tarily united their services, thus eliminating the necessity of heating the
individual churches.

During the period of excessive snows and unusually cold weather,
the fuel administrators in nearly all counties were extremely busy, and
in most counties gave their entire time looking after the fuel problems
by correspondence, telephone, automobile and afoot. Despite the most
desperate conditions ever prevailing along this line, there is no record
of any life being lost directly as a result of not having fuel.

Osgood, Holton, Pierceville and Milan, on the Baltimore and Ohio
Southwestern Railroad, were most fortunate in having men as dealers
who co-operated most heartily with the county administrator, and
through their very conservative distribution of the coal secured for them
by the county administrator, were able to assist a number of inland
villages. Sunman dealers were kept reasonably well supplied with coal
by the fuel administrator and at no time was there any real shortage.
Morris, unfortunately, not having a regular dealer who was familiar
with the workings of the fuel administration, experienced a fuel short-
age, compelling the closing of her schools for about three weeks. Within
twenty-four hours after this condition was reported to the county fuel
administrator, a car of coal was placed on the tracks at Morris and
was being unloaded.

Batesville, the largest city in the county, presented a more perplex-
ing problem and the most difficult to handle. Owing to the very limited
amount of coal available for distribution, the county administrator issued
an order that no family be supplied with more than one thousand pounds
of coal at one time, and under no condition should coal be unloaded
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of the consumer asking for coal. This worked a hardship on the dealer,
but proved to be a most equitable way of distribution, since it placed the
poorest family on an equal footing with the wealthiest in securing fuel,
and, since the prices were fixed over the county, there was little oppor-
tunity for grafting had the inclination been there.

February brought relief when the weather moderated somewhat,
the deep snows gradually melted, shipping became easier, the mines were
able to produce more coal and the coal famine of the winter of 1917 and
1918 became history, never to be forgotten by those who passed through
it.

The demand for gasoline, owing to the increasing number of air-
planes, tanks and army trucks, caused the Federal fuel administrator to
issue an order prohibiting the use of automobiles on Sundays for a
period of about six weeks during the summer of 1918. This order
seemed to work a greater hardship on the people of this county than
any issued heretofore, and the old horse and shay were again brought
into prominence.

The machinery of the Fuel Administration was kept intact until
February 28, 1919, when the state and county administrators were
released from their duties, and although this service did not call for the
donning of the khaki or any other uniform, it was considered as one of
the important factors in winning the World War.

Batesville Liberty Guards, 2nd Prov. Co.

Liberty Guards

A. B. Wycoff

Jn every country and at all times, the strong arm of the law on
which governments rely as the last resort to enforce their mandates and
to guard the rights of citizens, has ever been armed force, and this is
as true in democratic America as it has been in the autocratic govern-
ments of the world. The President of the United States has always had
at his command the army and navy, and he is by virtue of his office,
the commander in chief of these forces. Each state likewise maintains
a state militia of armed forces which serves as the strong right arm of
the state governments, under direction of the governors of the states,
enforcing obedience to the law, and safeguarding law and property
wherever and whenever local officers are unable to do so.

Soon after the World War began, the state militia of Indiana
as a part of the National Guard, came under command of officers of
the Federal Army, and were utilized for guard duty and other services
where industries or property or lines of transportation were in danger,
and also along the Mexican border, and later on the National Guard
was made a part of the Federal Army. It was no uncommon sight
as one went about the country near railroad bridges or industrial con-
cerns, to see members of the National Guard doing guard duty, and the
State of Indiana, like other states, found herself without a state militia
or other armed force to afford protection to life and property within the
state after August, 1917.

As a part of the great system of National, State and County De-
fense, the governors of the several states requested that there be or-
ganized and framed in each community military companies to be known
as the Liberty Guards, who should be subject to the call of the governor
for military service within the boundaries of their respective states only.

The County Council of Defense named A. B. Wycoff as the county
organizer of Liberty Guards in Ripley county and the first organiza-
tion meeting was called by him in Batesville on the 26th day of Novem-
ber, 1917, for the purpose of organizing a company to consist of not
less than fifty men with three officers. Men between the ages of eighteen
and forty-five years were eligible for enlistment as Liberty Guards. At
this organization meeting thirty-six men of eligible age enrolled. A
second meeting was called on the following Monday evening, Decem-
ber 3, 1917, to perfect the organization and complete the quota of the
company. The meeting was an enthusiastic one, a number of business
men of Batesville being present, who, though they were too old for en-
listment, assisted the county organizer very materially by their presence
and their encouragement. At this meeting the enrollment was in-
creased to sixty members. The choice of officers consisting of a captain
and first and second lieutenants, was left to the company. Allen Sykes,
who had served in the Spanish-American War, was unanimously elected
captain and Harry Pohlman and Oscar Gonder, each of whom had

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served in the navy, were chosen as first and second lieutenants, re-
spectively. Captain Sykes then took charge of his company and gave
the boys a practical talk on Military Discipline and Army Regulations,
following which the company was given a preliminary drill. The numer-
ical strength of the company was gradually increased until in a short
time it numbered ninety recruits.

During the winter season that followed, the Fair Grounds Hall
was secured as a place for drill, and as often as twice each week during
the severest of weather of that winter, Captain Sykes marched his com-
pany to the drill hall for instructions and drill in the manual of arms.

The regulation muster roll and oath to be subscribed to by the mem-
bers of the company was not procured by the county organizer until
about the first of January, 1918; and on January 4, 1918, at a regular
drill meeting, Captain Sykes requested the members of his company to
sign the muster roll. Every member of his company stepped forward
and signed his name, and on that date the oath prescribed for the
Liberty Guards was administered to the entire company. The muster
roll was filed with the chairman of the military section of the State
Council of Defense and upon its receipt Batesville, having organized and
filed with the State Council of Defense the second muster roll of Liberty
Guards in the State of Indiana the Batesville company was designated
as Second Provisional Company of Liberty Guards, and thereby became
a part of Indiana's state organization for defense.

Captain Sykes appointed as first sergeant Harlan Hoffman, and
as sergeants, Adam Fehlinger, Neil McCallum and Alvadore Beck.
On January 14th corporals were appointed as follows: Roy Bauman,
John Wintz, Herman Heidt, Philmer Ward, Grover Martin, Russel
Downey and Anthony Blank, thus making a complete quota of corporals.
On February 25, 1918, the members of the company, under the direc-
tion of Captain Sykes, held a business session at the city hall, at which
time by-laws were adopted and a council of administration, consisting
of Lieutenant Harry Pohlman, Sergeant Neil McCallum and Corporals
Joseph Wintz, Russel Downey and Harry Sitterding, as treasurer, and
Joseph Wintz, as secretary, was appointed.

By the diligent efforts of the Council of Administration the Bates-
ville company of Liberty Guards procured sufficient funds through con-
tributions from public-spirited citizens to purchase uniforms for the
entire company at a cost of approximately one thousand dollars. To
make their uniforms complete, it was necessary that they have leggings.
Suitable material for these were purchased and the women of Bates-
ville met in their Red Cross sewing rooms, where they labored so un-
tiringly during the entire period of the war to carry on their part in
making the world safe for Democracy, and night after night, during the
first week of April, 1918, they worked away until the bolts of cloth
provided them were converted into ninety excellent pairs of leggings.

On April 6, 1918, when Batesville launched its Third Liberty Loan
campaign, the Batesville Liberty Guards appeared for the first time in
full uniform, and as they marched along the streets under a beautiful

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silk flag, presented to the company by Mrs. Margaret Hillenbrand,
they showed the excellent results of the efforts of Captain Sykes and
his faithful guards in the progress they had made in preparation for
any emergency that might arise at any time where trained men would
be needed.

On Sunday, May 12, 1918, the Liberty Guards went as a unit to
Sunman to participate in a memorial service for Corporal Kenneth
Diver, who had been killed in action in France, the guards firing a
military salute and sounding taps as a part of the memorial service. On
May 21, a firing squad and bugler from the company, under command
of Corporal Joseph Wintz, went to New Marion, by request, to
participate in the funeral service of Private Edward Hudson, who had
died of pneumonia at Camp Sevier, South Carolina.

It may be explained here that the governor of Indiana had issued a
request that no soldier be buried in the state of Indiana without military
honors, and where other soldiers were unavailable for that purpose, the
Liberty Guards were asked to take part in funeral services.

On Sunday, May 19, the Batesville Guards went to Versailles to
attend an out-door Red Cross mass meeting. An exhibition drill was
given on the streets of Versailles, and on their return home, on the
streets of Osgood. An enthusiastic welcome was given them at both
places. Here again the company's Council of Administration with its
eye ever on the company's business interests, turned to account the
cordial greeting that was given them by taking up a collection, the
liberal contributions received being applied on indebtedness incurred for
uniforms and equipment.

Memorial Day is from its very nature a day of memories, but on
May 30, 1918, people realized, as they had perhaps never done before,
the full significance of what that day meant, and the people from
Batesville and elsewhere throughout the country, turned out en masse to
do honor to their country's dead. The Liberty Guards took part in
the ceremonies of the day, giving exhibition drills on the streets and
acting as an escort for the Civil War veterans to St. Clair's Hall, where
memorial services were held.

On June 6, 1918, Captain Sykes, with County Oragnizer A. B.
Wycoff and Sergeant Niel McCallum, attended a meeting at the court-
house at Versailles for the purpose of effecting an organization of a
company there. At that meeting a number of Versailles business men
and county officers were present and assisted in perfecting the organiza-
tion. At that meeting thirty-two men of eligible ages signed the muster
roll. Officers elected were as follows : Carroll Schwier, captain ; Floyd
Marsh, first lieutenant; Fay E. Winsor, second lieutenant. Here
again Captain Sykes gave the new company a wholesome talk on the
subject of military discipline and methods to be followed in training
the company. With due justice to the company that was organized at
Versailles it might be said that it was a more difficult problem than at
Batesville, for the reason that there was an insufficient number of men
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pany. Efforts were made to organize small units throughout the county
in the hope that these units might unite in forming a complete company
at a centrally-located point. But, on account of the immense amount of
work that was confronting everyone in the rural districts, little progress
was made in that direction, the unit formed at Versailles being the only
one in the county other than at Batesville.

The following oath of service for Liberty Guards was signed by all
recruits :

"The subscribers hereto, each one for himself, swears to bear true
faith and allegiance to the United States of America and to the State
of Indiana; to serve the said state against all of her enemies and to obey
the orders of -the Governor of the State of Indiana or those whom he
may delegate with authority, and to abide by such rules and regulations
as he may prescribe for the government of the said Liberty Guards, for
and during the time of the war with the Central Empires."

MUSTER ROLL OF BATESVILLE LIBERTY GUARDS

Allen L. Sykes, Captain

Harry Pohlman, First Lieutenant

Oscar Gonder, Second Lieutenant

Harlan Hoffman, First Sergeant

Adam Fehlinger, Sergeant

Neil McCallum, Sergeant

Alvadore Beck, Sergeant

Roy Bauman, Corporal

Joseph Wintz, Corporal

Herman Heidt, Corporal
Philmer Ward, Corporal
Grover Martin, Corporal
Russell Downey, Corporal
Anthony Blank, Corporal
Walter Boese, Corporal
Alvin Johnson, Musician
William Parsons, Musician

Francis Blank
George Bloemer
George Wernke
Edward Wernke
David Wheeldon
Byron Winsor
George Wintz
Monroe Wonning
Paul Wycoff
Cecil Castor
Max Gibson
Albert Wagner
Albert Bischea
John Romweber
Elton Kramer
Carl Fischer
Herschel Dickey
Raymond Fehlinger
Michael Benz, Jr.

PRIVATES

Wilbur Fruchtnicht
Edward Fritsch
Charles Gauck
Richard Gehrich
Elmer Gibson
Clarence Greeman
Charles Green
Clarence Heidt
Elmer Heidt
Albert Huffmeier
Elmer Huneke
John Kirschbaum
Earl Kleiner
Henry Kleiner
Harry Kreusman
Richard Lightner
Dr. Albert T. Nutter
Joseph W. Oswald
Charles Shook

Glenn Lutes
Harold Schlicht
Walter Mapel
Arthur Smith
Melson Wachsman
Leon Pohlman
John Sitzman
Orval Rayner
Clarence Moody
Irvin Fichtner
Roy Hart
Emil Siebert .
Carl Stockman
Wilbur Schwier
Charles Wesler
Gusta Holowadel
Jesse Moody
Wilbur Kyle
Earl Mapel

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Edward Kreuzman
William Wernke
William Brummer
William Burst
Joseph Burst
Louis Cook
Arthur Cramer
Stanley Dietz
Ed Drinkuth
Ed Fecher
Daniel Foley
Roy Freeland

Fred Shane
Christ. Smith
Florantine Weigel
Albert Weisenbach
Joseph Lindenmaier
Francis Fischer
Walton Sidell
Clarence Meyer
Oscar Yorn
Chester Robinson
Walter Freeland
Clarence Heitz

George C. Oilier

Edward Reverman

Everett Schein

Harry Sitterding

Charles Stott

William Barnhorst,
Honorary

Peter Holzer, Hon-
orary

Clarence H. Andres,
Honorary

The history of the Versailles Liberty Guards has two distinct phases.
As noted in the first paragraph of Ripley county's war activity, the
preparedness meeting at Versailles, on March 26, 1917, appointed
Friday evening of the same week as a date on which to organize a
company for military drill. Mr. Hale Bradt, of the Indiana Y. M.
C. A., who had taken military training at the University of Nebraska,
was appointed drill-master and worked hard to teach the rudiments of
soldiering to the boys and young men who enrolled promptly. Mr.
Bradt's services with the Versailles Home Guards, as they were called
at this time, ended with the close of the current term of the Versailles
High School, of which he was one of the instructors. Mr. Bradt offered
his services to the army, but being debarred from military duty because
of his age, was later accepted as a Y. M. C. A. secretary, and after a
tew months' training was sent overseas, where he served for thirteen
months, iirst with the Second Division for a vtcrt time, then with the
I'ourth Division,

Liberty Guard Officers.

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Frank N. Marsh of Versailles did his best to keep the Home Guards
together after Mr. Bradt's departure. Many of the men who had been
drilling volunteered or were called into the army in a short time, how-
ever, so that this first phase was virtually ended.

With the organization throughout the state of the Liberty Guards
to take the place of the National Guard troops sworn into the Federal
service on August 1, 1917, Mr. Marsh saw an opportunity to renew the
Versailles organization. He was commissioned by E. M. Wilson, state
chairman, and later by A. B. Wycoff, county organizer, to recruit a
company at Versailles and the neighboring towns. This work was begun
in the winter of 1917-18 and culminated in the organization of the
Versailles unit on June 6, 1918.

Mr. Marsh's appended report covers the main points in the story of
the Versailles Guards.

"The Wrorld War was on and seemed to be getting nearer and
nearer every day, and our county, like most of our country, was without
protection, and when the people realized this they began to get busy.
The Government had already issued a call for one hundred thousand
men foi the first line of defense; eight hundred of this number to enlist
for the navy, and one thousand for the army from Indiana.

"William E. Huntington of Osgood was notified by Secretary of
War Baker to go on and recruit a company of one hundred and Mty
men for the infantry from Ripley county.

"Guards were sent from the Third Ohio Volunteers to guard the
bridges on the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, east of Osgood, and west
uf Holton. By this time love of country was soaring high and Old
Glory foated on every breeze.

"On March 26, 1917, a meeting was held at the courthouse in
Versailles to organize for defense. A committee of public safety was
appointed, and Friday, March 29, was set for an organization meeting
and military drill.

"About thirty young men joined the company and began drilling
under Prof. Hale Bradt. All able-bodied men of military age were
invited to join, and many did. It was arranged that Tuesday and
Friday nights be used for drill, meetings to be held in the courthouse,
and for a short time the company was strong and well drilled, but many
left us for the camps. Then Governor Goodrich issued a call for two
hundred Liberty Guard companies in Indiana, and E. M. Wilson, state
chairman military section, asked Frank N. Marsh to secure fifty or more
names, and he, under the direction of A. B. Wycoff, county organizer for
the Liberty Guards, organized a company at Versailles, on June 6, 1918,
under the leadership of Captain Carroll Schwier. They made a good
company, but owing to the draft robbing us of our men, we were nevei
assigned to a regiment and were never disorganized. We are still
'touching elbows and holding up the flag' so far as any official action
has been taken."

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MUSTER ROLL OF VERSAILLES GUARDS

Floyd Marsh, First Lieutenant
Clarence Stevens, Sergeant

lay Winsor. Second Lieutenant
Carroll Schweir, Captain

Harry Ricketts
Morris Stevens
Charles Hyatt
Virgil Robert*
Denver Harper
John DeBurger
Frank Strubbe
Frank Spencer
William Young
Romuald Beckett
George L. Schweir

PRIVATES

John Hehe
Delza Adkins
Walter H. Smith
Leonard Eads
Leonard Jackson
Arthur Eulett
Frank Marsh
Omer Dobson
John Lane
Guy Marsh
Charles Curran

Nan Stevens
Porter Harper
Russell Warum
Harry Thompson
Russell Ballman
Earl Young
Edward Ballman
Otto Talbot
Floyd Raney
Wilbur Bradt
Ben Licking

Liberty Girls

Mrs. Neil McCallum

With the boys of draft age practically all in the Army or Navy, the
young girls of the city of Batesville were having rather a lonely time of
it and with the organization of the Liberty Guards in the city, the spare
time of the remaining few boys was taken up with drilling, so the
girls were at a loss as to what to do for recreation.

Finally, when it became known that the Liberty Guards were to
give exhibition drills at the Osgood Fair in July, of 1918, sixteen girls,
or two squads, decided that they would try their hand at drilling with
the guards, and if they made any progress, they would accompany the
guards to the Fair.

The sixteen girls were: Florence Krieger, Flora Goyert, Esther
Goyert, Martha Goyert, Elnora Burst, Elnora Oilier, Hilda Bauman,
Agnes Gringle, Audrey Samms, Alleen Samms, Ezraetta Holzer,
Geneva Weigel, Verna Severinghaus, Helen Buchanan, Norma Schlicht
and Cleona Gauck.

On Thursday evening, June 11, they held a preliminary drill, and
so apt were they to learn, and so prompt to obey commands, that they
were asked to lead the guards in the parade, and by diligent application
they were considered by the guards as sufficiently well-trained to take
part in the exhibition drill at the Fair.

Appearing in full uniform, khaki in color, they made a fine showing
and were the center of attraction all day at the Fair. They began their
service for Uncle Sam by taking up a collection to buy regulation
uniforms for the guards.

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Encouraged by their success at the Fair, the sixteen girls inspired
more girls, to the end that on the evening of July 30, 1918, a meeting
was held at the city hall for the purpose of perfecting an organization.

Twenty-two girls responded to the call for a meeting, and they
formulated their organization along the lines of the Liberty Guards —
electing officers and a council of administration. An exciting contest, in
friendly spirit, ensued for the office of captain, the candidates being Miss
Florence Krieger and Miss Flora Goyert. The first ballot resulted in
a tie vote. Four guards present were called upon to decide the contest,
their votes also showing a tie. So a penny was tossed, Miss Krieger
winning and receiving the rank of captain, Miss Flora Goyert, first
lieutenant, and Miss Hilda Bauman, second lieutenant.

The council of administration consisted of the Misses Elnora Oilier,
Elnora Burst, Esther Goyert, Geneva Weigel, and Cleona Gauck, who
attended to the business affairs of the company.

A monthly dues of ten cents was taken, and a fine for the same
amount for absence from weekly drill was assessed.

Captain Sykes, of the Liberty Guards, appointed three members of
the guards to drill the girls, and thus began the career of the organiza-
tion known as the Batesville Liberty Girls. They drilled faithfully and
persistently ; all purchased their own khaki uniforms and made a fine
appearance on dress parade.

On September 21, 1918, they gave a dance for the benefit of the
Red Cross, also giving an exhibition drill on that occasion, which was
greatly appreciated. A large crowd was present, and the girls were
pleased to be able to turn over to the Red Cross, $115.00 for their
efforts.

On September 28 a monstrous patriotic celebration was held at
Versailles, and both the Liberty Guards and Liberty Girls were on the
program for exhibition drills. The girls acquitted themselves in a
splendid manner, drilling under the command of their own officers, and
many were the compliments heard from the large crowd that witnessed
the exhibition.

Thirty-eight girls in all were members of the organization:
Captain, Florence Krieger; First Lieutenant, Flora Goyert; Second
Lieutenant, Hilda Bauman; Elnora Burst, Helen Buchanan, Cecelia
Becker, Margaret Bettice, Viola Behlmer, Henrietta Bohnert, Catharine
Daniels, Clara Fisher, Rose Firsich, Cleona Gauck, Agnes Gringle,
Esther Goyert, Martha Goyert, Mildred Goyert, Ezraetta Holzer,
Stella Kaiser, Marie Kaiser, Johanna Luesse, Marie Luesse, Edna
Lambert, Elnora Oilier, Bertha Richter, Audrey Samms, Alleen Samms,
Camilla Sitzman, Norma Schlicht, Lorena Wagner, Philomena Weigel,
Geneva Weigel, Elsie Kessens, Adeline Thiel, Emma Thiel, Pearl
Bohnert, Eva Karl and Verna Severinghaus.

The girls were thoroughly organized, not only for the pleasure they
obtained through drilling, but for whatever assistance they might render

1. Mrs. Flora Sparling, War Mother. 2. Mrs. Luella Bilby, W. M. Scriptor. 3. Mrs. Emma
Connelley, W. M. Treasurer. 4. Mrs. Ida Wager, W. M. Registrar. 5. Mrs. Mary Wagner, W. M.
Auditor.

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in any way towards furthering the interests of the various local or-
ganizations in winning the war. But before they had the opportunity
to make their organization accomplish their purpose, the armistice
was signed on November 11, 1918, and the Liberty Girls were only
too glad to doff their khaki uniforms and make preparations to welcome
home the gallant sons, whose absence meant so much to them, for
friends, neighbors, brothers and sweethearts were included in the list
of absent ones.

War Mothers

The War Mothers of Ripley county were organized by Mrs. Flora
Sparling of Osgood, who was appointed by the State Council of Defense
as the county war mother. Mrs. Sparling received her instructions and
a copy of the constitution and by-laws of the society from Mrs. Alice
French of Indianapolis, state war mother, and who was later elected
national war mother.

The organization meeting was held at the Public Library in Osgood,
June 8, 1918. The War Mother's Council officers were elected as
follows: War mother, Mrs. Flora Sparling, Osgood; scriptor, Mrs.
Luella Bilby, Osgood; registrar, Mrs. Ida Wager, Osgood; historian,
Mrs. Minnie E. Wycoff, Batesville; treasurer, Mrs. James H. Con-
nelley, Milan; auditor, Mrs. May V. Wagner, Osgood. At the Holton
meeting in October, these officers were all re-elected for 1919.

The purposes of the organization were explained by Mrs. Sparling
as follows : The encouragement of f raternalism among the mothers of
the soldiers and sailors of America in the World War ; co-operation
with all war-work organizations, such as the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A.,
K. of C, and so on ; also, the collection and preservation of historical
material.

The model program adopted for all meetings of the War Mothers
was used at this first, as at all subsequent meetings, of both county and
township councils. The meetings were opened by the singing of
"America", a prayer and a scripture reading. A literary and musical
program of patriotic sentiment followed, with special talks and discus-
sions on the work of the War Mothers, and were closed by repeating the
Lord's Prayer in concert, or occasionally by singing the "Star Spangled
Banner." Always by singing the new stanza of "America" as part of the
closing.

Councils were organized in each township under the direction of
the County War Mothers' Council. Mrs. Lily Hicks, Napoleon, was
appointed war mother of Jackson township; Mrs. Hattie Copeland,
of Cross Plains, of Brown township; Mrs. Philip Seelinger, Holton,
of Otter Creek township; Mrs. Perry Brown, New Marion, of Shelby
township; Mrs. H. H. Gookins, Osgood, R. F. D., of Delaware town-
ship; Mrs. James H. Connelley, Milan, of Franklin township; Mrs.
Clara Powell, Sunman, of Adams township; Mrs. Charles Curran,

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Versailles, of Johnson township; Mrs. E. E. Taylor, Batesville, of
Laughen' township; Mrs. J. H. Noyes, Osgood, of Center township;
and Mrs. Rose Konkle, Elrod, of Washington township.

Practically all the mothers of Ripley county service men were
enrolled in the eleven councils. Meetings were held monthly in both
county and township councils.

The second county meeting was held at Sunman on July 12, 1918.
The third, at Versailles, on August 3d. The fourth was at Holton, on
September 30, and proved to be the last general meeting during the
war as the "flu" ban was pronounced the following week by the Indiana
health authorities, closing all public meetings of even' kind. This was
not lifted until in December, by which time the signing of the armistice,
the ravages of the epidemic, and the inclement winter weather prevented
any thought of county gatherings.

A county meeting of the War Mothers was called at the Osgood
Public Library on Lincoln's birthday, February 12, 1919. Mrs.
Elizabeth Carr, state war mother, of Indianapolis, explained the plan
of financing the histories of the World War that the War Mothers
were planning to publish. The scheme was to purchase a printing
establishment on the co-operative plan, and by doing all printing for
the organization, to become self-supporting. The shares were to be
sold in all counties throughout the state so as to distribute the initial
expense. It was hoped that the sale of the histories would enable the
association to clear off all debts and perhaps pay sufficient dividends to
balance the interest on the money invested. A committee from Ripley
county was sent to Indianapolis later to investigate the stability of the
plans before undertaking any sales in the county. It promised well, but
perhaps because of parallel organization through the State Council of
Defense of historical committees in each county for the collection and
preservation of historical material, the War Mothers' plan was finally
abandoned.

Mrs. Minnie E. Wycoff, as county war mother historian, was
appointed by the Council of Defense as chairman of the county war
history committee to collect the historical material and compile the
county history. The county historians were also requested by the State
Historical Commission at Indianapolis to send copies of all material
collected in the county to the state committee.

This appointment was made in February in connection with the
organization of the members of the Council of Defense into county
historical commissions. Since the War Mother historians had already
been appointed in the various townships they were asked to assist in
collecting the service records of the soldiers and sailors. This proved
an arduous task. The list of names had never been accurately worked
out. The draft board had a list of selective men, but the volunteers,
regulars and sailors could only be learned by a house-to-house canvass.

Mrs. Lurenia Robinson of Sunman worked on the records of the
service men in Adams township. She was most nobly assisted by Mrs.
Alma Lang of Morris, who completed the work at that place.

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Mrs. May Wagner, as Center township historian, was asked by
Mrs. Sparling to also turn in the general report and biographies of the
war mother county officers.

Mrs. Jennie Overturf of Holton was historian for Otter Creek
township; Mrs. May Koechlin of Delaware for Delaware township;
Mrs. H. G. Bergdoll of Milan for Franklin township, and Mrs.
Anthony Meyers, Versailles, R. 3, was war historian of Shelby township.
The other five townships having failed to continue their meetings
through the winter, were unable to help in the work. The county his-
torian received the service record blanks from the State Historical
Commission and the work was begun in March of 1919, the township
historians turning their work over to the county historians on September
1. No single township was completed at this date, and the work had
proved very difficult in some localities. One chief difficulty was in the
circumstance that so many men on being discharged went to various
places for employment and could be reached only by mail.

Laughery township was found to have more than one hundred and
seventy-five names on their honor roll. Brown township had a list of
ninety names, Adams an equal number, and several other townships not
far below the same. The totals had to be worked out bit by bit as
new names and addresses could be discovered. This delayed the work
so that the roster was not completed until late in November. Mrs.
Wagner did very conscientious work and was fortunate in having some
specially distinguished soldiers on her list as had Mrs. Robinson at
Sunman. Laughery township claims some specially interesting stories
among its veterans also.

Every one of the eleven townships gave names to the gold star honor
roll, so that in every township there are mothers who are carrying the
full burden of war.

Mr. J. F. Lochard of Versailles, chairman of the County Council
of Defense, attended the February meeting of the War Mothers, and
explained the plans being considered by the council, draft board and
county commissioners for the erection of a memorial at the county seat
in honor of the Ripley county boys who had given their lives in the
war for world democracy. It was proposed to erect a monument,
memorial building, or suitable tablet. The co-operation of the War
Mothers was asked for this work. Plans were made to this end, and a
committee appointed to consult with the other organizations interested
in the memorial.

This conference of War Mothers and Council of Defense as to a
memorial to be erected at Versailles in honor of the Ripley county
service men resulted in accepting plans to place a series of tablets on
the north wall of the courthouse giving the names of all men from the
county, with a special scroll for those who died in the service.

Action on this matter was anticipated by the local draft board's
petition to the county commissioners for an appropriation for this
purpose. This petition was presented to the board of commissioners on
February 3, 1919. It prayed for the establishment of the memorial "in

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commemoration of the heroic services and sacrifices of the Ripley county
heroes in the great World War, and as a further mark of tribute to
those who gave up their lives."

During the war period the councils specialized on different forms
of work. The Milan council gave their time to knitting for the Army
and Navy. The Holton and Sunman councils knit but also made and
sold quilts to raise funds for special purposes. Sunman council planned
to put up an Adams township memorial containing the names of all
service men from that township. The expense of such an undertaking
proving too great, they finally decided to erect a memorial tablet for the
five Sunman soldiers who died in camp and on the battle-fields of
France, namely, Kenneth Diver, Coy Sunman, Clifford Pohlar, Samuel
Heisman, and Christ Endres. This council gave a Fourth of July
picnic that started their fund with the sum of one hundred and thirty-
two dollars. Holton amassed a considerable sum of money but planned
no specific use, holding it for future developments. Osgood council
cleared two hundred dollars on a supper and bazaar and donated half
the money to the local Red Cross branch.

On October 24, 1918, a petition was framed by the county war
mother officers asking the Council of Defense to request the sounding of
"taps" every evening throughout the continuance of the war as a call
to a few moments' remembrance and prayer for the safety of our boys
by sea and by land, in camp and on battle-field. Because of the
epidemic of influenza, which was developing at the time the order was
given, it was not observed to any great extent. The signing of the
armistice ended the fighting before the custom could be well established,
but the significance of the idea, making the nation one with its fighting
men, stands for a beautiful sentiment.

At the Holton county meeting, on October 3, 1918, a committee
consisting of Mesdames Ida Wager, Luella Bilby and May V. Wagner,
was appointed to write letters of sympathy from the organization to the
families whose sons had made the supreme sacrifice. Owing to the
difficulty of learning the names of all, the letter was also published in
the county papers so as to reach every one who had given up a soldier or
sailor on the altar of world freedom.

The following resolution was adopted at this meeting also: "Re-
solved, That we, as War Mothers of Ripley county, do not want peace
declared until Old Glory shall be planted on German soil and
Prussianism shall be put down forever."

When the last Red Cross quota of sewing and knitting was sent out
in February, 1919, the Osgood branch, owing to epidemic conditions,
felt unable to take the work. In this emergency, Mrs. Bilby appealed
to the War Mothers to take the knitting of the stockings for the
Belgian children. They responded at once, and accomplished the work
in the given time. Since the work was under the management of the
Osgood branch, and the War Mothers were practically all Red Cross
members, the work was credited to the Osgood Red Cross, but the
credit fox accepting it must go to the Osgood War Mothers' Council.

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Whatever might be done along any line of war work was considered
every War Mother's privilege and special duty. To so keep up all war
work at home that the boys at the front should have every possible
necessity and as many comforts as might be, could be accomplished in
only one way, as Kipling aptly phrases:

"It wasn't the individual,
Nor the army as a whole,
But the everlastin' team-work,
Of every bloomin' soul!"

The head war mother, Mrs. Flora Young Sparling, was born
March 13, 1868, on a farm near Osgood, Indiana. Mrs. Sparling
taught in the public schools for several years before her marriage. Her
son Clarence entered the army in September, 1917, and rose to the rank
of lieutenant, serving in the 84th Division. Her daughter Olive was
trained as a nurse at the Deaconess Hospital, Cincinnati. Mrs.
Sparling gave her heart to the war mother organization, and proved a
worthy leader. She was also active in Red Cross work.

Mrs. May V. Wagner, auditor, was born at Fort Frankfort, Ky.,
January 9, 1873, where her father was stationed while serving in the
regular army. Mrs. Wagner is the mother of eight children. A son,
Jerome E. Wagner, enlisted in the World War, and was one of the first
to participate in the fighting "over there", being in the famous Rainbow
Division. He won distinction on the battle-field and was awarded the
Distinguished Service Cross, and the Croix de Guerre, by the French
Government. Mrs. Wagner "enlisted" as soon as war was declared to
"help win the war", and worked in the Red Cross, and Knights of
Columbus Council for war work, as well as with the War Mothers.

Mrs. Ida Kenan Wager, registrar, was born May 7, 1865, at
Olean, Indiana. Mrs. Wager was chairman of the packing committee
of the Red Cross branch at Osgood, and superintended the pressing,
folding, packing and shipping of all finished work to county headquarters
at Batesville. Mrs. Wager's son Kenan served as a corporal in the 107th
Ordnance Depot, and also as musician for nine and one-half months.
She was also the efficient chairman of the Third Liberty Loan drive for
Center township. A brother, Clyde Kenan, is a veteran of the World
War; also a nephew, Irving Harding.

Mrs. Luella Cox Bilby, scriptor, was born at Holton, Indiana,
January 5, 1842. She is the mother of four children. One son, Walter,
enlisted with the marines and was ready to sail overseas when the
armistice was signed. Mrs. Bilby was chairman of the Center township
Red Cross, and was an untiring worker in the cause. She was one of
Ripley county's fourteen-minute women, making trips to various points
and giving talks on food conservation.

Mrs. Emma L. Connelley, treasurer, was born in Washington
township, Ripley county, Indiana. Her father was Samuel Grimes, and
she was married to James H. Connelley in 1887. Mrs. Connelley is the
mother of five children. Her son, Bertram W., enlisted and served in
the Spanish-American War, and another son, Paul C, in the 38th

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Division for eighteen months in the World War. Mrs. Connelley was
an enthusiastic worker as chairman of the Milan War Mothers' Council,
as well as in the Milan Red Cross branch.

Mrs. Minnie E. Wycoff, War Mother historian, was born at Cross
Plains, Indiana. Her father's family trace their descent from the
earliest history of America. Her father, John A. Stewart, was a Civil
War veteran, having served as one of the youngest members of the 137th
Infantry. Her grandfather, Michael Sellers, and an uncle, William F.
Stewart, and many cousins of her father's were soldiers of this war,
three having given their lives in the great struggle.

Mrs. Wycoff was educated in the schools of Brown township,
Ripley county, and at Moores Hill College. She has taught in the
schools of Brown, Delaware, Otter Creek and Jackson townships, and
in the Versailles and Batesville schools, having been substitute teacher in
Batesville during the last several years, in connection with other work.

Her only son, Paul V. Wycoff, enlisted in the World War, in May,
1918, and became a corporal in Battery F, 38th C. A. C. He was
discharged in December, 1918.

Mrs. Wycoff's own war work consisted of serving as director of
woman's work in the Ripley county Red Cross Chapter, as supervisor
of Ripley County Junior Red Cross, War Mother historian and chair-
man of the Ripley County Historical Committee.

The War Mothers, like the Daughters of the American Revolution,
is destined to be an honor organization for the perpetuation of memorial
and historical material and associations. The proudest badge our women
can wear will be the War Mother's button. Those buttons mean not
only service of self, but giving of what is dearer than any true mother's
own life, her son's, to battle for the cause of human right. It will be
fitting to close this report with the added stanza of "America", sung at
the close of all war-time War Mothers' meetings :

"God bless our splendid men,
Bring them safe home again,

God save our men.
Keep them victorious,
Patient and chivalrous,
They are so dear to us,

God save our men."

The U. S. Boys' Working Reserve in Ripley

County

O. R. Jenkins, County Director

In an agricultural county like Ripley, where democracy reigns and
is ever safe, work is a cardinal virtue and the labor supply is self-regu-
lative. Here the spirit of "neighborliness" prevails and co-operation for
getting things done is real and sincere. When a hole is made in the

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ranks of labor it is filled quickly and almost automatically. Extra and
unusual demands are taken care of locally ; everyone speeds up and does
extra work, with the result that there is little demand for help from
the outside and when the need is great there may be found a little
surplus labor to send elsewhere.

In such a community it was only natural that when the call for
"boy-power" was sent forth during the war we found that practically
all of the boys were already working. The most frequent answers to
the question: "Are you already employed?" were that the boy was
either working at home on the farm or working for some neighbor.
The task before our branch of the "Boys' Working Reserve" was not to
put the boys to work or to teach them how to work, but to make them
realize their importance in the position they already occupied — to make
them speed up to war-time demands. Just how much influence the
Working Reserve had can not be determined, but it can be said to the
everlasting credit of the boys in Ripley county that they worked hard
and faithfully to fill the gaps left by those who had gone to war.

Because they were already busily engaged in work at home and were
afraid that they might be taken somewhere else to work, many of the
boys hesitated in joining the Boys' Working Reserve and quite a few
did not join at all. Most of the aid to the county director in enrolling
the boys and impressing upon them the importance of their best efforts
wherever they were needed came from the high school superintendents,
and much crdit is due them for the success of the United States Boys'
Working Reserve in this county. Altogether, two hundred and eighty-
seven (287) boys were enrolled. Most of the boys in the country kept
their old jobs on the farm where they were most needed. The boys in
towns who were not regularly employed in industrial pursuits offered
their services to farmers during the busiest seasons.

Bronze service medals bearing the great seal of the United States
were awarded to one hundred and sixty-five boys in the county who
furnished a verified report showing that they had performed their duties
faithfully during a period of sixty days or more. Many others who
worked just as hard did not receive the badge of honor because they neg-
lected to report. No doubt many of the boys were too modest to set
forth their deeds or looked upon the Boys' Working Reserve a little
scornfully because they had been doing men's work before the Boys'
Working Reserve was organized. However, all of this is unimportant
and negligible, for the boys did their part and production in Ripley
county was kept at its normal height, or above, during the entire period
of the war.

To forget the good work of the boys at home would be almost as
great a sin as forgetting the heroic deeds of the older boys abroad. Let
us always reserve a place in the pages of history for the boys who filled
the shoes of working men gone to war.

BOYS ENROLLED IN U. S. B. W. R.
Name of Boy Address Award

Junior L. Aikins Dabney

Harold Abplanalp Osgood, R. F. D. 3 B.B. S.B.

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Clyde Adkins ". Versailles B.B

Franklin Adkins Versailles

Lawrence Adkins Versailles

Delza Adkins Versailles

Benjamin F. Adkins Osgood B.B S.B.

Edward G. Bessler Batesville

Harry Black ..Versailles

Edgar Burton Friendship

George A. Bostic Holton, R. F. D. 2 B.B. S.B.

Wiley Braley Versailles

Harry W. Ballman Versailles

Emmett T. Bodenberg.... Osgood, R. F. D. 1

Charles G. Benham Benham, R. F. D. 1

Ervin C. Brunner Napoleon

Elmer P. Burton Holton '. B.B. S.B.

Albert Bauer Batesville, R. F. D. 1 B.B. S.B.

Edward Bergman Batesville, R. F. D. 4

Johnnie S. Bell Osgood, R. F. D. 4 B.B. S.B.

Alfred Bokenkamp Cross Plains

Lester Brown Osgood, R. F. D. 5 B.B. S.B.

Ravmond Black Osgood, R. F. D. 3

Ravmond W. Butts Osgood, R. F. D. 3 B.B.

Wilber E. Bradt Dillsboro

Romuald Beckett Versailles

Max Bryant Benham B.B.

Albert M. Bishea Batesville B.B.

Walter Bilby Osgood B.B

Leo Bavlor Batesville, R. F. D. 1 B.B. S.B.

Albert C. Bedel Morris B.B. S.B.

Emmett L. Carpenter Nebraska

Alva Earl Curran Versailles

Kenneth R. Coolev Versailles, R. F. D. 3 B.B. S.B.

Willard F. Cox Holton B.B. S.B.

Clarence Cook Batesville B.B. S.B.

Jake B. Cook Batesville B.B.

Frank S. Cole Versailles B.B. S.B.

Leonard B. Cole New Marion

William E. Cripe Dupont, R. F. D. 2

Forest F. Craven Moores Hill B.B. S.B.

Walter Cottingham Milan B.B.

Lowell F. Clapp Pierceville B.B.

Charles E. Corson Osgood B.B. S.B.

Earle Connelley Milan

Cecil W. Castor Batesville

Roy Clark Holton

Zerl R. Dorrel Batesville B.B. S.B.

Ramon Dudley Holton B.B. S.B.

Russell Duncan Dillsboro B.B. S.B.

James T. Demaree Versailles B.B. S.B.

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Everett DeVer Milan

Carl R. Dietrich New Point, R. F. D. 1

Percy Demaree Versailles

Elvin Davis Batesville

Harry E. Davis Batesville

Walter Devine ..Holton

Lester J. Ertzinger Sunman, R. F. D. 1 B.B. S.B.

Edwin J. Einhaus Batesville

Tracey Edens Holton

Francis Eden Osgood B.B. S.B.

Estol R. Ellerman Versailles

Harold Eaton Milan

Walter D. Einhaus ....Batesville, R. F. D. 1

Arbia Einhaus Batesville, R. F. D. 4

John S. Ellison Dillsboro, R. F. D. 3

Clem A. Feldman Osgood, R. F. D. 3

Dilver Frakes Friendship

Elmer F. Fischmer Batesville, R. F. D. 4

Walter Fletcher Milan, R. F. D. 2

Arthur Ferguson Versailles, R. F. D. 3

William J. Fischmer. Batesville, R. F. D. 4

Fred Flick , ..Holton

Everett Fox .Holton

Kennie Ferguson Versailles, R. F. D. 3

Wilbur S. Furlow Holton

Herma Fisher Versailles

Harold Fruechtnicht Benham

Wilmer F. Greenham Moores Hill, R. F. D. 1

Edward Gander Sunman, R. F. D. 1

Enos Gookins Osgood, R. F. D. 1

Daniel Gilland Osgood, R. F. D. 1

Charles Gander Sunman

Maxwell Gibson Batesville

Harry L. Graves Osgood, R. F. D. 4

Gallagher Griffith Holton

Harry Hunteman Versailles, R. F. D. 3

Nihl Hastings Delaware B.B. S.B.

Joseph L. Heitz New Marion

Virgil M. Hull Letts

Ernest E. Hiner Napoleon

Clarence W. Hiner Napoleon

Robert Huntington Pierceville

Denver Harper Versailles

Clarence E. Harris Holton

Leo Harris Holton

Virgil Hudson Holton

Wilkie Huntington Friendship

Clarence Hicks Napoleon

Virgil W. Hartley Osgood, R. F. D. 2 B.B.

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William T. Haas Madison, R. F. D. 9 B.B. S.B.

Irving Hunter Versailles B.B. S.B.

Joseph R. Harrel Cross Plains, R. F. D. 1 B.B.

Horace Harding Osgood B.B.

Joseph P. Hill Pierceville B.B.

Clarence H. Hutson Batesville, R. F. D. 1 B.B. S.B.

Edgar L. Hayes Versailles, R. F. D. 2 B.B.

Forest Hyatt ...New Marion B.B. S.B.

Horace Hazelrigg Napoleon B.B.

Rufus Huntington Osgood, R. F. D. 1 B.B. S.B.

Elmer Heimsath Napoleon B.B.

Raymond Jobst Osgood, R. F. D. 4 B.B.

John H. Johnson Batesville, R. F. D. 1 B.B. S.B.

Clyde Jackson Pierceville B.B. S.B.

Rishel Jackson Versailles

Lafe Johnson Batesville, R. F. D. 1

Eldon E. Jackson Versailles

Marshall Jackson Versailles

Henry C. Koehne Versailles, R. F. D. 1

William Kemper Osgood

Gilmore Kelley Osgood B.B.

Elton Kramer , .Batesville

Robert J. Kirch Madison, R. F. D. 9 B.B. S.B.

Albert C. Karl Batesville, R. F. D. 1 B.B. S.B.

John N. Kieffer New Marion B.B. S.B.

Charles J. Kieffer Holton, R. F. D. 3 B.B. S.B.

Henry LaFollette Dillsboro, R. F. D. 1

Elmer Lochard Versailles

Harry Leasure Dillsboro, R. F. D. 1

Harry C. Laswell Cross Plains

Raymond Littell Holton

John F. Lenen Napoleon

Carl R. Lomatch Cross Plains

William Lafary Osgood

Henry Lafary Osgood

Clemence Linkmeyer Friendship

Carl Linkmeyer Cross Plains

Fred Lienhoop Holton

Frank C. Livingstone Milan

Clifford Lindsay Canaan, R. F. D. 1

Roy V. LaFollette Dillsboro

Elmer Laws Milan

Wilbur H. Lampert Sunman, R. F. D. 1 B.B. S.B.

Raymond H. Lattire Milan, R. F. D. 1 B.B. S.B.

John H. Maxwell Madison, R. F. D. 1

Lawrence M. Muir Osgood, R. F. D. 2 B.B.

Raymond J. Miller Holton, R. F. D. 3

Everett S. Merhley Sunman

Julius Meisberger Holton B.B. S.B.

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Jacob Massing Osgood, R. F. D. 4 B.B. S.B.

Floyd G. Marsh Osgood, R. F. D. 2 B.B. S.B.

Guy Marsh Osgood, R. F. D. 2 B.B. S.B.

Arthur Marsh Osgood, R. F. D. 2 B.B. S.B.

Gilbert Murray Osgood, R. F. D. 3 B.B. S.B.

Fred A. Miller Holton, R. F. D. 3 B.B.

Louis E. Miller Holton, R. F. D. 3 B.B. S.B.

Edward J. Miller Holton, R. F. D. 3 B.B.

Garland McClure Holton

Ivan McCoy Benham, R. F. D. 1 B.B.

Raymond McCoy Benham B.B.

Fletcher W. 'McClure.... Milan B.B.

Aaron J. Negangard Milan, R. F. D. 1 B.B.

William W. Neel Holton

Leonard Newman Napoleon

Jonathan Overturf Holton, R. F. D. 1 B.B.

Alfie Pratt Osgood, R. F. D. 2 B.B. S.B.

Daily K. Perkins Butlerville, R. F. D. 1

Frank Pratt Osgood, R. F. D. 1

John G. Perkins Butlerville, R. F. D. 1

Rufus R. Powell Milan

Fredus Preble Dillsboro, R. F. D. 1

Victor Peters Milan, R. F. D. 2 B.B. S.B.

Samuel Peaslee Versailles, R. F. D. 1 B.B. S.B.

Leonard J. Pieper Dillsboro, R. F. D. 3 B.B. S.B.

Herman Reed Madison, R. F. D. 9 B.B.

David Runner S unman

Everett Richter Osgood, R. F. D. 2 B.B.

George W. Rosebrock Holton B.B.

Otto Rosebrock Holton

Nelson Reckeweg Osgood, R. F. D. 1 B.B.

Roscoe Rubbe Holton B.B. S.B.

Dalbert Richardson Butlerville, R. F. D. 1 B.B.

Joseph Reynolds Holton, R. F. D. 2 B.B.

Roscoe S. Rayner Holton

Roy Raney Pierceville B.B.

Howard L. Reamer Friendship B.B.

Herschel A. Raney ....Osgood, R. F. D. 2 .

Floyd Raney Osgood, R. F. D. 2 .

John H. Rohlnng Osgood, R. F. D. 3 .

James H. Rork Holton, R. F. D. 3 .

Elmer A. Rheinfrank Osgood, R. F. D. 3 .

G. Gilmore Reynolds Osgood, R. F. D. 3 .

Robbie O. Rayner Dabney

John A. Romweber Batesville B.B.

Albert Swingle Versailles B.B. S.B.

Kennie F. Spears Holton, R. F. D. 3 B.B.

Ollie John Smith Milan B.B.

William R. Smock Cross Plains, R. F. D. 1 B.B.

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Thomas Stevens Moores Hill, R. F. D. 1

Harry Swingle Versailles

Joseph Stout Dillsboro, R. F. D. 1

Delbert Showers Osgood, R. F. D. 4

Omer E. Sheldon Milan

Leroy Sarringhause Napoleon

Jacob R. Sheldon Madison, R. F. D. 10 B.B.

Donald Shepherd Holton

William R. Shadday Versailles, R. F. D. 10 B.B.

Walter D. Shadday Holton, R. F. D. 3' B.B.

Harold Stork Osgood, R. F. D. 3 B.B.

Frank Schmaltz Delaware :

Earl Franklin Stevens Versailles

Ernest W. Schutte Batesville B.B.

John Shoopman Morris B.B.

Arthur Schroeder Osgood, R. F. D. 3 B.B.

William Smock Cross Plains

Charles M. Smith Versailles

Raymond Shook Milan

Wilbur Siebert Batesville

Wilbur Schwier Batesville

Russell Schuck Sunman

Ervin Schorling Batesville, R. F. D. 4 B.B. S.B.

Clarence H. Schantz Osgood, R. F. D. 3 B.B. S.B.

Amer J. Schorling Batesville, R. F. D. 4 B.B.

Farrel Schockley Milan B.B.

William W. Strobel Batesville, R. F. D. 1 B.B. S.B.

Durbib Schroeder Osgood B.B. S.B.

Uiie Smock Osgood B.B.

Edward Schmidt Osgood, R. F. D. 3 B.B. S.B.

Harold Steinmetz Milan B.B.

Selwin Shook Holton B.B.

Arthur Scott Holton B.B.

Amos E. Schmidt Dillsboro, R. F. D. 1 B.B.

Richard B. Talbott Versailles B.B.

Leslie E. Thompson Holton, R. F. D. 2 B.B.

Paul Truitt Osgood B.B.

Harrv Thompson Madison, R. F. D. 10

Walter Truitt Milan B.B.

William Thiel Batesville

Oakley C. Vanosdol Dabnev B.B. S.B.

Clyde Vankirk Batesville, R. F. D. 1 B.B. S.B.

Philip E. Vanosdol Dabnev B.B. S.B.

Leland L. Volmer Osgood, R. F. D. 5 B.B. S.B.

George H. Volge Batesville, R. F. D. 4 B.B. S.B.

Isaac Vanosdol Holton, R. F. D. 2 B.B. S.B.

Harold C. Voris Versailles

Earl Voss Milan B.B.

William L. Wolford Osgood, R. F. D. 1 B.B. S.B.

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Robt. Chas. Wagner Osgood, R. F. D. 1 B.B. S.B.

Virgil Wilson Batesville B.B. S.B.

Clarence Wullner Milan, R. F. D. 1 B.B. S.B.

Walter Wirth Batesville, R. F. D. 1 B.B. S.B.

William H. Westerman..Osgood, R. F. D. 4 B.B.

Clyde L. Wagner Osgood, R. F. D. 1 B.B. S.B.

Russell Walker Milan B.B.

Melson Wachsman Batesville

Albert Wagner Osgood B.B.

Charles H. Wagner Osgood, R. F. D. 5 B.B.

Charles Wilson Butlerville, R. F. D. 5

Ralph Wilson Milan

Everett C. Walton New Marion

Irving N. Wright Holton, R. F. D. 2

Charles Wagner Osgood

Floyd Young Holton B.B.

Earl W. Young Milan, R. F. D. 2 B.B.

Willard M. Adam Madison, R. F. D. 10

Lester Ertzinger Sunman

Soldiers' Employment Bureau

Mr. George Sparling of Osgood was appointed as a volunteer
worker in Ripley county, to see that all returning soldiers and sailors
of the county found employment.

The plan adopted by the United States Department of Labor was
to send the soldier's card to the Federal director of the employment
service in the state to which he expcted to return. An agent of this
bureau was in every camp receiving returning soldiers whose duty it
was to collect these cards. They stated what sort of employment the
soldier desired, if he had a job awaiting him, or not. The soldier's
home address was sent to his State Board, which, in turn sent it to the
respective county volunteer worker where the boy expected to return.
It was the duty of this agent to see what kinds of work were to be
obtained, and get satisfactory employment for all soldiers and sailors
needing or wanting it. In the latter days of demobilization a letter was
sent to the discharged soldier giving him the name of this county agent
so that he might apply to him on his return home.

One hundred and twenty-five names in Ripley county were sent to
Mr. Sparling. He found work for forty of these, the larger number
not requiring any help. Those that had homes wanted to stay at home
and visit for a while, and, gradually, all were employed without needing
to consult him.

No record was kept of the names of the soldiers benefitted in this
way. The state board sent out a soldier representative over the state
in the fall of 1919 to inquire into the situation and found practically
no unemployment anywhere in the state.

Labor Situation in Ripley County

M. F. BOHLAND

Chairman of the Community War Labor Board of Ripley County

When the United States entered into war with Germany in 1917
the Department of Labor deemed it necessary that a survey of the labor
situation be made at once. The United States Employment Service was
created to handle more efficiently the problem of supplying labor to war
industries of the nation. The Department of Labor at Washington
appointed a Federal director of labor in each and every state and located
at the state capital an assistant director, as a protection to communities,
as well as to facilitate the actual recruiting of labor. W'ar Labor Boards
were formed, each consisting of three members.

The duties of the War Labor Boards were not executive, but as far
as possible they were to keep themselves informed as to the general
labor situation in their respective communities. They were also to
co-operate with the county director, enrollment agencies, and all the
district organizers in recruiting labor on any specific call or order. The
district organizers operated out of the Federal state director's office and
co-operated with the county director, Community War Labor Board,
and the district employment office. They were to cover such territory
as was allotted to them by the assistant federal director of the state
for the purpose of supervising and perfecting the recruiting machinery
of the Public Service Reserve.

Immediately after the order was issued for the appointment of a
Community War Labor Board, the Ripley County Council of Defense
was called upon for assistance to name the board. M. F. Bohland of
Batesville was named as chairman, and George W. Johanning and
George W. Baas of Batesville were named as members of said board.
Upon their appointment they had a number of meetings and took a
survey of the labor situation in the county. A complete list of the
drafted men who had not qualified for service or passed the examina-
tion of the local board, was made for the sole purpose of placing these
men in plants operated by private concerns which had contracts for
supplying the government with materials for properly conducting the
war. This list of rejected men was carefully scrutinized and a number
of men were sent to the various munition plants and places of industry
where the Government had contracts.

In order to handle the situation more efficiently, sub-committees
were appointed in every township of the county. These committees
were as follows:

Adams — Louis Sieg, George C. Bos, August Franke.

Brown — Samuel Siekermann, John Heitmeyer, Sam Ellermann.

Center — Louis Wagner, William Smith, George Ashman.

Delaware — Fred Schmidt, Herman Hailman, Edward Koechlien.

Franklin — Thomas L. Thompson, Thomas Fuller, Henry Kramer.

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Jackson — Charles Abplanalp, James Hazelrigg, James L. Newman.
Johnson — Charles L. Hyatt, John A. Spencer, William Hunter.
Laughery — M. F. Bohland, George Johanning, George Baas.
Otter Creek — Davidson C. Yater, Virgil F. Stegner, H. B. Cass.
Shelby — William Ferguson, Hays Schaffer, George Wagner.
Washington — Edward Abbot, Parker Fleming, Fred Lamb.

Labor was not to be conscripted in the various communities but was
supposed to be voluntary. A number of calls were made upon Ripley
county for war industries and were all taken care of. On account of
the fact that about ninety per cent of Ripley county is devoted to agri-
cultural pursuits, it was not asked for labor such as other communities
could more readily furnish.

The labor situation throughout the county during the period of the
emergency was never at any time in great danger. In a number of
instances the furniture factories of Batesville were short of labor and
immediately secured the services of a large number of women and girls
in the vicinity to take the place of the men who were called upon to do
their duty. A large number of the women responded most nobly to
this call and cheerfully took up the work where the men left off, not
only for the purpose of obtaining employment themselves but for the
purpose of keeping established industries in operation.

One of the features worthy of note is the fact that at no time during
the war was there any discontented or dissatisfied labor within the
bounds of Ripley county on account of wages or other conditions.

After the daylight-saving law was passed, a number of communities,
Batesville in particular, took a survey of the war garden situation and
any vacant lots were apportioned to the laboring men, who established
war gardens and made splendid success along those lines, keeping their
minds occupied along domestic lines and away from the horrible warfare
which was being enacted in Europe.

Immediately upon the cessation of hostilities on the battle-fields of
France and other allied countries, the United States Employment
Bureau, through the Community War Labor Board, turned its channels
into a different course so as to secure employment for discharged
soldiers. All returned soldiers who could not be reinstated in their
former places made application to the War Labor Board for positions
of like character in other communities. These names were sent to
different communities which had need of men in that particular branch
of labor and they usually received employment. In this way the Com-
munity War Labor Board performed splendid service. In the majority
of cases of discharged soldiers from Ripley county, practically every
man, was reinstated in his former occupation at an increased salary.

The Community War Labor Boards are at the present time (1919)
working in conjunction with the Free Employment Bureaus of the state
and are now still in full operation, taking care of the boys returning
from the camps and the front.

"Four-Minute Men"Report

F. M. Thompson

When war was declared between the United States and the Imperial
Government of Germany, it became necessary immediately to mobilize
the physical, mental and spiritual powers of this country. Sudden
changes were to be made which, under the excitement existing, was a
very difficult task to perform.

Following closely upon the declaration of war, the advisability of
passing a selective-service law was taken under consideration by Con-
gress. This was a radical change for the people of the United States,
and, quoting from the Provost Marshal's report to the Secretary of
War: "The administrative history of the United States disclosed a
consistent popular, adherence to the principle of voluntary enlistment,
if not a repudiation of the principle of selective compulsory military
service." It became necessary at once to educate the people, for many
at the time were debating the necessity for entering into the great conflict
at all, and it was necessary to reach the masses of the people at once to
get them to thinking along right lines and to submit to all demands made
upon them. So the "Four-Minute Men" were selected.

The original plan of organization was as follows: "The written
endorsement of three prominent citizens — bankers, professional or
business men — written on their own stationery in a prescribed official
form was required for the nomination of a local chairman. These
endorsements were forwarded to headquarters in Washington, together
with the proper form of application for authority to form a local branch
with the privilege of representing the Government, in which application
the number of speakers available was stated.

F. M. Thompson of Versailles was selected by the Government as
county chairman of the "Four-minute Men," with instructions from
the Government to "choose such men as are fully capable of the work
assigned them, whether speaking or committee work. Secure men who
are certain to abide by the standard instructions of the department,
rather than those who will insist on their own variation of the plan,
and so forth."

The following named persons were selected by the chairman :
Thomas E. Willson of Osgood ; A. B. Wycoff and M. F. Bohland of
Batesville; James H. Connelley of Milan; Harry W. Thompson of
Versailles, and Rev. M. R. Scott of Holton.

These men made many talks at the theaters in the county, and
assisted in all the calls made by the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A. and the
K. of C. for aid in carrying on their war work. The "Four-minute
Men" also spoke at many times and various places throughout the
county at the many gatherings held during the war period. The list
was extended to include the following names: J. S. Benham, Benham;
S. E. Ellerman, Friendship; J. M. Pate, Cross Plains; J. Smith, Dew-
berry; Ora Lamb, Elrod ; Irvan Blackmore, Milan; George Brewing-
ton, Milan; Roy Kirk, Shelby township; Ora Downey, Otter Creek
township; D. C. Yater, Holton; William B. Goyert, Batesville; U. T.

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Boice, Delaware ; M. F. Holman, Osgood ; J. W. Chaplin, Osgood ;
J. M. Belden, Osgood; G. W. Smith, Napoleon; William McMullen,
Sunman; F. A. Galbraith, Sunman ; Charles Doll, J. W. Mackey,
D. McC^ilum, Batesville; Maurice Volz, Morris.

Every minister of the county was appointed on a public morals
committee. They were expected to serve wherever needed, not only to
look after religion and morals, but to further patriotism in whatever way
they might as public speakers and workers. They were to make four-
minute addresses whenever required.

FOURTEEN-MINUTE WOMEN

The Fourteen-minute Women of the county were appointed by
Mrs. Laura Beer of the County Council of Defense. Their work was
chiefly in the Third Liberty Loan campaign and in the organization of
food clubs throughout the county. The War Mothers availed them-
selves of the opportunity of using those on the list who were also
members of their organization. The first three women on the list were
the most active as Fourteen-minute speakers: Mrs. Monta Royce,
Versailles; Mrs. Pearl Copeland, Versailles; Mrs. Luella Bilby,
Osgood; Mrs. Sherman Gookins, Napoleon; Mrs. May Laws, Milan;
Mrs. Tora McCallum, Batesville; Mrs. Minnie E. Wycoff, Batesville;
Mrs. Rilla Scott, Holton ; Mrs. G. A. Herman, Osgood; Mrs. J. H.
Bergdoll, Milan, is the complete list.

Educational Propaganda

Sophia C. Nickel

Now that the war is over and apparently everyone rejoicing over the
victorious close, it is almost difficult to recall the ignorance regarding
the war, and the state of apathy that existed at the beginning, and for
months after. It was this condition that started the activities of the
educational department of the Indiana Council of Defense (woman's
section). The object was to educate the women and children as well
as the men regarding the causes of the war and its significance to
America. It was rightly believed that enlightenment would dispel the
apathy with the ignorance.

In December, 1917, Miss Sophia Nickel, of Batesville, was ap-
pointed as county chairman, to organize the county so that definite
authoritative information might be spread. This was to be done
through schools, women's clubs, or organizations and neighborhood
meetings. Appeals were sent out to the school children to get them to
see that they, too, had a part or share in the great war, and that one
important thing for them to do was to remain in school and do their
best. These came from the state before Ripley county was organized,
so they were distributed to the schools through the aid of County
Superintendent Charles R. Hertenstein.

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Another plan the women's section had was to present educational
moving pictures regarding the war. Films were secured which were to
be used throughout the state, each county chairman arranging for their
use in her county. These pictures were highly recommended, so the
Ripley county chairman, with the help of others, arranged to have them
shown at Batesville, after which they were to be shown in the other
towns of the county. But the pictures shown at Batesville were an
absolute failure. The man sent out by the women's section to show
the pictures had procured other than the designated films. Just why
has not been satisfactorily explained. He claimed he wanted better
ones. The films he used were from the Pathe exchange. Inquiries were
made and they stated with apologies that by mistake old films had been
handed out. The explanations did not satisfy but investigation to fix
the responsibility was futile.

The meeting was held at St. Clair's Hall, where the pupils of both
public and parochial schools were gathered, besides a large number of
adults. The disappointment and chagrin of the audience and those who
had arranged the meeting was immeasurable. There were two saving
features, however — the singing of the patriotic songs by the school
children, and a short address by Mr. A. B. Wycoff. Both were an
inspiration and a patriotic stimulus.

To overcome the disappointment, a patriotic play was given at the
Lyric Theater several weeks later. Though not satisfactory, it was
the best that could be given, for at the time all war films were in great
demand.

Owing to the failure of the pictures and other difficulties, the county
was never thoroughly organized. A number of suggestions were sent
out to the township chairmen who had accepted chairmanship, but no
reports were received.

The following chairmen served in the townships that were or-
ganized: Laughery, Miss Carrie Thackeray; Center, Mrs. C. C.
Strang; Jackson, Mrs. Ed. Waters; Delaware, Miss Emma Gault ;
Adams, Mrs. Mary Dreyer; Washington, Mrs. Will Fleming.

Child Welfare Work

Mrs. Zena McMullen

In 1918, in response to an appointment of the National Child's
Welfare Committee, I accepted the chairmanship of Ripley county, and
organized the townships by appointing the following township chairmen :

Adams township — Mrs. Zena McMullen.
Brown township — Mrs. P. J. Laswell.
Jackson township — Miss Alice Hicks.
Laughery township — Mrs. Anna Wachsman.
Shelby township — Mrs. Pearl Titus.
Franklin township — Mrs. George Laws.

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Otter Creek township — Mrs. Olive Pickett.
Center township — Mrs. C. C. Strang.
Johnson township — Mrs. Tena Thompson.
Washington township — Mrs. W. E. Smith.
Delaware township — Mrs. Herman Menke.

During the month of April, every child in the county under six years
of age was examined, in each voting precinct, by the doctors, assisted by-
various sub-committees. The children were weighed and measured for
the purpose of ascertaining if they had any defects, and were treated for
same. If parents were not able to have the child treated, the committee
took charge of it.

The following conditions were found in the various townships:

Adams — 212 children examined, 37 defective.
Brown — 144 children examined, 5 defective.
Jackson — 114 children examined, 7 defective.
Laughery — 211 children examined, 14 defective.
Shelby — 186 children examined, 8 defective.
Franklin — 125 children examined, 2 defective.

Otter Creek 1-1 children examined.

Center — 159 children examined, 37 defective.
Johnson — 195 children examined, 23 defective.
Washington — 63 children examined.
Delaware — 1-4 children examined, 10 defective.
Total number of children, 1,494.

Of the number defective, the larger number had some sort of throat
trouble, generally enlarged tonsils; very few had any serious trouble.

War Exhibit Train.

Work of Ripley County Draft Board

Congress passed the United
States Draft Law on April 25,
1917. On April 27th, Governor
Goodrich, of Indiana, selected the
men who should act as members of
the draft boards in the various
counties of the state. Sheriff
Frank F. Wildman, County Clerk
Josiah P. Day and Hon. Donald
McCallum of Batesville were
named for the Ripley County
Board.. This board met on Tues-
day, May 1, at Versailles and ap-
pointed the precinct registration
boards.

The township trustees, by virtue
of their office, each became a mem-
ber of the precinct board where he
resided. The boards were named
as follows :

Johnson township — Precinct 1,
William R. Griffith, Versailles ;
precinct 2, Louis G. Arford ; pre-
cinct 3, Hale Bradt, Dillsboro,
R. R. 1.

Washington township — Precinct
1, R. P. Lamb, Milan; precinct 2, William E. Smith, Milan.

Brown township — Precinct 1, Frank Siekerman, Friendship;
precinct 2, John Benham, Benham ; precinct 3, P. J. Laswell, Cross
Plains.

Franklin township — Precinct 1, Henry Kramer, Milan; precinct 2,

Ben Priente, Delaware R. R. 1 ; precinct 3, William F. Bagot, Milan.

Shelby township — Precinct 1, John F. Fox, Holton; precinct 2,

William A. Green, Versailles, R. F. D. ; precinct 3, Dr. M. F. Kramer,

Holton, R. 3.

Otter Creek township — Precinct 1, Davidson Yater, Holton; pre-
cinct 2, Chalmers Fox, Holton.

Jackson township — Precinct 1, Charles Steuri, Napoleon; precinct 2,
William Snider, Osgood, R. F. D.

Adams township — Precinct 1, Edward Retzner, Sunman ; precinct 2,
George F. Siefert, Morris; precinct 3. George Sieg, Spades.

Laughery township — Precinct 1, Henry Pohlman, Batesville, R. 4;
precinct 2, ward, 1, E. E. Taylor, Batesville; ward 2, Quirin Vonder-
heide, Batesville; ward 3, Ed. C. Timmerman, Batesville.

Delaware township — Precinct 1, H. H. Gookins, Osgood; precinct
2, Fred A. Schmidt, Delaware.

Center township — Precinct 1, Thomas E. Jones, Osgood; precinct 2,
Charles F. Murray, Osgood; precinct 3. John H. Schmidt, Osgood.

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The registration was to be completed within fifteen days after the
organization was set in motion. It was estimated that seven million men
would be registered. State election systems already organized did the
work, using the voting precincts for recording the men. Registration
cards were distributed by the census bureau. Five days were allowed for
the registration itself. Within thirty days the roll call was to be com-
pleted.

The training camps began opening May 14th. The enlistment of
eight hundred volunteers for the Navy from Indiana was completed on
May 2, 1917, the call having begun on April 1, 1917. Though the call
was filled two days before the limit, no check was made in enlistments.

The army bill was signed by the President on Friday, May 18.
June 5th was set for Registration Day, the registering to be completed
between the hours of 7 A. M. and 9 P. M. All male citizens between
the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one years were required to register ex-
cepting men already enlisted in the fighting forces of the United States.
The punishment for failure or refusal to register was fixed at one year
in prison.

The President decided that one member of the draft board should
be a physician. Because of this ruling, Dr. Harry Nelson of Osgood
was appointed by Governor Goodrich to succeed Donald McCallum of
Batesville as a member of the Ripley County Board.

The conscription boards of the state were called to Indianapolis the
last week in May to receive the necessary cards, blanks and instructions
for conducting the registration on June 5th.

The registrars of the various township conscription boards were
asked to come to Versailles on May 26th, to receive supplies for the
registration on June 5th.

The day passed off quietly in all parts of the county. There was
practically no opposition to the registration, and, so far as known, no
one qualified failed to register. The total number of registrants was
two thousand one hundred and sixty-five. A blue card was given each
registrant, showing he had performed his first duty to his country.

The registration cards were all turned in to the Conscription Board
on June 6th, receipted for, and all cards accounted for.

These cards had all been numbered serially as they were filled in by
the registration boards from one to the number of men registered, two
thousand one hundred and sixty-five.

Three copies were made of all cards as they were numbered. This
work occupied the board for two or three weeks following Registration
Day.

Sergeant Hays of Greensburg was sent to Versailles as a recruiting
officer on June 21st, for the purpose of securing enlistments for the
Army, registration forming no preventive to subsequent voluntary
enlistment. Single men between the ages of eighteen and forty were
accepted.

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The Ripley County Board was permanently organized on June 30.
Commissions bearing that date and signed by the President were sent
to each member of the board, which met and elected officers for further
administration. Sheriff Frank Wildman presided at this meeting by
virtue of his office. It was called to order at 10 a. m., Saturday, June
30, 1917. The roll was called and oaths of office administered. Josiah
P. Day was elected clerk, Frank Wildman, president of board, and
Dr. Nelson, surgeon. The work of numbering the cards was continued,
the board meeting every day. Instructions not being well understood,
the board went to Indianapolis, on July 30 and 31, for instructions
from the State Conscription Board.

The National Draft Day was set for July 21, 1917, at Washington.
The numbers from one to ten thousand were written on slips of
paper and placed inside black capsules. These were thoroughly mixed
in a large transparent glass bowl and then drawn out one at a time.
The order in which these numbers were drawn out, decided the order in
which the registrants should be called to service. The first number
drawn at Washington was 258. This number was held in Ripley county
by Floyd Brown, of New Marion, Shelby township. By coincidence it
was also the first number drawn later from the available list for the first
call from the county. Floyd Brown was thus, in two ways, the first man
in Ripley county called to the colors under the Selective Draft Law. He
left for training camp in the first five per cent call, September 7, 1917,
and died on the field of honor in France in the battle of the Hinden-
burg Line.

Ripley county's first quota was for one hundred and fifty-four men.
The population of Ripley county, according to the latest census, was
nineteen thousand four hundred and fifty-two. The first quota for
Indiana was twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and seventy-one; two
thousand four hundred and ninety-four men had been enlisted in the
National Guard, and five thousand nine hundred and forty in the Regu-
lar Army between April 2, 1917, and June 30, 1917. The aggregate
total of men in these two units was twelve thousand four hundred and
nine. This left a net quota of seventeen thousand five hundred and
seventy men for Indiana's first call.

Ripley county got only twelve credits out of these enlistments, a
large number of our boys having failed, on enlisting at their places of
employment, to understand that their permanent home address should
be given. This caused the county to send a larger number of selective
men than would otherwise have been called for in the first quota.

The board worked during the first week of August, at arranging
the numbers according to the key furnished by the Provost Marshal
General's master list. On August 7, 1917, the work of notifying regis-
trants to appear for examination was begun. Twice as many men
were summoned as were needed for the first call to allow for exemp-
tions because of dependents or physical unfitness for military duty.

August 20, all registrants approved physically and not exempted,
were certified by the board and the names sent to the State Board at
Indianapolis.

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On August 3, some appeals on exemption were taken from the
local board to the Third District Board.

These exemption boards were organized by districts. The members
were appointed by Governor Goodrich, the appointments being approved
by the President.

The members of the Third District Board were as follows:

Otto Ray, labor representative, Indianapolis, Marion county.

W. W. Washburn, agriculture representative, Crawfordsville,
Montgomery county.

E. Vernon Knight, industry representative, New Albany, Floyd
county.

Ernest W. Layman, doctor, Terre Haute, Vigo county.

Lucius B. Swift, lawyer, Indianapolis, Marion county.

Seven days were allowed after examination by local boards, for the
filing of exemption claims. All registrants had to be examined before
the local board and passed upon as to physical condition.

Grounds for exemption were as follows:

Resident aliens without first papers were not subject to examination.

1. County or municipal officers.

2. Custom house clerk.

3. United States mail employment.

4. Skilled worker in arsenal or navy yard of the United States.

5. Certain other employment by the United States (under certain
conditions).

6. Licensed pilots.

7. Marine in actual employment.

8. Married men with dependent wife or children.

9. Widowed mother, dependent.

10. Aged or infirm parents, dependent.

11. Father of motherless children under sixteen.

12. Brother of orphan children, dependent, under sixteen.

\3. Members of religious sects whose creeds forbade participation
in war.

Ten days were allowed after filing exemption claims to file proof.

Judge F. M. Thompson was appointed as county appeal agent to
handle the claims for the board.

The duties of the county appeal agent were: To appeal from any
deferred classification by a local board, for and on behalf of the United
States, which, in the opinion of the appeal agent, should be reviewed by
the district board, to care for the interests of ignorant registrants, and
where the decision of the local board was against the interests of such
persons, and where it appeared that such persons would not take appeals,
due to their own non-culpable ignorance, to inform them of their rights
and assist them to enter appeals to the district board.

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It was also the duty of the appeal agent to suggest, when justice
required it, that a case be reopened; to impart to the local board any
information which should be investigated. Also, as the case might be, to
give such information to the district board.

The first five per cent of selective men left Osgood for training at
Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, on September 7, 1917.
They were: Floyd Brown, New Marion; Earl Hyatt, Benham;
William Gilland, Osgood ; Clarence Sparling, Osgood ; James W.
Gookins, Napoleon; Arthur Schein, Batesville, and Leo Benz, Batesville.

The friends and relatives of these seven young men, accompanied by
brass bands and with waving flags, accompanied them to the train at
Osgood, and said "Good-by", with tears and handclasps, and, as the
train pulled away from the station, with a final cheer. They were our
first men to be sent. Many of our boys had been enlisting in both army
and navy for three years. A few had gone with the Canadian army.
Our regulars and National Guard men had become a part of the new
National Army for overseas' service, but there had been no chance to say
a general "Good-by" to them as they had slipped out one or more at a
time. Our first chance came with the departure of our first drafted men,
and the good-bys, tears and cheers were for all those who had gone
before as well.

On September 15, 1917, a county farewell was held at the Osgood
Fair Grounds for the next forty per cent called to entrain for camp, on
September 20. About three thousand people attended this demonstra-
tion. The order of march from the Osgood Library to the Fair
Grounds was as follows: County Council of Defense, County Con-
scription Board, Eureka Band of Batesville, Conscripted Men, Red
Cross and the general public. Eighty-eight Red Cross women in
uniform were in the parade, the larger number being members of the
Osgood branch of the Ripley County Red Cross. "America" and the
"Star-Spangled Banner" were the opening and closing songs as they
continued to be throughout the war at all patriotic meetings. The
address at this farewell was by Rev. Thomas H. Nelson, of Indianapolis.

Fifty-seven men left in this second call, on September 20.

The third group left Osgood on October 4, 1917. There were
thirty-one men in this group.

In November, 1917, new regulations were issued from Washington,
restoring all registrants to their original status and canceling all ex-
emptions and discharges. All examinations were ordered to begin
again. Questionnaires were sent out in November, 1917, to all
registrants, work on them to begin on December 5, 1917.

A board of three doctors and three lawyers was appointed additional
to the regular Conscription Board to help in this work. Judge Robert
Creigmile of Osgood, M. F. Bohland of Batesville, and F. M. Thomp-
son of Versailles were the lawyers appointed. Dr. Holton of Holton,
Dr. J. M. Pate of Milan and Dr. G. T. Beckett of Versailles were the
physicians appointed.

Five per cent of the questionnaires were sent out daily until the list

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was exhausted. Seven days was allowed for each registrant to fill his
questionnaire, Sundays and holidays not included.

Two hundred and twenty Ripley county boys were estimated as the
total number in service in January, 1918. Of these, ninety-five were
selective men.

The cantonments being rapidly built throughout the United States,
could not accommodate more men than were sent into them by October,
so that no more calls were issued until April, 1918, when the weather
permitted the use of more tents. Also, when transportation overseas
began emptying the cantonments, room was made for further conscrip-
tions.

Pneumonia had been prevalent in many of the camps during the
winter and many units were in need of replacements.

Thirty-one men were called into service from Ripley county, on
April 26, 1918. On May 23, ninety-five more were called. Twelve
men were sent to Purdue University in May for special training and
forty-nine were called into general service on June 27.

On June 5, 1918, the second registration was held for all men
becoming twenty-one years of age, subsequent to the first registration on
June 5, 1917. One hundred and three were registered. The same
system for registering, numbering and drawing was used as for the first
registration.

On July 24, seventy-eight more men were sent to the training
camps. Up until June, 1918, voluntary enlistments had been permitted.
At that time all enlistments were denied to men of draft age.

In April, 1918, Josiah P. Day resigned as clerk of the Conscription
Board, and Fulton Leslie of Versailles was appointed in his place. Mr.
Leslie failed to serve, and on June 24 Rowland Jackson of Versailles
was given the appointment. Mr. Jackson was made clerk of the board
as Mr. Day had been, and served throughout the continuance of the
board's term of service. Miss Florence Beer of Versailles was made
stenographer for the Conscription Board on May 1, 1918, and served
until December 10 of the same year.

A Legal Advisory Board was appointed in June, 1918. The mem-
bers were A. B. Wycoff of Batesville, James H. Connelley of Milan
and William S. Huntington of Osgood.

The duties of this board were: To be present at all times during
which the local board was open for the transaction of business either at
the headquarters of the Local Board or at some other convenient place
or places, for the purpose of advising registrants of the true meaning
and intent of the Selective Service Law and Regulations, and of assist-
ing registrants to make full and truthful answers to the questionnaires.
The entire legal force of the county, assisted by justices of the peace
and notaries did volunteer service in filling out the questionnaires issued
to the men who registered on September 12, 1918.

There was little opposition to the draft law. Many exemptions
were asked, but many asking exemption later waived claim and responded
loyally to the country's call. At the beginning, many tried to evade the

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draft, because they did not understand the causes of the war. Others
feared crossing the submarine-infested Atlantic. Most were willing,
some anxious, to go. The greater number took it as a matter of course,
and went to do their part unflinchingly, whatever that might prove to be.
Many married men went. Others were not allowed to go because of
dependent families. Many young men, physically unfit, bitterly re-
gretted their inability to go.

Seventy-eight men from Ripley county were called into the service
on July 24, 1918. Twenty-five were called in September, five having
gone on August 1.

On August 24, 1918, a third registration was held for all men
having reached their twenty-first birthdays since the second registration
on June 5. Twenty-three were registered in the county, bringing the
total registration up to two thousand two hundred and eighty-one.

A fourth registration was held on September 12, for all male
citizens between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, inclusive. Two
thousand and thirty-five men were registered in this draft. Question-
naires were at once sent out, all being out by October 1.

Twenty-six men were called to entrain for camp in October, but
because of the influenza epidemic, the call was postponed from time to
time, until finally, on November 11, 1918, they entrained at Osgood
for Cincinnati. About 1 1 a. m. the news was confirmed over the
wires, from one end of America to the other, that the armistice had been
signed. Sheriff Wildman telephoned to Cincinnati for the boys to return
to their homes, which they did in the evening.

Meanwhile the work on the questionnaires had been much inter-
rupted by the epidemic. The questionnaire board at Batesville sus-
pended work for a few days and resumed under conditions designed to
lessen the spread of the disease.

The Ripley County Draft Board made its final report to Major
Balzell, at the state board headquarters, on April 1, 1919.

All books and records were boxed or crated and shipped to Wash-
ington as ordered by the National Government. Duplicate reports
were sent to Indianapolis and to the War Department at Washington.

A list of all supplies had been kept, which was reported on exactly.

The Government had furnished typewriters, which were sold, the
money being turned back to the United States Government.

The board was not held under bond, their oaths of office and the
responsibility of the individual members being considered sufficient
guarantee.

The last official act of the board was to petition the county com-
missioners to make an appropriation for a suitable memorial to all
service men of the county and a special tribute to those who gave their
lives.

t5

PART II

WITH THE BOYS "OVER HERE" AND
"OVER THERE"

So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So near is God to man,
When Duty whispers low, "Thou must" ,
The youth replies, "I can" .

— Emerson

Ripley county had a number of men in service in the Regular Army
and Navy when the World War began in 1914. With the progress of
the war a few more joined from time to time, anxious to get into the
world adventure, many desiring to be ready in case of America's finally
going in. When the call for navy and army recruits was issued in
March, 1917, there was a general response in Ripley county. It was
universally felt to be more creditable to volunteer than to wait to be
drafted.

With the declaration of war on April 6, 1917, William S. Hunt-
ington of Osgood, who had served in the Spanish-American war began
actively organizing a company in Ripley county. With the passing of
the draft law a few weeks after war was declared, the entire plan of
enlistment was changed. No companies were to be organized, but the
new army would be built up by the operation of the selective service
law. Many boys who had signed as members of Huntington's Com-
pany, at once enlisted in various branches of the army.

Under the regulations of the draft law, men with families were
discouraged from enlistment and the larger number of Spanish-American
veterans resigned themselves to civilian instead of military service.
Charles Morrow of Sunman was the only veteran of this war who
served in the World War from Ripley county. He served as a corporal
in Company M, 12th U. S. Infantry in the Spanish-American campaign
of 1898 and entered the World War as a private in Company C, 304th
Field Signal Battalion, 79th Division with the A. E. F. in 1918, serving
six months overseas.

As a result of these various enlistments our boys served in almost
every division of the A. E. F. The greater number, however, were in
the 30th and 84th Divisions. The divisions in which they saw the great-
est amount of service were the 30th, 42nd or Rainbow, First, Second,
Third, Fourth, 37th, 29th, 33rd and 38th Divisions.

FIRST DIVISION

The First Division consisted of the 15th, 18th, 26th and 28th Infan-
try Regiments with the necessary supporting units. It was assembled at
New York and sailed for France in June 1917, landing at St. Nazaire,

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the 28th Infantry being the first American Troops to set foot on
foreign soil. The division was trained at various camps, by the Alpine
Chasseurs, the famous "Blue Devils" of France. They were sent into
the trenches in October, 1917, in the Toul Sector. The first American
offensive was led by this division at Cantigny. An eye witness of the
battle, a Red Cross nurse, says: "The boys stuck little American flags
in their guns and many of them fastened the scarlet field poppies of
France in their helmets and went forward singing all the popular army
songs. No wonder they were invincible."

The First Division's service record reads: "Trenches from October,
1917. Suffered first German raid in April, 1917, Company F, 16th
infantry, losing first Americans killed and first American prisoners;
Cantigny in May; St. Mihiel, August 10-September 15; Meuse-
Argonne, July-September. A detachment of the First Division was
sent to Paris for the Bastille Day parade on July 14, 1918. They were
a composite company, most of them destined to die in battle a few days
later at Soissons, rejoining their regiments on July 16. They suffered
their greatest loss at Berzy-lezec on July 2, losing 56 officers and 1,760
men. Engagements at Compeigne Forest, Montrefagne, Missy Ravine,
Missy-Aux-Bois, Paris Roads, Soissons, Ploissy. are points in this offen-
sive. They fought in October at Montrafagne and adjacent points,
marching on November 6 to Sedan. The 28th Infantry reached the
extreme point reached by the left flank of the American Army in this
operation. After the armistice on November 11, 1918, the division
marched through Luxemburg into Germany, crossing the Moselle river
on December 11 and to Coblenz on December 12. Served here in the
Army of Occupation till September, 1919, when they returned to the
United States. The stories of the 16th and 28th Infantry, First Di-
vision, are of a special interest to Ripley county people as so many of
our boys served in these two regiments, four of them being on our
gold star honor roll.

The 16th Infantry has a Civil War record. It was serving on the
Mexican border when the First Division was organized for overseas
service and sailed with the division from New York on June 10, 1917,
landing at St. Nazaire on June 25-26, 1917.

It was the second battalion of the 16th Infantry that marched to
Paris with Pershing on July 3, 1917, and stood with him at Napoleon's
tomb. Paris received them with flowers, cheers and kisses. The eager
French women wiped the perspiration from the soldier's brows like so
many St. Veronicas on the road to Calvary, surely an apt comparison,
as so many of the Sixteenth were to die sooner or later for the cause of
mankind, as Christ had done before them.

The historian of the 16th Infantry sums up the division's history in
these words: "The Invincible First! First to arrive in France; first
in sector; first to fire a shot at the Germans; first to attack; first to
conduct a raid; first to be raided; first to capture prisoners; first to
inflict casualties ; first to shed its blood ; first in the number of casualties
suffered (Second Division claims this also) ; first to be cited in general
orders; first in the number of division, corps and army commanders and

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general staff officers produced from its personnel. The Sixteenth was
trained in the Gondrecourt area and at Demange. They were visited
during training by Marshals Petain, Joffre and Castelman; also by
President Poincare.

The famous first raid was on Company F of the 16th Infantry, on
the night of November 3, 1917. One sergeant and ten men were taken
prisoners by the Germans. James B. Gresham of Evansville, Ind. ;
Merle Day from Glidden, and Wm. B. Enright of Pittsburg, were the
three men killed. A monument has been erected by the French in
Lorraine to commemorate this raid. It was dedicated one year later,
November 3, 1918.

The Sixteenth's service record reads: "Hike to Sorcy, Toul sector,
Broyes sector, Cantigny (where Harry W. Smith was killed), Coulle-
mille, Soissons, St. Jacques sector, St. Mihiel, Souilly (visited here by
Secretary of War Baker), Verdun Woods, September 27, Cheppy,
Charpentrv, Meuse-Argonne, October 4; Exremont (where Hugo
Prell and" Milton Whitham were killed), Hill 272, Cote Maldah,
Sedan, Luxemburg, November 29; Grevemancher, November 23. De-
cember 1 (first time Americans marched onto German soil), the 18th
Infantry led the way along the east bank of the Moselle, 16th on west
bank, crossing the Saar into Germany, December 12."

SECOND DIVISION

The Second Division, typical of all the rest, was organized as
follows: Headquarters Company, Second Division, Headquarters
Troop, Fourth Machine Gun Battalion, First Field Signal Battalion,
Second Engineers, Second -Ammunition Train, Second Supply Train,
Second Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop, Second Company Military
Police, Mobile Veterinary Unit No. 2, Machine Shop Truck Unit
Nos. 303 and 363, Railhead Detachment, Salvage Squad No. 2, Bakery
Company No. 319, Sales Commissary Unit No. 1, Delousing and Bath
Unit No. 17, Clothing and Bath Unit No. 320, Mobile Laundry Unit
No. 326, Postal E. F. Army P. O. No. 710, 2nd Field Artillery
Brigade, 12th Field Artillery, 15th Field Artillery and 17th Field
Artillery, 3rd Brigade, composed of the 9th Infantry, 23rd Infantry
and 5th Machine Gun Battalion, 4th Brigade, 5th and 6th Marines,
6th Machine Gun Battalion.

Major-General Omer Bundy, Major-General Jas. C. Harbord and
Major-General J. A. Lejeune were commanders. The first served from
November, 1917, to July 14, 1918; the second from July 15, 1918, to
July 28, 1918; the third from July 29, 1918, to end of the division's
service. The division sailed for France in October, 1917, and went
into the trenches on the Meuse near Verdun in March, 1918. Its
personnel was mostly from the Middle West. The officers were nearly
all experienced regular army men. After six weeks with the French at
Verdun the division was given a sector of its own in the Eparges region.

In the second week of April, under cover of night, about five hundred
Germans, dressed in American and French uniforms and speaking

1. David Hughes. 2. William Jolley. 3. Waldo Michel. 4. Albert Tekuloe. 5. Chas. C. Shuck.
6. Henry Gaurman. 7. Edw. Bohlke. 8. Robert Coffee. 9. Wm. Robinson. 10. Frank B. Bruno.
11. Everett Daily Paugh, 12. Corporal Wilber Burns.

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French and English, penetrated in and through the lines. Two com-
panies of the 9th Infantry found the enemy around and behind them
before the deception was discovered. A heavy fight ensued and the
lines were cleared by daybreak, sixty-seven dead being left behind by
the Germans, scores of others limping or being carried back to the enemy
trenches.

On May 30, 1918, the entire division of twenty-seven thousand men
was hurried in trucks to intercept the German attack rolling toward
Paris. They rode one hundred miles in the trucks to the Paris-Metz
road, then made a forced twelve-mile march toward Chateau-Thierry.
On June 4 the Americans took over from the exhausted French a twelve-
mile front, leaving no reserves between themselves and the Marne.

Nearly two weeks of bitter fighting ensued at Belleau Wood, which
was full of machine gun nests. The town of Vaux was occupied by
artillery. The division held the road to Paris for five weeks. They
attacked the enemy again at Soissons on July 16 after a very brief rest.
A summary of their service record is:

Verdun Sector, March 12 to May 14, 1918; Chateau-Thiery, May
31 to July 9, 1918; Soissons Offensive, July 18 to July 20, 1918;
Marbache Sector, August 9 to August 20, 1918; St. Mihiel Offensive,
September 9 to 16, 1918; Champagne Offensive (Blanc Mont), Sept.
30 to October 9, 1918; Meuse-Argonne Offensive, October 30 to No-
vember 11, 1918; March to the Rhine, November 17 to December 13,
1918; Army of Occupation, December 1, 1918, to June 15, 1919.

The division captured about one-fourth of the entire number of
prisoners taken by the A. E. F., one-fourth of the total number of guns,
and suffered about one-tenth of the total number of casualties.

The divisional total number of prisoners is twelve thousand twenty-
six men. This division received more citations and decorations than
any other. The 9th and 23rd Infantry have records from the War of
1812 and the Civil War. The 2nd Engineers were the famous "Fight-
ing Engineers."

The division sailed from Brest on September 1st and reached New
York for the great victory parade with the Composite Regiment on
September 10th. The insignia of the Second Division — the star and
Indian — is the creation of a truck driver who succeeded so well in
decorating his truck that his idea was adopted by the whole division.
The insignia of the entire army were an outgrowth of use and necessity
as a rule. A picture is more easily seen and read than any other means
of designation. It is also more appealing to the soldier.

THIRD AND FOURTH DIVISIONS

The Third Division included the 4th Infantry. Gilbert Sutherland
of Napoleon, Ripley county, was killed at the Aisne while serving in
Company G, 4th Infantry, Third Division.

The Fourth Division was known as the "Lost Division," as so little
was said of it because of lack of exploitation, not lack of service. Hale
Bradt, Y. M. C. A. secretary, of Versailles, was with the Fourth Di-
vision on the front and in Germany.

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THIRTIETH DIVISION

The Thirtieth Division — -"Old Hickory" Division — counted the
largest number of Ripley county soldiers destined to see service in the
great war. They were mostly transferred from the Eighty-fourth Di-
vision, 335th Infantry, Company A, to the 119th and 120th Regiments
of the Thirtieth Division, which was made up of the 117th, 118th, 119th
and 120th Infantry, 120th Machine Gun Battalion and other necessary
units to form a division. The division was formed at Camp Sevier, N.
C, and sailed from Boston May 17 and 18, 1918. The convoy was
met by a submarine a few days out from England and the fleet changed
its course, landing at Gravesend instead of Liverpool on June 4, 1918.
After three days' rest at Dover, they crossed to Calais and went to
Eperlocques for a month's training. Then they "hiked" to Belgium by
way of Watteau arrd Lyms and relieved the British between Ypres and
Kemmel Hill. After seventeen days in the trenches they went back
to Watteau for four days' rest, returning to the trenches for twenty
days. Went over the top on the nineteenth day, August 31, 1918, and
captured the city of Voormezeele, taking several prisoners and machine
guns. Louis Boehmer of Batesville was wounded in the shoulder by a
shell in this action.

The division left Belgium September 5th and went by box cars to
Roelle Court, France, where they were attached to the British Second
Army. They were trained here till September 17th, when they moved
further south, reaching Tincourt on the twenty-second. On the twenty-
third they took over the front line trenches from the Australians. All
moving was done under cover of night to avoid airplanes and shell
fire. The Thirtieth Division held these positions till September 29th.
On that date, with the Twenty-seventh American Division on the left
and the Forty-sixth British Division on the right, the Thirtieth Division
assaulted the Hindenburg line. The line at the point of attack curved
in front of a tunnel at St. Quentin. It was considered impregnable by
the Germans for the following reasons: The Hindenburg line, curving
west of the tunnel, consisted of three main trench systems, protected by
vast fields of heavy barbed wire entanglements, skillfully placed. This
wire was so heavy that the American barrage fire of thirty hours' dura-
tion, preceding the attack, had damaged it but little. The lines had
been strengthened by machine gun emplacements of concrete. It con-
tained at this place a large number of dug-outs lined with mining
timbers with wooden steps leading down to a depth of about thirty
feet and with small rooms capable of holding from four to six men each.
In many cases these dug-outs were wired for electric lights. The large
tunnel through which St. Quentin canal ran was of sufficient capacity
to shelter a division. This tunnel was electrically lighted and filled
with barges, which were used as sleeping quarters by the Germans.
Connecting it with the Hindenburg trench system were numerous
small tunnels. In one case a direct tunnel ran from the main tunnel to
the basement of a large stone building which the enemy used for bead-
quarters. Other tunnels ran from the main one eastward to Bellicourt
and to other places. This complete subterranean system with its hidden

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exits and entrances unknown to the Americans, formed a most complete
and safe method of communication and reenforcement for the German
sector. The Sixtieth Brigade, the 119th and 120th Infantry (where
the Ripley county boys belonged), in front, with the 117th and 118th
Regiments as support, attacked this line by assault at 5 :50 a. m.,
September 29, 1918, on a front of three thousand yards, capturing the
entire line over that area, and advancing, took the entire tunnel system
with the German troops therein and the cities of Bellicourt, Nauroy,
Riqueval, Carriere, Etricourt, Guillame and Freme, advancing four
thousand two hundred yards, and defeating two enemy divisions of
average quality, taking as prisoners forty-seven officers and one thousand
four hundred thirty-four men. Coy Sunman, Lee Ashcraft and Leora
Weare, all of Ripley county, were killed in this attack. Cornelius
Miller and Carl Mistier were wounded. The dead were picked up
and buried on October 2nd near where they fell, about two hundred
yards to the right of St. Quentin, the chaplains reading the burial
service.

On October 2nd the division marched back to Herbecourt, about
fifteen miles from St. Quentin, but were almost immediately marched
back to take over the same sector near Mont Brehain on the night of
October 5th. The division attacked each day from October 8th to 11th,
advancing seventeen thousand five hundred yards and capturing about
twenty-five little towns, among them Busigny, Blancourt, St. Souplet
and La Rochelle. One thousand nine hundred eighty-nine men from
eleven German divisions were captured, with several hundred machine
guns. The Thirtieth Division was relieved on October 11th and 12th
by the Twenty-seventh American Division. Chris. Endres was killed
October 10th on this offensive by a wound in the neck, either machine-
gun bullet or shrapnel, and Edgar Woolley was severely wounded. On
October 12th the division marched five miles back of the lines and
reorganized their companies. On October 16th they returned to the
front and took over the same sector again at the same place as before,
being the right half of the sector temporarily held by the Twenty-
seventh Division. They renewed the attack on the enemy on October
17th, 18th and 19th. On October 17th sixteen men in one platoon
were gassed. This number included Frank Burst, John Bland and Sam
Heisman of Ripley county. Only about fifty of Company M had been
left to go into this fight. When the division was finally taken out of
the fighting on October 19th only eight were left on duty in Company
M. The 120th Regiment was cited for gallantry and their colonel,
Colonel Minor, was decorated. The gas attack on October 17th is
described in detail:

"The gas was coming over all the time, not strong enough at first to
be alarming because, being on the advance we wore our masks only
about a half hour. The German barrage consisted almost entirely of
gas shells. When we reached the Laselle river the accumulation of
gas overcame the company. Quoting Frank Burst, who survived: 'I
was badly burned and blind about nine or ten days from inflamed eyes.
Was moved in an ambulance about five miles to the railway station

1. Gustave Kalb. 2. Joseph Keene. 3. Sergeant Morris Robinson. 4. Edward Ruhl. 5. Colum-
bus Wagner. 6. Glenn Sheets. 7. Alfred C. Papenhaus. 8. William Bateman. 9. Charles Duncan
10. David Powell. 11. Charles L. Roepke. 12. Frank Prakel.

136 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD IV AR

and at midnight loaded on an open car and sent to No. 1 South African
General Hospital at Rouen. Was here about fifteen days, then was
sent from Rouen in an ambulance and by train to Le Havre and across
the channel to Southampton, England, to United States Base Hospital
No. 40, Camp Taylor Unit from Lexington, Ky. Remained here till
New Year's day. Went on January 1 to Winchester to be examined and
was returned to Company M, 120th Infantry, at Le Mans, France.' '

The division sailed for the United States from St. Nazaire on April
1, 1919, the One Hundred Twentieth Division on the transport Martha
Washington. They arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, on April
13. Quoting a 120th soldier: "From the time we began prepara-
tions to return to the United States in January we were de-loused twice
a week. We had the process again at Camp Jackson after landing at
Charleston. The process of delousing is this way : Two rooms are
used. You leave all your clothes in one room and take a hot shower
bath in the second room. While this is being done the clothes are
thrown into a large tank and steamed. They are removed from the
tank and returned to the soldier, having been tagged for identification.
He puts them on again, damp and hot from the steaming. The soldiers
were given new clothing after the relousing process. Head lice were
avoided by the regulation enforcing close-cropped hair."

In summing up the Thirtieth Division's record, the following points
are noted: "In Belgium, raiding or night patrol parties went out almost
every night. Sixteen or twenty-four men under a sergeant or corporal
composed the parties. They were selected as they happened to volunteer,
one group one night, another the next. The barrage fire on September
28 and 29 was said to be the heaviest ever laid down by the Germans.
In the thick of the fight it seemed the end of the world had come. I
couldn't think or feel. My mind seemed paralyzed. I just went on and
on."

The number of prisoners captured by the Thirtieth Division from
September 29 to October 20 was ninety-eight officers and three thousand
seven hundred fifty men. The number of men lost in the same period
was three officers and twenty-four men as prisoners, forty-four officers
and four thousand eight hundred twenty-three men wounded and killed
(including slightly wounded and gassed) ; 1,792 rifles, 72 field artillery
guns, 426 machine guns and a mass of other materials were captured
in this offensive by the Thirtieth Division.

Thanks were received by the division from mayors of liberated cities
and civilians, as follows: Becquigny, 330; Busigny, 1,800; Escanfort,
81; Brancourt, 5; St. Beuin, 175; Montbrehain, 9; St. Souplet, 450;
Molain, 5; Ribeauville, 2; LeHaie Meuneresse, 24; Mazingheim, 1.
Total, 2,902. All officers received special mention for bravery, division
officers being decorated.

The division consisted of National Guard troops from North and
South Carolina and Tennessee, augmented by selective draft men from
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and North Dakota, who have the credit with
the Twenty-seventh Division and Forty-sixth British Division of break-

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ing the Hindenburg line. As expressed by F. H. Simonds in American
Review of Reviews, November, 1918: "We have not had a Waterloo,
much less a Sedan. Neither seems on October 21 even remotely possible
in the present operation. What we have had is a military decision of
the war. That decision was had in the Hindenburg line." Sir Lloyd
George, British Premier, said : "The smashing of the great defensive
system erected by the enemy in the West, and claimed by him to be
impregnable, is a feat of which we are justly proud and for which the
Empire will be ever grateful." — From letter to Sir Douglas Haig,
October 9, 1918.

THIRTY-THIRD DIVISION

The Thirty-third Division was a part of the Second Army and were
mostly Illinois National Guard troops. They were trained for over-
seas service at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, from September, 1917,
until May, 1918. This division was made up of the 129th, 130th, 131st
and 132nd Infantry, 58th Field Artillery Brigade, 108th Field Signal
Battalion, 108th Sanitary Train, 108th Ammunition Train, 108th
Trench Mortar Battalion, 108th Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop, 122nd,
123rd and 124t!i Machine Gun Battalions.

They were the first Americans to fight with the Australians or side
by side with the British. They went into their first battle shouting
"Lusitania". Companies C and E of the 131st Infantry and Companies
A and G of the 132nd Infantry received special mention for bravery in
the attack of July 4, 1918, four officers and fifteen men receiving British
decorations bestowed in person by King George on August 12, 1918.

Their service record names the following battles : Amiens, Hamel,
Mons, Chipilly Ridge, Gressare Wood, Toul Sector, Verdun, where
they were the first American division to hold a part of the front line,
Meuse-Argonne, Montfaucon and Bois des Forges. The 131st and
132nd Infantry, with the 124th Machine Gun Battalion, known as the
Sixty-sixth Infantry Brigade, captured both last named places in three
hours and thirty-three minutes on September 26, 1918. They claim
the distinction of being the only American division that attacked on
schedule time.

Their final fighting was at St. Mihiel on October 23rd, 24th and
25th. The division saw service with the First, Second and Third
Armies, marching to Germany after the armistice by way of Luxem-
burg. Their pseudonym was the "Prairie Division".

RAINBOW DIVISION

The Rainbow Division was organized according to an idea of
Secretary of War Baker to select the pick of the National Guard regi-
ments. The Infantry regiments chosen were the 1 65th from New
York, 166th from Ohio, 167th ("Wildcat Regiment") from Alabama,
168th from Iowa with the 149th Field Artillery from Illinois, 150th
Field Artillery frqm Indiana, 151st Field Artillery from Minnesota,
and the 155th Field Artillery. The regiments were recruited in their

138 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

home states and assembled at New York, where about half the division
paraded at Garden City, the first tactical division assembled and
reviewed after the declaration of war. They represented twenty-six
states and were named the Rainbow because of a remark while the
selection was being made that a "line drawn on the map of the United
States to indicate the division would form a rainbow in shape". It
proved to be a happy appellation and the Rainbows were perhaps the
most famous division of the A. E. F., owing partly to the manner of
their organization, and a little to the name itself. The division was
trained a short time at Camp Mills, L. I., and sailed for overseas duty
on October 18 and 19, 1917, from New York. They were the third
division to sail, the First and Third divisions having preceded them,
the Second going at nearly the same time. Fifty-six thousand men sailed
at this time, slipping out to the transports quietly in the night and out
of the harbor at five a. m. The convoy consisted of two destroyers and
the cruiser Seattle. One U-boat was met on the tenth day out, but no
difficulty resulted. One ship, the President Grant, turned back because
of bad boilers and followed a few days later. The division landed at
St. Nazaire and was sent to Camp Coctquidan, Brittany, for training
in one of the oldest artillery schools in France.

They went into the trenches in Lorraine on February 21, 1918.
Their first casualty occurred on March 17. Their first raid was on
the first, second and third of May. Their service record is: Lorraine
trenches, February 21 to June 21, 1918; Champagne, in July 14, 15, 17,
18, 1918; Chateau-Thierry, July 25 to August 10, 1918; Ourcq and
Vesle Rivers, August, 1918; St. Mihiel, September 7-24, 1919 (this
was the first all-American victory) ; Meuse-Argonne, October 7 to
November 11, 1918; Coblenz-Neuenhaar, Germany, until April 1, 1919.

On April 13, 1919, President Poincare and Premier Clemenceau
brought a special message of appreciation and affection to the division,
waiting transportation at Brest, from the people of France. The
division sailed on April 18, 1919, on the Leviathan. The ship narrowly
missed a floating mine when nearing New York. They were met in the
harbor by Welcome Home committees from the various states repre-
sented. Each state welcomed home its particular regiment with a special
day of celebration, in which the main feature was the parade of the
unit in full war outfit. The 150th Field Artillery's day of triumph was
on May 7, 1919, at Indianapolis. The day was made a state Welcome
Home for all returned soldiers, sailors, and marines of Indiana. Trans-
portation was paid for the men by their counties. Ripley and Dearborn
counties furnished ribbons with the counties' names as badges of distinc-
tion for their men. Special trains were run over all railroads to
accommodate the thousands of returned soldiers and sailors who went
to Indianapolis to share in the day's festivities. As they had marched
to battle in France, once more the service men of the state marched
through the Arch of Victory, the Court of Honor, and back again, the
150th Field Artillery completing the line of march and going on to the
Grand Central Station to entrain for Camp Taylor.

1. Virgil McClanahan. 2. Freeman Deburger. 3. Dallas WHittaker. 4. Harry R. Saminghaus.
5. Casper Hankins. 6. Fred H. Nedderman. 7. John C. Ward. S. Chester J. Nauert. 9. Louis
Walters. 10. George W. Hillman. 11. John R. Murdock. 12. Robert N. Handle.

140 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD W Ak

ORDNANCE REPAIR SERVICE

The ordnance repair shops of the American Expeditionary Forces
were located at Mehun, rather Beauvoir near Mehun, on the main line
of the Paris and Orleans railroad. The buildings covered an area of
twenty-two acres. Thirteen buildings were constructed, eight large
shops and five smaller ones. They were of steel frame construction,
with corrugated iron siding and roofs with rubberoid covering. Six of
the large buildings were of the monitor type, bolted together instead of
riveted, so that they could be moved in a short time if necessary. The
laundry was of frame construction, roofed with corrugated iron.
Packed earth floors were used in all buildings except the administration
and laundry, which were floored with concrete.

There were one hundred and thirty acres of parking area connected
with the buildings. Enemy and allied caissons, limbers, guns, salvage,
and materials of all sorts not convenient to house were stored in this
parking place.

Gun shops Nos. 1 and 2 covered a total floor space of two hundred
and ninety-four thousand square feet. Gun Shop No. 1 had five ten-ton
cranes and one fifteen-ton crane. Gun shop No. 2 had seven ten-ton
cranes. This shop was never quite finished as part of the materials for
it were lost on a torpedoed ship and the armistice was signed before
other materials could be secured.

The reamer shop was between gun shops 1 and 2. Its floor space
was forty-three thousand, two hundred square feet. It was fitted with
lathes, grinders and two motor generator sets. It also was never com-
pleted.

The artillery repair shop covered one hundred and thirteen thousand
square feet. It was fitted with lathes, planers, boring mills, shapers,
millers, and gear cutters, down to the finest precision machines. About
two hundred of these machines in all were installed and operated.
Four ten-ton cranes were used here.

The small arms shop had a floor space of one hundred twenty thou-
sand square feet. One-fourth of this space was used by the optical repair
division. This shop was fitted with work benches and tables for hand-
work. It contained four large steam boilers, several batteries of buffers,
a battery of sand blasts and a number of pickling vats for tearing down,
pickling, polishing, and oiling of small arms. Gravity rollers were
used throughout to handle all work.

The forge and foundry shop covered thirty-nine thousand, two hun-
dred square feet of space. It contained twelve furnaces, three steam
hammers, two drill presses and a few other miscellaneous machines.

The woodworking shop occupied sixty-four thousand square feet of
floor space. Warehouses 3 and 4 covered twenty-four thousand square
feet. The administration building used ten thousand four hundred
square feet of area. It had five department offices, a drafting room,
and printing shop. The bathhouse and laundry covered one thousand
nine hundred and twenty square feet of floor space.

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The whole system of shops was planned in July, 1917, under the
management of Col. D. M. King, as there were no existing shops for
the necessary repair work located in France. Three officers went to
France in September, 1917, and submitted the plans to General
Pershing. The first shipment of materials was made on October 22,
1917. Colonel King with thirty-five officers sailed for France in
February, 1918. The enlisted personnel had already sailed to as large
a number as it was possible to dispatch at this time.

The building continued until the signing of the armistice, thirty-
eight in all having been planned. Chinese workmen were employed
here during a part of the time. A number of French girls worked in
the shops also.

The shops at Mehun were made the concentration point for all
ordnance units in June, 1918, except those assigned to special divisions.
One thousand and forty-four men were working in the shops in
November, 1918.

After the signing of the armistice on November 11th, the work was
concentrated on the cleaning of guns, crating, packing and shipping of
arms to the United States, also of enemy and allied artillery, salvage,
etc. No further buildings were erected except as necessary for making it
into an evacuation camp. The men were also employed in repairing
railways. , John Lawless, Ashel Ewing, Moses Curran, Samuel Elliot
arid Frank Plantholt were among the Ripley county boys who worked
in the ordnance repair shops.

The shops were located on the old Roman road built by Julius
Caesar, when he conquered Gaul before the birth of Christ. Joan of
Arc made her famous charge and led her troops along this road. A
large statue of the famous heroine stands at Mehun and she is much
revered by the populace.

TOTAL CASUALTIES

Total casualties by division of the American Expeditionary Forces,
killed, wounded, missing in action and prisoners:

Second 24,429 Thirty-fifth 7,745

First 23,974 Eighty-ninth 7,093

Twenty-eighth 14,417 Thirtieth 6,893

Third 16,356 Twenty-ninth 5,972

Thirty-second 13,630 Ninety-first 5,838

Fourth 12,948 Eightieth 5,133

Forty-second 12,252 Thirty-seventh 4,303

Ninetieth 9,710 Seventy-ninth 3,323

Seventy-seventh 9,423 Thirty-sixth 2,397

Twenty-sixth 8,950 Seventh 1,546

Eighty-second 8,300 Ninety-second 1,399

Fifth 8,280 Eighty-first 1,062

Seventy-eighth 8,133 Sixth 285

Twenty-seventh 7,940 Eighty-eighth 63

Thirty-third 7,860

The total battle casualties of the twenty-nine divisions that fought
are two hundred and forty thousand one hundred and ninety-seven.

Air Service

Henry Eads of Versailles was one of the first Ripley county men
enlisted in the air service, entering the aviation branch of the Navy on
May 26, 1917, and being sent to France in October, 1917. After seven
weeks at a French aviation school in Paris he was sent to Dunkirk,
where he remained till August 10, 1918, when he was sent to Zeebrugge,
Belgium, to assist in preparing an aviation base. This was still uncom-
pleted at the signing of the armistice.

Dunkirk was under shell fire during the entire time of the war,
being attacked by air, sea and land. Raiding and observation parties
went out every night except on stormy nights when air work was
impracticable. There were only one hundred and twenty-five men in
this naval air force. It was never increased but was kept up by replace-
ments. Fourteen men were lost from the unit in all. They used French
and English planes for their work. The entire camp at Dunkirk had to
be constructed after their arrival. On one occasion Henry Eads' plane
fell three hundred feet, injuring his knee, but he was otherwise un-
harmed. At another time his lieutenant went up in Henry's place.
The machine fell into German hands and the aviator with the lieutenant
were prisoners until after the signing of the armistice.

Fred H. Baas, John Wernke, Lawrence Nickol, Roy Fruchtnicht,
Frank Walterman and Joseph Lindenmaier of Batesville were all sent
as selective service men to the aviation repair depot, Speedway, Indian-
apolis, Indiana, for training in July, 1918. They were sent here because
of being wood-workers or tailors for the fabric department. Their
first work was constructing airplanes, twelve new Curtiss machines
being completed. Later, the repair work absorbed all their time. The
Speedway repair depot was the largest aviation repair center in the
United States. All the flying fields in the eastern half of the United
States sent their planes here for repairs.

The framework of the wings was made of spruce and fir cut in the
northwest wood-cutting camps. The wood was selected for its light-
ness and toughness. The wooden frame was then covered with canvas
sewed on by hand by the soldiers in the fabric department. The pro-
pellers were made of walnut because of its denseness and hardness. It
was used for gunbarrel stocks for the same reasons. The propellers are
cut something like oars for a boat, disk-shaped as to surface, and in
size about six feet long. The propeller is used like the crank on an
automobile to start the machine. When the plane rises, the air catches
the propeller and keeps it moving. If the propeller stops, the machine
falls instantly. The engine can be shut off while in the air, but must
be started again before the propeller stops.

De Haviland and Espano-Swede, with the Curtiss, were the ma-
chines used, the first and third proving most successful. Liberty motors
were used in the De Haviland.

The squadrons were organized for overseas service, four hundred
having gone from the camp before the armistice. A squadron consisted

(142)

1. Arthur Schein. 2. Albert Lambert. 3. John Kreuzman. 4. Mike Vonderheide. 5. George
Oilier. 6. Collis Huntington. 7. Floyd Jarvis. 8. Robert F. Herin. 9. Nick Prickel. 10. Frank
Strothman. 11. Earl Arndt. 12. Frank Eckstein.

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of one hundred fifty men, including all necessary repair workmen, cooks,
officers, and so on. Insignia used was the wing of an airplane, with
green hat cords.

Ralph Hyatt of Versailles served in the aviation section of the
signal corps as electrician. He was assigned to balloon service, finally
being assigned to the 26th Balloon Company. He was sent overseas in
April, 1918, but was still in balloon school when the armistice was
signed. The work of the balloons was to observe the enemy positions,
movements and so on and report through the switchboards on the ground
near the artillery units. There was a telephone in the basket of each
balloon which was connected through the switchboard with the battery
commanders. French-made balloons were used at first. Later,
American ones, mostly made by the Goodyear Rubber Company at
Akron, Ohio, were used. The sausage balloon was the type required.
They were about thirty-five or thirty-six meters long and about one-
third as wide. Hydrogen gas was used to fill the balloons. It required
two hundred cylinders of gas, each containing one hundred and ninety-
two cubic feet to fill a balloon. The cost of filling one was about twelve
hundred dollars.

The baskets were four and one-half feet square by five and one-half
feet in de^th, made out of bamboo, tough and light, suspended from the
rigging of the balloon by ordinary hemp or cotton ropes. Captive
balloons were held by a cable attached to a motor truck; they were
called captive because of being fastened. Occasionally a cable broke
and one escaped. If an observer was in the basket he could let out
the gas and come down slowly if within the Allied lines. If not within
a reasonable distance of the American lines the balloon was abandoned,
the observer jumping out in a parachute. Every man who made a para-
chute jump was given the Croix de Guerre, whatever the reason for his
jump.

There were twenty-three balloon companies in active service. Each
carried extra balloons, three at least. One was used at a time, and in
case of loss another was immediately sent up. Forty-two balloons were
destroyed by German shell-fire and bombs from airplanes. Only twenty
seconds was required for the explosion and burning of a balloon when
hit by an inflammable bullet. The observer was in the greatest danger
as his falling parachute might be ignited by a spark from the burning
balloon. Each company had five observers and a ground officer who
directed the maneuvering of the balloon and had general charge of the
field. The balloons were "put to bed" when not in use. A "bed" was a
cleared space in the woods, camouflaged so as to be hidden from enemy
observation. The ground had to be cleared of roots and stumps so as
not to tear the balloon. The woods not only offered hiding for the
balloon but protection from the wind. If there was no convenient
woods a shelter was built by using branches of fallen trees.

The aviation mail service was typical of the system used in the
entire American Expeditionary Forces. Alva Bronnenberg of Versailles

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served as a clerk in this service at aviation headquarters at Tours, later
in postal and express service at Bourges, France. The mail for this
section came from New York to Bordeaux, France, and then on to
Tours, or Bourges, being distributed from there to all parts of the
service. Soldiers' addresses were kept by a card-filing system kept at the
central records office. All mail for a regiment was delivered at head-
quarters and distributed to the companies by mail orderlies. Each com-
pany had its own orderly who delivered the mail to individuals. If any
mail was not delivered because of absence of the soldier it was returned
to the central postoffice and the card system used to locate the individual
addressed. The units were being constantly moved from place to place.
Soldiers were killed, wounded or sent to the hospital because of sickness.
Some were made prisoners. These things prevented the accurate com-
pilation of the cards. Each soldier's address was supposed to be kept
corrected to date but the failure of commanding officers to report
promptly when changes were being made accounted for much of the
delay in delivering mail.

Notification of change of units was sent in by telegram but changes
of address in personnel had to be sent in by officers in writing. Con-
sidering all the duties of the central postoffice perhaps they were not so
neglectful. Similarity in names, similarity of names of units, and care-
lessness of soldiers themselves in ascertaining and sending correct
addresses to their friends were some of the reasons for non-delivery of
mail. If each soldier had included his serial number in his address
fewer mistakes would have been made. Some mail was lost in trans-
portation from various causes, including the sinking of vessels and the
shelling of railways.

Hospital Service

A large number of Ripley county men were enlisted in the medical
department of the army, serving in base and field hospital work. Some
served as ambulance men, first aid, litter bearers, hospital orderlies,
nurses, cooks, and so forth. Litter bearers were sent out at intervals
of a few hours both day and night during battles to carry in the
wounded. The litters were made of canvas with a pole at each side.
Bearers went in on foot or crawled on hands and knees when necessary
to avoid shell fire. Shells could be avoided by falling to the ground if
they were being fired at different heights as they were always aimed at
certain objectives. Every wounded man was carried to the field hos-
pital as soon as possible. After treatment they were sent on in
ambulances or by train to the base hospitals. After the armistice, the
sanitary service men transported all sick and wounded from the camp
hospitals to the base hospitals. Badly wounded men were at all times
taken to the base hospital as soon as possible. Many of these hospitals
were located in England, others as far from the battle-field as practical.
Men able to walk to the first aid stations were allowed to do so, thereby
leaving litter bearers to help more seriously wounded comrades.

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The wounded men belonging on the Pacific Coast were sent home
by way of the Panama Canal. New Zealanders and Australians were
sent home the same way. At least one hospital ship a month passed
during the war, many more being sent through after the armistice.
Ships constantly brought the wounded men who could not be returned
to their regiments, back to the United States before as well as after the
armistice.

As many as eleven thousand patients were cared for in some of the
base hospitals during the war. Twenty-one thousand men were handled
from October 1 to November 20, by the 162nd Field Hospital at
Cheppy, France, during the Argonne drive. This hospital, relocated at
Longwy, received a large number of prisoners of all nationalities return-
ing from German camps after the armistice. All were in very poor
condition from lack of food, unsanitary conditions and so on.

Headquarters Service

George Engel and Frank Gauck of Batesville served throughout the
war at general headquarters of the American Expeditionary Forces at
Chaumont, France. George Engel worked as a clerk in the library
section. The work here was to send out training manuals on methods
of trench righting. They made their own pamphlets and sent them out
to all branches of the army. Theirs was the first organization of the
kind at general headquarters.

Frank Gauck was in the statistical and personnel department. He
organized casual companies and sent them in and out of camp or hos-
pitals as the case might be and took care of all small detachments from
general headquarters, attending to pay, quarters and rations. The work
was varied, and many exciting incidents occurred. The location of
Pershing's headquarters was kept secret from the general public, but it
was bombarded by airplanes practically every night. A big ammuni-
tion "dump", as the storage places were called, was at Choncerey, six
kilometers from Chaumont. This was the largest ammunition "dump"
of the Allied forces and was the object of the bombing. German
propaganda was also distributed by these airplanes, consisting of dodgers,
circulars and cards asking such questions as: "Why are the Americans
fighting? You can't win the war."

Part of this personnel work was the burying of the dead who were
killed or died of disease at Chaumont. Nine were put into one grave.
The bodies were placed in wooden box-shaped coffins. Base hospital No.
90 was at Chaumont on the banks of the Marne. About one thousand
graves were located there. Burial on the battle-field was, of course,
different. The bodies were rolled in blankets as coffins were not to be
had. The Grave Administration Company attended to the burials, and
made records. One identification tag was left attached to the bodv and
one used on the marker at the head of the grave. Each grave was
marked by a small wooden cross which carried the name and organiza-
tion to which the soldier belonged with the date of death, also his army

1. Frank Battisti. 2. Harry Zurline. 3. Albert Bodenberg. 4. John Henry Meyer. 5. Carl A.
Mistier. 6. Edgar Wooley. 7. Harry Gortemiller. 8. Martin Smith. 9. Anthony J. Rosfeld. 10.
Martin Prickle. 11. Fred A. Pohlar. 12. Lonnie Johnson.

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serial number. Big glass wine bottles were used at Chaumont to secure
the identification. The names, with other information, were written
on slips of paper and sealed in the bottles.

The General Headquarters Battalion consisted of four companies,
A, B, C and D. D company was sent to Tours in the supply service.
Companies A, B and C were in the zone of advance, general head-
quarters being inside the danger zone. Tours was in the safety zone.

Supply Service

The supply service saw to the furnishing of all supplies for the army
— food, clothing, ammunition and all kinds of necessary war supplies.
A number of Ripley county men served in different capacities in the
supply service. The trench drivers, carrying ammunition and food to
the front-line trenches, had some of the most hazardous and difficult
work of the war to perform. The roads were constantly shelled by the
enemy so that much detouring across fields had to be made and both
roads and fields were constantly torn by shells. Horses, wagons, and
mule teams were also used in the transportation of supplies. The men
were organized into wagon companies or truck companies as the case
demanded.

The 114th Supply Train got its first training in cross-country work
by driving Dodge and Liberty trucks from Detroit, Michigan, to
Baltimore, Maryland, carrying parts of motors and motor trucks.
Washington commended this unit as doing the most efficient work of
that kind.

Military Police

A few Ripley county men served in every department of the many
parts of the army, a number being enlisted in the military police service.
It formed a very necessary and interesting department, being to the
army precisely what the police system is to cities and the country at large.
Their duties were to look after traffic, handle prisoners of war, keep
order among the soldiers, and, in connection with the civil authorities
of the towns, to maintain order among the civilians in their association
with the soldiers stationed among them.

Some of the military police were given special assignments with the
civil authorities and secret service work in running down "boot-legging,"
thieving and other crimes occurring among soldiers or civilian population
about the camps.

In France, the military police had to maintain traffic conditions,
serve as guides in the trenches and guard all prisoners. All captured
soldiers were turned over to the provost-marshal, who corresponds to
the chief of police. The military police was also called upon to carry
dispatches and serve as runners from one army unit to another. The
provost-marshal was a colonel in rank ; assistant provost-marshals were
captains. Major-General E. M. Lewis was provost-marshal general of

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the entire American Expeditionary Forces. He was commander of the
38th Division at Hattiesburg, Miss., while they were in training at
Camp Shelby but he was sent to France ahead of his division and made
provost-marshal general.

A guide's specific duties were to show the officers through the
trenches and to lead new troops in for replacement and relief. They
had to study out their maps to learn the routes. According to the num-
ber on duty, the military police lost a higher percentage of men than
any other unit. There were two hundred military police to every
division. The prisoners were kept in stockades built about seventy-five
feet square. A guard was assigned to each of the four sides. Two rows
of wire fencing about ten feet apart fenced the enclosures. The posts
were about ten feet high, with an incurving brace at the top. About
forty strands of barbed wire was used. The guards' beat was between
the double line of wires. Tents were stretched inside the stockades on
boarded-up bases about five feet high.

Two kinds of prisoners were held in the camps, general and sum-
mary. The general prisoners were tried for serious offenses by courts-
martial and sentenced when convicted to a Federal prison. They were
never out of the prison except under a heavy guard, manacled and
sometimes shackled. The summary prisoners were tried for various
light offenses and were usually taken out in squads to police the camp.
This meant cleaning and doing the general dirty work of the camp.
A. W. O. L.'s were usually punished in this way.

Brightly Severinghaus of Batesville served in the criminal investi-
gating department of the military police in France. He was detailed to
assist in locating the three Y. M. C. A. defaulters or thieves, as they
used various means to secure the money they afterwards stole. All
three were captured and sentenced to the Federal prison at Fort
Leavenworth. Much of the criticism of the Y. M. C. A. in France
originated in these offenses. There was no department of the army that
was free from crooks, as enlistments were made from all classes of
society and not even the Y. M. C. A. escaped its share. These three
men stole an aggregate of two hundred and ten thousand francs, or
about forty-two thousand dollars. This one investigation chanced to be
of peculiar interest and importance to the American people.

Musicians

A number of our boys having musical ability became members of
various military bands. Amos Wesler, Leonard Miller and George
Karl of Batesville, Russell Sutton of Milan, and Kenan Wager of
Osgood were among those assigned to this service. The 112th Infantry
band won in a contest with three other bands in March, 1919, and
were sent on a compensation trip to Monte Carlo from LeMans, France,
by way of Tours, Lyons, and Marseilles. They attended the opera "La
Tosca" in Monte Carlo and went by automobile into Italy for a short
trip. The gold medal won in another musical contest was presented to
the band leader. Bands from seven other divisions took part in this con-

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test. The 112th Infantry belonged to the 28th Division. The military
bands were of great value to the morale of the army, as music has ever
been to all armies. When the 5th and 6th Marines marched to battle
at Chateau-Thierry singing "Over There", full-throated to its swing-
ing measure, it was a thing to assure them of victory as its confidence
shattered the enemy's advance. The bugler sounded all calls to the
army, reveille, retreat at sunset, "taps" at bedtime, marching calls and
the final "taps" as the last sound of farewell over a comrade's grave.
The drums beat time for parades and marches into battle and out of
battle, and in final triumphal processions through the streets of Paris,
London, New York, and Washington, and on to the many state capitals
and county seats and home towns, as the disbanding millions of the
American Expeditionary Forces were finally welcomed home.

Miscellaneous

Many famous historical places and scenes were visited or witnessed
by the Ripley county men in the World War. Monte Carlo, as one
of the famous show places of the world, has been described by many of
them. One boy summed it up by saying it was an ideal place to go for
a honeymoon — though his honeymoon waited for him in America. All
who saw Monte Carlo agreed that after the trip was made they under-
stood why the country was known as "sunny France". The larger
number of the American Expeditionary Forces will remember only a
sunless France dripping rain over seas of mud day after day, until they
almost forgot there were ever any intervals of sunshine, for the fighting
was done in northern France and Monte Carlo is in the south.

St. Amelia, France, is an historic place, where Napoleon once
quartered his whole army in hiding in its subterranean caves. The city
is built over caves on a hillside. These caves are cut into chambers
from solid stone, tiers on tiers of rooms along underground passages.

Cathedrals and churches everywhere proved to be of greatest inter-
est. The churches of Europe are its shrines in many ways. A com-
munity's history, its art and religion have been centered and embodied in
its church. In mediaeval times the church was its only permanent center
and refuge. So it results that the most striking and historic buildings in
most places of Belgium, France, and even England, are the churches.

Belleme, west of Paris, took the boys who visited it back to the
time of Christ in its historical legends. It was founded by the Gauls.
The first Chateau of Yves de Creil was partly destroyed by the English
Count of Warwick in a battle in the fifth century. It contains an
ancient chapel built long before that time. The moat and castle en-
trance with part of the chateau's first wall are still there. St. Sauveur
church at Belleme was built in the fifteenth century. It contains paint-
ings of St. Catharine, an "Adoration of the Shepherds" and a Mignardo
in one of the chapels. In the St. Thomas Chapel there is a painting
called "Apparition of Christ", by Salviati. In the Chapel of Our Lady
are fragments of a stained glass window by Rubens. A "Descent of

1. Harry Fischer. 2. Ed. Rimstidt. 3. Sergeant Walter Morrison. 4. Charles Massing. 5. Earl
C. Kleiner. 6. Benjamin G. Johnson. 7. James H. Fisher. S. Clyde E. Grow. 9. Charles Sembach.
LO. Dale Jams. 11. James Shook. 12. Harry Wullner.

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the Cross", painted by DuFresne in 1669, is in the main part of the
church. St. Martin, a little town near Belleme, has a church built in
the tenth century. An interesting church was visited on the Rhine,
near Coblenz. The path leading to it winds up the face of the cliff
and makes arduous climbing. It is called "The Way of the Cross" and
statues and shrines mark the resting places.

Winchester, England, Glasgow, Scotland, various castles and his-
toric points in England and Ireland were visited by the passing troops,
as well as the great cities of Paris and London, and the ports of Brest,
Nazaire, Bordeaux, Calais, LeHavre, and Marseilles. A castle was
pointed out at one place in France as the home of Richard Coeur de
Lion, while king of England and part of France. In England, Oliver
Cromwell's old castle, and some interesting old schools, ruins and forts
were visited as opportunity offered.

A Ripley county boy seems to have had a share in almost every im-
portant undertaking of the war. Several of our Coast Artillerymen were
ordered to Italy, but the signing of the armistice prevented their taking
part in the fighting there. A number of Franklin county soldiers who
received their mail on a Batesville route served in Italy in the drive
across the Piave River. Howard Smith of Brown township served in
the Northern Russia Expeditionary Force on the Murman Coast and
southward six hundred miles into the interior. His unit, the 44th
Engineers, were five months in the Russian service after serving seven
months in France. Less than one thousand American soldiers saw
service in both France and Russia. The ships used by this expedition
were so covered with ice during a part of the time as to resemble the
frozen-in ships of the polar expeditions.

John Schraub of Olean, Brown township, of Company E, 320th
Infantry, 80th Division, was transferred to the United States Mission,
interior of Germany, and sent on detached service to Quedlinburg, near
Berlin, from January 15, 1919, to the end of August, 1919. This
mission consisted of two hundred and fifty men and seventy-eight
officers. Their work was to feed, clothe, repatriate and send home
Russian prisoners of war held by the Germans. The funds were
furnished by the inter-allied nations. They were specially commended
for this service by the governments concerned.

Our boys were well represented in the Engineering Corps, working
on roads, railroads, trenches, camps, telephone and telegraph lines, docks
for the landing of ships, bridges, hospitals, and so on. Civilian workers
of all nationalities were employed in this construction work and were
under the control of the engineering units. One piece of work accom-
plished by the Eighteenth engineers was the light railway and the build-
ing of bridges between Metz and Verdun.

William D. Spencer of Versailles served in the Veterinary Corps,
being in France for eight months at Veterinary Hospital Fourteen,
located at Lux.

A number of our men served in the Quartermaster's Corps, among
them being Walter Bloemer of Batesville, who took part in the cross-

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country truck driving between Detroit and Baltimore during his final
training. We sent one Y. M. C. A. man and almost claim credit for
two more who served as chaplains — Rev. Otis McMullen, who was
pastor of the Sunman Union Chapel, but whose home was at Blue
Ridge, Indiana; the other was Rev. Perry Gibbs, whose wife was Miss
Flora Newman of Laughery township, but they were not residents of
Ripley county at the time of his enlistment.

The experiences of our soldiers and sailors in the various battles
and incidents of the war can best be told in their own words where
these letters and stories have been available. So many interesting
accounts are included in our men's various records, it is difficult to
make a selection from the thousands or more without writing a volume
to contain them all, which should certainly eventually be done.

William Wernke of Batesville, who fought at the Argonne Forest,
in Company G, 115th Infantry, 29th Division, describes his experience
as follows: "On October 8, 1918, we went 'over the top' at 6:30
a. m. at Molbruck Hill. Our regiment brought in about two thousand
prisoners this first day. The advance continued on the next day when
We 'dug in' for the night. 'Digging in' and establishing a line means
digging holes for shelter about three feet deep, large enough for two or
three soldiers to occupy each one. The advance began again on the
tenth, going on for two or three days, when we established a second line.
Stayed about three days on this line. On the fifteenth we were called
to take over another sector from the 116th Infantry, who were badly
shattered. We held this sector for two days. From here we went back
to the supporting lines and rested four days. I was then sent on combat
liaison, that means keeping connection on the line between the different
companies, carrying messages so as to keep all moving together. Also
keeping in contact with the divisions on the right and left. Remained
on this work two days and was then sent back to supporting lines.

"This fighting was all in the woods after the first day which was in
the open till 5 p. m. The forest consisted of all kinds of deciduous
trees, the largest trees the American soldiers had ever seen. The Ger-
mans had held the Argonne Forest so long they had built board walks
and club houses and had brought many pianos to the various dugouts.
They had cut the small trees and branches and piled them into dense
barricades among the larger trees. These extended everywhere, broken
only by intersecting roads. The ground covered by these woods was
hilly and rough.

"The barrage fire put over by the American artillery in advance of
the infantry was used to clear away this rubbish so the foot-soldiers
could follow up the attack. German machine gun nests were located
in every part of the woods and several German divisions were quartered
there, possibly thirty thousand men. The infantry fighting was done
with rifles, hand grenades and revolvers, the enemy being about thirty
yards from the advancing Americans. No real hand-to-hand fighting
occurred. The casualties were very heavy, some companies coming out
with only thirty or forty men left. The enemy fire against the Amer-
ican and French was continuous from machine guns and heavy artillery.

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The 115th lost several men killed, and only ninety were left off the
casualty list. A company's full strength was two hundred and fifty men.
The 115th had only two hundred and fifteen. Company G got three
decorations for the Argonne fighting, two French crosses and a citation
bestowed upon two sergeants and a lieutenant."

Earl Kleiner of Company D, 361st Infantry, 91st Division, whose
home is at Batesville, describes the infantry weapons: "We used Enfield
and Chau-Chau automatic rifles of French make that fired fourteen
shots without reloading. The Enfield fired five shots. We also used
hand grenades and rifle grenades. The rifle grenades were fired from
a tube fitted over the end of the gun, a cartridge carrying out the
grenade in its passage. The squads using these were called rifle
grenades or automatic rifle squads, according to the weapons used.
Liaison squads were half of them runners, carrying liaison messages,
the other half throwing hand grenades. A platoon usually consisted of
six squads of eight men and a corporal, though not always of the same
formation. A company has four platoons, the size of the platoon de-
pending upon the number of men available. Our unit was held as
support behind the front lines from October 31 to November 7, 1918,
in the Lys-Scheldt offensive. We were under shell fire only four days.
We had orders to 'go over the top' on the morning of November 11th
to take the city of Adenaard, Belgium, which was still held by the
Germans, but were halted on the morning of November 10th because
of the pending armistice. We moved into Adenaard after the retreating
Germans on the evening of November 11th and stayed there until
November 18th. The refugees began coming through the lines on the
morning of November 11. They were extremely destitute, being very
insufficiently clothed. Most of them found their homes destroyed.
They had no funds, so a bread and soup kitchen was opened for them in
the Hotel de Ville. For shelter the refugees were quartered in cellars
and other parts of large, empty buildings such as stores and warehouses.
The soldiers cleaned up the city of Adenaard while occupying it. The
streets had to be cleaned of refuse such as brick and plaster which was
hauled outside. Church property was moved from places of storage in
the convent back to the churches not destroyed. Nearly all the churches
were destroyed or seriously damaged. Only one of about five or six
churches was in good condition. Windows were all broken out every-
where by the shock of German shell fire. One very large church had
been used as an observation tower and the Germans had machine guns
and one-pounders up in the tower from which they had been .firing on
the Americans.

"Another stronghold in this city was the Belgian prison, a brick
building enclosed with a three-foot thick wall. The Scheldt river cuts
the city in two parts, the prison being opposite from the main part of
the city. The bridges had all been mined by the Germans, and these
mines were thrown as soon as the Americans entered the city. They
were rebuilt later. An American soldier was buried close to the gate
of the prison. He was shot by a German sniper. He was an Illinois

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boy, formerly of the 335th Regiment, 84th Division, as I was before
being transferred to the 91st after reaching France."

George Thiel of Batesville served in Battery D, 146th Field
Artillery, 41st Division. Extracts from his letters and papers sent
home tell the following story: "Was enlisted as a volunteer at Walla
Walla, Washington, on September 11, 1917. Trained a short time at
Camp Mills, Long Island, New York, and sailed from Hoboken, New
Jersey, on December 24, 1917, going by way of Halifax, Novia Scotia,
to Liverpool, England. A northerly route was used, passing near Green-
land. The fleet consisted of seven ships. Our route through England
went by way of Camp Morn Hill, Winchester, to Southampton and
then to LeHavre, France. Went by rail to Camp De Longe near Bor-
deaux for training under French officers. We used 155 mm. Grande
Porto Filloux guns. Completed training at Libourne, Gironde. Was
sent to the front on July 4, 1918. The 66th Artillery Corps became the
Corps Artillery, First Army Corps, First Army. We marched to advance
position along the Marne and fired our first shot at Chateau-Thierry on
July 11. Our two major offensives were the Champagne-Marne on
July 15-18 and the Aisne-Marne from July 18 to August 6. The last
shot in this campaign was fired on August 11.

"The regiment was assembled at Bois de Chatelet near Bouvardes
on August 12. After cleaning and overhauling our guns we went to
Ville-sur-Marne. We began operations at St. Mihiel on September 12.
Marched to Blencourt near Verdun on September 19, battalions being
stationed at Bois de Swiy. Began firing in the Meuse-Argonne offensive
at 11 p. m., September 25 and remained in continuous action until
November 11, our last firing positions in the advance being near
Montigny, from where we fired on Stenay and other points on the east
bank of the Meuse. We crossed the Meuse at Dun-sur-Meuse on the
morning of November 1 1 and established the regimental post at Brande-
ville. Began the march to the Rhine on December 2, 1918, going as a
part of the Third American Army. Crossed the French-German
frontier on December 11, going by way of Luxemburg. Crossed to
the east bank of the Rhine on December 31, occupying the towns of
Greuzhaven, Nauort, Stromberg, Kaan, Alsbach, Wirscheid and Ses-
senbach. Positions were selected for the defense of the Coblenz
Bridgehead in case of further hostilities.

"The 155 mm. G. P. F. gun is a French long range rifle of com-
paratively recent invention, the first one being made in July, 1917. In
traveling position it weighs about fourteen tons, and fires a projectile a
little more than six inches in diameter and weighing about ninety
pounds. Each gun costs about $40,000 and each round of ammunition
about $95. Regimental equipment cost about $3,000,000. While at
the front the 146th Field Artillery fired seventy thousand rounds at a
cost of about $6,500,000. It was a motorized unit, the guns being
carried at the front by a large French four-wheel drive tractor weighing
nine tons. The regiment was equipped after reaching Coblenz with
ten-ton Holt caterpillar tractors. The personnel and material was

1. First Lieutenant C. D. Ryan. 2. First Lieutenant Francis I. Row. 3. First Lieutenant E. E.
Heath. 4. M. L. Samms. Captain Medical Reserve Corps.

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transported in trucks, automobiles and motorcycles. It required two
and one-half hours for the brigade to pass a given point, traveling at
normal speed of ten kilometers per hour. When in column on the
march, the distance from front to rear of the regiment was about ten
kilometers. The troops ate turnips and cabbages planted by the Germans
as they occupied the evacuated territory, finding the fresh green food a
treat.

"We found the Germans using bread and meat tickets, and having
only black bread hard as a stone. They wore socks that had been
patched so much they were all patches. They had had no new wool for
four years. The American soldiers received more meat for one person
than an entire German family got for a whole week. The Germans
smoked leaves off the trees in lieu of tobacco.

"The Army of Occupation took morning hikes of about four miles,
took boat rides up the Rhine and long walks in the woods for recrea-
tion. The Y. M. C. A. planned excursions on the Rhine and furnished
reading material. Three or four hundred soldiers went on a single
trip, the Y furnishing the boat and all expenses. We went as far as the
French Bridgehead on the trip 1 took in February, 1919. We especially
admired the vineyards on the cliffs and the many castles along the way.
The regimental band went along to furnish music. The Y had shows
every night, also boxing and wrestling. Cigarettes, cocoa and cakes
were free. We visited a noted German pottery at Hohr which was
near where the 148th Field Artillery was located. These two regiments
were called the 'Artillery Tramps,' as they fought wherever needed,
being about the only American unit using large guns. The C. A. C.
was just reaching France when the armistice was signed."

Arthur Cramer of Batesville served in Battery C, 53rd C. A. C, in
Railway Heavy Artillery. This unit used fifteen and five-eighths inch
guns, 400 mm. They required seventy-two hours to mount, so were
moved on railroads for this reason. They fought at St. Mihiel fifteen
days in September, 1918, then returned to Haussimont and prepared
to go to Italy for further service. The signing of the armistice pre-
vented the carrying out of these plans.

The regiment was stationed about five kilometers behind the lines,
for firing and Battery C was not reached by the enemy fire. Battery D
had two guns blown up. Battery C fired six hundred rounds in the
fifteen days at St. Mihiel, using a two hundred-pound powder charge to
each round. They were protected by gun pits, easel pits six or seven
feet deep, and recoil pits five feet deep.

Trench-mortar batteries were an important part of the Coast
Artillery. The trench-mortars were short guns mounted on small
platforms and were to be used in the second line trenches. Like the
machine gun companies they were called the "Suicide Batteries." Harry
H. Marsh, of Versailles, was a member of the 304th Trench Mortar
Battalion, Company C.

Byron Winsor of the Fiftieth C. A. C, Headquarters Company,

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was at Brest, France, reaching there on October 21, 1918. His regi-
ment's main service was on roads and railroads. They also worked in
stone quarries, saw mills, cutting lumber for cantonments and board
walks, cared for horses and dug graves when needed.

When President Wilson arrived in Brest on December 13, all the
soldiers in Brest lined up in single file on either side of the road from
the docks into the city where the president and his party were to pass.
He was met by the Mayor of Brest with a reception committee accom-
panied by Miss Margaret Wilson, who had been singing to the soldiers
at the Y. M. C. A. at Pontanazen Barracks.

About forty thousand school children of Brest went to meet
President Wilson on his arrival, singing "Hall, hail, the gang's all
here", accompanied only by a French Drum Corps. A Red Cross
secretary of the Lake Division, reporting the same incident said that
happened to be the only American song they knew and they supposesd it
to be our national anthem, judging by the way the soldiers had used it
in the camps. The receiving line stood from 12 o'clock until 4 p. m.
The soldiers stood at attention while the President and party, consisting
of General Pershing, Mrs. Wilson, Miss Margaret Wilson and the
receiving committee, about seven cars in all, passed through the double
line from the docks to the city.

The stone wall at Pontanazen Barracks was a part of the strongly
fortified fort used by Napoleon for headquarters during part of his
campaigns.

Benjamin Johnson of Laughery township, served in Machine Gun
Company, 362nd Infantry, 91st Division in the Lys-Scheldt offensive in
Belgium, from October 31 to November 11, 1918. His story carries
some interesting points not told elsewhere.

"Our first job on entering any French town was to clean it up
according to the ideas of the American Army. The boys called their
trips in the French box cars. 'Hog Excursions.' They were packed,
thirty to thirty-five men to one car. Half could sit down, half had to
stand in the small car. They were shut in without lights and struggled
to know who should sit down next. Sometimes they saw British and
French soldiers in passenger coaches, though the Americans seemed
never to ride so.

"A machine gun company had twelve guns, one gun to each squad of
nine men. Each squad had two mules with drivers and one supply cart.
One cart carried the gun, water can, oil, tools and extra parts for the
gun. The supply cart carried the boxes of ammunition. The complete
number of men in a machine gun company was one hundred seventy-two,
mess sergeants, cooks and all. The officers were a captain, first lieu-
tenant and two second lieutenants. There were six cooks, one mess
sergeant and twenty-four 'mule skinners' in charge of a sergeant, and
one saddler to keep the harness in repair. The 'mule skinners' took
care of the mules and drove the carts. The carts, with drivers, were
left in the rear when the place of attack was reached and the guns and

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ammunition carried to the front by hand. The men carried automatic
Colt revolvers for personal defense.

"When we were getting ready to come home our captain told us to
pack up our personal belongings, such as comfort kits, sweaters, and so
forth, in Red Cross boxes and marked accordingly for shipment. The
English refused to land these boxes unless a duty were paid. The
Americans refused to pay on principle and the result was that the com-
pany lost the boxes."

Some American cavalry units were sent to France, but the Ripley
county cavalrymen remained in service on the Mexican border. There
were a number enlisted in this department of the army, including Harry
Engel and Raymond Firsich of Batesville. Their work was the patrol
of the Mexican border. This meant an occasional skirmish or raid.
In a fight at Juarez, thirty-five Mexicans were killed with no American
casualties. On another occasion, four troops of cavalry went on a
"hike." Four officers and two privates strayed across the line and were
captured. They were missing for eight days. No raiding party was
ordered, but a detachment went out ostensibly to "hunt deer," and
"shoot them if necessary." The hunting party returned with the six
men. They had been found tied to a post in a small house. A number
of Mexican guards were killed in the rescue and the house was burned.
This occurred near Auga Preta, Mexico.

John Kreuzman of Batesville, being a baker by trade, served with
the 306th Field Baking Company. He served overseas from November
1, 1917, to April, 1919. He gives a brief but interesting account of his
work :

"Our company was the first to bake white bread in France. When-
ever we found a French bakery we used their ovens, which were new to
all of us. You build your fire right in the oven and spread it all over
the oven to have even heat, and after it is burned out, you pull the
ashes out and put your bread in. Our field ovens were put up in five
minutes and torn down in two minutes. Each oven has three chambers
and each chamber holds six pans of bread. The bread we made was
called field bread, one loaf weighing twelve pounds. The amount our
detachment of thirty-six men turned out in twenty-four hours was
thirty thousand pounds. Our company was second on the list for having
the best record up to the time we left France."

As Told in Many Letters and Narratives

Number One

"I was sent to Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, on
September 20, 1917. Was put in the Depot Brigade, was there eleven
days and was then transferred to Company A, 335th Infantry, 84th
Division. We were trained about six months, then sent to Camp
Sevier, Greenville, South Carolina. Were there about three weeks and
were then sent to Camp Merritt, New Jersey. There we received our

1. Captain I. A. Whetlatch. 2. Captain H. P. Butts. 3. Captain M. Joseph Coomes. 4.
Captain L. T. Cox. 5. Captain (Dr.) George Withrow.

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clothes for sailing overseas. On the seventeenth day of May we sailed
from Boston, Massachusetts, to New York, from there to Halifax.
Were there two days, then sailed for France, arriving there the fifth
day of June. Edgar D. Wooley."

Number Two

"After our arrival in France we stopped at a camp at Calais, dis-
posed of some of our clothes, cleaned up our rifles and had some drilling.
After leaving Calais, we 'hiked' for five days, stopped for a few days,
drilled some and hiked for four days longer. Arrived at Mils, where
we got two weeks' drilling, then we made our way to the front at
Ypres, which was called the Flanders front. Was up at the front for
twenty-six days. Came back for some rest and more drilling. Was
back five days. Returned to the front and went 'over the top' a few
times. Came back, went to St. Quentin and went 'over the top' there the
29th of September. I was wounded about 7 :00 a. m., lay in a German
trench until ten o'clock that night before I got first aid. Was carried
back by two of our men to first aid station. Was carried by four Ger-
man prisoners to Castally clearing station ; was there two days, was
sent to the Sixth British General Hospital and was there two weeks.
My wounds were dressed there. Was sent from there to Pantion,
England ; was there two days, then was sent to Portsmouth ; was there
about three months before sailing for U. S. A. Sailed from Liverpool,
England, December 8 ; went to Brest, France, for coal and sailed for
U. S. A., arriving December 16 in good condition.

"Edgar D. Wooley/'

"June 23, 1918.
"Dear Mother:

"Was very glad to receive your ever welcome letter the other day —
was more than glad to hear from you. Yesterday in line of duty I
burned my right hand, so I am having my friend write this letter. 1
am now in the hospital, but I think I will be out soon. I will be able
to write soon. From your loving son, Emmett Demaree."

"June 30, 1918.
"Dear Mother:

"Will write a few lines. I am still in the hospital but am feeling
fine and will be out again in a day or so. My face is pretty badly burned
but looks all right. I was afraid my eyes were affected but they weren't.
I received a big letter from Elza. He is getting along O. K. Also a
letter from H. Geisler. A letter from Delia today. We had some big
rains this week. The Red Cross must be doing fine. Some ladies
from Hampton came out last night and brought us flowers and ice
cream. They treat us fine here in the hospital. I have been in a week
today. I heard Delza Demaree was gassed — don't know how bad. We
are real close to Hampton. This country must be awful hot in summer,
but I don't mind hot weather at all. Tell Carrie and the children to
write. I suppose berries will soon be ripe. They are ripe here. This

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is an interesting field as the planes fly most all the time. Well, mother,
don't worry, as I am feeling fine. I will close, hoping to hear from you
soon. Your loving son, Emmett Demaree/'

"Somewhere in France, November 5, 1919.
"My Dear Mother:

"Will write tonight to let you know I arrived in France O. K. and
am feeling fine. I hope you folks received my overseas card all right.
I intended writing before, but we have been busy getting settled, but we
are moving again tomorrow. I wrote while on board ship. I stood
the trip fine and didn't get seasick at all. I never imagined there was
so much water. The waves were twenty or thirty feet high. We had
good food on the way over and now the eats are better. We get candy
and tobacco issued to us. The Y. M. C. A. is certainly doing great
work over here. They have tobacco, toilet articles, cakes, hot cocoa
and eats to sell cheaper than in the United States. They also teach
French, have religious services and games, also movies and everything
to keep the boys in good spirits. Can you imagine seven thousand men
feeding from one kitchen ? They do it here. Some of the people wear
wooden shoes and they drive oxen. The women work like men. They
drive one horse in ahead of the other. The scenery is beautiful. It
has rained all of today. The grass and crops are pretty and green. Is
Elza in Kentucky? I expect it is beginning to get cold back home
now. It is funny to see the children scrambling over the American
pennies. I suppose you were surprised at my letters before I left the
other side, but our letters were, and still are censored, so I couldn't
tell you. Did you get my package from Langley Field ? I bought three
bonds before I left the States. Those over here wear a gold service
stripe on the left sleeve. I hope to get one. I like over here fine, so
far. I have been in charge of quarters today — that is, cleaning up
around. I had a detail of three fellows. The boys say it rains about
every day here, but we have plenty of good clothes and a slicker. We
can wear our steel helmets in a rainy time. I told the sergeant in
Langley to mail you my bond which I have paid for. I am in a good
squadron and getting along fine. I don't want you folks to worry for
we are well fed and taken care of. Write soon and tell me all the
news back there. Don't expect letters very often, as it takes a good
while for it to reach you. With love to all,

"Corporal Emmett Demaree,
"499th Aero Squad., A. E. F."

"Dear Friends:

"I will try to describe army life at Fort Brown. This is a small
town of about fifteen hundred inhabitants, which consist mostly of Mexi-
cans. It is very hot and dry here but we get the breezes from the Gulf
and that cools it off somewhat.

1. Ensign Horace E. Hunter. 2. Second Lieutenant Joseph Lewis Hyatt. 3. Naval Lieutenant
Albert E. Schrader. 4. Second Lieutenant H. E. Behlmer.

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"We have to get up every morning at five o'clock, and then we start
to drill at 7:15 and drill (mounted) until eleven o'clock, when we
groom our horses. Then comes the best thing of all, dinner, and then
we are off duty until two o'clock. Then we go out to drill, but we do
not have it so very hard in the afternoon. We drill two hours, then
we come in and get ready for retreat. They have inspection every
evening, at retreat and all those who have dirty rifles go in the awkward
squad which drills one hour and a half after supper. There are very
few wrho have dirty rifles, because they have plenty of drill in the day
time. After we have supper we are through for the day. We have to
be in bed at eleven, which is called 'taps,' and if you are not in by that
time, they take your name and either give you ten days' stable police
or kitchen police duty, but I would rather have the kitchen police
because you can eat all you want.

"Well, I think I will close for this time. I remain,
"Yours truly,

"Walter Francisco,
"16th Cavalry Co., Troop H, Brownsville, Texas."

"Brooklyn Yards, N. Y., April 7, 1919.
"Dear Mother and All:

"I received your letter dated April 1, 1919, yesterday. Sometimes
a letter from home reaches me in two days, but it makes no difference
how old they are, anything from home or vicinity is almost sacred.

"I got the Journals, and my, what a lot of news they contain ! Most
all the boys I know are being discharged. Some of them are Thaddeus
Brenton, Paul Day and others. It seems funny to read in the papers
about Private and Corporal so and so, because I know them by Paul,
Russell or whatever their name is. Too, in the navy everybody is just
plain Jack and every officer is sir, and not a lieutenant or captain.

"Mother, I told you I was on one of Uncle Sam's best ships but did
not describe her. She cost $21,000,000. She is the only ship of her
kind being run altogether by electricity. She has twelve fourteen-inch
guns, twenty five-inch guns, several three-inch guns and smaller arms.
The fourteen-inch guns comprise the primary battery and the five-inch,
the secondary. The cost of firing the guns is great, but in war you know
cost does not count. It is efficiency, or the one who wins is the one
who can deliver the goods in the shortest time. To fire a fourteen-inch
gun it costs $749.00. Three of them are fired at once, so the real cost
is $2,247.00. We call this a salvo.

"On board we have a working station. I work in the discharge office.
We have a fire station. I am in the fire control division and have a fire
plug to open. We also have an abandon ship station. I abandon ship
in motor sailor two, second trip. The funny part is that the men in the
first trip are taken quite a ways from the ship and then have to jump
overboard and swim till the boat comes after us. Then we have a
general quarters station. This is our battle station, and that is the

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most important, because the other stations are to make us efficient in
battle. My station is on a delicate instrument called a spotter. The
ship rolls, and what I do is to look through a telescope and catch the
middle of the roll. Then the ship is level and the guns are fired. We
practice here in the yards. We have a machine which rolls the wires.
If you make a hit, the bell rings. I made eight hits out of ten shots
yesterday.

"Having a great deal of liberty now and we are getting ready to open
the baseball season. The 'Y' and Jewish Welfare Club sent us sixty
bats, one hundred balls and forty gloves. There is a park in the yards
where we practice. We also have infantry drill twice a week. The
fleet gets in from Gautaunama Bay, Cuba, next week. The U. S. S.
Pennsylvania is flagship. Oh yes, the Idaho, just launched, came in
yesterday from Philadelphia. That is her home port. She is S. O. P.
ship now. That means senior officer present. We have been S. O. P.
all the time. She has Rear Admiral Coonz aboard.

"Am sending you two snapshots taken the day the 27th Regiment
paraded in New York. Had some pictures of myself taken, only $12.00
a dozen!

"Mother, I read over the affidavits now and pick out the most
urgent cases of dependency. We have a three per cent allowance now.
We have two hundred cases filed and our percntage calls for twenty-
one men in May. It is queer how the navy took picks of the country's
men and their people are most all cripples and have rheumatism and
are so old, generally forty or sixty. What must be the condition of the
people of those rejected? I don't blame them for getting out if they
can. We are glad to get back.

"With love,

"Ralph Croxton."

"November, 1918.
"Mother, I was looking over my diary last night and find that
this will be my last letter to you during my first year in the navy, for
the time is drawing near which will make it a year since I joined. When
I think of the many things so new to me that have happened, I know
some of them will interest you. Although I told you many things
when I was home in January, I am going to give you a short synopsis
of my navy career. I look at my rookie days in quite a different light,
anyway, now.

"I joined the navy, you will remember, November 22, at Indian-
apolis. At first they told us we were going to Norfolk, but sent us to
Great Lakes training station instead. The two boys I was sworn in
with are gone — one is serving three years at Portsmouth naval prison
for stealing; the other has deserted and can not go home. The former
was eighteen and the latter fifteen. I was twenty-one.

"Our time at Great Lakes was short, although it seemed long to us.
We were there five months to the day. I went the regular route —

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first, detention three weeks; next, real camp, and then outgoing camp.
I was in Camps Farragut, Perry and Ross, as you remember by my mail
addresses. At Great Lakes they have nine camps, and this winter in-
tend to keep one hundred thousand there all the time.

"It seems that whatever we do in life, we imagine our lot is the
hardest. So it seemed then ; but now it is a pleasure to think over our
petty joys and sorrows. These are some of the things I think of when
thinking of my time as a rookie: Snow shovels, swabs, sick bay, in-
spection for liberty, breaking up of Company E, the crack company in
drill and losing my furlough paper, also drill, and the way we used to
parade when the girls came to camp Wednesday afternoon, which is a
half-holiday in the navy.

"Well, we were very glad when we got orders to move to Camp
Ross. We imagined we were old salts and sang and halloed at the
other sailors all the way over. There we had another inspection and got
our last two shots in the arm. We had already received three besides our
vaccination.

"In three days we took train enroute for New York, the wonderful
city we had heard so much about. There were one hundred and ten of
us and we had three cars to ourselves. We sure did try ourselves on
the way. We threw pillows, sang, put the porter under the fountain,
etc. We left the lakes at eight o'clock and reached Brooklyn Navy
Yards the next day at four o'clock. Our stay in the Morse receiving
ship was short and the next day a tug took us to Ellis Island. It is
just across from the Statue of Liberty. It is the place where immigrants
land when coming to the United States. They also take the soldiers
returning from the front there for inspection. The next thing was the
separation. We were lined up for ship drafts and twenty-three of us
were sent to the U. S. S. Northern Pacific, a transport. This was
a sad parting, although we had only been together five months. The
book of Uncle Tom's Cabin came to my mind and I thought of the
bitter partings taking place in it. We came aboard our ship and were
there from five-thirty until six when she sailed. She looked like a mon-
ster to us, but is small compared with others I have seen since. She is
speedy, though, and many people you meet have heard of her and her
record return trip. We have carried many noted men and women.
Last trip we took Secretary of War Baker to Europe and have him
returning this trip. Some others are Vanderbilt, Senator Lewis, Miss
Irene Franklin Green (actress), and Senator Chamberlain.

"I have made seven trips across now, or in other words, have
traveled as much as two times around the world. Many times I get
blue and downhearted, but I know at the same time it is the greatest
experience in my life. France is a beautiful country. We can not see
much of it in war times, but talk to people who have. We pass through

a beautiful bay on entering B , France, which is said to have eight

entrances. The people are so funny and are regular beggars. A
Frenchman told us the reason of so much begging was because the
American sailors didn't care as much for their dollars as the French did
their centimes (one one-hundredth of a franc).

1. Lee Kremer. 2. J. Frank Grauck. 3. George Engel. 4. Baird F. Cox. 5. Walter Bloemer.
6. Arthur Webster. 7. Robert Vandolah. 8. Lonnie Manlief. 9. John Lawless. 10. Samuel Elliot.
11. Clinton Meister. 12. Russell Pendergast.

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"We have our times to be on watch, which is generally four hours
on and eight or twelve off. I have done several things on board. I
was on deck, an idler, mess cook, messenger, helmsman, and am a signal
man now. It is all great but when the war is over I want to get out
of the service. Uncle Sam pays all he can, but we can't save money
in the service. Hoping this gives you a better idea of myself in the
service and apologizing for its length, I close till I hear from you.
With love and affection,

"Your son,

"Ralph L. Croxton."

"We had a submarine scare on the way over to France. It was
sighted one morning about two-thirty. We were lucky and got away
from it before it had time to do its work, and after that everything went
smoothly. We pulled in the harbor about ten o'clock a. m., May 18,
and landed at two-thirty p. m. Then we marched to the rest camp
known as the Old Napoleon Barracks. Were there five days then
were marched to the train at Brest and sent to St. Nazaire. We all
got a glimpse of the first-class coaches we had to ride in. They were
marked '40 men or 8 horses.' I think all men that were overseas were
acquainted with them. After we were sent to St. Nazaire we were put
to work driving trucks and cars. I did convoy work from St. Nazaire
to northern part of France most of the time. Sometimes when men
were scarce we were sent up to the liner with rations and ammunition.
On September 12th I had a chance to go while the St. Mihiel drive was
going on. I saw many sights while up there. After that did not visit
the front any more. In December we were sent to the Paimport
forest to haul wood for the Army of Occupation. We hauled wood
till April then were sent to Clisson to move troops that were coming
back from the front to come home. June 24 we were relieved of duty
and sent to St. Nazaire. After three days' rest I sailed for the United
States, June 28, the day peace was signed.

"Russell Pendegast."

"Cohons, France (Camp Chamberlain),

"November, 1918.
"Dear Friend :

"Will write you a letter, endeavoring to give you a little idea of our
battalion's trip to France.

"On October 17 we rolled our heavy packs, leaving Camp Colt,
Pennsylvania, at ten p. m., for Camp Mills, Long Island, twenty miles
from New York City, arriving on the eighteenth, tired but content.
After a strict overseas physical examination and close checking and re-
newing of our equipment, we again rolled packs and left at six a. m.
Sunday for embarkation for New York, arriving at eleven same morning,
swinging out at five p. m. toward the deep blue Atlantic ocean.

"Must admit many of us did not enjoy much of the trip, owing to
seasickness. To add to our discomfort everyone was compelled to wear

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life preservers when not in their herths, and a 'flu' mask or gauze
over the nose and mouth with considerable discomfort. Good results
followed, we having only a few influenza cases and only one death on
board. When not seasick, I enjoyed the trip exceedingly, watching the
waves as they tossed our big White Star liner, Megantic to and fro,
and our convoy, containing twenty-three additional ships carrying troops
and provisions, all in close proximity, was an interesting sight. A large
American cruiser and a couple of submarine chasers furnished addi-
tional protection, together with the one — or even two six-inch guns on
each merchant ship. Weather was fine, and the sea smooth the greater
part of the distance.

"October 31, after an eleven-day voyage, the Megantic arrived at
Liverpool and we disembarked at three p. m. and started a six-mile
hike through the streets of Liverpool to an English rest camp with our
sixty-pound pack, and which we found located adjoining a park on a
high hill and called 'Knotty Ash,' a small city of tents. After stam-
peding the always present and deeply valued 'Y.' tent, with its low
price and high quality 'eats, soft drinks and smokes,' we collected at the
outskirts of the camp to inspect the 'natives,' especially the 'fair ones.'
Later two regiments of colored infantry passed by to their own re-
served section. With their splendid-playing fifty-piece band, richly em-
broidered regimental colors, flanked with an American flag, they marched
proudly by. We later learned they were only six-weeks' trained
Georgia negroes, indicating our purpose to supply the allies plenty of
men quickly.

"Early the next morning, November 1, as we boarded a small, old-
style English passenger train reserved for us, with first, second and third
compartments, holding eight persons, five of these to each four-wheeled
car, a British military band played 'Yanks Are Coming.' King
George's personal letter was given to each soldier, and we started across
this tight little isle, one hundred and seventy-five miles. Saw enroute
some very fine and well-cared-for farming country, quaint, interesting old
villages and large manufacturing places. Arriving at six in the evening
at the ancient city of Winchester, we detrained and hiked the steepest
of hills and away over a three-mile muddy road to another rest camp,
'Winnall Down.' After spending two days and nights in comfortable
barracks, we left Sunday, November 3, for Southampton, some twenty
miles distant, where we left at six o'clock on the speedy little American
coast ship, 'Yale' (twenty-three knots), for LeHavre, France. Be-
fore embarking we saw the monster ship Olympic, sister ship to the ill-
fated Titanic, pull out for New York. It surely created a strong
desire in us for the good old U. S. A. As a rule, soldiers and civilians
never share trains or boats.

"November 4th we disembarked from the Yale and climbed the
four-mile hill of LeHavre to the English-operated rest camp, 'LeHavre
No. 1.' Two interesting days were spent among soldiers of every na-
tion, including German war prisoners, watched by us with keen interest.

"November 6th, midnight, found us starting for our last long ride
for the American front near Belfort, in the doughboy's Pullman —

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a French stock car of eight-horse capacity — forty live American soldiers
amply filled it as diner and sleeper with all unoccupied space adjoin-
ing the rain-absorbing roof. Three days and nights of starts and stops
were consumed in the two hundred and eighty-six mile ride, the mess
car sending forth an occasional loaf of dry bread and can of 'bully beef
to be carefully divided 'one to four.' But we all enjoyed the wonderful
scenery of the trip — passing through the quaint, centuries-old villages
of stone houses, the far extremity of the famous Marne battlefield, with
its grave-dotted fields and woods, some being mounded and railed off
within a few feet of the railroad bed — a French soldier receiving burial,
if possible, on the spot where life blood ebbs. Thursday found us at
historical Longres.

"Friday, November 8th, we changed cars for an eight-mile ride to
the tank center of the American Tank Corps in France, Camp Chamber-
lain. On arriving we found an American-constructed camp of wooden
barracks, water works, railroad switches, and stone roads, with other
improvements being made. Nearly the whole division of ten thousand
highly trained drivers, auto mechanics, machine gunners, making up
the tank corps, are here trying their pet monsters. The capacity of the
barracks being filled, we were marched about two miles beyond to a
French village located in a deep hollow of some two hundred buildings,
and called 'Commune Cohons.' Founded some six hundred years ago,
Cohons was built with the house and barn under the one roof made of
stone slabs and twenty-four inch stone walls with an occasional small
window and fireplace in the house part. The peasant farmers always
live in these small villages scattered over the country-side from three
to six miles apart, and you never see a farm house along the road as in
America. We were made as comfortable in the vacant houses and barns
as it was possible in a community where no improvements could be dis-
covered to have been made since its construction. We have one con-
venience provided by nature in the small clear streams that run down
our four or five streets or roads to a large mill race operating at one
time an old grist mill built one thousand years ago and now used for a
mess hall and barracks. While the French farmer has his all intensely
cultivated garden surrounded by moss-covered stone walls, his agri-
cultural methods seem primitive to us. They have finely bred cattle
and horses, but driving their horses one in front of the other, or tandem
style, even three or four horses for plowing or hauling purposes must
have many disadvantages in contrast to our style of team work. They
are exceedingly thrifty and everyone works, old women watch the cows
(no fences to speak of) and carry bundles of 'faggots' in a basket at-
tached to their backs, that the family use entirely for firewood and
occasionally the small four-cover stove gets such wood. The surround-
ing hills with their stone walled terraces, and richly cultivated gardens
and vineyards, capped with small groves, gave a pleasant contrast to the
crowded dingy villages with no stores and two or three French cafes.
One chateau grounds, constructed before our Revolutionary War by
twenty-cent per day labor, rising up a steep hill in thirty-foot wide
terraces with moss-covered retaining walls with its fruit trees, vineyards

1. Joseph Lucas. 2. Grover C. Fox. 3. Charles Sullender. 4. 01 Ian Salvers. 5. Archie
Downey. 6. Frank Hillman. 7. Joseph Grossman. 8. Raymond 0. Reuter. 9. Eddie Byard. 10. Frank
Peaslee. 11. Allan Richard Losh. 12. William A. Gindling.

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and beautiful groves was especially admired as outrivaling any park
in our cities.

"The wonderful avenues or roads of France winding in easy slopes
in every direction with their large, beautiful trees on either side, lend
great charm and interest to the landscape that is so easily viewed from
the many high hills that continuously break the plateaus of this section.
Constructed of a peculiar easily crushed native rock and natural sand-clay
cement, some on the lines of the old Roman highways, others being
Napoleon's famous military road, and the balance the Government's
national highways — all kept in most excellent repair in peace times —
place France in the front rank for autoists.

"We are still continuing our training to keep fit and pass the time
till the happy day to 'roll packs for home' arrives, with reveille at six-
thirty, mess at seven, physical exercises at eight, 'squads east and west,'
till eleven, two hours for rest and eating and one o'clock our afternoon
hike, returning by three. The rest of the day is 'bunk fatigue' or play.
A sample of our meals is: Breakfast, rice or boiled cornmeal mush,
condensed milk, prunes, bacon, bread and coffee; a Sunday dinner, boiled
beef, tomatoes, mashed potatoes, gravy, bread, butter, apple rolls with
sauce, coffee. All have keen appetites, but 'seconds' suffice for our
hungry ones. The Government certainly takes care of the feed and
equips its soldiers in a manner contrasting favorably in comparison with
others.

"While many of us believe we have all received our share of a
soldier's hardships — marching and eating in the rain, cold, sleet and
mud, snugly sleeping adjoining thoroughly and always damp stone walls,
with resultant coughs, colds and aches that without superwisdom would
perplex our ever watchful surgeon to diagnose regardless of fear or
favor, and then impartially distribute one of the Government's 'three
varieties' of pills, so readily distinguished by color — we are all glad to
have been to 'the front' in the land of sacrifice, fame and glory, beauti-
ful France— if not all of us could 'go over the top.'

"Very sincerely,

"Private Alfred J. Wood,

"Company B, 304th Battalion, 4th Tank Corps,

"A. P. O. 714, A. E. F., France."

"I have been ^sked by many to write a story of my experiences while
in the service of Uncle Sam, and although I make no claim as a story-
teller or writer, I shall endeavor to give a word picture of a soldier's
life in training as well as under fire.

"During the early months of last year I enlisted, and left Dayton
for Ft. Thomas, Ky., where I got my first impressions of the art of
making soldiers from peace-loving civilians. I was at this station but
a few days, during which time I received the preliminary instruction in
the gentle (?) art of warfare, and had issued to me a suit of regulation
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"I shall always feel that they were in a hurry to get me to Europe,
because in less than two weeks I was transferred to Camp Wadsworth,
near Spartanburg, S. C, and began training in earnest at a rifle range
in the mountains. There were many others like me there, and it seems
we must have been apt pupils at the fighting business (probably be-
cause we were Irish), for in about one month we were pronounced fit
to proceed to the battle zone, and were given our overseas equipment,
consisting of about eighty pounds of freight.

"We were marched to waiting trains and started for Camp Mills,
N. Y. From here we went to Hoboken, N. J., to await our trans-
port. It was ready to take us across long before some of us were ready
to go, but as I had enlisted for the purpose of 'going over,' I was con-
tented when at last we marched through the pier and aboard our ship,
the 'Juliana Princess.' Before going on board, we were all given
printed post cards which said : 'The ship on which I sailed has arrived
safely overseas.' These we were permitted to sign and address to rela-
tives and friends, and when the ship landed on the other side, the au-
thorities at New York placed them in the mail. I suppose if the ship
had gone to Davy Jones' locker, the lot of cards would have been kept
as souvenirs. As a means of identification, each man wore around his
neck two metal discs on which were stamped his name and a number,
these discs being referred to by the boys as 'dog tags.'

"I shall never forget the feeling that came over me as we steamed
out of New York harbor, escorted by tugs, and as the outline of the
Statue of Liberty faded in the distance I said silently, 'Goodbye every-
body, goodbye everything,' for I was now bound for the scene of the
world's greatest conflict.

"There were several ships in the convoy and, of course, we were
escorted across by torpedo boats, destroyers, and so forth, to protect us
from the U-boats. We had regular drills on board while going across,
and each man was assigned his place in case we were torpedoed. When
we reached the 'danger zone' every man put on his life belt, and we
were constantly on the alert. No lights were allowed, not even a cigar,
or a cigarette. Personally, I expected to see a periscope bob up in front
of us every minute from the time we left New York till we landed, but
nothing of the sort happened, and after about ten days we weighed
anchor at Glasgow, Scotland, and I got my first view of this beautiful
country.

"After a brief stay here, we went by rail to Winchester, England,
where we spent two days in a rest camp. After spending the time in
getting rid of our 'sea legs,' we again boarded trains and proceeded to
Southampton, England. Here we were taken on board British troop
ships and started across the English channel for France. I assure you
that on this trip across the channel I was terribly seasick, and felt that
if I lived through it the war wouldn't have any terrors for me. After
fourteen hours we landed at LeHavre, France, and here I began to
realize just what hardships and privations meant to a soldier. We were
camped about five kilometers from town, in camouflaged tents, sur-

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rounded by barbed wire. There were many military police to keep the
men from drinking wine, which was plentiful and cheap.

"Leaving LeHavre, we passed through Bricon, near Chaumont,
where General Pershing had his headquarters; then on through Valin-
court to Audreville, which was our headquarters. Here we drilled in
hand grenade, and rifle grenade practice, also automatic rifle practice.
Then we were drilled in skirmish or open warfare. We also practiced
at St. Martin, the whole division being engaged.

"From St. Martin we were taken in trucks to Vagney, in Alsace-
Lorraine, on our way to Bresse, but owing to a change in orders we
were kept at Vagney for two days, where we again practiced open war-
fare in the mountains.

"Having received our new orders by this time, we were taken in
trucks to Kruth, which is a typical German town, in the Vosges moun-
tains. A strange sight here was to see the women washing clothes in
cold water on stones in the public pools. We pitched our 'pup' tents
at this point and enjoyed an elaborate menu of hard-tack (made in
Dayton), 'monkey meat,' 'slum,' and corned beef. We left Kruth on
Sunday morning for the cable-head, which we reached at nine o'clock.
Here our packs were carried up the mountain on a cable, but we were
obliged to 'hike,' and after six hours of mountain climbing we reached
the top of the cable.

"It was absolutely necessary to rest here for a short time, and at ten
o'clock Sunday night, in a downpour of rain, we started with our packs
for the dugouts, where we arrived at four o'clock the next morning, after
going through a barrage which the Germans laid down to cut us off.
This was my hrst real taste of what the war was like. We rested in
the dugouts for two days and then left for the trenches in Alsace-
Lorraine. Arriving there in due time, we took our place in the trenches.
By the aid of field glasses I could see the Rhine river and the German
cities of Colmar and Mulhausen.

"We had lots of company in the trenches, as there were hundreds
of rats and millions of 'cooties.' This was a quiet sector, and we lived
in dugouts, about twenty-one men to a post. Three men stood guard
during the day, and all were on guard at night. Food was carried to us
from the kitchens, which were in the rear. We had outposts in the
woods, which were block-houses surrounded by barbed wire. There
were openings in the walls, about six inches wide, through which we
shot.

"We had many close calls from three-inch shells, as the German
trenches were only about three hundred feet from ours. An amusing
incident happened one evening as we were eating supper. The Germans
sent over a gas cloud and, of course, we dropped our 'chow" and put
on our gas masks. One of our cooks became so confused that he grabbed
his Red Cross bag and pulled it over his head. Before we could get
him harnessed in his gas mask he was almost suffocated. Owing to
the fact that the citizens of most of the towns were chiefly French, we

1. Ernest Hess. 2. Charles Wagner. 3. Steven Shorten. 4. Rollin Hess. 5. Delzie Demaree.
6. Claude Bronnenbero. 7. Peter Schneider. S. Leonard Miller. 9. Amos Wesler. 10. Walter Messner.
11. James T. Kinnett. 12. Raymond T. Fox.

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did not shell them, but could have done so easily, as we were near
enough to hear the German bands and see trains moving in the towns.

"One night we had an Italian doing guard duty. Suddenly he heard
some sort of noise, shot twice, and then called out: 'Halt! Who goes
there?' He evidently did not want to take any chances.

"After guarding sixteen days in the trenches, we were sent back to
the cable-head to rest, but the Germans kept us busy with their artillery.
We lost some men during this time, but the number was small. Later
we were sent to the trenches in a different part of the line, and here
things were more lively. We went over the top one night to get prison-
ers, and penetrated to the German second line trenches. We did not
meet much opposition, took no prisoners, and lost only eight men. I
was slightly wounded by a piece of shrapnel and was sent to the field
hospital for serum, and then to another hospital farther back. My
wound kept me out of the line about two weeks.

"I was now considered a seasoned warrior, so they sent me to the
Argonne region. Imagine, if you can, marching toward a battle front
and while twenty miles away hearing the roar of the artillery, every step
bringing you nearer. As we marched on and on, the thunder of the big
guns grew louder and louder until it seemed one continual roar, the
ground under our feet trembling as in an earthquake. But we had
grown accustomed to it by this time, and marched on up to our position
as though there was not a shot being fired.

"I went into the line on September 26. It was hell on earth. We
started in with six hundred thousand men. Dead and wounded soon lay
in piles all around us, some Americans, some Germans. Men fell all
around me, and I began to feel that I would be next. I confess that I
was rather scared, but a scared Irishman can fight if necessary, and I
did my best for Old Glory. Three of us lay in a shell hole for a long
time fixing a jammed machine gun, but when we got it in working order
— well, there were some Germans who wouldn't bother us any more.
Even here in the face of death, the Yankee nerve was displayed. As
the big shells from the German guns came whistling through the air,
some doughboy would shout : 'Oh, hell, that bird hasn't got my name
on it,' and would pay no attention when it struck near him and ex-
ploded. It was not uncommon to hear a bit of familiar song amidst the
din of battle, and the morale of our boys was one big surprise to the
Huns.

"We lived on reserve rations (hardtack) and it was necessary to
take it from the dead Americans, as none could be brought up to us.
We drove the Germans out gradually, and the Marines had a big part
in the driving. After being in the lines two times here, I was sent north
through Grand Pre and Buzanchy. About fifteen miles from Buzancy,
at a little village called Stonne, I was gassed. This ended my fighting
days just before the armistice ended the war. I was sent to the Old
Glory hospital at Verdun, a beautiful city on the Meuse river. All the
buildings there were of stone. Next I was sent to a hospital at Soulley,
then on a Red Cross train to Mont Dore. The latter is a sporting town,

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with large hotels and gambling houses or casinos, and beautiful stone
chateaus.

"At Mont Dore I was put in Class B-2 by the doctors, and sent to
St. Aignon, through Verzon and Bourges. The central postoffice and
record office are at the latter place. Here I was held in a camp where
accommodations for the wounded were lacking. Christmas day I slept
on a blanket in the mud and snow. St. Aignon is a large classification
camp, and here I was put through the 'cootie' machine, an affair where
all apparel is sterilized by steam; then through the 'mill,' where I was
examined and reclassified by a doctor. Then I was given a new uniform
and back pay, which made me feel better. At this camp twenty-five
thousand men were fed in one hour and the food was good.

"On December 27th I was sent to Brest with a casual company of
one hundred and fifty men and two officers, representing all divisions.
At this time conditions were terrible. We had to wade knee deep in
mud to and from the kitchens, and often would not go to our meals be-
cause of the mud. This refers especially to Kitchen No. 5, where the
Eighty-third Division Infantry was fed. At places in the mud boards
were laid on top to make it better to walk on, or in, but one night one
man fell off this 'duck board' and it was quite a job to get him out.

"January 7th I sailed from Brest on the transport 'Pueblo' for the
good old U. S. A. Part of the voyage was rough, waves going clear
over the vessel. We passed the Azores on Sunday, January 12, and
could see the little white houses and green fields, which were a beauti-
ful contrast to the shell-worn ruins of France. We could also see the
American submarine base on a large island of the group.

"On January 21st we sighted the Statue of Liberty, and it was an
inspiring moment in my life. We landed at Hoboken, N. J., and were
taken to Camp Merritt, the most beautiful camp I saw while in the
service. We were given twenty-four hours' leave in New York City,
and took in all the sights. The people treated us royally, and 1 had
five big meals — real meals — that day. Then I started back toward
Dayton, passing through Elizabethtown and Philadelphia, where the
Red Cross gave us a splendid dinner; Baltimore, Washington and other
eastern cities, arriving at Camp Sherman at night. Here I received my
discharge on January 28, and reached Dayton February 1.

"During my stay in France I did not learn the word for water but
as everyone else drank wine, I did not want to change their customs,
so I did also. I had a great trip, but I am cured. Sherman may have
been right about the Civil War but he didn't begin to define this one.

"I found the spirit of brotherly love stronger than religion with
the boys facing death in the trenches. In answer to the numerous
questions, and without malice or prejudice, I must say that the Red
Cross and Salvation Army did more for the boys in our division than
all other organizations combined. I am glad to be back with my loved
ones, but in spite of all I saw over there, if Uncle Sam ever needs me
again, 'Red' Handle is ready to go. Robert Handle."

William Robinson's Story

I belonged to the 16th Infantry,
Trench Mortar Battery, and am
glad to say that I can call myself
one of Pershing's men. We sailed
from Hoboken June 14, 1917, and
for the first few days every one
was too sick to care whether we
ever reached Europe or not.
About half way across we were at-
tacked by a submarine and were
fired on once, but the torpedo
missed us by about thirty yards.
Outside of this, our trip was un-
eventful, and we arrived safely in
France at St. Nazaire on June 26,
1917.

We were in St. Nazaire two
weeks, and it was there I saw my
first German prisoners. On the
14th of July we moved on, and
landed in Gondrecourt, July 16th,
remaining there two weeks. From
Gondrecourt we moved to a little
town named Abendville, and it
was there that I first heard the
sound of the cannon. We spent
about a month and a half in this
little town, and were undergoing hard training all the time we were
there. Then we had another short move to Demange, where we finished
our training, which consisted of drilling, signaling, throwing hand
grenades, shooting trench mortars, digging trenches, building dugouts,
etc.

About the middle of October we made our first trip to the
trenches, but to a quiet sector, called a rest sector by both the French
and Germans, where they sent their tired troops. For the first two
weeks there were no men killed or wounded, and nothing exciting
happened, but on the morning of the third of November the Germans
made a raid and took twelve of our men prisoners, wounded five and
killed three. These three men were the first American soldiers killed in
the war. Private Gresham of Evansville, Ind., was one of them.

After thirty days in the trenches we went back to Demange, where
we maneuvered for one month. Some of the severest hardships we had
to undergo were endured in that month, for it was December and
bitterly cold. On the 16th of January we started for a "real-for-sure"
live sector, which was a three-day hike. On the first day out it rained
all day, but that night as luck happened, we found a good place to sleep
— a haymow full of hay. We laid over in that town one day, and con-

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In a Dugout
Wm. Robinson, Wilbur Bruns and
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tinued our hike on the following day, but that was not so bad, for the
weather was good. The next day we landed at the front. From the
middle of January to the middle of March we stayed there, and nothing
very exciting occurred, though we did lose quite a few men. I took part
in two different raids. After two months we went back to a rest camp,
and were there three weeks, when the Germans started their big spring
offensive at Amiens, and we were called up there.

For one day and two nights we rode on a train, in cars which were
marked for "40 homines et 8 chevaux", of which every one heard in
due time. In the two days after we unloaded from the train we hiked
seventy miles with only bully beef, sandwiches and coffee once a day.
Four men dropped dead on the trip. Then it seemed as if Foch decided
he did not need us after all, for he had us back in reserve for two weeks,
after which we marched to the front and took over a sector to the left
of Amiens on the Picardy front. This was what was called a "pas bon"
or no good sector, for there was artillery fighting going on all the
time, and if you exposed yourself at all you would probably be blown to
pieces. We had a great many casualties during the four weeks we
stayed there, and then we were sent back behind the lines for five days,
where we were maneuvering and getting ready to make an attack at
Cantigny.

We made the attack at Cantigny on the morning of the 28th of
May, and I will try to give you a little idea of how we went "over the
top". The last thirty minutes before the zero hour, which is about
6 :30 a. m., are very trying moments. I will tell you frankly I was
scared — so scared that it seemed I must be yelling and showing my fear
to all the rest. Everyone else appeared perfectly calm, and 1 thought
I must be the only shaky one, but I finally asked the fellow beside me if
he was scared, and he said: "Yes; are you?" I naturally admitted that
I was, but about that time our artillery barrage started and there was
more or less excitement, so that we began to lose our terror. This
artillery barrage lasted about half an hour, and then we got word to
go 'over the top'. From then on things happened so thick and fast that
there is no use in trying to describe them. Unknown to us the wheat
field near by was filled with our men who had been lying down in the
wheat, and when we came out to go over the top they also rose up from
the wheat to accompany us. It was a wonderfully impressive sight to
see this wheat field suddenly alive with men, whose bayonets glistened in
the sunlight as they advanced with us. Where we went over the top
was about two hundred yards to the right of Cantigny, and I saw no
live Germans at all, although we passed by many dead ones. We lost
only one man, our lieutenant-colonel, who was shot through the neck
and died a few hours later. The Germans were in dugouts in Cantigny,
and our liquid-fire men had to give them shot in order to get them out,
when the men with the bayonets either killed them, or took them
prisoners, the Germans themselves being given their choice as to which
they preferred. We took three hundred and fifty prisoners out of the
town, and there were about that number of Germans killed in the
place. We established our new line about half a mile on the other side

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of Cantigny, an advance of about a mile and a quarter. Up to that
time we met no resistance whatever, but there they had direct range on
us with their machine guns, and they knew how to use them. We had
four men killed and possibly fifty wounded before we could get dug in to
a new trench.

The Germans counter-attacked eight times in the next forty-eight
hours, but failed to drive us out. We were there four days before we
were relieved, and after being relieved we went back behind the lines
for a week, then came back and relieved a French regiment on the
left, staying there until the 5th of July. Our whole division was then
relieved by a French division, and we went back behind the lines for
five days, where we were loaded onto trucks, and after a trip of a
day and two nights in the trucks we were back on the Soissons front
ready to take part in the big drive that started July 18th. I can tell
nothing about that drive, for on July 17th I got orders to report back to
the United States, so I missed that. The reason I was sent back was
to help train a new army which was to have been organized in October,
but which was cancelled when peace was declared.

Sergeant William Robinson,
Headquarters Co., 16th Infantry, First Division.

Our War Prisoner's Story

I was born in Osgood, Ripley
county, Indiana, in 1897. At the
age of nineteen years and ten
months, I enlisted in the Third
Ohio National Guard, at Osgood,
Indiana, on June 8, 1917. I
stayed at Osgood and guarded the
High Bridge till the last part of
July, then we were called to Cin-
cinnati, Ohio. There we were put
in the 148th Infantry, 37th Di-
vision. We were there for about
three weeks, then we were sent to
Camp • Sherman, Ohio. I was
there for three days. Orders came
to send sixteen men to the 166th
Infantry, 42d Division, and I was
one to go. I went to Camp Perry,
Ohio, and joined the Rainbow
boys there. I was there three
weeks. Then we got orders to
go to Camp Mills, New York.
We staved there till the 28th of
Dallie Kelley October, 1917, then we set sail

for France. Landed at Brest on
the 12th of November, then we went to a town called Me-Ligney

1. William Wernke. 2. Daniel L. Hull. 3. Cornelius Miller. 4. Frank Burst. 5. Louis Boehmer.
6. Clarence Siekerman. 7. Florence Fischer. S. William J. C. Werner. 9. Henry L. Lindauer.
10. Chester Cole. 11. Edward Thomas. 12. Roy Hunterman.

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There we stayed for a short time, slept in barns and it was cold. Had
no tobacco, and just half enough to eat. The reason for this treat-
ment was that the government had very few troops over there and the
Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. had not got fixed up yet. We hardly ever
saw any of them. We left there for a town called Noidant, where we
did our little training, as we hadn't got much here in the states. We
stayed here until some time in January, 1918, when our help was needed
at the front, so we packed up to go. We walked for six days in snow
knee deep and slept in barns. When awaking of a morning we filled
our shoes with hay and set fire to the hay to thaw them out, or we
would never have got them on.

In the latter part of February we hit the front. Went to the Toul
front and lost a few men. Stayed there for nine days, then got orders
we were to be relieved. We were happy, but when the night relief came
they were shelling us so that the captain said, "Boys, get out the best
you can," so we started. Some were killed, some weren't. I was lucky.
The next two days we walked a long way back. The captain said :
"Boys, we are going still farther back for a rest." Well, we waited for
two days, expecting to go back, but orders came to get us back to the
front as quick as possible. It meant walk, for that is the way we
traveled over there. We started, and two days brought us on the front
again. Well, it was so hot up there with Germans that they held us
there one hundred and ten days. We sure lost a lot of men. I was
gassed slightly a couple of times. June 20, 1918, we left for the
eastern part of Champagne front, better known as the Marne. We
were to stop a big German offensive, which was expected. We stayed
there about three or four days, and orders came for us to move out and
go down to the left of Chateau-Thierry. We went. The French were
in the front line so we took the second line trench. They were about a
mile apart. Right behind the front line were two tank guns. Orders
came to put about thirty men on the tank guns, and in case the Germans
attacked not to retreat. I was one of the thirty to go on the guns.

On the night of July 14, the Germans started to throw a big
barrage on us, also lots of gas. About 5 o'clock a. m., July 15, the
Germans came over. They were coming on a sixty-five-mile front all
along, and there were lots of them, too. They had lots of machine guns.
Bullets were flying everywhere. Soon as the French in the front line
saw them, they all gave up and were made prisoners. About 6 o'clock
the Germans were on us, just thirty of us. The rest of the Americans
were a mile behind us. We opened fire on them. They had us sur-
rounded. They outnumbered us about twenty to one. They were
capturing us one and two at a time. We were fighting to the last
minute; finally they got me. There were seven more they hadn't got yet.
They disarmed us and kept us heavily guarded until they got the rest.
There were about seven or eight of our boys killed, but if we killed one
German we killed fifty. When we were made prisoners the enemy
had already advanced back to the rest of our comrades. We could look
back and see them. Then they started us back with guards cursing us.
There were two Americans with us that could talk German. When

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they got us back they had so many French prisoners that our own
artillery was firing back there, killing them a dozen at a time. We had
to dig holes and put the bodies in and get in on them and tramp them
down with our feet — some job. Nothing to eat for three days. They
lined us up one day and picked me and two more boys to go back for
information. We had it pretty good while trying to get information,
but after that it was awful. They separated us and sent me and a boy
from Columbus, Ohio, together. They sent us to a French and English
prison camp, where we worked on railroads, unloaded coal and all such
work. From daylight to dark it was work, rain or shine, Sundays the
same. English soldiers were dying off like sheep. We dug holes and
put them in, then all the soldiers would say the Lord's prayer, and all
throw a handful of dirt on them, then cover them up three and four in
one hole. They died from starvation. I thought my time was coming
any day, but kept up the best I could, waiting for a better day to come.
I was in six or seven different camps. I was in Limberg and
Domstadt, Germany. Finally we heard that firing was stopped at the
front on the 11th of November. On the 12th we were not awakened to
go to work so we slept late. We were sleeping on the ground all the
time in a big stone house with three barbed wire fences around it.
When we went out on the 12th there were no guards over us. Just us
two Americans there. We had not seen another American since we
were captured. We felt like brothers, so when we saw no guards over
us, I said, "Let's start and walk back or we will die here," so we
started. We walked a day and a night before we hit Belgium. We
were all right, then. They gave us something to eat and we rested
overnight, and set out on foot for France. We walked three more days
and three nights. At last we reached Givet, France, and there met
Americans. They sent us to Paris. We were there four days, then
sent to Blois to a casual camp. We were there three days, then they
sent us to a hospital. There we were forty-five days, then we went to
LeMans, France, and stayed there until the 91st Division was coming
home, then we were sent to it to come home. We left St. Nazaire on
March 23d for the good old U. S. A. We landed at Hoboken, N. J.,
on the 1st of April. We were sent to Camp Merritt, N. J., where we
stayed twelve days. From there we were sent to Camp Sherman. I
and the boy that was prisoner with me were together all the time. We
came to Camp Sherman together and on the 23rd of April we were
discharged together. We clasped hands and bade each other good-bye.
He went to Columbus, Ohio, and I came to Osgood, so here I am in
dear old Osgood.

Dallie Kelley, Osgood, Indiana,
Co. I, 166th Infantry, 42d Division.

"We left Camp Taylor about 3 p. m. in the afternoon and marched
to the train which started east at 6 p. m. We went through North
Vernon, right up the B. & O. through Osgood, and just kept on going
east. Believe me, it sure was pretty hard to go right through my old
home town and not know you'd ever see that dear old spot again. We

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landed in Camp Merritt. Were there three days, and got our overseas
equipment. They got us up one morning about two o'clock and we hiked
about seven miles to the Hudson River and got on a ferry boat which
took us to Hoboken, and landed us on the pier. Here we went on the
old steamboat, Henry S. Mallory. That was September 6, 1918.
Stayed in the harbor two days. A little tug then pulled us out to open
water. In a few hours the old U. S. A. faded away and it was
fourteen days till we saw land again. Land never before looked so
good to me. We left Hoboken with one battleship, two submarine
destroyers and four troop ships. When out about five and a half days
we were met by five troop ships, and five destroyers from Newport
News, Virginia, also bound for France, so we had nine troop ships,
seven destroyers and one battleship in our fleet. We were attacked by
four submarines before we got across, so you know we had some excite-
ment on the way, but believe me, those wonderful little destroyers did
their work well. Five of them went ahead of the ships on the watch
for subs. You couldn't see them except the "crow's nest" on the mast
and then you had to use powerful glasses. I was on lookout in the
crow's nest three times. I got to see one of the subs that attacked us;
saw it just as it came up out of the water.

The ship I was on carried oil for the destroyers. When one would
run out of oil they would tie on behind our ship, and the oil would be
run from one to the other through a big hose. While we were oiling
one we would be out there in the sea for about eight or ten hours with
the waves tossing us around while the rest of the ships went on. It
sure would look pretty lonesome when they would go over the "hill",
out of sight. It would take us about half a day to catch up with them.
We landed at Brest September 21, and camped there a week. My
tentmate and myself were both big fellows. Each soldier carries one-
half of a tent and two go together to put one up. As there wern't
barracks enough to go around, I was among those who had to use the
tents. Well, when we got our packs in the tent and ourselves in too, I
didn't have room for my feet, so I had to leave them sticking out of
the end (ha, ha!). That worked all right except it rained eight days
out of every week in Brest, so I was almost up against it. We were
shipped from Brest to St. Aignan, mostly in box cars, the eight horses,
forty-men kind. About three days before my company went to the
front I was sent to a hospital for fourteen days."

Casper Pherigo,

Savenay, France, February 17, 1919.
Mr. Editor and Friends:

"I am going to write you about a trip I took. On February 3rd I
received a furlough to St. Malo, which is about one hundred and fifty
miles from where we are located. I landed at St. Malo at 5:30 a. m.,
February 4th, and there I was taken care of by the Y. M. C. A. people.
About two hundred and fifty soldiers took that trip the same time I
did. From St. Malo they took us across the river of Ranee to the city
of Dinard. It is located on the coast of the Gulf De St. Malo. It is

1. Gilbert Goycrt. 2. Dal Spencer. 3. Curtis Watters. 4. Oscar Carl Horn. 5. Henry McKinley
Smith. 6. William Drake. 7. Harold Nieman. 8. James Brooks. 9. Howard Heitmeyer. 10.
Kenan Wager. 11. Emil G. Born. 12. Leedom Andrews, Ensign, U. S. N.

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noted as a great summer resort for the English and it certainly is a
grand place. It has the nicest beaches that I ever saw. There is a
Y. M. C. A. building located on the beach of the Ranee river and the
tide comes in there from the gulf. I have been in a number of "Y"
buildings but nothing compared with this one. It is built of the finest
stone and marble.

We were taken to hotels that were run by the Y people but taken
care of by the French, and must say we had service. The beds we had
were great. It made me feel as if I was discharged from the army.
The Y officers took us to different places. They took us first to St.
Servan, across the river from Dinard and off the coast of St. Malo.
St. Servan is a small island. The town is very old and also odd. It
was started up in the year 400 and there are some of the old stone walls
that were used for forts in the fifth century. The place was used to
guard the town of St. Malo from the enemies. Most everyone has
heard of the "Three Sisters of the Poor". On this island is where they
first started in the year 704. This city is used now for the headquarters
of the "Three Sisters of the Poor" of France. It does seem too strange
to look at these old places and then to think of the fine places we have
in the states. These people we call "Frogs" and it certainly is a fitting
name. They are the same all the time and never think of any improve-
ments. We spent about eight hours here and enjoyed the sights very
much.

A few days later we took a trip to an island called St. Michel. We
took a boat to St. Malo, and from there took a frog train to this island.
This place was started in the year 400 by the Monks. It was first used
for the priests of France to go for a vacation and in the year 832 the
people from the Isle De Jersey came there and ruined the place —
completely wiped the buildings and walls off the island. The tide comes
in around the island for seven miles and comes in faster than a horse
can race. The base of the island contains seven acres and in the center
is a rock that extends one hundred and fifty feet above sea level. In
the year 850 a man called St. Michel came there, and he and a few
Monks started to build the place up again, and they used part of it for
prisons. In 1246 the English came to this place on the high tide and
expected to capture the island, but the Monks were too well prepared.
They captured two large cannons from the English and all the harm
that was done was that a large hole was torn in one of the walls. The
Monks placed these two cannons inside the wall where the hole had
been torn by the English, and there they are to this day, still in the same
position. In 1250 they built a platform at the top of the rock and it
contains a four-acre space. There are four stories under this platform,
and now there are five above. It seemed to me that there were a
thousand rooms in the five stories. In some of the cells there were wax
forms of the people that were in there as prisoners, and they had all
kinds of old relics that a person could think of. I also met a friend of
mine there, Private Karl. His home is near Batesville. It certainly is
a treat when I can get to see some of my friends from home.

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From there we went back to Dinard. I certainly did enjoy that
trip. Nearly every evening we went to the Y building and took in a
show or danced. They have real dancing there as they do in Bates-
ville. On the 12th of February 1 left there and got back to camp
February 13th. It was a great treat to take this trip but a person
doesn't feel very good to get back to camp after such freedom. But at
that I am enjoying life fine and am gaining in weight. We are fed well
and have good officers, so what can a person ask for more while in the
army? I am in hopes that I will soon be back in the states with my old
friends.

With best wishes to all,

Sergeant Earl L. Papenhaus."

France, November 17, 1918.
"Dearest Folks:

Just received your last letters and one from Abe Wonning. I was
glad to hear from you and get all the news. I don't see why you didn't
get my letters. I have written to you every week and sometimes oftener.

Well, you all know that the war is over and I guess that everybody
is glad of it. I guess you all celebrated it when you heard the good
news. So did we. All the church and school bells and bands in France
were kept busy. Everything is quiet at the front now. We used to
drive and walk around without lights, but now we can have lights
everywhere and can drive right up to the front line with big headlights.

The Germans are turning some of our prisoners loose. Today I
met hundreds of them on the road. I stopped and talked to some of the
boys. They said the Germans did not treat them very good, especially
with eats. Their clothes were made of paper and they looked very
ragged. They sure were glad to get back. If Germany had not signed
up she would have gotten what was coming to her, because things were
all set along our front for a big drive. But I guess she got enough as
it was. The German people are glad it is over.

We are not very busy at present. I was away from my company
for a few days evacuating patients from the field hospital to the base
hospital, but now I am back again. We are turning in some of our
cars. I don't know what that means but I hope it means that we are
on our way back to the boat soon. According to news here now, I may
be at home for my birthday celebration. Some say that we will be
among the first and some that we will be among the last to go. We are
with the regular army now, and I can't tell when we will start back.

The following nine fellows are with me: John Schmidt, Al Fritsch,
Al Popenhaus, Walter Hastings, Wm. Gutzwiller, Ferd Chaplin,
Steingrueber and Stegemoeller. I stopped at a little town the other
day to take a hot bath and met a fellow who used to work for Mike
Steinkamp at Indianapolis. His name is Shenk. He knew Clifford and
Uncle Will. At the field hospital I met a fellow who knew Mr.
Botnev of New Bethel, where Mr. Botnev lives. He knew Mr.

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Bretzloff, and his father helped build Mr. BretzlofF s house. I have met
lots of boys who always know someone from Batesville.

Was glad to hear that Henry is getting better. That "flu" must
be awful. We have lots of cases too. So far I have been feeling fine
and have a good appetite. I have plenty of warm clothes. I have
rubber boots, overshoes, two pairs of shoes, three pairs of heavy gloves,
and about six pairs of heavy socks and not very much to do. Time
hangs heavy on our hands now. Chester Brockman is in the base
hospital but I have never had the chance to meet him. Lots of the
boys are hunting souvenirs. I could get lots of them but I don't think
I'll bother with them. I may bring a few. I'll be satisfied to get home
in good health. I could get lots of German helmets, but they are too
unhandy to carry.

Regards from all the boys. Your loving son and brother.

Gilbert A. Goyert."

Mesves, France, November 24, 1918.
"As the censorship has been raised I will try to relate my trip
across the Atlantic during war time. Some things happened which I
will tell you rather than write them. August 6th we left the port of
Newport News at 2 p. m. There were three ships in our convoy.
Several days later we met three from New York. This made six boats
in our convoy. I was on a Holland boat called Zeelandia that carried
about eighteen hundred to two thousand men. The first few days of
our trip the weather was hot ; toward the end of our journey overcoats
came in to our comfort. Most every night the upper deck was covered
with sleeping men. It was either because of the heat or fear of the sub
that brought them on this deck. On leaving port several cruisers and
an airplane accompanied us but returned after several days. As we
went on the boat over the gangplank our names were checked and each
man received his bunk and raft number. I was on the third deck or
about even with the water line. No light was to be seen at night, no
cigars or cigarettes could be smoked. The sailors took off their white
and put on their blue uniforms. The vessels ran abreast one-fourth to
one-half mile apart. We had drill at dawn and before dinner every
day. The raft I was on was egg-shaped and held fifteen to twenty
men. I'll never forget the first morning I was on that boat. I heard
the electric bells ringing. At first I didn't know what for, then found
it was for the raft-drill call.

A life-saver is in each bunk, and these we had to carry with us all
the time. When about half way across we carried our reserve rations.
These were bacon in a bacon can ; our condiment can contained coffee,
sugar, salt and four packs of hard tack. Three days before landing
our convoy was met by cruisers and destroyers. A sausage-shaped
balloon used for observation was suspended on one of the cruisers. A
destroyer can make about forty miles an hour. Our course was a zigzag
route. This was to prevent the submarine from following. At times
these U-boats followed a convoy all day and at dusk or at dawn made an

1. Lewis Walker
H. Rupp. 6. Mose
10. David Kirschner.

2. Brightly Severinghaus. 3. Henry F. Kress. 4. Leslie Konkle. 5. Charles
B. Curran. 7. Vincent Starke. 8. Lester James. 9. George U. Brown, Jr.
11. Leo Benz. 12. James Watson Gookins.

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attack on them. August 18th we came to anchor in the harbor of
Brest till the 22nd. As I wrote some of the happenings of my trip in
former letters, I will only add that this morning our band 'played'
another group of men out of camp. It won't be long before all the
casuals will be gone from here and we will be lucky to get home with
one of these groups.

Musician Amos G. Welser,
154th Infantry Band, A. E. F.,
Address P. O. 798, Via N. Y."

Oberwinter, Germany, December 29, 1918.

"Dear Old Neighbor and Friend :

Will drop you a few lines as I now have the opportunity. Up to
the present it was impossible to write, for since last February we have
been almost continually on the firing line. I served about one hundred
and ten days on the Lorraine front in the trenches. From there we went
to Champagne, where on July 15 the Crown Prince launched his great
offensive against us, trying to reach Paris. Life looked hopeless, but I
never lost heart, but fought to check the masses of big Prussians that
were approaching. For a time I thought all was lost but we stopped
them. No Man's Land looked like a cemetery with those big Prussians
biting the dust, cold in death. The French were fighting on both sides
of this division, which was the only American division there. They said
it was the heaviest bombardment the Germans ever put over. High
explosives, shrapnel, trench mortars, 77's, one-pounders, and gas shell
fell like hail. Never have I witnessed as much steel flying in all my
life and for twenty-five kilometers behind us trying to cut off support
and supplies. Airplanes would even fly over and shoot machine guns at
us. We saved the day for France. Had we failed to hold them back
they would no doubt have reached Paris. Our company had one hun-
dred and six casualties, captured, killed, gassed and wounded, so you
see how we were situated. From there we were taken to Chateau-
Thierry on the Marne River, now called ''The River of Blood", where
we had some more fierce fighting, of which you have no doubt read.
Then the drive at St. Mihiel on the Toul front advancing fourteen
kilometers in twenty-eight hours but pushing on five further or nineteen
in all. The French had tried several times to retake this ground but
failed with heavy losses. It was there I met Eddie Wildey, as his
regiment was also in the drive. It sure was a happy meeting, but I have
not met him since. Next was the final blow at Verdun on the Argonne,
where a fierce battle took place, but the American heroes got them on the
run and followed them almost day and night, until Sedan was reached
where Napoleon III lost, but this time it was Germany that lost. From
there we started on our long march across Belgium, Luxemburg into
Germany and up the Rhine, where we are now. I sure have some
terrible experiences to tell you when we meet. I have faced all the
shot and shell, and never got a scratch, which only a few in this company

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can say. I saw the 28th Infantry in the final drive but was unable to
find Eddie Wildey's company. Will close wishing all a Happy New
Year. Your old friend,

Corporal Harrison Reynolds,

Co. 1, 166th U. S. Inf., Rainbow Div., A. E. F., France."

Ft. Wadsworth, X. Y., xNovember 27, 1918.

"Dear Grandma:

Well, I'm back to New York and will soon be home. Am expecting
to be there by Christmas anyway. We are getting a lot of honor that
really belongs to someone else. You see we were all ready to sail for
France on the morning the news came of the armistice signing, so we
came here on a transport and in overseas uniforms, and every one who
saw us thought we were arriving from France, and being the first to
arrive they're going wild over us. We had a fifty-two-hour ride on the
U. S. S. Martha Washington, which is one of the largest transports in
use. It has made nine trips across. I didn't get seasick but a lot of
them did. We were over a hundred miles out from land most of the
trip and went far out of the regular course to avoid mine fields. They
had out mine-sweepers all the time, and we had to keep on life preservers
and all our clothes the whole trip. Twice a day the alarm was given
to man the life boats and rafts, and we had to learn where to go and
what to do in case of accident. You know the mines haven't been
taken up yet, and many of them are Moating loose and can't be found.

When we got into New York Harbor, ferries and passenger boats
turned out of their courses to run parallel to us. Such yelling and
waving you never heard or saw. And every bell and whistle in the
harbor was doing its best. When we landed and got out on the streets
it looked like the whole population of the United States was there
throwing eats, confetti, and even money at us. We're to parade in New
York tomorrow. Theaters and everything else is wide open to us. All
you need is an overseas uniform to have New York at your feet. If
you stop on a corner you have a crowd around you in a minute, asking
questions. I'm going to have a forty-eight-hour pass beginning tonight.
The "Y" here has invitations for five thousand of the 41st Brigade to
spend Thanksgiving with private families in New York and Brooklyn.
I don't know yet whether I will accept one or not. It's certainly
heaven here for us but for all that, I'll be glad when I can come home.
This letter will have to do for all my relatives at Versailles because I'm
my own secretary and trying to write to every one today.

Love to all.

Your grandson,

Paul Wycoff,

Bat. F, 38th C. A. C."

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Coblenz, Germany, January 31, 1919.

"Dear Mother:

Well, it is just ten bells, and I have about one hour for letter
writing. I sent you a card or so since I landed here, but I never told
you how I came to get this trip to Coblenz, Germany.

You see, the Y. M. C. A. educational books are making a big hit in
the Third Army, the Army of Occupation, and headquarters are at
Coblenz, Germany. I told you in a letter a few weeks ago that we were
very busy handling the Y. M. C. A. books. So last Monday morning I
arrived at the office for duty at 8 :30 o'clock and as I sat down
at my desk I saw a note saying that I was to act as guard and take a
car load of educational books to Coblenz, Germany, and was to start
from Chaumont Station at 4 p. m. Monday, so I had to hurry to get the
baggage to the depot. I didn't do much work at the office. You can't
tell what will happen, so the chief clerk sent a Yank from the stock
room with me so it would not be lonesome on the trip.

Our car was filled from top to bottom and end to end. Two-
thirds of the car was Y. M. C. A. educational books, and the other
third was taken up with our baggage. Our baggage consisted of two
field cots, two straw-ticks, one comfort, eleven blankets, shaving outfits,
towels, mess kits, and so forth. In eats, we had tomatoes, canned corn,
jam, beans, bread, coffee, different kinds of meat and son on. We also
had an alcohol stove so we could warm our food. Our outfit was
complete.

At 4 p. m. our car was ready to leave, but the American special
was late so we didn't leave Chaumont until 10 p. m. Monday. Went
to bed and in a short time were hooked on behind the American special,
bound for Coblenz, Germany. Tuesday morning we arose and I acted
as chief cook, and at seven o'clock our breakfast was ready. It was
fine! Beans, bread, hot toast, tomatoes, and that good coffee. You
know I like coffee.

Arrived at Toul at 9 a. m. Tuesday. Was there until twelve noon.
Then were bound for Coblenz again. Weather was very cold, snowing,
but we would open the side door and peep outside to see how different
things looked than at Chaumont. About fifteen or twenty kilometers
fiom Metz our eyes were opened. Oh, how many beautiful homes were
destroyed ! Not a single person to be seen in the towns except a few
Yanks doing guard duty along the railroad. Talk about dugouts,
trenches, wire entanglements, etc., of the Huns — we could see all from
the train. Arrived at Metz at 5 p. m. — a nice city with strong fortifica-
tions.

While our train was taking water at Metz I talked to a German
who said he would be eighteen years old in July. Had been in service
twenty-one months. He deserted three times and the third time they
let him stay home. Said all boys of fifteen and sixteen years had to join

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the army or be put in irons or in prison. He also said the famine had
touched many families in Metz last year. Their family numbered
seven besides the parents. Eats were so scarce that two of his little
sisters died from starvation, one ten, the other six years old. We gave
the lad a piece of bread and jam, for he was hungry.

At 5 :20 p. m. we started moving again about forty miles per hour.
The Germans have a wonderful railroad bed, and their trains are pretty
nice, but nothing like the United States can build. Ate supper in our
convoy car at six bells and had a little of everything. Arrived at
Luxemberg at 11 p. m. but could not see much at night. To bed at
eleven and had a good sleep. Wednesday morning I peeped and we
were at a standstill in a freight station in Coblenz, Germany, so we
dressed, ate, and then started to find the general headquarters of the
Third Army. At 8 a. m. three trucks were there to unload the car of
Y. M. C. A. educational books for the Third Army of Occupation.
At 11 a. m. books were checked and all O. K. Then we were at
liberty in Coblenz.

We first looked for a hotel, and as we stepped out of the railroad
station we spied the Hausa Hotel. Registered there, for it was near
the depot. A fine hotel with good fare and soft beds. I felt at home in
that soft bed, different from straw-tick. At 1 :30 p. m. we started
taking in Coblenz. A fine city of fifty-six thousand population. Street
car fare 15 pfennig per person, about one-sixth of a mark, and a mark
is twelve cents at present, so you can ride all over the city for two cents.

When we got down to the Rhine I opened my eyes because of the
beautiful bridges, all kinds of them, and the scenery is grand, and there
are many other special features that show why the Germans thought so
much of the Rhine river.

In the evening we went down to the Fest Halle, that is the building
where the Y. M. C. A. have their headquarters. At nine, we stepped
into a German cabaret and sure enjoyed the evening eating sandwiches,
drinking lemonade with foam on top, and sat and smoked a few cigars
and listened to the music, American pieces played by Germans on an
accordion, zither and guitar. The waiters were German damsels with
red cheeks, and they wore little Dutch caps and would try to sing
American songs. We sure had a nice time.

At ten we arrived at the hotel and "toot sweet" we were in bed.
Next day we started on our sight-seeing tour again. Went down to
see the Kaiser's palace and many other denkmals of him. They sure
thought a good bit of their kaiser, but not so much any more.

I bought many postcards which I am going to send ; a few pictures
I'll send as soon as I arrive at general headquarters at Chaumont,
France — for you and sister Cora. Also have other souvenirs but don't
know whether I should send or keep them until I hit the United States.
I sent you a package or two a few weeks ago, and if you received them
O. K. I will send all I have in the way of souvenirs.

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There is a fine Red Cross canteen here at the railroad station, open
from 6 to 12 p. m. seven days a week. All free — large fresh doughnuts,
all kinds of jam, and cheese sandwiches, good coffee with milk and sugar,
and "Beaucoup" chocolate and cocoa. The more you eat the better you
like it. The Red Cross sure is making a hit in the American Ex-
peditionary Forces, especially in the Third Army.

It is 11 p. m. and I think I am going to "cochay", which means
going to sleep, so will close, and tomorrow will mail postcards to you
and others, for I'm sure all of you will be glad to get news from me
while I am sight-seeing in Coblenz. Am in best of health and hope you
and everybody are O. K. Good-bye.

Your loving son,

Private George J. Engel."

"Somewhere in France, November 11, 1918.

Dear Folks:

It has been some time since I wrote last but could not get much
chance sooner as we were on the go nearly all the time, and were at no
place where we could get paper or get the letters censored. We were
following the Germans and they were going so fast that it took lots of
hiking to get up to their lines.

We went over the top on November 6, and went seven kilometers
and didn't find any of the enemy, but the next morning we met strong
resistance, but it did not take long before we had them going again. I
am taking a rest now as one of them managed to hit me in the right
ankle and made me turn back. It is not very much of a wound as it
did not break any bones. The machine gun bullet went through on the
right side of the ankle near the ankle bone. When I was hit it did not
hurt. All that I noticed was that something hit me and I looked and
saw a bullet hole in my shoe. I wanted to go on at first but some told
me to look after it ; when I pulled my shoe off I saw a hole through the
side of the ankle. It is about an inch and a half from the place where
it entered to the place where it came out again. I then pulled out my
first aid package and tied it up and went to the rear. 1 had to walk
about a mile to the first aid station which they established in a little
town which we took in the morning. It was about two o'clock when I
got hit. On my way back I pulled up a nice good turnip out of a patch
the Germans had sowed and it surely tasted good, as I was hungry. It
was the first raw turnip I had since I was over here. When I got to the
first aid station I was looked after and the road was blown up near
there, so the captain said if we could walk to the next town, which was
about three miles off, we couW get an ambulance. So a few of us boys
started to walk. My ankle was pretty sore by this time and I could
hardly walk. But I was surely lucky, as some good engineer came along
on horseback and let me ride his horse and he walked. When we got

1. Ernest Hockersmith. 2. John Elmer Shaw. 3. Edgar D. Rea. 4. Henry Kumpart. 5. Alvin
Cramer. 6. Cecil Brodbeck. 7. Roy Runner. S. Ray Spencer. 9. Harry Gault. 10. Joseph William
Bentz. 11. William Goss, 12. Reuben Smock.

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to this aid station I could not stand on my foot any more and stayed
there all night. The next morning I was taken to another station and
from there to a field hospital. Stayed there a day and was then moved
to the hospital where I now am. Landed here night before last. Think
I'll be sent to some base hospital today or tomorrow. My foot is a
good deal better and I guess by the time this reaches you it will be
healed.

I met Bertha Greeman this morning. She is staying at this place
but is in a different ward. She came through this ward yesterday morn-
ing and I saw and thought of her right away. This morning after she
was through with her work she came in. She surely seemed to be glad
to see some one from our home town. Said I was the first one she had
met. She surely treated me fine — went to the Red Cross and got me a
sweater and brought me some candy, cakes, an apple, box of cigarettes
and this writing paper. I think the apple, candy and this paper were
some of her own. She wanted to do all she could for me and I am
surely thankful to her. Call up her folks and tell them I saw her and
that she is looking well and in good spirits and very cheerful.

I hope and think that peace will be signed today according to rumors
and if not I hope it will be very soon hereafter.

I have a good appetite and am feeling fine aside from my little
sore and hope you are all well. Will close with my love to you all.
Tell the friends around there "hello" for me and that I think we'll
soon come back to tell our experiences. Good-bye, from

Private Henry J. Gausman,

Co. F, 16th Infantry, A. E. F.,

Frist Division, France.

Edinburgh, Scotland, December 22, 1918.
"Dear Mother.

Am leaving here for Liverpool tomorrow after a week spent in the
picturesque highlands of Scotland. Leaving Liverpool on Monday, we
took the train for Aberdeen, arriving there at 2 p. m. Tuesday after a
rail journey of thirteen hours. We stopped Tuesday night at the
Waverly Hotel and saw a good show at the Tivoli theater. Wednes-
day we went out to see the town. First, we visited the Bridge of
Balgownie, built in the year 800. It's still in good condition and is
interesting chiefly from the fact that Robert Bruce led his army across
it to the battle of Culloden. In a little stone hut at the foot of the
bridge was a photographer's shop. Here we stopped and had our
pictures taken in kilts, the one we wore being the dress uniform of the
Gordon Highlanders. Will send you one of them when I get back.
Then we saw the Cathedral of St. Machar, which was built in 1010.
Entering this building, which, by the way, is still used for services, we

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saw the old baptismal fount, the stained glass windows and decorated
ceilings which have stood for centuries. Next, we visited King's College
and Manschal College and Museum. Wednesday night we stayed aga'n
at the Waverly and Thursday morning went to the fish market.
Aberdeen is a great fishing port and at the market we saw the ships
unload their cargoes, which were promptly sold by auctioneers to the
dealers.

At noon we took the train for Edinburgh, arriving at four o'clock.
Here we stopped over night at the American Welcome Club. Friday
we organized a party of eight soldiers and sailors and secured a guide
for a trip to. the lakes. In the afternoon we went through Edinburgh
castle. We saw Queen Mary's room, the throne room, the crown and
royal scepter of Scotland, the prison, the palace, and all the old cannons
used in the sieges of olden days. The castle is situated on a high cliff,
and, though centuries old, is in good condition.

At 4 p. m. our party started for Glasgow. We stopped over night
at the American Y. M. C. A. and added a few more to our party.
Next 3ay we started for Tarbet, on the Caledonian railway. In our
party there was one American girl, a Y. M. C. A. worker from Nyack,
N. Y. After an hour's trip by rail through the Scottish mountains we
arrived at Tarbet. Here we mailed a few cards at the postoffice and
walked down to the banks of beautiful Loch Lomond. At the pier we
took a little boat, the "Princess Patricia", and went about fifteen miles
up the lake to Inversnaid. Here we got oft and took a footpath up the
hill past the cascades and a beautiful waterfall. At the top we saw
the ruins of an old Scottish fort and the graveyard where nearly all of
the garrison are buried. We descended the hill and were met by two
American Red Cross nurses, who joined the party. This made us
twenty-five strong, and everyone an American, too. We then went into
the Inversnaid hotel and had a wonderful dinner in the dining-room,
which faced Loch Lomond and the Grampian range of mountains.
From the table we saw the lake and the mountains, Ben Lomond and
Ben Nevis. After the meal we had music for an hour in the drawing
room and then lined up by the cascade for a picture of the group. The
steamer returned at two, and then we took a thirty-mile ride on the
most beautiful lake in the world. Leaving the boat at Balloch we again
caught the train to Glasgow. We stayed only an hour and got another
train for Stirling. Our guide took us to the Corn Exchange cafe for
supper and then we scattered about to the various houses for the night.
Four of us were with an old Scotchman and his wife and they enter-
tained us in real Scottish fashion. They heated irons and put them in
the beds to keep our feet warm, and in the morning we had tea and toast
in bed. Nothing like that at home. Stirling is a very old city with
about thirty thousand population. They have one street car line, the
cars being pulled by horses.

This morning we visited Cambuckenneth Abbey, where the body of
James III of Scotland lies. From there we ascended a steep hill to the
Wallace monument. This is about two hundred and fifty feet high,

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and in the rooms inside there is the sword of Sir William Wallace, also
statues of Walter Scott, Robert Bruce, John Knox, and other famous
Scotchmen. On the site of this monument, Wallace stood and watched
the approach of the British just before he defeated them at the battle of
Bannockburn. From the top of the monument one gets a sight of
seven famous battle-fields, among them the field of Bannockburn, the
sites of the battles of Stirling, Linlithgow and several others. We had
lunch in town and this afternoon went through Stirling castle. There
we saw the palace, dungeons, the House of Parliament, the first Scottish
mint, and the room where Douglas was murdered by James III; also
where James IV was kept during childhood. Mounting the parapet, we
saw Queen Mary's lookout, the round table where the knights of old
held their games, and the ladies' lookout where the court ladies watched
the games. Coming down we passed through the wild animal den and
the Ladies' Rock where guns were mounted when the castle was cap-
tured. We also saw the stone where prisoners were beheaded.

We passed through the only church of its kind in the world. It is
separated in the center by a vestibule and in each end is a room and
each Sunday services are held in each end at the same time. In the
graveyards about the church, I found an old headstone with this inscrip-
tion:

'Our life is but a winter day,
Some only breakfast and away,
Others to dinner stay and are full fed.
Large is his debt who lingers out the day —
He that goes soonest has the least to pay.'

We left there at four-thirty and arrived here at six o'clock. Tomor-
row we are going to visit Holyrood castle and art gallery, Parliament
House, and so forth. Start home tomorrow, and will report for duty on
Christmas eve.

Had a wonderful trip, and one I wouldn't have missed for anything.
Am feeling fine and expect to be with you in about four months. Have
a collection of souvenirs to send you as soon as I return.

Your loving son,

Hal L. Myers."

An Engineer's Story

"I entered the Army March 29, 1918, at Stanley, North Dakota,
being stationed at Plaza as a railway telegraph operator and clerk. I
was sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa, arriving there on Easter Sunday. Was
assigned to Company C, 163d Depot Brigade. I remained there only
two and a half weeks when I was transferred to Company G, 5th Depot
Brigade, Signal Corps, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. Arriving there, I
discovered I had the measles. I was immediately taken to the hospital.
Was there two and a half weeks. A week later I was put in the over-

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seas casual replacement detachment for service overseas. Expecting to
move forward every day the whole unit was confined to the camp. On
June 15, I left Ft. Leavenworth, arriving at Camp Merritt, N. J., on
the 17th. Waited there for transport until the 21st, when I sailed on
the Shropshire, arriving at Port LeHavre, on July 6th. The following
evening entrained and went to St. Aignon, France, which was a few
days' ride. Then marched out to Camp Cuddes and was assigned to
Company B, 116th Field Battalion, Signal Corps. On July 16 I was
promoted to corporal and a few days later was sent on my way to the
5th Division. On July 25th I reached St. Die, the headquarters of this
division. The following morning I was assigned to Company C, 9th
Field Battalion, Signal Corps. Was detached to the 11th Infantry to
help operate the different ways of communication, and went up to the
trenches in the mountains on the same day. This was known as a quiet
sector, but the enemy would bomb our front lines nearly every day, and
the Boche aviators would come over, trying to locate our artillery and
machine guns. One evening, about two weeks later, we surprised them.
We opened up with some light artillery such as one-pounders and trench
mortars; also included the machine guns. We were ready at a minute's
notice to advance. In the meantime, the 6th Infantry, which was just
on the left of us, went over and captured the town of Frapelle. The
enemy in front of us had retired, so we did not advance. On August
23d I left the St. Die sector and began a march toward the St. Mihiel
sector ; marched at night and rested throughout the day. Stayed at
Martincourt, a small town, for a few hours' rest, and on the evening of
September 1 1 we marched up to the front and took our position in the
trenches.

I was laying telephone wire from the 11th regimental headquarters
to the front until 1 a. m. September 12, when the thousands of pieces of
our own artillery began firing over our heads. At 5 a. m. we started
on our forward advance. We kept on going, and on the 15th we were
relieved by the 60th Regiment. We moved back a few miles for that
night and next day. We then started on our journey to the western
front. Only marched a few nights until we were picked up by trucks
and rode. We were held in reserve till we reached the town of Mont
Faucon. Here I was sent back to headquarters to work with Company
B, 9th Field Battalion, Signal Corps. Near October 14th I was sent up
to Nantillois to lay a telephone line to Madeline farm. During the
night our captain was wounded and taken back. We went on, but got
lost, so we decided to wait till daybreak. We then started out and
reached our objective, but were kept busy repairing our wires for the
next few days. We then put in lines in and beyond Cunel into the
forests of Bois-des-Rappes. Here we received orders to stop until rein-
forcements were brought up.

On the evening of October 27 our barrage started and lasted till
the morning of the 29th, when we advanced again, capturing the towns
of Aincreville, Clery-le-Grand, Clery-le-Petite on to Dun-sur-Meuse,
where we crossed the Meuse river around November 5th. Then we

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went on through Milly on to Murvaux and put in lines from there to
Brandeville. On the 10th I helped run a line on towards Louppy. The
firing from the enemy broke our lines, and I was sent back to repair
them.

On November 11th I left Brandeville again repairing the wires. 1
reached Louppy about nine o'clock. We were ready to make another
advance, but soon received orders to stop, for the war was over. 1 rode
back in a truck to Lyon that evening and remained there for nearly a
week, when I went to Longuyon. Was there till December 1st, then
went to Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, for nearly two weeks. Moved
to Merl for a few days. From there to Esch, Luxemburg, and re-
mained there till July 8, 1919, when we started for home. Reached
Brest, France, on the 11th. Sailed on the United States ship Radinor
on July 15th, reaching New York harbor on the 28th. Was sent to
Camp Mills, L. I., N. Y., for three days. Then went to Camp Sher-
man, Ohio, August 2d, and received my final discharge there on August
4-th. Ora C. Ekgle,

Co. C, 9th Battalion, Field Signal Corps."

"April 6, 1919.

"Some of my experience in the United States Army. I was em-
ployed at Cincinnati with the Warner Auto Top Co. and was drafted
into the service September 6, 1918. Was sent from Osgood, Ind., to
Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky. 1 was turned down on the
first examination on account of tonsilitis. Went to the base hospital
and was there two weeks. After that 1 was put into Company 53,
14th Battalion, 159th Depot Brigade. There I got my first experi-
ence. I was given a uniform and had to drill every day. I was there
for only a short time when the Spanish influenza broke out. One night,
about six o'clock, they picked out a detail of soldiers to go to the base
hospital to help take care of the "flu" patients. I happened to be on and
had to go. We had to pitch our tents first, which we had to sleep in.
Then we were put in different wards. 1 and another fellow were put
in convalescent ward No. 10. There were one hundred and fifty sick
soldiers there. The hours we had were from 6 p. m. to 6 a. m. The
work we had was to help the nurses, that is, sponge the real sick ones
with hot towels and wash them night and morning. We had to carry
their meals to them three times a day. When one would die we had to
wrap him up in two bed sheets, then go with ambulance to the
morgue, and bring back the sheets. We made those trips quite fre-
quently, for many died. A great many of the orderlies took the "flu,"
but 1 was lucky and didn't get it.

Private Harry Gilland."

Diary of Everett Hart

Seaman on the Destroyer Yarnall

Everett Hart

Enlisted July 8, 1918, at In-
dianapolis; was sent to Great
Lakes Naval Training Station at
Chicago, Illinois. Promoted to
second class seaman on August 2,
1918. Was at Camp Farragut,
Great Lakes, for detention two
weeks. Camp Perry for training,
one week. Camp Ross, three days.
Sent from there to receiving ship
Commodore off Grant Park, Chi-
cago. Trained here until Sep-
tember 11, 1918. Sent then to
receiving ship at Philadelphia;
staved here in training until
October 30, 1918. Stayed at
anchor until November 29.

November 29, 1918— Put the
Yarnall into commission in Phila-
delphia Navy Yards and went to
Rhode Island for torpedoes, at
Newport, R. I.

Dec. 1 — Got torpedoes in New-
port. Returned to New York on
December 2.

Dec. 3 — Moved from Hudson to North
President.

river to wait for the

Dec. 4 — Led the convoy out of the harbor. Eleven destroyers, U.
S. S. Pennsylvania, George Washington Transport, with the President.

Dec. 5 — Sea rough. Part of the crew sick, as they haven't been
out to sea for a long time.

Dec. 6 — Still at sea. Still rough as thunder.

Dec. 7 — At sea, rough. Nobody has had a wash since we left New
York, and no prospects of getting any.

Dec. 8 — The sea still rougher than ever. Can not walk on deck
without holding to something. Six of the destroyers turned back to
New York on December 6th.

Dec. 9 — Left the convoy, increased speed from sixteen knots to
twenty-five knots per hour and sailed for the Azores Islands to get oil
and water. After leaving the convoy a few hours we broke down and
were about an hour getting fixed up again. Arrived in the Azores at
7 p. m. and took on oil and water. Having a few spare minutes there

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the ship's company nearly all got drunk. We didn't have any liberty
here; but one good thing, we had enough fresh water for a good bath
and to scrub our clothes.

Dec. 10 — At 2:30 p. m. we sailed from the Azores to join the con-
voy again. We found the convoy about eleven o'clock a. m. and took
our position and continued on our course to Brest. The sea was still
very rough and those that drank most of the liquor were very sick.

Dec. 1 1 — Still at sea. Everything went well but the sea was still

rough.

Dec. 12 — We were nearing Brest and expecting to get in next day.

Dec. 13 — The long-expected day arrived. We met the fleet from
Brest. Theie were nine battleships and forty-nine destroyers. All
battleships fired twenty-one guns as a salute to the President. A few
minutes later we met the French fleet. They also fired a salute. There
were a few airplanes flying over the George Washington; also some
dirigibles. Arrived in Brest at 3 :30 p. m. and anchored outside the
breakwater. Lowered the motor sailor and about 8 o'clock we pulled
inside the breakwater and moored to Buoy 3.

Dec. 14 — Started to cleaning up the ship. Had liberty at 4:30 p.
m. until nine o'clock. 1 went ashore and for the first time I stepped
on foreign soil, which was very muddy, but I went around trying to
see as much of the town as I could. After I had seen all I could, I
went down to the Y. M. C. A. hut and stayed there until it was time
to come back to the ship.

Dec. 1 5 — About the same as yesterday, only we took on a new
supply of water and oil, and then I had my second bath since we left
the United States.

Dec. 16 — Still moored at Buoy 3 and nothing much to write about,
and nothing much to see.

Dec. 17 — "Same old stuff" or S. O. S., whichever you want to call
it. Work until 4:30 p. m., then liberty.

Dec. 18 — Raining ever since we have been in Brest.

Dec. 19 — Nothing of interest. Raining again, which is nothing
new.

Dec. 20 — This was a day we all loved to see, being pay day. I
drew 180 francs, as we were paid in French money. Of course I
didn't know anything about it at all. Anyway it amounted to about
$33.00 in our money. When I went ashore and started to buy things
I would pull out all 1 had and have them take all they wanted, but I
soon got used to it, and asked for what 1 wanted and how much they
wanted for it. You don't want to even let the French people take out
what they want, for if they think you don't know any better they will
take more than it is worth.

Dec. 21 — Found it raining again, and nothing of interest to write
about.

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Dec. 22 — Rain again. We were told we could have seven days'
furlough either to Paris or to London. I didn't care to go, so stayed on
the ship.

Dec. 23 — At 4:30 o'clock a party left the ship for London and
Paris.

Dec. 30 — Nothing has happened, only it is raining like h— 1.

Dec. 31 — Some more rain. About 4 p. m. we got word to get on
stores and proceed to Portugal to carry Admiral Dunn and his staff
and a Portuguese prime minister.

Jan. 1, 1019 — We left Brest for Oporto, Portugal, with Admiral
Dunn, his staff, a Portuguese prime minister and a Portuguese officer
who was going to be president of Portugal. The other had been shot
about three days before this. We had a good day, only for one old
friend — the rain.

Jan. 2 — Arrived in Oporto, Portugal, about 1 :30 p. m. Here the
Portugal officer and the admiral and his staff were supposed to catch
a train for Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, but the Portuguese officer
was afraid they would kill his party, so we had to take him on into
Lisbon by water ; while at Oporto, the Bum-Bum boats sold us all the
oranges we wanted. No liberty. We left here at 9 :30 p. m. for Lisbon,
Portugal ; the seas as rough as h~l. Admiral very sick.

Jan. 3 — About nine o'clock a. m. we arrived at Lisbon and tried to
tie up to a buoy in the Tagus river, but the weather was so rough we
couldn't do it. So we pulled alongside the dock. Liberty at 4:30.
Shoved off about five o'clock, but some fellow in the deck force stole
a five-pound can of butter the night before and all the deck force was
restricted; no liberty for them. I was in the bunch. All went well
till about nine o'clock, when a terrible storm came up and the ship
was rocked like we were at sea. The motor sailor was tied up at the
stem of the ship and it sank, but the lines on it were long enough to
hold until we could get a larger one on it. We had lots of trouble
and work trying to get her afloat again, but succeeded at about 3 a. m.

Jan. -1 — My section rated liberty so, and quick as possible we
cleaned up and went ashore. We had midnight liberty. Some of our
sailors were mistaken for English sailors and got a pretty bad deal out
of it. One fellow had his eye cut with a knife and his wrist broken ;
some of the others had to pay a fine before they could get away. Some
returned all right. Souvenirs — we sure had a hot time for our first
liberty.

Jan. 5 — Another happy day, being pay day. We got paid in Por-
tuguese money. I had 22,000 sies — some money — but only $15 in our
money. I went ashore again and sure had some fine time. They had
some fine parks and squares, and their sidewalks were different kind
of bricks. Their trolley cars were more like our own, and it seemed by
this time like the Portuguese knew we were Americans, and when we
wanted anything they would show us where to get it. When we told

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them we were Americans they would throw their arms around our necks
and say, "Ah, Americano."

Jan. 6 — Raining again. I mean still raining, not raining again.
Nothing happened till liberty started. Everybody went ashore. Had a
good time till eleven o'clock.

Jan. 7 — Raining. Also in Lisbon. At ten o'clock shoved off for
the Azores Islands. After we had gone about five miles, had some hard
luck. We ran into a terrible storm. As we were trying to get things
secured for sea all the first section were on the forecastle. When it
began to get so rough the executive officer told us to clear the fore-
castle. Lieutenant Smith was with us and we only lacked a little of
being secured. Smith suggested that we stay over and we had to hold
on to keep from being washed off the deck. Smith did not want to
leave till things were secured. The executive officer told us the second
time to come in, that there was another sea coming over. This t.'me
I dropped everything and made for the door. The rest did the same,
all but two seamen and Lieutenant Smith. One seaman's name was
Arthur, the other Lindstrom. Smith and Arthur were washed over-
board and never seen again. Lindstrom, having on a pair of sea boots,
caught on one of the fire plugs and broke his leg. He was washed down
the deck against one thing and another till his clothes were torn off,
his arm bruised awfully. We searched about three hours for the men
overboard, but found nothing of them. We went back to Lisbon to get
a doctor for Lindstrom.

Jan. 8 — Arrived in Lisbon about 2:30 a. m. and got a doctor for
Lindstrom. After transferring him to the U. S. S. Tonopah, a mani-
tor that was in there, for medical treatment, we shoved off about 10:30
a. m. for the Azores Islands, the sea still rough as h— 1. We had two
army officers aboard that were as seasick as dogs. No rain today.

Jan. 9 — Arrived at Ponta Delgada, Azores, at 10:20 a. m. and tied
up alongside the U. S. S. Dixie for repairs. The Bum-Bum boats came
alongside with oranges and pineapples as cheap as dirt. Had a ball
game. The Yarnall got beat. Xo rain today. Weather hot as July.
Liberty at 4:30 p. m.

Jan. 10 — Still at Ponta Delgada waiting for oil and the Dixie still
working on us. Liberty, and baseball party shoved off at 2 p. m. for
another game with the Dixie. Yarnall beat nine to four. No rain.

Jan. 1 1 — Still in Ponta Delgada. Weather as hot as ever. An
inquest was held over Smith and Arthur. Nothing seen or heard of
their bodies yet and guess there never will be. No rain. About the
longest time we spent without having rain since we left the States.

Jan 12 — -Still at Ponta Delgada. Had beefsteak for dinner, but I
had eaten so many oranges and pineapples that I didn't want any dinner;
I was almost sick. Liberty at 1 p. m. ; also baseball practice.

Jan. 13 — Still alongside the Dixie getting a new bridge built on our
ship. Silll waiting for the oil tanks.

1. Byron Windsor. 2. Jacob Schumacher. 3. Clay Updike. 4. Arthur Cramer. 5. Paul V.
Wycoff. 6. Harry H. Marsh. 7. Clyde Woolery. S. Tom Bedunnah. 9. Allen Courtney. 10. Sec.
Lieut. George H. Bailey. 11. Charles Myers. 12. Faye Eads.

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Jan. 1-1 — Started painting the ship. Still in Ponta Delgada, getting
plenty of oranges and pineapples.

Jan. 15 — Still painting ship. She looks fine. Rained a little.

Jan. 16 — Went alongside the Arethura, the oil ship we had been
waiting for. Finished oiling ship about 7 :45 p. m. Spilled oil all over
ship just after painting. The deck force raised h-1 about it.

Jan. 17 — Got under way about 8 a. m. for Brest, France. Making
about twenty-five knots per hour. Painting ship all day. Everyone
expecting lots of mail at Brest. Have had no mail in nearly two
months. I am sick today. Been in bed all day.

Jan. 18 — Still on our way to Brest. Weather fine. Nobody sea-
sick this trip.

Jan. 19 — Arrived in Brest about 2 p. m. Sent a party ashore for
mail. Returned with ten bags full.

Jan. 20 — Still in Brest. Received another bag of mail. The rest
of the furlough party came back today.

Jan. 21 — In Brest and guess we will stay here for a while as the
captain has gone to London.

Jan 22 — S. O. S. No more mail.

Jan. 23 — S. O. S. Same old stuff.

Jan 24 — Ship looking good, as we have about got it cleaned up.

Jan. 25 — Mr. Scholtz, our supply officer, went on a furlough.
Only three officers left aboard.

Jan. 26 — Sunday dinner: Chicken and apple pie. Liberty 9
a. m. Rained all day. Hailed a while this afternoon.

Jan. 28 — Rained again today. Turned a bit cooler. No mail
yet.

Jan. 29 — Rain — rain — rain ! One bag of mail today. Received
word to prepare to make a trip to Belgium. Supposed to leave at
3 p. m., but did not leave until 10:30 p. m. Captain not aboard. The
executive officer had a h — 1 of a time getting out of the harbor.

Jan. 30 — At sea. Passed Plymouth, England, at 5 a. m. Speed,
twenty-five knots. Arrived at Dover, England, at 2 p. m. Stopped to
pick up the captain and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt.
Liberty 4:30 p. m. until next morning at 7 a. m.

Jan. 31 — The captain came ashore, but Assistant Secretary of
Navy Roosevelt didn't. The weather cold and snowing. Liberty party
at 4:30. Had lots of fun snowballing some girls. Assistant Secretary
Roosevelt and staff came on board at 10:30 p. m.

Feb. 2 — Left Dover for Ostend, Belgium. Sea calm but cold
as old Billy. We dropped two depth charges. Ran into a heavy fog
and had to slow down. Supposed to get in at 1 p. m., but it got so foggy
we had to anchor at sea. Lowered a boat and sent the assistant
secretary of navy and his staff ashore to Ostend. Boat returned O. K.
Stayed anchored all night waiting for fog to rise. English Channel so
full of mines we are afraid to run in the fog.

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Feb. 3 — Got under way. Went to the coast of Belgium at
Zeebrugge. Arrived there about 10:30. Liberty as soon as we were
secured. We were the first American ship in a Belgian port since the
war started. Liberty lasted until 12 o'clock p. m. All the boys visited
the battle-fields and brought back enough high explosives to blow up
h — 1 ! While we were out on the battle-fields we were throwing hand-
grenades. Sounded like another war had started.

The British blocked the German submarines in the harbor at Zee-
brugge by sinking a ship across the channel. They also blew up a
steel bridge. The British did some good work there. There were lots
of graves there — they were everywhere. I saw the graves of three
German officers and they had a mine placed upon them with these
words: "May God finish England."

Feb. 4 — Liberty today until 10:30 a. m. The officers made us
throw away all the explosives so we didn't bring back any more, but
we "busted" all the hand grenades we could find. Got under way at
1 p. m. for Brest.

Feb. 5 — Arrived at Brest at 2 p. m. and raining as usual.
Received two bags mail from the U. S. S. George Washington.

Feb. 6 — Still at Brest. Still raining.

Feb. 7— S. O. S.

Feb. 8 — Has got rather rough inside the breakwater. U. S. S.
Tarbell left for England this morning. Guess she will have rough trip.

Feb. 9 — Rougher than ever. Can't get ashore without getting wet.

Feb. 10— S. O. S. Rough as Billy.

Feb. 11 — Still in Brest. No mail from the states. Everybody
seems to be feeling blue.

Feb. 12 — Left Brest, France, for Plymouth, England, on our
regular mail trip. Had a few passengers aboard. Arrived at Plymouth
at 1 p. m. Liberty till 7 a. m.

Feb. 13— Left Plymouth for Brest at 9 a. m. Speed twenty-
five knots. Arrived at Brest at 3 :30 p. m. Received a little mail.

Feb. 14 — Went alongside oil dock about 9:30 a. m. Finished
oiling at 6:30 p. m. Tied up to Buoy No. 3 as usual.

Feb. 15 — Went outside the breakwater and anchored to await the ar-
rival of the President aboard the U. S. S. George Washington. He
came on board the Washington about 1 1 :30 a. m. All the ships
"dressed" and fired twenty-one guns as a salute. Left Brest at 12:30
bound for good old U. S. A. We are only going as far as the Azores
Islands. Standard speed, seventeen knots. Sea pretty rough. French
fired twenty-one guns salute and returned to Brest about 3 :30 p. m.

Feb. 16 — At sea and rough as h — 1. Had beans for breakfast.
Some feed ! Most everybody seasick.

Feb. 17 — So rough at sea the cooks can't cook anything to eat.
Most every one sick anyway, and don't care for much.

Feb. 18 — Still at sea; sea worse than yesterday. Doesn't seem like

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we can pull through at all. We sighted our destroyers that came to
relieve us at 2 p. m. We turned back to the Azores about 10:30 a. m.
but couldn't get in the harbor till next morning, it was so rough out
there. Couldn't go to bed, and we had already been out in it four days.
Had to wait till next morning to get into the harbor.

Feb. 19 — Went inside the harbor about 8 a. m. Tied up alongside
a Chink ship. Rough as thunder inside harbor. Played the Tarbell a
game of baseball and beat her three to one. As we are back in the
Azores, we have plenty of oranges and pineapples to eat.

Feb. 20 — Still in Ponta Delgada. Played the U. S. S. Lea a game
of baseball and tied score, one to one. Liberty till midnight. Moved
alongside the U. S. S. Maumee to oil ship.

Feb. 21 — Left Ponta Delgada for Brest at 3 p. m. Sea calm.

Feb. 22 — At sea. Washington's Biithday; had a good dinner.

Feb. 23 — At sea and Sunday. Had mutton chops for dinner.
Reduced speed to fifteen knots.

Feb. 2-1 — Arrived at Brest at 7 a. m. Went ashore for mail. Gut
four bags.

Feb. 25 — Still in Brest. Moored to the same old buoy. Rained.

Feb. 26— Still in Brest. S. O. S.

Feb. 27 — Went alongside the U. S. S. Bridgeport. Stayed about
one hour and went back to same old place.

Feb. 28 — Rained, of course.

March 1 — Still in Brest and raining. Looking for more mail.

March 2 — S. O. S. Rain — rain — rain.

March 3 — Can't expect anything but rain in Brest.

March 4 — Went alongside the U. S. S. Maumee to take oil.

March 5 — Left Brest for Plymouth at 7 a. m. on the last mail trip.
Had fifty cases of shoes, thirty barrels of oil, and many passengers.
Arrived at Plymouth about 2 p. m. Liberty all night.

March 6 — Left Plymouth for Brest at 8 a. m. Made thirty-three
knots most of the way back to Brest. Fine weather. Arrived in Brest
at 2 p. m.

March 7 — Still in Brest. Tied up to a different buoy, No. 7.

March 8 — Received one bag of mail. Taking on oil.

March 9 — Left Brest to meet the President. Fine weather all day.

March 10 — Still at sea; rather rough today.

March 1 1 — Still at sea and rough. Destroyers in searching forma-
tion looking for the George Washington. Sighted the U. S. S.
Montana, and the George Washington at 7 p. m. Took our position on
starboard side of George Washington. Standard speed fifteen knots.

March 12 — Still at sea same position, heading toward Brest. Had
general quarters collision and fire drill at 10:30 p. m.

March 13 — Still under way. Speed eleven knots. At 4:30 wheel

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ropes jammed. Lost sight of convoy. Was picked up. Arrived at
Brest 7 :30 p. m.. Anchored outside hreakwater till 9 :45 when we went
inside. Tied up to Bouy No. 3 alongside U. S. S. Lea.

March 14 — Still at Buoy 3. Took on water. Had captain's inspec-
tion.

March 15 — Same as yesterday. Had captain's inspection of the crew.
Played U. S. S. Lea baseball. Got beat four to two.

March 16 — Sunday morning. Had boat race with U. S. S. Woolsev
and won by five boat lengths.

March 17 — S. O. S. Only took on stores.

March 18 — Took on some commissary stores. Oiled the Fanning
for her trip home.

March 19 — U. S. S. Fanning left for the states.

March 20 — Same as before, only the crew drew small stores from
the U. S. S. Bridgeport.

March 21 — Took on a few stores. Had captain's inspection.

March 22 — Captain's inspection of crew.

March 23 — U. S. S. Leviathan came in with Secretary Daniels.
The Secretary made a talk at the Y. M. C. A. for the boys. He told
us we would all get home soon, but here we all stay.

March 24 — Took on oil and stores.

March 25 — Still at Buoy 3. Painted deck.

March 26 — Painted ship. Took on officers' baggage.

March 27 — Took on more officers' baggage; also two hundred and
fifty men. Got under way at 6:30 a. m. for Spithead, England, U. S. S.
Tarbell in the lead. Standard speed thirty knots. Anchored 6:45.
Tied up alongside the Kaiserine and Tarbell. Transferred her men to
a German ship and got under way for Southampton at eight forty-five.

March 28 — Got under way at nine-thirty. Went alongside the
Graf Waldersee, another Hamburg-American liner. Took five Ger-
mans aboard our ship, but had to put them back on the Waldersee and
await the arrival of the Tarbell with the crew for the German ship.
Ten-thirty posted men on watch to watch the Germans. Eleven-thirty
the Tarbell came alongside with the crew for the Waldersee. We took
the crew of German sailors aboard and got under way at three-thirty.
Tied up to the German ship, Cape Finisterre, put the Germans aboard
her. Got under way and dropped anchor at 6 p. m.. Liberty at 1 1
p. m. Went ashore at Cowes, in the Isle of Wight. Kaiserine Augusta
Victoria got under way for Brest, France, with Old Glory flying at the
top of the flagstaff.

March 29 — Rough. Had to wait a while to hoist the motor sailor.
Got under way at 9 a. m. for Southampton. Arrived at 10 a. m. Tied
up to a dock. Shoved off at 10:30 p. m. Tied up alongside the Tarbell
at 10:45. Tarbell shoved off, we tied to the dock. Captain returned
from London. Took on two hundred and fifty officers and men.
Shoved of for Cowes 1 p. m. Tied up alongside the German ship

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Zeppelin 2 p. m. at Cowes. Transferred the men we brought to the
Zeppelin. Took the Germans off her and put them on the Cape
Finisterre at 4 p. m. Tied up to a buoy ; started to shove off a liberty
party, but got orders to get under way again for Southampton. The
Graf Waldersee shoved off for Brest. Got under way for Southampton.
Arrived at seven-fifty. Tied up to a dock. Liberty till 7 a. m.

March 30 — Six a. m., took on English pilot; 7 a. m., got under way.
Speed twenty-five knots; 10 a. m., slowed down to twenty knots. Ar-
rived at Harwich, England, at 10:45 a. m. Dropped anchor at eleven.
Took on oil, also stores from the U. S. S. Chester. Libertv partv at
5 :30 till 8 a. m.

April 1 — Still at Harwich. Took on officers. Got under way at
8 a. m. with, orders for all to wear life-preservers as we were going
through the North Sea and there were at this time still twenty-seven
thousand floating mines in there. Two English ships were with us.
Speed, twenty-one knots. Bound for Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

April 2 — Still under way. Sighted Helgoland at 3 p. m. Arrived
Wilhelmshaven at 6 p. m. Anchored for the night. No liberty here.

April 3 — Secured for sea. Took on German pilot at 6:45 a. m.
Speed, twenty knots. Bound for Kiel canal. Steamed up the Elbe
river. Arrived at Kiel canal locks, at 12:20 p. m. Tied up to docks
till docks were opened at 12:40 p. m. Got under way and started
through Kiel canal. Speed, eight knots. We were seven hours going
through the Kiel. Sure were some pretty sights all through. Saw the
longest bridge in the world across the Kiel canal. Tied up to locks at
seven, till locks opened at seven-fifty. Got under way and tied up to a
buoy at Kiel, Germany, at eight-thirty for the night. The motor sailor
carried the inspection party ashore. Also a German officer we had
aboard.

April 4 — Left Kiel, Germany, at 6 p. m. Standard speed, thirty
knots. Passed Copenhagen at seven-thirty. Arrived at Rugen Island
11:30 a. m. Inspection party went ashore and returned at 3:45 p. m.
Got under way at 3 :55 p. m. Arrived at Warnemunde at 7 p. m. ;
till ten o'clock to moor ship. Kept the two guards on all night.

April 5 — Still at Warnemunde, Germany. The Allied aircraft
inspecting party went ashore to inspect air station. Under way at
12 p. m. Speed, twenty-five knots. Arrived at Appenrade, Germany,
and anchored at 5 p. m. Inspecting party went ashore at 5:30 p. m.

April 6 — Left Appenrade at 6 a. m. Speed twenty-five knots. Had
to slow down to pass through a narrow channel. Arrived and anchored
at Flensburg, Germany, at 8:35 a. m. Inspecting party went ashore
and returned at 9:45 a. m. Speed, twenty-nine knots. Later slowed
down to twenty-two. Arrived at Copenhagen. Liberty at 8 p. m. The
ship was open for visitors and hundreds of people visited the Yarnall.

April 8 — At dock in Copenhagen; 10 a. m., went alongside British
destroyer. Visitors came aboard until 6 :30 p. m. Got under way with
the F58 and H. M. S. Curlew. Speed twelve knots. Very sorry to
leave Copenhagen, for it was sure a fine place.

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April 9 — Arrived at Kiel Bay, Germany, 7:15 a. m. Moored to
buoy. Inspecting party went ashore at 9 a. m., returned at ten. Under
way at ten-forty. Passed through locks at Kiel canal at ten-fifty.
Steamed through Kiel canal. Speed, eight knots. Changed pilots and
took on a German aviator. Passed through the Kiel canal into the
Elbe river at 5 :50 p. m. Speed, twenty-five knots. Arrived and
anchored at Liszt, Germany, at 11 p. m., close to the aircraft factory.

April 10 — Allied aircraft inspecting party went ashore at 8 a. m.
Returned to ship at 9:30 a. m. Under way at 9:45 a. m. Speed
twenty-five knots. Passed Helgoland at 1 :50 p. m. Arrived at Bremen-
haven, Germany, at 4 p. m. No liberty anywhere in any German port.
Had to keep guards on to keep the Germans off the ship, as they want
everything they can get hold of, soap especially. I was on guard. No
one was allowed to talk to the Germans, but we would talk and trade
with them on the sly. The other fellows and myself while on guard
traded a can of lye for half gallon of beer. The Germans thought it
was sugar and started to eat it. I guess it was very hot. Ha! ha!

April 11 — Still at Bremenhaven. Inspecting party went ashore at
11 a. m. The dock was crowded with people wanting to trade for soap.
We traded some soap for a little dog. Inspecting party returned at
5 p. m. Went through the locks at 6:15 and out to the British ship
that was waiting for us outside. Speed, fifteen knots. Arrived at
Wilhelmshaven, Germany, at 9:50 p. m. Took the German officer
ashore.

April 12 — Still at Wilhelmshaven. Rained all day.

April 13 — At Wilhelmshaven. British ships left us today for
Harwich, England. Sunday. No bread and nothing else much to eat.
Will be glad when we can be where we can get something to eat.

April 14 — Left Wilhelmshaven for Helgoland, Germany. Arrived
there at 9:30 a. m. Left Helgoland at 12:30 p. m. Rough sea. Slowed
down to three knots. Passed four floating mines.

April 15 — Still at sea. Rough as h — 1! Supposed to arrive at
Harwich at 8 a. m., but was ten hours late on account of rough sea.
Passed a mine at 5 :48 p. m., not over thirty feet from ship. Arrived at
Harwich at 7 :30 p. m. Tied up to a buoy.

April 16 — Got some stores from H. M. S. Ganges. Weather rough.
Liberty at 1 p. m. till 10 a. m.

April 17 — Still at Harwich. Liberty at 1 p. m. until some time
next day. Several of shipmates and myself went to- London and had
nice trip.

April 18— In London. Stayed at the Eagle Hut, Y. M. C. A.
Caught the train at 9:15 for Harwich; arrived there at 1 :30 p. m. on
Good Friday.

April 19 — Still in Harwich. Pretty weather. Nothing happening.

April 20 — Easter Sunday. I never spent as lonesome an Easter as
today. Weather rough. Liberty 9 a. m. till twelve tonight. Captain
returned aboard from London, where he has been the past four days.

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April 21 — Left Harwich at 11 a. m. for Brest. Speed, two knots.

April 22 — Arrived in Brest at 8 a. m. Tied alongside the U. S. S.
Murray. Smith, Tarbell, Woolsey and Bridgeport getting ready to
dress ship for a French celebration tomorrow.

April 23 — In Brest. Dressed ship and painted also. Good weather.

April 24 — Painted ship some more. Another nice day.

April 25 — 'Nothing to write about, only another nice day, of which
you don't see many in Brest.

April 26 — S. O. S. Rained today. Still in same place. Bought a
$100 Liberty Bond.

April 27 — Sunday. Nothing to do only S. O. S. Rain — rain — rain.

April 28 — At 12 p. m. received an S. O. S. call from some mine-
sweepers and yachts; 12:30 a. m. we were under way to aid them for
they were sinking. A message came from the U. S. S. James saying:
"We are going down. Please come alongside and save my men." We
went, but could not get alongside, for the sea was rougher than I ever
saw it. This was about 4:30 a. m. We couldn't stay on the deck of
our ship as the seas were coming over thick and heavy. Not long before
this the U. S. S. Douglas sank. Don't know how many men went
down with her. The U. S. S. Rambler lost one man overboard. One
other ship sank and lost all her crew. We kept in sight of the U. S. S.
James, expecting to see her sink. We didn't have much oil — hardly
had enough to get back on at 8 a. m. We couldn't do good any longer,
so we started for Brest. We arrived there at 9:30 a. m. The wind
and tide blew us into the U. S. S. Rathburne and rammed two holes in
the side of our ship. Had a h — 1 of a time trying to tie up. Took us
till 12 p. m. We left the U. S. S. Murray with the ships that were in
distress. The weather was awful bad all night, sleeting so you couldn't
see your way. The U. S. S. James sank at 12:30 p. m. U. S. S.
Marietta picked up a few of the crew. In all six ships were lost. At
five-thirty the U. S. S. Tarbell and Woolsey went to the sinking ships.
We were having the holes patched up in our bow. U. S. S.
McDonough came in at twelve with four dead men from the ship-
wrecks.

April 29 — U. S. S. Tarbell and Woolsey did not do any good out
there, as the men that were in the water had already been picked up, or
drowned.

April 30 — Rain — rain — rain.

May 1 — -Some rain — not much. Moved to Buoy 6.

May 2 — Left Brest at 7 a. m. for Plymouth, England. Arrived at
Plymouth at 3 :30 p. m. Liberty 4:30 p. m. till 8 a. m.

May 3 — Left Plymouth for Brest with 180 passengers, sailors, and
marines for the German ship Imperator. Arrived at Brest at 5:30 p. m.
Anchored outside. Took off our passengers, got under way at 6:15
p. m., came inside of breakwater, tied up alongside of U. S. S. Bridge-
port.

May 4 — Sunday. Chicken-pie for dinner. Baseball practice in
afternoon.

1. Christie Fruchnicht. 2. Fred Follmer. 3. Charles W. Morrow. 4. Corporal Walter L. Birjney.
5. Frank L. Lamppert. 6. Reuben Runner. 7. Henry Eads. 8. Isaac Hartley. 9. Howard Spantjler.
10. Alva Bronnenberg. 11. Harry Hanking. 12. Albert Newman.

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May 5— S. O. S. Still at Brest. Nice day.

May 6 — Working on decks and laying matting. Baseball team
went ashore to practice.

May 7 — Nothing happened today. Has been very nice day. Laid
matting and finished painting decks. Shoved off Paris furlough party.

May 8 — Baseball team played the U. S. S. Woolsey and was de-
feated.

May 9 — Put down rest of matting on forecastle. Secretary Daniels
came in on the U. S. S. Corsair, the Bridgeport fired a salute and the
French all dressed ship. Got mail from home.

May 10 — Saturday. Had bag inspection. Received half bag of
mail.

May 11 — Rain again. The U. S. S. Murray and Smith left at

8 a. m. for the good old U. S. A .and I hope we will be next. The
little dog we got in Germany got lost in Brest Saturday when the boys
had him ashore. Got him back today. Everyone glad to see him as
they all like him.

May 12 — A very fine day! The U. S. S. Hannibal left for Russia.
The Seneca left also. Had stew for supper.

May 13 — Still fine weather. Took on stores this morning. The
U. S. S. Panther came and moored to a buoy. She is going to relieve
the Bridgeport, which I guess will be going home soon. The U. S. S.
Leviathan came in at 4 p. m. Had some mail aboard. I didn't get any
mail myself.

May 14 — Still in Brest. Tied up alongside Bridgeport. The
U. S. S. America came in at 8 :30 a. m., but had no mail aboard for
the Yarnall. Shoved another liberty party off for Paris at 4:30 p. m.

May 15 — Still fine weather. No rain. Shoved off from alongside
the Bridgeport at 12 m. and tied to Buoy 3, alongside the McDonough
and Rambler.

May 16 — Rained a little. A fine day, though. Took on stores.

May 17— S. O. S. The U. S. S. McDonough left Buoy 3 and
went alongside of dock to coal ship, for she is leaving for the U. S. A.
on Monday morning. Battleship U. S. S. Oklahoma arrived in Brest
May 15.

May 18 — Nice weather. No rain. I went ashore — the first time
for quite a while. The George Washington was due here at 2 p. m.,
but broke down outside and didn't arrive till 7 :30 p. m. We received
one bag of mail from her, but I got none myself.

May 19 — Another ship came in this morning with some more mail,
but still I got none. The U. S. S. McDonough, supposed to start
home today, is not under way yet. May do so later.

May 20 — U. S. S. McDonough got under way at 7 a. m. bound for
the States. The U. S. S. Rambler also got under way for the states at

9 a. m. At twelve o'clock we got word to get under way, four of the
other destroyers also did. Got under way at 3 p. m. Also the Wool-
sey, Tarbell, Conners and Rathburne and proceeded on our way to
Lisbon, Portugal. Sea not very rough.

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May 21 — Same as yesterday. Still on our way to Lisbon. Had drill
and fired machine gun. Was along coast of Spain for about three hours
this afternoon.

May 22 — Arrived in Lisbon 8 a. m. Better weather this time.
Sure a beautiful place here.

May 23 — S. O. S. Still at Lisbon. Liberty at 1 p. m.

May 24 — Tied to the same buoy. Had two men stayed out over
leave. One man off the Conners was shot and killed last night. We
are at Lisbon to wait for those airplanes coming over. We will leave
soon as they arrive. They are expected tomorrow.

May 25 — Fine weather. No rain over here. Airplanes arrived
last night at 5 :30 p. m. We got under way at 1 :30 p. m. We are
supposed to go to Cape Finisterre, and take our position there at mid-
night and wait for those planes. Arrived at Cape Finisterre at 1 p. m.

May 26 — Still at Cape Finisterre, but we didn't anchor so far.
Are making five knots an hour around here in the same place waiting
for those planes. We fired all our big guns at 9: 30 a. m. Fired sixteen
rounds in the four-inch guns and two rounds from each three-inch Y.
guns — twenty shots in all. Had a fishing party at 5:30 p. m. from the
deck. Some fished till 10 o'clock. Never got any fish, but we got some
crabs in a net we made.

May 27 — Still at Cape Finisterre. Had some gun drill this morn-
ing and afternoon. Those planes haven't arrived yet.

May 28 — Still at Finisterre. Under way all the time. Five knots
an hour. Gun drill morning and afternoon.

May 29 — At Cape Finisterre. Raining all day. The planes have
arrived in Lisbon and soon as they leave there we can leave here and
return to Brest. They may fly tomorrow.

May 30 — Still at Cape Finisterre. Rained today. The NC-4, the
plane we have been waiting for, arrived at 4:15 p. m. That relieves us
so we are on our way back to Brest, making thirty-three knots. The
NC-4 will complete her transatlantic flight tomorrow.

May 31 — Arrived in Brest 11:30. Moored to Buoy 3, alongside
Tarbell. Got three bags mail. Three more destroyers came in and
moored to Buoy 3.

June 1 — Still at Buoy 3. No mail. Took on stores. Nothing
new, only nice weather.

June 2 — S. O. S. Still in Brest. Taking on more stores. Getting
ready to go home June 5th.

June 3 — Still in Brest. Loaded on more stores. Started to oil
ship at 2:30; finished at 7 o'clock. U. S. S. Leviathan arrived at 2 p. m.

June 4 — Still in Brest. S. O. S. President hasn't arrived yet.
There are five of our battleships out here. Two arrived this morning.

June 5 — S. O. S. President not here yet. Fine weather. Not
much rain. Captain Powell left us today at 11:15 a. m. He was
captain of the U. S. S. Woolsey in command of the Fourteenth Di-
vision.

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June 6 — Received word that the President will not sail till about
the tenth of June. As \\:e were standing by to sail the fifth, we got
orders not to sail till the tenth. The Leviathan sailed today at 9:30
for the States.

June 7 — S. O. S. Rathburne returned today at 2:15 p. m. The
U. S. S. Dupont and Biddle left at 5 :30 p. m. for the States. The
U. S. S. Rochester arrived here at 9:30 a. m.

June 8 — Still fine weather. The U. S. S. Agamemnon arrived at
9:00 a. m. with mail aboard. The Yarnall received one bag. Baseball
party left the ship at 1 :30 p. m. Played the George Washington. Got
beat twelve to nine.

June 9 — S. O. S. Still in harbor at Brest, at Buoy 3.

June 10 — Taking on stores, expecting to get under way Thursday
morning. The U. S. S. Gridley got under way this morning at 7 :30
a. m., going to Italy.

June 1 1 — Still in Brest. The U. S. S. George Washington
anchored out here. Fired a salute to Admiral Benson this a. m. as he
went aboard the U. S. S. New York. He left the New York and went
aboard the Orleans at 2 p. m. At three she got under way for the
States with Admiral Benson aboard. The U. S. S. Great Northern
arrived at 1 1 :30 a. m. with a shipload of soldiers from the States.
Five of my shipmates and myself went outside the breakwater last
night and went aboard the Imperator (German ship.)

June 12 — S. O. S. Still inside breakwater at Brest.

June 13 — Nothing new. At Brest.

June 14 — The U. S. S. Edwards and three more destroyers ar-
rived at 3 :30 p. m. from the States to take the place of these at Brest.
Ball party went ashore and played the Edwards and won.

June 15— S. O. S.

June 16 — Went ashore and got more stores this morning. The U.
S. S. Alwin and Conners, destroyers, left at 6 p. m. for the States. The
rest of ships and destroyers in harbor gave them a good send-off.

June 17 — The U. S. S. McKeen got under way at 7:30 a. m. for
England.

June 18 — Another happy day. It is pay day. No liberty at Brest
as they are having a riot there.

June 19 — Still in Brest taking on such stores as we need now and
then. The McKeen returned from England at 9:30 a. m.

June 20 — Standing by to go out for shore range, battle practice.

June 21 — Got under way at 7 a. m. with the U. S. S. Woolsey
and Tarbell going out for gun practice. The officers from each ship
fired four rounds from the four-inch guns. Finished firing at 8:30 p.
m. Started to Brest about nine o'clock. Arrived at 11 p. m. and
moored to Buoy 3.

June 22 — Crew is getting liberty from 9 a. m. till 8 p. m.

1. Colonel A. E. Ahrends. 2. First Lieutenant C. E. Sparling. 3. First Lieutenant Porter Krick.
4. First Lieutenant Harvey Wonnmg. 5. First Lieutenant Winfred B. Taylor.

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June 23 — Still in harbor at Brest. Received word at 7 :30 that
peace was signed and they sure made some noise here! Didn't quit till
midnight.

June 2-1 — Standing by for Wilson to arrive today. Dressed ship
at seven this morning. Took on stores at ten. Wilson not arrived yet
at seven.

June 25 — Still in harbor at Brest. No word of leaving yet. The
George Washington got under way at 10:30 and went outside the
breakwater. The soldiers are all loaded on her and ready to get under
way soon as the President arrives.

June 26 — S. O. S. Still inside harbor.

June 27 — Still in harbor. Moved to Buoy 2 at 10 a. m. The U. S.
S. McCalla arrived at 6:30 from the States.

June 28 — Still at Brest. The McCalla moved from alongside us
and moored to Buoy 3 at 2 p. m. Peace was signed at 2:15 p. m.
President Wilson left Paris at 11 p. m.

June 29 — Still inside harbor. All the destroyers went outside to
stand by for the convoy at 9 a. m. Wilson arrived at 11 a. m. Got
under way at 2 p. m., the Battleship Oklahoma leading the way,
President aboard the George Washington. Ten U. S. destroyers,
Yarnall, Tarbell, Woolsey and Wickes going home. The rest will
return to Brest. There are some French ships and destroyers in the
convoy, also. They will turn back after a hundred miles out at sea.

June 30 — Still on our way. Everything going well, but sea a little
rough. Passed the U. S. S. Great Northern at ten-thirty. Bound for
Brest.

July 1 — Sea calmer. Everything going well. Still on our way.
Sea calm. Having fine time so far.

July 2 — Same as yesterday. About half way home at 2 p. m. Have
never had four days at sea better than these four days have been. It is
getting rough though.

July 3 — Still on our way. Sea rough as h — 1.

July 4 — Sea so rough last night that no one could hardly stay in
bed. Still the same this morning. We are just running into the Gulf
Stream.

July 5 — Still on our way. Sea calmed down today. The U. S. S.
Woolsey fell behind last night on account of her oil, but she got oil
later and caught the convoy at 8 :30 a. m. The President gave a speech
aboard the George Washington yesterday evening.

July 6 — Everything same as yesterday. Having a fine trip. Passed
four United States destroyers at 9:15 a. m. The Woolsey and Wickes
fell out of the convoy today. The Wickes was going to give the Woolsey
oil. They haven't fallen in with the convoy yet.

July 7 — The Woolsey and Wickes haven't caught us yet at 9 a. m.
Still on our way, expecting to get in tomorrow at noon, July 8. Ran
into heavy fog at 1 :30 p. m. Could not see the other ships in the con-

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219

voy. Woolsey and Wickes not yet caught up at 3 :45 p. m. Slowed
down to five knots an hour on account of fog.

July 8 — Eight airplanes came in sight at 8:15 a. m. At nine we
met the fleet, thirty-two destroyers, four battleships, being the Penn-
sylvania, North Dakota, Utah and Delaware. Landed in the North
river, New York, at 2:30 p. m. Dropped anchor at 4:15 in North
river. Went ashore last night for a while.

July 9 — Still anchored in North rivtr. I am not going ashore to-
night as I am starting for home tomorrow.

Total number of miles of voyage, 21,177.

Dates— November 30 to December, 1918— July 8, 1919.

Ports, 96.

From Our Y. M. C. A. Man

"I was accepted by the Y. M.

C. A. for war work in December,
1917, but because the Noblesville
School Board — with which I then
had a contract — would not release
me, I was unable to go until 1918.
After nearly a month spent in
proving my fitness by attending
the Princeton training classes and
other meetings, I finally sailed
from New York on May 28, and
after seventeen days of rough voy-
age, and submarine adventures,
landed in Liverpool, on June 12,
and eight days later I found my-
self at Meaux, within a few miles
of the battle line. I was with the
"Y" organization of the Second
Division. I was here only two'
days when I was transferred to the
Fourth Division and assigned to
the 59th infantry regimental sec-
retary. I was the first "Y" man
sent to the Fourth Division, and
I remained with it and with the same regiment until the division
was ordered home, leaving my regiment on the 29th day of June.
1919. This made a continuous service with one regiment of one
year and one week. This record has few equals.

On the 15th day of July, the German last big offensive was started
and on the 18th my regiment was thrown against the German right
flank. Our losses during the next three days were frightful. I was
not allowed to be on the front for these three days, but visited the boys
in the hospitals and took up a load of canteen stuff as soon as I was

Hale Bradt

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permitted to do so, and arrived in time to march with the regiment
to the relief of the Forty-second Division and engage the enemy as he
was falling back on the Yesle river. Here, too, we had hard fighting,
with many casualties. It was almost impossible to get supplies. I had
to make long trips — sometimes fifty, or one hundred kilometers at a
time, to get writing paper, and often had to carry it on my back, catch-
ing rides on army trucks when I could and walking when I could not
ride. Those who say that the "Y" was not on the front line did not
stay near my regiment. Shells fell within a few rods of my tent almost
daily, and men were killed and wounded within a few yards of me.
Xor was I the only "Y" man there. There were many of them coming
and going all the time. Our hands were tied to a great degree because
there was so little transportation. The army requisitioned our trucks
whenever it was felt that the needs of the situation demanded it. This
was right, but it was not fair to say that the "Y" was not there and
doing its best after its failure has been acknowledged to have been
caused by other agencies.

After we came out of the Yesle river front — August 12 — we had
a short rest on the hills north of Chaumont. Here we were able to
give the boys canteen and entertainment service. We had moving pic-
tures, vaudeville and baseball. About September 1 we were moved
upon the St. Mihiel front in preparation for that battle and following
that to the Argonne, in all of which I never left the regiment except
to get service for it. In St. Mihiel and the Argonne I was under fire
almost continually for about a month. At one time some of my can-
teen supplies were knocked over by an exploding shell while I was dis-
tributing them into piles to be sent to the boys at night. All the ser-
vice I was able to render at all was absolutely free during the fighting.
This rule applied to all battles. After the Argonne my colonel, F. M.
Wise, gave me a letter of commendation addressed to my "Y" divisional
chief, -which I hold as a souvenir.

After the Fourth Division was relieved and withdrawn from the
Argonne front we had a brief time in a rest camp north of Toul and
then were started on some long marches upon Metz. On November
1 1 we were again within sound of the guns, and indeed, within their
reach, too, had the Germans had enough ginger left in them to reply to
the terrific artillery attack that we were giving them. During these
marches I was with my regiment or on the road with a "Y" truck serv-
ing the boys with hot chocolate, chocolate bars and cigarettes at the
night camping places.

During the five months of active service on the battle-fields and
marches, I scarcely ever slept in a bed — other than my blankets — nor
under any other shelter than my pup tent. I ate with the boys and
marched with them. I never rode on a truck unless by so doing I
could render better service to it. When the boys marched it was a
hard and disagreeable march. It was only on our march into Germany
that I, in obedience to mv battalion's orders — became attached to the

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officers' mess for my meals. During a great part of this time, and
until we had been in Germany some time, I was the only "Y" man in
the regiment. Part of the time I had one assistant and for a very
short time before the beginning of hostilities, I had two.

The march into Germany was the most severe strain on the boys. 1
had dreaded the march for myself, feeling that I could not stand it, and
as I had no furlough since leaving home (by our contract we were to
have one week each four months) I asked to be allowed my furlough
and rejoin my regiment at the completion of the march. But the "Y"
was short of men and I was told to make the march. 1 made no pro-
test and have been thankful that 1 was selected for this task. 1 be-
lieve I was the only "Y" man in our division who marched all the way.
I say all the way, for though I was sent to the hospital one day before
the regiment reached its winter camp, that last day's march was really
a retrograde movement and not forward. The other "Y" man who at-
tempted the march died from exposure and was buried at Treves. He
was Mr. John B. VanShaick, Huntington, La.

One week in the hospital and I was back with my regiment in time
to prepare and distribute to the boys of my regiment their Christmas
boxes. Every Fifty-ninth soldier received a box containing smoking to-
bacco, chocolate, cake and cigarettes or some combination of these. The
boxes are labeled "From the Folks Back Home, Through the Y. M.
C. A."

The winter was full of disappointment. For a long time it was
impossible to get supplies. The large armies were tasking the worn
railroads to their capacities in bringing up the bare necessities of war. and
the "Y" work had to be secondary. But after a while the tide turned.
I had a real hut — fine big building with a corps of assistants so I
was able to render service to the regiment. It was rare now that a
day passed that we did not furnish service to every man in the regi-
ment who needed it. A large part was free, but we always had some-
thing for which a small charge was asked.

At the time I left the regiment last June we had eleven "Y" secre-
taries besides myself and our work was carried on in five well-organized
huts, and they were all earnest workers, loved and respected by offi-
cers and men alike. In fact, the good will and appreciation of the men
was universal. I have felt that I was fully paid for all hardships and
dangers incurred by the spirit of appreciation shown by the men.

Hale Bradt."

A few letters of appreciation are appended as follows:

Brest, France, August 10, 1*^1 9.
Dear Friend, Mr. Bradt:

Just a few lines to let you know I am still among the living, in best
of health, hoping this finds you the same.

Well, Mr. Bradt, I guess it's your turn to laugh at me now, as I am
still a soldier, and vou fellows are all home. Remember how I gave you

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the laugh in Valendar, Germany. Well, I have found out one thing
sure, who laughs last laughs best. But cheer up, I will get home yet.
Gee ! I was sure disappointed in Paris. A fellow came in one day and
said he saw you in Paris. Right away I went to town and looked every-
where but couldn't find you. I was sure sorry, as I wanted to see you
bad.

I've had some very nice times since I've been in this outfit. You
know we have a good 'rep.' So they tell me. I saw moving pictures
of the parade in London, and they sure looked good. You know we are
waiting for General Pershing. We are going home with him. I sup-
pose we will parade in America a couple of times before we are dis-
charged. But I don't care; it's no use to care. I have to do it any-
way. Now, Mr. Bradt, there is nothing much to write about this
time. I want to see if you get my mail. Write when you get a chance
and I will write again when I get to New York. Goodby and good
luck. As ever,

Private Thomas Launtz,
Co. K, 3rd Army, Composite Regiment, A. E. F.

September 11, 1919.
Dear Mr. Bradt:

Well, I am in the U. S. A. and we had a big parade in New York
and have one more to make. That will be in Washington and then I
think we will all get our discharges after the parade.

Say, I am at Camp Mills, L. I., New York, and if you want to let
me know anything you can write to this camp and I will be sure to get
your mail. Soon as I get my discharge will write you. I can't think
of anything more until I see you again.

Your true friend,

Private R. Novak.

Connersville, Ind., R. R. 6, October 27, 1919.
Mr. Hale Bradt:

Dear Friend — Thought I would drop you a few lines as I was
anxious to know if you had arrived home O. K., which I did. We
landed in New York August 3, and I was discharged at Camp Sher-
man August 8. Found everything fine at home and have been down
in Missouri on a visit and back again. I seem rather undecided just at
present. Don't know just what to do, but guess I will be back in the
baking business soon, for that is about all I know. We are sure having
some rainy weather now. Say, do you know anything about our his-
tories that we bought and paid for over in Germany? I have never
had a word about them, and we were supposed to get them a long time
before this.

Do you remember my losing our breakfast in the mud on the Vesle
river? I guess you do, all right.

I have heard several boys talking about the "Y" since I have been
home and they say you could never see a "Y" man near the front, and

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right there's where I stop them to get in a few words and then tell
them if they doubt me I can prove every word of it by a thousand
different men if it be necessary, for I know where you were every day
almost. I guess this is about all I can think of at present. I will close,
trusting this finds you and all your folks as it leaves me in the best of
health, and hoping to hear from you soon. I remain,
Your slum-burning friend,

C. O. Selby.

Our War Nurses

Ripley county's quota of war nurses was limited by circumstances
to four. A number of girls entered training with a view to entering
the army work but the war ended before their training was completed.
Of the four two were in overseas service: Miss Bertha Greeman of
Batesville and Miss Martha Delay of Holton. The two whose service
was in the home camps only were Miss Vivian Wiebking of Napoleon
and Miss Carolyn Maffey of Milan. A sketch of Miss Greeman's
overseas work gives a glimpse of a nurse's part in the World War
from a personal point of view.

A WAR-XURSE'S NARRATIVE

"Early in 1918 the daily papers, the Red Cross and other magazines,
the men in pulpits and on the public platform, all were heralding the
cry for more nurses. Those already enlisted and busy in the training
camps were receiving letters from the nurses who had been sent over-
seas begging them to do all in their power to be sent soon.

As the weeks rolled by, detachment after detachment of nurses were
sent from the various camps to the Nurses' Mobilization Station in
New York City. Those not already members of an organized over-
seas unit were here given their assignment. They were sent for quarters
to one of the many smaller hotels which were being compelled to ac-
commodate a certain number of military people.

Let us spend one hot day together in New York. Breakfast at 6:30
or 7 a. m. Roll call, either at the old Judson Church or at the regular
headquarters at 8 a. m. At 9 a. m. be at a certain street to have
your blue street uniform fitted. This probably meant standing at the
foot of a line of one hundred fifty to two hundred women and awaiting
your turn. After having gone through this ordeal once you began to
think of the gray duty uniform, winter and summer hats, boots and
shoes still to be fitted, until you wanted to cry out, "Oh, Lord, how
long?" You rushed back to your hotel or hurried into some restaurant
for your luncheon, in order to be at the Red Cross headquarters where
you were given the "do and don'ts and must and must not's." Most of
these lecturers were women who had never been overseas. They meant
well but most of their instructions needed considerable modification
when we got to the other side.

From Red Cross headquarters you went to the armory to do your
daily "squads left, squads right." Let me say right here that if any men

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ever deserved a Croix de Guerre it was those who had charge of the
drilling of the nurses. The drill, however, did not end the day, for
each day brought with it new and various duties. We were told that
we must prepare to stay over there two years, and when night came we
sat and pondered as to what we had better take in the way of necessi-
ties, comforts and luxuries, and how to get them all into a thirty-six inch
trunk.

At last came the morning when our unit walked down to St. Paul's
Cathedral for the usual farewell service, holy communion and the flag
dedication. The next day we sailed, three of our number never to
return.

After a two weeks' ocean trip and forty-eight hours in England, we
found ourselves in France. Here our unit was broken and thirty of us
were sent on to an evacuation hospital. Only those who have traveled
in France, either by the "Forty Hommes, Eight Chevaux" route, or
on a straightbacked park bench in a second or third class compartment,
can really picture this trip. No lights, water, or conveniences of any
kind. At one time we traveled twenty-four hours without suitcases or
rations, they having been put on another train through error. After
what seemed a long trip we arrived at our destination.

The hospital wards were buildings which at one time had been used
by the French. The buildings, which were run down, were built much
like those used in camps in this country. They were heated by one
dilapidated stove in the center of the ward. Our boys had installed
electric lights before we girls arrived, so we had that convenience at
least. That is, if "Jerry" didn't happen to be overhead.

Our own quarters were tents crowded with beds, but not enough
to go around, a day and a night nurse occupying one together. The
other furniture was either a pile of rocks or a small box on which to
keep your suitcases out of the mud. It rained, more or less, the first
forty-one days we were at that place, in the Argonne Forest region. We
also possessed two smoky lanterns. However, just as soon as the big
rush was over, fairly comfortable sheds were fixed up for us. __

The work of an evacuation hospital was to receive the sick and
wounded from the first-aid stations and put them into shape to be sent
back to a base hospital. This was usually done in forty-eight hours,
though some of them had to be kept ten days or longer. The ambu-
lances brought the soldiers direct to the triage or receiving room, and
from there they went through the X-ray room. Here it was decided
if they were to go direct to one of the regular wards, to the operating
room, or to what was known as the shock ward to be stimulated and
put in shape for further treatment. In each of these departments, dur-
ing and after a big battle, long rows of stretchers could be seen. The
patience and endurance of our American boys was a marvel to both
doctors and nurses.

The work did not stop with the signing of the armistice. For a
month or more we received boys coming out of the lines, having influ-
enza or other troubles due to the strenuous life and privations suffered.

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Too much can not be said of the help we derived from the Red
Cross. It was months before our trunks arrived and some never came
and it was the Red Cross which furnished the warm clothing which
prevented much illness among the nurses.

The Red Cross canteen workers worked with tireless energy and
many little delicacies for our extremely ill boys could not have been
secured but for them. The Salvation Army and the Knights of Co-
lumbus had no stations near us. There was a Y. M. C. A. within
reach and it was through their generosity that we were able to give
our boys such a splendid Christmas treat. Our work was with the
able boys as well as with the sick and maimed. At our next location we
were well supplied with the benefits of all the welfare organizations and
the Knights of Columbus man with his smile and well-filled pack did
not forget the nurses' desk when he made his hospital rounds.

After there was no longer the need of a hospital at this place, our
entire equipment and working force were loaded on a train and taken
to the central debarkation camp. It reminded one very much of a
circus train, except that our live stock consisted of only one cat and
one dog and a small bottle partially filled with "cooties." This trip,
which would have been made in this country in probably twelve or
fifteen hours, took us nearly three days.

After some delay our organization was placed in charge of the
largest camp hospitals in the center, there being one other camp hos-
pital and one base hospital. As each division was brought to the camp
there would be a great influx of patients and busy days would follow.
This was at the great concentration camp at Le Mans. As the pa-
tients began to convalesce, and before another division moved in, oppor-
tunity was given to some of the nurses to have their furloughs.

Trips were taken to Paris, Versailles and other cities. Southern
France, the Italian border, and the French Alps proved most interest-
ing. Opportunity was given those who desired to see battle-fields and
ruins they had not already seen. As summer came the work grew
lighter and much time was spent out of doors on hikes and outings.

Then came the word, "Get ready for Pershing's review." How
cheerfully we washed, ironed, and pressed to get ready for the same,
knowing that it meant "HOME."

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Bertha Christine Greeman was
born at Batesville, where she
spent her childhood and early
youth. She was a graduate nurse
doing institutional work at Be-
thesda Hospital, Cincinnati, when
the war broke out in 1914. When
America entered the great struggle
she sought to enter the Red Cross
nursing service and was accepted
on March 5, 1918, taking her
oath in the United States Army
Nursing Corps on April 4, 1918.

She was assigned to Base Hos-
pital, Camp Lewis, American
Lakes, Washington, for army
training and served there until
August 20, 1918. On this last
date she was sent to the nurses'
mobilization station at New York
City to prepare for overseas work.
Her unit, Emergency Unit,
Group E, left Hoboken on the
British ship Melita on the eighth

of September, reaching Liverpool, England, on September 21st.

They proceeded to Le Havre, France on the 23d, and were assigned

to Evacuation Hospital 1 1 at Brizeaux-Forestierre in the Argonne for

immediate service at the front.

She was transferred on January 6, 1919, to Camp Hospital 101 at
Le Mans, France, remaining on duty here until July. She left for the
United States from Brest on the Aquitania on July 13, 1919, reaching
Hoboken, New Jersey, on July 20th, after eleven months overseas.

Her discharge was received on August 21st at her home in Batesville,
she having been granted a long-delayed furlough.

Bertha Christine Greeman

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227

Martha Greta Delay

Martha Greta Delay was born
at Holton, in Otter Creek town-
ship. She was working as a path-
ologist at the Paris Sanatorium at
Paris, Texas, when the call for
war nurses came, and enlisted on
March 20, 1918, at Paris as re-
serve nurse in the Army Nursing
Corps. She was sent to Camp
Lee at Petersburg, Virginia, for
training, and embarked for over-
seas duty from Philadelphia on
the transport Northland on Juiy
14, 1918, with Base Hospital 25.

The unit reached Liverpool on
July 31st, and crossed at once to
France. They were stationed at
Allery, France. Later, Miss
Delay was transferred to Base
Hospital 91, at Commercy, and
finally to Evacuation Hospital 49,
at Coblenz, Germany.

She sailed for the United
States on August 4, 1919, reaching
New York on August 16th. She was discharged from the service on
September 26th. Her overseas service covered a period of twelve
months. After being discharged she returned to her former position at
Paris, Texas.

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Vivian Esther Wiebking was
born at Napoleon in Jackson
township and was educated in the
township schools. She studied
nursing as a profession and was a
graduate nurse when the Red
Cross call came for army nurses.
She was deterred for a time by
home duties, but was inducted into
the Army Nursing Corps in Feb-
ruary, 1918, and sent to Fort
Douglas, Arizona, for training.
She served at the base hospital
here until her discharge on De-
cember 4, 1918. She was married
to Lieut. O. W. Stacey in No-
vember, his regiment being sta-
tioned at the camp. After his
discharge in the spring they first
made their home in his native
state, Georgia, locating later at
Charlotte, North Carolina.

Vivian Esther Wiebking

Carolyn Maffey of Milan,
Franklin township, was born at
Manchester, Dearborn county, her
parents later coming to Ripley
county.

She was graduated as a nurse
from St. Vincent's Hospital, In-
dianapolis, where she remained on
duty. She was enlisted as a Red
Cross Armv Nurse on September
28, 1918, at Indianapolis.

She was sent to Camp Meade,
Maryland, for training and trans-
ferred on November 3d to Fort
McHenry, Maryland, where she
served until discharged on Decem-
ber 25, 1918.

Carolyn Maffey

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A Final Round of Army Shrapnel

From Camp Custer, Michigan :

''There were sand-storms, whirlwinds, high winds that unroofed
buildings and blew stones through windows at almost any time. The
camp was near Battle Creek in northern Michigan. We were called
out in the middle of the night during the winter to shovel coal for fires
to prevent the bursting of the heating pipes and such things. There
were eight inches of snow at Christmas."

"On arriving in France I was assigned to duty as town-major. In
this capacity I took charge of whatever town was assigned to me. The
work consisted of making billeting reports, keeping the town thoroughly
policed and being responsible for its sanitary condition. In short, most
of the work was merely keeping books for the French people in con-
nection with the A. E. F. Each property-holder was paid for the
billeting of troops in accordance with the number of soldiers taken care
of in his place. Men were billeted in barns as a rule, or in any empty
room available, using for their beds the straw that was purchased from
the French people. They were paid at the rate of five centimes a night
for each soldier or horse. In our money this amounts to one cent a
night. After three months of this I asked to be relieved in order to
go back to my company so as to get into the drive for which they were
preparing. This request was granted and I remained with my com-
pany until after the armistice was signed, when I went back to the
former work once more.

"In Belgium we took part in the two Flanders' offensives and were
there when the armistice was signed. We then hiked back through
Belgium to Beaumont, France — a little beyond Dunkirk — and pre-
pared for our trip home.

"Sergeant Edwin Boese,
"Co. L, 147th Inft., 37th Div."

Chris Bokelman of Napoleon, of Company 8, 138th Infantry, and
later of Company L, 140th Infantry, Thirty-fifth Division, served as
a corporal on special military police duty in Paris from May 1, 1919,
until August, 1919.

He was one of the cordon of guards around the military cemetery
in Paris on Memorial Day, 1919, and heard President Wilson's ad-
dress on that occasion. He also served as guard at the palace at V er-
sailles during the Peace Conference.

"Enlisted May 10, 1917, at Cincinnati, Ohio, in U. S. Marine
Corps. Trained in 23d Company at Paris Island, S. C, until last
of July. At Quantico, Va . until last of October. Reached France, at
Brest, on November 12, U'17. Trained at Bordeaux and helped build
docks till February. Sent to Chaumont-la-ville for two months' trench-
warfare training. Went into the trenches at Verdun the last of the
month. Remained till May 30, 1918, raiding, trench digging, building

1. Harold Hicks. 2. Bert A. Toops. 3. Raymond Harris. 4. George Bode. 5. William Busteed.
6. Leo E. Hicks. 7. Jasper Ashcraft. 8. George L. Reuss. 9. Arthur P. Gringle. 10. Carey Toops.
11. Pete Karbowski. 12. Hugo Benz.

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r

roads. Were under shell-fire and gas attacks almost continually, the
gas coming over nearly every night. Had been assigned to 82nd Com-
pany, 6th Marines, at Quantico, with Charles Gibson and Will Kreuz-
man of Batesville. Had enlisted with them and Randolph Benz. All
but Randolph went overseas together and remained in the same com-
pany. We went into the Chateau-Thierry drive on May 31, 1918.
Stayed in eight days, advancing slowly, doing hand-to-hand righting
with bayonets, rifles and machine-guns — "sho-sho" guns, we called them
from their French name. We marched back for rest while the infantry
relieved us. They fell back the first night under the German barrage.
The Germans rushed in and retook all that we had gained in the eight
days. We were immediately sent back to relieve the Seventh Infantry.
Went into battle about 8 or 9 a. m., June 8, and retook Belleau Wood,
advancing about four kilometers. Continued for about twenty days,
taking and holding the entire wood. Just beyond Belleau Wood,
on June 23, I was wounded by a high explosive shell, through the left
eye, left thigh, and both arms. Was doing outpost duty as gunner
with a machine-gun company. Was fitted with a glass eye at Paris
and invalided home. Was discharged from U. S. Marine barracks at
Quantico, Virginia, on March 15, 1919.

"Ernest Hess,

"Friendship, Ind."

"On June 6th the 82d Company went into the fight with two
hundred fifty-two men. On the night of June 8, forty-seven men were
left on duty at Belleau Wood."

"Orderlies did nursing work in hospitals. Nurses gave treatments
and made beds. Orderlies did the general nursing work."

"In a storm on our way to France four sailors were lost overboard
from a destroyer in the convoy fleet in the Bay of Biscay."

"Were attacked three days out from Liverpool by submarines, and
again on the record day from Liverpccl. Both times the subs were
sunk. One of the transports was so much damaged it sank after reach-
ing port."

"We started out one night for the front with twenty-one ammuni-
tion trucks. Returned with three. Managed to save thirteen of the
damaged trucks. Five were gone. Bombs from airplanes, and shell-
fire were the sources of danger to the trucks. The drivers defended
themselves with rifles."

"Had influenza on shipboard going over. Nine died and were car-
ried on, being sent back for burial. Had about forty cases on board."

"A barrage fire looked like a solid wall of flame behind, with shells
screaming overhead."

"Couldn't use our camp cookers. Not allowed to have fires. Noth-
ing to burn anyway. Lys-Scheldt offensive."

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"Slept in deserted buildings full of rats, mice and spiders. Holes
in roofs, rotting straw, dirt, old manure in the stables, the main fea-
tures. " Belgium.

"Refugees came into Belgium from behind the German lines, driving
dogs hitched to carts, women harnessed in also, old people pushing
barrows."

"Couldn't use comfort-kits to advantage ; could get water only
from shell-holes."

"Little villages clustered about a church; small farms encircling
the village. Fifteen or twenty minutes' walk between towns. They
are sometimes in sight of each other." Belgium.

The Mesopotamia was to sail at 6 a. m., November 11, 1918, with
the 38th C. A. C. Wireless message received just after midnight an-
nounced the signing of the armistice and sailing orders were can-
celed.

Camp Devens, Mass., was the first Army Camp to be swept by the
"flu." It developed into an epidemic in September, and the soldiers
died at the rate of five hundred per week for several weeks.

"Were sent forward for the Metz drive. Stopped at Franers,
France, on November 10. Remained till December 5. 140th Infantry,
Thirty-fifth Division."

"The 18th Engineers built the Bassens Docks, St. Sulpice storage
yards, Perigeux yards and yards at La Rochelle, La Pallice. Companies
A and E entered the advance zone, the former doing railway work at
Etais and the latter near Is-sur-Tille. Ripley county had two men
in Company E: Roy Runner of Milan, and Reuben Runner of Cross
Plains. Lowness Runner of near Milan, in Dearborn county, and
formerly of Ripley county, was in Company C. Frank Reibel of Sun-
man, in Company F, and one Jefferson and one Franklin county sol-
diers were in the same regiment."

Clyde Grow of Napoleon received several bullet holes in his cloth-
ing on the Flanders front, but no wounds.

"Four aero squadrons were sent to Germany, May 1, 1919, to be
ready in case of Germany's failure to sign the peace treaty. Sent to
Nieume or Weissenthurm, left bank of Rhine. Were here till July 13,
1919. Work here was truck driving, car driving, motorcycle dispatch
work and mail carriers. Trucks carried wrecked planes known as
'crashes.'

"Albert Newman, Napoleon, Ind.,
258th Aero Squadron, Second Division."

"During service at the front, cooks and K. P.'s carried meals to
gunners at the guns during lulls in action.

"Cook Chas. Myers, Napoleon, Ind.,

"Battery A, 52d C A. C."

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"Had the 'flu' at Municipal Piers, Chicago. Cadets were urged
to keep on their feet as long as possible. School was dismissed and we
were kept in the open air. Rowed boats in the hot sun in forenoon, had
infantry drill, played football, anything to keep up perspiration, minds
occupied and so forth. This treatment seemed efficient, as our casualty
list showed the lowest percentage of any camp.

"Horace Hunter,
Ensign, U. S. N. R."

Capacity of training camps:
Camp Dodge, 50,000 men.

Camp Taylor, 60,000 to 62,000. Barracks for 40,000 men.
Reached its full capacity in July and August, 1919.

"We got starvation rations through our first seven months' train-
ing. Never had enough to eat. Had a good mess fund besides the
government rations. Some mess sergeant must have got rich at our ex-
pense."

"We always had plenty to eat, good food, well cooked."

"Our cook never did learn how to make cornbread. It was always
raw in the middle."

"Was slightly gassed at St. Mihiel. Two machine-gun bullets went
through the canister of my gas mask but did not touch me. The loader
of my gun was killed while lying beneath our gun. I was gunner. A
piece of shrapnel went entirely through the loader's head. It is the
nose of a shell, with the groove, and I have it for a keepsake. My
gunner was to have been transferred the day before, but I had requested
that he be left with me.

"The Hotchkiss gun weighs 105 pounds and fires a shell the same
as a 30-30 army rifle, 30-30 shells. The guns are carried to position
on the shoulders of three men. One carries the gun (barrel and
breech), another the tripod on which the guns_ are mounted for firing,
a third the traversing head which fits over the tripod to hold the gun
in place. The gun carriages are two-wheeled carts. The sergeant
of the machine gun squads sights the guns, the gunners see they are
kept sighted, and after the load is in, fires the gun.

"Edward Rimstidt, Delaware Township,
"Fifth Division, Machine-Gun Co., 7th Reg."

Lieut. T. E. Hunter, of the 149th Infantry, Thirty-eighth Division,
was the first of the Camp Shelby medical officers to plan decorations
for the hospital grounds, and himself spent much time in putting out
flowers and shrubbery.

From Camp Sherman:

"In spinal meningitis cases the patients had sometimes to be tied
in bed. One was tied twenty-one days, then sent to the base hospital.

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During the 'flu' the boys died so fast their bodies were stacked up like
cordwood. Five hundred died in one night."

A number of Ripley county men served as cooks during the war,
some in hospitals, some in combat units. Scott Henderson of Ver-
sailles says: "Our hospital was supposed to care for one thousand
and forty patients, but we had as many as two thousand seven hundred
fifty when the big battles were on. The officers moved out of the
mess hall and turned it into a ward. We had one hundred eighty-five
officers and soldiers in our hospital personnel with forty nurses. I
cooked the entire time for patients, doctors and all."

An M. P. says: "Was tied to the bridge of our ship four hours as
lookout on the voyage over. Entire passage rough. (September, 1918.)
Was sent into the first line at the Argonne as runner and guide at
2:30 a. m., November 10."

"Our ship did patrol duty off the Atlantic coast up to August 1,
1918. Had one submarine battle off state of New York. No par-
ticular results apparent. One running fight with a submarine off the
coast of Ireland, on August 20, 1918, while crossing to England. Don't
know if we got it or not.

"Sailed to Portland, England, November 25, 1918, left on De-
cember 12, with ten battleships and about twenty destroyers to help
convoy the George Washington with the President on board into the
harbor at Brest. Left Brest December 14, the ten battleships of the
U. S. overseas fleet returning at that time to the U. S. A.

"Hugo Benz,
"U. S. S. Nevada.

"Two submarines were sunk by our convoy destroyers on the voyage
over."

"A submarine attacked a coal ship between Brest and Lapalisse and
sank the ship. The Worden, destroyer, picked up survivors. The sub
passed under the Worden scraping the bottom of the destroyer. We
chased it and dropped fifteen depth charges. We watched half a day
but saw only oil on the waters.

"We helped convoy over a thousand ships, transports and freighters.
We also picked up an occasional airplane.

"Peter Karbowski,
"Fireman on the Destroyer Worden."

The ordnance service in America handled the ammunition and
guns, assembled, repaired, and shipped them to France. They gave a
parade in New York in the Victory Loan campaign. Clarence Feinthel
of Batesville drove a truck in this parade. His unit was at Hoboken,
ready to sail when the armistice was signed.

Paul Wycoff of Batesville fired the Ft. Wadsworth salute of twenty-
one guns as President Wilson's ship, the George Washington, sailed
out of New York harbor with her convoy on the way to France, De-
cember 6, 1918.

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Arthur Gringle, Hugo Benz and Carey Toops were in service as
sailors in the Grand Fleet in the North Sea and so witnessed the sur-
render of the German fleet from the U. S. S. Nevada and Utah.

"The allied ships formed in double battle line and the German
ships sailed through at stated distances to the Firth of Forth, for the
surrender."

"Twenty to thirty insanity cases were sent to the hospital from
Corozal, Canal Zone, every month, out of a unit of about twenty
thousand men. The cause for so much insanity was not known, but
thought to be from the excessive heat."

"Seems like we've been overseas ten years."

"The people of Germany would all have starved if the war had
gone on a couple of years longer. You ought to be around our kitchen
and see the kids fight over the slop."

"Some kids hadn't enough clothes to dust a fiddle on."
"I feel like I'd been away from home for ten years!"
"It gets awful lonesome on the front without any mail."
"I am kept busy watching an airplane fight and writing at the same
time. A Hun plane flew so low the other day you could hit him with
a rock. The cross on the bottom of his plane looked as big as the cross
on the Catholic church at home. The allied planes have circles painted
on them for identification."

"Greuzhaven was one of the Rhine summer resorts for world tour-
ists before the war. The German people are very deficient in knowl-
edge of the U. S. A. The French and English were very strict on the
Germans. Don't blame the French. Poor old France was sure torn
up by the war."

"The mud was so deep, sometimes the cooks had to wear rubber
boots, shrapnel dropping all around."

"Supplies were kept five or six miles back of the front. Aimed to
keep out of reach of shells. Airplanes located them from time to time
and notified the enemy artillery."

"Shell holes were of various sizes, depending on the kind of shells
used. Some were big enough to tumble a house into."

"Was passing in a truck six or seven miles from Chaumont, north,
toward the battle-lines when the top of a small hill was blown off by
some high explosive. The truck was buried under the debris. It was
dug out but was too crushed to be repaired. The soldiers escaped by
jumping at the sound of the explosion. The driver was thrown out by
the impact, but not seriously hurt."

"Went to Camp Valdahon on the Swiss border, and were attached
to an artillery school. 'Conducted fire,' teaching the officers in the
Army of Occupation. One hundred came at a time for a month's
course. This work was continued till May 1, 1919."

From Battery B, 142d F. A., Thirty-ninth Division Record.

1. Clyde Lostutter. 2. George Ake. 3. Dennis Israel. 4. John A. Schmidt. 5. Arthur Schene.
6. Ted Wesler. 7. Manford Alexander 8. Earl L. Papenhaus. 9. Ferd A. Chaplin. 10. Wi'Uam
H. West. 11. Roy Stevenson. 12. William Gutzwiler.

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"Camp Morrison, Virginia, is the best camp in the States."

• "Ft. Totten, Long Island, is the most beautiful fort in the U. S."

"Our sleeping quarters at LeBourne, France, were in an old stone-
walled shed, dirt floor. Slept on the floor rolled in our blankets.
Some slept in the loft. It was a narrow, box-like shelf, two or three
planks wide, close to the roof, entered by a trap door. Had to climb
out feet first."

"I was on patrol duty with an officer and three more men. We
were sent out for information. When getting through two wire en-
tanglements we found we could not get through the front wire so had
to crawl along the front of it. The Germans spotted us and threw
five grenades among the patrol, one for each man, I suppose. The
lieutenant's leg was torn off by one grenade, and I had a scalp wound.
The other fellows ran for cover, leaving us behind. I managed to
carry the lieutenant into the lines, for which I received a citation.

"Davis Wagner,
"Headqtrs. Co., 120th Inf., Thirtieth, Div."

"The French chose the Thirty-second Division for two drives on
Soissons, the only American division that fought with the French. The
division became known all over France as 'Les Terribles' Division.
We broke the German lines, winning our insignia on the battle-fields
of France, 'the arrow piercing the line.' During our six months on the
front we were relieved only eleven days. Even during this rest period,
we were within hearing of the heavy guns. Sixteen thousand rounds
were fired bv our brigade on the Argonne in the last barrage when
firing ceased at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh
month of 1918. "Clifford C. Schomber,

"Bat. D., 119th F. A., Thirty-second Div."

The mosquitoes of the South were a pest to the various training
camps of the Gulf States. They have been humorously described as
being as large as horse flies,, and active in all seasons. The soldiers were
furnished with nets to cover their cots while sleeping. They claimed
the insects could bite through their uniforms with perfect ease and
were expert in finding weak spots in the nets.

William Bateman, 67th Field Artillery, was injured by being
caught under a gun caisson which rolled down an embankment of fif-
teen feet. He was crushed across the chest and most of his injuries
were internal. He lives on a farm near Milan, on Rural Route 2.

Summary of many soldiers:

Y. M. C. A. — "All right in the south of France. All right in Ger-
many. All right in the United States. Had too young men and
girls in the personnel for efficient service, a few embezzlers. Women,
instead of girls, should have served in the 'Y' in the war zone."

Red Cross — "Fine."

Salvation Army — "Fine."

Knights of Columbus — "All right."

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Lawrence R. Olmstead

Sgt. Edwin Boese

Lawrence Olmsted of the Aviation Branch of the Navy deserves
special commendation. Born in 1884 he was not in the first draft.
Being a married man with two children he was also in the exemption
class of the second draft. Like many others, however, he was anxious to
do his part in the World War. Being especially fitted by his training
as a jeweler to do the fine adjusting required for the instruments used
in the airplane service, he enlisted in that branch of the United States
Navy on July 17, 1918. He was living at the time at Brownsville,
Texas, but brought his family to his former home at Versailles, Indiana,
and enlisted from his father's home, leaving his children to the grand-
parents' keeping, while his wife, formerly Miss Marie Davis of Milan,
also entered the government service. He was trained at Pensacola,
Florida, and sent overseas the first of November, reaching Brest, France,
just after the signing of the armistice. His ship, the Northern Pacific,
remained in port a short time and brought her passengers back again,
disappointed at not seeing foreign service after all-

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"Dear Aunt and Uncle

Somewhere in France,

November 8, 1918.

I am a truck driver in an ammunition train. Therefore, I have
had an opportunity to see France. Today is the first day that I have
been off of duty for two months. I have just finished a twelve-day trip
across France in a truck. We stopped at a large city each night. Many
of us stopped at hotels at night. I ate some real French fried potatoes
and slept on a feather bed.

The rural districts of France are beautiful with their fertile valleys,
winding canals and grassy hills. But the townspeople do not seem to
appreciate the beauties of nature or of the fine arts. They are too
easily satisfied with what they have.

The French can not understand the Americans. When the Ameri-
cans first came over here the Americans walked and moved about so
fast that the French thought that the Americans were zig-zag ( French
for drunk). They think that all Americans are rich, therefore they
charge us accordingly. One French lady expressed the thought by saying
"They shovel gold in America." We are paid in French money. I
have passed through the home city of Joan of Arc and I saw a statue
which was erected in her honor in this town.

We crossed a mountain range with snow-capped peaks. We froze
our ears. At present I am billeted in a small town. There are five of
us in one room, which has a bed built in the wall, a fire-place and a
smooth stone floor. We have plenty to eat and plenty to wear. We
have fresh beef and white bread. I have a pair of hip rubber boots and
a leather jacket which is lined.

All the land is owned by a count or lord. The lord lives in a large
chateau and all of his tenants live in a large community or town. There
are no rural homes in France. Each community has a large church
with a town clock that chimes, a public school and a public wash-house.
Water is piped from springs in the hills for the towns. The streets are
narrow and winding, and all of the buildings are built of stone, except
a few which are built of tiles. Even the roofs are built of thin stones.
The houses and barns are always connected. The barnyard and the
front yard are one and the same yard. The largest renter has the
largest dung-pile in his front yard. The count does not have his land
fenced in fields, therefore the women or children must take a stool and
the dog and graze the cattle and sheep. They drive them in town at
noon and put them in the barn. In the afternoon they must drive them
out again. They always keep them in the stable at night. There does
not seem to be any system about their fields. They have many sma'1
irregular fields in a five-acre plot with three or four different crops. I
have never seen a corn field in England or France. Vineyards and
sugar beets take its place. The land is fertile, tillable and the crops are
good.

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Their methods of labor are ancient. They use two-wheeled wagons
exclusively, with two or three horses hitched one ahead of the other.
The explanation for the use of the two-wheeled wagon is that in past
years vehicles were taxed according to the number of wheels. They
have large draft horses. They lead their horses. They use oxen. Some-
times they work oxen and horses together. They have their oxen shod.

The cradle and scythe are used chiefly for reaping crops. Occa-
sionally I have seen a United States binder.

They store their grain in the barns and thresh it on rainy days.
Their threshers are about twice as large as a fanning mill. They are
run by horse power. A boy ties the straw in sheaves as it is threshed.
You can judge how fast they thresh their grain. I saw a Frenchman
killing a hog today. He rolled it in a pile of burning straw to burn the
hair off of it. All wear wooden shoes. Every community has two or
more wine rooms. They never go for a day's work or journey unless
they have some wine. No meal is complete without a bottle of wine.
Water is not very good for drinking in France.

The roads are fine for autos. The roads are wide and smooth with
a row of trees on both sides of the road.

Occasionally they have fruit trees along the road. They have piles
of crushed stones along the road to fill up the ruts as they appear. All
railroad crossings are blocked with iron gates to prevent railroad acci-
dents. A family lives at every crossing to operate these gates.

Wood is scarce in France. No one cuts a tree without government
authority. Then when they cut them, they grub the stump out by the
roots, the brush is tied in bunches for fuel. I have seen them take the
bark off of logs for fuel.

Fig trees, English walnut trees, mistletoe and holly grow abundantly.

All railroads are owned by the state. The cars are very small. The
limit of almost all cars is ten -tons. The passenger cars are of three
classes. They are side-door Pullmans with five doors on the side of a
coach which opens to five so-called state rooms.

It looks good to see an entire U. S. A. train in France, engine, cars
and crew all from U. S. A.

We hope that we shall have "On earth peace and good will toward
men" this Christmas in the true sense of the word. Hoping for that
great day when the boys come home,

Yours,

Hale C. Pickett,
Co. B, 315th Am. Train, A. E. F., U. S. A."

Somewhere in France,

November 20, 1918.
"Dear Brother and All:

How are you folks? I am all O. K. and hope you are all the same.
Well, I must tell you I have been transferred two different times since
I wrote the last letter. They transferred me to the Quartermaster's
Department. I am now helping to load trucks with food at the ware-

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house. I have been keeping account of stuff that goes out of here in a day.
There are about seven or eight of us that have the job. The work I am
doing is an easy job. There is always about eight or ten men with me
that carry the boxes around. I sure have seen a lot of this country since
Sunday. We got on the train Sunday morning about nine o'clock and
stayed on till Monday night at nine o'clock. Surely did see some
sights. I like this place fine; like it better than any place I have been
yet since I arrived in France. I am getting good things to eat here and
plenty of it. Don't you ever worry that I don't get enough to eat out
here. Well, I don't think it will be very long till I can go back. They
are transferring a lot out of the hospital now ; all that are able to stand
the trip will go back first, that is the men that are in the hospitals,
and it won't take them long to get them out. The talk is that they are
going to start sending divisions in a few days.

Well, Albert, what are you doing these days? How is the weather
cut there this fall? It sure is fine out here. I don't think I ever saw
such nice weather at this time of year. Have you heard of Willie lately?
I haven't seen him since I have been here. I would like to see some
of the boys from home and see how they are getting along. I haven't
seen anyone since I have been in France, but I am getting along fine
among strangers. We all act like we have known one another for years.
Well, how is everybody out in Ripley; just like always, I suppose? How
is grandpa and all the rest? Tell them all hello for me. Will close
for this time. Home to hear from you soon. Haven't heard from you
folks since I have been in France. I have been transferred so much
I guess they can't make it catch up with me. Excuse bad writing. I
am writing this in the Y. M. C. A. building and there is a kind of a
show going on and singing and you might know what kind of a place
it is to write. This is one place a fellow never gets lonesome. Write
soon and tell all the rest to write. Will send you my new address in
a day or so. I don't know my address yet. By-by, love to all.

From your loving brother,

Edward H. Swingle."

Delzie Demaree of Benham served in the 74th Company, 6th
Marines, the "Bloody Fighting Sixths." On April 13, 1918, the 74th
Company was gassed at Verdun, very few escaping, only a dozen of the
two hundred fifty men not affected. Six Indiana boys died from it.
After recovering from the gas attack, Private Demaree suffered an
ankle-wound at Chateau-Thierry on June 16th. Returning again to his
company he suffered a second wound at Champagne on October 3d.
The little toe of one foot was lost in this casualty. He was treated for
the gas at French Hospital 27, and American Hospital 27 and Base
No. 8, with Field Hospital 1. He was treated for the first wound at
Base Hospitals 18 and 9.

A machine-gun bullet was responsible for the second wound. He
was treated this time at Evacuation Hospital No. 5, Bases 27 and 8,
completing his hospital record at Portsmouth. Va. The company rec-

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ords were lost at Chateau-Thierry and the men were not paid after
February, 1918, and could not be properly discharged.

"Left home on the twenty-first day of September, went to the local
board at Connersville, Ind., where I had registered, and left there for
Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., September 22, 1917. I left there on the
twenty-ninth of March and arrived at Camp Sevier, South Carolina.
on March 30, 1918. Left there on the eighth of May and arrived at
Camp Merritt, New Jersey, May 11, 1918. From there went to Bos-
ton, Mass., on the sixteenth of May, arrived the seventeenth of May,
1918, at Boston. Left Boston for New York on the British steamer
Miltiades, May 17th. Arrived at New York on May 18, 1918.
From there we went to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Arrived there
on the twenty-second of May, 1918. We left Halifax on May 24th
and met the British destroyers on June 1st. Encountered first
submarines June 2, 1918, at 5:30 p. m. ; five depth bombs were fired
from warship. We were met by warships and three airplanes in Eng-
lish Channel June 3rd. The following day we sailed up the River
Thames and anchored in the channel of the Thames, opposite the
city of Tilsbury, England. We were transferred from the steamer
Miltiades to tug boat Edith and landed at a railroad station at Tils-
bury, June 5, 1918; boarded a train there and arrived at Dover, Eng-
land, June 5th. We boarded a transport at Dover June 5th and with
another transport, three English destroyers and two airships we crossed
the English Channel and arrived at Calais, France, June 5th at 9:15
p. m. Had our first air raid that night and the second one the follow-
ing night. We then went to No. 6 English rest camp at Calais and
then in billets in the French village Lostray Watteau on June 11, 1918.
On July 2d we went on a three-day hike. The first night we camped
in the woods near the city of Cassel and the second night near St.
Oamer, and on the third day went to our shelter (and were under
artillery fire the first time on June 13th). Put up tents at Herzeile,
France. Left there July 10th, crossed the Belgium border, went in
billets near Watteau, left our billets and boarded a train at Provent,
Belgium, July 15th, crossed the French border and went in billets in
Louches, France. We left our billets at Louches and hiked to Audrick,
France. There we boarded a train to Provent, Belgium, and went
back into our old billets again near Watteau, July 21st. We left for
the trenches on the Poperinghe front on July 25 at 8 p. m. We marched
through Poperinghe, a city the Germans were still shelling. There was
not a living soul in it. We entered the support trenches on the blue-
line on the twenty-seventh day of July, then we moved to the front line
trenches on the Poperinghe front and on the morning of July
28th we moved in back of the lines and went into billets. On
the twenty-ninth of July we again moved into the front of the blue-
line trenches at Poperinghe. From there we moved to the front-line
trenches on the Ypres front on the fifth of August. On the tenth of
August we came out of the trenches and went into billets in the road
camp near Watteau, Belgium. Five men were wounded. We left our
billets again on August 16th for the support trenches on the Poperinghe

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front. From there we went into billets at Brandhock, Belgium. We
left there the twenty-second of August and passed through Ypres, which
the Germans were shelling at the time. We went into the reserve line
on the Ypres front. On the night of August 26, 1918, we sent seventy
car loads of gas into the horse-shoe bend in the line over the Germans.
On September 1st we moved from Belgium Battery Corner to the front
line trenches on the left hand side of Kemmel Hill on the Ypres front.
On the night of September 3, 1918, I was wounded. 1 went to a field
hospital and the following day I went to the C. C. S. Hospital, where
I stayed until September 9th and then went to the General Hospital at
Belon. On the thirteenth I crossed the English Channel to Dover, Eng-
land, boarded a train for Dartford to the American Base Hospital No.
37. After staying there nine weeks I went to Winchester and after
five weeks there went to Southampton, took a boat and sailed for
France and met my company at Virnie, France. Left Virnie on the
nineteenth of December, and after a ten-mile hike, went into billets at
La Bazege and hiked back to Virnie on January 2d. On February 12th
we left Virnie and hiked thirteen miles to La Guierche. We left there
on the thirteenth of February. We hiked fifteen miles to Le Mans to a
French camp. We left Le Mans on March the fourteenth and arrived
at St. Nazaire by railroad on the fifteenth of March, 1919. We left
St. Nazaire on the thirty-first of March. On April 1, 1919, we
sailed for the U. S. A. on the steamer Martha Washington, and landed
at Charleston, South Carolina, where we took the train to Camp Jack-
son. We left there on the nineteenth of April and arrived at Camp
Zachary Taylor, Ky., on the twentieth of April, and reached home on
the twenty-fourth of April, 1919.

Anthony J. Rosfeld,
Company K, 120th Infantry, 30th Div."

"My first trip was made November 12, 1918, just after the signing
of the armistice, and my ship had the honor of taking the last troops to
France, and also sailed out of Bordeaux, France, homeward bound with
the first troops direct from France, going home after the signing of the
armistice, the date of sailing being November 23d, and we carried
one thousand five hundred eighty-seven soldiers and one hundred seven
officers, all of whom had been wounded and were just taken from hos-
pitals and brought aboard ship.

Arrived in the States after having had six days of the roughest
weather I had ever before seen and don't know as I have seen the sea
any more severe since in all of my subsequent trips.

As to the rest of my overseas voyages will say that I only remember
the ports that I made in France, which were Bordeaux via the Azores
Islands, where we stopped and left mail for the Marine base, then went
on to Bordeaux and got a load of troops.

We made four successive trips to Bordeaux via the Azores; then we
changed our foreign port to St. Nazaire, France, and then Pauillac and
then Bassens, and last, to Brest, France.

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I had two furloughs to Paris while in the service, the last heing
the most wonderful of all, for I made a visit to the battle-fields and saw
some of the most awful disasters of modern warfare.

In the short time I was in the navy I made nine trips, all of which
were made during the months from November 12, 1918, to September
1, 1919.

Floyd Jarvis, U. S. S. Sierra."

John Simeon Smith, Company A, 18th Infantry, 1st Division, sent
the mascot of his company home to his parents at Osgood. It is a
French bull dog that went through the war with Company A, and is
battle-scarred from many campaigns. His name is Buster. He seems to
be the only live souvenir sent to Ripley county.

"The 10th Ordnance Depot furnished full equipment for several
thousand men of several divisions, who were actually on the firing line.
After the war this depot played a very important part in the demobiliza-
tion of the returning troops. We were well trained as fighting men as
well as for handling the work of the depot. We trained several men
to handle the ordnance property in several divisions. This organization
finally became a part of the Purchase, Storage and Traffic Division.

Kenan V. Wager."

"While aboard the Northern Pacific we saw three enemy submarines
from April to November. Shot at them but did not sink them. The
strangest experience we had was running into a large black fish about
sixty feet along. The speed of the ship kept it on our bow until it
died. An old fisherman on board said it was worth five thousand
dollars. During that time we lost a man overboard. He was securing
a life-boat which had broken loose. We took up a collection and sent
his wife and baby four hundred dollars and also bought a stone tablet,
which was placed in church to his memory.

We took Secretary Baker overseas, also the Peace Commission.

Ralph Croxton, Seaman."

"The DeKalb was once the German raider "Prince Eitel Frederick."
After four days and a half of sailing in a storm, Reckoning Captain Jim
Alger smiled contentedly as there loomed dead ahead of him the glimmer
of the Ambrose Channel Lightship. The DeKalb didn't hit anything
but the middle of the channel.

The DeKalb had on board four hundred thirteen soldiers from the
fighting ports, twenty-five marines, also from the fighting ports, fifty-
four officers and six hundred fifty-seven sailors. "The worst storm the
ship ever went through" was the verdict of every navy man aboard from
Captain Alger down to the hardiest deck-swabber. The opinion was
unanimous that the DeKalb had gone through the worst storms that
any ship, any place, ever had gone through in the whole world. Some-
thing approaching forty-five degrees was a common angle for the DeKalb

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to take when the going was at its worst. Dr. Judy and his assistant
surgeon and orderlies clawed their way up and down among the in-
jured men, helping to get the armless and legless soldiers back into their
bunks from which the crazy lurchings of the ship had dumped the
wounded men.

One wave smashed a deck-house in and the next wave slammed what
was left of it overboard. Lifeboats were stove in, funnels were bent
until they looked as if someone had poured too much of the "hard stuff"
■nto-them. One private remarked: "The old pond beat up this boat

like it knew she was once a German." The DeKalb docked after

this storm at Hoboken, N. J., on Friday, December 13, 1918.

Irving Harding, Seaman."

Entwined with Batesville's war memories is the story of Clark
Henry. Left an orphan at an early age, he spent a number of years at
the home of William B. Goyert at Cross Roads near Batesville, attend-
ing the district school at that place, and working on the farm for Mr.
Goyert.

Being English by birth, he felt the call of his country in 1914 and
enlisted at Liverpool, England, in the English army in March of that
year. He was sent to France in the fall and served a short time in the
trenches. He was discharged in December, 1914, for disability.

In March, 1916, he re-enlisted — this time in the Canadian Rifles.
In December, 1916, he was again in service in France, where he re-
mained for four months.

One evening a shell struck their rest camp and Clark Henry was
buried in the debris. He was extricated alive but bruised and shell-
shocked. He spent four months at an English hospital and was then
returned to Canada, where he was discharged on June 29, 1918. Going
to the home of his uncle in Indianapolis on furlough in May, he was
enlisted by the Red Cross to help in the second drive for a national
fund and told his war experience at many meetings throughout the
state. He gave his story to the public at Batesville at a Red Cross
benefit entertainment and visited at various times during the summer
and fall of 1918 among his old friends and acquaintances in the locality,
bringing wherever he went vivid pictures of war conditions.

AN ENGLISH FAMILY'S WAR RECORD

In 1883 an Englishman named Bliss bought a farm in Washington
township, Ripley county, near Elrod, and brought his wife and four
children to make their home there. These children were a daughter and
three sons. They remained in America a few years, when, during a
period of homesickness, Mr. Bliss rented his farm and returned to his
old home near London, England. He remained in correspondence with
his tenant, and a friend who acted as trustee for the American property
until the family decided to return to America in 1905.

During this interval of twenty years, four more children had been
born to them; two daughters and two sons. The older children, who

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had grown to maturity, stayed in England ; the rest of the family re-
mained in America, the younger members attending school near Elrod.
The three older sons, Herbert, Frederick and Ernest, served in the
British army during the Boer war in South Africa, in 1901, 1902 and
1903.

Herbert Bliss served in the British army in India later for two
years; coming to America, he enlisted in the American army and served
six years until discharged for disability resulting from injury received
in the service, when thrown from his horse on the Mexican border.

Frederick Bliss remained in the British army, seeing service in vari-
ous parts of the world. His wife and one child are buried at Gibraltar,
Spain. His son was buried in Bermuda. His youngest child was sent
home to Bedford, England, after his wife's death. Frederick Bliss
served in the World War as sergeant-major in the 2d Battalion, Bed-
fordshire Regiment, until entirely disabled at the battle of the Somme.
He was previously wounded at Hill 60, LaBassee, France, suffering
fractured ribs and a broken right hand. At St. Eloi he was buried by
an explosion, suffering severely from bruises and shell-shock. He re-
mained in the hospital eight months after his casualty, returning to ser-
vice with his right hand crippled and his crushed ribs not properly
healed. At the battle of the Somme he was wounded by shrapnel on
either side of the spine near the middle of his body. This completely
disabled him for field service and caused his death, which resulted on
July 10, 1919. He was buried at Chatham, England.

Ernest Bliss visited America, but did not remain to become a citizen,
though he took out first papers at one time. He was working in Canada
in 1914. His younger brother, who was working in Nebraska, joined
him at the entrance of England into the World War and they enlisted
together on September 24, 1914, at Toronto, Canada. They were as-
signed to Company 2 of the 14th Royal Montreal Regiment, both feel-
ing that as Englishmen their place was with their country's flag. The
brothers remained together until separated by the fortunes of war, which
sent Ernest Bliss permanently from the front at Arras, August 28, 1918,
suffering from paralysis caused by a fragment of shell. He remained in
the hospitals of England and Canada until October, 1919, when he
came to his sister's house at Versailles, Indiana, to convalesce in the
atmosphere of home. His two sisters resident in the county are Mrs.
John Lane of Versailles, and Mrs. Earl Gait of Washington township,
near Elrod.

The war service record of Edwin and Ernest Bliss reads as follows:
Neuchapelle, March, 1915. Ypres, first gas attack, April 22, 1915.
Held the lines at Rouchebourg and Festubert. Plveg Strait, Sanctuary
Wood ( Ernest being wounded at Festubert in the thigh ; at Sanctuary
Wood in the elbow, and again wounded at Rouchebourg), three times
in all. First battle of the Somme, September 16, 1916; Vimy Ridge,
April 2, 1917; Paschendaale, on the Ypres front; Lens, a series of small
battles and raids. Arras-Amiens, August 9, 1918; back to Arras where
Ernest was so nearly fatally wounded on August 28, 1918.

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Edwin Bliss was wounded slightly at the Somme in September,
1916, but was sent back to the service after recovery and remained until
the armistice.

Ernest Bliss received the British War Medal and the French Vic-
tory Medal in recognition of his services in France and Belgium.

Charles Bliss served in an Illinois machine gun company in the
American army during the war but the armistice was signed too soon
for him to see overseas service.

Ripley county, in a way, claims these three brothers, as Ernest,
Edwin and Charles Bliss's home ties are with the two sisters who live
near their old home-place in Washington township, and the graves
of their father and mother which are at Washington Church, near
Elrod. Edwin and Charles coming to America as boys and attending
school here, may be classed as Americans. The older brothers and sis-
ters having always remained British subjects, only the younger mem-
bers of the Bliss family can be classed as Americans. Their record is
typical of the average English family at home in England, or in the
process of being transplanted to a new country.

The boast of the British, when discussing their record from Septem-
ber, 1914, to November, 1918, is that "A handful of English soldiers,
twenty-five thousand in number, held at bay the three million Germans
before them."

Comparing the allies, we see that the Belgian army held the first
pass; their famous "They shall not pass" will echo down the ages. Next
the French filled the breach and rolled back the advancing hosts starting
again towards Paris. With the British beside them, these three armies
held the way for almost four years until the American army in July,
1918, with its cry of "Let's go," swept in with fresh life to the conflict,
and the enemy was driven back to his own ground and disarmed. No
one of the Allies claims all credit for the victory. It required them all
to win. The valiant Belgians, the glorious French, the dauntless Brit-
ish, the irresistible Americans fought together on the Flanders front
the battle of humanity, the battle of "Democracy against Autocracy."

A History of Service

A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS

OF COMPANY D, 53d INFANTRY, REGULARS,

6th DIVISION

Left Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina, Wednesday afternoon at
six o'clock, June 26, 1918, traveling on special Pullman train, reaching
Camp Mills, Long Island, Friday morning, 7:00 a. m., June 28th.

Left Camp Mills, Friday afternoon, July 5th, traveling by train to
Bush Terminals, South Brooklyn, boarded H. M. transport, Ulysses,
and remained on transport for the night, leaving New York harbor
Saturday morning, July 6th, getting under way with full convoy at
10:00 a.' m.

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Reached Liverpool, England, Wednesday, 8:00 p. m., July 17, spend-
ing the night on transport, and went ashore Thursday morning, July
18th, marching through streets of Liverpool to an American rest camp
named Knotty Ash, on outskirts of city, spending the night of the 18th
in camp and leaving on the morning of the 19th for another American
rest camp at Winchester, England. The trip was made in third-class
style on a British railroad. Reached Winchester in the afternoon about
three o'clock and marched to a camp two miles distance from the city.

Left camp at Winchester on the morning of July 22d, traveling by
train to Southampton. Remained in dock shed there from morning
of the 22d until about 6:00 p. m. same day, boarding small transport
named La France, for the trip across the English Channel.

Reached Cherbourg, France, at 6:00 a. m., July 23d, marched to
rest camp five miles from the city and spent the night of the 23d,
boarding French troop train "De Luxe" on the morning of July 24th,
traveling on said train till late afternoon of July 25th, getting off at
Bricon, France, and marched to permanent station, Colombey, reaching
there at 1 :00 a. m., July 26th.

Left Colombey, France, August 26th, traveling in French auto
trucks to Saulxures, reaching that city on morning of August 27th.

Left Saulxures morning of August 30th, marching to LaBresse, a
distance of eight miles.

Left LaBresse, 3 :00 a. m., September 3d, traveling by trucks to
Oderon, where we stayed until September 8th, and then marched to
Camp Boussat, reaching there in the afternoon and left the next morning
for Camp Mounier, arriving late at night.

Left reserve positions at Camp Mounier in the afternoon of Septem-
ber 15th and went into the front line trenches, arriving late at night,
taking over the Braunkopf sub-sector in the Benoit sector.

Left Braunkopf sub-sector on the night of October 9th and slept in
the woods near Metlach and left this place late in the afternoon of
October 10th, arriving at Kruth about 2:00 a. m.

Left Kruth October 12th and marched to Saulxures, arriving late
that night.

Left Saulxures on the night of October 27th, traveling by train to
Camp Schillaz, reaching there on night of October 28th. Left that
camp on morning of November 1st to take part in the great Meuse-
Argonne offensive. March was from Camp Schillaz to Fateau, to
Montplaiville, to place on November 7th and remained there until
morning of November 10th, marching by way of Autruche to Mont-
faucon, to Bailecourt, to Verdun, to Verdun battle-front, taking up posi-
tion on Verdun front on the evening of November 14th.

Left Verdun front, eight miles from the city on November 21st,
en route to the 14th Training Area, the trip lasting till December 7th.
The route was as follows: Verdun City, Seviryla-Fert, Waly, Auze-
court, Nogeville, Perthe, Braucourt, Sommevoirs, Vill-Sur-Terr, Fon-

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249

taine, Juvancourt, Silvirerous, Gevrolles, Montmoyen and present sta-
tion, Quemignyrot, Province of Cote'd Orr, France, reaching last named
place late evening of December 7, 1918.

Our next stop — the good old U. S. A., tout suit (too sweet).

Data compiled by Corporal A. Schraut, company clerk, Company
D, 53d Infantry. (All foreign rights reserved.)

It may be a mansion —

It may be a dump —
It may be a farm

With an old-fashioned pump.
It may be a palace —

It may be a flat —
It may be a room

Where you hang up your hat.
It may be a house

With a hole in the door,

Or a marble hotel

With a coon at the door.
It may be exclusive,

Or simple or swell,
A wee bit of heaven,

Or one little— WELL
Just kindly remember,

Wherever you roam,
That Shakespeare was right, kid.

There's no place LIKE HOME.

— Curtis O. Watters,
Cook, Co. D, 53d Inf., 6th Div., A. E. F.

TWO METHODS OF ARMY TRAVEL

Frank Foerster

Clarence Feinthel

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Clay Updike of Batesville served as company barber in Headquar-
ters Company, 70th C. A. C. His most strenuous experience was on
volunteer service in the hospitals as barber for the wounded.

The Seventieth Coast Artillery was known as "Colonel Gary's Black
Bears." They got this pseudonym from a small black bear, brought by
the colonel as a mascot when the regiment was in training at Fort
Wadsworth, New York. The cub was amiable so long as the soldiers
petted him but bit any one severely when his ministrations took the form
of teasing. They were unable to get transportation for their mascot
when ordered overseas and he had to be left behind. They desired to
adopt a righting black bear as their insignia but failed to get it officially
registered as they were unattached to a division when the armistice was
signed and only divisional insignia had been recognized. The bear for
their insignia was designed by Jake Schumacher of Batesville, who was
a member of Headquarters Company of the Seventieth C. A. C.

The soldiers of the Seventieth Regiment, C. A. C, were stationed
for a time where there were numerous French refugees, very much in
need of food. Pending arrangements for securing supplies the boys
divided their own rations with the refugees. The children were es-
pecially favored by sharing in the soldiers' candy.

Oscar Carl Horn of the 421st Motor Supply Train took part in
the longest motor convoy in the A. E. F. This was from La Rochelle,
France, to Coblenz, Germany, in February, after the armistice was
signed. He was also in the largest motor convoy of the A. E. F., from
Nantes to Romoerantin, France, in April, 1919. Two hundred eighty-
six vehicles made up the convoy.

Clyde C. Peters of Milan, who served as a private in Company K,
34th Infantry, Seventh Division, gives the following typical service
record: "Enlisted at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, on May 3, 1918. Was
trained at Fort Thomas and Camp Forrest, Georgia. Was sent to
Camp Upton, N. Y., to be sent overseas, but because of sickness was
left behind. Was then sent to Camp Merritt, New Jersey, where he
was given a new assignment in the Seventh Division and sent immedi-
ately overseas. They were given intensive training in the fourteenth
training area in France. They were sent to the front lines on Septem-
ber 1st and reached the Puvenelle sector on September 9th. They
were under fire here from German snipers, machine guns, artillery bar-
rages and airplane bombarding. No advance was ordered until Novem-
ber 9th. The regiment was formed in three waves. The first wave ad-
vanced to the objective assigned them, and the second wave advanced
through their lines to the next objective, and the third wave on through
to the next objective. Thus it was a continual drive until November
11th. Company K had only eighty-four men left on duty out of two
hundred fifty."

David Kirschner of Sunman, Adams township, served in Company
G, 332d Infantry, 83d Division. This regiment was sent to Italy and
fought at Vittorio-Veneto on the Austrian front from October 24th to
November 4, 1918.

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Rev. Joseph H. Honningford of the St. Maurice congregation at
Napoleon since the war, entered training in August, 1918, as a Knights
of Columbus chaplain, expecting to go overseas in November. After
the signing of the armistice no more chaplains were sent over and he was
assigned to other duties. He served as chaplain at Fort Tilden, Rock-
away Beach, Long Island, New York, and at the naval aero station near
there. He was privileged here to witness the construction and groom-
ing of the giant seaplanes which later made the first transatlantic flight.
He was acquainted with many of the men who made the "hop," es-
pecially Lieutenant Hinton, the pilot of the NC-4, the successful plane.
Rev. Honningford served later at Fort Riley, Kansas, and was dis-
charged when the patients from the base hospital were transferred to
Ft. Sheridan, Illinois.

Thaddeus Brenton of Osgood, who served as second-class seaman,
U. S. Naval Reserve, gives an interesting account of the epidemic at
Great Lakes Naval Training Station :

"Having been kept on station duty during my entire period of en-
listment there is very little of interest which I can relate, but the great
epidemic of Spanish influenza is bound to rank as one of the horrors
of the World War. No one is so well aware of this fact as the men
in the hospital service.

"The thing seemed to seize the great naval station over night;
coming all at once, unexpected and unannounced. Naturally they were
not prepared. All the sick-bays filled ; the base hospital filled to the
doors, and numerous barracks were transformed into wards. The ill-
ness seized hundreds, thousands, at once. Every available well boy was
detailed as a nurse, or put to work with the dead in the morgue, which
was filled to overflowing. Every day freight cars, many of them, left
Main Hospital with their sad, silent loads. The nearly-cured boys re-
turned to their quarters to find their dearest friends 'gone West.'

"The yellow flag flew over the station for six long weeks, and on
the first "liberty" after quarantine was removed, how many, many
vacant lines on the liberty list ! They passed far from the glories
of the battle-field, but theirs is a cherished memory just the same.
'They also serve who only stand and wait.' They answered God's
call from under the Stars and Stripes."

Emmett C. Blair of Osgood served as a sergeant in Company E,
16th Infantry, First Division, of the A. E. F. He sums up a part
of his service record as follows :

"Was with the punitive expedition into Mexico from March 15,
1916, to February 5, 1917. Left El Paso, Texas, on June 1, 1917, for
Hoboken, New Jersey, bound for France.

"When the armistice was signed on November 11, 1918, we were
near Sedan, and, as the First Division was one of the lucky divisions to
be chosen for service in the Army of Occupation, we started our march
to Coblenz, Germany, the next day, November 12th.

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We stopped at Gravenmacher, Luxemburg, on the 23d of November
to rest for a few days, and also at Cochem, on the Moselle river, for two
days. It was here that I slept in a feather bed for the first time in
nearly two years. From this place we continued our march to Cob-
lenz, arriving there on December 12th. We crossed the Rhine into
Germany on December 13th and marched on to Dernbach, arriving
there the next day. The Sixteenth Regiment was stationed around di-
vision headquarters at Dernbach and at Montabaur. We remained there
until April 18, 1919. On account of the other divisions being ordered
to the United States the First Division had to occupy more territory, so
the 16th Infantry was ordered to Selters, Germany. This town had
been occupied by the Thirty-second Division until ordered home. The
First Division remained here until all the others had sailed for the
United States, being in Germany a little over eight months.

"On August 15, 1919, the first of the First Division started to en-
train for Brest, France. The 16th Infantry left Selters on August 16th,
arrived at Brest on the 20th, and sailed for America on August 23d.
We arrived at New York on September 3, 1919, and paraded in that
city on the 10th and in Washington on the 17th. On September 26th
I got a three-months' furlough, the first since I had enlisted in May,
1914."

Roy Sage of Osgood, who served in Machine Gun Company, 120th
Infantry, Thirtieth Division, was specially commended for bravery in
an early part of the regiment's service, though his modesty prevented
his giving any account of it in his service record report.

Harry Gault of Delaware served as a sergeant in Company D, 17th
Railway Engineers. His unit left New York on July 28, 1917, and
landed at Liverpool, England, on August 12th. Their principal work
was the enlarging and improvement of the port at St. Nazaire, France,
making it one of the largest base sections. Docks were built and con-
creted, railroads built, and a fine system of waterworks.

The 17th Engineers, in company with the 12th, 13th and 14th
Regiments of Railway Engineers, paraded in London on August 15,
1917, while en route to France. They were the first American troops
that ever paraded in London, and the first foreign troops to march
through the streets of the British capital for over five hundred years.

The most popular poem recited on all programs throughout the
war was Wilbur D. Nesbit's "Your Flag and My Flag."

Your flag and my flag, and how it flies today
In your land and my land and half a world away!
Rose-red and blood-red, the stripes forever gleam;
Snow-white and soul-white — the good forefathers' dream!
Sky-blue and true blue, with stars to gleam aright —
The gloried guidon of the day; a shelter through the night.

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Your flag and my flag, and oh, how much it holds;
Your land and my land secure within its folds!
Your heart and my heart beat quicker at the sight;
Sun-kissed and wind-tossed, red and blue and white.
The one flag — the great flag — the flag for me and you —
Glorified all else beside — the red and white and blue!

Your flag and my flag! To every star and stripe

The drums beat as hearts beat and fifers shrilly pipe!

Your flag and my flag — a blessing in the sky;

Your hope and my hope — it never hid a lie!

Home land and far land and half the world around,

Old Glory hears our glad salute and ripples to the sound!

Our Medal Honor Roll

"We sent our boys to France,

To fight in Freedom's name;
We wanted them to do their bit.

Without a thought of fame."

[Extract from "The Service Flag," compiled by Mrs. May V. Wagner
and recited at the service flag dedication at Cedar Creek M. E. Church
in June, 1918. She is Corporal Jerome Wagner's mother.]

Jerome Edward Wagner was
born near Osgood, in Johnson
township, Ripley county, Indiana,
on June 10, 1899, where he grew
up on his father's farm. He at-
tended the Cedar Creek district
school in Johnson township. He
enlisted in the Third Ohio Na-
tional Guards on June 13, 1917,
and was assigned to Company I.
Two squads of this regiment did
guard duty at the Baltimore &
Ohio High Bridge between Osgood
and Delaware from April 1, 1917,
until August 1, 1917, when the
regiment was mobilized at Eden
Park, Cincinnati, Ohio. They
were sent to Chillicothe, and
camped on a cornfield on the re-
cently selected site for the new
training camp to be known as
Camp Sherman. A number of the
Third Ohio Guards were trans-
ferred here to the 166th Infantry,
Company I being formed for the

Jerome Edward Wagner

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new Forty-second Division, destined to become the famous Rainbow.
The new unit was sent to Camp Perry, Ohio, for training and then to
Camp Mills, L. I., for intensive training under French officers. The di-
vision sailed on October 29, 1917, the 166th Infantry going on the trans-
port Agamemnon, an interned ship, formerly named the Kaiser Wilhelm.
They landed at Brest, France, on November 12, and were trained at
Camp Coctquidan, the oldest artillery school in France. They were sent
into the trenches for service in February, 1918, on the Lorraine front.
The first shelling occurred on the night of March 9, followed by a gas
attack on March 22. They captured and held a mile and a quarter of
trenches evacuated by the Germans, near Luneville. The regiment
received a letter of praise from General Gourand for one hundred ten
days' continuous service in this sector. The next critical campaign was
at Champagne, July 14 to 18, followed by eight days north of the
Marne. They here drove the Prussian Guards across the Ourcq river,
captured a number of towns, and twelve hundred prisoners with sup-
plies and munitions. The division fought next at Chalons and at
Chateau-Thierry, then at Vesle. Private Wagner was promoted to
corporal after the battle of the Marne. At St. Mihiel, on September
12, 1918, he was shot through the shoulder by a machine gun bullet and
received shrapnel wounds in the head. Though severely wounded he
directed his men against the enemy until the gun-nest was silenced.
For this action he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and
later the French Croix de Guerre. He was in the hospital five weeks,
returning to his regiment in the Argonne Forest on November 8, 1918.
His commanding officer asked for volunteers for a scouting expedition.
Corporal Wagner volunteered, selected his squad of eight men and ad-
vanced a half-mile before the lines. He was signaling back the Ger-
man position when three machine gun bullets struck him in the leg.
The advancing Americans passed over him and he was picked up by
first aid men. He was taken to Cincinnati Base Hospital 25 for
treatment. He was passed as a litter-patient through eight hospitals to
Brest where he was to sail for the United States. He was taken seri-
ously sick here and operated on for appendicitis. He developed both
pneumonia and diphtheria and when finally sent to America on April 13,
1919, he was helpless with neuritis. He was transferred from the de-
barkation hospital at New York to Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis,
where he received his discharge on July 31, 1919. He was presented
the D. S. C. at the same time, the entire personnel of the f jrt bein^
reviewed by him in the presentation ceremonial. The cross was pinned
to his uniform by Lieutenant-Colonel Lake, the military band playing
for the review. He was recalled to Ft. Harrison a few days later to
receive the French cross for the same gallantry of action as cited hv
General Gourand and signed by Generals Petain and Pershing. He
was married on August 29 to Miss Elsie Murray, and went to Colum-
bus, Ohio, to attend a government school for returned soldiers.

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255

Andrew Nicholas Irrgang

Andrew Nicholas Irrgang was
born at Penntown, near Spades,
Ind., on March 28, 1895, where
he grew to manhood on his father's
farm, attending the Penntown
public school. He was called to
his country's service in the selective
draft on October 4, 1917. He was
sent to Camp Taylor, Louisville,
Ky., for training as a private in
Company A, 335th Infantry,
Eighty-fourth Division. He was
sent with a detachment to Camp
Sevier, S. C, about April 1, 1918,
for further training, and transfer-
red here to 120th Machine Gun
Company, 120th Infantry, Thir-
tieth Division. His regiment was
sent to Camp Merritt, N. J., for
overseas equipment and then to
Boston, Mass., where they em-
barked for overseas service on May
17, 1918, on the transport Milti-
ades. They landed in England on
June 5 and went on to France
within a few days. The 120th
Machine Gun Company was trained at Nordlingham, France, until
about July 1, when they were sent into service in the trenches
near Kemmel Hill, Belgium, on the Ypres front. After the capture of
Voormezeele, the division was sent back from the front for additional
intensive training until September 17, when they were again sent into
action on the Somme front in the campaign against the Hindenburg
Line. Andrew Irrgang was promoted to corporal on August 4, 1918-
At Bellicourt, France, in the battle of the Hindenburg Line, on
September 29, 1918, he distinguished himself by gallant conduct, for
which he was awarded three decorations, the Distinguished Service
Cross by America, the British Distinguished Conduct Medal and the
French Croix de Guerre.

The 30th Division was brigaded with the British Army in thi*
action. A certain point near St. Quentin had been repeatedly attacked
by the British, but without success. Corporal Irrgang succeeded in cap-
turing the machine gun nest with three guns and twenty-seven prisoners;
turning the enemy guns and firing one thousand rounds, covering the
advance of the infantry. He continued to lead his squad forward under
terrific enemy fire. He was wounded severely by shrapnel in both legs
and the right arm, all flesh wounds. He spent two months in the
hospital, one week at Rouen near the battle front, the rest of the time at
Reading, England.

He sailed for the United States on the Cedric, December 14, 1918,
reaching New York on December 23, and was discharged on January

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20, 1919, at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, returning at once to
his home at Spades, Ripley county, Indiana. The Distinguished Service
Cross was presented to Corporal Irrgang at Camp Sherman on May 22,
1919. He was called to Chillicothe for the ceremonial. The entire
personnel of the camp passed in review before him and the cross was
presented by the general in command, the whole proceeding being
entirely in his honor, as his was the only medal given at that time.

The British Medal was bestowed by the Prince of Wales on
September 22, 1919. About forty medals were brought by the young
prince and the soldiers to receive them were invited to come to New
York, transportation being furnished. Mr. Irrgang was unable to
attend the ceremonial, and his medal was received by mail the following
week.

The Croix de Guerre was awarded for the same service in the
spring of 1920, a number of medals being sent by the French govern-
ment at the same time. The American citation reads as follows:

"Corporal Andrew Irrgang, Machine Gun Company, 120th Infantry,
distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in connection with mili-
tary operations against an armed enemy of the United States at Belli-
court, France, on September 29, 1918, and in recognition of his gallant
conduct I have awarded him in the name of the President the Dis-
tinguished Service Cross. (Signed) John J. Pershing.
(Awarded on December 27, 1918.) Commander-in-Chief."

William Alpheus Kreuzman

William Alpheus Kreuzman
was born at Georgetown, Ky.,
May 19, 1898. His parents later
moved to Batesville, Laughery
township, Ripley county, where he
attended public school and as-
sisted his father as a baker. He
enlisted with Charles Gibson,
Randolph Benz, and Ernest Hess
in the U. S. Marine Corps of the
Navy at Cincinnati, Ohio, on May
10, 1917, going to the Marine
Barracks at Port Royal, South
Carolina, on May 18th, for train-
ing. They were trained at Paris
Island during May, June and
July. Were sent to Quantico,
Virginia, in August, for intensive
military training, and assigned to
82nd Company, 6th Marines, 2nd
Division. The regiment sailed
from Philadelphia on October 23,
1917, on the transport Von
Steuben and reached Brest,
France, on November 12, 1917.

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The training was continued at Bordeaux until January. They were
then sent to Chaumont and later to Laville. An accident occurred on
the voyage to France. When about halfway across, the Agamemnon
collided with the Von Steuben, striking the forepart of the ship at 6
p. m. on November 6, displacing the guns and destroying the lifeboats
on the side. The ship was lashed up and avoided sinking because of the
undamaged water-tight compartments. The crew and soldiers on board
wore life-belts for the rest of the trip as a safety precaution.

In March, 1918, the 6th Marines were sent into the trenches on
the Meuse Heights near Verdun with the French and were later given
a sector of their own in the Eparges region. The battles credited to
the 6th Marines are:

Verdun sector, March 18 to May 13, 1918.
Aisne Defensive, June 1 to 6, 1918.
Chateau-Thierrv, June 6 to Julv 12, 1918.
Soissons, July 18 to July 20, 1918.
Pont-a-Moussin, August 7 to August 14, 1918.
St. Mihiel, September 11 to September 16, 1918.
Champagne, Meuse-Argonne, October 1 to 12, 1918.
Argonne-Meuse Offensive, November 1 to 11, 1918.

The continuation of William Kreuzman's service record is:

March to the Rhine, November 17 to December 12, 1918.
Army of Occupation, December 12 to May 2, 1919.
Composite Regiment, May 2 to September 25, 1919.

Private Kreuzman was promoted to corporal in November, 1917.
He received a citation for gallant conduct on November 1, 1918, near
Bayonville, France. Corporal Kreuzman volunteered to reconnoiter a
ravine which was infested by hostile machine guns, and went forward
accompanied by "Red" Allen of New York as scout. They returned
with sixteen prisoners, having silenced the guns. For this action he
was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross on January 4, 1919. It
was not received until March, as Corporal Kreuzman was absent on
duty when other medals were presented at Vallandar, Germany. Charles
Gibson received his cross on January 4th. Of the four boys who
enlisted together in May, 1917, Randolph Benz remained at Quantico,
Va., because of physical disability. Ernest Hess was wounded at
Soissons, in July, 1918, and was never able to return to his regiment.
Corporal Kreuzman received the Distinguished Service Cross at
Lutesdorf, Germany. Secretary of the Navy Daniels pinned on the
decoration in a special ceremonial for those unable to receive their
medals at Vallandar, in January. He also received a citation and the
Croix de Guerre from the French government for the same action on
May 16, 1919, General Petain presenting the decoration. The whole
division marched in review before the soldiers receiving decorations, and
they were given every military honor.

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Corporal Kreuzman and Private Gibson were chosen for the
Composite Regiment, on May 10, 1919. This regiment was organized
at Coblenz, Germany, as follows: Thirty-six hundred men in round
numbers were chosen. From each Marine company, one sergeant, one
corporal, and eight privates were selected. There were twenty-four
Marine companies, making two hundred and forty marines in the
regiment, Pershing's Own, as it was called. The other members of the
outfit were chosen from infantry, artillery and other units of the Army
of Occupation, so as to make a complete regiment, typical of the Amer-
ican Expeditionary Force. The men were selected on a basis of size,
appearance, and so forth, to make as uniform and striking a composite
as possible. The men were named by their officers and were drilled
four hours daily.

They left Coblenz on June 15, 1919, after exhibition drills, and
parades at that place, and went to Paris, where they paraded in the
French Capital, on American Independence Day, July 4, and again on
French Independence Day, Bastille Day, July 14. These parades were
viewed by representatives of the whole civilized world, and the rulers
and generals of Servia, Montenegro and Czecho-Slovak, as well as the
kings and presidents of the older countries of allied Europe. The third
grand parade was in London on July 19. The regiment was reviewed
by the Prince of Wales on July 18, himself a young British soldier of
about twenty. Everywhere the greatest enthusiasm was shown by the
assembled multitudes of cheering, flag-waving people.

The regiment returned to Paris at the end of July, abandoning a
plan to visit Italy. They sailed for the United States on September 1,
1919, on the Leviathan, reaching New York September 8.

The grand parade in New York was held on September 10, the
Composite Regiment, commanded by General Pershing, leading the
First Division. They were sent to Washington for their final parade
before President Wilson on September 17. The marines were dis-
charged at the Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C, next day, Septem-
ber 18, 1919, receiving their discharges one week later, September 25.

Corporal Kreuzman also won the sharpshooter's badge, a distinction
shared by several Ripley county soldiers, and valued, because awarded
for skill in marksmanship. He entered a school of lithography at
Effingham, 111., after his discharge from the army.

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259

Charles Samuel Gibson was
born at Morris, Adams township.
Ripley county, Indiana, on May 3,
IS'^8. His parents moved to
Batesville, where he graduated
from common school and entered
high school, working in his
brother's garage when out of
school. He enlisted with Will
Kreuzman, Randolph Benz, and
Ernest Hess in the United States
Marines at Cincinnati, Ohio, on
May 10, 1917, going to Paris
Island at Port Royal, South Car-
olina, on May 18, 1917, for train-
ing. Went to Quantico, Virginia,
for further training in August,
1917, and was assigned to 82nd
Company, 6th Marines, Second
Division.

The Second Division embarked
from Philadelphia on October 23,
1917, the 6th Marines on the
transport Von Steuben, and
reached Brest, France, on Novem-
ber 12, 1917. The latter half of the voyage was made precarious by a
collision between the Von Steuben and Agamemnon, which disabled the
former so much that the crew and soldiers on board wore life-belts for
the rest of the journey. They were trained at Bordeaux until January,
then at Chaumont and Laville until March, 1918.

Charles Gibson and Will Kreuzman served together throughout
the entire service of the 6th Marines, being always in the 82nd Com-
pany. Neither was ever wounded or in the hospital during their
twenty-three months' service overseas. Gibson served with Will
Kreuzman through all the battles of their division, Verdun, Aisne,
Chateau-Thierry, Pont-a-Moussin, St. Mihiel, Champagne, Meuse-
Argonne, to the march to the Rhine and the occupancy of the Coblenz
Bridgehead in Germany until May, 1919, when they were both chosen
for the Composite regiment.

Both won two medals, the Distinguished Service Cross and the Croix
de Guerre. Gibson's citation recommends him for the decoration for
volunteering to reconnoiter a ravine supposed to be infested with
machine-guns near Bayonville, France, on November 1, 1917. He was
with Corporal Screech, Gibson on the right, the corporal on the left of
their advance. They used rifles and bayonets only in this raid. They
were entirely successful in silencing the guns and taking several prisoners.

Charles Samuel Gibsox

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Claude Williams was born near
Holton, Indiana, on April 18,
1893. He was working as time-
keeper on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad when called to military
service on May 27, 1918, by the
local draft board at Versailles.
He was sent for training to Camp
Taylor, Ky., and later to Camp
Greenleaf, Georgia. He was as-
signed for overseas duty to Com-
pany I, 120th Infantry, 30th
Division, and embarked from Ho-
boken on the Mauretania on
August 27, 1918, arriving in
Liverpool, England, on September
3. He was sent on at once to
France and took part as a
stretcher-bearer in the battles of
the Hindenburg Line — Bellicourt
and Nauroy, September 29 to
October 1, 1918; Premont-
Brancourt, October 8 ; Busigny,
October 9 ; Becquinquy, Bohain,
La Haie, Menneresse, St. Martin
Riviere, Muzingheim and Heights of Cotillai, October 17 to 19, 1918.

Claude Williams

He was awarded the British Military Medal on the following
citation :

"On October 11 and 12, 1918, during action west of St. Souplet,
Stretcher-bearer Claude Williams displayed great devotion to duty for
two days under heavy shell-fire, bandaging and carrying out the
wounded. It was through this soldier's ceaseless efforts that many
wounded men received immediate care which could not otherwise have
been rendered.

"Jas. G. Harbord, Chief of Staff.
"By command of General Pershing."

The medal was presented by the British government and approved
by General Pershing. It was presented to the soldier at the Belgian
Camp at Le Mans at 10:30 a. m. on February 18, 1919, by General
Sir David Henderson of the British Army, authorized by the King of
England, for bravery on the battle-field while brigaded with the British
Army in the battles near St. Souplet.

Claude Williams sailed for the United States on April 1, 1919,
reaching Charleston, South Carolina, on April 13. He was discharged
at Camp Taylor on April 25, 1919, and returned to his home and
former occupation at Holton, Indiana.

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Ora Engle

Martin Hallforth

Leo Hartman

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CITATIONS

Martin Hallforth of Washington township wears on the left sleeve
of his uniform an insignia given for extraordinary efforts by his
battalion in repairing tanks at the French tank base. The citation
was presented to Major Lathrop, battalion commander, and each soldier
has a copy with the privilege of wearing the insignia. The decoration
is of gold, crossed guns and a helmet in design. His service was in the
Signal Corps. He was first assigned to the Second Motor Mechanic
Regiment, 7th Company, which was later changed to Second Air
Service, 7th Company, in July, 1918. The battalion worked eight and
one-half months on the French tanks at Fontainebleau. The French
government awarded the citation because of the amazing speed and skill
with which the work was accomplished.

Leo Lewis Hartrhan of Osgood was cited for bravery in carrying
wounded through to First Aid Stations at Bois de Belleau, Belleau
Wood, 1918. He wears a silver star for this citation. He was a
member of the 80th Company, 6th Marines, Second Division.

Corporal Ora Engle of Napoleon, of Company C, 9th Field
Battalion Signal Corps, wears two silver stars for the following cita-
tions :

"All of Company C, Ninth Field Signal Battalion, displayed devo-
tion to duty to the point of complete physical exhaustion during the
period of October 14 to October 20, 1918. in laying and repairing
telephone lines under heavy hostile bombardment at Madeline Farm
and Cunel, France ( Meuse-Argonne Front). Dated November 30,
1918."

In a second paragraph seven enlisted men are cited in orders for
distinguished conduct in action. One of these was Ora Engle, a private
at that time.

"All of Ninth Field Signal Battalion displayed exceptional bravery
and devotion to duty on the afternoon of November 10, 1918, in
assisting in the extension of Division Axis of Liaison from Brandeville
to Leuppy, running the line under very heavy shell and machine-gun
fire. Dated December 28, 1918."

"In the Verdun Sector the foregoing men (44), all of Company C,
9th Field Signal Battalion, displayed conspicuous gallantry and devo-
tion to duty, maintaining in the face of enemy fire the several means of
communication at all times."

"All of the Ninth Field Signal Battalion performed invaluable
service during the operations against the enemy in Bois de Rappes by
laying lines from the Regimental Relay Station toward the front lines,
in face of heavy artillery and machine-gun fire and gas."

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263

Sergeant Howard Sebring Smith
of Cross Plains, of Company B,
Forty-fourth Engineers, has two
regimentai citations for service on
the Murman Coast and in Interior
Russia with the Northern Russia
Expeditionary Force. One is by
Major E. C. MacMoorland, oi:
the American Exped i t i o n a r y
Forces, the other by General
Maynard, commander-in-chief of
the British Northern Russia Ex-
peditionary Force.

Howard Sebrixg Smith

John Elmer Schraub of Olean,
who served in Company E, 320th
Infantry, 80th Division, was sent
to the interior of Germany on a
special mission. He was specially
commended for this service on
August 11, 1918.

Johx Elmer Schraub

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Private Davis Wagner of
Morris, who served in Head-
quarters Company, 120th Infantry,
30th Division, was cited for
bravery in carrying his wounded
lieutenant to a place of safety while
himself badly wounded.

Davis Wagner

Frank Bruns of Company G. 28th Infantry, 1st Division, wears two
silver stars for citations and the French Fouraguerre.

Raymond Reuter of Ambulance Company 147, 37th Division, was
cited for bravery in carrying wounded comrade through barrage fire to
First Aid Station. Cited by General Farrison of 37th Division, by
King of Belgium and by French general at Battle of Argonne.

Ferdinand Chaplin of Ambulance Company 36, 7th Division, was
cited by Colonel G. V. Fislc at Rogeville, France, for bravery in carry-
ing in wounded men.

The 13th Regiment of Marines was the first and only unit to
receive a citation behind the fighting lines. This citation was given to
the first and second battalions because of their splendid work in taking
care of the sick during the epidemic of influenza. Raymond Demaree
of Benham was a member of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 13th Division.

The French Forraguerre was awarded all men in the 18th Infantry,
1st Division. Albert Tekulve of the 18th, Company M, reports two
bronze and one silver star as his share of decorations.

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265

Gold Star Honor Roll

Henry Lee Ashcraft was born
January 18, 1895, in Grant
county, Ky. The family moved
to Washington Township, Ripley
County, Ind., locating near Milan.
He was called to army service
on September 20, 1917, in the forty
per cent draft from Ripley county
that later gave so many gold stars
for the County's Honor Roll. He
was trained at Camp Taylor until
April, then at Camp Sevier, N. C,
until the first of May, 1918. He
was assigned to Company A, 335th
Infantry, 84th Division, at Camp
Taylor, and transferred at Camp
Sevier to Company M, 120th
Infantry, 30th Division.

He sailed from Boston on May
17, reaching France the first week
in June. After a month's addi-
tional training at Eperlocques he
was sent to the Ypres front in
Belgium, fighting with his regi-
ment in all its engagements to St.
Quentin, where he was instantly killed by shrapnel on September 29,
1918. His body lies in the "Old Hickory" Cemetery at St. Quentin
with Coy Sunman and Leora Weare, who were killed on the same day.
Henry Schraub, Sam Heisman, Chris Endres, John Flick, Floyd Brown,
John L. Bland, William Gilland, and Earl Hyatt are all buried near,
making eleven Ripley county boys lost in battle from the 30th Division.
' Lee Ashcraft had worked two years in Illinois before going into
the army. He was a member of Junior Lodge at Dry Ridge, Ky.

Henry Lee Ashcraft

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Clarence Ray Beall

Clarence Ray Beall was born at
Tanglewood, Johnson township,
on March 22, 1897. He was edu-
cated in the Versailles schools and
took teachers' training at Muncie,
Ind., and taught his first school in
Laughery township near Bates-
ville, in the winter of 1917-18.
He enlisted in the United States
Naval Reserves as second-class
seaman on June 3, 1918, at In-
dianapolis. He was sent to Great
Lakes Naval Training Station at
Chicago. Was sent on August 27,
1918, to the Naval Training Sta-
tion at Puget Sound, Washington.
He died of influenza-pneumonia
on October 3, 1918, at the base
hospital, Puget Sound, Naval
Training Camp. His body was
sent home for burial, and lies in
Cliff Hill cemetery, at Versailles.
He was married to Miss Edna
Billingsley of Shelbyville, early in
1918.

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26?

John Lester Bland was born
July 7, 1895. at Holton, Ind. His
family lived at different times at
Dabney. Friendship, Holton, and
for a few years were out of the
county, returning to Batesville,
about 1916, from which place he
was called to the colors on Septem-
ber 20, 1917, in the forty per cent
call of the first draft. He was
sent to Camp Taylor for training,
where he was promoted from
private to corporal. He was as-
signed to Company A, 335th In-
fantry, 84th Division. With a
detachment of other 335th men,
he was sent to Camp Sevier, North
Carolina, in April, 1918, to Camp
Merritt on May 7, and sailed
from Boston on May 17, 1918, as
a member of Company M,. 120th
Infantry, 30th Division. The Di-
vision landed at Gravesend, Eng-
land, on June 4th, and reached
Calais, France, a few days later.
After a month's training at Eperlocques they were sent to the Ypres
front in Belgium, where they distinguished themselves at Kemmel Hill
and Voormezeele. Their next work at the front was in France in the
campaign before St. Quentin in the battle of the Hindenburg Line. In
this offensive, the 30th Division lost eleven Ripley county boys, and a
number of others were wounded. John Bland was gassed on October
17, and died at General Hospital 74, on November 2, 1918.

His grave is at Trouville, France, in the American plot of the
British cemetery. His comrades speak of him as having been unusually
intrepid and determined in his devotion to duty.

John Lester Bland

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Roscoe Ray Branham

Roscoe Ray Branham was born
at Osgood, Indiana, on March 5,
1891. His parents lived three
years in Gillett, Arkansas, when
he was a small child, his father
dying at that place. The family-
then returned to Osgood, where
Ray received a common school edu-
cation. He enlisted in the regular
army at Ft. Snelling, Minnesota,
on October 5, 1914, in Coast
Artillery Corps. He was as-
signed to Headquarters Company,
54th Coast Artillery Corps. He
was trained at Ft. McKinley,
Maine, until the spring of 1916,
when he was sent to Mexico for
service. After a few months' ser-
vice he was sent back to Ft. Wil-
liams, Maine. In December,
1917, he was sent to Jacksonville,
Florida, to attend artillery school,
coming back to Maine in Febru-
ary, 1918. His company sailed

for France on March 16, 1918, on the U. S. Baltic, landing on March
29, 1918. He was transferred on September 30, 1918, to Battery F,
43d C. A. C.

He entered Field Hospital 316 on October 19, and died October 21,
of septic pneumonia. He was buried on October 23, 1918, in the
cemetery at Vittel, Dept. Vosges, France.

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269

Floyd Bernice Brown was born
near New Marion, Shelby town-
ship, Ripley county, Indiana, on
October 10, 1895. He received a
common school education and
lived on a farm till he was called
to military service. Before enter-
ing the army he was married to
Miss Bessie Gray of Osgood, Ind.

He was called in the first two
per cent draft, his number being
the first drawn in Washington,
and the first also in Ripley
county. He was sent with Earl
Hyatt, William Gilland, Leo
Benz, Arthur Schein, Watson
Gookins and Clarence Sparling to
Camp Taylor on September 9,
1917. They were assigned to
Company A, 335th Infantry, 84th
Division. In April, 1918, he was
sent with a number of his com-
rades to Camp Sevier, N. C, and
transferred to Company C, 119th
Infantry, 30th Division. He was sent to Camp Merritt on May 7,
and embarked for overseas duty from Boston on May 17, 1918.
The division landed at Gravesend, England, on June 4, and crossed
by way of Dover to Calais, France. After six weeks' training in France,
he was sent to the Ypres Front in Belgium until September 2d. After
intensive training until September 17, the division made its famous at-
tack on the Hindenburg Line at Bellicourt, continuing to St. Souplet,
October 10th.

He was killed by shell fire October 10, 1918, while advancing at
St. Souplet as he stepped from behind cover of a tree.

He is buried with the other 30th Division dead, near St. Souplet.

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Floyd Bernice Brown

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Earl Bronnenberg
Hospital 28,

Earl Bronnenberg was born at
Chesterfield, Madison county,
Ind., on December 24, 1896. His
parents moved to a farm at Ver-
sailles, Ind., in 1906, and he com-
pleted his common school educa-
tion at Versailles.

He enlisted in the Regular
Army at Indianapolis on February
16, 1916, for seven years' service.
He was trained at San Antonio,
Texas, and served on the Mexican
border until July, 1917, when he
went overseas with Pershing in the
First Division.

When first enlisted he was with
the 38th Regiment of • Infantry,
but was later transferred to
Quartermasters Corps, Wagon
Company 100, as a first-class pri-
vate. His service during the en-
tire war was driving a mule team
to an ammunition wagon ; also in
hauling food and fuel.

He died of pneumonia at Camp
Nevers, France, on February 16, 1919. His body lies

buried in the American cemeterv at Nevers.

Forrest Clyde Bultman was
born in Delaware township, Rip-
ley county, on October 17, 1898.
He lived on his father's farm until
the latter's election as sheriff of
the county, when the family moved
to Versailles. Forrest graduated
from the Versailles high school in
1915. He entered the S. A. T. C.
for military training at the State
Normal School at Terre Haute,
Ind., October 1, 1918. He con-
tracted influenza-pneumonia and
died at St. Anthony's Hospital,
Terre Haute, on November 7,
1918, the only member of the State
Normal S. A. T. C. to fall a vic-
tim to the epidemic. He was
brought home for burial and his
grave is at New Salem cemetery,
near his home. A firing squad of
the Batesville Liberty Guards at-
tended the funeral service.

Forrest Clyde Bultman

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271

Marcus Eugene Deburger was
born near Versailles, Indiana, on
March 8. 1894, and grew up on a
farm, attending the district school
nearest him, in Johnson township.
He was called to his country's col-
ors on September 20, 1917, in the
first forty per cent draft and was
sent to Camp Taylor for training.
He was assigned to Company A,
335th Infantry. He died at the
base hospital at Camp Taylor on
December 24, 1917, of pneumonia.
His body was sent home on Christ-
mas day for burial. His grave is
at Shelby cemetery in Shelby town-
ship.

Marcus Eugene Deburger

Emmett Demaree wTas born at
Westfork, Shelby township, on
May 1, 1893. He lived on his
parents' farm near Westfork until
reaching his majority, when he
went West, taking a homestead in
Montana. He enlisted in the avia-
tion department of the Regular
Army at Spokane, Washington, on
December 7, 1917, as a private,
and was assigned to Aero Supply
Squadron 672 for training. He
was trained at Kelly Field, Texas,
at Camp Waco and Camp Morri-
son and Hampton, Virginia. He
was severely burned on the face
and right hand by some sort of ex-
plosion while at Hampton and
feared the loss of his sight. He
wrote no details as he wished to
avoid alarming his mother. He
embarked for overseas from
Hampton Roads, Virginia, in Emmett Demaree

October, 1918, and wrote from
"Somewhere in France" on November 5th, as having just arrived.

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He was promoted to corporal on March 18, 1918, and transferred
to Company 499, Aero Squadron, American service. He died of
pneumonia at Base Hospital 101, St. Nazaire, France, on February 20,
1919. His grave is at St. Nazaire in the American cemetery.

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273

Kenneth Leo Diver

Kenneth Leo Diver was born
at Sunman, Adams township,
Ripley county, Indiana, on August
16, 1895. He was educated in the
Sunman schools and was working
as airbrake inspector on the Penn-
sylvania railroad at Richmond,
Ind., when war was declared with
Germany on April 6, 1917. He
enlisted at Indianapolis, on May
12, 1917, as a private and was as-
signed to Company A, 16th Infan-
try, First Division. He was
among the first to volunteer from
Ripley county in the World War.
He joined his regiment at Ft. Bliss,
Texas. He sailed with his divis-
ion for overseas duty on June 10,
1917, in the first American unit
sent for overseas duty.

The First Division went to
France under the personal com-
mand of General Pershing. They
were trained in France, landing at
The division was sent into the

St. Nazaire on June 26, 1917.
trenches in October, 1917. Private Diver was transferred to Com-
pany D, 16th Infantry, and promoted to corporal in February
1918. They served in the trenches throughout the winter and spring.
The 16th Infantry suffered the first raid made by the Germans on the
American army, losing a number of men from Company F, as prisoners
and a few killed, including Private Gresham of Evansville, Ind., the
first Americans killed in the A. E. F.

Corporal Diver was killed by a shell April 28, 1918, near Mont-
didier on the Picardy front. He died instantly from concussion and
suffered no mutilation. He is buried near where he fell.

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Earl William Downey

Earl William Downey was
born at Dabney, Otter Creek
township, Ripley county, Indiana,
on June 27, 1894. His parents
moved to Dearborn county while
he was still in school and he gradu-
ated from the Aurora high school.
He then entered Nelson's Busi-
ness College in Cincinnati, Ohio,
and later worked as a stenographer
in that city.

He enlisted in the United
States Navy as a fourth-class yeo-
man on June 29, 1914, at Cin-
cinnati, and was assigned after
training to the U. S. S. Missouri,"
where he was serving when
stricken with influenza-pneumonia.
He was removed to the municipal
hospital at Philadelphia, where he
died on September 30, 1918. His
grave is at Holton, Ripley county.
He was married seven weeks be-
fore his death to Miss Willa
Elders of Vernon, Indiana.

Wilbur Roy Duncan was born
at Manchester, Ohio, on May 29,
1888. The family later moved to
near Elrod, Washington town-
ship, Ripley county, Indiana, where
they resided on a farm. He was
drafted for military service by the
local board at Versailles, on June
25, 1918, and sent to Camp Sher-
man, Chillicothe, Ohio, for train-
ing. He was assigned as a pri-
vate to Company F, 150th Infan-
try, 84th Division.

Was sent to Camp Merritt and
on to Camp Mills about October
1st. He was detained here because
of an attack of measles. The
measles was complicated with in-
fluenza, which developed into
bronchial pneumonia. He died at
Camp Mills Hospital on October
23, 1918. His body was sent
home for burial and his grave is in
Washington cemetery at Elrod.

Wilbur Roy Duncan

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275

C hrist Fred Endres was born
i, ear Sunmaii, Franklin township,
Ripley county, where he grew to
manhood on his father's farm. He
was called to his country's service
on October 4, 1917, in the third
call of the local draft board at
Versailles. He was sent to Camp
Taylor for training and assigned
to Company A, 335th Infantry,
84th Division ; was sent to Camp
Sevier, N. C, on the 29th of
March, 1918. He was transferred
to Company M, 120th Infantry,
30th Division, and sent to Camp
Merritt, N. J., on May 7, 1018.
The division embarked from Bos-
ton on May 17, 1918, for over-
seas duty and landed at Graves-
end, England, on June 4th, cross-
ing to Calais, France, by way of
Dover, England, during the next
few days. After a few weeks'
training at Eperlocques, the di-
vision was marched to the Ypres
Front in Belgium, where they served in the trenches about Kemmel
Hill and ending in the capture of Voormezeele. They were then sent
to France for more intensive training until September 17, when they
were again sent to the front for the attack on the Hindenburg Line.
He was killed in action on October 10, 1918, and is buried with sev-
eral comrades near Vaux, Andigny, France.

Christ Fred Exdrhs

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John Louis Flick was born near
Holton, Ind., on May 8, 1894.
He grew up on his father's farm,
getting his education in the Otter
Creek township schools and Holton
high school. He took teachers'
training at the State Normal,
Terre Haute, and taught in the
Ripley county schools. He was
called to military service October
4, 1917, by the local draft board
of Versailles and sent to Camp
Taylor, Ky., for training.

He was assigned as a private to
Company A, 335th Infantry, 84th
Division. He was sent to Camp
Sevier, N. C, on April 1, 1918,
and transferred to Company I,
119th Infantry, 30th Division.
He was sent to Camp Merritt, N.
J., on May 7th and sailed over-
seas from Boston on May 17,
1918. The division reached France
early in June, and went into
training at Eperlocques. They were sent in June into Belgium to the
trenches on the Ypres front. After serving at Kemmel Hill, and in
the capture of Voormezeele, the division returned to France for
further training. On September 17, 1917, they were again sent to the
front in the offensive against the Hindenburg Line. This line was
broken near St. Quentin, on September 29, in three hours' hard fight-
ing. He was wounded on October 12 by a shell as he was advancing
as battalion scout. He was struck in the side and head, and died Oc-
tober 16, at the base hospital at Rouen, France. He is buried at Rouen.

John Louis Flick

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277

James Alva Francis was born at
Correct, Johnson township, Rip-
ley county, Indiana, on December
6, 1893. The family lived at vari-
ous places in Ripley county, while
he was growing to manhood. He
was married to Miss Clara Stoner,
of Osgood, to whom two children
were born, Mildred Clara, born
August 11, 1913, and Mary Mar-
garet, born January 5, 1915.

James A. Francis enlisted in the
U. S. Navy at Louisville, Ky., on
September 28, 1915, and was
sent to Cincinnati and on to New
York at once, for training. He
was assigned to the destroyer Jacob
Jones, as third-class electrician and
was serving there when the ship
was torpedoed by a German sub-
marine off the west coast of Eng-
land, December 6, 1917, with the
loss of all on board except two men
taken as prisoners. James A.
Francis was among those lost,

dying thus on his twenty-fourth birthday for the cause of American

freedom.

James Alva Francis

Roy John Fruchtnicht was born
in Adams township, near Bates-
ville, on March 11, 1895. His
parents later moved to Batesville,
where Roy got a common school
education. He went to work at
an early age in the furniture fac-
tories to help support his mother
and sisters, the father having been
killed in an accident.

Roy was called to military ser-
vice by the local board at Ver-
sailles, in June, 1918, and enlisted
in the aviation repair department
at Speedway, Indianapolis. He
was assigned to Aero Squadron
821.

He died at the post hospital, Ft.
Benjamin Harrison, on October
13, 1918, of influenza-pneumonia.
His grave is in Huntersville ceme-
tery, Batesville, Ind.

Roy John Fruchtnicht

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William Edward Gilland was
born in Jackson township, near
Osgood, Indiana, on January 29,
1894. He attended the district
school and worked on his father's
farm until called to military ser-
vice on September 9, 1917, in the
first two per cent draft from Rip-
ley county. He was one of the
first seven enrolled in the selective
draft. He was sent to Camp Tay-
lor for training and assigned to
Company A, 335th infantry, 84th
Division. He was promoted from
private to corporal. In April,
1918, he was sent to Camp Sevier,
X. C, and transferred to Company
K, 119th Infantry, 30th division.
The division was sent to Camp
Merritt, N. J., on May 7. They
sailed from Boston on May 17 for
overseas duty, landing at Graves-
end, England, on June 4, going
on to Calais, France, by way of
trained a month or so at Eper-
locques, then sent on a hike to the Ypres front in Belgium, where
they served in the trenches at Kemmel Hill and captured the
city of Voormezeele. Then to France for further training until Septem-
ber 17, when they were sent to the Somme front. On September 29
they broke the Hindenburg Line at St. Quentin in three hours' fighting.

He was killed near St. Souplet on October 9, 1918, by a bursting
shell, being hit in many places and instantly killed. His detachment
had advanced nearly eleven miles that morning, meeting with only
slignt casualties. Only a few shells had come over in the last three
miles before he was hit. His grave is near St. Souplet, at Busigny
cemetery, Nord, France.

William Edward Gilland
Dover, England. They were

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George Allen Gordon was born
at New Marion, Indiana, on
October 7, 1896. His parents
moved later to Cross Plains, in
Brown township, where Allen
grew to manhood on a farm, get-
tin/ a common school education.

lie enlisted in the United
States Navy as a seaman on June
4, 1918, at Bloomington, 111., and
he was sent for training to Great
Lakes Naval Training Station at
Chicago.

He died of influenza-pneumonia
at the camp hospital, Great Lakes,
on September 26, 1918. His body
was sent home for burial and his
grave is in Salem cemetery, near
Cross Plains, Brown township.

George Allen Gordon

Samuel Richard Heisman was
born on January 27, 1888, at Sun-
man, Ind. He grew to maturity
on his father's farm, getting a com-
mon school education in the Frank-
lin township schools. He was
called for military service by the
local draft board at Versailles, on
September 20, 1917, being one of
the first forty per cent call. He
was sent to Camp Taylor for
training and assigned to Company
A, 335th Infantry, 84th Division.
With a number of comrades he was
sent to Camp Sevier, N. C, in
April, 1918, where he was as-
signed to Company M, 120th In-
fantry, 30th Division. The divis-
ion was ordered to Camp Merritt,
N. J., on May 7, and sailed for
overseas duty from Boston on May
17. They arrived at Gravesend,
England, on June 4, and crossed
within a few days by way of Dover

Samuel Richard Heisman

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to Calais, France. After a month's training at Eperlocques, they
marched to the Ypres front in Belgium, where they served at
Kemmel Hill and in the capture of Voormezeele. They were then
sent into France for a few weeks more of intensive training and then
sent to the front again, before St. Quentin on the Hindenburg Line.

He was gassed on October 17, and died on October 28. He is
buried at Rouen, France, in the British military cemetery.

Edward Thomas Huelson was
born October 3, 1894, near Hol-
ton, Indiana, where he grew up on
his father's farm. He was work-
ing at Des Moines, Iowa, when
war with Germany was declared.
He enlisted in Battery B, 2d Field
Artillery, Iowa National Guard,
at Burlington, Iowa, on Decem-
ber 15, 1917. He was in training
at Camp Dodge until February,
when he was transferred on Feb-
ruary 23, 1918, to Company B,
350th Infantry, Regular Army,
and sent to Camp Sevier, North
Carolina. He was transferred
after arriving here to Company C,
117th Infantry, 30th Division.

He died of pneumonia at the
base hospital, Camp Sevier, on
May 17, 1918. His body was
brought home for burial at New
Edward Thomas Huelson Marion, Shelby township. A

squad of the Batesville Liberty
Guards attended the funeral and gave the full military service.

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281

Harry Melvin Hunter was
born at Cross Plains, Ind., on
January 22, 1896. He was called
to military service on June 26,
1918, by the local draft board at
Versailles. He was sent to Camp
Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, for
training, and assigned to Company
B, 334th Infantry, 84th Division.
He left Camp Sherman on August
22. 1918. and embarked from Ho-
boken, N. J., on September 1,
1918, on the transport Aquitania.
Arrived at Southampton, Eng-
land, on September 9 and crossed
to Le Havre, France, two days
later. He was sent to St. Este tor
further training.

He died at the base hospital at
Noyers, St. Aignan, France, of
bronchial pneumonia on October
20, 1918. His grave is in the mili-
tary cemetery at St. Aignan, near
that of Harry May of the same
neighborhood. Letters describing
the Memorial Day services at the cemetery on May 30, 1919, state
that ten thousand persons were present for the impressive ceremonies.
Photographs show the graves covered with flowers. Later: His body
was brought to America in November, 1920, and buried at the M. E.
Cemetery at Cross Plains in Brown township.

Harry Melvin Hunter

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Tony Edward Hunter was born
at Versailles, Ind., on September
5, 1878, and was educated in the
Versailles schools. He taught
common school in Johnson town-
ship for a few terms and then
studied medicine at Kentucky Uni-
versity, Louisville, graduating in
1904.' He was married in 1906
to Miss Eva Stewart of Versailles,
where he practiced medicine from
his graduation until his enlistment
in the army in 1918. Two chil-
dren were born to him, Edith
Virginia in 1912, and John Gil-
bert in 1916. He took a special
course in eye, ear and throat dis-
eases at Chicago University in
1914.

He enlisted in the Medical
Officers' Reserve Corps at In-
dianapolis on June 21, 1917, and
was commissioned First Lieuten-
ant, M. R. C. He was given
military training at Ft. Benjamin
Harrison, Indianapolis, from August 6 to November 26, 1918.
This training was very thorough, giving infantry drill and field hospital
work, drilling the medical men for overseas service on the battle-fields.
Then he was sent to Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss. He was assigned
here to Sanitary Detachment, 149th Infantry, 38th Division.

The regiment was fully equipped and waiting orders for overseas'
service, having completed intensive military training on the rifle range
at Hattiesburg.

He was serving as ward surgeon at the Regimental Hospital when
an epidemic of influenza prostrated about one-third of his regiment.
Lieutenant Hunter was taken sick with influenza on April 12, 1918,
developed lobar pneumonia and died at the Base Hospital, Camp Shelby,
on April 18. His body was brought home for burial and his grave is
in Cliff Hill cemetery, Versailles. He was a very active man, belonging
to the local brass band, the local Business Men's Association, Knights of
Pythias lodge, District Medical Association; also National Medical As-
sociation, and was health officer for Ripley county when he enlisted.
Any movement for the betterment of his community, his fellowmen, or
his country had the ardent support of Dr. Tony Hunter.

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283

Earl Clifford Hyatt was born
at Benham, Indiana, on April 18,
1895. He obtained a common
school education and worked on
his father's farm. He was called
to military service on September
9, 1917, in the first two per cent
call of selective men from Ripley
county. He was sent to Camp
Taylor, Kentucky, for training
and assigned to Company A, 335th
Infantry, 84th Division. He was
sent to Camp Sevier, N. C, in
April, 1918, and to Camp Merritt,
N. J., on May 7th. He was
transferred to Company I, 120th
Infantry, 30th Division, while at
Camp Sevier. The division sailed
from Boston on May 17, 1918, for
overseas duty. Because of sub-
marine danger the fleet landed at
Gravesend, England, instead of
Liverpool, on June 4th, crossing
in a few days by way of Dover to
Calais, Erance. They were trained
at Eperlocques during June, and sent to the Ypres front in Belgium
in July. After the operations at Kemmel Hill and Voormezeele, the
division was sent into France and trained until September 17 for the
attack on the Hindenburg Line. The assault was made on September
29th near St. Quentin. Earl Hyatt was killed on October 18 by a
shrapnel wound in the head. He had worked all night with Claud
Williams of Holton, Indiana, who testified to his gallantry in battle
and his bravery in facing death to bring in wounded comrades, which
was his last service. His grave is in France, near that of many others
of the "Old Hickory" Division.

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court, St
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France.

John Kissell was born at Milan,
Indiana, on December 23, 1893,
where he grew up on a farm. He
was drafted for military service on
September 20, 1917, and assigned
to Company A, 335th Infantry,
30th Division. He was in train-
ing at Camp Taylor, until April,
1918, when he was sent with a
number of other Ripley county
boys of the 335th Regiment to
Camp Sevier, North Carolina.
Here he was assigned to Com-
pany I, 120th Infantry, 30th
Division. He embarked from
Boston on May 17, 1918, reaching
France the first week in June.
After a month's training at Eper-
locques his regiment was sent to
the Ypres front in Belgium. He
served with his regiment at Kem-
mel Hill and Voormezeele in Bel-
gium, at the battles of the Hinden-
burg Line, St. Quentin, Belli-

. Souplet, Montbrebain and so on.

died of catarrhal pneumonia on November 6, 1918, at Amiens,

John Kissell

Philip Levine was born at Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, on August 31,
1899. His father moved to Milan,
Indiana, where as he grew up,
Philip was associated with him in
the hay and grain business. He
entered the S. A. T. C. of Cincin-
nati University October 1, 1918,
and died at the Cincinnati General
Hospital of influenza-pneumonia
on November 7, 1918. He is
buried in Cincinnati.

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285

Wm. M. Lindauer was born at
St. Magdalene, Shelby township,
on June 17, 1889. He grew up
on his father's farm and, being
the elder brother, assumed the
management of it at his parent's
death. The mother dying, also,
he became the head of the family,
there being younger sisters and
brothers.

He was called to military ser-
vice in the forty per cent draft on
September 20, 1917, and sent to
Camp Taylor for training. He
was assigned to Company A, 335th
Infantry, 84th Division. He died
of pneumonia at the base hospital,
Camp Taylor, on December 23,
1917. His body was sent home
for burial and lies in the Catholic
cemetery at St. Magdalene.

Wm. M. Lindauer

Harry Clifford May was born
December 3, 1887, near Cross
Plains, Ind. He grew to man-
hood on his father's farm and re-
ceived his education in the com-
mon schools of Brown township,
attending what is known as the
Blackwell school. Being an agri-
culturist, he later took some spe-
cial courses in that line.

He was called to military ser-
vice on June 26, 1918, by the
local draft board at Versailles, and
sent to Camp Sherman, Ohio, for
training. He was assigned as a
private to Company B, 334th In-
fantry, 84th Division. They were
sent to Camp Mills, Long Island,
New York, on August 21, 1918.

He embarked for overseas duty
on September 1, 1918, on the
transport Aquitania and arrived
at Southampton, England, on Sep-
tember 9, crossing without delay Harry Clifford May
to Le Havre, France. The di-
vision was sent to St. Este for further training.

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On October 10 he entered Camp Hospital 26, suffering from in-
fluenza which developed into lobar pneumonia. He died on October
23, 1918. He was buried at Noyers, Loir-et-cher, France, in the
American cemetery with full military honors as were all who died in
the war hospitals. C. E. Ireland, chaplain of the 164th Infantry, con-
ducted the service. He said: "In dying they still live and ever shall
live in the coming world freedom. These dead shall not have died in
vain."

The following letter expresses the feeling of France for the Ameri-
can dead :

"My Dear Mrs. May: As it is Mother's Day (May 11, 1919)
our chaplain has asked us to write a few lines to those of you whose
privilege it was to give so much to the cause of right in this war. I
would like you to know how we nurses feel about these boys of ours.
In thinking back about them I can see always rows of smiling faces.
Xo matter if there was pain and suffering, always a smile, always a
willingness to make the best of everything.

"On Easter Sunday there were services held in the cemetery, and
the boys' graves were all decorated, each with a flower, by their com-
rades.

"Your son lies buried in a sunny spot, and twice a week the children
of France decorate the graves with flowers, and I suppose so long as
there are children of France it will be so. I am sorry I have not a
picture of the cemetery for you.

"Sincerely yours,

"E. L. Marsh, A. N. C."

Harry Hunter of Cross Plains was also buried at St. Aignan,
Noyers, in the same cemetery.

General Pershing sent the following letter (memorial) to all fam-
ilies who lost their sons overseas, changing only names and regiments
as required :

"In memory of Private Harrv C. May, Company- B, 334th Infantry,
who died October 23. 1918.

"He bravely laid down his life for the cause of his country. His
name will ever remain fresh in the hearts of his friends and comrades.
The record of his honorable service will be preserved in the archives of
the American Expeditionary Forces.

"John J. Pershing,
"Commander-in-Chief."

Later: Harry May's body'yvas sent back to America and buried
at Benham Cemetery in Brown toyvnship on November 3, 1920.

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287

Edward Julius Marting was
born at Cincinnati, Ohio, August
27, 1892. Later his parents moved
to Ripley county, Indiana, locat-
ing near New Marion, in Shelby
township, where he grew to man-
hood. His parents moved again
to Indianapolis after ten years'
residence in Ripley county.

He was called to the colors by
the local draft board of Indian-
apolis on October 5, 1917, and
sent to Camp Taylor, Louisville,
Ky., for training. He was as-
signed as a private to Company E,
334th Infantry, 84th Division. In
November, 1918, he was trans-
ferred to headquarters troop, 309th
Cavalry, and later to Company C,
55th Engineers, tank service. He
was in training at Camp Tavlor
until March 22, 1918, when he
was sent to Camp Mead and was
here transferred to tank service.
He embarked from New York
April 1, 1918, landing about two weeks later in England, where his
training was continued at Camp Wargret, Wareham, Dorset.

He was sent to the hospital at Dorset July 1, 1918, where he re-
mained till September 12. He was then sent to American Base Hos-
pital 3i, at Portsmouth, England, until October 23d, when he was sent
to a rest camp in France in Casual Detachment No. 1, American Red
Cross. He died at the hospital at Nevers, France, November 29, 1918,
of spinal meningitis. His final illness began with an attack of in-
fluenza.

He was married before enlistment to Miss Cerelda Sands of Holton,
Ind., who, with a baby daughter, Frances Laura, resided at Holton
during his overseas service and remain to keep his memory green in
Ripley county. His grave is at Nevers, France.

Edward Julius Marting

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Clifford William Pohlar was
born near Spades, Indiana, on
January 5, 1897. He attended
the rural school at Penntown and
worked on his father's farm until
called to military service on Aug-
ust 29, 1918, by the local draft
board of Versailles. He was sent
to Camp Sherman, Chillicothe,
Ohio, for training. He died at
the post hospital, at Camp Sher-
man, of influenza on October 9,
1918. His body was brought home
for burial and he was given a
military funeral by a squad of
Batesville Liberty Guards. His
grave is at Penntown, near the
farm where he was born in Adams
township.

Clifford William Pohlar

Hugo August Prell was born at
Batesville, Ind., on June 18, 1887.
He lived there until after his par-
ents' death, when he went to work
as a carpenter in Cincinnati, mak-
ing his home still with his sister,
Mrs. Wm. Giesen, at Batesville.
He was called to military service
in Cincinnati, on March 29, 1918,
and went to Camp Sherman for
training. He was assigned first to
12th Company, 3rd Transport
Battalion, 158th Depot Brigade.
He was later transferred to Head-
quarters Company, 329th Infan-
try, 83rd Division. He was sent
to Camp Merritt for embarka-
tion. He sailed from New York
on June 11, 1918, on the trans-
port Grampian, arriving at Liver-
pool, England, on June 24, 1918.
He was trained at Ecomoy,
France, during July. Transferred
on August 2, 1918, to Company
G, 28th Infantry, First Division.
Was sent into action at Saizeras from August 2d to August 24th

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289

Fought at St. Mihiel, September 12th to 15th. At Meuse-Argonne from
October 1st till October 6th.

He was killed instantly by a trench-mortar shell on October 6th,
and was buried where he fell in what is now the American plot at
Exremnnt, France.

Roy Raney

Roy Raney was born January
4, iOOO, at Cincinnati, Ohio. The
greater part of his life was spent
in Dearborn and Ripley counties.
In 1909 the family moved to
Pierceville, Franklin township, in
Ripley county. He graduated
from the Milan high school in
1914, after completing his grade
work at Pierceville.

He enlisted as second-class sea-
guard in the U. S. Navy at Rich-
mond, Ind., on January 18, 1918,
and was sent on July 9 to Great
Lakes Naval Training Station. He
took sick with influenza Septem-
ber 20, 1918, and died September
29, 1918. He is buried at Moores
Hill, near Milan. The Milan
High School adjourned in a body
to attend the funeral. He was an
honor pupil of the school and a
general favorite.

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Harrison Reynolds was born
near New Marion, Ind., on De-
cember 6, 1891, and grew up on
his father's farm, attending the
district schools of Shelby town-
ship. He enlisted for military
service at Osgood, Ind., in the 3rd
Ohio National Guard while a de-
tachment was guarding the Balti-
more and Ohio bridges on April
10, 1917, going to Cincinnati for
induction. He was assigned as a
private to Company I, 3rd Ohio
Infantry, and later to Company I,
166th Infantry, 42d Division, the
famous Rainbow Division. He was
trained at Camp Perry, Ohio, and
at Camp Mills, N. Y., and was
promoted during his service from
private to first-class private and
then to corporal.

The division embarked from
New York on October 27, 1917,
Corporal Reynolds going overseas
on the transport Agamemnon. They reached Brest, France, on
November 12, 1917, and were trained about four months at Luneville.

The most important battles of the Rainbow Division were Cham-
pagne, Chateau-Thierry, Ourcq river, St. Mihiel, Verdun and Sedan.
He marched with the division through Belgium into Germany, where
they were stationed near Coblenz as a part of the Army of Occupa-
tion. He wrote a long letter home about this time after the slackening
of the censorship in which he rejoiced over the victory and the prospect
of an early return to the United States.

He died of an accidental injury on January 16, 1919, at Coblenz,
Germany, and was buried in the American cemetery of that city. In
August, 1920, his body was returned to the United States and he
was buried beside his mother at Tanglewood cemetery, Versailles, Ind.

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291

Thornton B. Roberts

Thornton Burchfield Roberts
was born at Elrod, Ripley county,
Indiana, on June 22, 1895. He
lived on his father's farm until
1916, when he went to work on a
farm in Iowa, where he also drove
on a milk route. He was called
to military service at Grinnell,
Iowa, on February 23, 1918, and
was assigned as a private to Supply
Company, 350th Infantry, later
being transferred to Camp Gor-
don, Atlanta, Georgia. He was
trained at Camp Dodge, Iowa,
about six weeks in the 38th Com-
pany, 10th Transport Battalion,
157th Depot Brigade.

Was taken sick on the way to
Camp Gordon, of measles, and
sent to the base hospital upon ar-
rival. He contracted pneumonia
and died on April 19, 1918. His
body was sent home for burial at
Green Chapel, Washington town-
ship, on April 23, 1918.

Charles Hall Sandefur was
born near Shelbyville, Ind., on
August 5, 1895. He was placed
in an orphan's home at Shelbyville
when a small boy, because of the
death of his mother. He was
taken from the home by a Switzer-
land county family. For some
reason of his own he decided to
run away when about twelve
years old. He traveled on foot
along the Vevay and Cross Plains
road and on toward Osgood, in
Ripley county. Between Ver-
sailles and Osgood he was met by
Mr. William Dollens, of Benham,
Brown township, who asked him
to get in and ride. As a result of
the invitation, the boy went home
with Mr. Dollens to stay. He
lived with the family as a son,
though not formally adopted.

He enlisted in the United
States Navy on March 29, 1917,

Charles Hall Sandefur

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at Cincinnati, Ohio, in the Naval Reserves. He was sent for train-
ing to Norfolk, Virginia. He died at the Naval Hospital at
Newport News, on May 2, 1917, of measles and pneumonia. His
body was sent home and his grave is in the Benham cemetery, Brown
township.

Henry Edward Schraub was
born at Peoria, 111., on August 16,
1894. His parents came later to
Olean, Brown township, Ripley
county, Indiana, where he grew to
manhood on a farm, getting his
education in the Olean public
school. He was called to military
service at Versailles on September
20, 1917, and left with the first
forty per cent call for training at
Camp Taylor. He was assigned
to Company A, 335th Infantry,
84th Division. He was sent with
a detachment of other soldiers to
Camp Sevier, N. C, in April,
1918. Transferred here to Com-
pany M, 120th Infantry, 30th Di-
vision ; was sent to Camp Merritt
in May and sailed from Boston on
May 17, 1918, on the transport
Miltiades. Arrived at Gravesend,
England, on June 4th and crossed
to Calais, France. His training
was continued at Eperlocques dur-
ing the next month. In July he was sent with his division into
Belgium to the Ypres front. He served in all the engagements of the
Old Hickory Division, Kemmel Hill, Voormezeele and St. Quentin,
on the Hindenburg Line. He was with Cornelius Miller, Martin
Prickel, Leora Weare, Lee Ashcraft, Sam Heisman, Coy Sunman,
John Bland and Chris. Endres of the same company, Company M,
120th Infantry. Louis Boehmer, William Schneider, John Flick, Wm.
Gilland, Carl Mistier, Rufus Myers and Frank Battisti were all Ripley
county boys in adjacent companies.

Henry Schraub was promoted to corporal in August, 1918, after
going overseas, and served as a corporal throughout the battles of his
division. He was wounded in action on September 29, 1918, and died
on October 14, 1918. He is buried near St. Quentin in the American
plot.

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293

Harry William Smith

Harry William Smith was born
August 24, 1894, near Milan, Ind.,
where he grew up on a farm, get-
ting a common school education in
the Franklin township schools.
He enlisted in the Regular Army
on October 28, 1916, at Cincin-
nati, Ohio. He was assigned to
Company F, 28th Infantry, and
trained somewhere in Texas. The
1st Division, A. E. F., was made
up of the 16th, 18th, 26th and 28th
Infantry regiments and embarked
for France under personal com-
mand of General Pershing, and
landed at St. Nazaire on June 25,
1917, the first American troops to
enter France, the 28th Infantry
having also the distinction of be-
ing the first regiment to disem-
bark. They were trained at Gond-
recourt and Treveray by the
Alpine Chasseurs, the famous
"Blue Devils of France."

They were attacked by a Ger-
917, but no damage resulted ex-

man airplane on September 5,

cept a hole in the roof of the supply building

The First Division led the first American offensive at Cantigny on
May 29, 1918, after several months' service in trench warfare and a
number of successful slaughter offensives.

Harry W. Smith was instantly killed at Cantigny on May 29, 1918,
by a shell which also killed his lieutenant. His grave was made in
No-Man's-Land on the battle-field near Cantigny. He served as a
first class private. The following letter speaks of his worth as a soldier :

"August 17, 1918.
"Mrs. Nellie Smith,
Milan, Ind.
"My Dear Mrs. Smith : As company commander I received your
letter in regard to your son, Harry W. Smith. He died as he lived —
a man through and through, and doing his duty until the last minute
of his life. I was close to him when he was hit, and can assure you he
died as a real soldier should. Also, I can assure you that he was
blessed with a quick death. His lieutenant died from the same shell.
We had just captured a small village and the enemy artillery fire was
very heavy. He was killed by this artillery fire on May 29, 1918.
Many good men went down that day — but they were willing — and
your son was a man — a real one !

"Very truly yours,
"Foster U. Brown, 2nd Lieut., Co. F, 28th Inf."

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Coy Robinson Sunman was
born March 6, 1888, at Spades,
Ind., where he resided on his
father's farm until called to mili-
tary service on September 20, 1917,
in the first forty per cent call by
the local draft board at Versailles.
He was of English descent, and
the Sunmans count many soldiers
in their family history. He was
assigned as a private to Company
A, 335th Infantry, 84th Division,
while in training at Camp Taylor.
He was sent to Camp Sevier, N.
C, in April, 1918, and to Camp
Merritt, N. J., on May 7. On
May 17, 1918, the division sailed
from Boston for overseas service.
He had been assigned at Camp
Sevier to Company M, 120th In-
fantry, 30th Division, the famous
"Old Hickory" Division. This
division was the first to break the
famous Hindenburg Line, which
they did near St. Quentin, on
September 29, 1918. Coy Sunman was killed by a shell at Belli-
court on September 29, in the advance on this attack. He was also
struck by shrapnel, suffering several wounds. He was buried on
October 2d, with Leora Weare of Versailles and Lee Ashcraft of
Milan, of the same company. Frank Burst of Batesville, also of
Company M, was a member of the burying squad. The graves were
made near St. Quentin and are in the American plot of the British
cemetery.

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29$

Gilbert Sutherland was born at
Sadieville, Ky., on March 23,
1896. At the death of his par-
ents he was placed in the Protes-
tant Children's Home at Coving-
ton, Ky. He was taken from this
home into the family of Thomas
Morris, near Napoleon, Ripley
county, Indiana, where he grew
to manhood, receiving a common
school education. After the death
of Mr. Morris, Mrs. Morris re-
sided for a time in Napoleon. Be-
ing no longer young, and in some-
what feeble health, she gave up
housekeeping and went to live
with a daughter. Gilbert went to
work among the farmers near Na-
poleon for a time and then went
to work on a farm at Inavale,
Nebraska.

He was called to military ser-
vice by the local draft board at
Red Cloud, Nebraska, on Sep-
tember 17, 1917. He was as-
signed as a private to Company G, 335th Infantry, and sent to Camp
Funston, Kansas, for training. He remained here until February, 1918,
when he was sent to Camp Stuart, Newport News, Virginia. He was
transferred here to Company G, 4th Infantry, 3d Division, and em-
barked from Newport News on April 6, 1918, for overseas duty. He
arrived at Brest, France, on April 15, 1918. He was killed in action at
the Aisne on July 29, 1918. A comrade from Inavale, Nebraska, says
that he was wounded earlier in the engagement, but insisted on "going
over the top once more," meeting his death gallantly.

Gilbert Sutherland

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Alva Lee Vestal was born near
Hicks, Ind., on September 28,
1886. Most of his life was spent
near Haney's Corner, Shelby
township, Ripley county. He was
married before entering the army
to Miss Flora Lee of Canaan,
Ind. He was called to military
service by the local draft board at
Versailles on October 4, 1917. He
was sent to Camp Taylor for
training and assigned to Company
A, 335th Infantry, 84th Division.

He died after an operation for
appendicitis at the base hospital at
Camp Taylor on March 1, 1918.
His grave is at Shelby church
cemetery, Shelby township, Ripley
countv.

Alva Lee Vestal

Leora McKinley Weare was
born at Versailles, Ind., on Febru-
ary 3, 1894. He was educated in
the common schools of Johnson
township and Versailles and took
a special course in agriculture at
Purdue University.

He entered military service on
September 20, 1917, in the first
forty per cent call for selective
men, and was sent to Camp Taylor
in Company A, 335th Infantry,
84th Division, for training. He
was promoted from private to
corporal after reaching France.
Went to Camp Sevier, N. C, in
April, 1918, and to Camp Merritt,
N. J., on May 7, embarking from
Boston on May 17, 1918. He was
transferred at Camp Sevier to
Company M, 120th Infantry, 30th
Division.

The division reached France at
Calais by way of Gravesend and

Leora McKixley Weare

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Dover, England, during the first week of June, 1918. After train-
ing four weeks at Eperlocques they were marched to the Ypres
front in Belgium. After seventeen days in the trenches at Kemmel
Hill, rested four days, returned to trenches for twenty days, capturing
Voormezeele on the nineteenth day.

On September 17 the division was sent to the front line trenches
before St. Quentin on the Hindenburg Line. They assaulted the line
at St. Quentin on September 29th.

Leora Weare was killed by a high explosive shell, being struck in
the back and suffering a double fracture of both legs. He gave his
chance of being carried to the rear to Carl Mistier, of Osgood, who
was a member of his squad and was wounded about the same time.
He was very careful for the welfare of his men as well as for the
efficiency of their work. His grave was made on October 2d with Coy
Sunman's and Lee Ashcraft's near St. Quentin. They lie in what is
called the "Old Hickory Plot," American part of the British cemetery.

Edward Lawrence Wildey was
born near North Vernon, Jen-
nings county, Indiana, on Decem-
ber 17, 1918. He removed with
his parents, a few years later, to
Ripley county, locating near New
Marion in Shelby township. He
enlisted in the Regular Army at
Indianapolis, on November, 1916,
and was assigned to Company C,
28th Infantry, at Ft. Ringo,
Texas. He was sent to Prance for
overseas duty with the First Divis-
ion, which landed at St. Nazaire,
France, on June 26, 1917, the
28th being, the first regiment of
the A. E. F. to set foot on French
soil. They were trained at France
in various places, being sent into
the trenches for service in October,
1917. The most important bat-
tles of the First Division were Can-
tigny, the first American offensive,
Chateau-Thierry and Verdun.

The 16th Infantry went "over
the top" sixteen times during the time Edward Wildey was on duty.
He was wounded by a machine-gun bullet in the right thigh at Soissons
on July 19, 1918. Only seventeen men were left of his company in this
battle. He was in a shell-hole with seven comrades for three days and
nights without food or water. They were very weak from loss of
blood and lack of food and water when finally taken to the hospital.
His wound healed rapidly, however, and he soon rejoined his regiment.

Edward Lawrence Wildey

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He was again wounded at Argonne, on October 5, 1918, a shrapnel
wound in the same limb injured before, this time at the knee joint.
He was sent back to the United States on December 5, 1918, landing
at Newport News, Virginia, on December 23, 1918. He was sent
to a hospital at Richmond, and to Camp Taylor, Ky., reaching there
January 1, 1919. He had a seven-day hospital furlough on January 21,
returning to Camp Taylor on January 28, after a few days at home in
Shelby township. He died at Camp Taylor, on February 22, 1919, of
influenza-pneumonia. His body was sent home for burial, accom-
panied by the military escort sent in all cases by the army. His grave
is at North Vernon in the family burying lot.

Adlai Ernest Wilson was born
July 13, 1897, at Dillsboro, Ind.
He grew up on his father's farm,
completed his common school edu-
cation and entered Moores Hill
College as a student in the scien-
tific department. He enlisted
March 5, 1917, in the medical
department of the Regular Army
at Columbus, Ohio. He went
into training at Columbus Bar-
racks, where he died on April 5,
1917, of measles and diphtheria.
His body was sent home for burial,
and his grave is at Dillsboro.
The family had moved into Ripley
county, near Milan, some years
before Adlai's enlistment.

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299

Milton McKinley Whitham
was born near Cross Plains, Ind.,
on December 29, 1896. He lived
on tbe farm where he was born
until grown to manhood.

He was working at Akron,
Ohio, as a clerk with the Good-
rich Rubber Tire Company, when
he was called for military service
on May 29, 1918. He' was as-
signed as a private for infantry
training at Camp Gordon, Geor-
gia, until some time in July, 1918,
when he was sent overseas from
Camp Merritt, New Jersey, in
a replacement company.

He was assigned after reaching
France to Company K, 28th In-
fantry, First Division, and served
at the battles of St. Mihiel and
the Meuse-Argonne offensive.

He was killed in action on
October 5, 1918, at Argonne. His
grave is in the American battle
area at Vonziers, near Exremont, Ardennes, France.

Milton McKinley Whitham

Military Cemetery, St. Nrzaire

The Almost Gold Star Honor Roll

// seems fitting to include sketches of a few of our soldiers who
have died since being discharged though their names can not go on the
Gold Star Roll.

William Walter Krummel was
born June 4, 1889, near Spades,
Ind., where he lived on the farm
with his parents. He was called
to military service on July 22,

1918, by the local draft board at
Versailles and was sent to Camp
Taylor, Ky., and later to Camp
McClellan, Alabama, for training.
He was assigned to Battery B,
25th Field Artillery, 9th Division.

He was in the hospital at Camp
McClellan, thirty-seven days in
October and November, with in-
fluenza, measles and pneumonia.

He received his discharge on De-
cember 12, 1918, and returned to
his home in Spades, where he de-
veloped pneumonia and died on
February 17, 1919, of spinal men-
ingitis developed on January 3,

1919, from exposure due to
weakened condition of system. He
had had pneumonia a few years

William Walter Krummel

before entering the army.
Indiana.

His grave is at Penntown cemetery, Spades,

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Chester Arthur Keck was born
at Wellston, Ohio, on April 10,
1899. His parents moved to Rip-
ley county, Indiana, living at
Milan and later at Delaware in
Franklin and Delaware town-
ships, respectively.

He enlisted at Indianapolis,
Ind., on February 21, 1918, as a
private in the Motor Transport
Corps. He was trained at Camp
J. E. Johnston, Florida, and as-
signed to Motor Truck 469,
Motor Supply Train 418, 5th
Army Corps. He was sent to
Camp Stuart for embarkation and
sailed from Newport News, Va.,
August 19, 1918, on the trans-
port Aeolus, reaching Brest,
France, on August 25, 1918. Was
sent to the front without further
training or instruction and served
at Verdun, September 3-12, Sep-
tember 16-26; at St. Mihiel, Sep-
tember 12-16, and in the Meuse-Argonne, September 26-November 11,
1918.

Was with the Army of Occupation in the 3rd Army Corps, in Ger-
many, from November 17, 1918, to August, 1919. Sailed for the United
States on U. S. S. Troy from Brest, France, on August 10, 1919, and
arrived at Brooklyn on August 20th. Was discharged at Camp Grant,
111., on August 26, 1919. Private Keck was promoted to sergeant on
March 5, 1919.

He returned to his home at Delaware, Ind., after discharge, where
he died on October 31st of tuberculosis. He was given a military
funeral by a number of his comrades under the leadership of Harry
Morrison, of Milan.

Chester Arthur Keck

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Jesse Otto Moody was born at
Aurora, Ind., on April 2, 1897.
His parents moved to Ripley coun-
ty while he was a small boy, lo-
cating finally at Batesville, in
Laughery township. He was
married to May Gregory of Bates-
ville, to whom two children were
born. He worked as a truck
driver until his enlistment in the
army on January 4, 1918, at In-
dianapolis, Ind., in the Coast
Artillery Corps. He was sent to
Ft. Thomas, Ky., for one month.
He was then sent to Ft. Moultrie,
Moultrieville, South Carolina,
where he was assigned to Battery
B, 61st C. A. C. He came home
to Batesville, Ind., on furlough in
the latter part of March, 1918,
and contracted pneumonia the
following week. He was unable
to return to Ft. Moultrie until
August 1, 1918, where he was as-
signed to the 6th Company, C. A.
C, being unable to serve in the battery. He entered the hospital
for treatment and was discharged at Ft. Moultrie on November 14,
1918, because of physical disability. He lived at Batesville until July
8, 1919, when he went to the marine hospital at Evansville, Ind., for
treatment for tuberculosis. He remained here until November 8, 1919,
when he returned to his home in Batesville. He died January 4, 1920,
of tuberculosis. His grave is at Liberty, Ind., with his wife's people.

Jesse Otto Moody

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303

Frank Morris Wentz was born
on September 12, 1900, and spent
his early life at Delaware, Ind.
He was working on a farm when
he heard the call of his country to
her young men, and enlisted in
Cincinnati on July 28, 1917, in
the Air Service. He was assigned
to Company B, First Anti-Aircraft
Machine Gun Battalion. His
training was given at Camp Sher-
man, Chillicothe, Ohio, and at
Camp Sheridan, Montgomery,
Alabama, nine months in all. He
was sent overseas on April 19,
1918, and served in the battles of
the Aisne-Marne offensive, the
Somme, Meuse-Argonne, Toul,
Verdun and St. Mihiel. He re-
turned to the United States on
April 23, 1919, reaching New
York on May 6th. He was dis-
charged at Camp Sherman on May
23d and returned to his home at
Delaware, Ripley county, where
he again took up the work of farming.

He was married to Edna M. Branham of Osgood on December 24,

1919. He was injured by the felling of a tree and died on April 2,

1920, the fourth Ripley county soldier to leave this life after being
discharged and arriving safely home from a year's active service in the
World War.

Frank Morris Wentz

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RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

Theodore Joseph Reibel was
born at Sunman, Irid., on March
26, 1894. He grew up at Sunman,
serving as a rural mail carrier
when he was called to military
service on October 4, 1917. He
was sent to Camp Taylor, Louis-
ville, Ky., for training and as-
signed to Company A, 335th
Infantry, 84th Division.

During the terrible winter of
1918-1919 he suffered three severe
attacks of pneumonia, and de-
veloped as after effects rheuma-
tism and a weak heart. He was
discharged because of these disa-
bilities on February 20, 1919.

After recuperating a measure of
health he resumed his former work
as carrier on Sunman Rural Route
3 until he was again stricken with
pneumonia the first of May, 1920.
He died at his father's home in
Batesville on May 9, 1920.

Prell-Bland Post of the Ameri-
can Legion of Honor gave him a military funeral. His own mem-
bership had been placed with a Cincinnati post before the organization
of the Prell-Bland Post at Batesville. He is the fourth of our World
War veterans to die from disease contracted while in the service. Those
so dying surely gave their lives for their country, though only those who
died in actual service can be placed on the Gold Star Honor Roll.

Theodore Joseph Reibel

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Tribute to Ripley County's Honored Dead
in the World War

The Gold Star Honor Roll!
What tragedy lies concealed with-
in these hallowed words ! What
patriotic devotion, unselfish and
unalloyed, they imply! What a
language of heroism, of courage
and of self-sacrifice they speak !
What intermingled feelings of
sorrow and sadness, of love and of
respect, of gratitude and of pride,
of honor and of reverence they in-
spire!

Forty-two names crown Rip-
ley county's Gold Star Honor
Roll — representing forty-two pre-
cious young lives — Ripley county's
offering in the great World War
on the altar of her country in the
cause of freedom and of liberty!

Forty-two homes whose family
circles are broken by the grim
fortunes of war, but forty-two
homes whose vacant chairs, though
now voiceless and silent, must
ever speak to loved ones near, through blinding tears of grief and yearn-
ing, of patriotic duty, gloriously and nobly performed — truly a healing
balm for aching hearts!

As we citizens of Ripley county pause in contemplation before this
roster of our honored dead, our thoughts revert to those strenuous war
times, not so far in the distant past, and in memory we live again with
these gallant sons of ours, the days and weeks and months which they
spent in defense of their country and their flag, and for whose honor
and glory they so willingly suffered, so heroically fought, so gallantly
died.

Once more we hear the call to arms, the roll of drums, the blast
of bugles, the tread of marching feet. Everywhere, East, West, North
and South, resounds to martial music and from beyond the hills and
over the mountains, through the valleys and across the plains, they
come, these boys of ours, in eager, anxious response to their commander's
call. Hamlet, village, farm, town, city — all brought forth their bravest
and their best and gave them ungrudgingly to their country.

We recall the parting hour, the fond handclasp, the tearful bless-
ing, the mutual anxiety, the final farewell, as husband, son or brother

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Mrs. Neil McCallum

306 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

left behind the cheer and comfort of home and fireside and stepped into
a future, known through the history of all times to be fraught with
hardships and great danger.

We go with the boys to the training camps where the great "trans-
formation" takes place. We endure with them the rigid discipline, the
hard work, the intensive training, the longing for home and mother and
for the service of loving hands. We endure it all, for we see as if by
magic, the civilian of yesterday become the soldier of today, don the
uniform of his country, and, fully equipped and trained for the arena
of battle, step forth into tomorrow — the greatest soldier in all the
world — an American — ready for the challenge of the enemy.

We follow them across the mine-infested seas, through the danger
zone, where lurks the deadly submarine, on and on to France — once
beautiful, sunny France — now running red with blood, torn by shot
and shell, ruined beyond expression by the devastating hordes of the
enemy — the vantage ground of mighty hosts contending for the rights
of man against the iron rule of the tyrant master.

We go with them on their long and weary marches, hungry, thirsty,
miserable and exhausted ; we stand guard with them in the silent watches
of the night ; we wade the trenches with them, knee deep in mire and
water ; we lie down to sleep with the bare cold ground our couch, the
snow our coverlet. We are by their side on the eve of battle ; but what
pen can describe or mortal speak the thoughts of a soldier at this mo-
mentous hour, when the morrow holds his life in its hands? We remain
near them till the dawn, when reveille proclaims the hour has come.

'Tis now the "zero hour" and we stand with the brave lads in
No Man's Land. We hear the charge of "over the top" and then — that
awful, indescribable scene — the battle rages ! We hear the deafening
roar of cannon, the rapid fire of machine guns, the hissing of hand
grenades, the bursting of shell and torpedo; and everywhere about us, the
torturous liquid fire; the deadly poisonous gases, the dense battle smoke,
with the seething mass of humanity in it all, renders us speechless by
its f rightfulness — appals us with its horror! We stand awe-stricken that
these boys of ours are in the midst of it !

And, finally, when the smoke of battle is lifted on the field of
carnage, what a gruesome sight meets our gaze ! Wounded, dead and
dying, the stretcher bearers, the ambulance corps and the Red Cross,
hurrying to and fro on the battle field, gathering up the wounded to be
ministered unto ; and reverently we bow our heads as one after one we
see the martyred sons who fell in the great struggle, borne from the
battlefield to be laid to rest by their comrades.

And again we are in the camps in our own native land and stand
beside the cots of the sick and dying in the hospitals of pain. We hear
their cries of agony and suffering. We see them reach out their arms
in anxious longing for the comforts of home, for the sweet touch of
mother's hand, for the loving smile of their dear ones. We see them

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thus pass into eternity, denied the privilege dearest to their hearts of
serving their country on the battle line, but her martyred sons, never-
theless, for they represented her reserve force standing ready for the
command to take the places of those who fell.

Or, perhaps, we ride the ocean's wave, whose turbulent waters
wantonly swallow up the young sailor lads, who through long days
and weary nights, braved the storms and faced the dangers for our
safety and happiness, only to find a grave in the bottomless depth of the
sea.

And now we keep faithful watch with the loved ones at home.
Who can picture the anxiety of wife or mother during that long period
of time, when, with trembling hand and quivering lip, she watched
from day to day for tidings from her soldier son or husband ? Or who
can know the long and sleepless nights she spent in prayer for his
safety and his comfort ? Or the constant shadow of fear that hovered
over her, that he might never return ?

And when the message comes, apprising her of his death, who among
us, who have not passed through this experience, can begin to compre-
hend its significance? We see her as now she reads the message again
and again. She is staggered by the blow, and when its full import
reveals itself to her, we know that for her it means a heart broken with
sorrow, a heart filled with grief, hopes blasted, ambitions blighted,
dreams unfulfilled — ah, here is suffering worse than death! Here
that anguish of spirit none can understand save those who have lost.

These are the pictures our memories reveal, the tragedies they pre-
sent in the contemplation of the awful holocaust of war, which gives
Ripley county its Gold Star Honor Roll with forty-two martyred sons.

Some lie peacefully sleeping with their comrades in Flanders' Fields
in far-away France where they fell in glorious battle, or where they
died from the effects of wounds or gas or disease ; others who died in
camp in their native land are privileged to slumber quietly in the church-
yard at home near their beloved ones, while the ocean holds within its
bosom our brave lad who went down at sea. However death came to
them, all equally served.

Were tragedy such as this, the Alpha and Omega of it all, then
nothing could compensate for the sacrifice of these noble young lives.
Were the vacant chair, the vanished hand, the silent voice at the fireside
gatherings the reminder of naught but the tragic fate of the absent one,
then there is no comfort or consolation for the great loss sustained.
Were there no balm of Gilead save in the sweet memories of the past,
then 'twere a grief of despair indeed.

But when out of the loved ones' grief and sorrow there arises the
thought that these young men died a glorious death; that the same
valor and courage which prompted the patriots of 1776 to endure
the long and bloody siege, half-naked, half-frozen, and half-starving,
but ever persevering, until they bought with their lives and their suffer-

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308 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

ings, a Free Country for us ; that the same bravery and heroism which
spurred the "boys in blue" of '61 on and on through four long years
of untold misery and hardships to preserve that country; that it was
the same patriotic fervor burning within the breasts of their gallant
brave, that inspiried them to rally to the call of their country in her
hour of danger to defend and protect her, when foreign foe threatened
her destruction, then their great sorrow must be overcome with that
greater feeling of pride and gratitude that they had such valiant sons,
who, remembering Valley Forge and Yorktown, who, forgetting not
Gettysburg and Appomattox, heard the voice of duty calling and failed
not to answer, let the cost be what it may.

When they further reflect that these, their hero lads, died to uphold
the highest and best ideals of the race, to perpetuate the principles of
American institutions, to win Freedom and Liberty not only for their
own country but for the world, and Equality and Justice for all man-
kind, their grief gives way to joy for the privilege that came to these
boys to die the death of a patriot in the name of America, "the land of
the free and the home of the brave."

When the mothers and dear ones contemplate the wonderful crusade
for righteousness, for His name's sake, in which the great army of
which these heroes formed a part, were engaged, bringing untold happi-
ness and joy to millions of oppressed peoples everywhere, would they call
their sacrifices in vain? Or their grief the grief of despair?

When they see these millions of oppressed and down-trodden people,
who so long had been bowed beneath the yoke of the oppressor, freed at
last from bondage, and the bright and happy faces of little children, all
with the smile of hope, turned toward America and her beautiful Stars
and Stripes, and, lifting their voice in joyous refrain, hear them sing in
unison:

"Lift up your eyes, desponding freemen,

Fling to the breeze your needless fears!

He who unfurled yon beauteous banner,
Says it shall wave a thousand years !

A thousand years, my own Columbia !

'Tis the glad day so long foretold !
'Tis the glad morn whose early twilight

Washington saw in days of old.

What though the clouds one little moment

Hide the blue sky when morn appears,
When the bright sun that tints them crimson

Rises to shine a thousand years?

Tell the whole world the blessed tidings;

Yes, and be sure the bondman hears.
Tell the oppressed of every nation

Jubilee lasts a thousand years!"

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Would not this song of rejoicing by a ransomed world, for a
thousand years of peace for all mankind, made possible only through the
death of those dauntless crusaders, be richest compensation for the
great sacrifice made by those who sleep a hero's sleep and by those
who made the costly offering?

To us who have not known the meaning of such sacrifice as this,
these forty-two shining Stars of the Gold Star Honor Roll speak a differ-
ent language. They remind us of the debt of gratitude we owe to
these fallen heroes — a debt we can never wholly pay — for the peace and
contentment we enjoy in our homes and in our daily pursuits of life,
because they and their comrades always stood between us and the enemy,
protecting and guarding us with their lives.

They remind us that the Liberty and Freedom purchased so dearly
for us on the blood-stained fields of France, is a sacred trust placed in our
keeping, and, as we hear again the words of the dying soldiers in
France :

"To you from failing hands we throw
The torch ! Be yours to lift it high !
If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep though poppies blow
In Flanders' Field."

We stand with willing hands to catch the torch, and here, before
this sacred roster of our honored dead, we pledge ourselves that we will
hold it high ; that we will not break the faith, but that our treasure and
our lives, if need be, shall ever be given, in defense of the principles and
the ideals for which your blood was spilled ; that the country for which
you died shall be sacred to us, a heritage, to guard and to protect with
the full citizenship of America ; that we shall ever hold in reverence the
memory of your unflinching bravery and heroic courage, even unto
death, that we and our children and our children's children might
enjoy the fruits of your sacrifices — contented, unmolested and free in
our homes and at our firesides ; that your richest offering of all that
you had, to save us a country and a flag, shall never be forgotten, but
instead, shall serve as an inspiration to us to lift higher the standard of
American citizenship ; to give first place in our lives, in our hearts and in
our thoughts to America, her institutions, her ideals, her principles,
her welfare and her progress; to guard her Freedom and her Liberty
with a jealous eye, and to cherish forever sacred her flag as the emblem
of Justice wherever it may float.

This pledge we solemnly make and unless we fulfill it to the full
extent of our powers, we hold ourselves unworthy of the sacrifices you
made for us, and unworthy of citizenship in this great land of America,
whose name has been enriched and ennobled by your valorous deeds,
and has become recognized the world over as the foremost nation on
the earth, because of the unselfish devotion and loyalty with which you
and your comrades followed her flag to victory, championing the cause
of humanity.

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Your comrades returned from the war with laurels on their brow,
proudly welcomed by a grateful nation and joyfully received by their
loved ones whose fears and anxieties now were over. These, your com-
rades, "carried on". They kept the faith with you. Shall we do less?

But in the midst of our rejoicing at their return, at the cause, the
victory and the glory, we are not unmindful of you, our unreturning
brave, who could not share in the glad welcome home, nor in the
supreme joy at the final triumph of our arms. This lends a tinge of
sadness to our joy and happiness, and our smiles of gladness are
mellowed with our tears.

But through our tears we look up and forty-two bright Gold Stars,
emblematic of our martyred sons, shine down upon us. And as the
tide of years roll by, they will continue to shine brighter and brighter ;
and, like the Star of Bethlehem which led the way to the new-born
Prince of Peace, may these Gold Stars of our Honor Roll guide us on
our way in the path of patriotic duty, towards the dawn of a new day
for this great Republic of ours, whose grandeur, strength and power
are due, in no small measure, to the men who died for her, for

"These died that we might claim a soil unstained,

Save by the blood of heroes ; their bequests

A realm unsevered and a race unchained.

Has purer blood through Norman veins come down

From the rough knights that clutched the Saxon's crown

Than warmed the pulses in these faithful breasts?

These, too, shall live in history's deathless page,
High on the slow-wrought pedestals of fame,
Ranged with the heroes of remoter age ;
They could not die who left their nation free,
Firm as the rock, unfettered as the sea,
Its heaven unshadowed by the cloud of shame.

Ah, who shall count a rescued nation's debt.

Or sum in words our martyrs' silent claims?

Who shall our heroes' dread exchange forget —

All life, youth, hope, could promise to allure

For all that soul could brave or flesh endure?

They shaped our future; we but carve their names."

Honor Roll of Service Men

ADAMS TOWNSHIP.

AMBERGER, JACOB B., Corporal. 810th Aero Squadron. Eight months at
Speedway, Indianapolis. June 26, 1918, to March 25, 1919.

AHRENDS. ARTHUR EMMETT, Lieutenant Colonel, Adjutant of 81st
Division, "Wild-Cat Division." Graduate of Military Academy, West
Point, N. Y., in June, 1903. First garrison duty at Columbus Bar-
racks, Ohio, in September, 1903, as Second Lieutenant in Co. F, 2nd
Battalion, 20th Infantry. Service at various places, including two
years in the Philippines. In World War served at Gettysburg, Pa.,
Camp Jackson, South Carolina, Camp Sevier, S. C. Overseas from
July 30, 1918, to July 16, 1919. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on
July 30, 1918. Was Captain at beginning of World War.

ARNDT, EARL GREGORY, Corporal, Co. E, 156th Infantry, 39th Divi-
sion. Trained at Camp Beauregard, La., May 28, 1918, to August 22,
1918. Overseas from September 3, 1918, to August 4. 1919. With
Army of Occupation on the Rhine in Co. C, 23rd Regiment, 2nd Divi-
sion from February 7 to July 15, 1919.

BAAS, CARL EDWARD, Private 1st Class, 12th Co., 1st Regiment. 1st
Division, Signal Corps, Aviation Section. Trained at Vancouver,
Wash., from February 11, 1918, to February 4, 1919. Discharged from
Camp Grant, 111. In Hospital at Vancouver.

BARTLING, HENRY LOUIS, Wagoner, Supply Co., 36th Infantry, 12th
Division. Trained at Ft. Snelling. Minn., and Camp Devens, Mass.,
from May 23. 1918, to February 3, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor,
Ky. Had tonsilitis while in service.

BAUERLIN, ARTHUR AUGUST, Private, Co. B, 40th Infantry, 14th Di-
vision. Trained at Fort Riley, Kansas, Camp Custer, Michigan, Camp
Edwards, Ohio, and Camp Sherman, Ohio, from May 23, 1918, to Jan-
uary 18. 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman.

BAUERLIN, CARL HENRY, Private, Co. A. 334th Infantry, 84th Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman, Ohio, from June 26, 1918, until Septem-
ber 2, 1918. Overseas from September 9. 1918, until March 15, 1919.
At Camp Le Mans while in France. Discharged at Camp Sherman,
April 14, 1919. Had influenza.

BEER, LEONARD IRVIN, Fireman, U. S. S. De Kalb, transport service.
Trained at Great Lakes Naval Training Station from July 29, 1918,
as apprentice seaman until November 1, 1918, when assigned to the
De Kalb. Discharged April 25, 1919.

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BIGNEY, WALTER LEMUEL, Corporal, B Co., 1st Bn., 20th Engineers.
Trained at American University, Washington D. C, from September
28, 1917, to November 12, 1917. Overseas' service from November 26,
1917 until May 7. 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky.,
May 28, 1919.

BRUNS, WILBUR HENRY, Corporal, Headquarters Co., 16th Infantry,
1st Division. Trained at Ft. Bliss, Texas, from May 8, 1917, until
June, 1917. In Gondrecourt Area, France, from June 26, 1917, until
October, 1917. Battles: Aisne-Marne. St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne.
Sedan. With Army of Occupation near Coblenz, November, 1918, until
July, 1919. Returned to United States or. August 10, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Sherman, August 16, 1919. Had small-pox five weeks at
Gondrecourt, France.

BRUNS, FRANK BENJAMIN, Private, Co. G, 2Sth Infantry, 1st Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman, Ohio, from March 30. 1918, until June,
1918. Overseas from June, 1918, until August 22, 1919. Trained abroad
at Eccomoy, France, five weeks. Battles: St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne,
Sedan. With Army of Occupation, Coblenz Bridgehead, December
13, 1918, to August 18, 1919. Returned to United States on August
22, 1919. Discharged at Camp Meade, Md., on September 24, 1919.
Has two citations and the French Forraguerre.

BRUNS. EDWARD JOHN, Sergeant, 369th Bakery Co. Trained at Camp
Sherman, Ohio, from June 28, 191S, to August, 1.918. Overseas from
August, 1918, to August IS, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman,
Ohio, on August 25, 1919.

BRUMPTER, FRED H., Private 1st Class, Co. C, 36th Infantry, 12th Di-
vision. Trained at Ft. Snelling, Minn., and Camp Devens. Mass., from
May 23, 1918, to February 1st, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, Ky.,
February 15, 1919.

BRUNNER, WATSIE OTTO, Corporal, 10th Co., Q. M. C. Trained at Camp
Sherman, Ohio, from June 1, 1918, to May 20, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Sherman on May 20, 1919.

BUSALD, SAMUEL, Private, 1st Co., 1st Regiment. Ordnance Training
Corps. Trained in Co. C, Ordnance Training Detachment at Val-
paraiso, Ind. At Wm. L. Dickerson High School, Jersey City, N. J.,
six weeks, also trained at Camp Hancock. Ga. Promoted to Cook,
November 12, 191S. Discharged at Camp Taylor, Ky., on February
5, 1919.

CUMMINGS, HERRELL, Corporal, Battery C, 70th F. A., 11th Division.
Trained at Camp Taylor, Ky.. and at Camp Knox, Ky., from Septem-
ber 6, 1918, until January 31, 1919. Discharged at Camp Henry Knox.

DIVER, KENNETH LEO, Corporal, Co. A, 16th Infantry, 1st Division
Trained at Ft. Bliss", Texas, from May 12, 1917, until June, 1917.
Overseas from June 14, 1917. Battles: Picardy Front from Novem-
ber until killed by a shell on April 27 1918.

DRAKE, WILLIAM HENRY, Supply Sergeant, Co. C, 46th Infantry, 9th
Division. Trained at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind., Camp Taylor, Ky.,
and Camp Sheridan, Ala., from July 26, 1917, until May 12, 1919.
Discharged at New Orleans, La., on May 12, 1919.

DRAKE, JOHN HENRY, Private. Co. A. 335th Infantry, 84th Division.
At Camp Taylor from October 20, 1917. until discharged in November,
1918.

DUPPS. PETER JOHN, Private 1st Class, Co. I, 334th Infantry, 84th
Division. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, until August
9, 1918. Overseas from September 2, 1918, until March 25, 1918.
Transferred on October 3, 1918, to Co. D, 364th Infantry, 91st Divi-
sion. Battles: Ypres Front, Lys-Scheldt Offensive. Discharged at
Camp Sherman, Ohio, on April 24, 1919.

ECKSTEIN, FRANK B., Private 1st Class, Evacuation Hospital 27.
Trained at Camp Greenleaf, Ga., and Camp Pike, Ark., from May 27,
1918, to October, 1918. Overseas from October 26, 1918, to August
30, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor on September 17, 1919.

ECKSTEIN. HENRY WUNEBALD, Private, Headquarters Co., 36th In-
fantry, 12th Division. Trained at Fort Snelling, Minn., and Camp
Devens, Mass., from May 23, 1918, to March 14, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Taylor, Ky., on March 14, 1919.

FRITSCH, ALFRED FRANK, Ambulance Co. 34, 7th Sanitary Train. Med.
Corps. Trained at Camp Greenleaf, Ga., from April 30, 1918, to Au-
gust, 1918. Served overseas from August 13, 1918, to June 18, 1919.
Was at First Aid Station, St. Mihiel, thirty-three days, October 9
to November 11, 191S. Returned to United States on July 1, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Taylor, Ky., July 10, 1919.

GAAB, PAUL JOHN, Private, Battery B. 67th F. A. Trained at Camp
Taylor and Camp Knox, Ky., from September 6, 1918, until dis-
charged at Camp Knox on December 19, 1918.

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GINDLING, WILLIAM ANTHONY, Private, Co. C, 112th Supply Train,
37th Division. Trained at Camp Taylor and Camp Sheridan from
April 30, 1918. to June. 1918. Overseas from June 27, 1918, to March
16. 1919. Battles: St. Mihiel, Argonne Forest and Flanders Front.
Returned to United States on March 27. 1919 Discharged at Camp
Sherman, O., on April 17, 1919.

GLAUB, NICHOLAS C, Private, Battery B, 25th F. A., 9th Division.
Trained at Camp Taylor, Ky., and Camp McClellan, Ala., from July
22, 1918, to January 31, 1919, when discharged at Camp Taylor, Ky.

GOLDSCHMIDT. WILLIAM JACOB, Private. Battery B, 142nd F. A.
Trained at Camp Beauregard, La., from May 2, 191S, to August, 1918.
Overseas from August 31, 1918, to February 9, 1919. Had influenza
and pneumonia in Base Hospitals 33 and 65. Returned to United
States on February 23, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, Ohio,
on March 11, 1919.

GRUNKEMEYER, BEN J., Private, Headquarters Co., 68th F. A. Trained
at Fort Terry, N. Y., from April 2. 1918, to August 8, 1918. Overseas
from August 8, 1918, to February 12. 1919. Discharged at Columbus,
O., on March 7, 1919.

GUTZWILLER, WILLIAM ALBERT, Corporal, Ambulance Co. 34, 7th
Sanitary Train, 7th Division. Trained at Camp Greenleaf, Ga., from
April 30, 1918, until sent overseas on August 13, 191S. Served thirty-
three days at the front near Metz. Alsace-Lorraine. At St. Mihiel,
Puvenelle Sector, Moselle and Somme Defense, until November 11,
1918. Had blood poison in left hand at Selaincourt, France. Re-
turned to United States on June 18, 1919. Discharged at Camp Tay-
lor, Ky., on July 9, 1919.

HARVEY, HARRY CLIFFORD, Co. C. 329th Infantry. Trained at
Camp Sherman, Ohio. (Failed to locate soldier so a.s to learn rest
of record.)

HOLENSBEE, ALBERT, Sergeant. Co. A, 335th Inf., 84th Division. Trained
at Camp Taylor from September 20, 1917, to May 20, 1918. At Camp
Hancock, Ga., from May 20, 1918, to January, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Taylor, Ky., on January 18, 1919.

HORNIG. CHARLES MICHAEL, Private, Co. A, 331st Infantry. 83rd Di-
vision. Trained at Camp Sherman, April 26, 1918, to June. 1918.
Overseas from June 5, 1918, to April 8. 1919. Trained at Le Mans,
France. Suffered from rheumatism and broken arches in feet at
Base Hospitals 82, 99, 123 and 100, Embarkation Nos. 1 and 25.
Reached United States on April 20, 1919. Discharged at Fort Ben-
jamin Harrison, Ind., on June 9, 1919.

HUBER. NICHOLAS, Private 1st Class, 20th Co., -48th Engineers. Trained
at Camp Dodge, la., from February 24, 1918, to May, 1918. Over-
seas from May 22, 1918, to June 8, 1919. Discharged at Camp Dodge,
la., on June 28, 1919.

HUBER. ANTHONY F., Private, Headquarters Co., 326th F. A., 84th Di-
vision. Trained at West Point, Ky., from July 22, 1918, to Septem-
ber, 1918. Overseas from September 9, 1918, to January 31, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Sherman, O., on March 3, 1919.

HUNEKE. WILLARD WILLIAM, Corporal, 16th Co., Motor Transport
Corps, Q. M. C. Trained at Camp Johnston, Jacksonville. Fla., from
July 28, 1918, to September 5, 1918. Overseas from September 5, 1918,
to September 3, 1919. Stationed at Le Mans and Brest, France: Re-
turned to United States on September 3, 1919. Discharged at Camp
Taylor on September 19, 1919.

HUBER. JOSEPH ALBERT, Private 1st Class, Base Hospital 120, Med.
Dept. Trained at Camp Greenleaf, Ga.. and Camp Beauregard, La.,
from May 27, 1918, to November 1, 1918. Overseas from November
10, 1918, to June 28, 1919. Stationed at Tours. France, six months.
Returned to United States on June 28, 1919. Discharged at Camp
Sherman, O., on July 18, 1919. Had measles at Camp Greenleaf, seven
weeks.

IRRGANG, ANDREW NICHOLAS, Corporal. Machine Gun Co., 120th In-
fantry. 30th Division. Trained at Camp Taylor, Ky., from October
4. 1917. until April 1. 1918. At Camp Sevier. S. C., until May, 1918.
Overseas from May 17, 1918, to December 14, 1918. Battles: Kemmel
Hill in Belgium, Hindenburg Line. Five wounds. Was awarded the
D. S. C, Croix de Guerre and British War Cross for distinguished
action. Reached United States on December 23, 1918. Discharged
at Camp Sherman, January 20, 1919.

KASTER, MICHAEL. Private, 38th Co.. 10th Tr. Bn.. 157th Depot Brigade.
Trained at Camp Gordon. Ga., from July 25, 1918. to January, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Dodge, la., on February 3, 1919.

KASTER, NICHOLAS, Private 1st Class, Co. I, 51st Infantry, 6th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor, Beauregard and Stewart from May 27.
1918, to August, 1918. Overseas from August 18, 1918, to June 4, 1919.

314 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

Battles Meuse-Argonne, November 1-11, 1918. Returned to United
States on June 4, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, July 10, 1919.
KIRSCHNER DAVID, Private, Co. G, 332nd Infantry, 83rd Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman, March 23, 1918, to June, 191S. Overseas
from June, 1918, to April 15, 1919. Served in Italy in battle of
Vittorio-Veneto October 4 to November 4, 1918. Left Italy on March

28, 1919. Reached United States on April 15, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Sherman, May 2, 1919.

KRUMMEL. WILLIAM WALTER, Private, Battery B, 25th F. A., 9th
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan. Discharged on
December 12, 1918, at Camp McClellan after thirty-seven days in
hospital with influenza, pneumonia and measles.

KROENKE, HUGO CLIFFORD, Private. Co. D, Dev. Bn. No. 2, 158th Dep.
Brigade. Trained at Camp Sherman, O., from June 26, 1918, until
discharged on December 3, 1918.

LAMPPERT. FRANK LEONARD, Private, Co. F, 22nd Engineers. Trained
at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, April 9 to July 30, 1918. Overseas, July
30, 1918, to June 30, 1919. Laid railway in Argonne Forest forty-two
clays under fire. Returned to United States on July 12, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Sherman on July 22, 1919.

LOSH, ALLAN RICHARDS, Corporal, Co. I, 14 8th Infantry, 37th Division.
Trained at Camp Sheridan, June, 1917, to May. 1918. Overseas from
May 1, 1918, to May 8, 1919. Battles: Aisne-Marne, Chateau-Thierry,
St Mihiel Meuse-Argonne, Flanders, "Verdun, Toul Sector. Returned
to' United' States May S, 1919 — May 17, 1919. Discharged May 22,
1919, at Camp Sherman. Re-enlisted.

LUHRING, ELMER CHARLES, Private, S. A. T. C. Trained at Purdue
University, October 10. 1918. to December 19, 1918. Discharged at
Lafayette.

MANLIEF, LONNIE JOSEPH, Sergeant, Q. M. C, Co. A, 335th Infantry,
84th Division. Trained at Camp Taylor and Camp Sherman from
September 20, 1917, to September 3, 1918. Overseas from Septem-
ber 3, 1918, to July 13, 1919. Arrived in United States on July 22,
1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman on July 31, 1919.

MORROW, CHAS. WEIDLER, Private, Co. C. 304th Field Signal Bn., 79th
Division. Trained at Ft. Thomas, Ky„ Ft. Wood, N. Y., and Camp
Meade, Md.. from May 21, 191 S, to July 6, 1918. Overseas, July 6,
1918, to January 14, 1919. Battles: Argonne Forest, Champagne,
Montfaucon, Verdun and St. Mihiel. Returned to United States on
January 14, 1910. Discharged at Camp Sherman, May 2. 1919.
Gassed and shell-shocked. In hospital at Bases 59 and 35 and at
Blois- Camp Hospital 57, and Ellis Island Hospital after return to
United States.

MERKLE, AUGUST L., Corporal, Co. C, 36th Infantry, 12th Division.
Trained at Ft. Snelling, Minn., and Camp Devens, Mass., from May
23, 1918, to March 15, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor.

MESSANG, PHILIP. Corporal. Co. A, 42nd M. G. Bn., 14th Division.
Trained at Camp Custer, Mich., from July 23, 1918, to July 12, 1919.
Discharged from General Hospital 36, Camp Custer.

NORDMEYER, WILLIAM LOUIS. Sergeant, Co. A, 335th Infantry, S4th
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sherman from October 4,
1917, to September, 191S. Overseas from September 4, 1918, to June
17. 1919. Was at Officers' Training School until Armistice. Reached
United States on June 30, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor on July
8, 1919.

OSBORN, NIELD H., Seaman, U. S. Navy. Trained at Great Lakes, 111.
Discharged because of physical disability after a short service.

POHLAR, FRED ALBERT, Private, 120th M. G. Co., 120th Infantry. 30th
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier from October 4, 1917,
to May, 1918. Overseas from May 17, 1918, to April 14, 1919. Battles:
Kemmel Hill, Yyres, Bellicourt. Wounded at Bellicourt September

29, 1918. In hospital for two months. Returned to United States
on April 26, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, May 22, 1919.

POHLAR, CLIFFORD WILLIAM, Private. 29th Co., 8th Tr. Bn., 15Sth
Depot Brigade. Trained at Camp Sherman from August 29, 1918,
until his death theie from influenza on October 9, 1918.

POWELL. JAMES DAVID, Chief Mechanic. Battery D, 136th F. A.
Trained at Camp Sherman, O.. from June 5, 1917, to June 27, 191S.
Overseas from June 26, 1918, to March 12, 1919. Battles: Marbache
Sector, Thrancourt, Puvenelle Sector from October 11 to November
11, 191S. Returned to United States on March 24, 1919. Discharged
April 10 at Camp Sherman.

POWERS, EMORY HARRY, Sergeant, Co. C, 311th F. S. Bn., Co. K, 341st
Infantry, 86th Division. Trained at Camps Jefferson and Grant from

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December 12, 1917. to September 9, 1918. Overseas from September
21, 1918, to April 28, 1919. Returned to United States on May 9, 1918.
Discharged at Camp Dix. May 15, 1919.

PRICKEL, EDWARD ANTHONY, Private, Co. C, 140th Infantry, 35th
Division. Trained at Camp Sherman and Camp Mills from June 26,
191S, to August 31, 1918. Overseas from September 13. 1918, to April
16, 1919. Reached United States again on April 28, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Taylor on May 8, 1919.

PRICKEL, MARTIN, Private, Co. M, 120th Infantry, 30th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier from October 4, 1917, to May
1, 1918. Overseas from May 17, 1918, to April 1, 1918. Battles:
Kemmel Hill, Bellicourt, Vaux-Andigny, Bohain and Somme Front
until November 11, 1918. Reached United States on April 13, 1918.
Discharged at Camp Taylor on April 25, 1919. Was six weeks in
hospital with "flu" in France.

PRICKEL, NICHOLAS ANTHONY, Private, Co. E. 154th Infantry, 39th
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and Beauregard from May 27,

1918, to August 6, 191S. Overseas from August 6, 1918, to April 28,

1919. Battles: Argonne-Meuse Offensive. Returned to United States
on May 14, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, May 23, 1919.

REIBEL, ROMAN JOHN, Private, Motor Transport Corps. Trained at
Valparaiso, Ind.. from October 11, 1918, to December 11, 1918, when
discharged at Valparaiso.

REIBEL, FRANK A., Private, Co. F, 18th Engineers. Trained at Camps
Taylor and Grant from September 21. 1917, to March, 1918. Over-
seas from March 14. 1918, to May 18, 1919. Reached United States
on May 27, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman on June 10, 1919.

REIBEL. THEODORE JOSEPH. Private, Co. A. 335th Infantry, S4th Di-
vision. Trained at Camp Taylor from October 4, 1917, to February
20, 191 S. Had three attacks of pneumonia. Was discharged for
resulting physical disability.

RICHTER, EDWARD, Private, Ambulance Co. 34, 7th Sanitary Train.
7th Division. Trained at Camps Taylor, Greenleaf and Ft. Benjamin
Harrison from April 30, 1918, to November 30, 1918. Discharged at
Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind., on November 30, 191S.

REUTER. RAYMOND FRANK, Private 1st Class,, Ambulance Co., 147th
Infantry, 37th Division. At Camp Sheridan, Ala., from June 1, 1917,
to June 28, 1917. Overseas service from June 28, 1917, to March 26,
1919. Battles: Lorraine, St. Mihiel, Verdun, Argonne, two Flanders
Drives. Gassed and shell-shocked. Reached United States on April
4, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, April 22, 1919.

REUSS, GEORGE LEO, Chief Gunner's Mate, U. S. S. Tacoma. Trained
at Naval Tr. Station, Newport, R. I., from March 24, 1911. to assign-
ment on Tacoma. Convoy service during World War.

RIEHLE, ALBERT BERNARD. Seaman, U. S. S. New Hampshire. Trained
at Camp Logan, Great Lakes Naval Training Station, 111., from April
30, 1918, to assignment to ship. Hospital treatment at Camp Logan.
Discharged May 20, 1919, at Pittsburg, Pa. Did transport duty, four
months.

RIEHLE, JOHN HENRY, 3rd Class Fireman, U. S. S. New Hampshire.
Trained at Camp Logan, Great Lakes. 111. Had "flu" at Camp Logan.
October, 1918. Did transport duty, four months. Released June 28,
1919, at Pittsburg, Pa.

RIEHLE. EDWARD I., Private, 29th Co.. 8th Tr. Bn„ :159th Depot Brigade.
Trained at Camp Taylor, Ky., from March 29, 1918. to July 9. 1918.
In hospital with lame ankle. Discharged July 9, 1918.

RIEHLE, JOSEFH BERNARD, Private, Co. F, 212th Engineers, 12th Di-
vision. Trained at Camp Devens, Mass., from July 29, 1918. to Feb-
ruary, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, February 10, 1919.

ROBINSON, MORRIS SMITH, Sergeant. Co. C, First Field Signal Bn., 2nd
Division. Trained at Ft. Leavenworth, Kas., Ft. Bliss, Texas, and
Camp Vail, N. J., from February 22, 1917. to December 24, 1917.
Overseas from December 24, 1917, to April 21, 1919. Battles: Chateau-
Thierry and Argonne Forest. Discharged February 1. 1919, at Camp
Alfred, N. J.

ROBINSON. FRANKLIN ROWLAND. Fireman, U. S. Navy. Trained at
Great Lakes, 111., from July 29, 1918. Service at United States Naval
Air Station at Guipovas and on Receiving Ship at Brest, France.
Returned to United States on January 8, 1919. Discharged at Nor-
folk. Va.. on February 26, 1919.

ROEPKE, CHARLES LESLIE, Private, Battery F. 111th F. A., 29th Di-
vision. Trained at Camp Jackson, S. C, from May 23, 1918, until
July 22, 1918. Overseas from July 22, 1918, to July 13. 1919. Battles:
Haute-Alsace and Argonne. Returned to United States on July 22,
1919. Discharged August 1 at Camp Sherman.

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ROEPKE, LEROY, Private 1st Class, 31st Engineers, Co. I. Trained from
enlistment on April 29, 1918, at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. Overseas
from June 7, 1918, to August 17, 1919. Service in various parts of France
until after Armistice. In Germany from November, 1918, until August
1919. Special service as interpreter. Discharged at Presidio, Cal.,
.September 2, 1919.

ROHLS, GEORGE HERBERT, Private, 29th Co., 8th Tr. Bn., 159th Depot
Brigade. Trained at Camp Taylor from March 29 until discharged for
disability on April 1, 191S.

ROSFELD, ANTHONY JOHN, Private, Co. K, 120th Infantry, 30th Divi-
sion. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier from September 21, 1917,
to May, 1918. Overseas from May 17, 1918, to March 31, 1919.
Battles: Poperinghe and Ypres Fronts, Kemmel Hill. Wounded. Four
months in hospitals, France and England. Returned to United
States on March 31, 1919 — April 17, 1919. Discharged at Camp Tay-
lor, April 24, 1919.

ROSFELD, CHARLES FRANK, Private, Battery D, 34th F. A., 12th Di-
vision. Trained at Camp McClellan from July 21, 1918, to discharge
at McClellan on February 6, 1919. Was treated for influenza at Camp
McClellan.

SIEG, GILBERT D., Corporal. Supply Co., 36th Infantry, 12th Division.
Trained at Ft. Snelling. Minn., and Camp Devens, Mass., from May

23, 1918, to March, 1919. Treated for pneumonia at Camp Devens.
Discharged at Camp Taylor, March 11, 1919.

SANDS, JOSEPH ANTHONY, Private, Co. L, 154th Infantry. 39th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Beauregard, La., from May 27, 1918, to
August 6, 1918. Overseas, August 6, 191S, to April 14, 1919. Reached
United States April 30, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, May 20,
1919.

SCHNEIDER, PETER V., Musician 2nd Class, Headquarters Co.. 25th F.
A., 9th Division, Camp McClellan, Ala., from July 22, 1918, to Jan-
uary, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, January 31, 1919.

SCHNITKER, WILLIAM A., Private, Co. I, 120th Infantry, 30th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier, October 4, 1917, to May 1, 191S.
Overseas from May 17, 1918, to April 1. 1919. Battles: St. Quentin,
Argonne Wood, Le Cateau Sector. Wounded, shrapnel through right
jaw. Hospital treatment two months. Reached United States
on April 13. 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor on April 25, 1919.

SCHOMBER, CLIFFORD CARL, Corporal, Battery D., 119th F. A., 32nd
Division. Trained at Waco, Texas, Camp Custer, Mich, and Ft.
McArthur, Texas, from September 19, 1917, to February, 1918. Over-
seas from February 25, 1918, to April 24, 1919. Battles: Toul Sector,
Alsace, Aisne-Marne, Meuse-Argonne, Oise-Aisne, Chateau-Thierry,
Fismes, Juvigny, Mont Faucon. Returned to United States on April

24. 1919. Discharged at Camp Custer on May 15, 1919.
STECKER, JOSEPH H., Private, Supply Co., 2nd F. A. Trained at Camp

Taylor from March 29, 1918, to April 2S, 1919, when discharged. Hos-
pital treatment for asthma and heart trouble, six weeks.

STEPHENS, ESTAL HENRY, Private, Medical Corps. Served at Walter
Reed General Hospital, Washington, D. C-. from September 6, 1918,
to November 21, 1919. Discharged at Washington, D. C.

STEPHENS, ROY GEORGE WILLIAM, Ship-fitter 1st Class, United
State Navy. Served at Newport, R. I., and at ELlis Island. N. Y..
from December 13, 1917, until assigned six months later to U. S. S.
Wilhelmina for transport duty. Discharged August 14, 1919, at Pitts-
burgh, Pa.

STOHLMAN, LOUIS THEODORE, Private, 5th Co.. 53rd C. A. C. Trained
at Fts. Hamilton and Wadsworth, N. Y., from April 3, 1918, to July
15, 1918. Overseas from July 15, 1918, to February 25, 1919. Battles:
St. Mihiel. Returned to United States March 11, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Sherman, April 4, 1919.

STOHLMAN, EDWARD HENRY, Private, 44th C- A. C. Trained at Ft.
Wadsworth from April 3, 1918. to July 15, 191S. Overseas from July
15, 1918, to January 26, 1919. Battles: St. Mihiel. Returned to United
States on February 4, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor on Feb-
ruary 22, 1919.

STROTHMAN, FRANK, Private, Medical Corps. Trained at Camps Tay-
lor, Ky. and Beauregard, La., from May 27, 191S, to August, 191S.
Overseas from Augi'st 6, 191S, to September 15. i919. Discharged at
Camp Taylor on September 25, 1919, from Medical Department. First
Division.

SUNMAN, COY ROBINSON, Private. Co. M, 120th Infantry, 30th Division.
Trained at Camps Tayior and Sevier from September 20, 1917, to May,
1918. Overseas from May 17, 1918. Battles: Yyres Front and
Hindenburg Line. Killed in battle, September 29, 1918, at Bellicourt.
France.

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TANGMAN, FRED J., Private, U. S. M. C. Trained at Paris Island, S. C,
from July 29, 1918, to October 15, 1918. At Quantico, Va., to Decem-
ber 1, 1918. Assigned to 181st Co., 15th United States Marines in Feb-
ruary, 1919. Service in Dominican Republic until August 22, 1919.
Returned to United States September 3, 1919. Discharged Septem-
ber 10, 1919, at Philadelphia.

WAGNER, DAVIS J. H., Private Headquarters Co., 120th Infantry., 30th
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier from October 4, 1917,
to May, 1918. Overseas from May 17, 1918, to April 1. 1918. Battles:
Ypres Front in Belgium, Hindenburg Line, Montbrehain. Wounded
at Bellicourt twice. Treatment in hospital at Rouen, France. Re-
turned to United States on April 13, 1919. Discharged at Camp Tay-
lor on April 24, 1919. Cited for saving officer's life.

WARD, CHARLES WILLIAM. Private, Co. E, 312th Infantry, 7Sth Divi-
sion. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to September,
1918. Overseas from September 3, 1918, to May 11, 1919. Battles:
Grand Pre. Gassed, October 4, 1918. In Base Hospital No. 3 until Oct
29. 1918. Returned to United States May 11 — May 25, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Sherman, June 6, 1919.

WETZLER, THOMAS EARL, Private, S. A. T. C, Purdue University, 5th
Co. At Camp Purdue from October 9, 1918, until discharged at
Lafayette, Ind., on December 19, 1918.

II.
BROWN TOWNSHIP.

ASHCRAFT, BAYARD ORONGO, Private, 26th Co., 7th Bn., Military
Police. Trained at Syracuse, N. Y., and Camp Merritt, N. J., from
July 30, 1918. to January 4, 1919 Discharged at Camp Grant, 111.,
on January 4, 1919.

ASHCRAFT, JASPER WILLIAM. F 2C, U. S. S. Agamemnon. Trained
at Great Lakes, 111., from Mav 28, 1918, to October, 1918. Transport
duty from October 6, 1918, to June 8, 1919. Eight trips. Had in-
fluenza two weeks. Discharged at Pittsburg, Pa., on July 1, 1919.

BOKENKAMP, HARRY JOHN, Corporal, Nov. Repl. Co., First Prov. Reg-
iment, Ordnance Department. Trained at Lafayette, Ind., Camp Han-
cock, Ga., and Erie Proving Grounds, O., from September 1, 1918, to
April, 1919. Discharged April 19, 1919, at Erie Proving Grounds, O.

BOKENKAMP, WILLIAM FRANK, Mechanic, Co. A, 57th Infantry, 15th
Division. Trained at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas and Camp Pike,
Arkansas, from May 23, 1918, to May, 1919. Six weeks in hospital
with bronchitis and inlluenza, two weeks with mumps. Discharged at
Camp Taylor, May 1, 1919.

BROOKS, JAMES EDWARD, Private, Co. A, 335th Infantry, 84th Divi-
sion. Trained at Camp Taylor six months beginning September 20,

1917. Sent to Atlanta, Ga., for guard training and then on duty
at Savannah shipyards for twelve months. Discharged at Camp Tay-
lor, January 16, 1919. Hospital treatment for influenza.

BROOKS, JOSEPH LESLIE, Private, Co. A, 335th Infantry, 84th Divi-
sion. Trained at Camp Taylor from September 20, 1917, until dis-
charged, January 22, 1918, because of physical disability. Hospital
record, two months.

BROOKS, ROY ADEN, Private, Co. A, 4th Bn., Chemical Warfare Service.
Trained at Fort Scrivener, Ga., and at Edgewood, Md., from May 13,

1918, to January, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, January 24, 1919.
BUTTE, WILLIAM ALVA, Private 1st Class, Co. B, 36th Infantry, 12th

Division. Trained at Ft. Sneliing, Minn., and Camp Devens, Mass.,
from May 23, 1918, to June, 1919. Transferred to Headquarters Co.
in April, 1919. In hospital eighteen days with measles. Discharged
at Camp Taylor, June 23, 1919.

CARTWRIGHT, MALCOLM FRED, Private, Co. C, 1st Regiment, Indiana-
polis Tr. Det. Trained at Indianapolis and Camp Hancock, Ga., from
June 14, 1918, to August 31, 1918. Overseas from August 31, 1918.
to April 24, 1919. Reached United States May 6, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Sherman on May 2"3, 1919.

CAMERON, WALTER EMMETT, Private, Co. E, 16th Infantry, 1st Divi-
sion. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to September,
1918. Overseas from September 1 1918, to August 22, 1919. Battles:
Meuse-Argonne. Marched to Germany; stationed at Dernbach and
Neuenhaar until August 16, 1919. Left. Brest on August 22. Dis-
charged at Camp Taylor, September 25, 1919.

CHAMBERLAIN, ORVIL FRANK, Private, Battery C, 10th F. A. Trained
at Camp Jackson, S. C, from August 15, 1918, to January 7, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Taylor.

318 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

CONOWAY CARL CECIL, Private, Battery E., 72nd F. A., 11th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Knox from September 6, 1918, to Jan-
uary 31, 1918. Discharged at Camp Knox.
COPELAND ROBERT WILBUR, 1st Class Electrician, U. S. S. Dale.
Trained' at Norfolk, Va., from October 22, ]912, until assigned to
ship Served as Seaman, 3rd Class Electrician, 2nd Class Electrician
and 1st Class Electrician. Ships: Submarine Severn; Battleships
Olympia and Brooklyn and Destroyers Biddle and Dale.

CORSON HOWARD RULON, Private, Motor Trans. Corps. Trained at
Winona Lake and Indianapolis from October 15, 1918, to December
11, 1918. Discharged at Indianapolis.

COURTNEY, ALLEN JAMES, Private, Battery A, 55th C. A. C. Trained
at Ft Caswell, N. C, from May 26, 1918, to September, 1918. Over-
seas from September 22, 1918, to January, 1919. Battles: Argonne
Forest In hospital for measles. Returned to United States on Jan-
uary 11, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman on February 1, 1919.

DEMAREE, DELZIE, 74th Co., 6th U. S. Marines, 2nd Division. Trained
at Paris Island, S. C, and Quantico, Va., from April 29, 1917, to Sep-
tember 17, 1917. Overseas from September 17, 1917, to December
19 1918. Trained in France at St. Nazaire and Damblain. Battles:
Verdun, Chateau-Thierry, St. Mihiel, Champagne. Gassed and twice
wounded. Returned to United States on December 19, 1918. Hos-
pital treatment, eight hospitals in France, and at Portsmouth, Va.

DEMAREE, RAYMOND, Private, Headquarters Det., 13th U. S. Marines.
Trained at Paris Island, S. C, from May 4, 1917. to September 13,
1918. Discharged at Quantico, Va., on August 5, 1918. Assigned for
service to Co. F, 13th Marines. Overseas from September 13, 1918,
to July 9, 1919. Returned to United States July 9 — July 18, 1919.
Hospital record: Mumps and measles, May and June, 1917.

DEMAREE, GLENN, U. S. N. R. Trained at Great Lakes, 111., and Min-
neapolis, Minn., from May IS, 1918, to January 17, 1919. Released
at Minneapolis, January 17, 1919. Service: Aviation Branch of the
Navy.

DAMON, EARL McKINLEY, Private, Battery C, 72nd F. A. Trained at
Camp Tayloiv Westpoint, and Camp Knox, Ky., from September 6.
1918, to February, 1919. Discharged at Camp Knox, February 1, 1919.

DUNLAP, CARL FRANKLIN. Sergeant, Co. A, 45th Bn., N. G. Trained
at Camp Taylor, Ky., from October 3, 1917, to December 31, 1918.
Prior service: Four years and three months, Regular Army.

ELSTON, EDGAR LAWRENCE, Private, Co. G, 364th Infantry, 91st Di-
vision. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to August 22,
1918. Overseas from September 1. 1918. to March 5, 1919. Battles:
Verdun Front, Argonne Forest. Had influenza in France, spent two
months in hospitals. Sent to United States on March 5, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Taylor, April 12, 1919.

EVANS, RALPH WHITNEY, Private, Headquarters Co., 11th F. A., Re-
placement Division. Trained at Cincinnati, O., and Camp Jackson,
Columbia, S. C, trom August 15, 1918, to January, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Sherman. January 5, 1919.

FISSE, GARRETT HENRY. Private 1st Class, Co. B, 9th Ammunition
Train, 9th Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from
July 22, 1918, to February, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, Feb-
ruary 7, 1919.

GARDEMAN, CHARLES HENRY FREDERIC, Private, Co. A. 335th In-
fantry, 84th Division. Trained at Camp Taylor from September 20,
1917, to October 29, 1917. Discharged for eye trouble at Camp Tay-
lor on October 29, 1917.

GORDON, GEORGE ALLEN, Seaman, U. S. Navy. Trained at Great Lakes,
111., in Co. C. 2nd Regiment, from June 4, 1918. to September 26, 1918.
Died of pneumonia at Camp Dewey, September 26, 1918, following
an attack of influenza.

GILLAND, SHERIDAN CLENDENNING, Private, Battery B, 142nd F. A.
Trained at Camps Tavlor and Beauregard, from May 27, 1918, to
August, 1918. Overseas from August 1. 1918, to June, 1919. Trained
at Camp Coctquidan in France until November 19, 1918. Returned
to America on June 8, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, June, 1919.

GORTEMILLER, HARRY FREDERICK, Private 1st Class, Co. I. 120th
Infantry, 30th Division Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier from
September 20, 1917, to May, 1918. Overseas from May 17, 1918, to
April, 1919. Battles: Ypres Front, Kemmel Hill. Bellicourt. St. Sou-
plet, Johncourt, St. Martin Riviere, Brancourt, Nauroy, Voormezelle.
Wounded Hospital treatment at Trouville and Rouen. Returned
to United States on April 1, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, April
25 1919.

HENSCHEN. CLAYTON FRED, Private, Battery D, 150th F. A., 42nd Di-
vision. Trained at Camp Jackson, S. C, and Camp Stewart, Va., from
July 22, 1918, to September 30, 1918. Overseas from September 30.

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1918, to April 18, 1919, with Army of Occupation in Germany from
November 14, 1918, to April 5, 1919, at Neuenhaar. Reached United
States on April 25, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, May 10, 1919.

HEITMEYER, HOWARD LESLIE, Corporal, Ordnance Detachment, 138th
P. A. Trained at State Fair Grounds, Louisville, Ky., Camps Taylor
and Shelby from April 4, 1917, to September 6, 1918. Overseas from
September 6, 1918, to December 13, 1918. Reached United States
December 24, 1918. Discharged at Camp Taylor, January 11, 1919.

HERIN, GEORGE DALLAS, Private 1st Class. 307th Repair Unit, Motor
Transport Corps. Trained at Valparaiso, Ind., Pittsburg, Pa., and
Camp Holabird, Md„ from July 1. 1918, to October, 1918. Overseas
from October 19, 1918, to .Tulv. 1919. Influenza at Camp Holabird.
Returned to United States July 11, 1919. Discharged at Mitchell
Field. L. I., N. Y., July 18, 1919.

HERIN, ROBERT FRANKLIN, Private, Battery B, 344th F. A., 90th Divi-
sion. Trained at Lafayette, Ind., fromf April 27. 1918, to July, 1918.
Overseas from July 4, 191S", to June. 1919. At Camp Hunt, near Bor-
deaux in France, three months. Verdun, two months. Hundheim.
Germany, with Army of Occupation six months. Returned to United
States June 1, 1919. Influenza at Aix-les-Bains, France. Discharged
at Camp Taylor, June 25. 1919.

HERRINGTON, NORMAN EARL, Seaman, U. S. N. R. Trained at Great
Lakes. III., from July 9, 1917, until release, 1918.

HESS, ERNEST FRANKLIN. Private. 82nd Co., 6th Marines, 2nd Division.
Trained at Paris Island, S. C, and Quantico. Va„ from May 10,

1917. to October 29. 1917. Overseas from October 29 1917, to De-
cember 24, 1918. Battles: Verdun, Chateau-Thierry, Belleau Wood.
Wounded at Belleau Wood June 23, 1918, by high explosive shell.
Four wounds, left thigh, both arms and left eye. Treated in Field
Hospital and Base 34 and Base 38 at Nantes. Sent to Paris to get
an artificial eye. Returned to United States from Bordeaux on a
hospital ship, sailing on Christmas Day. In Naval Hospital at Ports-
mouth, Va., after return. Discharged at Norfolk on March 15, 1919.

HESS. EARL ANIE, Private, Co. I 3rd Ohio Infantry. Trained at Chilli-
cothe, O., and at Montgomery, Ala. Discharged at Montgomery, Ala.,
on January 7, 1918.

HUNTER. HARRY MELVIN. Private, Co. B. 334th Infantry, 84th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Sherman from June 26. 191S. to August
22, 1918. Overseas from September 1, 1918 until his death from pneu-
monia, October 20, 1919, at St. Aignan, Noyers, France.

HUNTER, BASIL EDGAR, Sergeant, Base Hospital 118. Trained at Camps
Taylor and Mills from March 29, 1918, to November 11, 1918. Over-
seas from November 11, 191S, to July 5, 1919. Returned to United
States on July 16, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor on July 23, 1919.

HYATT EARL CLIFFORD. Private. Co. I, 120th Infantry. 30th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier. S. C-, from September 9, lbl7.
to May, 1918. Overseas from May 17, 1918. Battles: Hindenburg Line,
Kemmel Hill, Voormezeele, Ypres Front. Killed at Mazingheim, Somme
Offensive, near St. Souplet, October 18, 1918.

HYATT. GEORGE FLAVIUS, Private 1st Class. U. S. Hospital 3, Medical
Corps. Trained at Camps Taylor and Greenleaf from May 27, 1918.
until sent to dutv at hospital at Railway, N. J. Discharged Septem-
ber 23, 1919, at Camp Taylor.

HYATT, JOSEPH LEWIS. Second Lieutenant, Battery C, 325th F. A.,
84th Division. Trained at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Camp Taylor, West
Point, Ky., and Ft. Sill. Okla., from May 17, 1917, to September. 1918.
Overseas from September 9 1918, to January 16. 1919. In Artillery
School at Camp DeSouge, France, from September 29 1918. to No-
vember 12, 1918. Returned to United States on January 16, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Taylor, February 13. 1919.

HUNTINGTON, COLLIS PERRY, Seaman, U. S. N. R. Trained at Great
Lakes, 111., and Hampton Roads. Va., from May 3, 1918. to August 22,

1918. Assigned to U. S. S. Kearsarge. training ship and coast patrol,
on August 22, 1918. Transferred here to Q. M. Department. Sent
to Receiving Ship at Boston and later to Machias Port, Me. Re-
leased at Hingham, Mass., January 8. 1919.

HURELBRINK, HENRY ERNEST, Private, Batterv A, 25th F. A.. 9th
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22,
1"918. to last of September, 1^18. In hospital at Camp McClellan from
October to March, 1919. with influenza and pneumonia, resulting in
empyemia. At Fort McPherson, Ga., for treatment from March to
July. 1919. Sent home on furlough, not discharged. Tonsils were
removed in latter part of September, 1918.

JARVIS, DALE EDWARD, Private, Co. A, 362nd Infantry. 91st Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Sherman from October 3. 1917, to Sep-
tember 3, 1918. Overseas from September 3, 1918, to April 3, 1919.

320 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

Battles: Lys-Scheldt, October 31 — November 11. 1918. Returned to
United States on April 14. 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, May
1. 1919.

JARVIS. FLOYD OTIS. Q. M. C. 3rd Class, U. S. Navy. Trained at Gr<»at
Lakes, 111., from July S, 1918, until assigned to U. S. S. Sierra in No-
vember, 1918. Eight trips to France on transport duty. Discharged
at Pittsburg, Pa., on October 1. 1919.

JACOBS. CLIFFORD HENRY, Private 1st Class, Base Hospital 53. Trained
at Ft. Oglethorpe Ga., and Camp Greenleaf. Ga.. from February, 1918,
to September, 191 S Overseas service not reported. Returned to
United States in 1919.

JACOBS, HERBERT HENRY. Private, Medical Department. 25th F. A.
Trained at CaniD McClellan from July 22. 1918. to February 1919.
Discharged at Camp Taylor on February 5, 1919.

KAMMAN, WALTER HENRY, Corporal, Motor Transport Corps. Trained
at Camps Taylor and Knox. Ky.. from July 22, 1918, to April, 1919.
In Base Hospital at Camp Taylor eleven weeks with influenza, pneu-
monia, tonsilitis. scarlet fever and pleurisy. Discharged at Camp
Knox, April 9. 1919.

KETENBRIXK. ROY PHILMER. Corporal. Headquarters Detachment. 9th
Brigade. 9th Division (25, 26 and 27th F. A.) Trained at Camps Tav-
lor and McClellan from July 22, 1918, to February, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Taylor, February 7. 1919.

KINNETT. JAMES THOMAS. Musician. Headquarters Company. 335th
Infantry. S4th Division. Trained at Camps Taylor Sherman and
Gordon from September 20, 1917. to December. 1918. Discharged De-
cember 20. 1918, at Camp Taylor from 6th Replacement Co. Treat-
ment for far-sighted eyes.

LICKING. HARRY, Private, Supply Co, 36th Infantry. 12th Division.
Trained at Ft. Snelling, Minn., and Camp Devens. Mass., from Mav
23. 191S. to June 16. 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor. June 23, 1919.

MAY. HARRY CLIFFORD. Private. Co. B, 334th Infantry. 84th Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26. 1918, to September 1. 1918.
Overseas from September 1, 191S. Died of influenza-pneumonia at St.
Aiprnan, Noyers, France, on October 23, 1918.

MAY, PAUL EDWARD. Private. G Troop, 2nd N. G. Trained at McAllen,
Texas, from July 8. 1918, to November. 1918.

MAY. WILLIAM HENRY. Private Co. A, 25th F. A., 76th Division. Trained
at Camps Taylor and McClellan from Julv 22, 1918, to February 5.
1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor. Had measles at Camp McClellan.

McCOY. VERNE CLAUDIUS. Private 1st Class. Co. B, 87th Engineers.
Trained at Camps Taylor. Ft. Harrison, Upton and Merritt from
September 4, 1918, to January, 1919. Treated for influenza at Camp
Humphreys. Va. Discharged at Camp Sherman, January 13. 1919.
for disability resulting from sickness.

McCLAIX. VERX, Private, Bat. A, 70th F. A. Trained at Camps Taylor,
Westpoint and Camp Knox. Ky., from Sept. 6, 1918, to discharge on
February 5, 1918, at Camp Knox.

McGEE, ROY H.. Corporal, Co. A. 335th Infantrv. S4th Division. Trained at
Camp Taylor from September 20 1917. to May 22. 1919. Transferred
to Headquarters Co.. Camp Taylor in March, 191 S. Discharged May
22. 1919.

MORROW. HENRY BIRT. Medical Department Student. Trained at In-
dianapolis from October 9. 1918, to December 11, 191S. Discharged
at Indianapolis.

NIEMAN. ALBERT JOHN. Private. Battorv A. 25th F. A., 9th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22, 1918, to Feb-
ruary 7, 1919, when discharged at Camp Taylor.

NIEMANN, HAROLD HENRY. Private 1st Class Medical Department. U.
S. Debarkation Hospital No. 1 at Ellis Island. N. Y. Trained at
Camps Taylor, Greenleaf and Merritt from May 27. 1918, until August 4,

1918. when assigned to Ellis Island, N. Y., at Debarkation Hospital.
Discharged at Camp Sherman, July 9, 1919, after serving until June 30,

1919, at Ellis Island.

NEIGHBERT, HARVEY CLAYTON. Private, 2nd Dev. Co., 334th Infantry.
S4th Division. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918. to De-
cember, 1918. Discharged at Camp Sherman. December 4, 191S. Had
influenza and pneumonia from September 27 to November 17, 1918.

OTTE. WILLIAM JOHN HENRY, Private 1st Class, Co. C, 40th Infantry.
14th Division. Trained at Ft. Riley, Kan., Camp Custer, Mich., and
Camp Sherman, from May 23, 1918. to September, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Sherman September 25, 1919. Was in Marine Hospital at
Cleveland, O., for twenty-seven days from powder burns on face
and hands. 40th Infantry was attending a war exposition at Cleve-
land. A powder explosion caused a box of bombs to explode caus-
a number of casualties.

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PEASLEE, LEONARD SAMUEL, Private, Co. A, Dev. Bn., No. 1. Trained
at Camps Taylor and Beauregard from May 27, 1918, until discharged
at Camp Beauregard. December 6, 1918. Had mumps, influenza and
pneumonia. In hospital nearly three months.

PEASLEE, FRANK LESLIE, Private. Battery F, 136th F. A.. 37th Divi-
sion. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sherman from April 30, 1918.
to June, 1918. Overseas from June 28, 1918, to March 12, 1919.
Battles: Marbache Sector. Meuse-Argonne. Returned to United States
on March 12, 1918. Discharged at Camp Taylor, April 8, 1919.

PAUGH. WILLIAM EARL, Corporal Co. C, 36th Infantry. 12th Division.
Trained at Ft. Snelling. Minn., and Camp Dcvens, Mass., from May
°3, 1918. to February, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor February
10. 1919.

PAUGH. EVERETT DAILY. Private, Co. M. 18th Infantry. 1st Division.
Trained at Camp Lee, Virginia, from September 17 1917, to March.
1918. In M. G. Co., 320th Infantry. 80th Division, until February 1,

1918. Overseas from March 27, 191S, to March 25. 1919. Battles:
Cantigny, Soissons, St. Mihiel. Argonne Forest. Twice wounded in
hand and back, at the Marne. Gassed and wounded by high ex-
plosive at Argonne Forest. In hospitals at Chantilly. Bordeaux and
Limoges, France. Returned to United Slates on March 25. 1919.
Discharged at Camp Dix, N. J., on April 12, 1919.

ROGERS WILLIAM B., Private, Co. C. 28th Prov. Ordnance D^pot.
Trained at Chamber -of Commerce, Indianapolis. Ind., and at Camp
Hancock, Ga.. from June 15, 191S. to October, 191S. Overseas from
October 4, 1918. to February. 1919. Returned to United States on
February 1, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman March 1, 1919.

RUMP, WALTER F.. Sersreant. Q. M. C, Utility Construction Division
Trained from September 20, 1917. at Camp Tavlor. Served there in
camp construction. Discharged on May 17, 1919.

RUNNER, REUBEN RICHARD, Private, Co. E. 18th Railway Engineers.
Trained at Camp Taylor six months from September 20. 1917. At
Camp Grant six weeks. Overseas from March 13. 1918. to April 15,

1919. Returned to United States on April 15, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Sherman on May 10. 1919.

RYAN, CHARLES DAVID. First Lieutenant, Medical Corps. Trained at
Camp Wadsworth. S. C, from January 15, 1918. Served there until
discharged February 10. 1919.

SCHRAUB, HENRY EDWARD. Corporal, Co. M. 120th Tnfantry, 30th Di-
vision. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier from September 20.

1917. to May 1. 1917. Overseas from May 17, 1918. Died of wounds
received on September 29, 1918. Battles: Ypres Front and Hinden-
burg Line.

SCHRAUB. JOHN ELMER. Private, Co. E, 320th Infantry, 80th Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 191S. to September, 1918.
Overseas from September 3 1918, to September 10. 1919. Battles:
Verdun, St. Severin. On detached service to Berlin, January 15. 1919.
to end of August. 1919. Returned to United States on September 10,
1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, October 14, 1919.

SHOOK, JAMES CLIFTON. Private, Co. A. 362nd Infantry. 91st Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Sherman from September 20. 1917. to
September, 1918. Overseas from September 3. 191S, to April 14 1919.
Battles: Lvs-Scheldt. Discharged at Camp Sherman. May I. 1919.

SHOOK, CECIL EARL. Private. Co. E, 335th Infantry. 84th Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman from Jure 26. 1918, to September. 1918.
Overseas from September 3, 1918, to January 3, 1919. Had influenza
and pneumonia in October. 1918. Sent to United States for further
treatment, January 3, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman on Feb-
ruary 4. 1919.

SIEKERMAN. CLARENCE CLYDE, Private 1st Class, Co. A, 132nd In-
fantry, 33rd Division. Trained at Camps Grant and Houston, from
October 2, 1917, to May, 1917. Overseas from May 17. 1918. to May
17, 1919. Battles: Amiens, Hammel Wood. Very Wood, Verdun, Ar-
gonne Forest lines before Metz. With Army of Occupation at De-
kirch, Luxemburg, from December, 1918, to May, 1919. Returned to
United States May 17. 1919. Discharged at Camp Grant, May 30,
1919. Shell-shocked, hospital treatment near Verdun.

SIEKERMAN. WALTER, Co. E, 311th Infantry, 78th Division. Further
report not secured.

STEINGRUBER. EDGAR GEORGE CHAS., Cook. Field Hospital 36, 7th
Sanitary Train, 7th Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and Green-
leaf from April 30. 1918, to July 26, 1919. Overseas from August 13,

1918, to May 27, 1919. Service at Puvenelle Sector October 9 — 'Jan-
uary 7, 1919. Rogevelle from January, 1919, to May, 1919. Returned
to United States June 8, 1919. Discharged at Camp Lee, June 13,
1919.

STEINGRUBER. OTTO BARNEY, Private. Motor Transport Corps.
Trained at Winona Lake, Ind., and Indianapolis, from October 15,

322 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

1918, to December IS, 1918. Discharged at Indianapolis, December
18, 1918.

SANDEFUR. CHARLES HALL, Seaman, U. S. N. R. Traine~d at Norfolk,
Va., from March 29. 1917. Died of measles and pneumonia in Naval
Hospital, Newport News on May 2, 1917.

SPANGLER, HOWARD CHARLES, Private, 13th Balloon Co. Trained at
Kelley Field, Texas., Ft. Omaha, Neb., and Camp Morrison, Va.. from
February 3, 191S, to July, 1918. Overseas from July 10, 1918, to Jan-
uary 10, 1919. Reached United States on January 21, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Sherman, February 11, 1919.

STEVENSON, DALLAS LEROY. Private, Ambulance Co., 84th Division.
Trained at Camp Taylor from March 29. 1918, to July, 1918. Over-
seas from July 8, 191S, to June 29. 1919. Battles: First Aid Ami).
driver at Chateau-Thierry. Returned to United States June 29, 1919.
Discharged at Mitchell Field, L. I., N. Y., on July 18, 1919.

SMITH, HOWARD SEBRING. Sergeant. Co. M, 44th Engineers. Trained
at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, lnd., from May 17, 1918, to July, 1918.
Overseas from July 30, 1918. to August S, 1919. Trained at Angiers,
France until November.- 191S. Sent on North Russia Expedition, five
months. Returned to United States August S, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Sherman, August, 1919.

SMITH, MARTIN HENRY. Private, Co. I, 120th Infantry, 30th Division.
Trained at Camps Tavlor and Sevier from October 4, 1917, to May.
1918. Overseas from May 17, 191S, to December 1, 191S. Battles:
Ypres Front, Kemmel Hill, Voormezeele, Hindenburg Line. Wounded,
September 29, in thigh and leg by shrapnel. Treatment in hospitals
in France and England. Sent to United States December 1, 1918, to
Debarkation Hospital No. 4, then to Base Hospital at Camp Grant.
Discharged there January 4, 1919.

TEBBING. WILLIAM GARRETT, Private, Headquarters Co., 25th F. A.,
9th Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22,
1918, to January 31, 1919. In hospital for influenza. Discharged at
Camp Taylor, January 31, 1919.

TEBBING, CHARLES HENRY, Wagoner, Supply Co.. 25th F. A., 9th Di-
vision. Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22, 191S,
to March, 1919. Had influenza and pneumonia nine weeks. Dis-
charged at Camp Grant, March 9, 1919.

THOMAS, WILLIAM H., Private 1st Class. Battery B. 74th C. A. C.
(Rwy. Artillery.) Trained at Forts Wadsworth and Hamilton, N.
Y., from April 3, 191S. to September, 191S. Overseas from Septem-
ber 23, 1918, to December 13, 191S. Discharged at Camp Sherman,
January S, 1919.

THOMAS. EDWARD HENRY, Private. Co. E, 127th Infantry, 32nd Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Beauregard from May 27, 1918, to
August, 191S. Overseas from August 6, 1918, to April 27, 1919.
Battles: Meuse-Argonne. Reached United States. May 5, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Sherman, May 23, 1919.

VOR1S, AMZIE PETER. Private 1st Class, Co. A, 1st Bn., Ordnance Re-
serve Corps. Trained at Ft. Scrivener, Ga., and Edgewood, Md., from
March 13, 1918, to April, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, April
5, 1919.

VOGEL. CHARLES HERMAN. Private 1st Class. Co. D, 36th Infantry,
12th Division. Trained at Ft. Snelling, Minn., and Camp Devens,
Mass.. from May 23, 191S, to June, 1919. Had measles at Ft. Snelling.
Discharged at Camp Taylor, June 2S, 1919.

WARD. JOHN CECIL, Private 1st Class, Co. C. 147th M. G. Bn., 41st
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and Beauregard from May 27,

1918. to August, 191S. Overseas from August 5, 1918, to February,

1919. Battles: Verdun Front. Had influenza and pneumonia in Base
Hospitals SS and 24. Sent to United States February 12, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Taylor, March 17, 1919.

WARD, JOSEPH ELLSWORTH. Sergeant, Utility Det., Q. M. C. Trained
at Camp Taylor from May 27, 191S, to February, 1919. Discharged
February 14, 1919.

WEST. WILLIAM HENRY, Private, Base Hospital 99. Trained at Camp
Custer from August 29, 1918. to October. 1918. Overseas from October
27. 1918, to May SI, 1919. Base Hospital 99 cared for eleven thousand
patients, mostly convalescents. Was located at Hyeres, France. Re-
turned to United States May 31, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman,
June 26. 1919.

WEST, OTTO JOHN. Private. Batterv B, 2nd F. A. Trained at Camp
Taylor and West Point, Ky„ from September 6, 1918, to March 28.
1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor. Had bronchitis. In hospital two
weeks.

WESTMEYER. LOUIS FRED, Corporal, 5th Co., C. A. C. Trained at
Fort Wadsworth, N. Y., from April 3, 1918, to December, 1918. Dis-
charged at Camp Sherman, December 22, 191S

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WERNER, WILLIAM JOHN C Private, Co. G. 138th Infantry, 35th Di-
vision. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to August 31,

1918. Overseas from August 31. 1918, to April 19, 1918. Battles:
Verdun Front, Somme Drive. Gassed on October 31, 1918. Rejoined
regiment February 16, 1919. Had sprained ankle, four weeks' treat-
ment in hospital, February and March, 1919. Reached United States
on May 3, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, May 13, 1919.

WHITTAKER. DALLAS TRENT, Private, Co. A, 19th M. G. Bn.. 7th Di-
vision. Trained at Camp MacArthur, Waco, Texas, from Mav 13,
191S, to August, 1918. Overseas from August 18, 1918, to June 10,

1919. Battles: Puvenelle Sector. Reached United States on June 21,
1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, June 28, 1919.

WHITHAM, MILTON McKINLEY, Private 1st Class, Co. K, 28th Infantry,
1st Division. Trained at Camp Gordon, Ga.. from May 29, 1918, to
July, 1918. Overseas from July 14, 191S. Killed in battle, October
5, 191S, near Exremont, France.

WOLSTERMAN, EDWARD HENRY, Private, Headquarters Co.. 21st F. A.
Trained at Camp Taylor from April 30, 1918, to December 13, 1918.
Discharged at Camp Taylor. Had influenza three weeks.

III.

CENTER TOWNSHIP.

ANDREWS, LEEDOM BOYD, Ensign, U. S. Naval Reserves. Trained at
San Pedro N. R. Training Camp, California, from November 13, 1917,
to June 5, 1918. On duty at Mare Island Receiving Ship, June 6,

1918, to January 13. 1919. Assigned. January 14, 1919, to U. S. S.
Oregon in Pacific waters.

BEACH, WILLIAM. Private, Camp Crane Amb. Corps. Trained at Allen-
town, Pa., from June 22. 1918, to February 1, 1919. Discharged,
February 1, 1919, at Camp Crane, Allentown, Pa.

BILBY, WALTER JASPER, Corporal, U. S. Marine Corps. Trained at
Paris Island, S. C, and at Quantico, Va., from May 25, 1918. to Feb-
ruary, 1919. Discharged at Quantico, Va., February 11, 1919. Served
as drill instructor. Listed in Co. B. 3rd Separate M. G. Co., U. S.
M. C.

BLACK, PAUL McKINLEY, Seaman, 2nd Ciass, U. S. Navy. Trained at Great
Lakes, 111. and Puget Sound, Washington, from July 8, 1918, to Feb-
ruary, 1919. Discharged at Puget Sound, February 15, 1919.

BOSWELL, MORTON HARRISON, Private, Co. E. Am. Tr., 39th Division.
Trained at Camp Taylor from May 27. 1918, to August 30, 1918.
Overseas from August 30. 1918. Returned to United States early in

1919, and was honorably discharged.

BROWN, GEORGE, JR., Private. Co. D. 333rd Infantry. 84th Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to September, 1918.
Overseas from September 1, 1918, to April 17, 1919. Battles: Verdun
Front, October 15 — November 7. 1918. Reached United States on
April 28, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, May 13, 1919.

BLAIR, EMMETT CLYDE, Sergeant, Co. E, 16th Infantry, 1st Division.
Trained at Camp Cotton, El Paso. Texas, from May 8, 1914, to June
12. 1917. Overseas from June 14, 1917. to August 23, 1919. Battles:
Cantigny, Montdidier-Noyon, Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne.
With Army of Occupation at Dernbach and Selters, Germany, from
November 12, 19lS, to August 16, 1919. Left France August 20, 1919.
Reached United States September 3, 1919. Discharged September
25, 1920.

BRENTON. THADDEUS REAMY, H. A. 2, U. S. N. R. Trained at Great
Lakes, 111., from July 9, 1918, to January 28, 1919, when discharged.
Had influenza at Great Lakes Naval Hospital.

BRANHAM, RAY ROSCOE, Private, Headquarters Co., 54th C. A. C.
Trained at Ft. McKinl?y, Me., Fort Williams, Me., and Jacksonville,
Fla., from October 5, 1914. to March, 1918. Overseas from March 6,
1918. Died of septic pneumonia at Vosges, France, October 21, 1918.

BROKATE. JOHN HENRY, Private, Headquarters Co.. 123rd Infantry, 31st
Division. Transferred to Co. L, 118th Infantry, 30th Division in
France. Trained at Camp Wheeler, Ga., from June 24, 1918, to Oc-
tober, 1918. Overseas from October 29. 1918, to March 15. 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Sherman, April 14, 1919. Influenza at Camp Mills.

BYARD, EDWARD, Private, Headquarters Co., 148th Infantry, 37th Di-
vision. Trained at Camps Montgomery and Lee from June 8, 1917,
to June 23, 1918. Overseas from June 23, 1918, to March 15, 1919.
Battles: Baccarat Sector, Avocourt Sector, Pannes Sector, Meuse-
Argonne and Ypres Offensives. Returned to United States on March
15 — March 23, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, April 21, 1919.

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CHAPLIN FERDINAND ARNOLD, Wagoner, Ambulance Co. 36, 7th Di-
vision Trained at Camp Greenleaf from April 30, 1918, to August,
1918. Overseas from August 13, 1918, tc May 10, 1919. Battles:
Argonne Forest. Cited for bravery at Rogeville. Returned to United
States on May 23, 1919. Discharged at Camp Mills, N. Y., May 28,
1919.
CARTER, JOHN PAUL, Corporal, Co. A, 53rd Ry. Engineers. Trained at
Camp Dix, N. J., from April 19, 1918, to June 9, 191S. Overs-as from
June 9, 1918, to July 1, 1919. Injured in foot and arm while on
duty in France. Returned to United States on July 12, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Taylor, July 19, 1919.
CLINE, ARLEY M., Private, Laundry Co. 517. 1st Division. Trained
at Ft Thomas, Ky„ from November 18, 1917, to March 28. 1918.
Overseas from March 28, 1918. to June, 1919. Battles: Cantigny,
Soissons. Returned to United States June 2S, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Sherman, August 19, 1919.
CAPLINGER, JAMES LEROY, Sergeant. Motor Transport Corps, 336th
M. G. Bn. Served in Regular Army, 1911-1913. Was wounded at
Vera Cruz. Re-enlisted June 3, 1917. Trained at Camp Shelby until
November, 1918. Sent to Camp Grant in 113th Co. M. P. service, in
November, 1918. To Camp Wadsworth. on November 29, 1918. Dis-
charged December 7, 1918, at Camp Wadsworth. Had pneumonia at
Camp Shelby. '
CAPLINGER, WILBUR, Private, Co. A. 335th Infantry, S4th Division.
Trained at Camp Taylor from September 20, 1917, until discharged
for disability on December 4, 1917.
COX, MERRILL MILLER, Private, U. S. Marine Corps. Trained at Paris
Island, S. C, from July 24, 1917, until assigned to U. S. S. Hancock
for service at Galveston. Texas. Discharged at Paris Island, August
23, 1919. Had a severe attack of pneumonia while on the Hancock
at Galveston, in hospital eight weeks.
CROXTON, RALPH LIONEL, Seaman and Signalman, U. S. S. Northern
Pacific and U. S. S. Mexico. Trained at Great Lakes, 111., from No-
vember 22, 1917, to April. 1918. Service on transport and on battle-
ship; nine trips from April 25, 1918, to March 1, 1919. Discharged
at Pittsburg, Pa., on June 28, 1919.
DAY, PAUL E., Private 1st Class. Headquarters Co., 70th C. A. C. Trained
at Ft. Wadsworth, N. Y., from Aoril 3, 1918, t-o July 15, 1918. Over-
seas from Julv 15, 1918, to February 12, 1919. Discharged at Camp
Sherman, March 12, 1919.
DAY, ROBERT EARL, Private 1st Class, I. C. O. T. S. Trained at Camp
Grant from September 3, 1918, to January 10, 1919, when discharged
at Camp Grant.
DAMM, JOHN A., Private, 2nd Ind Light F. A., N. G. Trained at In-
dianapolis two days in each week from December 8, 1917, to time
of discharge at Indianapolis, April 15, 1919. Unit never sworn into
Federal service.
DISMORE, GLENN MARSHALL, Chief Mechanic. Co. C. 9th Ammunition
Train. Trained at Chamber of Commerce. Indianapolis, Camp Sheri-
dan and McClellan, Ala., from June 15. 1918, to February 7, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Taylor, February 7, 1919.
ECKERT. WALTER, Private, 3S2nd Co., U. S. Marine Corps. Trained
at Paris Island, S. C, from October 16. 191S, to February 28, 1919,
when discharged at Paris Island.
EWING, ASHEL E., Sergeant, 2nd Co., 6th Bn., Ordnance Repair Detch.
Trained at Indianapolis from June 15. 1918, to August, i91S. Over-
seas from August 31, 191S, to July 10, 1919. At Ordnance Repair
Shops, Mehun. Returned to United States July 10, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Sherman, July 2 5, 1919.
FERATHER. DANIEL BRENTON, Mechanic, Headquarters Co., 159 Dev.
Bn. Trained at Camp Taylor from May 27, 191S, to dischargs on
December 24, 1918.
FRANCISCO, WALTER BRENTON, Private, Troop H. 16th Cavalry. II. S.
Regular Army. Trained at Ft. Thomas, Ky„ and Ft. Brown. Texas,
from June 3, 191S, to January 27, 1919. when discharged at San An-
tonio, Texas. Hospital treatment at Brownsville, Texas.
FRANCIS JAMES ALVA, Electrician 3rd Class, Destroyer Jacob Jones.
Trained at Norfolk, Va., from September 29, 1916, until assigned to
ship. Lost at sea when the Jacob Jones was torpedoed December 6,

FREMDLING GEORGE AARON, Private, 29th Co., 8th Tr. Bn., lo9th
Depot Brigade. Trained at Camp Taylor from July 22, 191S, to dis-
charge on December 26, 1918. .

GAITHER, LESTER ALBERT, Radio Electrician, U. S. Navy. Trained
at Newport, R. I., and Harvard Radio School at Cambridge, Mass.,
from July 26. 1918, to January 14, 1919. Discharged at Cambridge.
Throat operation at Chelsea, Mass., November 16— December 20, 1918.

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GOSS, GEORGE, Private, Co. A, 335th Infantry. S4th Division. Trained
at Camp Taylor from September 20, 1918, until discharged for dis-
ability on February 4, 1918.

GOSS. WILLIAM, Corporal, Co. B. 605th Engineers. 27th Division. Trained
at Camps Taylor, Forrest and Upton from April 29, 1918. to June 1,
191S. Overseas from August 1, 191S, to August 1, 1919. Battles:
Chateau-Thierry and Argonne. Returned to United States on June
1, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman on June 29. 1919.

GRAY, DAILY WILLIAM, Private 1st Class, Headquarters Co., 70th C.
A. C. Trained at Ft. Wadsworth. N. Y., from April 3, 1918, to. July,
191S. Overseas from July 15th, 191S, to February 12 1919. Reached
United States February 22. 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman,
March 12, 1919.

HALLOWELL, WALTER STITES, Private, Battery F, 326th F. A., S4th
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and West Point, Ky., from July
22, 1918, to September 9, 191S. Overseas from September 9, 1918.
to February 2, 1919. Reached United States on February 16, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Taylor, March 8, 1919.

HICKS, LEO EDGAR, Radio Electrician 1st Class. U. S. S. Delaware and
U. S. S. Seneca. Trained at Great Lakes, 111., from December 26,
1917. Instructor at Great Lt,kes; Electrician at Chatham, Mass.,
Ottercliff, Me., Receiving Ship, Boston Marine Base, Shellburne, N.
D., Tr. Station at Hingham. Mass., until assigned to ship and Naval
Communicating Service, Washington, D. C. Released at Pittsburg,
Pa., July 11, 1919.

HANDLE, ROBERT NEVILLE, Private, Co. 4. 54th Infantry. Trained
at Ft. Thomas, Ky., and Camp Wadsworth, S. C. from May 11, 1918,
to September, 1918. Overseas from September. 1918, to January, 1919.
Battles: Alsace-Lorraine, Argonne Forest. Suffered trench feet,
shrapnel wounds and was gassed. Hospital treatment at Verdun.
Returned to United States on January 7, 1919. Discharged at Camp
Sherman, February 1, 1919.

HARDING, TILFORD IRVING, Seaman, 2nd CI., U. S. S. DeKalb. Trained
at Great Lakes, 111., from August 27, 191S, to November, 1918, when
assigned to U. S. DeKalb. Released January 21, 1919, at Pelham
Bay, N. Y.

HARTMAN. LEO LEWIS, Corporal, 80th Co., 6th U. S. Marines. Trained
at Paris Island, S. C, and Quantico, Va.. from May 21, 1917, to Jan-
uary, 1918. Overseas from January 19, 1.918, to July 29, 1919. Battles:
Verdun Front. Toul Sector. Chateau-Thierry, Soissons. Wounded
July 19 in right hip by high explosive shell. Gassed at Verdun in
March. Sent to hospitals at Rouen for wounds. To Liverpool hos-
pital for trench feet until November 20. Rejoined regiment by train
at Rhinebrok«, Germany, on January 27, 1919. Stationed at Neuwied,
Germany, for four months. Left Germany on July 23, 1919. Left
France on July 29, 1919. Reached United States on August 7, 1919.
Second Division paraded in New York City on August 9 and in Wash-
ington, D. C, on August 12. 1919. (President Wilson led the parade
of Marines in 1917 before going overseas.) Discharged at Quantico.
Va., August 13, 1919.

HUMPHREY, HENRY PHINEAS, Private, Co. 515, Motor Command No.
44, M. T. C. Trained at Ft. Sheridan. 111.. Camps Merritt and Mills.
N. Y., and Fifteenth St. Garage, New York City, also at Hoboken,
N. J., from November 11, 1918. Had influenza-pneumonia at Camp
Mills, N. Y., and diphtheria at Embarkation hospital, Hoboken, N. J.
Discharged at Camp Taylor, May 5, 1919.

KENAN. CLYDE HARRY, Q. M. Sergeant, Q M. C. Trained at Columbus
Barracks, Ohio, from March 7, 1914, to August, 1916. Sent to Colon,
Republic of Panama, August 21. 1916. Furloughed to reserve, April
9, 1919, at Ft. Amador, Canal Zone.

KELLEY, DALLIE ANDERSON, Private 1st Class, Co. I, 166th Infantry,
42nd Division. Trained at Camp Perry, O., and Camp Mills. N. Y.,
from June 8. 1917, to October. 1917. Overseas from October 29, 1917,
to March 23. 1919. Battles: Toul, Lorraine Front, Champagne. Cap-
tured by Germans on July 15, 1 91 S, and held prisoner until Novem-
ber 11, 1918. Spent, two months in hospitals in France after re-
lease by Germans. Left France, March 23, 1919. Reached United
States April 1, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman on April 23, 1919.

KINDLESPARKER, BERT. Private. Co. A. 119th Infantry. 30th Division.
Trained at Camp Taylor and Camp Sevier from March 29 1918, to
May, 1918. Overseas from May 17, 191S, to March 16, 1919. Badly
burned in a gasoline explosion at Beaumont, France. Returned to
United States March 16 — March 28, 1919. Discharged at Camp Tay-
lor, April 22, 1919.

KESTLER, ERNEST LAWRENCE, Private, Battery B, 2nd Ind. Light
F. A., N. G. Enlisted at Indianapolis, December 10, 1917. and trained
there at the Armory two days in each week until discharged, April
15, 1919. Not in Federal service.

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KRl'SE ALFRED. Private, Co. B. 605th Engineers, 8th Army Corps.
Trained at Camp Forrest, Ga., from April 30. 1918. to September 20,
1918. Overseas from September 20. 191S, to June 10, 1919. Reached
United States on June 18. 1919. Discharged on June 26, 1919.

KRUSE. FRANK FREDERICK, Private, 89th F. A. Trained at Camps
Tavlor, Ky., and Jackson. S. C, from September 4. 191S, to March
17. 1919. Discharged at Camp Jackson. Hospital treatment at Con-
valescent Center, Camp Jackson.

LEVI. WEBER. Second Lieutenant. Troop A. 8th Cavalry, 5th Division.
Trained at Jefferson Barracks. Mo., from September 3. 1915, to Sep-
tember 26, 1918. Service on Mexican border. Discharged on March
7, 1919.

LOVE. LEO CHESLEY. Private. M. G. Co.. 336th Infantry. 84th Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman from June 25, 1918. to September. 1918.
Overseas from September 3. 1918, to June 5, 1919. Reached United
States on June 12, 1919. Discharged at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, July
31. 1919.

MOSIER CLAUDE. Private. Co. B. 5th Squadron, Air Service. Trained
at Rolling Prairie. Ind., from October 15, 1918, to December, 1918,
when discharged.

McCLAIN. CLARENCE. Private, Battery B. 25th F. A.. 9th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22. 1918. to Feb-
ruary, 1919. Discharged at Camp Grant on February 10, 1919. Hos-
pital treatment for influenza at Camp McClellan.

METER. VVLLIAM LEE, Private. Hospital Train No. 1. Jersey City. N.
J.. Medical Department. Trained at Camp Taylor, Camp Greenleaf
and Fort Sheridan from May 27, 191S, to October, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Dix, N. J.

MISTLER. CARL ALBERT. Private, Co. M, 120th Infantry, 30th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier from September 20, 1917, to
May, 1918. Overseas from May 17, 1918. to January 7, 1919. Battles:
Tpres Front in Belgium. St. Quentin Sector of Hindenburg Line.
"Wounded September 29, 191$. Hospital treatment at Rouen. France,
■Warminster. England. Winchester, England, Liverpool. England.
Ellis Island. N. Y., and Camp Tavlor. Ky. Reached United States
January 22, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor May 12, 1919.

MOSIER. LOUIS BELMA. Private, 25th F. A. Trained at Camps Taylor
and McClellan from July 22, 1918, to February 5. 1919, when dis-
charged at Camp Taylor.

MOST, ALBERT EMMETT, Private. Co. A, 309th Infantry. S4th Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918. to September. 1918.
Overseas from September 9, 1918, to July 1, 1919. Guarded German
prisoners; built saw-mills; took care of five hundred kilometers of
railway. Returned to United States on July 1, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Sherman. Julv 18. 1919. Had mumps and "flu" at Base
Hospital 34. St. Mais, France.

MEYERS. ROBERT. Sergeant. Medical Department. U. S. Army. Trained
at Camp Tavlor. Kv„ from March 29, 1918, to discharge at Camp
Taylor on July 29. 1919.

NOYES. RUSSELL JAMES. Sergeant. Co C. 12Sth Engineers. Trained
at Camp Humphreys. Va.. from May 7. 1 91S. to October. 1918. Over-
seas from October 2ft. 1918, to June 30, 1919. (Hospital treament for
foot trouble.) Reached United States July 12. 1919. Discharged
at Camp Sherman. Julv 22. 1919.

RADIGAN. ROBERT BERNARD. Seaman. U. S. S. Alabama. Trained at
Great Lakes and Hampton Roads, from June 15, 1918, to September
30, 1918. Discharged at Hampton Roads.

REINKING. ELMER COURTNEY Frn ate. Co. B. 46th Bn.. U. S. Guards.
Trained at Camp Taylor to October 2S, 1918. Sent to Ft. Riley. Kan.
for guard dutv. Discharged at Camp Funston. Kas. on December
11, 191S.

ROW. IRVING FRANCIS. First Lieutenant. Dental Reserve Corps.
Trained at Camp Bowie. Texas. Enlisted July 13. 1917. Received
commission August 15, 1917. Called to active duty at Camp Bowie
on September IS. 1918. where he spent ten months. Discharged at Camp
Taylor, August 13. 1919.

ROW. PERRY QUENTIN. Seaman 2nd Class, U. S. N. R. Trained at
Great Lakes. 111., from June 20. 191S, to September 7. 1918. and at
Indiana University from September 7, 191S, until released December
20. 1918.

SAGE. ROY, Private 1st Class, M. G. Co., 120th Infantry. 30th Division.
Trained at Camps Tavlor and Sevier from October 4, 1917. to May,
1918. Overseas from May 17. 1918, to April 1, 1919. Battles: Ypres,
Belgium; Hinderburg Line at Bellicourt, Cambraie. St. Quentin.
Reached United States on April 13, 1919. Discharged at Camp Tay-
lor, April 24, 1919.

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SELLERS. BENJAMIN HARRISON, Private, 29th Co., 159th Depot Brigade.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Beauregard from July 22. 1918, to
April, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, April 8, 1919.

SIMON, JOHN HENRY, Private, Co. A. 335th Infantry. 84th Division.
Trained at Camp Taylor from September 20, 1917, until discharged for
disability, December 3, 1917.

SMOCK, DON CARL, Corporal, U. S. Infantry. Trained at Camp Taylor
from September 20, 1917, to December 20, 1917. At Camp Meigs
to January 15, 1918. Overseas from January 17, 1918, to June 10,
1919. Returned to United States June 19. 1919. Discharged at Camp
Sherman, June 27, 1919.

SMOCK, REUBEN HORTON, Private, Co. F, 2nd Engineers, 2nd Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman from September 20, 1917, to February,
191S. Overseas from February 27, 1918, to August 1, 1919. Battles:
Chateau-Thierry, Aisne-Marne, Marbache, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne.
With Army of Occupation in Germany eight months. Located at
Engers. Returned to United States, August 1 — August 8, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Sherman. August 15, 1919.

SMITH. JOHN SIMEON, Sergeant, Co. A, 18th Infantry, 1st Division.
Trained at Texas City, Texas, from May 2, 1914, to June, 1917.
Overseas from June 12, 1917, to August, 1919. Battles: Montdidier,
St. Mihiel, Aisne-Marne, Meuse-Argonne. Toul, Sizeares, Beaumont,
Bosemont, Cantigny. Mont Sector, Chateau-Thierry. Wounded twice
in left arm; gassed at Cantigny; with Army of Occupation in Ger-
many from November, 191S, until August, 1919. Reached United
States on August 18, 1919. Re-enlisted.

SCHROEDER, IRVING HENRY. Private. 7th Recruiting Squadron Air
Service. Was trained at Ft. Wayne, Mich., from August 15, 1918,
to discharge there on January 28, 1919.

SPARLING. CLARENCE EUGENE, First Lieutenant. C. A., 335th In-
fantry, S4th Division. Trained in this unit at Camp Taylor from
September 9, 1917, to January 5. 1918, when transferred to 3rd O.
T. S. C. Commissioned Second Lieutenant June 1, 191S. Transferred
to Inft. Replacement Camp, Camp Pike, Ark., then to 7th Co., S. A.
R. D., in September. 1918. Sailed as commander of company on Sep-
tember 23, 1918. Transferred in France to Co A, 1 61st " Infantry,
41st Division. (Sunset Division.) Commissioned First Lieutenant
and transferred to Yankee Division. Overseas from September 23,
191S. to March 2S. 1919. Battles: Verdun. Returned to United States
April 6, 1919. Discharged at Camp Devens. April 28, 1919.

STONEKING, ELMER McKINLEY, Private, Motor Transport Corps.
Trained at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind., from September 1, 1918. to
April 11. 1919. when discharged. Five weeks of influenza-pneumonia
at Indianapolis Training School.

STUBBEMAN. ROBERT LAWRENCE. Private, Field Hospital Co. 115.
114th Sanitary Train, 39th Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and
Beauregard from May 27, 1918, to August. 1918. Overseas from
August 26, 1918. to June, 1919. Reached United States June 30, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Taylor, July 9, 1919.

STUTIE. HARRY. Sergeant 1st Class. Q. M. C. Trained from June 11.
1917. to May 10", 1919, at Camp Custer in Chemical work. Discharged
at Camp Custer.

SWAZY, HARRY, Sergeant, E. Co., 3rd Division Supply Train. Trained
at Camp Cody, N. M. and Camp Travis. Texas, from December 3,
1913, to April, 191S. Battles: Chateau-Thierry, Aisne-Marne. Slightly
gassed, suffered pneumonia June 10, 1918. Eight weeks in hospital.
Returned to United States on July 22, 1919. Discharged November
6, 1919, at Camp Dix, N. J.

TERRY. ROY STANHOPE. Private, Battery A, 25th F. A., 9th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22, 1918, to dis-
charge at Camp McClellan, on January 31, 1919.

TOWNSEND. SANFORD BEVAN, Private, Indiana Limited Service. Served
as army clerk on the White County Draft Board at Monticello, under
Major George C. Baltzell. State Conscription Agent for Indiana.
Served from September 7, 1918, to January 7. 1919, when discharged
at Ft. Benjamin Harrison.

WAGER, KENAN VELMORE, Corporal, 107th Ordnance Depot Co. Trained
at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. and Camp Gordon, Ga., from June 4, 1918,
to March 10, 1919, when discharged. Member of band.

WAGNER, WILLIAM WEBER, Musician 1st Class. Headquarters Co., 25th
F. A., 9th Division. Trained at Camp McClellan from July 22, 1918,
to February 5, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, February 5, 1919.

WILSON, THOMAS BENJAMIN, Private 1st Class, 4 63rd Co., U. S. Marines.
Trained at Paris Island, S. C, from October IT, 1918, to discharge on
January 18, 1919.

328 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

WILSON". ADLAI ERNEST. Private, Medical Department, I". S. Army.
Trained at Columbus Barracks. Ohio, from March 15, 1917, until his
death there of measles and diphtheria on April 25, 1917.

WILSON. WILLIAM DAILY, Private, S. A. T. C, Franklin College, Frank-
lin, ind. Trained from October 1, 1918, until discharged on Decem-
ber 21, 1918.

WOOLEY, EDGAR DANIEL. Private. Co. I, 120th Infantry, 30th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier from September 20, 1917, to
May, 191S. Overseas from May 17, 1918. to December 8, 1918. Battles:
Ypres, St. Quentin. Wounded at St. Quentin, September 29, 1918,
machine-gun bullet through the mouth, knocking out seven teeth
and ranging down through the lung. Hospital treatment. 6th British
General Hospital and at Portsmouth, England. Reached United
States December 16, 1918. Discharged at Camp Grant on January
11. 1919.

YATER, RUSSELL CHARLES. Corporal. 20th Co.. 5th Training Battalion,
158th Depot Brigade. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918,
until discharged on December 7, 1918.

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i DELAWARE TOWNSHIP.

AHRENS. JOHN EDWARD. Private, Battery E, 70th C. A. C. Trained
at Ft. Wadsworth, N. Y., from April 3, 1918, to July 19. Overseas
from Julv 15, 1918. to February 11. 1919. Discharged at Camp Sher-
man, March 12, 1919.

ASCHE. PHILIP FREEMAN, Seaman 2nd Class. U. S. Navy. Trained
at Great Lakes. 111., and Hampton Roads, Va.. from May 13, 1918, to
October. 1918. Overseas from October 24. 1918, to April 28. 1919.
At Queenstown, Ireland, from November 15, 1918, lo April 25. 1919.
Reached United States on May 7. 1919. Discharged June 20, 1919.

ASCHE. CLARENCE THEODORE, Sergeant. Battery D. 40th C. A. C.
Trained in Regular Army at Ft. Adams. R. I., in 1912-13. At Ft.
Barrv, Cal., from Julv. 1914. to September. 1918. At Camp Upton.
N. Y., September 15-1S. 191S. Overseas from October 18, 1918, to
November 22, 1918. Returned to Camp Upton. November 22. assigned
here to 40th C. A. C. Had gone overseas in Replacement Unit. Fur-
loughed to Regular Army Reserve at San Francisco, October, 1919.

BENTZ. JOSEPH WILLIAM, Corporal, 2nd Co., ISth Engineers. Trained
at Camp Tavlor in Co. A. 335th Infantry, 84th Division, from Sep-
tember 20, 1917. to January 1. 191S. At Camp Grant in 18th En-
gineers until March 1. 1918. Overseas from March 14, 1918, to July
14. 1919. Transferred at Brest. France, to Administrative Labor
Bureau at Bordeaux, France. Served here until returned to United
States. July 14 — July 23, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, July
31. 1919.

BODE. ELMER WILLIAM, L. E. R.. U. S. Naval Reserves. Trained at
Great Lakes, 111., and at Harvard Uhiversity Radio School from Feb-
ruary 4, 1918, until discharged at Cambridge, Mass., on February
13. 1919.

BODE. GEORGE OMER. Seaman. U. S. S. Vermont. Trained at Great
Lakes. 111. from February 15, 1918, to October. 1918, when assigned to
the Vermont. Served on U. S. S. Pastory, Transport, from January
to September, 1919. Discharged September 24, 1919, at Pittsburg, Pa.

BULTMAN. FORREST CLYDE. Private. Terre Haute. S. A. T. C. Trained
at Terre Haute from October 7, 1918. until his death from pneumonia
at St. Anthony's Hospital. Terre Haute, on November 7. 1918.

BUSTEED. WILLIAM ERNEST, Petty Officer, U. S. S. Imperator. Trained
at Great Lakes. 111., from February 8. 191S. to assignment to ship.
Service, transport work from New York to Brest, France.

COOK. ALEX HENRY. Seaman 2nd Class. U. S. Navy. Trained at Great
Lakes. 111., from June 4. 1918, to release on February 26, 1919. Hos-
pital record for influenza.

COOK, NICHOLAS GEORGE. Private, U. S. Infantry. Served in Alaskan
regiment.

DUNBAR. EVERETT B.. Private. Air Service. Trained at special school
at Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne. Mich., from August 15, 1918, to dis-
charge at Ft. Wayne on January 22, 1919.

EINHAUS. AMOR JOHN HENRY. Private, Batterv B. 74th C. A. C. Trained
at Ft. Hamilton. N. Y.. from April 3. 1918, to September, 1918. Over-
seas from September 23. 1918, to December 13. 1918. Reached United
States on December 23, 1918. Discharged at Camp Sherman on Jan-
uary 9, 1919.

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ERTZINGER, GEORGE G., Private 1st Class, Headquarters Co., 36th In-
fantry, 12th Division. Trained at Ft. Snelling, Minn, and Camp
Devens, Mass., from May 23, 1918, to June, 1919. Discharged at Camp
Taylor on June 23, 1919.

FINKE. HARRY C, Private. Field Hospital 381. 321st Sanitary Train.
96th Division. Trained at Camp Taylor and Camp Wadsworth. S. C,
from July 22, 1918, to discharge at Camp Taylor on December 30, 1918.

FINKE, CLARENCE JOHN, Private, Evacuation Hospital 29. Trained at
Camps Taylor, Greenleaf and Beauregard from May 28, 1918, to No-
vember, 191S. Overseas from November 2, 191S, to June 28, 1919.
Reached United States on July 8, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sher-
man on July 18, 1919.

FOLLMER, FRED ALBERT. Private 1st Class, Field Remount Squadron
337. Trained at Camps Taylor, Ky., Johnston, Fla. and Hill, Va.,
from October 4. 1917, to October 23, 1918. Overseas from October
23, 1918, to July 5, 1919. Reached United States on July 15, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Sherman on July 23, 1919. Had cerebro-spinal
meningitis at Camp Taylor.

FRUCHTNICHT. CHRISTIAN WILLIAM, Private, Field Remount Squadron
323. Trained at Camps Taylor and Jos. E. Johnston from September
20, 1917, to September 7, 1918. Overseas from September 7, 1918, to
June 17, 1919. Reached United States on June 24, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Sherman on July 9, 1919.

GAULT, HARRY HARRISON, Sergeant, Co. D, 17th Railway Engineers.
Trained at Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga., from June 16, 1917, to July,
1917. Overseas from July 28, 1917, to March 11, 1919. Reached Unite'd
States on March 25, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman on Anril
14. 1919.

GRAY, THOMAS, Private 1st Class, Battery A. 25th F. A., 9th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22, 1918, to dis-
charge at Camp Taylor, January 31, 1919.

GOOKINS, JAMES WATSON, Corporal, Co. A, 335th Infantry, S4th Divi-
sion. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sherman from September 9,

1917, to September, 1918. Overseas from September 4, 1918, to April
18, 1919. Trained in France at Camp d'Auvors and LeMans. Reached
United States on April 24, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman on May
10, 1919. Main service was in training fresh troops at Camps Taylor
and Sherman. Corporal Gookins volunteered ahead of his call and
went in the first two per cent, draft from Ripley County.

HARLAMMERT, HARRY WrILLIAM, Cfofporal, Headquarters Co., 3rd
Evacuation Hospital, Medical Corps. Trained at Camps Taylor and
Greenleaf from May 27, 1918, to January, 1919. Discharged at Camp
Sherman on January 11, 1919.

HASTINGS, WALTER ELBERT, Private 1st Class, Ambulance Co. 34, 7th
Sanitary Train, 7th Division. Trained at Camp Taylor and Ft. Ogle-
thorpe, Ga., from April 30, 191S, to August, 1918. Overseas from
August 14. 191S, to May 18, 1919. Reached United States on May 29.
1919. Discharged at Camp Lee, Va., on June 3, 1919.

HORN, OSCAR CARL, Corporal, 498 Motor Truck Co., 421 Motor Supply
Train. Trained at Camp Jos. E. Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla., from
June 14, 191S. to September, 1918. Overseas from September 17, 1918,
to September 21, 1919. Reached United States on September 29, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Dix, N. J., October 4, 1919.

JOHNSON, JOHN WILLIAM, Private, Headquarters Co., 70th C. A. C.
34th Brigade. Trained at Ft. Wadsworth, N. Y., from April 3, 1918,
to July, 1918. Overseas from July 14, 1918, to March 8, 1919. Reached
United States on March 25, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman on
April 30, 1919. Hospital treatment at Angers, France, Base Hos-
pitals 27 and 85.

KECK, ASA NEWMAN, Fireman, U. S. Navy. Trained at Great Lakes,
111., Hampton Roads, Va. and Bay Ridge, N. Y. from May 17. 1918,
to discharge at Great Lakes on June 19,1919.

KECK, CHESTER ARTHUR. Sergeant, Motor Truck Co. 469. Motor Supply
Train 418, 5th Army Corps. Trained at Columbus Barracks, Ohio,
Camp Jos. E. Johnston, Fla. and Camp Stuart, Va., from February 21,

1918, to August, 1918. Overseas from August 14, 1918, to August 10,

1919, Battles: Verdun, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne. Reached United
States on August 20, 1919. Discharged at Camp Grant, 111., on August
26, 1919.

KECK, DAVID IRWIN, Private, General Hospital No. 3. Trained at Camps
Taylor and Greenleaf from May 27, 1918, until assigned to General
Hospital 3 at Colonia, N. J. Discharged at Colonia on October 4. 191S.
Mastoid operation of right ear while at Colonia resulted in disability.

KEENE. JOSEPH BERNARD, Private, Co. D, 23rd Infantry, 2nd Division.
Trained at Camp Taylor from September 20, 1917, to April 1, 191S.
Sent overseas in Automatic Casual Replacement Co. on April 8, 1918.
To that time had belonged to Co. A, 335th Infantry, 84th Division.

330 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

Sent to 2nd Division at Chateau-Thierry June 5, 1918. At Soissons in
July Marbaehe Sector near Metz in August. St. Mihiel Offensive in
September. Champagne Drive in October. Was wounded on October 4
in the right hip with a machine-gun bullet. Was also gassed at the
same time. Treated in Base Hospital No. 5, near Paris, Red Cross
Unit and in Base Hospital 85 at Paris. Returned to his regiment at
Vall'andar, Germany, on January 7. 1919. Left Germany June 15, going
by train to Brest, France. L^ft Prance June 23, 1919. Reached Hobo-
ken N. J. on August 4. Discharged at Camp Sherman on August 16,
1919.

KOECHLIN ROY CHARLES, 3rd Class Q. M., U. S. Naval Reserves. Trained
at Great Lakes, 111. and Hampton Roads, Va.. from May 3. 1918, to
October, 191S. Sent to Brest, France, on the Madawaska in October.
Released March 7. 1919, at Philadelphia, Pa. Had mumps three weeks
at Hampton Roads, Va.

KREINHOP GEORGE ALBERT, Private 1st Class, Battery A. 26th F. A.,
9th Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22,

1918, to discharge at Camp Taylor on February 12, 1919.
KREINHOP, WILLIAM HENRY, Private 1st Class, U. S. Army Base Hos-
pital, Medical Corps. Trained at Camps Taylor, Ky., Greenleaf, Ga.,
and Green, N. C, from May 27, 1918, to March 17, 1919, when dis-
charged at Camp Green.

LUERS. CONRAD HENRY. Private, 2nd Co., Development Battalion No.
1. Trained at Camps Taylor and Henry Knox, Ky., from July 22, 1918,
until discharged at Camp Taylor on January 25, 1919. Over three
weeks' treatment for influenza at Camp Taylor.

MESSNER, WALTER MARTIN, Bugler, Co. A, 335th Infantry, 84th Divi-
sion. Trained at Camps Taylor and Camp Sherman from September
20, 1917, to September, 1918. Overseas from September 3, 1918, to April,

1919. Transferred to Co. D. 362nd Infantry, 91st Division in France.
Battles: Lvs-Scheldt in Belgium. Returned to United States in
April, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, May 1, 1919.

NEDDERMAN. ELMER B., Private, Co. I, 131st Infantry, 33rd Division.
Trained at Camp Beauregard, La., from May 27, 1918, to August.
1918. Overseas from August 26. 1918, tc May 14, 1919. Reached
United States on May 22, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman. June
3, 1919. In Luxemburg with the Army of Occupation through the
latter part of the winter and in the spring of 1919.

NEDDERMAN. FRED H., Mechanic, Co. E, 51st Infantry, 6th Division.
Trained at Camp Forrest, Ga., from May 1, 1918, to July, 1918. Over-
seas from July 6, 1918, to September, 1919. Battles: Meuse-Argonne
and Vosges Offensives. Was assigned to General Pershing's Com-
posite Regiment, May 10, 1919. and took part with it in the parades
in Paris, London, Brussels, New York and Washington. This regi-
ment was chosen to represent the American Army, and Ripley County
is proud to claim three of its members. Returned to United States
September 8, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, September 27, 191S.

PAPENHAUS, EARL LEONARD, Sergeant, Base Hospital 119. Trained
at Camp Taylor from March 29, 1918, to October, 1918. Overseas
from October 29, 1918, to July 6, 1919. Was located at Savonay,
France. Base 119 was last used as an Evacuation Hospital. Re-
turned to United States July 15, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor on
July 23, 1919.

PAPENHAUS, ALFRED CARL, Private, Ambulance Co. 34, 7th Sanitary
Train, 7th Division. Trained at Camp Greenleaf, Ga., from April
29, 1918, to end of July, 1918. Overseas from August 14, 1918, to
June 17, 1919. Battles: Puvenelle Sector, October 10 — November 11.
1918. Ambulance Companies established First Aid, Stations and
were organized as litter-bearers, runners carrying messages, and
as ambulance drivers. The wounded were carried to Field Hos-
pitals and sent in Ambulances to Base Hospitals. This last was
supposed to be the work of the Evacuation Hospitals. The Am-
bulance Companies worked on >the battlefields. Reached United
States on June 30. 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, July 10, 1919.

RECKEWEG, NELSON HERMAN, Private. S. A. T. C. at Camp Witten-
berg, Springfield. Ohio. Trained here from October 11, 1918, until dis-
charged at Wittenberg Barracks on December 19, 1918.

RIMSTIDT, EDWARD JAMES, Corporal. 14th Machine Gun Battalion
Co. B, 5thDivision. Enlisted as private in the Regular Army, Feb-
ruary 25, 1916. Trained at Camp Cotton, El Paso, Texas, in Co. F.
7th Infantry, and also at Ft. Bliss, Texas, for eighteen months.
Sent to Gettysburg, Pa., in June, 1917, then to Camp Green. S. C.
Transferred here to Fifth Division. Trained at Camp Green until
April, 1918. Overseas from April 12, 1918, to March 2S, 1919. Battles:
In trenches, Aneuil Sector, St. Die Sector. St. Mihiel, Verdun. Wounded
at Verdun, shrapnel thorough lower arm. Treated at American
Base Hospital at Meves, France, until January 25, 1919. Sent then
in a Casual Company to Cranes, France, and transferred to Co. H,

RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD IV A R 331

340th Infantry, 85th Division. Left France, March 28, 1919. Sent to
Camp Upton and transferred to Transport Corps 378. Was slightly
gassed at St. Mihiel. Two machine-gun bullets passed through the
canister of gas-mask also. Discharged July 30, 1920, at Camp Upton,
New York.

SARRINOHAUS, HARRY RICHARD, Private 1st Class, Co. F, 51st In-
fantry, 6th Division. Trained at Camp Forrest, Ga., from May 4,
1918, to July, 1918. Overseas from July 6, 1918, to July 1, 1919.
Battles: Argonne-Meuse Reserve. Returned to United States on
July 6, 1919. Discharged at Camp Mills, L. I., N. Y., on July 15, 1919.

SARRINOHAUS, GEOROE JOHN, Private 1st Class, Machine Gun Co..
36th Infantry, 12th Division. Trained at Ft. Snelling, Minn, and
Camp Devens, Mass., from May 23, 1918, to February, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Taylor on February 3, 1919.

SCHMALTZ, HENRY EDWARD, Corporal, Co. C, 36th Infantry. 12th
Division. Trained at Ft. Snelling, Minn: and Camp Devens, Mass.,
from May 23, 1918, to February, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor,
February 10, 1919.

SCHUSTER, JOHN HAGEN. Private 1st Class, U. S. A. Debarkation Hos-
pital No. 1. Trained at Camp Greenleaf. Ga., from May 27. 191S,
until assigned to hospital. Discharged at Camp Sherman, June 23,
1919.

SMITH, HENRY McKINLEY, Mail Clerk. U. S. Navy. Trained at New-
port, R. I., from April 16, 1917. Not discharged but still in service
in 1920.

SHORTEN, JAMES WILLIAM, Private, Medical Corps, U. S. Army. Trained
at Camp Sherman, O. and Camp Morrison, Va., from December 15,

1917, until discharged at Lee Hall, Va., on April 24, 1919.
SHORTEN, STEVEN N., Private. 55th Co., 5th Regiment, U. S. Marine

Corps. Trained at Paris Island, S. C, from Feb. 4, 1918, to May
23, 1918. Overseas from May 23, 1918, to June 20', 1919. Battles-
Soissons, Chateau-Thierry, Meuse-Argonne Gassed, shoulder shat-
tered by shell. Treatment at American Hospital at Bordeaux, France.
Returned to United States on June 20, 1919. Furloughed on reserve,
June, 1919.

VOEGE. JOHN HENRY, Private, Battery B, 26th F. A.. 9th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22, 1918, to De-
cember, 1918. Hospital treatment at McClellan for influenza two
weeks in October. Discharged at Camp McClellan, December 16,
1918.

WATTERS. CURTIS ORLANDO, Cook, Co. D, 53rd Infantry, 6th Division.
Trained at Camp Cotton, Texas. Camp Baker, Camp Forrest, Camp
Wadsworth, Camp Grant and Ft. Leavenworth, Kas.. from June 24,
1916, to July, 1918. Overseas from July 6, 1918, to June 6, 1919.
Returned to United States on June 12, 1919, was with Punitive Ex-
pedition into Mexico, August 1, 1916 — February 5, 1917. Discharged in
November, 1919.

WEBSTER. ARTHUR, Private 1st Class, Co. A, 335th Infantry, 84th Di-
vision. Trained at Camp Taylor, Kv.. from October 4, 1917, to March.

1918. Overseas from March 15, 1918, to March 7, 1919, with First
Construction Co. Reached United S"tates again March 19, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Sherman, April 11, 1919.

WENTZ, FRANK MORRIS, Private, Co. B, 1st Anti-Aircraft M. G. Bn.
Trained at Camp Sherman and Camp Sheridan from July 28, 1917,
to April, 1918. Overseas from April 29, 1918, to April 23, 1919. Battles:
Aisne-Marne, Somme, Meuse-Argonne, Toul, Verdun, St. Mihiel. Re-
turned to United States on April 23, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sher-
man, May 23, 1919.

FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP.

ADAMS, WILLIAM LYNN, Quartermaster Aviation, 1st Class, Aviation
Service, U. S. Navy. Trained at Great Lakes, 111., from July 3, 1918,
until released at Great Lakes on December 31, 1918.

ALLEN, ARTHUR LESLIE, Wagoner, Headquarters Co.. 70th C. A. C.
Trained at Ft. Wadsworth, N. Y., from April 3, 1918, to July, 1918.
Overseas from July 15, 1918, to February 12, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Sherman, March 12, 1919.

ANDERSON, CLAYTON HAZEN. Private Co. B. S6th Infantry, 12th Di-
vision. Trained at Ft. Snelling Minn, and Camp Devens, Mass.. from
May 23, 1918, to March, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor on March
14, 1919.

AUSTIN. JOHN GROVER, Private, 3rd Co., 5th Bn., 1st Regiment, P. O. D.
Trained at Camp Hancock, Ga., from June 15, 1918, to August, 1918.

332 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

Overseas from August 31, 191 S. to July 8, 1919. Was placed in
Ordnance Department after the Armistice. Air Service until then.
Discharged July 26, 1919.
ACRA TOHN WESLEY, Private 1st Class, Base Hospital, Camp Taylor.
Trained at Camp Taylor from March 29, 1918, until April 23, 1918.
Served at hospital until discharg-ed on September 4, 1919.

BAILEY GEORGE HIRAM, Private, S. A. T. C, Purdue University.
Trained at Purdue and Fortress Monroe, Va., from October 9, 1918,
to discharge at Ft. Monroe on February 8, 1919. Was promoted to
Second Lieutenant, Coast Artillery Officers' Training School.

BEDUNNAH ALONZO RAYMOND, Private, Battery B, 6th F. A. Trained
at Camp Taylor from July 22, 1918, to December 13, 1919, when dis-
charged.

BEDUNNAH, THOMAS EDWIN. Private, Headquarters Co., 70th C. A. C.
Trained at Fts. Hamilton and Wadsworth, N. Y., from April 3, 1918,
to July, 1918. Overseas from July 19, 1918, to February 12, 1919.
Reached United States on February 22, 1919. Discharged at Camp
Sherman, March 12, 1919.

BELCHER, JAMES LAWRENCE, Sergeant, Co. E, 42nd Infantry. Trained
at Ft. Bliss, Texas. Ft. Douglas, Utah, Ft. Logan, Col., Camp Grant,
111 Camp Dodge, la., Picatuny Arsenal, N. J., Camp Devens, Mass.,
Camp Mills, N. Y., and Camp Upton, N. Y., from June 20, 1917, to
discharge at Camp Upton on January 23, 1919.

BERGDOLL, HOWARD GLENN, 1st Sergeant. Butchery Co. 327, Q. M. C.
Trained at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. and Camp Jos. E. Johnston, Fla.,
from June 4, 1918, to July, 1918. Overseas from July 26, 1918, to
June 28, 1919. Returned to United States on July 9, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Grant, July 21, 1919.

BERGMAN, FRANK HENRY, Private, Battery A. 9th Division. Trained
at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22, 1918, to discharge at
Camp Taylor, February 12, 1919. Had influenza, pneumonia and
rheumatism at Base Hospital, Camp McClellan.

BERGMAN, GEORGE, Private, Headquarters Co., 70th C. A. C. Trained
at Ft. Wadsworth, N. Y., from April 3, 1918, to July. 191S. Over-
seas from Julv 15, 1918, to February 12, 1919. Reached United States
on February 22, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, March 12, 1919.

BERGMAN, WILLIAM JOHN, Corporal, Co. B, 36th Infantry, 12th Divi-
sion. Trained at Ft. Snelling, Minn, and Camp Devens, Mass.. from
May 23 1918, to June, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, June 23,
1919.

BOHLKE, EDWARD LOUIS, Wagoner, Co. B, 1st M. G. Bn., 1st Division.
Trained at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind., from June 5, 1917, to October,
1917. Overseas from October 31, 1917, to August 24, 1919. Battles:
Cantigny, Soissons, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne, Sedan. With Army
of Occupation in Germany from November, 1918, to August, 1919.
Returned to United States August 24 — September 1, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Taylor, September 25, 1919.

BORN, EMIL GEORGE, Sergeant 1st Class, Co. C, 346th Machine Gun Bn.
Trained at Camp Lewis, American Lakes, Washington, from August,
1917, to April, 1918. Overseas from April 15, 1918, to January 11,
1920. Served in Paris in clerical work. Returned to United States
on January 24, 1920. Discharged at Camp Dix, N. J., on January 31,
1920. His transport, Northern Pacific, coming home rescued the pas-
sengers and crew on the disabled Powhatan five hundred fifty-eight
miles out from New York.

BRANDT. FRANK JOHN, Private 1st Class, Co. B, 36th Infantry. 12th
Division. Trained at Ft. Snelling, Minn, and Camp Devens, Mass.,
from May 23, 1918, to March, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor March
29. 1919.

BRUCE, MURRAY LANG, Sergeant, 22nd Infantry. Trained at Ft. Thomas,
Ky., from May 7, 1918, to July, 1918. Overseas from July 3, 1918,
to February 28, 1919. Battles: Argonne, St. Mihiel. Was gassed
in battle. Treatment at Essay, Toul, Rimacourt, Chatel-Guyox and
Bordeaux, France. Discharged, April 25, 1919.

BRUCE, STANLEY HARRY, Corporal, Co. F. 336th Infantry, 84th Di-
vision. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to discharge,
May 1, 1919. Transferred to Military Police, Co. B, 2nd Dev. Bn. The
84th was called the Lincoln Division.

BUTTS, PALMER HUBERT, Water Tender, U. S. Navy. Trained at Great
Lakes from February 15, 1916, to June, 1917. Assigned to U. S. S.
Cruiser Birmingham, convoy duty to France. Had scarlet fever and
was operated on for appendicitis at Great Lakes in February and
March. 1917. Discharged at Mare Island, Cal., on February 14. 1920.

BUTTS, HUBERT PERRY, Captain, Medical Corps. Served three years
in Hospital Corps, in Spanish War, Boxer Trouble in China, and in
Philippines from 1900 to 1903. Received commission as First Lieu-
tenant, Medical Corps on May 16, 1917. Assigned to Am. Train, 84th

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Division. Trained at Camp Taylor. Mustering duty of National Guard,
South Dakota in July and August, 1917. Treatment at Base Hos-
pital, Camp Taylor, for infection of throat and loss of voice, May
and June, 1918.' Still in service 1920.

BREWINGTON, ROBERT WILLIAM, Private, S. A. T. C. Trained at
Valparaiso and Purdue University from October 9. 1918. until dis-
charged at Camp Taylor on December 22, 1918. Had waived exemp-
tion granted September 1, 1918, because of dependent mother.

COFFEE. ROBRRT, Private, Co. F, 16th Infantry 1st Division. Trained
at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to September. 101 S. Over-
seas from September 1, 1918, to August 23. 1919. Sent in Replace-
ment Unit to First Division. Battle: Sedan. With Army of Oc-
cupation in Germany from November, 1918. to August. 1919. Reached
United States on September 3, 1919. Discharged at Ft. Sheridan, 111.,
on October 29, 1919.

CONGER WILBUR GLENN. Private, Mobile Hospital Unit 102. Trained
at Camps Taylor and Sherman from March 29, 1918. to November.
1918. Overseas from November 13. 1918, to March 6. 1919. Reached
Fnited States, March 19, 1919. Discharged, April 7, 1919, at Camp
Sherman.

CONNELLEY. PAUL CURTIS, First Sere-eant. Co. B, 139th M. G. En..
28th Division. Trained at Camp Shelby. Miss., from June 1, 1917 to
October, 1918. Overseas from October 6. 1918, to December S, 1918.
Discharged at Camp Taylor, January 8, 1919.

CONYERS, JOHN WOODWARD, Private. S. A. T. C. Trained at Camp
Purdue, Lafavette, Ind., from October 9, 1918, to discharge on De-
cember 19. 1918.

ENDRES. EDWARD HENRY. Private, Co. C, 36th Infantry, 12th Divi-
sion. Trained at Ft. Snelliner. Minn, and Camp Devens, Mass., from
Mav 23. 1918. to February, 1919. Discharged at Camp Tavlor, Feb-
ruary 1. 1919.

ENDRES. CHRIST FRED. Private, Co. M. 120th Infantry. 30th Division
Trained at Camps Tavlor and Sevier from October 4, 1917. to Mav 1.
1918. Overseas from May 17, 1918. Battles: Ypres. Kemmel Hill.
Voormezeele. Hindenburg Line. Killed near Vaux, Andigny, France,
on the Somme Front on October 10, 1918.

FELIX, ALVIN CLIFFORD. Private Air Service. Trained at Ft. Wayne,
Mich., in Indianapolis Tr. Det No. 1, from August 15, 191 S, to dis-
charge at Ft. Wayne on January 22, 1919.

FERRTNGER. LOUIS JOHN, Water Tender, U. S. Navy. Trained at Great
Lakes and U. S. S. Indiana at Ft. Monroe, Va., from May 15, 1918. to
assignment to ship. Served on U. S. S. Santiago. U. S. S. Lake Tra-
verse, Naval Base 29 and in Freight Transport. Discharged at Pitts-
burg, Pa. on September 18. 1919. Treated for influenza at Bordeaux,
France.

FISHER, EVERETT, Private Co. I, 2nd Engineers. Trained at Camp
Humphreys, Va., from Mav 23, 1918, to discharge at Camp Hum-
phreys on February 17, 1919.

FLETCHER, FLOYD RAYMOND, Private, Co. I, 119th Infantry, 30th Di-
vision. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier from September 20,

1917. to May 1. 1917. Overseas from May 17. 1918. to March 21, 1919.
Battles: Voormezeele, Bellicourt, Nauroy, Beaucourt. Premont. Busigny,
Becqugny, EsCanfourth, Hai Memeresse, Vaux, Andigny. St. Benim.
St. Souplet, Molain, St. Martin Riviere. Ribeauville and Mazinghoim.
Reached United States on April 2, 1919. Discharged April, 1919.

FOX. WILLARD WALTER. Wagoner, Supply Co., 334th Infantry. 84th
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sherman from October 6,

1918, to September, 1918. Overseas from September 2, 1918, to July
5, 1919. Service, worked on Convalsecent Camp at Le Mans, France.
Returned to United States on July IS, 1919. Discharged at Camp
Sherman, July 25, 1919.

FOX. CHRISS ADAM, Private, 3rd Co., 1st Dev. Bn. Trained at Camp
Taylor from June, 1918, to discharge on January 25. 1919.

FRANKEL. NATHAN, Private, Amb. Co. 34. 7th Sanitary Train, 7th Di-
vision. Trained at Camps Taylor and Greenleaf from April 30, 191S,
to August, 1918 Overseas from August 14, 1918, to June 15, 1919.
Service: Puvenelle Sector west of Moselle River, October 10 — Novem-
ber 9 Defensive: Same sector, November 9-11, Second Army Offensive.
With Army of Occupation at Coblenz. Germany, on detached service
in Februarv and March, 1919. (Two ambulance companies were sent.)
Reached United States on June 30, 1919. Discharged at Camp Tay-
lor on July 10, 1919.

FUERST, EDWARD FRANK, Private 1st Class, 5th Co., C. A. C. Trained
at Jackson Barracks, New Orleans, La., from December 18, 1917, to
discharge on December 18, 1918.

334 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

FULLER. IVOR FRANK, Private, Battery F. 339th F. A. Trained at
Purdue University Motor Mechanic Section, from April 27, 1918, to
June 16, 191S, at Camps Mills, L. I. Had a major operation at Mitchell
Field, L. I. Post Hospital. Was at Base Hospital at Mineola, L. I.,
before operation. Sent to Camp Merritt in Casual Battalion after
recovery and returned to regiment at Camp Mills. Overseas from
August 23, 1918, to January 19, 1919. Trained in France at Ordnance
Training Center No. 3 at Claremont-Ferrand, France. Sent back
to 339th F. A. in November, 1918. Left France on January 19, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Taylor on February 22, 1919.
GANDER, LOUIS CLEMENS, Private, Co. F, 2nd Bn., 22nd Engineers.
Trained at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, from May 6, 1918, to August, 1918.
Overseas from August 12, 1918, to July 1, 1919. Discharged at Camp
Sherman, July 16, 1919. Had reached United States on July 13, 1919.
GARRISON. LEE ARTHUR, Corporal, M. G. Co., 40th Infantry. Trained
at Ft. Snelling, Minn., from June 21, 1917. Served at Ft. Sheridan,
111., Camp Custer, Mich, and Camp Sherman, O. Discharged January
2, 1919, at Camp Sherman. Had had service previously in Marine
Corps. "While in the Marines had served on U. S. S. Kansas, Texas,
Chester and Salem.
GERRARD, GEORGE, Private, Co. B, 429th Regiment. Motor Service
Transportation. Trained at Valparaiso, Ind., from August 28, 1918,
to June, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, June 5, 1919.
GERRARD, WILLIAM, Corporal, Battery A, 9th F. A. Trained at Ft.
Logan, Col., Ft. McDowell. Cal., Schofield Barracks, H. T., from June
28, 1917, to March 31, 1919, when discharged at Ft. D. A. Russell,
Wyoming.
GERRARD. FRED, Ordnance Sergeant, 1st Class, Cadre. 159th Depot
Brigade, later 142nd Ordnance Depot Co. Trained at Camps Taylor
and Henrv Knox from April 29, 1918, to discharge at Camp Knox
on April 28, 1919.
GROSSMAN. JOSEPH, Private 1st Class, 112th Am. Train. 37th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Sheridan, Ala., from April 30, 1918, to
June, 1918. Overseas from June 27, 1918. to March 21, 1919. Battles:
Somme and Argonne. Reached United States on April 2, 1919.

Discharged at Camp Taylor on April 14, 1919. Was slightly gassed
twice in France. Had hospital treatment for mumps also.
HARRIS, RAYMOND BRYAN, Boilermaker, U. S. S. Jason. Trained at
Norfolk. Va. from January 18, 1917. to June 8, 1917, when assigned
to ship. Overseas transportation service during the war. Enlist-
ment will expire January 17, 1921.
HEISMAN, SAMUEL RICHARD, Private, Co. M, 120th Infantry, 30th Di-
vision. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier from September 20, 1917,
to May 1, 1918. Overseas from May 17, 1918. Battles: Ypres Front,
Kemmel Hill, Voormezeele in Belgium; Hindenburg Line. Gassed
on October 23 and died at hospital in Rouen, France, on October 28,
1918.
HERBST. JOSEPH EDWARD, Corporal, Co. A, 337th Bn., Tank Corps.
Trained at Camp Colt, Gettvsburg, Pa., from June 28, 1918 to October,
1918. Overseas from October 27, 1918, to July 30, 1919. Reached
United States on August 9. 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman,
August 15, 1919. With Army of Occupation in Germany from De-
cember 16, 1918, to July 22, 1919, in Motor Transport Corps 815, 19th
Provisional Motor Command. Headquarters at Bassenheim, Germany.
HILLMAN GEORGE WASHINGTON. Horseshoer, Battery A. 150th F. A.,
42nd Division. Trained at Ft. Benjamin Harrison and Camp Taylor
from May 8, 1917. to October, 1917. Overseas from October 18, 1917.
to April, 1919. Battles: Lorraine Front. Returned to United States
May 1, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor on May 9. 1919. Was with
Army of Occupation in Germany from December, 1918, to April, 1919.
Marched through Luxemburg.
HILL, JOSEPH PHILIP, Private, S A. T. C. Trained at Central Normal
College, Danville, Ind., from October 21, 1918, to discharge on De-
cember 14, 1918.
HUNTER, RUSSELL EDWARD. Private. Motor Transport Corps. Trained
at Valparaiso and Indianapolis, Ind., from August 28, 1918, to dis-
charge at Indianapolis, December 11, 191S.
HUNTINGTON. FRANK CORNELIUS, Private 1st Class, Base Hospital,
Camp Taylor, Ky. Trained at Camp Taylor from March 29, 1917. Dis-
charged at Camp Taylor, September 2, 1919.
JACKSON. HERSCHEL RAYMOND, Private 1st Class, Ambulance Co. 35.
7th Sanitary Train, 7th Division. Trained at Ft. Thomas. Ky., Camp
Greenleaf, Ga.. from May. 1918. to August, 1918. Overseas from
August 14, 1918, to May 11, 1919. Reached United States on May
23. 1919. Discharged at Ft. Benjamin Harrison on July 5. 1919.
Treated in hospitals overseas for pneumonia and various disabilities.
Treated at Camp Greenleaf for bad ankle before going overseas.

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KAMMAN, CLARENCE HERMAN, Corporal, Co. D, 427th Tel. Bn., Signal
Service. Trained at Burlington University, Vermont, from July, 1918,
to discharge in January, 1919, at Camp Taylor.

KOENIG, JOHN OSCAR, Engineman, 2nd Class, U. S. Navy. Trained at
Great Lakes, 111., from May 8, 1918, until assigned to ship service on
battleship and oil tanker. Discharged at Philadelphia on February
26, 1919.

KOHLMEIER, WALTER CHRIST, Corporal, Co. C, 17th M. G. Bn., 6th
Division. Trained at Ft. Thomas, Ky. and Camp Wadsworth, Ga.,
from May 4, 191S, to July. 1918. Overseas from July 7, 1918, to June
3, 1919. Battles: Gerrardnier Defensive and Meuse-Argonne Defensive.
Returned to United States on June 3 — June 11, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Taylor on June 24, 1919.

KRICK, PORTER MONTGOMERY, First Lieutenant, Infantry. Trained
at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind., from May 13, 1917, and at Camp Han-
cock, Ga. until discharged on December 13, 1918. Summary of train-
ing: Enlisted at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, May 13, 1917.
Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Infantry Officers' Reserve Corps.
Assigned to 159th Depot Brigade, Camp Taylor, Ky., August 29, 1917.
Remained here until May 28, 1918, when transferred to Camp Han-
cock and assigned to Personnel work for several months. Trans-
ferred then to Specialists' School as instructor in army paper work.
Sent from there to Machine Gun School and qualified as Machine-Gun
Instructor after three months' training, was then assigned to Main
Training Depot, Machine Gun Training Center at Camp Hancock,
from which organization was discharged.

LAMPERT, CLARENCE WILBUR GEORGE, Corporal, 91st Co., Bn. H,
U. S. Marine Corps. Trained at Paris Island, S. C from January
9. 1918. to March 25, 1919, when placed on Inactive Service at Marine
Barracks, Philadelphia, Pa.

LAUBER, WILBUR LAWRENCE, Private 1st Class, Base Hospital 54.
Trained at Camps Taylor, Greenleaf and Green, from May 22, 1918.
to August. 191S. Overseas from August 15, 191S, to May 16, 1919
Reached United States on May 2S, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman
on June 12, 1919.

LAWS, EDGAR DELAP, Private, S. A. T. C., University of Cincinnati.
Trained at Cincinnati, O., from October 7, 1918, until discharged De-
cember 20, 1918.

LAWS, NOBLE ABBOTT, Corporal, Co. A, 335th Infantry, 84th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor, Hancock and Green, from September 20,

1917, to June, 1918. Overseas from June 23, 1918, to June 19, 1919.
Reached United States on June 26, 1919. Discharged . at Camp Sher-
man on July 12, 1919.

LEVINE, PHILIP. Private, S. A. T. C University of Cincinnati. Trained
at Cincinnati, O., from October 9, 191S. until his death from pneu-
monia on November 7, 1918, at the Cincinnati General Hospital.

MAFFEY, CAROLYN. Nurse, Red Cross, at Camp Meade, Md., from Sep-
tember 28, 1918, to Novemb?r 3, 1918, when transferred to Ft. Mc-
Henry. Discharged here on December 28, 191S.

MAFFEY, HARRY EUGENE, Private. Headquarters Co., 70th C. A. C.
Trained at Fts. Hamilton and Wadsworth, N. Y.. from April 3, 191S,
to July, 1918. Overseas from July 14, 1918, to February 11. 1919.
Reached United States on February 22. 1919. Discharged at Camp
Sherman, March 12. 1919.

MAFFEY, ALBERT JOSEPH, Corporal, Co. I. 147th Infantry. 37th Division.
Trained at Camps Sheridan, Ala. and Lee, Va. .from June 30, 1917,
to June, 191S. Overseas from June 23. 1918. to March 17, 1919. Battles:
Alsace-Lorraine, Meuse-Argonne, St. Mihiel, Yp|res-Lys, Belgium,
First and Second. Wounded by shrapnel in left arm. Treated at
Canadian Hospital No. 3 at Boulogne. France. Reached United States
on March 29, 1919 Discharged at Camp Sherman on April 19, 1919.

MAHLER, WILLIAM ARTHUR, Private, Training Battalion at Camp
Grant, 111. Trained from September 3, 191S, to September 17, 1918,
when discharged for disability.

McKITTRICK. BENJAMIN HARRISON, Private, Co. H. Motor Transport
Corps, Tr. Det. Trained at Winona Lake, Ind., from October 15, 1918,
until discharged at Indianapolis, December 20. 191S.

McNEW, DUFF. Corporal. M. G. Co., 36th Infantry, 12th Division. Trained
at Ft. Snelling, Minn, and Camp Devens, Mass., from May 23, 1918,
to discharge on June 23, 1919.

NICHOLAS, RAYMOND EDWARD. Private, Motor Transport Corps, Val-
paraiso Training Detachment. Trained at Valparaiso, Ind.. from
September 14, 1918, until discharged December 11, 1918.

PETERS, CLYDE C, Private 1st Class, Co. K, 34th Infantry, 7th Division.
Trained at Ft. Thomas, Ky. and Camp Forrest, Ga., from May 3,

1918, to August, 1918. Overseas from August 17, 1918, to June 12,

336 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

1919. Battles: Puvenelle Sector, west of the Moselle, October 9—
November 9 (Defensive); same Sector, November 9-11, 1918 (Offensive)
Reached United States on June 18, 1919. Discharged at Camp Custer,
Mich., June 26, 1919.
PLUMP, LESTER GEORGE. Private, S. A. T. C, Central Normal College
Unit. Trained at Danville, Ind., from October 18, 191S, until dis-
charged December 14, 1918.
POHLMAN, FRED GERHARDT, Private, Battery C, 825th F. A., S4th
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and West Point, Ky., from May
27, 1918, to September, 1918. Overseas from September 8, 1918. to
January 16, 1919. Reached United States on January 29, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Taylor on February 13, 1919.
RANEY, ROY, 2nd Class Sea Guard, U. S. Navy. Trained at Great Lakes,
111., from July 9, 1918, until his death there from influenza on Sep-
tember 29, 1918.
REUTER, WILLIAM JULIUS, Private, Headquarters Co., 362nd Infantry,
91st Division. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to
August 23, 1918. Overseas from September 3, 1918, to April 3, 1919.
Battles: Lys-Scheldt Offensive, October 31 — November 11, 1918. Re-
turned to United States, April 14, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sher-
man. May 2, 1919. Itinerarv while in the service: At Camp Sher-
man from June 26, 1918, to August 23, 1918. Ten days at Camp Mills,
L. I., N. Y. By rail to Quebec, September 2. Embarked at Quebec
on transport Saxonia, September 3. Reached Liverpool, England,
September 17. By train to Southampton, over night there, then by
boat across the English Channel to Le Havre, France. Waited at
Dusillac for equipment two weeks. Kept up training. Sent to
Allyansalles for ten days. Marched to Levigny. Traveled three
days and nights to Ypres, Belgium. Detrained here and marched
across the old Ypres battlefield to Most, Belgium, where was trans-
ferred from Co. D, 335th Infantry, 84th Division, to the 91st Division.
Marched on to Roylers, Isiehham, and so on for two days and nights
to the Flanders Front, Lys-Scheldt Offensive. Remained here in
open warfare from October 31 to November 11, 1918. At Adenaard,
Belgium, on November 11th. Went to Mulbach, Oost-Veltin, from
December 1 to January 1, 1919. Entrained at Rosebrugge and went
to Le Mans, France, Charterais and so on to La Fuerte, St. Bernard.
Marched to St. Cosmy. Stayed here until March 23. Entrained at
La Fuerte, St. Bernard, for St. Nazaire, France. Stayed here ten
days. Embarked on the transport Edward Luchenbach, American
ship, on April 2, 1919. Sailed April 3. Reached New York, April 14.
1919; disembarked at Hoboken, N. J. on April 15, 1919. Sent to Camp
Merritt, N* J. for about a week, then to Camp Sherman and dis-
charged on May 2, 1919.
REUTER. EMIL OTTO, Private 1st Class. Co. B, 36th Infantry, 12th
Division. Trained at Ft. Spelling, Minn, and Camp Devens, Mass.,
from May 23, 1918, until discharged at Camp Taylcr, June 23, 1919.
Injured leg by jumping off bank in bayonet practice and was in
hospital for treatment six weeks in November and December, 191S,
at Camp Devens, Mass.
RIX. CHARLES EDWARD, Private, Co. G, 6th Infantry, 5th Division.
Trained at Ft. McArthur, Texas, from August 6, 191S, to September,
1918. Overseas from September 26, 191S, to March 5, 1919. Battles:
Verdun Front. Brondeville. Wounded in left thigh by shrapnel.
Hospital treatment at Royal, France. Reached United States on
March IS, 1919. Discharged at Camp Dodge, la., March 27, 1919.
ROBBINS, VERNON, Private 1st Class, Co. C, 113th Engineers, 38th Divi-
sion. Trained at Camp Shelby, Miss., from April 6, 1917, to Septem-
ber, 191S. Overseas from September 14, 1918, to June 12, 1919. Service
in France: Worked on roads, repairing pikes and so on in the St.
Mihiel region from October 1st to November 11. Same work at Lyon
for two months. Went to Germany in January. Did guard work
near Coblenz for about four months. Left Brest, France, on June
12, 1919, reaching Hoboken, N. J. on June 19, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Sherman, June 25, 1919.
ROBBINS. CHARLES, Private 1st Class, Co. C, 113th Engineers, 38th
Division. Trained at Camp Shelby. Miss., from June 5, 1917, to Sep-
tember, 191S. Overseas from September 15, 1918, to June 14, 1919.
Returned to United States, June 14 — June 19, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Sherman, June 28, 1919.
ROBBINS GEORGE ALFRED, Corporal, Base Hospital Unit 118. Trained
at Camp Taylor from March 29, 1918, to November, 1918. Overseas
from November 11, 1918, to July 6. 1919. Returned to United States
on July 16, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, July 23, 1919.
ROBINSON, WILLIAM, Sergeant, Headquarters Co., 16th Infantry, 1st
Division. Trained at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Mo., from May
11 1917, until assigned to the Sixteenth Infantry. Overseas from
June 14, 1917, to Julv 23, 1918. Battles: Toul, Amiens and Cantigny

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Sectors. Was sent back to United States in advance of his division
to become an instructor in methods of trench warfare. Reached
United States on July 31, 1918. Was discharged at Camp Taylor,
Ky., on February 3, 1919.

RUNNER, ROY, Private, Co. E, 18th Railway Engineers. Trained at
Camp Taylor, Ky. and Camp Grant. 111., from September 30, 1917, to
March 1, 1918. Overseas from March 13, 1918, to April 16, 1919.
Service overseas: Building- docks, buildings, harbors and so forth,
at St. Nazaire, France. Reached United States on April 28, 1918. Dis-
charged at Camp Sherman, May 10, 1919. In hospital at Camp Tay-
lor one month with measles.

SEEVERS, EVERETT AUGUST, Seaman 2nd Class, U. S. Navy. Trained
at Great Lakes, 111., from July 20, 1918. to October, 1918. Sent to
New York in October and did submarine patrol work at Brooklyn
Navy Yard from October 5, 191 S, to November 26. 191 S. Returned to
Great Lakes until discharged on January 21, 1919. Three weeks in
hospital with influenza.

SHAZER. CHESTER WILLIAM, Private 1st Class, Battery A. 70th F. A.
Trained at Camp Taylor and West Point, Ky., from September 6,
1918, until discharged at Camp Knox on February 5, 1919.

SHOCKLEY. FRANK EVERETT, Private. Co. C, Motor Transport Corps,
Valparaiso Training Unit. Trained at Valparaiso, Ind. and Ft. Sher-
idan, 111., from August 8, 1918, until discharged at Valparaiso, De-
cember 14, 1918. Had hospital treatment at Ft. Sheridan .

SHOCKLEY, EARL. Wagoner, Battery A, 150th F. A.. 42nd Division.
"Rainbow." Trained at Ft. Benjamin Harrison and Camp Taylor,
from Mav 28, 1917, to October. 191S. Overseas from October 18, 1918,
to April 25, 1919. Battles: Lorraine Front. Marched to Germany in
November, remaining near Coblenz until April, 1919. Returned to
United States on May 1, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, May 9.
1919.

SMITH, HARRY WILLIAM. Private. Co. F, 2Sth Infantry, 1st Division.
Trained in Texas from October 2S, 1916, to June. 1917. Overseas from
June, 1917. Killed in battle at Cantigny in the first American Of-
fensive, May 29. 1918.

SUTTON, RUSSELL NOBLE. Musician, Headquarters Co., 70th C. A. C.
Trained at Ft. Wadsworth, Staten Island, N. Y., from April 3, 1918,
to July, 1918. Overseas from July 15. 191S. to February 11, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Sherman, March 12, 1919.

THOMPSON. THOMAS ALFRED. Musician. U. S. Navy. Trained at Great
Lakes, 111., from July 3, 191S. until released on March 22. 1919.

VOORHEES, WALTER CLAYTON. Private 1st Class. Co. C, 10th Field
Signal Bn.. 7th Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and Alfred Vail,
from March 29. 1918. to August, 1918. Overseas from August 17,
1918, to June 17, 1919. Battles: Puvenelle Sector west of Moselle,
October 10 — November 9. Same Sector, Offensive. November 9-11.
1918. Returned to United States on June 27, 1919. Discharged July
5, 1919, at Camp Sherman.

WITHROW, GEORGE ALBERT, Captain, Dental Corps. Trained at Camp
Shelby, Miss, and Camp Green. N. C. from September 8, 1917. to May,
1918. Overseas from May 19. 191S, to December 26, 1919. Went
overseas with 77th F. A. Trained in France at Camp De Souge.
Battles: Chateau-Thierry, St. Mihiel, Verdun Sector (Argonne). Hos-
pital treatment at Base S7, Toul, France. November, 1918. and Camp
Hospital 33 at Brest, France, for gas. affecting eyes and lungs. Re-
turned to United States on December 26 — January 5, 1919. Discharged
March 4, 1919, at Camp Meade. Md. Was graduated from Army
Sanitary School at Longres, France, September 15, 191S.

WHITLATCH. ARTHUR ALLEN, Private, S. A. T. C, University of Cin-
cinnati. Trained at Cincinnati, O., from October 1, 191S, to discharge
on December 20, 1918.

WHITLATCH, IRVING ALCEDO, Major, Medical Corps. Trained at Ft.
Benjamin Harrison, Ind.. from August 27, 1917, to November, 1917.
Had been commissioned First Lieutenant on June 10, 1917. On
December 5. 1917, sailed from San Francisco, Cal.. as member of
Medical Exp. to Roumania. Recalled by wireless because of collapse
of Roumania. Stationed with 20th U. S. Infantry, at Ft. Douglas.
Utah, January 15 — June 30, 1918. At Camp Funston from June 30
to November 24, 191S. Commissioned Captain M. C. September 9,
1918. Surgical service in Base Hospital, Ft. Riley, Kas., November
24, 1918, to February 19, 1919, when released at Ft. Riley. Com-
missioned Major, M. R. C, April 9, 1919.

WOOD, ALFRED JOSEPH, Private 1st Class, Co. B, 304th Bn, Tank
Corps. Trained at Purdue Universitv, Lafayette, Ind. and Camp
Colt, Penn., from June 28, 1918. to October. 1918. Overseas from
October 20, 1918, to June 2S, 1919. Returned to United States. June
28 — July 9, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, July 18, 1919.

338 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

WOOLLERY, CLYDE SAMUEL, Private, Headquarters Co., 70th C. A. C.
Trained at Ft. Wausworth, N. Y., from April 3, 1918, to July. 1918.
Overseas from July 15, 1918, to February 12, 1919. Returned to United
States on February 12 — 22. 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman on
March 12. 1919.

WULLNER. HARRY WILLIAM. Private, Co. C. 362nd Infantry. 91st Di-
vision. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 2fi, 1918. to Septem-
ber, 191S. Overseas from September 3, 1918, to April 3, 1919. Battles:
Lys-Seheldt Offensive in Belgium, October 31 — November 11. Re-
turned to United States, April 3 — 14, 1919. Discharged at Camp
Sherman on May 3, 1919. Moved from camp to camp in France after
the Armistice, spending two and one-half months at St. Cornes, the
longest period in one place.

VI.
JACKSON TOWNSHIP.

ABPLANALP, JOSEPH NICHOLAS, Private, Battery E. 67th F. A. Trained
at Camps Taylor and Knox, Ky.. from September 6, ISIS, to dis-
charge at Camp Knox on December 20, 1918.

ALEXANDER. MONFORD WILLIAM, Private 1st Class, Base Hospital 54,
Medical Corps. Trained at Camps Taylor, Greenleaf and Stuart, from
April 30, 1918, to August, 191S. Overseas from August 14, 1918, to
May 16, 1919. Hospital 54 was located at Meves-Bulcy, a hospital
center in France. Served here from arrival September 1, 1918. to
April 25, 1919. Served as orderly and ward-master. In surgical
ward while orderly. In meningitis ward after being made ward-
master, November 15, 1918. Returned to United States on May 16 —
May 28, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, June 13, 1919.

BAUER. HENRY, Private, Co. C, 334th Infantry. 84th Division. Also
in Co. F, 329th Motor Repair Shop Unit Trained at Camp Sherman,
O., and Camp Holabird, Md., from June 26, 191S. to discharge at Camn
Custer, Mich., on March 7, 1919.

BODENBERG, ALBERT CHARLES, Private, Co. C, 119th Infantry, 30th
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier from October 4, 1917,
to May, 1918. Overseas from May 17. 1918, to January 9, 1919. Battles:
Poperinghe Sector. Dickebush Sector, Kemmel Hill and Scottish
Woods Sector during July and August. 1918. Cambrian-St. Quentin
Front, Peronne Sector and Bellicourt, September to October 19.
Wounded October 19, near Bohain or St. Souplet, machine-gun bul-
let in right hand. Treatment in Field Hospital 53. Canadian hos-
pital one night, by Red Cross Train to Base 5 near St. Souplet for
three days. Then sent to Southampton. England, to Alexander Hos-
pital Unit 40. Transferred to Am. Hospital, at Portsmouth, England.
Stayed here a month, then sent to Evacuation Hospital at Liverpool
and put in C. Co., Casuals, for going home. Returned to United
States on January 19, 1919. One week at Staten Island Hospital,
then to Hospital 32, Chicago, for three weeks. Discharged, May 5,
at Chicago.

BOKELMAN. CHRIS. Corporal, Co. B. 138th Infantry and Co. L. 140th
Infantry. 35th Division. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26,

1918. to August. Overseas from August 31, 1918, to July 15, 1919.
Battles: Argonne, September 28- — November 11, 1918. Was at Bon-
court in the advance toward Metz on November 11. Transferred to
police duty at Paris after the Armistice. Left France July 15, 1919,
reached United States. July 28, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor,
August 2, 1919. Hospital treatment three times, influenza and had
tonsils removed.

BROWN. WILLIAM THEODORE, Mechanic, Battery A, 25th F. A., 9th
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22, 191S,
to discharge at Camp Taylor on February 5, 1919.

BROWN, CLEM IGNATIUS, Private, Base Hospital SS. Trained at Camps
Taylor and Greenleaf from May 27, 1918, to November 11, 1918. Over-
seas from November 11, 1918, to July 10. 1919. Eight months service
at Savonay, France. Returned to United States, July 10 — July 20,

1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, August 1, 1919.
BRUNNER, DENNIS JOHN, Private. Evacuation Hospital 27. Trained at

Camps Tavlor. Greenleaf and Pike from May 27, 1918, to October,

1918. Overseas from October 26, 1918. to August 19. 1919. Service
at Le Mans, France, from December 15, 1918, to February 19, 1919.
In Coblenz. Germany, with the Army of Occupation from February,

1919, to August 10, 1919. Returned to United States, August 19 —
August 29, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, September 4, 1919.

BRUNNER. ANDREW JACKSON. Private, Dev. Bn. No. 1, 1st Co. Trained
at Camp Taylor from July 22, 1918, to discharge on February 22.
1919. Had influenza-pneumonia with abscess from infection, October
2 — December 15. Had mumps, January 26 — February 10.

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CASTER, CHARLES, Private, 70th C. A. C. Trained at Fts. Hamilton
and Wadsworth, N. Y„ from April 3, 1918. to July, 1918. Overseas
from July 15, 1918, to February 12, 1919. Returned to United States,
February 12 — 22, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, March 12, 1919.

CASTER, ROBERT RAY, Private, Co. A, 335th Infantry, 84th Division.
Trained at Camp Taylor from September 20, 1917, until discharged
for disability on November 28, 1917. Treatment at Base Hospital.

COX, BAIRD FAVILLE, Private 1st Class, Supply Co. 312, Q. M. C. Trained
at Camp Jos. E. Johnston at Jacksonville, Fla., from December 14,
1917, to June, 1E1S. Overseas from June 6, 191S, to June 27, 1919.
Treated at Base Hospital 43. Romorantin, France. Returned to United
States, June 27 — July 7, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, July
15, 1919.

COX LAFAYETTE THOMAS, Captain, Medical Corps. Trained at Ft.
Benjamin Harrison, Ind. and General Hospital 25 at Ft. Benjamin
Harrison until discharge. Enlisted August 19, 1917, as First Lieu-
tenant, Medical Corps. Promoted to Captain on March 15, 1918. Dis-
charged at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, December 16, 1918.

EBNET JOHN, Private, Co. D, 36th Infantry, 12th Division. Trained at
Ft. Snelling, Minn, and Camp Devens, Mass., from May 23, 1918, to
February, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, February 3, 1919.

ENGLE ORA CHARLES, Private 1st Class, Co. C, 9th Field Signal Bat-
talion, 5th Division. Trained at Ft. Leavenworth, Kas. and Ft. Dodge
la., from March 29, 1918, to June, 1918. Overseas from June 21, 1918,
to July 15, 1919. Service: Repairing- telegraph and telephone lines,
establishing and operating same. Battles: St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne,
Verdun, in all, thirty-six clays in fighting lines. Marched to Luxem-
burg City after the Armistice, to repair lines, also to Esch. Luxem-
burg. Returned to United States, July 15 — July 28, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Sherman, August 4, 1919.

FOWL, GODFREY, Private. Battery B, 25th F. A.. 9th Division. Trained
at Camps Taylor, and McClellan from July 22, 1918, to January 31,
1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor.

GILLAND, HARRY, Private, 2nd Co., 1st Battery, 159th Depot Brigade.
Trained at Camp Taylor, Ky.. from September 6, 1918, to discharge
at same camp on December 22, 1918.

GILLAND, WILLIAM EDWARD, Corporal, Co. K, 119th Infantry, 30th
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier from September 9,

1917, to May 1, 1918. Overseas from May 17, 191S. Battles: Ypres
Front in Belgium, Hindenburg Line. Killed by shell-fire, October 9,

1918, at Bellicourt, France.

GRIFFITH, HARLEY CLARK. Boatswain, U. S. S. West Arrow and U.
S. S. Breese. Trained at Norfolk, Va. Did freight duty on the West
Arrow, supplies to France. Convoy duty on the Breese. Discharged
December 27, 1918. Had enlisted, May 28, 1918. Attended Officers'
Training School from August 27 to November 27, 1917. Served in the
Navy from June, 1910, to June, 1916.

GROW, CLYDE ERNEST, Private, Co. G, 362nd Infantry, 91st Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26 to August 23. Overseas
from September 9 to April 2. 1919. Battles: Lys-Scheldt, Flanders
Front, Belgium. The 91st Division stayed at Remy. France, three
months after the Armistice. Returned to United States on April
2 — April 26, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, May 1, 1919.

HARDEBECK, ALBERT BERNARD, Private, 29th Co., Tr. Bn„ 159th
Depot Brigade. Four days at Camp Taylor from July 22 — July 26,
191S. Discharged because of physical disability.

HEATH. EARL EUGENE, First Lieutenant, Medical Corps. Trained at
Camp Greenleaf, Ga., from September 1, 1918, until assigned to special
duty at Camp Green, N. C, and at Walter Reed Hospital, D. C. later.
Discharged from Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C, on May
27, 1919.

HICKS, CLARENCE FOREMAN, Seaman, 2nd Class, U. S. Navy. Trained
at Great Lakes, 111., from July 21. 1918. Served as Camp Guard at
Great Lakes. Discharged on February 1, 1919.

HICKS, HAROLD ALBERT, Q M. 3rd Class, U. S. Navy. Enlisted Feb-
ruary 15, 1918, as apprentice seaman. Sent to Great Lakes, 111.
and transferred May 1, 1918, to Naval Station, Brest, France. Pro-
moted to seaman, May 10, 191 S. To Quartermaster 3rd Class on
August 1, 1918. Assigned to U. S. Destroyer Winslow on July 3,
1918. Did troop convoy duty from then until Armistice. Discharged
at Newport, R. I. on August 12, 1919.

HONNINGFORD, JOSEPH H., Candidate Chaplain Training School.
Entered training at Camp Taylor on August 23, 1918, assigned to
Fifth Training School. Applied for K. of C. Overseas on Septem-
ber 14, 1918. Accepted and passports arranged for when Armistice
was signed and no more chaplains were expected to sail. Served
at Rockaway Beach Naval Aero Station and temporary duty at Ft.

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Tiklen, N. Y. Transferred to Ft. Riley. Kas., and then to Ft. Sher-
idan, 111. Released from service on September 5, 1919, and returned
to his home at Evansville, Ind. Sent to Napoleon, Ripley County, as
Pastor of St. Maurice Congregation and became the first chaplain
of Prell-Bland Post, American Leg-ion at Batesville.

KRESS, HENRY F., Private 1st Class, 116th M. P. Co., 42nd Division;
later in M. P. Co., 32nd Division. Trained at Camp Taylor from
September 20, 1917, to April. 191S. Overseas from April 9, 1918, to
May 1, 1919. Battles: Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Returned to United
States, Mav 1 — Mav 13, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman on May
27, 1919.

LAMB, ANDREW JACOB, Private, Co. A, 72nd F. A. Trained at Camps
Taylor and Knox, Ky., from September 6, 1918, to February 3, 1918,
when discharged.

MEYER. JOHN HENRY, Corporal. Co. I, 120th Infantry, 30th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier from September 20. 1917, to
May 1, 1918. Overseas from May 17, 1918, to April 1, 1919. Battles:
Ypres, Kemmel Hill, Voormezeele in Belgium. Hindenburg Line, St.
Quentin, Bellicourt. St. Souplet. Returned to United States on April
1 — April 13, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, April 24, 1919.

MONTGOMERY. ROBERT JUNNER, Private, Co. D, 36th Infantry, 12th
Division. Trained at Ft. Snelling. Minn, and Camp Devens, Mass.,
from May 23, 191S. to discharge at Camp Devens, June 12. 1919.
Injured at Camp Devens by truck running over foot when coming
off guard duty. Foot broken in two places. Hospital treatment at
Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass.

MYERS. CHARLES. Cook, Battery A, 52nd C. A. C. Trained at Fts.
Hamilton and Wadsworth. N. Y., from April 3, 1918, to July 15, 1918.
Overseas from July 15, 1918, to December 22. 1919. Battles: Meuse-
Argonne Front. September 12 — October 1, 191S. Sent to Haussimont
to change to American guns. Had been using- twelve-inch Railroad
guns, French twenty-four foot long guns. Still here when Armistice
was signed. Stayed until December 1, 1918, then sent to St. Nazaire.
Returned to United States, December 22 — January 3, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Sherman, January 24, 1919.

NEWMAN. GEORGE HERMAN. Private, Co. A, 139th M. G. Bn., 38th
Division. Trained at Ft. Harrison, nd. and Camp Shelby, Miss., from
August 14, 1917, to October, 191S. Overseas from October 9. 1918,
to March 13, 1919. Returned to United States on March 13 — March
24, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman on April 14, 1919.

NEWMAN, JAMES ALBERT, Chauffeur. 25Sth Aero Squadron, Second
Division. Trained at Ft. Harrison, Ind. and Camp Shelby, Miss., from
cember 21, 1917. Had infantry training here at Camp Richfield.
Air-service training at Davton. O., for four months. Overseas from
August 18, 1918, to July 22. 1919. Battles: Belfort Front, Meuse-
Argonne Offensive, October 29 — November 8, 191S. After Armistice
located at Mannonville and Toul, France, until May 1, 1919. Sent
then to Germany to be ready for action in case Germany should fail
to sign the Peace Treaty. Located at Weissenthurm on left bank
of the Rhine. Left here on July 13, 1919. Truck driving, touring
car driving, motorcycle dispatch work and mail-carrier, was the
work here. Trucks carried wrecked airplanes called "crashes." Re-
turned to United States, July 22 — August 1, 1919. Sent to Mitchell
Field, L. L, N. Y., for a week. Discharged at Camp Sherman. August
12, 1919.

PHLFUM. GEORGE, Private, Battery F, 25th F. A. Trained at Camps
Taylor and McClellan from July 22, 1918, to March, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Grant. March 6. 1919. Had influenza and pneu-
monia five -weeks in October and November at Camp McClellan, re-
currence of the same two weeks later, in November.

ROBERTS, CHARLES ROLLIN, Private 1st Class. 146th Co., 12th Bn.,
160th Depot Brigade. Trained at Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich.,
from August 30, 1918, to February 27, 1919. when discharged. In
hospital six weeks at Camp Custer, in September and October with
influenza and pneumonia.

ROHLFING. OSCAR LEWIS, Private, Co. B, 605th Engineers. Trained
at Camp Taylor, Ky. and Camp Forrest, Ga., from April 30, 1918. to
September, 1918. Overseas from September 30, 191S. to June 10, 1919.
Returned to United States, June 10 — June 18, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Sherman on June 25, 1919.

ROHLFING, GEORGE WALKER, Private, Co. E, 335th Infantry, S4th
Division. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 23, 1918, to February
12, 1919. Discharged on that date at Watervliet Arsenal.

SCHAFFER. WILBUR WILLIAM, Private, 20th Co., 5th Tr. Bn., 158th
Depot Brigade. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, until
discharged for disability on July 17, 1918.

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SEMBACH, CHARLES JOHN, Private, Co. F, 361st Infantry, 91st Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to August 26, 1918.
Overseas from September 2, 1918. to April 1, 1919. Battles: Lys-
Scheldt Offensive in Belgium, October 31 — November 11. Pour days
in front line. Under fire all the time. After Armistice moved from
place to place, staying three months at Belleme, France. Returned
to United States, April 1— April 15, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sher-
man, May 7, 1919.

SUTHERLAND, GILBERT, Private, Co. G, 4th Infantry, 3rd Division.
Trained at Camp Funston, Kas., from September 17, 1917, to March
1, 1918. Overseas from April 15, 191S. Killed at the Aisne Offensive,
June 29, 191S.

UPHAUS, HENRY HUGO, Private, Co. E, 120th Engineers. Trained at
Arsenal Technical High School at Indianapolis, Ind., six weeks, be-
ginning September 1. 1918. At Deaf and Dumb Institute three weeks.
Discharged at Ft. Benjamin Harrison on December 17, 1918. Had
influenza, hospital treatment.

UPHAUS, ARCHIE ARNO, Private, 25th F. A. Trained at Camps Taylor
and McClellan from July 22, 1918. to February, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Taylor on February 5, 1919.

WIEBKING, VIVIAN ESTHER, Army Nursing Corps. Trained at Ft.
Douglas, Arizona. Served there from December 2S, 191S, until dis-
charged, December 4, 1919.

ZURLINE, HARRY HERMAN, Private, M. G. Co.. 120th Infantry, 30th
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier from October 4, 1917,
to May 1, 1918. Overseas from May 17, 1918. to April 1, 1919. Battles:
Ypres Front in Belgium, Kemmel Hill, Voormezeele, Hindenburg Line,
Bellicourt, St. Quentin, St. Souplet, Cambrai. Wounded, October 9,
shrapnel in hand and shoulder. Treated at Red Cross Hospital 21
about six weeks. Rejoined his regiment at Aslerube near Amiens,
France, in December. Remained here until starting home. Re-
turned to United States, April 1 — April 13, 1919. Discharged at Camp
Taylor on April 25, 1919.

VII.

JOHNSON TOWNSHIP.

ALLEN, JESSE LEWIS, Corporal, Battery A, 25th F. A., 9th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22, 1918, to Feb-
ruary 5, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor.

BENHAM. JACOB LEWIS, Private 1st Class, M. G. Co., 36th Infantry,
12th Division. Trained at Ft. Snelling, Minn, and Camp Devens,
Mass., from May 23, 1918, to February 1919. Discharged at Camp
Taylor on February 5, 1919.

BALLMAN, JOHN F., Private, Co. A. Central Officers' Training School.
Trained at Camp Grant, 111., from September 3, 1918, to January 29,
1919. Had influenza in October. Discharged at Camp Grant.

BECKETT, ROMOUALD RISK, Private, S. A. T. C. Trained at Bloom-
ington, Ind., from October 12. 1918, until discharged December 21,
1918. Had influenza sixteen days in November.

BEALL, CLARENCE RAY, Seaman, 2nd Class, U. S. N. R. Trained at
Great Lakes. 111., from June 3, 1918, to August 27, 191S. At Puget
Sound, Wash., until his death there from influenza-pneumonia on
October 3, 1918.

BRADT, WILBUR ELMORE, Private, S. A. T. C. Trained at Blooming-
ton, Ind.. from October 1, 1918, until discharged, December 21, 1918.

BRADT, HALE FLETCHER, Y. M. C. A. Secretary, 4th Division. Three
years of Cadet Training at University of Nebraska, prior to World
War. Trained as Y. M. C. A. Secretary in New York City, enlisting
May 5, 191S. Overseas from May 28, 1918, to July 19, 1919. Battles:
Chateau-Thierry, St. Mihiel, Argonne. Six days' hospital treatment
in Germany. With Army of Occupation from November, 1918. to
July, 1919. Returned to United States, July 19 — July 29, 1919. Dis-
charged at New York City, July 29, 1919.

BRODBECK, CECIL F., Sergeant, Co. A, 350th Engineers. Trained at
Jefferson Barracks, Mo. and Camp Humphreys, Va., Camps Upton,
N. Y. and Merritt, N. J., from June 4, 1918, to October 30, 1918. Over-
seas until June 30, 1919. Service in the United States: Acting Drill-
Sergeant at Camp Humphreys, Va., overseas' service at Camp Pon-
tanezon, Brest. France. Returned to United States, June 30 — July
10, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, July 18, 1919.

BRONNENBURG, ALVA, Private, Headquarters Co., 2nd Regiment, Air
Service, Motor Mechanic. Trained at Ft. Thomas, Ky., San Antonio,
Texas and Camp Hancock, Ga. from December 7, 1917, to March, 1918.
Overseas from March 4, 1918, to June 12, 1919. Transferred first to

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Aviation Headquarters, then to Postal and Express Service Organ-
ization, Co. B. P. E. S. At Bourges, France, from September 14, 1018,
to January 16, 1919, in Aviation Headquarters Postal Service. Was
in Camp Hospital at Tours, France, four weeks with influenza and
pneumonia. Camp Hospital 27, and at Base Hospital, Tours for
three weeks. Also at Base Hospital 69 at Brest. Returned to United
States as a casual, June 12 — June 22, 1919. At Embarkation Hos-
pital at Newport News four days. Discharged at Camp Taylor, July
5, 1919.

BRONNENBURG. CLAUD, Bug-lev 1st Class, 37th Coast Artillery Corps.
Trained at Ft. Wright, N. Y. from February 12, 1916, to October 16,
1918. At Camp Eustis, Va. until November 10. Left Camp Stuart.
Va. on November 10 on transport Pochonatas and started for France.
After four days at sea was recalled and returned to Ft. Hancock,
N. J. Discharged at Ft. Hancock, April 2. 1919.

BRONNENBERG, EARL, Wagoner, Wagon Co. 100, Q. M. C. Trained
at San Antonio, Texas, from enlistment on February 16. 1916. Served
on Mexican border until June, 1917, going with Pershing on the
Punitive Expedition into Mexico in the fall of 1916. Overseas with
first detachment of A. E. F., June, 1917. Served throughout war in
"Wagon Co. 100. Died of pneumonia at Nevers, France, on February
16, 1919.

BUCHANAN, CECIL R., Private, Co. B, 304 Ammn. Train, 79th Division.
Trained at Ohio and Texas camps and at Camp Meade. Mil, from
February 14, 1918, to Mav 15, 1919. Battles: Sector 304. Returned
to United States. May 15 — May 30, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sher-
man, June 10, 1919.

OOOMES, M. JOSEPH, Captain, Medical Corps. Trained at Camp Green-
leaf. Ga. in September, 1918, and at Medical Officers' Training Camp
at Base Hospital, Camp Jackson, S. C. in October and November,
1918. Discharged at Camp Jackson, December 3, 1918.

COX. OLLIE MARK, Corporal, 70th C. A. C. Trained at Ft. Wadsworth,
N. Y., from April 3, 1918, to July, 1918. Overseas from July 15. 1918.
to February 12, 1919. Returned to United States, February 12 —
February 22, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, March 12, 1919.
CURRAN, MOSES BREWER, Private. Battery E, 107th Regiment, 28th
Division. Trained at Chamber of Commerce. Indianapolis and Camp
Hancock, Ga., from June 15. 1918. to September, 1918. Overseas from
September 1, 191S, to June 19. 1919. Trained in Ordnance Department
in United States and at Mehun, France, until sent to the Argonne
Forest on September 26, 1918, in 28th Division. Served here until
November 9. Gassed on November 9. Hospital treatment at Base
Hospital 6. 121, Camp Hospital 4 and Bases 88 and 119. at Savonay,
France. Returned to United States. June 29 — July 10, 1919. Dis-
charged on August 21, 1919, at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Indianapolis,
Indiana.

DEBURGER, FREEMAN, Sergeant, Co. G, 64th Infantry, 7th Division.
Trained at Ft. Bliss, Texas and Camp McArthur, Texas, from May
11, 1917, to August. 1918. Overseas from August 18, 1918. to June
9, 1919. Battles: Puvenelle Sector, Offensive. Returned to United
States, June 9 — June 18, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, June 26,
1919.

DEBURGER, MARCUS EUGENE. Private. Co. A. 335th Infantry, 84th
Division. Trained at Camp Taylor from September 20, 1917, until
his death there of pneumonia on December 24, 1917.

DEBURGER. JOHN MANFORD, Private. Trained at Ft. Williams. Me
and Ft. Thomas, Ky., in C. A. C. from November 26. 1917, until dis-
charged because of physical disability on March 4, 1918, at Ft. Wil-
liams. Me.

EADS. FAYE, Electrician, Sergeant 1st Class. 6th Co., C8th Prov. Tr.
Corps, C. A. C. Trained at Ft. Du Pont, Del., from May 4. 1917. to
December, 1918. Discharged at Camp Sherman on December 17, 1918.

EADS, FRANK. Private, Co. L, 2nd Infantry. M. G. Bn. Trained at
Camp Dodge, la.. August 30, 1918, to discharge there on December
17, 1918. Served as electrician. Had disability resulting from a fall
in September, 1914, which placed him in limited duty list.

EADS, HENRY EARL, Electrician, Naval Aviation Force. Trained at
Pensacola, Fla., from Mav 29, 1917, to October 7, 1917. Overseas
from October 16, 1917, to January 8, 1919. Service as First-Class
Mach. and Naval Observer at Dunkirk, France, until August 10.
1918. Attended French Aviation School at Paris from November 3.
to December 26, 1917. August 10, 1918, went to Zeebrugge, Belgium,
to prepare an Aviation Base, which was not completed when the
Armistice was signed. Injured in three hundred-foot fall at Dun-
kirk, June, 1918. Hospital treatment at Dunkirk, injury in right
knee. Returned to United States, January 8 — January 24, 1919. Dis-
charged at Receiving Ship, New York, March 14, 1919.

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FIRTH. ROBERT AUSTIN, Private, Co. 11, 158th Am. Tr, C. A. C. Trained
at Syracuse, N. Y., from August 5, 1918. until sent to Ft. Wetherell,
Narragansett Bay, R. I., October 1, 1918. Trained here until De-
cember 20, 1918. Discharged at Camp Sherman, December 26, 1918.
Hospital treatment for "flu" at Syracuse in September.

FISHER, JAMES HARRY, Co. D. 362nd Infantry, 91st Division. Trained
at Camps Taylor and Sherman from September 20, 1917, to Septem-
ber, 1918. Overseas from September 20, 1918, to May 18, 1919.
Battles: Lys-Scheldt, October 31 — November 4, 1918. Treatment at
Base Hospitals 85 and 69, and Field Hospital 52. Returned to United
States. May 18 — May 29, 1919. Discharged at Ft. Benjamin Harri-
son, July 7, 1919.

FISHER, EBERT L., Private, Infantry. Trained at Camp Taylor from
July 22, 1918, until discharged there, May 10, 1919.

FISHER, HERMA ARLIS, Private, S. A. T. C. Trained at Indiana State
University, Bloomington, Indiana, from October 1, 1918, until dis-
charged there on December 21, 1918.

GORDON. WALTER SCOTT, Private, Co. G, 441h Infantry, 13th Division.
Trained at Camp Lewis, Washington and Presidio, Cal., from May
28, 1918, to March, 1919. Discharged at Camp Funston, Kas., on
March 29, 1919.

GORDON, WILLARD GLENN, Private, M. G. Co.. 153rd Infantry, 39th
Division. Trained at Camp Beauregard, Alexandria, La., from May
26, 1918, to August, 1918. Overseas from August 6, 1918, to February
6, 1919. Trained at Meroux and St. Romaine, France, until November
11. Returned to United States, February 26, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Sherman, March 4, 1919.

HARTLEY, ISAAC OTIO, Sergeant, 828th Aero Squadron. Trained at
Kelly Field, Texas, Selpidg Field, Mich, and Hazelhurst Field, L. I.,
N. Y., from December 4, 1917, to September, 1918. Overseas from
September 1, 1918, to August 26, 1919. Service in France: Repaired
airplanes at Verdun and Metz, 18 kilometers behind front lines. Re-
turned to United States, August 26 — September 5, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Taylor, September 13, 1919.

HENDERSON, HARRY, Corporal, Co. B, 333rd Infantry, 84th Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman from June 22, 1918, to September, 1918.
Overseas from September 1, 1918, to April 17, 1919. Returned to
United States, April 17 — April 28, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor.
May 13, 1919.

HENDERSON, SCOTT KELSEY, Cook, Base Hospital 54. Trained at
Camps Taylor, Greenleaf and Green, from May 27, 1918, to August,

1918. Overseas from August 14, 1918, to May 15, 1919. Located at
Nevers, France. Hospital 54 was supposed to care for one thousand
and forty patients, but sometimes had as many as two thousand,
seven hundred and fifty, when the big battles were being fought.
The mess hall was then cleared for patients. Personnel of the hos-
pital numbered one hundred eighty-five, plus forty nurses. Returned
to United States, May 15 — May 28, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sher-
man, June 12, 1919.

HENDERSON, HOMER CLYDE, Wagoner, Co. A, 313th Infantry, 88th
division. Trained at Camps Dodge, la. and Pike, Ark., from Sep-
tember 18, 1917, to June 30, 1918. Overseas from June 30, 1918, to
September 6, 1919. Returned to United States, September 6 — Sep-
tember 15, 1919. Discharged at Camp Dodge, la., September 25. 1919.

HOLMAN, WILLIAM EARL, Fireman 3rd Class. U. S. Navy. Trained at
Great Lakes, 111., from May 6, 1918, to discharge there on March 28,

1919. Did clerical work at Public Works Building, Camp Paul Jones,
Great Lakes, in February and March, 1919.

HOLBERT, WILLIAM DEVANEY, Wagoner, Co. B. 35th Infantry, 12th
Division. Trained at Ft. Snelling, Minn, and Camp Devens, Mass.,
from May 23, 1918, to February, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor.
February 3, 1919.

HUGHES, CAREY LEE, Private, 33rd Co., 4th U. S. Marines. Trained
at Paris Island, S. C, from May 12, 1917, to June 1, 1917. Served at
San Domingo from June, 1917, to December 18, 1919. Service, sup-
pressing revolutions and coast patrol.

HUNTERMAN, ROY HENRY, Private, Co. C, 115th Infantry. Trained at
Camps Taylor, Gordon and McClellan from March 29, 191S, to June,
1918. Overseas from June 12, 1918, to May 12, 1919. Battles: Alsace-
Haute Sector, "Verdun Sector, East of Meuse, October 8 — October 11.
1918. Wounded by machine-gun bullet at St. Eloi, October 11, 1918.
at Argonne. Hospital treatment at Nevers, France. Returned to
United States, May 12 — May 26, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor,
Juno 2. 1019

HUNTER, TONY EDWARD, First Lieutenant, Medical Corps. Trained at
Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind., from August 26, 1918, to November 26,
1918. Assigned to 149th Infantry, 38th Division. Served with regi-

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ment at Camp Shelby, Hatticsburg. Miss., from November 26, 1917,
until his death there from influenza-pneumonia on April 18, 1919.
HUNTER, HORACE ELI, Ensign, U. S. Naval Reserves. Trained at Great
Lakes, 111., until October, 191 8. Went to Headquarters Navy Aux.
Reserve at New York, October 3, J.918. Trained at sea thirteen
weeks as junior watch officer on the S. S. Josiah Mason, oil-tank
steamer, operating along the coast from Charleston, S. C. to Baton
Rouge, La. and Norfolk, Va. To Officers' Material School at Pel-
ham Bay Park, N. Y., on January 11, 1919. Graduated March 29.
1919, as Ensign. Released at New York City, April 30, 1919.

HYATT, RALPH ROMEO, Corporal, 26th Balloon Co. Trained at Kelly
Field, Texas, from March 6, 191S, to April, 191S. Overseas from
April 22, 1918, to June 14, 1919. Trained in France at Tours and
Balloon School at Camp De Souge, near Bordeaux, from May 6 to
November 9, 1918. Sent to Bettington. Germany, two weeks in April;
one month at Bettange, Luxemburg. Returned to United States,
June 14 — June 25, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, July 9, 1919.

HYATT, FREEMAN ROBERT. Private, S. A. T. C. Trained at Hanover
College, Hanover, Ind., from September 24, 1918, until discharged there
on December 16, 1918. Wag acting corporal when discharged.

KONKLE. LESLIE LORINE, Private 1st Class. Co. A, 113th M. P., 38th
Division. Enlisted in Indiana National Guard, June 3, 1917, and was
trained at Rensselaer, Ind., in Co. M, 3rd Infantry, N. G., for five
weeks, and one month at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Transferred then
to Battery D, 137th F. A., 38th Division, and sent to Camp Shelby,
Hattiesburg, Miss. Transferred again after seventeen days here to
Military Police. Completed training at Camp Shelby. Overseas from Sept.
20, 1918. to Jan. 1:3, 1919. Transport was attacked by three submarines
just before reaching Liverpool and had to be towed to port because of
injuries. Battles: Argonne, as guide and runner. Returned to United
States, January 23, 1919 — January 31, 1919. Discharged at Camp
Sherman, February 15, 1919.

LAWRENCE, FRED, Private, Battery B, 72nd F. A., 11th Division. Trained
at Camps Taylor and Knox, from September 6, 1918. until discharged
at Camp Knox, February 3, 1919.

LAWRENCE, HOWARD EARL, Seaman, U. S. N. R. Trained at Great
Lakes. 111., from May £9, 1918, for four months. Service from Octo-
ber, 1918, until released on May 28, 1919.

MARSH, HARRY HOWARD, Mechanic, Battery D, 45th C. A. C. Trained
at Jackson Barracks and Camp Nichols, New Orleans. La. and Ft
St. Philip, La., from December 19, 1917, to July. 1918. Trained
at Camp Eustis, Va. from July, 1918, to October 21, 1918, in Co. C,
4th Trench Mortar Bn. Was sent to hospital with influenza on eve
of sailing for France and assigned on discharge to 45th C. A. C.
Overseas from October 21, 1918, to January 23, 1919. Returned to
United States, January 23 — January 31, 1919. Discharged ■ at Camp
Dix, N. J. on February 12, 1919.

MOODY, THOMAS WILKIE. Private, Headquarters Co., 144th F. A., 40th
Division. Trained at Camp Lewis, Washington and Camp Kearney,
Cal., from June 3, 1918, to August, 191S. Overseas from August 18,
1918. to December 23. 191S. Returned to United States, December 23,
1918— January 4, 1919. Discharged January 26, 1919.

OLMSTED. LAWRENCE RUSSELL, M. M. 1st Class, U. S. N. R. F., Avia-
tion Branch. Trained at Pensacola, Fla., from July 17, 1918, to No-
vember, 1918. Overseas first of November, 1918, landing at Brest,
France. Was returned to United States on same transport. Northern
Pacific, November 28 — December 7. 1918. Discharged at Pelham Bay,
N. Y. on December 17. 1918. Hospital treatment at Pensacola, Fla..
for influenza in October, 1918.

OWINGS, GUY ROLAND, Ship's Cook, 2nd Class, U. S. Navy. Trained at
Great Lakes, 111., from April 20, 1917, to discharge at Great Lakes,
July 10, 1919.

PENDERGAST. HERSCHEL W., Private 1st Class, 29th Co.. Sth Tr. Bn.,
159th Depot Brigade. Trained at Camp Taylor from May 27, 191S.
and at Camp Devens in 12th Division until December, 191S. Dis-
charged at Camp Taylor, December 30, 191S.

PENDERGAST, RUSSELL GILBERT, Private, Motor Truck Company 423.
attached to First Army. Trained at Ft. Thomas, Ky. and Camp Jos.
E. Johnston, Fla., from November 16, 1917, to May, 1918. Overseas
from May 8, 1918, to June 2S, 1919. Battles: St. Mihiel. Drove truck
to battle lines with provisions throughout engagement. Returned
to United States, June 28 — July 9, 1919. Discharged at Camp Grant.
111., July 18, 1919.

PRATT, WALTER, Sergeant, Battery B. 34th F. A., Plymouth Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22, 191S, to Feb-
ruary, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, February 6, 1919. Hos-
pital treatment for influenza in November, 1918.

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PRATT, JOHN, Private, Co. C. 379th Infantry, 84th Division. Trained at
Camp Sherman from August 19, 191S, until discharged there, Jan-
uary 2, 1919. Served as volunteer nurse through influenza epidemic
in October and November, 191S. Five hundred died in one night.
There were many spinal meningitis cases during the epidemic. Had
the influenza himself, in October.

PRATT, FERMAN HENRY, Private. 114th Arab. Co., 104th San. Train,
29th Division. Trained at Camp Taylor and Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga.,
from Mav 27, 1918, to August 20, 1918. Overseas from August 27,
1918, to May 11, 1919. Battles: Alsace Front, St. Mihiel, Verdun.
Served as a Utter-bearer, carrying wounded off the battlefields, under
ifire. Returned to United States, May 11 — May 21, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Sherman. June 4, 1919.

ROSENGARN, MARTIN WILLIAM, Private, Co. B, 36th Infantry, 12th
Division. Trained at Ft. Snelling, Minn., from May 23, 1918, to Aug.
1, 1918, when discharged for physical disability.

ROSENGRAN, BENJAMIN BERNARD, Private, 29th Co., 8th Tr. Bn„ 159th
Depot Brigade. At Camp Taylor from July 22, 1918, to July 25, 1918.
Discharged for physical disability.

SCHWIER, CAROLL ADRIAN, Private, Co. A, 335th Infantry, 84th Di-
vision. Trained at Camp Taylor from October 4, 1917, to March 1,

1918. Discharged for physical disability resulting from pneumonia.
SMITH. EUGENE F., Corporal, 31st Squadron Motor Transport Corps, 3rd

Prov. Regt. Trained at Vancouver Ba,rra,cks, Wash. Served in
Spruce-cutting in northwest. Discharged at Camp Taylor, March 1,
1919.
SPENCER. RAY IRVIN, Electrician. Co. D, 113th Engineers. 38th Division.
Trained at Ft. Benjamin Harrison from enlistment on June 1, 1917,
to July 15, 1917, in Co. B, First Bn., Indiana Engineers. Sent to Camp
Taylor until September 15, inspection work, building the camp. Sent
to Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss., on September 15, 1917. Stayed
here until September 6, 1918, training in different schools of engi-
neering. Assigned to 3Sth Division. Transferred in France, No-
vember, 1918, to 7th Division. Overseas from September 15, 1918,
to June 12, 1919. Built barracks from September 28, 1918, to No-
vember 6, 1918. at If-folle-Grand, France. Sent to Sanpigny one
month to do electrical wiring, twenty-five miles from the St. Mihiel
Front. The Engineering Corps was divided in France and sent on
detached service to various places. Joined the 7th Division on Jan-
uary 1, 1919. Sent to Trouvillc- and other places close to the Front.
At repair shop at Ligny for one month. On detached service with
the 56th Infantry during March and April, 1919. Rejoinod the 113th
Engineers in April. Returned to United States, June 12 — June 19,

1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman on June 25, 1919.

SPENCER, WILLIAM DALGLEISH. Corporal, Veterinary Hospital 14.
Trained at Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. and Camp Lee, Va.. from May 2, 1918,
to October. 1918. Overseas from October 14, 1918, to June 16. 1919.
Returned to United States. June 16 — June 27, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Tavlor on July 7. 1919. Hospital treatment for influenza at
Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. in May, 1918.

STEGEMOLLER, WALTER A., Private, Field Hospital 34. 7th Division.
Trained at Camp Taylor and Camp Greenleaf from March 29, 1918,
to August 14, 1918. Overseas from August 14, 1918, to June 18. 1919.
Battles: Puvenelle Sector west of the Moselle. October 10 — November
9, 1918. Same Sector, November 9 — November 11, 1918 (Offensive.)
Returned to United States, June 18 — June 30, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Taylor on July 9, 1919.

STEGEMOLLER, FRANK LOUIS, Private, Evacuation Ambulance Co. 18.
Trained at Camp Taylor and Camp Greenleaf from March 29, 1918,
to September 20, 1918. Overseas from September 25, 191S, to Mav
30, 1919. Returned to United States, May 30, 1919 — June 10, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Sherman, June 19, 1919.

SHEETS, GLENN. Private 1st Class, Co. A. 9th Infantry, 2nd Division.
Trained at Camp Taylor in Co. A, 335th Infantry, 84th Division, from
September 20, 1917, to December 20. Sent in Casual Co. to Camp
Merritt, N. J., December 20 — February 17, 1918. Overseas from Feb-
ruary 19, 1918, to May 15, 1919. Assigned to Second Division at St.
Aignan. Battles: Chateau-Thierry. Wounded and gassed, mustard
gas, on June 29, 1918. Treated at Base Hospitals 1 and 19, at Vichy
to last of August. Base Hospital 51 at Toul, September. 191S, to
May, 1919. Returned to United States, May 15 — June 2, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Sherman, June 14. 1919.

STEVENS. RONMEY, Battery A. 232nd F. A. Enlisted at Ladysmith, Wis.
Overseas several months. Hospital treatment in France for measles.
Returned to United States in spring of 1919. Discharged.

STEVENS, MORRIS CHRISTOPHER, Private, U. S. Marine Corps. Trained
at Paris Island. S. C., from August 12, 1918, to October 26, then at
Quantico, Va., until discharged there on January 30, 1919.

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SUTTON, WILLIAM LEE, U. S. Naval Reserves. Trained at Great Lakes,
111., from June 3, 1918, to January 13, 1919. Trained first two weeks
in Detention Camps, Farragut and D?wey. The rest of the time in
naval drill or study at Camp Paul Jones and Radio School at Camp
Perry. Sent to Cambridge, Mass., January 13. 1919, to Radio School.
Released there on February 13, 1919. Had two weeks in the hospital
at Great Lakes in October, 1918, with mumps.

SWINGLE, EDWARD HENRY, Private 1st Class. Q. M. C. Trained in
Co. D, 336th Infantry, 84th Division, at Camp Sherman, from June
26, 1918, to September, 1918. Overseas from September 25, 1918, to
August 8, 1919. Transferred to Quartermaster Corps at Le Mans.
France. Service was checking supplies. Carpenter work from the
latter part of April. Relurned to United States, August 8 — August
17, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, August 24, 1919. Hospital
record, measles at Camp Sherman, mumps at Le Mans, France.

TAYLOR, FRED, Private, Co. A, 335th Infantry, 84th Division. Trained
at Camp Tavlor from October 1, 1917, to discharge for physical dis-
ability on October 26, 1917.

THOMPSON, CURTIS WILLIAM, Sergeant Base Hospital. Medical Det.
Trained at Camp Taylor from March 29, 1918, to discharge on July
22. 191. Did office work at Headquarters Office.

UNDERWOOD, WALTER ADAM, Sergeant. Medical Detachment. Base
Hospital. Trained at Camp Taylor from March 29, 1918, to May 23,
1919, when discharged. Hospital record: Bronchitis in May, 1918.
Service in hospital: Ambulance driver and ward-master.

WAGNER, JEROME EDWARD, Corporal, Co. I, 166th Infantry. 42nd Di-
vision. "Rainbow." Trained in 3rd Ohio Infantry, N. G., from June
13, 1917, to assignment to 166th Regiment. Trained at Camp Perry.
O. and a short time at Camp Mills, L. I., N. Y. Overseas from Oc-
tober 29. 1917, to April, 1919. Trained in France, entering trenches
during winter. Battles: Luneville, Chateau-Thierry, Cantigny, St.
Mihiel. Fismes, Sedan, Argonne, Baccarat. Awarded D. S. C. and
French Croix de Guerre for heroism at Seicheprey, France, Septem-
ber 12. 1919. Wounded on September 12, 1918. Machine-gun bullet
through the shoulder. Treatment in eight different hospitals, moved
on stretchers. Besides the shoulder wound had three machir.e-gun
bullets in leg, bavonet wound in abdomen and shrapnel wound in
head. Returned to United States, April 13— April 23, 1919. Dis-
charged at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Ind., July 31, 1919.

WALKER. ORVIL ROBERTS. Private 1st Class, Co. A, 309th Engineers,
84th Division. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to Sep-
cember, 1918. Overseas from September 9, 1918, to June 19, 1919
Hospital treatment at Hospital No. 85. Montior, France. Returned
to United States, June 19 — Tune 26, 1919. Discharged at Ft. Ben-
jamin Harrison, July 23, 1919.

WALKER, WALTER MARC, Private, Battery B, 26th F. A., 9th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from .Tulv 22. 1918. to March
8, 1919. Had five weeks in hospital at Camp McClellan. While there
served as orderly for the Red Cross Nursing Service. Discharged at
Camp Grant, 111., March 8, 1919.

WALKER, LEWIS, Private, Co. C. M. G. Bn. 139, 38th Division. Trained
at Ft. Benjamin Harrison and Camp Shelby, Miss., from August 25.
1917. to June 1, 1918. Overseas from June 12. 1918, to July 3. 1919.
Service: Sent to Train Police School in Co. 217, to Base Section 4,
in Co. 249, for work. At intervals did police work all over France.
This work consisted of guarding trains of supplies and so on, and
seeing that they reached their proper destination. Had influenza
at St. Aignan, Hospital 26. Returned to United States, July 3 — July
13, 1919. Discharged, July 21, 1919, at Camp Sherman.

WILLIAMS, ALBERT DARIUS, Fireman, 2nd Class, U. S. N. R. Trained
at Great Lakes, 111., and Hampton Roads, Va., from May 31, 1918, to
Julv 18, 1918. Assigned to battleship for further training, six weeks
at Yorktown, Va. Sent then to Receiving Ship at Norfolk, Va., Sep-
tember 1. 1918. Had influenza at Portsmouth, Va. in September. Dis-
charged on December 4, 1918, at Norfolk, Va

VIII,
LAUGHERY TOWNSHIP.

BAAS, FRED HENRY, Sergeant, S21st Aero Squadron. Trained at In-
dianapolis Aviation Camp. Speedway. Indianapolis, Ind., from, August
5, 1918, to discharge on March 21, 1919. Special service selection.

BAAS. MILTON JOHN LEWIS, Private, Co. E, S. A. T. C.. University of
Arkansas. Trained at Fayetteville, Arkansas, from October 5, 1918,
to discharge on December 13, 1918, at Fayetteville, Ark.

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BATTISTI, FRANK ROMAN, Corporal, Co. K 119th Infantry, 30th Di-
vision. Trained at Camp Taylor from September 20, 1917, (o March

26, 1918. At Camp Sevier, N. C. from March 26, 1918, to May 1 1918.
Overseas from May 11, 1918, to March 22, 1919. Battles: Ypres, 8-15-'18
to 9-4-'18. Bellicourt. 9-21-'18 to 10-11-'18. Busigny, 10-8-'18 to
10-9-'18. St. Souplet, 9-16-'18 to 9-19-'18. Trench service: Flanders
Front and Somme Front. Returned to United States March 22 —
April 1, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, April 21, 1919.

BBHLMER, HARVEY EARL, Second Lieutenant, Battery B., 34th F. A.,
12th Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan and at Ft.
Sill, Okla., from May 15, 1918, to discharge at Ft. Sill on February 7,
1919.

BELTER, HENRY JOHN, Private, Co. E, 115th Infantry, 29th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor, Gordon and McClellan, from March 28, 1918,
to June. 1918. Overseas from June 15, 1918, to May 20, 1919. Battles:
Alsace-Haute Sector, three weeks. Slightly gassed. Hospital treat-
ment in October, 1918, at Remycourt, France, three weeks. Returned
to United States, May 20 — June 1, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman,
June 17, 1919.

BENZ, GROVER MARTIN, Sergeant, Battery A. 140th F. A., 39th Division.
Transferred in 18th Division in August, 1918. Trained at Camps
Taylor, Beauregard, Ft. Sam Houston and Travis, Texas, from May

27, 1918, to discharge at Camp Travis on December 9, 1918. Hos-
pital record, tonsils removed in August, 1918.

BENZ, LEO MARTIN, Sergeant, C. D.. 317th M. G. Bn., 81st Division.
Began training at Camp Taylor, September 9, 1917, in Co. A, 335th
Infantry, 84th Division. Sent to Camp Hancock, Ga. for three months
and transferred to "Wild Cat" Division. Overseas from July 30,
1918, to June 8. 1919. Battles: Vosges Mts., St. Die Front, sixteen
days. "Verdun, Meuse-Argonne Drive, fifteen days. Returned to United
States, June S — June 18, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, June 30,
1919.

BENZ, HUGO MICHAEL, Boatswain's Mate, 2nd Class U. S. S. Nevada.
Trained at Norfolk, Va., from April 16, 1917, to May 25, 1917, when
assigned to the turret-gun crew of the U. S. S. Nevada. Service until
August 1. 1918. patrol of Atlantic Coast. Had one submarine battle
off New York State, no apparent results. Patrol duty in the English
Channel from August 18, 1918, to November 1. 1918. Sent to the Firth
of Forth. North Sea as part of the Grand Fleet until November 25,
1918. The Nevada was in the double battle-line of Allied ships through
which the German fleet sailed to the Firth of Forth to surrender.
Had a second submarine fight near Irish coast while coming to
English Channel in August, 1919. Convoyed with ten battleships and
about twenty destroyers, the George Washington with President
Wilson on board into Brest Harbor on December 12. 1918. Sailed for
United States on December 14, 1918, the American Overseas Fleet re-
turning at that time. Reached New York, 26th of December. Dis-
charged, July 30, 1920.

BENZ, RANDOLPH MICHAEL, Private, U. S. Marine Corps, Barracks
Det. Trained at Paris Island, S. C. and Quantico, Va., from May
18, 1917. to discharge at Quantico, March 18, 1919. Appendicitis
operation at Quantico on January 28, 1919.

BIERBUSSE, WALTER HERMAN, Regimental Supply Sergeant. 40th
Infantry, 14th Division. Trained at Columbus Barracks, Columbus,
O., Ft. Riley, Kas. and Camp Custer, Mich., from May 23, 1918, to
August, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, O., on August 9, 1919.

BLANK, FRANCIS JOSEPH. Q. M. C. Sergeant, Div. Headquarters, 19th
Division. Trained at Camp Taylor, Ky. and at Camp Dodge, la.,
from August 31, 1918, to discharge at Camp Taylor, January 26. 1919.
Statistics: Taylor reached capacity in July and August, 1918. From
60,000 to 62,000 men were accommodated at Camp Taylor at one time.
The barracks held 40,000. The rest occupied tents.

BLAND, JOHN LESTER, Corporal. Co. M, 120th Infantry, 30th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier from September 20, 1917, to May
7, 1918. Overseas from May 17. 1918. Battles: Ypres Front in Bel-
gium, Kemmel Hill, Voormezeele. Hindenburg Line. Bellicourt, St.
Souplet, Busigny. Gassed at Busigny, October 17, 1918. Treatment
at General Hospital 74. Died of pneumonia following gas, Novem-
ber 2. 1918.

BLOEMER, WALTER WILLIAM, Private 1st Class, Co. E, 114th SupDlv
Train, 39th Division. Was enlisted June 3, 1917, in Troop H, 2nd
Separate Squadron, Mississippi Cavalry, National Guard. Sworn into
Federal Service, August 5, 1917, at Macon. Miss., -where enlisted.
Trained at Jackson, Miss., until November 1, 1917. Then at Camp
Beauregard, La., where he was assigned to 39th Division. Infantry
drill here until June 19, 191S. Sent to Detroit, Mich, and trained in
truck-driving. Drove overland from Detroit to Baltimore. Md.
crossing Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Three trips. Used Lib-

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erty and Dodge trucks. Carried parts of motors and motor-trucks.
Overseas from August 26, 1918, to December 20, 1918. Service in
South Central France until November 13, 1918, when the unit moved
to St. Aignan. Sent back to United States in 39th Division Cadre
with company records, December 20, 191S — January 1, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Beauregard, La. on January 21, 1919.

BOESE EDWIN HENRY, Sergeant, Co. L, 147th Infantry, 37th Division,
drained at Camp Sheridan, Ala., from April 7, 1917, to June, 1918.
First enlisted in First Ohio, N. G. Regiment transferred to 147th
Infantry. Overseas from June 23, 1918, to March 15, 1919. Battles:
Meuse-Arganne Offensive, September 26 — October 1, 191S. Flanders
Offensives October 31 — November 4, and November 9 — November 11,
1918. Divisional citation by Major-General Farnsworth. Returned
to United States, March 15 — March 27, 1919. Discharged at Camp
Sherman, April 19, 1919.

BOEHMER, LOUIS FRANK, Private, Co. I, 120th Infantry, 30th Division.
Trained at Camps Tavlor and Sevier from September 20, 1917, to
May, 191S. Overseas from May 17, 1918, to December 9, 1918. Battles:
Ypres, Flanders Front. Wounded, September 1, 1918, fragments of
shell 'in shoulder. Treated at C. C. S. Hospital at Dunkirk, 35th
General Hospital at Calais, France; Base Hospital 37, at Dartford,
Kent, England; Debarkation Hospital No. 3 at New York City, Base
Hospital at Camp Grant, 111. Returned to United states, December 9,
1918. Discharged at Camp Grant, March 29, 1919. Five comrades
were killed by the shell that wounded Private Boehmer, and four
wounded. Of the killed, one was a corporal. Of the wounded, one
a sergeant. Two submarines were sunk by the convoys on the voyage
overseas.

BRACKENSICK, LESTER EARL, Private. Co. A, 335th Infantry, S4th
Division. Trained at Camp Taylor from September 20, 1917, to dis-
charge there on November 19, 1917. Was treated at Base Hospital
for heavy cold. Discharged because of resulting disability.

BRETZLOFF AUGUST FREDERICK, Private, Supply Co., 36th Infantry.
12th Division. Trained at Ft. Snelling, Minn, from May 23, 1918,
to August 11, 1918, and at Camp Devens, Mass. from August 11 to
January 20, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, January 23, 1919.
Hospital treatment for broken ankle, November 16 to December 8,
1918.

BROCKMAN, CHESTER BERNARD, Private, Base Hospital 54. Trained
at Camp Taylor and Camp Greenleaf, Ga., from April 30, 191S, to
August, 191S. Overseas from August 14, 1918, to May 16, 1919. Lo-
cated at Meves Hospital Center, France. Returned to United States,
May 16 — May 28, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, June 13, 1919.

BURST WILLIAM EDWARD. Private, 20th Co.. 5th Tr. Bn., 158th Depot
Brigade. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to discharge
there, December 10, 1918. Had hospital treatment for influenza in
October, two weeks.

BURST, FRANK NICHOLAS, Private, Co. M, 120th Infantry. 30th Divi-
sion. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier from September 20, 1917,
to Mav 6, 1918. Overseas from May 17, 1918, to April 1, 1919. Battles:
Ypres Front in Belgium. Kemmel Hill, Voormezeele, Hindenburg Line,
Montbrehain, October 5 — October 17. Gassed on October 17. Six-
teen men of the platoon of twenty-five men were gassed. One was
John Bland, also of Batesville, Ripley County. Treatment at Red
Cross Hospital Station. Was burned and gassed, blind for about
ten days from inflamed eyes. Sent about midnight of October 17
by rail, to No. 1, S. African General Hospital at Rouen. Remained
here fifteen days. Sent then to United States Base Hospital 40 at
Southampton, England. Remained here until New Year's Day, 1919
Rejoined regiment at Le Mans, France. January 7, 1919. Returned
to United States, April 1 — April 13, 1919. Discharged at Camp Tay-
lor, April 25, 1919.

CARTER, ARTHUR, Mech., Air Service. Aviation. Trained at Camp
Grant, 111., from enlistment on December 19, 1917, to February 28,
1918, because of camp quarantine. Sent March 1. 1918. to Taliaferro
Field, Brownsville, Texas. Worked as expert mechanician and later
at block-testing of aeroplane motors. Was sent from Taliaferro to
Barron Field, August, 1918. Discharged there, March 29, 1919.

CRAMER. ALVIN HENRY. Sergeant, Co. A, 18th Ry. Engineers. Trained
at Camps Tavlor and Grant trom September 20, 1917, to March 4.
191S. Overseas from March 14, 1918, to June 14, 1919. Transferred
at Camp Grant to Eighteenth Engineers from Co. A, 335th Infantry,
S4th Division. Put in Co. A, of the 18th Engineers at Genecourt,
France, in April, 1918. Worked on American Docks at Bordeaux for
six weeks. Sent then to Paris on detached service. Sent with
Sixth Engineers, Casuals to lay light railway and bridges between
Metz and Verdun. Here three weeks. Sent back to Bordeaux with
a civilian field clerk and made out pay-rolls for civilian workmen.

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all nationalities, who worked on the docks, for three or four months.
Took a company of sixty enlisted men to work on a hospital at
Neufchatel, for six months. Returned to United States, June 14 —
June 25, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman. July 3, 1919.

CRAMER, ARTHUR HENRY, Private, Battery C, 53rd C. A. C, 30th
Brigade. Trained at Fts. Wadsworth and Hamilton, New York, from
April 3, 191S, to July, 1918. Overseas from July 15, 1918. to Feb-
ruary 25, 1919. Trained at Haussimont, France, until September 5,
191S. Battles: St. Mihiel from September 5 to September 26. 1918.
Fired about six hundred rounds. Returned to Haussimont and pre-
pared to go into Italy. Were delayed by lack of a captain until
Armistice was signed. Returned to United States. February 25 —
March 11, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, April 4, 1919.

DAVIS, ROY IRVIN, Private, Supply Co., 335th Infantry. 84th Division.
Trained at Camp Taylor from June 26, 191S, to August 20, 1018.
Overseas from September 3, 1918, to about February 1. 1919. Had
measles, mumps, pneumonia and bronchitis. Treated at Le Mans,
France, from November 12, 1918, until February 1, 1919. Returned
to United States, February, 1919. Sent to Grand Central Hospital,
New York City for three weeks, then to Camp Wadsworth Hospital
for one month. Discharged at Camp Taylor on May 17, 1919.

DAVIS, ROLLIN FRANCIS, Private, Battery A. 26th F. A.. 9th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22, 1918, to dis-
charge at Camp Taylor, February 5, 1919. Six weeks in hospital at
Camp McClellan with measles and influenza.

DICKEY, MERLE, Private, Battery A, 1st F. A., Regular Army. Enlisted
January 21, 1915 . Sent first to Bat. A., Columbus Barracks, O., then to
San Francisco, Srhofleld Barracks. Served three years at Honolulu,
Hawaii. Returned to United States on February 15, 1918, and sent to
Ft. Sill, Okla., in the 9th F. A. Served here as a wagoner, driving
tractors and trucks in the army training-work at Officers' Training
School. Released, February 15, 1919, in Regular Army Reserve.

DIETZ, WILLIAM BERNARD, Private. Evacuation Hospital 27. Trained
at Camps Taylor, Greenleaf and Pike, from May 27, 1918, to October
15, 1918. Overseas from October 26, 1918. to August 19. 1919. Lo-
cated at Meves Hospital Center, France, until February, 1919. From
February 22, 1919, until August 10, 1919, at Coblenz, Germany, with
Army of Occupation. Returned to United States, August 19 — August
29. 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, September 4, 1919.

DIRSCHERL, WALTER JOSEPH. Private, Battery B. 142nd F. A.. 39th
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and Beauregard, La., from May
27. 1918, to August 14, 1918. Overseas from August 31, 1918. to June
3, 1919. Trained at Camp Coctquidan, France, for seven weeks. Sent
then to Camp Valdahon on the Swiss border and was attached to
an Artillery School. "Conducted Are" teaching the officers in the
Army of Occupation after the Armistice. A and B Batteries of the
142nd F. A., Heavy Artillery, only were used in this work. One
hundred officers at a time came for a month's course. Continued
this work until May 1, 1919. From May 1 to May 22. turned in equip-
ment, painted, camouflaged guns and so on. Returned to United
States. June 3 — June 16, 1919. Discharged at Camp Tavlor, June
24, 1919.

EICHACKER, HOMER ADOLPH. Private. S. A. T. C. Trained at Butler
College, Indianapolis, Ind., from October 5, 1918, to discharge there
on December 6, 1918.

EICHACKER, OSCAR CHARLES. Private, Battery A, 2nd F. A., Re-
placement Unit. Trained at Camp Tavlor from July 20 to October
24, 1918. Overseas from October 28, 1918, to June 29, 1919. Was
still in port at Southampton. England, when the Armistice was signed
Trained during the winter in various camps in France. Returned
to United States, June 29 — Julv 11, 1919. Discharged at Camp Tay-
lor, July 22, 1919.

ENGEL, GEORGE JOSEPH, Private, General Headquarters, A. E. F.
Trained at Camp Taylor in Co. A, 335th Infantry, 84th Division, from
October 4, 1917, to March 3, 1918. Overseas from March 14, 191S, to
June 18. 1919. Assigned to General Headquarters at Chaumont
France, in Library G, Section 5. Took a consignment of books to
the Y. M. C. A. at Coblenz in the Spring of 1919. Returned to United
States. June 18 — June 28, 1919. Discharged at Camp Mills, N. Y., on
July 7, 1919.

ENGEL, HARRY ADOLPH, Corporal, M. G. Co., 17th Cavalry, 15th Cavalry
Division, 3rd Brigade. Trained at Camp Harry J. Jones, Douglas.
Arizona, for twenty-three months after enlistment on May 10, 1917.
Patrolling Mexican border, service. Discharged at Douglas, Arizona,
April 13, 1919.

ENSINGER, LOUIS ANTHONY, Private, Battery B. 25th F. A., 9th Di-
vision. Trained at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky. and Camp Mc-
Clellan, Anniston, Ala., from July 22, 1918, to discharge at Camp
Taylor on January 31, 1919. ,

350 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

ENSINGER, WILLIAM MICHAEL, Private, Battery B, 25th F. A., 9th
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and MeClellan from July 22,
1918, to discharge at Camp Taylor, January 31, 1919.

FAUST JOHN PHILIP, Private, Evacuation Hospital 27. Trained at
Camp Taylor, Ky. from May 27, 1918, to June 15, 1918. Camp Green-
leaf, Ga. to August 30. Camp Pike Ark. until October 22. Overseas
from October 27, 1918, to April 10, 1919. Treated in hospital: Base
103 at Dijon; Fr. Base 69 at Savonay to April 5. Base 65 at Brest,
April 6 — April 10, 1919. Embarkation Hospital 3, New York City, to
April 26. Ten days in Base Hospital at Camp Taylor. Had pneu-
monia. Discharged at Camp Taylor, May 14, 1919. Returned to
United States in Casual Co. 167, April 10 — April 19, 1919.

FEINTHEL, CLARENCE JOHN, Private, Ordnance Department. Trained
at Camp Bradley, Peoria, 111., from August 1, 1918, to October 1,

1918. At Valparaiso Ind. for two weeks. At Raritan, N. J. to Octo-
ber 14, 1918. Discharged at Camp Sherman, June, 1919. Handled
ammunition and guns. Repaired, assembled and shipped them to
France. Went to docks at Hoboken to sail for overseas but because
of Armistice did not go.

FICHTNER, EDWARD LOUIS, Private. Sent to Camp Sherman for as-
signment and training on May 27, 1918. Discharged at Camp Sher-
man on June 5, 1918, for physical disability.

FIRSICH, JOSEPH H., Private 1st Class, Co. F, 3rd Infantry, Regular
Army. Trained at Eagle Pass, Texas, one month after enlistment on
April IS, 1917. Served from May, 1917, to discharge, September 23,

1919. at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas. Discharged at Camp Taylor.
Service was Mexican border patrol.

FIRSICH, WILLIAM JOHN A., Corporal, Co. E, 48th Infantry, 20th Di-
vision. Trained at Ft. Thomas, Ky., Camps Sevier and Jackson, S.
C, Camps Stewart and Newport News, Va., from enlistment, October
9. " 1917, to discharge at Camp Sherman on July 7, 1919.

FIRSICH RAYMOND, Cook, Troop D, 7th Cavalry, Regular Army. En-
listed September 26, 1917, and trained at Ft. Bliss, Texas, for six
months. Service: Patrol work on Mexican border, rescue raids. The
last one of importance, while in the service, was the rescue of forty-
two American girls. Re-enlisted, June 11, 1919. Discharged at Ft.
Bliss on June 11, 1920.

FIRSICH, WILLIAM ALLEY, Private 1st Class. Medical Detachment.
Trained at Camp Meigs, Washington, D. C, from March 3, 191S. No
foreign service.

FISCHER, HARRY JOHN, Corporal, Co. D, 14th M. G. Bn., 5th Division.
Was first organized as Co C. 13th M. G. Bn., but changed to 14th on
February 28, 1918. Trained at Eagle Pass, Texas, from May 4. 1917,
to April, 1918. Overseas from April 12, 1918, to July 13, 1919. Battles:
LaCude Sector and LaChapelle Sector, Vosges, June. July and
August. 1918. St. Mihiel Offensive, September 12 — September 18, 1918.
Argonne, October 11 — October 19, 1918; October 2,6— November 5,
191S; November 6 — November 11, 1918. Marched to Germany, No-
vember 24 — December 11, 191S. Billeted at Garnich and Oberkorn,
Luxemburg, from December, 1918, to July, 1919. Returned to United
States, July 13 — July 23, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, July

30, 1919.

FISCHER, FLORENCE LEO, Private, Co. B, 140th Infantry, 35th Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman from June 27, 1918, to August 23, 1918.
Overseas from September 2, 1918, to May 20, 1919. Battles: Verdun
Front, Daveness for twenty-one days. Marching toward Metz on
November 11, 1918. Hospital treatment for sprained ankle, Febru-
ary 22 to March 28 ,1919. Returned to United States ,May 20 — May

31. 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, June 12, 1919.

FOLEY, DAN JOHN, Private 1st Class, Battery B. 325th F. A., 84th Di-
vision. Trained at Camp Taylor and West Point, Ky., from May 27,

1918, to August 20, 1918. Overseas from August 26, 1918, to Jan-
uary 16, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, February 13, 1919.

FOERSTER, FRANK EDWARD, Sergeant 1st Class, Amb. Co. 8, Medical
Dept., Regular Army. Trained at Columbus Barracks, O.. in In-
fantry, 22nd Tr. Co., then at Ft. Hamilton, N. Y. and transferred to
Medical Department. Trained here six months. Sent to Corozal,
Panama, November 28, 1916. Assigned here to Amb. Co. 8. Served
here until July, 1919. Had seven months' detached service at San
Thomas Hospital at Panama City. Furloughed on Reserve, July 31,

1919, at Camp Taylor. Returned to Ripley County by way of Ft.
Randolph, Colon; San Juan. Porto Rico; Havana, Cuba; Jackson
Barracks, New Orleans, La.; Camp Shelby, Miss.; Camp Taylor, Ky.

FRUCHTNICHT, ROY JOHN, Private, 821st Aero Squadron. Trained at
Speedway Aviation Parkk Indianapolis, Ind., from June 28, 1918, until
his death at the hospital at Ft. Benjamin Harrison on October 13,
1918, from influenza.

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GAUCK, CHAS. HENRY. Private, Co. B. 36th Infantry. 12th Division.
Trained at Ft. Snelling, Minn, and Camp Devens, Mass., from May
23, 1918, to discharge at Camp Devens, December 6. 1918. Was
transferred to Co. H, Motor Truck Transportation Service. November
1, 1918.

GAUCK, JOHN FRANK, Sergeant, Co. C, Headquarters Bn., General
Headquarters. A. E. F. Trained at Camp Taylor in Co. A. 335th In-
fantry, 84th Division, from September 20, 1917, to March 10, 1918.
Did clerical work in Statistical or Personnel Office at Camp Taylor
from October to March. Overseas from March 14. 1918, to June 20,
1919. Trained at St. Nazaire from March 30, 1918, to April 3, 191S.
At Blois four weeks. Sent to Chaumont on detached service from
May 1, 1918, to June 16, 1919. Handled casuals at Chaumont. Formed
casual companies and sent them in and out, took care of all small
detachments from General Headquarters, paid them, looked after
quarters and rations. Returned to United States, June 20 — June 30,
1919. Discharged at Mitchell Field, L. I., N. Y., on July 12, 1919.
Was on guard at Roosevelt Field when the R-34 came in.

GAUSMAN, HENRY JOHN, Private, Co. F, 16th Infantry, 1st Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to September, 1918.
Overseas from September 2, 1918, to January 20. 1919. Battles: Sedan.
Wounded November 7, 1918, at Sedan. Machine-gun bullet in the
ankle, slight flesh wound in the neck. Treatment at Red Cross Hos-
pital 5 in Paris, and Base 5, at Paris. Returned to United States,
January 20 — January 30, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, Feb-
ruary 14, 1919. Was put in 16th Infantry, in France. Trained in Co.
A. 334th Infantry, 84th Division at Camp Sherman.

GEHRICH, RICHARD JACOB. Private, Battery B. 142nd F. A., 39th Di-
vision. Trained at Camps Taylor and Beauregard from May 27, 1918,
to August 20. 1918. Overseas from August 31, 1918. to June 3, 1919.
Trained in France at Camps Coctquidan and Valdahon. Returned to
United States, June 3 — June 16, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor,
June 24, 1919.

GIBSON. CHARLES SAMUEL, Private. 82nd Co., 6th U. S. Marines. Trained
at Paris Island, S. C. and Quantico, Va., from May 18, 1917, to Oc-
tober 23, 1917. Overseas from October 23, 1917, to September 1. 1919.
Battles: Verdun Sector, March 18 — May 13, 1918; Aisne Defensive.
June 1-6, 1918; Soissons, July 18-20, 1918; Pont-a-Moussin, August
7 — August 14. 1918; St. Mihiel. September 11 — September 16, 1918;
Champagne, Meuse-Argonne, October 1-12, 1918. Cited for gallant
action, November 1, 1918, and awarded D. S. C. and Croix de Guerre.
With Army of Occupation in Germany, November 17 — July 15, 1919.
With Composite Regiment from May 10, 1919, until discharged. Re-
turned to United States. September 1 — September 8, 1919. Discharged
at Washington, D. C, September 18 at Marine Barracks.

GOYERT, GILBERT AUGUST, Wagoner, Amb. Co. 34, 7th Sanitary Train.
7th Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and Greenleaf from April
30, 191S, to July 26, 1918. Overseas from August 13. 1918, to June
18, 1919. Battles: St. Mihiel and Puvenelle Sector, thirty-four days.
Kept on working after November 11, moving sick and wounded back
from Field to Base Hospitals. Moved to Selaincourt, April 1. 1919,
to May 7, then to LeMans. Returned to United States, June 18 — June
30, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, July 10, 1919.

GOYERT. HENRY WILLIAM, Private. Battery B, 25th F. A., 9th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22. 191S, to dis-
charge at Camp Taylor, January 31, 1919.

GOYERT. CLIFFORD WILLIAM, 2nd Class Seaman, U. S. Navy. Trained
at Great Lakes, HI., from August 13, 1918. to discharge on February
26, 1919. Hospital treatment in October for influenza.

GRASMICK. PHILIP, Private, Co. A. 335th Infantry, 84th Division. Trained
at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to September, 1918. Overseas
from September 2, 1918, to March 19, 1919. Hospital treatment for
influenza at Base 16, Verdun in October. Returned to United States,
March 19 — April 2, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman. April 23. 1919.

GREEMAN, BERTHA CHRISTINE, Army Nursing Corps. Trained at
Camp Lewis, Washington, from April 4, 1918, to August 20, 1918.
Had enlisted in Red Cross on March 5. 1918, sworn into the Army,
April 4, 1918. Overseas from September 8, 1918, to July 13, 1919.
Service: Evacuation Hospital 11 at Brizeaux-Forestierre, Argonne
and Camp Hospital 101 at Le Mans, France. Returned to United
States, July 13 — July 20, 1919. Discharged, August 21, 1919, at Bates-
ville, Ind.

GREEMAN, EDWIN ALBERT, Sergeant, 159th Depot Brigade. Trained
at Camp Taylor from July 23, 1918, to discharge there December 29,
1918.

GRINGLE, ARTHUR PAUL, Seaman, U. S. S. Utah. Trained at Great
Lakes, 111., from December 7, 1917, to assignment to U. S. S. Utah.
Service; Coast patrol of the United States from early spring to early

352 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

summer, 191 S. Foreign service from early spring of 1918 to Jan-
uary 27, 1919. The Utah was one in the double lines of allied ships
to witness the surrender of the German Fleet at the Firth of Forth.
Returned with the Overseas Fleet to New York, December IB— De-
cember 26, 1918. Discharged, January 27, 1919, at New York City.

HANKING, HARRY ALVIN, Chauffeur, 74th Aero Squadron. Trained at
Ft. Slocum, N. Y., from Julv 10, 1917, to August 8, 1917. Transferred
to Ft. Wood, then Kelly Field, Texas, in August 13, 1917. Trained
here until December 15. 1917. Overseas from March 4, 1918, to June
16, 1919. At Concentration Camp, Morrison, Va.. from December,
1917. to March, 1918. At Romorantin, France, until March 26, 1919.
In charge of four locomotive cranes unloading all air-service sup-
plies that came to France. Attended the A. B. F. University at
Beaune, Cote d'Or, France, March 7 to June 7, 1919. Returned to
United States. June 16 — Julv 2, 1919. Discharged at Camp Dix, N.
J., July 10, 1919.

HART, EVERETT JEFFERSON. Seaman 2nd Class, U. S. Destroyer Yar-
nall. Trained at Great Lakes, 111., from July 8, 1918, to September
11, 1918. Sent to Receiving Ship at Philadelphia until October 30.
Assigned on that date to the Yarnall. Overseas from December 3,
191S, to June 22, 1919. Returned to United States, June 23 — July 8,
1919. Discharged at New York City, July 10, 1919.

HEIDT, HERMAN WILLIAM. Carpenter's Mate 1st Class, U. S. Naval
Reserve. Trained at Great Lakes, 111., from May 22, 1918, to March
18. 1919, when assigned to the U. S. S. Santa Rosa, doing transport
duty. Made three trips, two (o Bordeaux and one to St. Nazaire,
France, bringing home troops. Discharged at Hoboken, N. J. on
July 2, 1919. Hospital treatment at Great Lakes for influenza.

HICKMAN, HENRY HERMAN. Private, Co. A, Section B, Motor Trans-
port Corps. Trained at Rolling Prairie, Ind., from October 15, 1918.
to discharge on November 1, 1918. Under required weight.

HILLMAN, FRANK CHARLES, Private, Co. C, 112th Am. Tr., 37th Di-
vision. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sheridan from April 30, 1918.
to June 20, 1918. Overseas from June 27, 1918, to March 20, 1919.
Battles: St. Mihiel and Argonne. Service: Driving ammunition truck
to the front lines. Returned to United States, March 20 — April 2,
1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, April 14. 1919.

HOENE. STANLEY HENRY, Wagoner. Battery E, 47th C. A. C. Trained
from June 2. 1918, at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., about ten days; at
Ft. Caswell, N. C, three months; Camp Eustis, a few days; Chauffeur
at Fortress Monroe, four weeks. Camp Eustis again until Octobei
21, 1918. Overseas from October 21, 1918, to January 31, 1919. Trained
in France at Angouleme from November 3 to November 11, 1918.
Went then to various camps until returned to United States Jan-
uary 31 — February 15, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, March
13, 1919.

HOYER, DALLAS, Sergeant, Co. D, 40th Infantry, 14th Division. Trained
at Camps Custer and Sherman and Ft. Riley, Kas., from May 23,
191S, to discharge at Camp Custer, August 9, 1919.

HORNLEIN, WILLIAM, Private, Co. K, 10th Infantry. Regular Army.
Trained at Benjamin Harrison from August 29, 1917, until discharged
there on February 4, 191S.

HORSTMAN. EDWIN CHRIST, Private. Battery B, 26th F. A., 9th Di-
vision. Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22, 1918,
to February, 1919. Discharged at Camp Grant, 111., February 10,
1919.

HUNEKE. ALONZO JOHN. Private, 442nd Co., Bn. B, U. S. Marines.
Trained at Paris Island, S. C, from October 7, 1918, to discharge on
April 8, 1919.

HUNEKE, ELMER CORDT, Private 1st Class, Battery B, 26th F. A., 9th
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22,
1918, to February, 1919. Discharged, February 10. 1919, at Camp
Grant, 111.

HUNEKE. IRVIN HENRY WILLIAM. Corporal, Co. A. 45th Infantry.
Regular Army. Trained at Camp Sheridan, Ala. from June 4, 1918,
to discharge at Camp Gordon, March 14, 1919. Re-enlisted at Camp
Gordon in same unit.

HUNEKE, CLARENCE, Private 1st Class, Base Hospital. Trained at
Camp Taylor from March 29, 1918, to discharge on June 19, 1919.

IDLEWINE, HARRY. Private, Battery A, 26th Field Artillery, 9th Di-
Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22, 191S. to dis-
charge at Camp Taylor on February 14, 1919.

IDLEWINE, WALTER SCOTT, Private, Batery A, 26th F. A., 9th Di-
vision. Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22, 1918,
to discharge at Camp Grant, 111. on March 19, 1919.

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JAMES, LESTER WARREN, Private 1st Class, Co. A, 384th Infantry,
84th Division. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to
September. 1918. Overseas from September 2, 1918, to August 23,
1919. Battles: Meuse-Argonne. Returned to United States. August
23- — September 3, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, September 25,
1919. -

JOHAXXING. LEROY BERTRAM, Sergeant, 20th Co., 5th Tr. Bn., 158th
Depot Brigade. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to
December 9, 1918, when discharged.

JOHANNING, ALBERT HERMAN, Sergeant, Field Hospital 6, Medical
Dept. Trained at Pts. Benjamin Harrison and Oglethorpe from
September 5, 1917. to December, 191 S. Discharged at Camp Custer,
December 28, 1918. .

JEFFRIES, RUSSELL NEWTON. Sergeant. Trained at Camp Taylor
from September 4. 1 91 S, to March 25, 1919, in 159th Depot Brigade,
13th Co., 2nd Regiment. From March 25, in various detached com-
panies until June 21, when sent to Officers' Training School until
August 2, 1919. Discharged, August 7, 1919. Hospital record: In-
fluenza in October.

JOHNSON, BENJAMIN GODFREY, Private, M. G. Co.. 362nd Infantry.
91st Division. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to Sep-
tember, 1918. Overseas from September 3, 1918, to April 3, 1919.
Battles: Lys-Seheldt, Belgium. Returned to United States on April
3 — April 14, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, May 1, 1919.

KALB, GUSTAVE, Private, Battery C, 15th F. A., 2nd Division. Trained
at Pine Camp, Watertown, N. J., from September 6, 1917, to Decem-
ber 12, 1917. Overseas from December 12. 1917, to July 28, 1919.
Battles: Troyon Sector. Verdun, Chateau-Thierry, St. Mihiel, Cham-
pagne, Soissons, Meuse-Argonne. Two months' hospital treatment
for influenza. Returned to United States, July 28 — August 6, 1919.
Discharged in July, 1920.

KARL, WILLIAM FREDERICK, Chief Q. M., U. S. Navy. Enlisted, June
17, 1912, at Cincinnati, O. Six years and ten months' previous
service. Trained at Norfolk, Va. Service on U. S. S. Louisiana,
battleship unit: U. S. S. Patuxent, Mine-sweeping unit; II. S. S.
Martha Washington, transport unit; U S. S. Wm. A. McKenney, con-
voy with Battleship Illinois unit; U. S. S. Francis B. Hackett. tug-
boat unit. Battles: Vera Cruz, Mexico; Cape Haiten, Haiti, Cuban
Pacification, and numerous submarine attacks during World's War.
Still in service, 1920.

KARL, EDWARD FRED JOHN. Private, Supply Co.. 36th Infantry, 12th
Division. Trained at Ft. Snelling, Minn, and Camp Devens. Mass.,
from May 23, 1918, to February, 1918. Discharged, February 10,
1919, at Camp Taylor. Was operated on at Ft. Snelling for appen-
dicitis on July 5, 1918, four weeks in hospital.

KARL. GEORGE FREDERICK, Sergeant-Bugler. Headquarters Det.,
Army Service Corps. Trained from September 20, 1917. at Camps
Tavlor and Sherman in Co. A, 335th Infantrv, S4th Division, until
September. 1918. Overseas from September 4. 1918. to July 8, 1919,
Transferred to Army Service Corps, April 1. 1919. Returned to United
States, July S — July 18, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, July
26, 1919.

KARBOWSKI, PETER, Fireman, U. S. S. Worden. Trained at Great
Lakes, 111. and Philadelphia. Penn., from May 25, 1918, to July 9,
1918. Overseas from July 21, 191S, to January, 1919. Assigned to
U. S. Destroyer Worden in August, 191S. at Brest, France. Returned
to United States. January 3, 1919. Discharged at Philadelphia, Feb-
ruary 10, 1919.

KESSENS, WALTER LEONARD, Private, Co. B, 36th Infantry. 12th Di-
vision. Trained at Ft. Snelling, Minn, and Camp Devens. Mass., from
May 23, 1918, to March 12, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, March
19. 1919.

KLEINER, EARL CHARLES, Private 1st Class. Co. D, 361st Infantry,
91st Division. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to Sep-
tember. 1918. Overseas from September 3. 191S. to April 3, 1919.
Trained in Co. E, '335th Infantry, 84th Division. Transferred to
91st after reaching France. Battles: Lys-Seheldt in Belgium, Oc-
tober 31 — November 11. Returned to United States. April 3 — April
15, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, May 6, 1919.

KOPS, FRED JOHN, Private. Sent to Camp Sherman for training, on
June 26, 1918. Was treated at Base Hospital, Camp Sherman for
forty days. Discharged, August 10, 191S, for physical disability.

KREUZMAN, JOHN ALFRED, Private. 306th Field Bakery Co., Q. M. C.
Trained at Ft. Thomas and Svracuse, N. Y., from August 22, 1917.
to October, 1917. Overseas from October 18, 1917. to April 20. 1919.
Served at Nevers, Gievres, Angers, Langres-Marne. Montigny Leroi
and Dijon. Returned to United States, April 20, 1919. Discharged at
Hoboken, N. J., on May 9, 1919.

354 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

KREUZMAN, WILLIAM ALPHEUS, Corporal. 82nd Co., 6th U. S. Marines.
Trained at Paris Island, S. Q. and Quantico, Va„ from May 18, 1917,
to October 23, 1917. Trained at Bordeaux, France, from November,

1917, to January, 1918. From January to March, 1918, at Chaumont
and Laville, France. Overseas from October 23, 1917, to September
1, 1919. Battles: Verdun Sector, Aisne Defensive, Chateau-Thierry,
Soissons, Pont-a-Moussin, St. Mihiel, Champagne, Meuse-Argonne.
With Army of Occupation at Coblenz, Germany, from November,

1918, to July 15, 1919. Awarded D. S. C. and French Croix de Guerre
for gallant conduct in battle, November 1, 1918. Was a member of
General Pershing's Composite Regiment. Returned to United States,
September 1, 1919 — September 8. Discharged at Marine Barracks,
Washington, D. C, on September 25, 1919. . Discharge dated, Sep-
tember 18, 1919.

KUMPART, HENRY W., Private, Co. A, SOth Engineers. Trained at
Camp Tavlor from September 20, 1917, to March 20, 1918. Overseas
from March 28, 1918, to April 18, 1919. Trained and worked at La-
Rochelle. France, for thirteen months. Returned to United States,
April 18 — April 25, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, May 10,
1919.

KUMPART, ALBERT HERMAN, Corporal, 3rd Regiment, Air Service,
Co. 7. Trained at Camps Shelby, Hancock and Green, from Septem-
ber 20, 1917, to June, 1918. Overseas from June 21, 1918, to June 21,

1919, Trained in France at Orly Field, six months. Returned to
United States. June 2 — July 1, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman,
July 14, 1919.

LAMBERT, HARRY FRANK. Sergeant, Medical Department, U. S. Army.
Trained and served at Ft. Thomas, Ft. Harrison and Camp Taylor
from June 27, 1917, to discharge at Camp Taylor on September 27,
1919.

LAMBERT, ALBERT JOHN, Private, Co. C, 108th Engineers, 33rd Division.
Trained at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, from Julv 14. 1917, to May
1, 1918. Overseas from May 8, 1918, to May 15, 1919. Battles: Meuse-
Argonne, Bois de Forges. Served on the American Sector with the
British Army from May 18 to August 24, 1918. From August 24 to
September 26, with American Army in Troyon Sector. From Oc-
tober 25 to November 11, Vaden lines. The Engineers' part in these
operations was building roads and bridges, digging trenches and
dug-outs and dressing-stations, putting up barbed-wire entangle-
ments and so on. AVas sent to Luxemburg with the Army of Occu-
pation. Returned to United States, May 15 — May 23, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Grant, June 8, 1919.

LINDENMAIER. JOSEPH PETER, Corporal, 821st Aero Squadron.
Trained at Speedway Aviation Park, Indianapolis, Ind., from June
28, 1918, until discharged there on March 19, 1919.

LINDENMAIER, SYLVESTER FRANCIS, Private, Co. C, 36th Infantry,
12th Division. Trained at Ft. Snelling, Minn, for three months,
from May 23, 1919. At Camp Devens, Mass., five months. Discharged
February 1, 1919. at Camp Taylor.

LUCAS. JOSEPH SAMUEL, Private, Co. H, 126th Infantry, 32nd Division,
and Co. A, 153rd Infantry, 39th Division. Trained at Camps Taylor
and Beauregard from May 27, 1918, to August, 1918. Overseas from
August 6, '1918, to April 28, 1919. Battles: Argonne, twenty days.
Marched into Germany, December 1, 1918. Located at Thelhausen,
about ten miles from Coblenz. Returned to France in box-cars,
reaching Brest on April 23, 1919. Returned to United States, April
28 — May 14, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, May 23, 1919.

MARTIN. JOHN WILLIAM, Sergeant, Co. B, 60th Engineers. Trained
at Ft. Benjamin Harrison from May 19, 1918, to June, 1918. Over-
seas from June 28, 1918, to May 22, 1919. Attached to Signal Corps
on special duty most of the time in France. After November 11
returned to regiment and served as chief clerk., train-master and
chief despatcher, military, for Est Railroad. Returned to United
States, May 22, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, August 2, 1919.
Hospital treatment, Bazeilles Sur Meuse for injury received in line
of duty.

MEER, BERNARD J. C, Corporal, Bat. B., 69th C. A. C, 33rd Brigade. Was
trained at Fort Worden, Wash., from enlistment, April 22, 1914. Over-
seas from August 14, 1918, to February 1, 1919. Discharged at Camp
Eustis, Va., August 25, 1920. Furlough on reserve June 1, 1919.

MEISTER, CLINTON, Wagoner, Supply Co., 120th Infantry, 30th Divi-
sion. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier from September 20. 1917.
to May 17, 1918. Overseas from May 23, 191S, to April 1, 1919. Service:
Ypres Front in Belgium. Battles of the Hindenburg Line. Drove
ammunition wagons to the firing lines. Returned to United States,
April 1 — -April 13, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, April 24,
1919.

MEYER, EDWARD GEORGE, Wagoner, Supply Co., 68th F. A. Trained
at Camps Taylor and Knox from September 6, 1918, to discharge at
Camp Knox on December 26, 1918.

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MILLER, CORNELIUS JOHN, Private ,Co. M, 120th Infantry, 30th Di-
vision. Trained at Camps Tavlor and Sevier from October 4, 1917,
to May 1, 1918. Overseas from May 17, 1918, to December 12, 1918.
Battles: Tpres Front, in Belgium, Kemmel Hill. Voormezeele, Hinden-
burg Line, Cambrai, St. Quenlin. Was in Corporal Ora Weare's squad,
as was Carl Mistier, of Osgood. Wounded, September 29. shot through
upper left arm. Hospital treatment, First Aid. American Hospital.
Canadian Hospital at Brighton, England for eight weeks. Sent to
American Hospital 33, Kentucky Unit, (trained at Camp Taylor), at
Portsmouth, England, for two weeks. Returned to United States,
December 12 — December 21, 1918. Discharged at Camp Grant, March
1, 1919, after ten weeks in hospital at Ft. Sheridan.

MILLER, LEONARD JOHN. Corporal, Headquarters Co., 103rd F. A.,
26th Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sherman from October
4. 1917, to August 20, 1918. Overseas from September 3, 1918, to
April 2, 1919. With Headquarters Co., 335th Infantry, 84th Division,
until after reaching France. Returned to United States, April 2 —
April 13, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor on May 13, 1919.

MICHEL, WALDO ALBERT, Private, Co. C, 16th Infantry, 1st Division.
Trained at Camps Sherman and Mills from June 26, 1917, to Sep-
tember 2, 1918. Overseas from September 2, 1918, to August 3. 1919.
Battles: Meuse-Argonne, fifteen days. With Army of Occupation in
Germany from November 12, 1918, to July 23, 1919. At Dernbach
until April, then at Selters until leaving Germany. Service: Clerical
work in personnel department. Returned to United States, August
3 — August 10, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, August 16, 1919.
Trained in America in Co. D, 334th Infantry. Sith Division. Trans-
ferred to First Division after reaching France.

MOORE, THOMAS JOSEPH, Sergeant. Medical Department, Staff Corps.
Trained at Ft. Thomas, Ky. in Regular Army, enlisting September
26, 1917. Service at Ft. Thomas. Hospital record for pneumonia. Dis-
charged October, 1920.

MOORMAN, HERMAN LOUIS, Private 1st Class, Acting Sergeant in Motor
Transport Corps. Trained at Camp Taylor, Ky., in 29th Co.. 8th Bn.,
159th Depot Brigade Service at Ft. McPherson, Savannah, Ga. In-
ducted, April 30, 1918. Discharged at Camp Taylor, January 16,
1919.

MOODY, JESSE OTTO, Private, Battery B, 61st C. A. C. Trained at Ft.
Thomas, Ky. one month from enlistment, January 4, 1918. At Ft.
Moultrie, Moultrieville, S. C, from February 1, 1918, until discharge,
November 14, 1918. Developed pneumonia while home on furlouph
in March, 1918, was unable to rejoin regiment until August 1, 1918.
Treatment at Base Hospital, Ft. Moultrie, from August 1 to Novem-
ber 14, 1918. At Marine Hospital, Evansville, from July 8, 1919, to
November 8, 1919. Died, January 4, 1920.

NARWOLD, GEORGE, Private, Battery A, 39th Division. Trained at
Camps Taylor and Beauregard, La., from May 27. 1918. to A.ugust 14.
191S. Overseas from August 31, 1918. to June 3, 1919. -i'rained in
France at Camps Coctquidan and Valdahon on the Swiss border.
Battery B, with Battery A were chosen to "conduct fire" in Officers'
Artillery School at Camp Valdahon. One hundred officers from the
A. E. F. came at one time for a month's course. Returned to United
States, June 3 — June 16, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, June 24,
1919.

NEWMAN, HAROLD HERSCHELL, Private, U. S. Ambulance Service,
Section 616. Trained at Valparaiso, Ind.. two weeks, beginning
August 1. 1918. At Ann Arbor, Mich, in Signal Corps. Co. D, trans-
ferred to S. A. T. C. At Ann Arbor University, Co. B, for two months.
Sent then to Camp Crane, AlLntown, Pa., where assigned to Amb.
Co. Overseas from November 13, 1918, to May 23, 1919. Stayed at
Base Ambulance Camp at Ferriers, France, for four months. Left
on March 3, 1919, for Germany, by way of Paris, Nancy and Stras-
burg. Stopped at Mayence a short time to do ambulance work. Had
been transferred to French Army on leaving Ferriers, Sanitary Service
Unit 1564. Helped carry French wounded and soldiers back from
the camps to base hospitals. Formed a convoy of about five hundred
ambulances returning to Ferriers, a distance from five hundred to
nine hundred kilometers. Returned to United States, May 23 — June
4, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, June 17, 1919. Had influenza
at Ann Arbor. Was also injured in the collapse of an old building
there.

NICKOL. LAWRENCE JOSEPH, Corporal, 821st Aero Squadron. Trained
at Speedway Aviation Repair Depot, Speedway, Indianapolis, Ind.,
from June 26, 1918, to discharge there on January 23, 1919. Service:
Building and repairing airplanes.

OLLIER, GEORGE CHARLES, Seaman, U. S. Navy. Trained at Great
Lakes, 111., from May 12, 1918. for three weeks, then at Philadelphia
for two weeks. Left Philadelphia, July 27, 1918; sailed August. 3 on
the Leviathan: arrived at Brest, France, on August 11, 1918. As-

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signed to the Buffalo, Repair Ship, and went to Naval Base 9, at
Gibi>iltar, Spain, arriving August 19. Stayed here until December
15, 1918. Returned to United States on U. S. S. Sherman, arriving
at Hoboken, N. J.. December 31, 191S. Assigned to duty on the
U. S. S. Dakota, transport; three trips. Discharged, May 31, 1919,
at Philadelphia.
O'NEAL, ROBERT NEWTON, Private. 6th Co.. C. A. C. Enlisted in Oc-
tober, 1908, and served two years as company barber. Re-enlisted,
December, 1911. Sent to Fortress Monroe, Va., for training in Coast
Artillery. Served here three years. Re-enlisted in August, 1914, at
Fortress Monroe and sent to Panama in January, 1916, stationed at
Cristobal, Canal Zone, until discharged there, April 19, 1919.

OSWALD, JOSEPH WILLIAM, Private, Headquarters Co., 336th Bn., Tank
Corps. Trained at Camp Purdue, Lafayette, Ind. and Camp Colt, Pa.,
from June 28, 1918. to discharge on December 18, 1918, at Camp Tay-
lor. Hospital treatment for influenza.

PATTERSON, JOSEPH NATHANIEL, Corporal, Headquarters Co., 4th F.
A. Trained at Camp Jackson, S. C, from July 20, 191S, to February,
1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, February 4, 1919.

PEETZ, LEO GEORGE WILLIAM, Private, 159th Depot Brigade. At
Camp Taylor from September 6, 1918, until discharged there for
physical disability on September 11, 1918.

PIERPONT, JOSEPH CLAUD, Private, M. G. Co., 57th Infantry, 15th Di-
vision. Trained at Camp Logan. Houston, Texas, from May 23. 1918,
to June, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, June 9, 1919. Throat
operation at Camp Pike, Base Hospital.

PLANTHOLT, FRANK JOSEPH, Sergeant. 3rd Co., 6th Bn., Ordnance
Department. Trained at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis and
Camp Hancock, Ga., from June 15, 1918, to August, 1918. Overseas
from August 30, 1918, to July 5, 1919. Service at Mc-hun, Ordnance
Center. Returned to United States, July 5 — July 14, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Sherman, July 22, 1919.

PRAKEL, FRANK. Private, Battery A, 134th F. A., 37th Division. Trained
at Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Ala., from April 30, 1918, to June
14, 1918. At Camp Upton, N. Y., two weeks. Overseas from June
28, 1918, to March 20, 1919. Battles: Marbache Sector, ten days;
Pannes Sector, October 23 — November 11. Camped near Verdun after
Armistice until February 25, 1919. Returned to United States, March
20 — April 2, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, April 17, 1919. Had
measles at Camp Sheridan, May 28 — June 13, 1918.

PRELL, HUGO AUGUST, Private, Co. G, 2Sth Infantry, First Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman in Headquarters Co., 329th Infantry, 83rd
Division, from March 29, 1918, to June, 1918. Overseas from June
12, 1918. Transferred to First Division on August 2, 1918. Killed
at Meuse-Argonne, October 12, 1918.

RUHL, JOSEPH WILLIAM, Private 1st Class, Co. D. 36th Infantry, 12th
Division. Trained at Ft. Snelling, Minn, and Camp Devens, Mass..
from May 23, 1918, to January 25, 1919. Discharged at Camp Tay-
lor, February 3, 1919. The 12th Division was known as the Ply-
mouth Division.

RUHL, EDWARD JOHN, Private, Medical Department, 3rd Bn., 23rd In-
fantry, Second Division. Trained at Camp Taylor and Camp Green-
leaf from May 27. 1918, to September, 1918. Overseas from Sep-
tember 1, 1918, to July 23, 1919. Battles: Meuse-Argonne, October
1 — November 11, 1918. Marched with Second Division to Germany,
located at Vallandar, near Coblenz, for longest period. Left Ger-
many, July 15, 1919; left, Brest. France, July 23, 1919, reached New
York City, United States, August 3, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sher-
man, August 14, 1919.

SAMMS. MALCOLM LAYLE, Captain, Medical Corps. U. S. Army. Trained
at New Haven, Conn., from June 27, 1918, to December, 1918. Dis-
charged at Otisville, N. Y., December 11, 191S.

SCHENE, ARTHUR J.. Sergeant 1st Class. Medical Department. Trained
at Camp Taylor, Ky„ from September 5, 1917. Assigned to Base
Hospital, Camp Taylor, until discharged, April IS, 1919.

SCHEIN. ARTHUR WILLIAM, Sergeant, Co. A. 335th Infantry, S4th Di-
vision. Trained at Camp Taylor and Camp Sherman from Septem-
ber 9, 1917, to September. 1918. Overseas from September 3, 1918, to
February 27, 1919. Trained in France at Mussedan until Novem-
ber 1, 1918. Hospital treatment at Savonay. France, and Camp Tay-
lor and Ft. Sheridan, U. S. A. Returned to United States, February
27 — March 13, 1919. Discharged at Ft. Sheridan, 111., February 14,
1920.

SCHMIDT, JOHN ADAM, Private, Amb. Co. 34, 7th Sanitary Train, 7th
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and Greenleaf from April 30.
1918, to August, 1918. Overseas from August 13, 1918, to June 18,

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1919. Battles: Meusc-Argonne Offensive, thirty-two days, litter-bearer.
At Martineourt, France, from November 11, 1918, to March, 1919.
In hospital at Martineourt in February for bronchitis. Returned to
United States, June IS — June 30, 1919. Discharged at Camp Tavlor,
July 9, 1919.

SCHOETMER, JOHN HENRY, Private, Co. C, 27th M. G. Bn„ 9th Division.
Trained at Camp Sheridan, Ala., from August 8, 1918, to discharge
there, February 10, 1919.

SCHRADER, ALBERT EP.NEST, Lieutenant, U. S. Navy. Trained at
United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, from
August 6, 1912, until assigned to U. S. S Annapolis, June 3, 1916.
to June 24, 1916; U. S. S. Vermont. June 24, 1916, to October 20, 1916;
October 29, 1916, to August 13, 1917, on U. S. S. Annapolis. Pro-
moted from Midshipman 4th Class to Ensign, to Lieutenant, Junior
Grade, to Lieutenant, January 1, 1918. Service in World War at
Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, R. I., August 20, 1917, to Septem-
ber 16, 1918. Convoy duty on IT. S. Destroyer Dorsey to Buncrana,
Ireland, and Brest, France. Through early part of 1917, patro! duty
on Mexican coast. In Presidential convoys, December, 1918, and
March, 1919. Ordered to Adriatic Sea in April, 1919.

SCHUMACHER, JACOB OTTO. Private 1st Class, Headquarters Co., 70th
C. A. C. Trained at Fts. Hamilton and Wadsworth, N. Y., from April
3, 1918, to July 15, 1918. Overseas from July 15, 1918, to February
12, 1919. Sent to Artillery School five weeks at Angers, France.
Sent in a detachment from the 70th to the 71st C. A. C. as instructor
at Paillavaux, from October 1 to November 11, 191S. Returned to
United States, February 12 — February 22, 1919. Discharged at Camp
Sherman, March 12, 1919.

SCHUMACHER, PHILIP FRED, Sergeant, Air Service. Line 340, Sec. H.
Trained at Kelley Field, Texas, from March 18, 1918, to June, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Taylor, June 19, 1919.

SCHWIER, WALKER, Private, Battery B. 25th F. A., 9th Division. Trained
at Camp McClellan, Anniston Ala., from July 22, 1918, to February,
1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, February 2S, 1919.

SCHWIER, HOLDEN RAY, Private. Co. D, 333rd Infantry, 84th Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to September, 1918.
Overseas from September 1, 1918, to April 16, 1919. Returned to
United States, April 16 — April 28, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor,
May 13, 1919.

SEVERINGHAUS," BRIGHTLY GEO. FREDERICK, Private 1st Class, Co.
M, 34th Infantry, 7th Division. Trained at Jefferson Barracks, Mo.
and Chickamauga Park, Ga. and at Camp McArthur, Texas, six
months, from July 13, 1917. to August, 1918. Trained in various or-
ganizations, Co. G, 53rd Infantry; Co. A, 20th M. G. Bn„ transferred
to 34th Infantry, before sailing. Overseas from August 7, 1918, to
August 19, 1919. Battles: St. Mihiel, Argonne, advance on Metz.
Transferred to Second Army Headquarters, Department of Criminal
Investigation after the Armistice was signed. Located at Toul,
France. Sent on detached duty to Belgium with 287th M. P. Co.
in June, July and August, 1919. Went by way of Metz and through
Germany and Luxemburg. Returned to United States, August 19 —
August 29, 1919. Discharged, September 5, 1919, at Camp Taylor.

SHUCK, CHARLES A., Sergeant. Co. D, 28th Infantry. First Division.
Trained at Ft. Ringgold, Texas, from April 28, 1916, to June, 1917.
Overseas from June 14. 1917, to August 24, 1919. Trained in Gondre-
court Area, France. Battles: Toul Sector, January 15 — April 3. 1918;
Cantigny, May 23-30, 1918; Montdidier-Noyon. June 9-13, 1918; Aisne-
Marne, July 18 — August 6, 191S; Saizieres Sector, August 7-24, 1918;
St. Mihiel, September 12-16. 1918; Meuse-Argonne, September 26 —
November 11, 1918. With Army of Occupation in Germany, from
November, 1918, to August, 1919. Returned to United States, August
24 — September 1, 1919. Stationed at Camp Taylcr in 2nd Co., M G.
Bn.

SHUCK. CHRIS THOMAS, Sergeant, Co. D 20th Infantry, Regular Army.
Trained at Ft. Douglas, Utah, from May 6, 1913. Discharged, Feb-
ruary 12, 1919, at Ft. Logan, Colorado. When first enlisted was
sent to Ft. Shafter. Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. Furloughed to
Regular Army Reserve, May 20. 1916. Recalled to active service on
the Mexican border, July 5, 1916, until discharged in 1919.

SHUCK. GUS JULIUS, Corporal, Co. G, 13th Infantry, 8th Division.
Trained at Ft. McKinley, P. I., Camp Fremont, Cal., from Septem-
ber 4, 1914. Embarked from Manila, Philippine Islands on July 15,

1917, and trained at Camp Fremont one year. Was discharged a^t
Camp Mills, N. Y., on July 12, 1919.

SHOUSE, OSCAR BERNARD, Private 1st Class, 29th Co.. 8th Tr. Bn.,
159th Depot Brigade. Trained at Camp Taylor. Ky., from March 29,

1918. Assigned to Medical Department and trained until discharged
at Camp Greenleaf, Ga. Discharged at Camp Taylor, June 19, 1919.

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SIEBERT, GEORGE ADAM, Private, Battery F, 6th F. A., Replacement
Unit. Trained at Camp Taylor from July 23, 1918, until discharged,
December 14, 1918. Had influenza and pneumonia, from 3rd of Oc-
tober to December 1, 1918.

STARKE, VINCENT PETER, Private, M. G. Co., 333rd Infantry, 84fh
Division. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to August
20, 1918. Overseas from September 2, 1918, to April 6, 1919. Battles:
Verdun Sector, October 25 — November 8. Returned to United States,
April 6 — April 28, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, May 13, 1919.

STEINKAMP, WILLIAM MICHAEL, Cook, 20th Co., 5th Tr. Bn.. 158th
Depot Brigade. Trained and served at Camp Sherman, .Chillicothe,
O., from June 26, 1918, until discharged on November 29, 1918.

STEIN. ANTHONY, Private, Gas Defense Division. Trained at Syracuse,
N. V. Recruit Camp and Lakehurst, N. J., from July 29, 1918, to dis-
charge at Lakehurst, N. J., on December 12, 1918.

STOCKINGER, CHESTER RAYMOND, Mech., Co. C, 40th Infantry, 14th
Division. Trained at Ft. Riley, Kas. and Camp Custer, Mich., from
May 23, 191S, to discharge at Camp Custer, January 22, 1919.

TAYLOR, WINFRED BURNETT, First Lieutenant, Battery C, 327th F.
A., 84th Division. Trained first in Battery B, 1st Ind. F. A., eight
months as a private at Purdue University. Enlisted, May 11, 1917,
in Officers Training Camp at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis.
Trained here three months in 1st Battery, 9th Prov. Tr. Regiment,
commisslonerd Second Lieutenant on August 15, 1917. First Lieu-
tenant on September 6, 1918. Completed training in United States
at Ft. Sill, Okla.. West Point Art. Range, Ky. and Camp Grant, 111.
Overseas from September 8. 1918, to January 20, 1919. Trained at
Camp de Souge, France. Returned to United States, January 20 —
February 5, 1919. Stationed at Camp Grant, 111.

TEKULVE, ALBERT FRANK, Private, Co. M, 18th Infantry, 1st Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918. to September, 1918,
in 84th Division. Overseas from September 2, 191S, to August 23,
1919. Transferred in France to First Division. Battles: Meuse-Ar-
gonne, Defensive Sector .two weeks. With Army of Occupation at
Mogendorf, Germany, from November, 191S, to August, 1919. Re-
turned to United States, August 23 — September 4, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Sherman, September 26, 1919.

TEKULVE, ANDREW JOHN, Sergeant, 1st Co., 1st Regiment, Medical
Department, 84th Division. Trained and served at Camp Taylor, Ky..
from September 17, 1917, to discharge at Camp Taylor, March 27.
1919.

THIEL. GEORGE BALZAR, Private 1st Class, Battery D, 146th F. A.,
41st Division. Trained at Camp Lewis. Washington, from Septem-
ber 11, 1917. until December, 1917. Embarked from New York. De-
cember 24, 1917. Overseas until June 15, 1919. Trained in Franca
at Camp de Souge, January 7 to July 1, 1918. Battles: Champagne-
Marne Defensive, July 15-18; Aisne-Marne, July 18 — August 6; St.
Mihiel, September 9-16; Meuse-Argonne, September 26 — November 11,

1918. With Army of Occupation in Germany, near Coblenz, from
November, 918, to June, 1919. Returned to United States, June 15 —
June 22, 1919. Discharged at Camp Lewis. Wash., June 29, 1919.

TIMMERMAN, EDWARD CONRAD. JR., Private, 13th Co., 2nd Platoon.
Q. M. C. Trained at Ft. Thomas, Ky. and Camp Johnston, Fla., from
July 2, 1918, to discharge at Camp Johnston on January 27, 1919.

UPDIKE, HENRY CLAY. Private 1st Class, Headquarters Co., 70th C.
A. C. Trained at Fts. Hamilton and Wadsworth. N. Y., from April
3, 1918, to .Tulv 15, 1918. Overseas from July 15. 1918, to February
12, 1919. Returned to United States, February 12 — February 22,

1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, March 12, 1919.

VANCE, JOSEPH JOHN, Seaman Cook, 2nd Class, U. S. Navy. Trained
at Cape May, N. J., from March 20, 1918, to release, on September
9, 1919.

VIERLING, ELMER ANTHONY, Corporal, Co. K, 77th Infantry, 14th Di-
vision. Trained at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind., from August 28, 1917,
to July 29, 1918. At Camp Custer, Mich., to discharge there on Jan-
uary 14, 1919. Treated at hospital for partial paralysis of right foot,
during August, September and October, 1918.

VONDERHEIDE, MICHAEL QUIRIN. Sergeant. Battery F, 3rd F. A.. 6th
Division. Trained at Columbus Barracks. O., Laredo, Texas, Ft. Myer,
Va., Camp McClellan, Ala., and Fort Sill, Okla., from May 6, 1916,
to July, 1918. Overseas from July 13, 191S, to June 10, 1919. Trained
in France at Valdahon, July 30 — September 30. 191S. Returned to
United States, June 10 — June 19, 1919. Discharged at Camp Grant,
June 4, 1920.

WACHSMAN, MELSON JACOB, Private, S. A. T. C. Reserve Army Corps.
Trained at Franklin College, Franklin, Ind., from October 15, 1918,
to discharge there, December 21, 1918.

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WAGNER, CHARLES FLETCHER, Private, 96th Co., 6th U. S. Marines,
2nd Division. Trained at Paris Island, S. C. and Quantico, Va.. from
July 31, 1918, to October 7, 1918. Overseas from October 7, 1918, to
April 21. 1919. Battles: Argonne Forest. Marched to Coblenz, Ger-
many in November, 1918. Remained there until April, 1919. Re-
turned to United States. April 21 — May 7, 1919. Discharged at Quan-
tico, Va., on June 20, 1919.

WAGNER, COLUMBUS FRANKLIN, Sergeant, Battery F, 17th F. A., 2nd
Division. Trained at Camp Shelby, Miss, in Co. F, 4th Infantrv, Ind.
N. G., from September 20, 1917, to September 26, 1917, when "trans-
ferred to 139th F. A., Supply Co. Transferred in June, 191S, to Re-
placement Unit, 2nd Division. Overseas from June 8, 1918, to July
23, 1919. Battles: Aisne-Marne, July 18-25; Marbache, August 9 —
August 22; St. Mihiel, September 12-16; Meuse-Argonne (Champagne)
October 1 — October 2S; Meuse-Argonne, November 1 — November 11,
1918. Lost rank on transfer to Replacement Unit. Slightly gassed
twice, no hospital record. Marched to Germany, November 14 —
December 14, 1&1S. Stayed at Ehrenbreitstein until July, 1919, guard
duty. Left Germany, July 15, 1919. Returned to United States, July
23 — August 4, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, August 14, 1919.

WALTERMAN, FRANK, Corporal, 811th Aero Squadron, Air Servioe.
Trained at Speedway, Indianapolis, at Aero Repair Depot, from June
28, 1918, to discharge there, March 22, 1919. Hospital record for
operation.

WALTERMAN, LEWIS ANTHONY, Corporal, 406th Motor Transport Corps.
Q. M. C. Trained at Camp Taylor from September 20, 1917, to De-
cember, 1917, to 335th Infantry, 84th Division, at Camp Meigs, Wash,
in Q. M. C, one month. At Camp Merritt S. J., eighteen months.
Discharged. July 12, 1919, at Camp Sherman, O. Service: Truck-
driver in Motor Co.

WALSMAN, SHARON ROBERT, Sergeant, S. A. T. C. Trained at Dela-
ware, 0., from October 1 to discharge there on December 19, 1918.

WARD, PHILMER JOHN, Acting Sergeant, S. A. T. C. Trained at But-
ler College, Indianapolis, from October 8, 1918, to discharge there,
December 6, 191S.

WEIGEL, FLORANTINE, Private 1st Class. Battery B, 36th Infantry,
12th Division. Trained at Ft. Snelling, Minn, and Camp Devpns, Mass.
from May 23, 1918, to February, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor,
February 19, 1919.

WESLER, TED RAYMOND, Private, 4th Evacuation Hospital, Medical
Department. Trained at Ft. Thomas, Ky., Camp Greenleaf. Ft. Ogle-
thorpe, Ga., Camp Crane, Allentown, Pa., from October 8, 1917. to
May, 191S. Overseas from May 10, 1918, to December 25, 1918. Battles:
Champagne, Chateau-Thierry, Verdun. Wounded, November 2, 1918,
north of Verdun by shell from long range gun, striking billet, 11:30
A. M. "Wounds in right forearm and left temple. Hospital treat-
ment, Evacuation 4, Base 13, Base 122 in France, at Camp Merritt,
N. J.. Base and Walter Reed Hospitals, Washington, D. C. Re-
turned to United States, December 25, 1918 — January 3, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Taylor, February 22, 1919. Volunteered for blood
transfusion operation while in service. Such service was always
volunteer work. Shell that struck billet was aimed at hospital. Three
struck the billet. Five others fell harmlessly between village and
hospital. Of fifteen soldiers sleeping in billet, two sergeants were
killed; nine privates and one major were all severely wounded. Three
were uninjured.

WESLER, AMOS GEORGE, Musician, Headquarters Co., 112th Infantry
Band, 28th Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and Beauregard in
Headquarters Co., 154th Infantry, 39th Division, from May 27. 1918,
to August, 1918. Overseas from August 6, 1918. to April 19, 1919.
Transferred to 28th Division. January 24, 1919. Returned to United
States, April 19 — April 30, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman. May 19,
1919.

WERNKE, WILLIAM, Private, Co. G, 115th Infantry, 29th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor. Gordon and McClellan, from March 29,
1918. to June, 1919. Overseas from June 15, 1918. to May 11. 1919.
Battles: Argonne Forest. Molbruck Hill, October S-18; Mollandville
Farm, October 10-18; Precourt, October 11; Grand Martoguoct, October
16; Capture of Etrays Ridge, October 23; Boise Belleu, October 26. 1918.
Ready to advance to Metz on November 11. Returned to United
States, May 11 — May 24, 1919. Discharged at Camp Tavlor. June 3,
1919.

WERNKE, JOHN HENRY, Corporal, 821st Aero Squadron. Trained and
served at Speedway, Indianapolis, in Aviation Repair work, from
June 28, 1918, to discharge there, on January 4, 1919.

WINSOR, BYRON EWING, Private, Headquarters Co.. 50th C. A. C. Trained
at Jefferson Barracks, Mo.. Ft. Caswell. N. C. Camp Eustis, Va., from
June 4, 1918, to October 7, 1918. Overseas from October 7,. 1918, to

360 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

January 31, 1919. Had influenza on voyage overseas. Returned to
United States, January 31 — February 14, 1919. Discharged at Camp
Sherman, February 2S, 1919. Eight convoys and the transport
Charleston all tired at a submarine near Brest, France, on the out-
bound voyage, sinking it.

WINTZ, JOSEPH, Sergeant. Trained at Camp Tavlor in 29th Co., Sth
Tr. Bn.. 159th Depot Brigade, from May 27, 1918, to March, 1919.
Transferred then to First Det., Billeting and Supply Div., Demobili-
zation Group. Service: Training recruits until September, 1918.
Guard duty until March. Mustering out after December 1, 1918.
Hospital record, two weeks in Base Hospital in November, 1918. Dis-
charged at Camp Taylor, August 30, 1919.

WOLTERS, EVERETT CHRISTIAN, Private, Co. M. 363rd Infantry, 91st
Division. Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to Septem-
ber 2, 1918, in 84th Division. Overseas from September 2, 1918, to
March 19, 1919. Returned to United States, March 19 — March 29, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Sherman, March 23, 1919.

WONNING, HARVEY HENRY, First Lieutenant. Trained at Camps Tay-
lor and Jackson from May 16, 1918, to discharge at Camp Jackson,
S. C. on December, 1919. Promotions: Private to Second Lieutenant,
at Field Artillery Officers' Training School, August, 1918, to First
Lieutenant, October, 1918.

WYCOFF, PAUL VERNON, Corporal, Battery F, 38th C. A. C. Trained
at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., Ft. Totten, L. I., N. Y., Camp Eustis, Va.,
Fortress Monroe, Va., Camp Stuart, Va., Fts. Hamilton anil Wads-
worth, N. Y., from May 22, 1918, to December 14, 1918. Discharged
at Camp Grant. 111., on December 23, 1918. Hospital record: Six
weeks in Post Hospital, Ft. Totten, for mumps. Two weeks in Post
Hospital, Ft. Hamilton, N. Y.. for influenza. Route from Jefferson
Barracks to Ft. Totten: Illinois and Michigan, Detroit, Canada. Buf-
falo, Pennsylvania. Returned from Ft. Wadsworth to Camp Grant,
Rockford, 111., by same route.

YOUNGMAN, JOSEPH JOHN, Private, 5th Co., C. A. C. and 68th Co.,
17th Bn.. 153rd Depot Brigade, at Camp Dix. Trained at Valparaiso.
Ind., two weeks, from July 1, 1918. Two months at Camp Pratt.
Pittsburg. Pa. Three months at Ft. Hancock, N. J., and one week
at Camp Dix, N. J. Discharged in December, 1918.

IX.
OTTER CREEK TOWNSHIP.

BEACH, MELVIN ALBERT, Private, 29th Co., Sth Tr. Bn., 159th Depot
Brigade. Trained at Camp Sherman from August 29, 1918, to dis-
charge there on December 16, 1918.

BENHAM, HARRISON MORTON, Private 1st Class, Amb. Co. 3 4, Evacua-
tion Hospital. Trained at Camps Taylor, Ky., Greenleaf, Ga., and
Sheridan, Ala., from May 27, 1918, to November, 1918. Overseas from
November 12, 1918, to April 24, 1919. Hospital treatment at Camp
Greenleaf, while in training. Service: Ambulance work in France.
Returned to United States. April 24 — May 8, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Sherman, May 24, 1919.

BROWN, JOHN EVERETT, Private, Ord. Dct. Trained at Camp Taylor.
Ky. and Camp Hancock, Ga., from May 25, 19'1S, to July 29, 1918.
Sent to Penmiman, Va., for service at Dupont Powder Works. Dis-
charged at Camp Grant, 111., March 22, 1919.

BROWER, AVERY JENNINGS, Seaman Sec. U. S. Navy. Trained at
Great Lakes, 111., from July 20, 1918, to November 1, 1918. Sent to
Philadelphia Receiving Ship, one week. Embarked at New York,
November 4, 1918, on the transport Orizaba. Reached St. Nazaire,
France, November 13. Went to Brest, France, for one week. Then
to Plymouth, England, and finally to Queenstown, Ireland, to serve
at the United States Destroyer Base, United States Base 6, located
there. Served here six months. Served a month on the U. S. S.
Cape Finisterre. Released at Pittsburg, Pa., in June, 1919.

BUCHANAN, JOHN, Private, Co. K, 147th Infantry, 37th Division. Trained
first in 3rd Ohio, N. G. Assigned to 37th Division and sent to Camp
Sherman for further training, then to Camp Sheridan, Ala. En-
listed, June. 1917, at Holton, Ind. Trained until June 2, 1918. Over-
seas from June 23, 1918, to March 6, 1919. Battles: Toul Sector in
Flanders, Verdun Front. Wounded on September 28, 1918. Hos-
pital treatment until discharge. Left arm removed at shoulder. Re-
turned to United States in March, 1919. Discharged, March 23, 1919,
at Atlanta, Ga.

BURTON. HOLMAN HILLIS, Wagoner. Supply Co., 334th Infantry, 84th
division. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sherman from October 4.
1917, to September, 1918. Overseas from September 1, 1918. to May
24, 1919. Returned to United States on May 24 — June 6, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Sherman, June 20 1919.

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CADY, CHARLES RUSSELL, Wag-oner, Supply Co.. 25th P. A., 9th Di-
vision. Trained at Camp Tavlor, Ky. and Camp McClellan, Ala.,
from July 24, 1918, to March, 1919. Discharged at Camp Grant, 111.,
March 8, 1919.

CLARK, LeROY, Private, S. A. T. C. Trained at Bloomington, Indiana

University, S. A. T. C, from October, 1918, to December 21, 1918.

Assigned to Co. D, 41st Infantry. Discharged at Bloomington, Ind.,
December 21, 1918.

CLARK, OMER CHESTER, Engineer, C. A. C. N. C. S. Trained in 4th Co. at
Portress Monroe, Va. Enlisted at New Orleans, La., December 19, 1906.
Located at Ft. Crockett, Galveston. Texas.

CARPENTER, GEORGE FREDERIC, Private, Battery D. 70th F. A., 11th
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and Knox, Ky., from Septem-
ber 6, 1918, to discharge at Camp Knox, February 1, 1919.

CASTNER, CHALMERS L., Private, S. A. T. C. Trained at Franklin
College, Franklin, Ind., from September 30, 1918, to discharge there
in December, 1918.

CASTNER, BRYAN JAMES, Fireman, U. S. Naval Reserve. Trained at
Great Lakes, 111., in Unit B. Engineer's Force for one month, from
May 28, 1918. At Hampton Roads, Va., for two weeks. Assigned
to U. S. S. Dakota for service from July 21, ISIS, to July 15, 1919.
Coast defense, New York to Norfolk, Va., south, and to Rockland,
Me., north. Four months in West Indies and Panama Canal Zone,
at New York and at Rockport, Mass. Released from service, July
17, 1919.

COLBERT, LAFAYETTE, Cannoneer, 25th F. A., 9th Division. Trained
at Camps Taylor and McClellan, from July 22, 1918, to February 5,
1919, when discharged at Camp Taylor. Hospital treatment for in-
fluenza at Camp McClellan, October 19 — November 1, 1918.

COLE, REX HYLER, Private, Battery 3, 72nd F. A., 11th Division.
Trained at Camp Knox, Ky., from September 6, 1918, to discharge
there, on February 3, 1919.

CONOVER, ASA EGBERT, Private, S. A, T. C. Trained at Camp Winona,
Winona Lake, Ind., from October 15, 1918, to discharge at Indiana-
polis on December 6, 1918.

DeLAY, CHARLES FREEMAN, Private, Ordnance Department. Trained
at Indianapolis, Ind., Camp Hancock, Ga„ and Camp Lee, Va., from
June 15, 1918, to January, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, Jan-
uary 17, 1919. Hospital treatment for pneumonia at Camp Hancock.

DeLAY, MARTHA GRETA, Army Nurse Corps. Trained at Camp Dee,
Petersburg, Va., from March 20, 1918, to July, 191S. Overseas from
July 14, 1918, to August 4, 1919. Stationed at Allery, France. Base
Hospital 25; at Commercy, France, Base Hospital 91, and at Coblenz,
Germany, Evacuation Hospital 49. Returned to United States, August
4 — August 16, 1919. Discharged at New York, September 26, 1919,
as Reserve Nurse.

DOBSON, DAVID HENRY, Private, 39th Co., 20th Engineers, 141st Bn.
Trained first in Co. I, 3rd Ohio Infantry, N. G., from enlistment on
June 4, 1917. At Camp Perry, O. and at Chillicothe, O. Assigned
to Co. I, 148th Infantry, 37th Division, at Camp Sherman, and sent
to Camp Sheridan, Ala., for further training. Transferred to Engineers
at Camp Sheridan. Overseas from February 22, 1918. Returned to
United States, July, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, July 11, 1919.

DOWNEY, ARCHIE, Sergeant, Co. I, 148th Infantry, 37th Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman and Camp Sheridan, Ala., from May 21,
1917, to May, 1918. Overseas from May 21, 191S, to March 17, 1919.
Battles: Baccarat Sector, Avocourt Sector, Meuse-Argonne. Pannes
Sector, Ypres-Lys. Returned to United States, March 17 — March 28,
1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, April 21, 1919.

DOWNEY, CLARENCE BURTON, Private 1st Class, Medical Corps, 25th
Engineers. Trained at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., Ft. Riley, Kas and
Camp Devens, Mass., from enlistment, July 19, 1917, to January, 1918.
Overseas from January 3, 1918, to April 7, 1919. Battles: Meuse-Ar-
gonne. Hospital treatment for eyes and ear at Pontanazen, Kerhoun,
France. Returned to United States. April 7 — April 17, 1919. Dis-
charged at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind., June 17, 1919.

DOWNEY, EARL WILLIAM, Chief Yeoman, U. S. Navy. Trained at
Newport, R. I., from June 29, 1914, until assigned to U. S. S. Mis-
souri, battleship service. Died of influenza-pneumonia at Phila-
delphia, Pa., on September 30, 1918.

EDENS, ROY HUNTER, Private, U. S. Infantry. Trained at Ft. Ben-
jamin Harrison, Ind. and at Syracuse, N. Y., from July 29 to dis-
charge at Syracuse, N. Y., for physical disability, August 8, 1918.
Had just recovered from a severe case of typhoid.

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EDENS, ALVA ORAL, Sergeant, Co. E, 3rd Infantry, U. S. Army. Trained
at Ft. Thomas, Ky., Eagle Pass, Texas, and San . Antonio. Texas,
from April 8, 1917, to discharge at San Antonio, March 25, 1920.
Mexican border patrol duty.

ELLIOTT, SAMUEL ALBERT, Corporal, 6th Co., O. R. S. Detachment.
Trained at Indianapolis, Ind., from June 15, 1918, to August 31. 1918.
Overseas from August 31, 1918. to July 14, 1919. Served at Mehun
in Ordnance Repair Shops. Returned to United States in July, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Sherman, July 25, 1919.

ENSMINGER, SAMUEL WARD, Sergeant, Medical Department, U. S.
Army. Trained at Jefferson Barracks. Mo., two weeks; Ft. Riley,
Kas., for two months, from enlistment. June 12, 1917. Service at
Camp Bowie, Texas, for one year. Discharged at Whipple Barracks,
Prescott, Arizona, July 25, 1919. Was in hospital eleven months
at Prescott for chest and lung trouble.

FLICK, JOHN LOUIS, Private, Co. I, 119th Infantry. 30th Division,
Trained at Camp Taylor and Camp Sevier, from October 4, 1917,
to May, 1918. Overseas from May 12, 1918. Battles: Ypres Front,
Kemmel Hill, Voormezeele, Hindenburg Line. Wounded in action,
October 2, 1918. Died in hospital at Rouen, France, October 16.
1918.

GROSSMAN, HARRY HENRY, Private, Co. A. 334th Infantry, 84th Di-
vision. Trained at Camp Sherman, from June 26, 1918, to discharge
there, on December 9, 1918. Hospital treatment for influenza in
October.

HALLETT, EVERETT McKINLEY. Private, Co. L. 147th Engineers.
Trained at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Ind., from Septem-
ber 1, 191S, to discharge there, on December 14, 1918.

HARRIS, LEO, S. A. T. C. Trained at Camp Franklin, Franklin, Ind..
from October 1. 1918, to discharge there, on December 21, 1918. Had
influenza for three weeks in October.

HILL, LOUIS JOHN, Private, Aviation Service. Trained at Camp Grant,
111., Kelley Field, Eberts Field. Texas, and Wilbur Wright Field,
Dayton, O., from December 15, 1917, to discharge at Wilbur Wright
Aviation Field, January 28, 1919. Hospital treatment for malaria
and influenza.

HUGHES. DAVID HANNIBAL, Private 1st Class. Co. H, 16th Infantry,
1st Division. Trained at Camp Sherman in Cos. A and B, 334th
Infantry, 84th Division, from June 26, 1918, to August 20, 1918. Over-
seas from September 3, 1918, to August 22, 1919. Transferred in
France to 1st Division. Battles: Meuse-Argonne. October 25 — No-
vember 11. With the Army of Occupation in Coblenz, Germany, from
November, 191S. to August. 1919. Returned to United States. August
22 — September 3, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, September 25,
1919. Shared in the divisional citation of October 30. Also in the
parades in New York and Washington in September, of the First
Division, Composite Regiment and General Pershing and Staff.
Served in Germany as bodyguard for General McLaughlin and Brig-
adier-General Parker at Montabar. Spent three weeks in southern
France on special Scout Duty, Intelligence Section, in October, 1919.

HULL, ORAL PERRY, Private, Battery A, 26th F. A., 9th Division. Trained
at Camp McClellan from July 22, 1918, to February, 1919. Hospital
treatment for measles at Camp McClellan. Discharged at Camp Grant,
111., February 10, 1919.

HULL. GOLDEN GRANT, Private, Co. A, 153rd Infantry, 39th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Beauregard from May 27, 1918, to
August. 1918. Overseas from August 6, 191S, to April 28, 1919.
Crossed to France on the U. S. S. Huron, a former German ship in
which the Kaiser had made two trips around the world. Reached
France, August 18, 1918. Battles: Verdun, Meuse-Argonne, two en-
gagements. Shrapnel wound in foot. Treated for influenza at Brest.
For acute tonsilitis at Coblenz, Germany. Marched from Jametz,
France, through Belgium and Luxemburg to Coblenz, reaching there,
December 13, 1918. Left on Easter Sunday, April 20, 1919. Returned
to United States. April 28 — May 14, 1919. Discharged at Camp Tay-
lor, May 23, 1919.

HULL. ERCIE MARTIN, Private, Co. A, 129th Infantry, 39th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Beauregard from May 27. 1918, to
July, 191S. Overseas from July 6, 1918, to April 9, 1919. Battles:
Meuse-Argonne. Wounded by machine-gun bullet, scalp wound, Oc-
tober 9, 1918. Returned to United States. April 9 — April 20, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Sherman, May 12, 1919.
HULL, DANIEL LEROY, Private, Co. A, 118th Infantry, 30th Division.
Trained at Camp Sevier from February 25. 191S, to June, 191S. Over-
seas from June 5, 1918, to January 14, 1919. Battles: Paronne Sector.
Wounded in left knee with piece of shell while in battle near Wal-
lencourt. Hospital treatment at Rouen, France, and Netley Hants.

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England. Returned to United States, January 14 — January 25, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Grant, 111., April 28, 1919.

HULL, HOMER HOWARD, Private, Headquarters Co., 70th C. A. C.
Trained at Ft. Wadsworth, N. Y., from April 3, 1918, to July 16, 1918.
Overseas from July 16, 1918, to February 12, 1919. Returned to
United States, February 12 — February 22, 1919. Discharged at Camp
Sherman, March 12, 1919.

ISRAEL, DENNIS, Cook, 162nd Field Hospital, 116th Sanitary Train, 41st
Division. Trained at Carrington, N. D., from July 3, 1917, to Oc-
tober 1, 1917, in C. F., 2nd Regiment. N. G. Transferred to Camp
Green, Charlotte, N. C, on October 1, 1917, to 41st Division. Trained
at Camp Green until October 30, 1917. At Camp Mills from October
30 to December 12, 1917. Overseas from December 12, 1917, to April
20, 1919. Trained in France at Gondrecourt until July, 1918. Service:
Chateau-Thierry, five weeks; St. Mihiel, four weeks; Argonne, Oc-
tober 1 — November 20. Hospital located at Cheppy in Argonne.
Handled twenty-one thousand men in ten days at one period of this
battle. At Longwy, France, after the Armistice, handled about
twenty-five hundred patients in one week, wounded and prisoners,
all nationalities, released prisoners coming in from Germany in very
poor condition, starved and weak. Located at Echemach, Luxem-
burg, during the influenza epidemic and at Prum, Germany, locat-
ing finally at Ehrenbreitstein, Germany, from December 17, 1918.
to March "31, 1919. Returned to United States, April 20 — May 7, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Dodge, la., May 21, 1919. Shared in First
Army Corps Citation.

JEFFRIES, TRACY THORNTON, Private, S. A. T. C. Trained at Winona
Lake and Indianapolis, Ind.. from October 15, 1918, to discharge at
Indianapolis, December 9, 1918.

JOLLEY, WILLIAM FLORIS. Sergeant, Co. E, 28th Infantry. 1st Division.
Trained at Lafayette, Ind., Columbus Barracks, O. and in Texas,
from enlistment early in 1917, to June, 1917. Overseas from June
4, 1917, to November 30, 1918. Battles: Cantigny, Marne, Soissons,
St. Mihiel, Tournc-lle, Verdun. "Death Valley" was at Cantigny
from Villa Tournelle across a valley to the top of the hill, one and
one-half miles long by one-fourth to one-half mile wide in extent.
The fighting lasted four clays here, beginning with a Germain raid,
May 27 — May 30, 1918. The opposing lines came within forty or
fifty yards of each other, sometimes mingling as in the case of the
stretcher-bearers among the wounded. A small wood was left un-
hurt throughout this engagement. It was said there was an agree-
ment to leave it unharmed. The dug-outs at Cantigny and Villa Tour-
nelle, were furnished with chairs and a mirror as large as the wall
of a room from a ruined chateau, after the battle. Private Jolley
was twice wounded at Cantigny, flesh wounds in the upper right
and lower left limb. Was in hospital from June 2 to July 15. At
Soissons from July 21, about six weeks. At Base Hospitals 20 and
and 68 in southern France and at Blois. Was returned to United
States in Blois Casual Co. 303, November 30 — December 8, 1918. Sent
to Columbus Barracks, Columbus, O. Served here until furloughed
to Regular Army Reserve, November. 1919.

LAWLESS. JOHN PATRICK, Private 1st Class. 3rd Co., 6th Bn., Ordnance
Repair Shop Detachment. Trained at Indianapolis Chamber of Com-
merce, from June 15, 191S, to August 15, 1918. At Camp Hancock,
Ga., for about two weeks. Overseas from September 7, 1918, to July
10, 1919. Service in Ordnance Repair Shops at Mehun, France, for
ten months. Returned to United States. July 10 — July 19, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Sherman, July 26, 1919.

LEMEN, HUBERT WILLIAM, Private, Motor Transport Corps. Trained
at Indianapolis, Ind., from June 15, 1918, to discharge there, De-
cember 18, 1918.

L1TTELL. CLYDE LeROY, Private 1st Class, Battery A, 25th F. A., 9th
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan. from July 22,
1918, to February, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, February 5.
1919.

MARTING, EDWARD JULIUS, Private, Co. E, 334th Infantry, 84th Di-
vision. Trained at Camp Taylor from October 5, 1917, to March
22, 1918. Transferred to 309th Co., Headquarters Troop, then to
Co. C, 65th Engineers, Tank Service. Sent to Camp Meade, Md.
Overseas at Wareham. England, from July to September 12, 1918.
Sent then to Am. Base Hospital 33, at Portsmouth, England, until
October 23. Sent to France to a rest camp. Died at Nevers, France,
November 29, 1918, of spinal meningiis. This record is included in
Ripley County Honor Roll because of several years' residence here
and marriage here. Also claimed at Indianapolis by parents who
now live there.

McCLURE, FLOYD WILLIS, Private, S. A. T. C. Trained at Camp Frank-
lin, Franklin, Ind., from September 30, 191S, to discharge there, on
December 21, 1918.

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MILLER. CLARENCE GEORGE, Private, Medical Department. Trained
at Camp Taylor, Camp Greenleaf, Ft. Sheridan, 111. and Camp Mer-
ritt, N. J., from May 27, 1918. Discharged at Camp Sherman, Febru-
ary 4, 1919.

MURDOCK, JOHN R., Wagoner, Supply Co., 150th F. A., 42nd Division.
Trained at Camp Mills, N. Y., from July 21, 1917, to October 18, 1917.
Enlisted in Co 4, 4th Ind. Infantry, N. G., and transferred to 150th
F. A. Overseas from October 18, 1917, to April IS, 1919. Battles:
Luneville Sector, Bacourt Sector, Champagne, Marne Defensive,
Aisne-Maine, St. Mihiel Offensive, Oise, Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
With Army of Occupation in Germany, from November, 1918, to April,
1919. Returned to United States, April 18 — April 27, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Taylor, May 9, 1919.

MYERS, ROLLIE B., Fireman, U. S. Navy. Trained at Great Lakes, 111.
and Portsmouth, N. H., from June 25, 1918. Assigned to U. S. S.
Ohio and later to U. S. S. Southery at Portsmouth. Discharged there,
February 19, 1919.

MYERS, HALLIE, Sergeant 1st Class, Medical Department. /Trained
at Ft. Thomas, Ky., Ft. Sam Houston, Texas, Ft. Sill, Oklahoma,
Camp Meade, Md.. Camp Stuart, Va. and Camp Merrilt, N. J., from
enlistment, May 7, 1917, to July 21, 1918. Overseas from July 21,
1918, to September IS, 1919. Service with Medical Supply Depot Co.
5, at Liverpool, England, until after the Armistice. Assigned then
to Medical Storage Warehouse at Winchester, England, for three
months. Later transferred to office of Surgeon, U. S. Troops, Liver-
pool, England, as Chief Clerk, until sent back to United States. Re-
turned to United States, September 18 — September 28, 1919, by way
of London, England, 'Folkestone, England, Boulogne, Paris, and
Brest, France. Dischargd at Camp Dix, N. J., October 4, 1919. Hos-
pital treatment in Liverpool, England, for abscess of throat.

OVERTURF, LIONEL EDMUND, Water Tender, U. S. S. Radford. De-
stroyer, Pacific Fleet. Trained at Portsmouth, Va., Navy Yards, on
the Battleship Illinois and at League Island Navy Yards, from De-
cember 13, 1917, to July, 1918. Overseas from September 15: 1918,
to December 9, 191S. Had spinal meningitis at Brest, France. Re-
turned to United States, December 9 — December 20, 1918, and con-
tinued treatment at Portsmouth Navy Hospital and at Elizabeth
City, Va. Assigned later to Destroyer, U. S. S- Radford and sent
to Panama. Discharged, September 29, 1919, at Pittsburg, Pa.

PICKETT, GLENN, Private, 2nd Ind Light F. A., N. G. Trained at
Indianapolis Armory two days in each week from enlistment in De-
cember, 1917, to discharge at Indianapolis, April 15, 1919. Unit was
never sworn into Federal Service.

PICKETT, HALE CLIFFORD, Wagoner, Co. B. 315th Am. Train, 90th
Division. Trained at Camp Purdue, Lafayette, Ind., from April 27,

1918, to July, 1918. Overseas from July 4, 1918, to May 28, 1919.
Hospital treatment for fractured legi-bone. Returneid to United
States, May 28 — June 9, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, July 1,
1919.

PHERIGO. CASPER, Private 1st Class, Medical Department, U. S. Army.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Merritt, from April 30, 1918, to Sep-
tember 6, 1918. Overseas from September 6, 1918, to June 8, 1919.
Service: Embarked in Medical Replacement Unit 32. Assigned in
France, first to Base Hospital 206, then to Base 94 and Camp Hos-
pital 43, as mounted orderly. Treatment for mumps at Camp Hos-
pital 43, in France. Returned to United States, June 8 — June 18,

1919. Discharged at Camp Lee, Va., June 22, 1919.

REA, EDGAR D.. Co. M, 4th Bn., 22nd Engineers. Trained at Camp
Taylor and Ft. Benjamin Harrison, from April 30, 1918, to Sep-
tember, 1918. Overseas from September 1, 1918, to June 12, 1919.
Battles: Meuse-Argonne Offensive, September 26 — November 11, 1918.
After November 11, maintained railroads at Ansanville, France.
From January 29, 1919, to March 1, 1919, was on detached service at
Baroncourt, France. From March 1 to May 1. was in Provisional
Co. No. 1, at Spincourt, France. Returned to United States, June 12 —
June 23, 1919. Discharged at Charleston, S. C, July 3, 1919.

ROSEBROCK, WILLIAM HERMAN, Sergeant 1st Class, Q. M. C. Trained
in Co. E, 334th Infantry, 84th Division, at Camp Taylor, West Point,
and Camp Knox, from Octoher 5, 1917, to October 23, 1918. In
Quartermaster Corps until discharged at Camp Henry Knox, March
21, 1919.

SANDS. ORAN JOHN, Corporal, Co. D, 78th Infantry, 14th Division,
Trained at Ft. Riley, Kas. and Camp Custer, Mich., fron May 23,
1918, to discharge at Camp Custer, January 29, 1919.

SCOOPMIRE, JOHN OSCAR, Sergeant, Co. 2, 306th Mechanical Repair
Shop Unit, Motor Transport Corps. Aviation Signal Corps, Q. M.
C. Trained at Camp Meigs, Washington, D. C, from December 15,
1917, to discharge at Camp Meigs, January 10, 1919.

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SCOOPMIRE, THOMAS REED, Electrician, 3rd Class, Radio. Trained
at Cambridge, Mass. in U. S. Navy Radio School, from June 7, 1918,
to assignment to U. S. S. Illinois at Norfolk, Va. Discharged, Feb-
ruary IS, 1919, at Hampton Roads, Va.

SHAW, JOHN ELMER. Cook, Co. I, 22nd Engineers. Trained at Camp
Taylor and Ft. Benjamin Harrison, from April 30, 1919. Battles:
Argonne Drive. Returned to United States, June 2S — July 10, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Taylor, July 18, 1919.

SHEETZ, ORLiESTER EARL, Private, 20th Co.. 5th Tr. Bn., 159th Depot
Brigade. Trained at Camp Taylor, Ky., from June 26, 191S, to dis-
charge for physical disability. October 15, 1918. Was in hospital
at Camp Taylor sixteen weeks, after receiving typhoid inoculation.

SIMPERS, RUSSELL, BEE, Seaman 2nd Class. U. S. Navy. Trained at
Great Lakes Naval Training Station, from May 13, 1918, to June
12, 191S. Service: At Patrol Station: U. S. N. A. Station, Pauillac,
France; U. S. N. A. Station, L'Aber Uraeh; U. S. N. A. Station,
Brest; U. S. N. A. Rep. Base, Eastleigh, England; U. S. N. Tr.
Camp, Pelham Bay Park, N. Y. Discharged at Pelham Bay, N. Y.,
April 19, 1919. Had returned to United States, April 6 — April 15,
1919.

SMITH, GUY MELVIN, Private, Medical Dept., 120th Infantry, 30th Di-
vision. Trained at Camps Taylor and Greenleaf, from May 27, 1918,
to August, 1918. Overseas from August 27, 1918, to April 1, 1919.
Battles: Hindenburg Line, Bellicourt. Nauroy, Joncourt, Montbre-
hain, Brancourt, Fremont, Busigny, Becquigny, Masingheim, St. Mar-
tin-Riviere. Returned to United States, April 1 — April 13, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Taylor, April 25, 1919.

SPROESIG, CLARENCE, Private, Battery B, 26th F. A., 9th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22, 1918, to March,
1919. Discharged at Camp Grant, 111. on March 8, 1919. Hospital
treatment for influenza.

TOOPS, BERT A., Blacksmith, U. S. Navy. Trained at Newport, R. I.,
from October, 1919, to assignment to U. S. S. Louisiana. Served
with the Convoy Squadron, operating with the transport service
between Hampton Roads, Va. and Brest. France. Enlistment ex-
pires, July 20, 1921. Was operated on for appendicitis at Norfolk,
Virginia.

TOOPS, CAREY A., Engineman, 1st Class, U. S. S. Utah. Trained at
Great Lakes, 111., from November 23, 1914, to assignment to ship.
Sailed with the Utah to Europe, August 30, 1918. Patrol duty, was
assigned to the North Sea as part of the Grand Fleet and was in
line to witness the surrender of the German Fleet at the Firth of
Forth in November, 1918. Returned to United States in Overseas
Fleet, December 14 — December 26, 1918. Discharged at Boston, Mass.,
November 22, 1919.

VANOSDOL, JAMES, Private, Co. E. 18th Engineers, Ry. Trained at
Camp Taylor in Co. A, 335th Infantry, 84th Division, from Septem-
ber 20, 1918, to January 10, 1918. At Camp Grant, HI., from Jan-
uary 10, 1918, to March 4, 1918. Transferred in January to 18th En-
gineers, First Army Corps. Overseas from March 4, 1918, to April
14, 1919. Service: Building docks and so forth, at Bordeaux, France,
for four months. Building railways at various places after that,
for nine months. Returned to United States, April 14 — April 26,
1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, May 10, 1919.

VANOSDOL. EMIL. Private. Co. C, — C. A. C. Trained at Camp Eustis,
Va., from September 29, 1918, until December, 1918. Discharged at
Camp Sherman, December 22, 1918.

WARMAN, ROLLA CLEMENT, Private 1st Class, Co. C, 113th Engineers.
Trained at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss., from June 5, 1917, to
January, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, January 26, fl919.
Underwent mastoid operation about March 1, 1918, which barred
him from foreign service. After three months in hospital at Camp
Shelby, was assigned to guard duty. Sent to Raritan, N. J., as
patrol driver at the Arsenal. Was there when the great explosion
occurred.

WILLIAMS, CLAUDE, Stretcher-Bearer, Co. I, 120th Infantry, 30th Di-
vision. Trained at Camps Taylor and Greenleaf. from May 27, 1918,
to August, 191S. Overseas from August 27, 1918, to April 1, 1919.
Battles: Hindenburg Line, Bellicourt, Nauroy, Premont, Brancourt,
Busigny, Bucquigny, Bohain, Le Haie, Menneresse, St. Martin Riviere,
Mazingheim, Heights of Cottillian. Awarded the British Military
Medal at Belgian Camp, Le Mans, February 18, 1919, by General
Sir David Henderson, British Army. Authorized by King George of
England, for bravery in the field. Returned to United States, April
1 — April 13, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor on April 25, 1919.

SHOOK, SELWIN RAY, Private, S. A. T. C. Trained at Franklin Col-
lege, Franklin, Ind., from Oct. 1, 1918 to discharge there, Dec. 21,
1918.

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WOOLF, JOHN' W., Private, Co. C, 51st Engineers. Trained at Camps
Taylor, Lee and Humphreys, from March 29, 1918, to July, 1918. Over-
seas from July 1, 191S, to July 2, 1919. Service in France at Tours.
Returned to United States, July 2 — July 17, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Sherman, August 1, 1919.

X.

SHELBY TOWNSHIP.

ADAM, JOHN, Private, Headquarters Co., 148th Infantry, 37th Division.
Trained a short time after enlistment on June 24, 1917, in Co. I,
3rd Ohio Infantry, N. G., at Camp Perry and Camp Sherman, Ohio.
Was transferred to 148th Infantry and completed training at Camp
Sheridan, Montgomery, Ala. Overseas from June 23, 1918, to March
14, 1919. Battles: Baccarat Sector, Avocourt Defensive, Meuse-Ar-
gonne, Ypres. Gassed. Hospital treatment at Boulogne, France,
for throat trouble. Returned to United States, March 14, 1919.

ADAM, JAMES, Private, Supply Co., 14Sth Infantry, 37th Division.
Trained first from enlistment on May 26, 1917, in 3rd Ohio Infantry, N.
G., at Camp Perry, O. and Camp Sherman, O. Transferred to 148th
Infantrv and sent to Camp Sheridan, Ala. Trained here until June,
1918. Overseas from June 23, 1918, to March 16, 1918. Battles:
Baccarat Defensive, August 4 — September 16. 1918. Avocourt De-
fensive, 21st-25th September, 1918. Meuse-Argonne Defensive, Sep-
tember 1 to October, 1918. Pannes Defensive, October 7 — October 16,
191S. Ypres-Lys Offensive, October 31 — November 11, 1918. Re-
turned to United States, March 16 — March 30, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Sherman, April 21, 1919.

BAKER, "WALTER, Private, Co. A, 28th Engineers. Trained at Camp
Meade, Md., from enlistment on December 5, 1917, to February, 1918.
Overseas from February 10, 191S, to June 24, 1919. Battles: St.
Mihiel, September 12-16, 191S. Returned to United States, June 24 —
July 6, 1918. Discharged at Camp Taylor, July 15, 1919.

BROWN, FLOYD BERNICE, Private. Co. C, 119th Infantry, 30th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier, from September 9, 1917, to
May, 1918. Overseas from May 11, 1918. Battles: Ypres, August 4-

10, 191S; August 17 — September 2, 1913. Bellicourt, September 29 —
October 2: St. Souplet, October 9-10, 1918. Killed by shell-fire at St.
Souplet, October l0, 1918.

BROWN. CORNET, Private, Headquarters Co., 37th C. A. C, 41st Division.
Trained at Columbus Barracks, O.. Camp Eustis, Va„ from March

11, 191S, to November, 1918. Sailed from Newport News to Ho-
boken, N. J., and was sent to Ft. Hancock, N. J. Discharged at
Camp Sherman, December 26, 1918.

BROWN, GRANT, Private. Iowa Regiment, N. G. Trained at Camp Dodge,
la., from April 27. 1918, to discharge on May 17, 1918. Not sworn
into Federal Service.

COLE, CHESTER, Corporal. Co. A. 139th Infantry, M. G. Bn. Trained
first from August 13, 1917, in Co. L, 46th Ind. Infantry, N. G. Trans-
ferred to 139th Regiment, and sent to Camp Shelby, Miss, for train-
ing in 38th Division. Because of broken ankle was disqualified for
overseas service and remained at Camp Shelby, training recruits.
Was treated two months in Base Hospital, Camp Shelby, for the
injurv, and two months in convalescent ward. Discharged, Novem-
ber 23, 1918, at Camp Shelby.

COSSINS, JOHN WILLIAM, Private, Co. A, 335th Infantry, 84th Divi-
sion. Trainer! at Camp Taylor from September 20, 1917, to dis-
charge for physical disability on November 28, 1917.

CRIPE, DAVID RILEY, Private, Headquarters Co., 70th C. A. C. Trained
at Fts. Hamilton and Wadsworth. N. Y., from April 3, 1918, to
July, 1918. Overseas from July 14, 1918, to February 14, 1919.
Trained at Faneuil, France, for six months. Returned to United
States, February 14 — Februarv 22, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sher-
man, March 12, 1919.

CUNEO, JOHN ALFRED, JR., Private 1st Class, Co. C. 1st Anti-Aircraft
Bn. Trained at Camp Sherman, Camp Sheridan and Ft. Wadsworth,
from enlistment on July 25, 1917, to May, 1918. Overseas from May
1, 1918, to April 25, 1919. Battles: Aisne-Meuse, Somme, St. Mihiel,
Meuse-Argonne. Meuse-Moselle, Chateau-Thierry, Belleau Wood. Bat-
talion commander was awarded the French Croix de Guerre in bat-
talion citation. Treated in hospital at Camp Sheridan, Ala., four
months for throat trouble. Returned to United States, April 25 —
May 6, 1919. Dischargd at Camp Sherman, May 24.. 1919.

DEARINGER, HERBERT NELSON, Private. Co. A, 335th Infantry, 84th
Division. Trained at Camp Taylor from September 20, 1917, until
November, 1917, when taken with measles. Treated at Base Hos-

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pital for measles and pneumonia, which resulted in paralysis of
right shoulder and left knee. Sent to Ft. McPherson, Ga„ for
further treatment. Discharged, December 9, 1919, at Ft. McPher-
son, Ga.

DEMAREE, EMMETT C, Corporal, 499th Aero Squadron, American Air
Service. Trained at Kelley Field, Texas, Waco, Texas, and Camp
Morrison, Va., from December 7, 1917, to October, 1918. Overseas
from October, 1918. Died at Base Hospital 101, St. Nazaire, France,
on February 20, 1918. Had suffered a serious accident at Hampton,
Va., which threatened to destroy eyesight, but had recovered.

DEMAREE, CHARLES EVERETT, Private, Medical Department. Trained
at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Mo., from July 12, 1918, to dis-
charge there, on June 27, 1919. Service in Main Hospital.

DEMAREE, ELZA HARRISON, Private 1st Class, Medical Department,
Base Hospital 3 19. Trained at Camp Taylor from March 29, 1918, to
October, 191S. Overseas from October 31, 1918, to July 6, 1919. Lo-
cated at Savonay, France. Returned to United States, July 6 — July
16, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, July 23, 1919.

DILKS, ARCHIE, Seaman First, U. S. Navy. Trained at Great Lakes,
111., from June 7, 1918, to discharge there on December 8, 1918.
Hospital treatment in Main Hospital, Great Lakes, for twenty-one
days for influenza.

DONOVAN, ALBERT DARRAGH, H. A. 1st Class, U. S. Naval Reserves.
Trained at U. S. Naval Base Hospital, Pensacola, Fla., from enlist-
men, December 12, 1917. Suffered injury to hand, a broken metacarpal
bone.

DUDLEY, FRED ANDREW, Private, Co. A, 335th Infantry, 84th Division.
Trained at Camp Taylor from October 5, 1917, to January 25, 1918.
Was treated ten weeks in Base Hospital at Camp Taylor for measles
and pneumonia.

FERGUSON, CHARLES W., Private, Co. E, 16th Infantry, 1st Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman in Co. A, 334th Infantry, 84th Division,
from June 26, 1918, to September, 1918. Overseas from September
2, 1918, to April 2, 1919. Transferred to 16th Infantry after reach-
ing France. Treatment in Base Hospital at Vichy, France, for in-
fluenza. Returned to United States, April 2 — April 11, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Sherman, April 28, 1919.

FOX, RAYMOND THOMAS, Musician, U. S. Naval Band. Trained at Great
Lakes, 111. and Hampton Roads, Va., from May 18, 1918, to assign-
ment to ship. Assigned to Aeolus, transport duty. Served in Fourth
Regiment Band at Great Lakes, 111., Band of Naval Operating Base,
Hampton Roads, Va. and Band and Orchestra on U. S. S. Aeolus.
Discharged, September 20, 1919, at Pittsburg, Pa.

FOX, GROVER CLEVELAND, Private, Co. I, 148th Infantry, 37th Division.
Enlisted May 21, 1917, at Cincinnati, O. Mobilized at Eden Park,
Cincinnati, August 1, 1917. Trained at Camp Sherman to SepterrT-
ber 9, 1917. At Camp Sheridan, Ala. to Ivlav, 1918. Was at Camp Lee,
Va. Overseas from June 20, 1918, to December 15, 1918. Battles:
Lorraine Front. Argonne-Meuse, St. Mihiel and Flanders. Wounded,
October 31. 191S, on the Flanders Front in Belgium, by machine-gun
bullet. Operated on at Field Hospital, Mobile No. 9, then taken to
U. S. Hospital at Boulogne, France, in November. Later to U. S.
Hospital Base 37 at Dartford. England. Returned to United States,
December 15 — December 26, 191S. Discharged at Camp Grant, April
20, 1919.

GREEN, ROBERT ALEXANDER, Horseshoer, F. A. Trained at Camp
Taylor and Camp McClellan, Ala., from July 22, 1918, to discharge
at Camp Taylor, January 31, 1919 .

GREEN, LOUIS CLYDE, Corporal, 22nd Co., T. M. B., 2Sth Division.
Trained at Camp Jackson, S. C, from April 6, 191S, to July 22, 1918.
Overseas from July 22, 1918. to March 12, 1919. Battles: Argonne
Forest, Fismes, Verdun, Lys-Schedlt in Belgium. Wounded, by shell
in one leg. Returned to United States, March 12 — March 24, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Sherman, April 25, 1919.

HARTMAN, ADAM, Wagoner, Co. I. 148th Infantry, 37th Division. Trained
when first enlisted. June 29, 1917. in Co. I, 3rd Ohio Infantry, N. G.
Transferred to 37th Division at Cincinnati, Ohio, and sent to Camp
Sherman, later to Camp Sheridan for training. Overseas from June
23, 1918, to March 16, 1919. Battles: Baccarat Defensive. Avocourt
Defensive, Meuse-Argonne Offensive, Pannes Offensive, Ypres-Lys,
October 31 — November 4, 1918, and November 9' — November 11, 191S.
Returned to United States on March 16 — March 30, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Sherman, April 21, 1919.

HANKINS, CASPER, Private 1st Class, Co. L, 51st Infantry, 6th Division.
Trained at Ft. Thomas, Ky., Camp Forrest, near Chattanooga in
Georgia, from May 4, 1918, to July, 1918. Overseas from July 4,
1918, to June 5, 1919. Battles: Gerardner Sector, Meuse-Argonne,

368 RIPLEY COUNTY'S PART IN THE WORLD WAR

thirty-two days in all. Hospital treatment for mumps and a few
days, general sickness, at Camp Forrest, Ga. Marched to Germany
in May, 19] 9. Stayed about a month. Returned to United States,
June 5 — June 12, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, June 20, 1919.

HEINRICH, SAMUEL CLINTON, Sergeant, Co. A, 4th Engineers, 4th
Division. Trained at Ft. Logan, Vancouver Barracks, Camp Green
and Camp Merritt, from June 2, 1917, to April 30, 1918. Overseas
from April 30, 1918, to July 20, 1919. Battles: Aisne-Marne, Vesle,
St. Mihiel, Argonne, Toul Sector. Returned to United States, July
20 — July 29, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, August 6, 1919.

HESS. WALTER, Seaman 2nd Class. U. S. Navy. Trained at Great Lakes.
111. and Norfolk, Va., from July IS, 1918, to assignment to U. S. S.
Constellation at Newport, R. I. Also had training in Boston Navy
Yards. Discharged at Navy Demobilization Station, Pittsburg, Pa.,
on June 23, 1919.

HESS, JACOB ROLLIN, Private, 45th Co., 5th Marines, Second Division.
Trained at Paris Island, S. C, from July 14, 1917, to February, 191S.
At Quantico, Va., about one month. Overseas from February 27.
191S. to August 31, 1919. Battles: Chateau-Thierry, Soissons, Pont-
a-Moussin, St. Mihiel, Champagne, Meuse-Argonne. Wounded, flesh
wound in upper right leg, October 4, 1918. Had previously had slight
wound in right fore-arm. Hospital treatment at St. Aignan, October
4, 191S — February 1, 1919. Rejoined regiment at Bremscheidt, Ger-
many, in February, 1919. Returned to United States, August 31,
1919. Discharged, September 25, 191S, at Marine Barracks, Quant-
ico, Virginia.

HIGBIE, CLARENCE ARTHUR, Corporal, Co. H, 74th Infantry, 12th
Division. Trained at Ft. Douglas, Utah, Camp Dodge, la., Newport
News, Va. and Camp Devens, Mass., from June 7, 1917, to February,
1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor on February 1, 1919. .Was in
Co. H, 42nd Infantry, 3rd Division, at Ft. Douglas, Utah, but when
sent to Camp Devens was transferred to 71th Infantry.

HIGBIE, EDZA LEWIS, Corporal, Co. A, 4th Infantry, 3rd Division.
Trained at Gettysburg, Pa., Camp Green, N. C. and Camp Stuart,
Va., from March 5, 1912, to April, 1919. Overseas from April 15,

1918, to November 1, 1919. Battles: Chateau-Thierry, June — July 14,
191S. Champagne-Marne Defensive, Julv 15 — July 18; Aisne-Marne
Offensive, July IS — July 22; St. Mihiel Offensive, September 12 — Sep-
tember 14; Meuse-Argonne Offensive; September 28 — November 11, 1918.
With Army of Occupation in Grmany from November 16, 1918, to
September 20, 1919. Returned to United States, November 1 — Novem-
ber 13, 1919. Discharged at Camp Dix, N. J., November 14, 1919.
Re-enlisted for one year.

HOCKERSMITH, ERNEST EARL, Private, Co. F, 22nd Engineers. Trained
at Ft. Benjamin Harrison from Mav 6. 1918, to July, 1918. Overseas
from July 30, 1918, to June 30, 1919. Battles: Meuse-Argonne, Sep-
tember 26 — November 11, 1918. Hospital treatment at Bases 64 and
114. Returned to United States, June 30 — July 11, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Sherman, July 21, 1919.

HOLMAN, THEARLE BLANDEL. Private, Battery F, 71st C. A. C, 34th
Brigade. Trained at Fts. Banks, Heath and Anderson, Boston, Mass..
from March 23, 191S, to July, 191S. Overseas from July 30, 191S. to
February 12, 1919. Trained at Angers, France. Returned to United
States, February 12 — February 22, 1919.

HOLMAN, WILLIAM LUTHER, Private, Battery A, 73rd C. A. C, 40th
Brigade. Trained at a Fort in Maine from July 12, 1918, to Sep-
tember 25, 191S. Overseas from September 25, 1918, to January .8,

1919. Trained in France at Haussimont. Returned to United States,
January S — January 21, 1919. Accidentally wounded by gun explo-
sion. Discharged at Camp Sherman, Februarv 11, 1919.

HOLMAN. THOMAS CORNET, Private, 49th Co., 13th Tr. Bn„ 159th Depot
Brigade. Trained at Camp Taylor from May 20, 1918, to May 2S,
191S. Discharged at Camp Taylor for physical disability.

HOLZER, CLEMENT M., Private, Battery B, 26th F. A., 9th Division.
Trained at Camp McClellan, Ala., from July 22, 1918, to March, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Grant, 111., on March 8, 1919.

HUELSON, ADOLPH, Private 1st Class, M. G. Co.. 120th Infantry, 30th
Division. Trained at Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas, and Camp
Green, N. C, from December 13, 1917, to June 16, 1919. Battles:
Meuse-Argonne Offensive, October IS — November 11, 1918. Re-
turned to United States, June 16, 1919. Discharged at Camp Dodge,
la., June 30, 1919.

HUELSON, JOHN FREDERICK, Private, 166th Day-Bombing Squadron,
Air Service. Trained at Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas, and Camp Green,
X. C, from December 13, 1917, to July 16, 1918. Overseas from July 18,
1918, to June 16, 1919. Battles: Argonne-Meuse offensive, October 18
— November 11, 1918. Returned to U. S. June 16, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Dodge. Iowa, June 30, 1919.

HUELSON, EDWARD THOMAS, Private, Co. C, 117th Infantry, 30th Di-

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vision. Enlisted at Burlington, la., in Battery B, 2nd F. A., Iowa N.
G., on December 15, 1917. Transferred on February 23, 1918, to Co.
B, 350th Infantry, and sent to Camp Sevier, N. C., where he was
again transferred to 30th Division. Died of pneumonia at Base Hos-
pital, Camp Sevier, May 17, 1913.

JACKSON, RUFUS GORDON, Private, Battery F, 67th F. A. Trained at
Camps Taylor and Henry Knox from September 6, 1918, to discharge
at Camp Knox on December 20, 1918. Hospital treatment at Camp
Taylor, five weeks for measles.

JOHNSON, LONNIE A., Corporal, Co. I, 120th Infantry, 30th Division.
Trained at Camp Taylor in Co. A, 335th Infantry, 84th Division, from
September 20, 1917, to March, 1918. At Camp Sevier in 30th Division,
from March until May, 1918. Overseas from May 17, 1918, to April
1, 1919. Battles: Belgium: Ypres, Voormezeele, Kemmel Hill. Hind-
enburg Line: Bellicourt, Nauroy, Premont. Busigny, Vaux-Andigny.
Had hospital treatment at Brancourt, France, for influenza. Returned
to United States, April 1 — April 13, 1919. Discharged at Camp Tay-
lor, April 24, 1919.

JORDAN, CLARENCE GILBERT, Private, Co. K, 115th Infantry, 29th Di-
vision. Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellon from March 28, 191S,
to June, 1918. Overseas from June 13, 19] S, to March 12, 1919.
Battles: Switzerland Border and Argonne Forest. Gassed, October
16, 1918. Treatment at a Base Hospital in France. Returned to
United States, March 12. 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, April
28, 1919.

KEIFFER, EDWARD. Private 1st Class, Base Hospital, Medical Dept.
Trained at Camp Taylor, Ky., from March 29, 1918, to discharge there,
June 10, 1919.

KELLEY, WILLIAM ORVAL, Private 1st Class, Medical Det., 335th In-
fantry, 84th Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sherman, from
November 4, 1917, to September 2, 1918. Overseas from September 2,

1918, to July 2. 1919. Trained in France at Mussidan. Returned to
United States, Julv 2 — July 12, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman,
July 22, 1919.

KRAMER, JOSEPH CASPER, Private, Batterv A, 26th F. A., 9th Division.
Trained at Camps Tavlor and McClellan, from Julv 22, 1918 to March,

1919. Discharged at Camp Grant, 111., March 8. 1919.

KREMER, JOHN EVERETT, Cook, Co. A, 335th Infantry, S4th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Sherman, from October 4, 1917, to Sep-
tember, 191 S. Overseas from September 2, 1918, to April 8. 1919.
Discharged at Camp Sherman, May 7. 1919. Transferred in France
to 91st Division. Battles: Lys-Seheldt, October 31 — November 11,
191S.

KREMER, LEE ANDREW, Second Lieutenant, Adjutant General's Dept.
Detailed to Recruiting Duty at Detroit. Mich. Enlisted, June 6. 1917.
Overseas from January 29, 1918. to August 30. 1919. Service: Casual
Officers' Depot, Blois. France; Headquarters S. O. S.. Tours, France;
Tank Center, Bourg (rear Longres) France: Headquarters, Third Armv,
Coblenz, Germany. Returned to United States, August 30 — Septem-
ber 14. 1919. Discharged. October 6, 1919.

LINDAFER. WILLIAM M.. Private, Co. A, 335th Infantry, S4th Division
Trained at Camp Taylor. Ky., from September 20. 1917. Died of
pneumonia at Base Hospital, Camp Taylor, December 23, 1917.

LINDAUER, HENRY LFO. Private. Co. A, 153rd Tnfantrv. 39th Division.
Trained at Camps Tavlor and Beauregard, from Mav 27, 1918. to
August 2, 1919. Overseas from August 6, 1918, to March 27. 1918.
Transferred tn Co. F, 136th Infantry, 32nd Division. Battles: Verdun.
"Wounded in shoulder bv shrapnel, October 3 1918. at Verdun. In
Hospitals 86 and 108, Central France, for four months. Returned
to Fnited States. March 27 — April 2, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sher-
man. April 29, 1919.

MASSING, CHARLES ALBERT. Corporal. Co. A. 335th Infantry, S4th Di-
vision. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sherman, from October 4, 1917,
to September, 191S. Overseas from September 3, 1918, to April 3,
1919. Transferred in France to 91st Division. Battles: Lvs-Scheldt,
Flanders Front. Returned to Fnited States, April 3 — April 14, 1919.
Discharged at Camp Sherman, May 1. 1919.

MATTHEWS. LON. Private 1st Class, 4th Co.. 1st Tr. Bn„ Replacement
Group. Camp Greenleaf, Ga. Trained at Camps Taylor and Green-
laef, from April 30. 1918, to January 10, 1919. Discharged on that
date at Camp Tavlor.

MATTHEWS, ERNEST L., Corporal. Co. M, 119th Infantry, 30th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier, N. C, from September 20, 1917,
to May, 1918. Overseas from May 12. 191S. to March 21, 1919.
Battles: Ypres, August 4 — September 2, 1918; Bellicourt, September
29 — October 2; St. Souplet, 9-20, 1918. Returned to United States,
March 21 — April 3, 1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor on April 21,
1919.

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McCARTY, OHARI.es. Private, Co. I, 148th Infantry, 37th Division.
Enlisted in Co. I, 3rd Ohio Infantry. N. G., on June 7, 1917. Mob-
ilized at 'Eden Park, Cincinnati, and trained at Camp Sherman for
three months. Transferred to Camp Sheridan, Montgomery. Ala.
Discharged there for physical disability, January 10, 1918.

McMILLIN, WILLIAM DALLAS, Private. Medical Dept., 40th Infantry.
Trained at Camp Custer, Mich, and Camp Sherman, O., from August
30, 1918, to discharge at Camp Sherman, Fberuary 12, 1919. Had
influenza, at Camp Custer.

MILLER, LESLIE CORBIT, Private, F. A. Trained at Camp Taylor, Ky.
in Light Field Artillery School, from April 30, 1918, until discharge
there, January 4, 1919. Was operated on for hernia, six weeks in
Base Hospital.

MYERS. RUFUS CHESTER. Corporal, Co. M, 119th Infantry, 30th Di-
vision. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier, N. C, from September
20. 1917, to May, 1918. Overseas from May 12, 1918, to March 21,
1919. Battles: Vpres, August 4 — September 2, 1918. Bellicourt. Sep-
tember 29 — October 21, 1918; St. Souplet, October 9-20, 1918. Re-
turned to United States on March 21 — April 3, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Taylor, April 21, 1919.

NAUERT, CHESTER J., Private, 166th Infantry, 42nd Division. Enlisted
in Co. I, 3rd Ohio Infantry, N. G., June 11. 1917. Trained at Camp
Sherman and Camp Perry, Ohio, Camp Mills, N. Y. to November,
1917. Overseas from November, 1917, to May, 1918. Battles: In
trenches with French troops. Gassed in February, 1918, and suf-
fered paralysis of right side. Hospital treatment at Rochelle,
France, and Ft. McPherson, Ga., after return to United States. Re-
turned in May, 1919. Discharged, November 3, 1919.

NAUERT. FREDERICK JOSEPH, Corporal, Co. A, 335th Infantry, 84th
Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier from October 4,
1917 to May. 191S. Transferred to 30th Dvision at Camp Sevier.
Had influenza-pneumonia at Camp Sevier. Discharged there, No-
vember 2S. 191S.

PAUGH, CECIL JAMES. Private, 134th F. A., 37th Division. Trained
at Camp Taylor, Ky., from April 30. 1918. to June, 1918. Overseas
from June 23, 1918, to March IS. 1919. Battles: Marbache Sector,
October 28 — November 11, 191S. Returned to United States, March
18 — April 1, 1919. Discharged at Camp Grant, April 17, 1919.

PERKINS, ORA ALVIN. Private, Co. A. 335th Infantry, 34th Division
Trained at Camp Taylor from September 20, 1917, to January 11,
1919. Discharged at Camp Taylor, January 11, 1919.

REYNOLDS. HARRISON. Corporal, Co. I. 166th Infantry, 42nd Division.
Unlisted. April 10, 1917. in Co. I, 3rd Ohio Infantry. Trained at
Camp Perry, O and Camp Mills. N. Y., after being transferred to
the Rainbow Division. Overseas from October 27, 1917. Battles:
Ohampasve Chateau-Thierry. Chalons, Ourcq River, St. Mihiel and
from Verdun to Sedan. After the Armistice, with Army of Occu-
pation near Coblenz. Died of accidental injury, January 16, 1919.
Was buried at Coblenz, Germany. Brought to United States and
buried in full military honors by Leora Weare Post, American
Legion, at Tanglewood Cemetery, Versailles, Ind., August S, 1920.

RORK, CHARLES EDWARD, Private. Co. G, 360th Infantry, 90th Di-
vision. Trained at Camp Dodge, la. and Camp Travis, Texas, from
April 26, 1918. to June. 1918. Overseas from June 14, 1918, to Sep-
tember 17. 1918. Hospital treatment, six months in France and
three months in TTnited States General Hospital at Markleton, Pa.,
for heart and lung trouble. Discharged at Camp Grant. January
25. 1919.

ROYCE. HERBERT DANFORD. Private. Headquarters Co., 26th Infantry.
Trained at Camp Green, N. C. and Camp Mills. N. Y., from April
24. 1917, when enlisted at Walipton, N. D., in 164th U. S. Infantry.
Was transferred to 26th Infantry after arrival in France. Battles:
Toul Sector, February 2S — March 2S, 1918. Returned to United
States, January 30 — Februarv 11, 1919. Discharged at Camp Dodge,
la., on March 4, 1919.

SALYERS. OLLAN LESTER. Private, Co. I. 14Sth Infantry, 37th Division.
Trained first in Co. I. 3rd Ohio Infantry, N. G.. from enlistment at
Holton, Ind., on June 19, 1917. Sent to Camp Perry, O. and assigned
to 37th Division. Trained at Camp Sheridan. Montgomery, Ala., to
June. 1918. Overseas from June 23, 1918. to February 1, 1919.
Battles: Argonne Forest. Wounded at Argonne. September 30, 191S,
machine-gun bullet, just below the knee Operated on at Base Hos-
pital 35. at Myeres. France, for fractured bone. Returned to United
States, February 1 — February 14, 1919. Treated in Walter Reed
Hospital, Washington. D. C.

STEWART, JOHN FRANKLIN, Corporal, Batterv B. 25th F. A.. 9th Di-
vision. Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan, Anniston, Ala.,

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from July 22, 191S, to January, 1910. Discharged at Camp Taylor
on January 31, 1919.

STARKE, LEO HENRY, Private, Co. D, 36th Infantry, 12th Division.
Trained from May 23, 191b, at Ft. Snelling, Minn, and Camp Devens,
Mass., to discharge at Camp Devens, Mass., December 6, 1918.

SULLENDER, CHARLES EDWARD, Corporal, Co. I, 148th Infantry, 37th
Division. Trained first in Co. I, 3rd Ohio Infantry. Trained at Camp
Sherman and Camp Sheridan, from October 9, 1917, to June, 1918.
Overseas from June 23, 191S, to March 17, 1919. Battles: Baccarat
Sector, Avocourt Sector, Meuse-Argonne. Was wounded in the right
shoulder by a machine-gun bullet in the Meuse-Argonne Drive, close
to the city of Montfaucon, France, September 29, 1918. Hospital
treatment at Base 36 at Vittel, and Base 9 at Chattarean. Re-
turned to United States, March 17 — March 2S, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Sherman, . April 21, 1919.

SPELLMAN, NOEL. Enlisted, October 28, 1918. Failed to locat; for further
record.

VESTAL, ALVA LEE, Private, Co. A, 335th Infantry, S4th Division.
Trained at Camp Taylor from October 4. 1917. Operated on for
appendicitis and died at Base Hospital, March 1, 1918.

WILDEY, EDWARD LAWRENCE, Private, Co. E, 28th Infantry, First
Division. Trained at Ft. Ringo, Texas, from enlistment in Novem-
ber, 1917, until June, 191S. Overseas from July 15, 1917, to Decem-
ber 5, 191S. Battles: Cantigny. Soissons. Chateau-Thierry, St. Mihiel,
Verdun. Wounded, July 19, 1918, at Soissons, machine-gun bullet
in right leg. AVounded again October 13. 1918, shrapnel wound in
right leg at Montrefagne. Returned to United States, December
5 — December 23, 191S. Reached Camp Taylor, January 1, 1919. Fur-
loughed home for seven days, to January 21, 1919. Died at Camp
Taylor, February 22, 1919, with influenza-pneumonia.

WALTERS, LOUIS, Private, Co. H, 157th Infantry, 40th Division. Trained
at Camp Kearney, San Diego, Cal., for eight months, from October
2, 1917. At Camp Funston, Kas., for one month. At Camp Merritt,
N. J., one week. Overseas from June 27, 1918, to December 24, 1918.
Transferred to Co. L, 3rd Infantry, 28th Division. Battles: Chateau-
Thierry, two weeks. One month in Hospital No. 3. Sent to guard
prisoners, 40th P. W. E. (Prisoners' War Escort), in German prison
camp near Bordeaux, France. Returned to United States, December
24, 191S — January 6, 1919. Discharged at Ft. Logan, Colo. June 30,
1919.

WILSON, EARL, Private. Trained at Camp Sherman, O. and Ft. Sheri-
dan, 111., from June 26, 1918, to discharge at Ft. Sheridan, Novem-
ber 6, 191S.

XI.

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.

AKE, GEORGE McMAKIN, Private 1st Class, Sanitary Squad 45. Trained
at Camp Columbia, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, and at Camp Sheridan,
from July 15, 1917, to June, 1918. Overseas from June 28, 1918, to
July 9, 1919. Battles: Meuse-Argonne, Ypres-Lys Offensive in Bel-
gium. Returned to United States, July 9 — July 20, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Sherman, July 29, 1919.

ASHCRAFT HENRY LEE, Private, Co. M, 120th Infantry, 30th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Sevier from September 20, 1917. to
May, 191S. Overseas from May 17, 191S. Battles: Ypres Front in
Belgium; Kemmel Hill, Voormezeele, Hindenburg Line. Killed in
action, September 29, 191S, near St. Quentin.

BATEMAN, WILLIAM ALBERT, Private, Battery B, 67th F. A. Trained
at Camp Knox, West Point, Ky., after three weeks at Camp Taylor,
from August S, 191S, to discharge at Camp Taylor, December 20.

1918. Injured by being caught under a gun caisson rolling down
. a fifteen-foot embankment. Broken ribs and crushed chest. Treat-
ment in Base Hospital at Camp Taylor for seven weeks.

BENHAM, BERT. Private. Co. M, 379th Infantry. 95th Division. Trained
at Camp Sherman from August 29, 1918, to discharge there on De-
cember 11, 1918.

BUSH, ALVAH, Private, Co. D, 148th Infantry, 37th Division. Enlisted
June 30, 1917, in Co. I, 3rd Ohio Infantry, National Guard. Trans-
ferred to 37th Division. Trained at Camp Sheridan, Montgomery,
Ala., for nine months. Overseas from June. 23, 191S, to March 16,

1919. Battles: Verdun Front and Toul Sector in Flanders. Re-
turned to United States, March 16 — March 23, 1919. Discharged at
Camp Sherman, April 19, 1919.

BURGGRAF, WILLIAM FREDERICK, Private, Co. B, 605th Engineers.

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Trained at Camp Taylor and Camp Hancock, Ga., from May 27, 191S,
to discharge at Camp Hancock, December 24, 1918.

COKAYNE, ROSS VON, Sergeant, Co. E, 31st Engineers. Trained at Ft.
Leavenworth, Kas. and Camp Mills, N. Y., from April 24, 1918, to
June 5, 1918. Overseas from June 5. 1918, to July 18, 1919. Service
at Saumer, France. Returned to ("nited States, July 18 — July 31,
1919. Discharged at Camp Pike, Arkansas, August 8, 1919,

COXXELL, NORMAN WILLIAM. Private. Co. K, 5th Infantry, 17th Di-
vision. Trained at Fi. Thomas. Ky. and Camp Beauregard, La., from
enlistment on July 20, 191 S. to discharge at Camp Taylor, Ky. on
March 31. 1919. Had typhoid fever in Base Hospital at Camp Tay-
lor, three weeks.

CRAIG, RUSSELL SHERMAN, Sergeant Field Artillery. Trained at
Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22, 1918, to discharge at
Camp Taylor, March S, 1919. Service as blacksmith.

CRAVEN, CLARENCE C. Private, Battery B, 142nd F. A., 39th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Beauregard from May 27, 1918, to
August, 191S. Overseas from August 31. 1918, to June 3. 1919. Re-
turned to United States, June 3 — June 16, 1919. Discharged at Camp
Taylor on June 24. 1919. Service in France at Camp Valdahon.

CRAVEN, LESTER DAVID, Sergeant. Co. B. 142nd F. A., 39th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor and Beauregard, from May 27. 1918, to
discharge at Camp Beauregard on March 14. 1918.

CROXTON, CLARENCE VIRGIL. Wagoner, Supply Co.. 25th F. A., 9th
.Division. Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan from July 22.
191S, to February 28, 1919. Discharged at Camp Grant, 111., March
8, 1919.

DUNCAN, CHARLES OSCAR, Private. Battery E. 329th F. A.. S5th Di-
vision. Was first assigned to Battery F, 135th F. A.. 37th Division.
Trained at Camps Taylor, Sheridan. Mills and Merritt, from April
30, 1918, to August, 1918. Overseas from August 2. 191S, to March
25, 1919. Battles: Alsace-Lorraine, Toul Sector, attached to Custer
Division. Hospital treatment, six weeks at Base Hospital at Camp
Sheridan for measles and pleurisy. Returned to L'nited States,
March 25 — April 2, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman. April 30,
1919.

DUNCAN. WILBUR ROY, Private, Co. F. 150th Infantry. Trained at
Camp Sherman from June 28 to September, 191S. Went to Camp
Merritt, X. J. and then to Camp Mills, N. Y.. to embark for over-
seas' service. Entered hospital at Camp Mills with measles, de-
veloped influenza and bronchial pneumonia and died, October 23,
1918.

EATON. HAROLD LESLIE, Private. S. A. T. C. Trained at Hanover
College, Hanover, Ind., from October 21, 191S, to discharge at Han-
over. Ind., December 19, 1918.

HADLFORTH. MARTIN FRANK. Sergeant. 7th Co.. 2nd Air Service Unit.
Trained at Ft. Thomas and Camp Hancock, Ga., from enlistment,
December 12, 1917, to February, 191S. Overseas from March 4, 1918,
to June 9, 1919. Service: Six weeks at Chalons. France, trucks
and truck locomotives; Fontainebleau. eight and one-half months.
French tanks; Longres four and one-half months. Motor Transport
Corps. Supply Depot. Hospital record, mumps at Camp Hancock,
Ga., January 25 — February 8, 1918. Influenza at Fontainebleau,
France, from November 26 to December 1. 1918. Returned to l'nited
States, June 9 — June IS, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman. July
1. 1919.

HENSCHEX. JESSE MONROE, Private. Battery A. 26th F. A.. 9th Divi-
sion. Trained at Camps Taylor and McClellan. from July 22, 191S,
to discharge at Camp Taylor. February 12. 1919. Had measles at
Camp McClellan. Was twenty-one years of age, April 6, 1917, the
day the United States entered the World War.

KISSELL, JOHN. Private. Co. I, 120th Infantry, 30th Division. Trained
at Camps Taylor and Sevier, from September 20. 1917, to May. 191S.
Overseas from May 17. 1918. Battles: . Ypres Front in Belgium. Kem-
mel Hill, Voormezeele. Hindenburg Line. Bellicourt. St. Souplet.
Busigny. Died on November 6, 191S, of pneumonia, "somewhere" in
France.

LANE. FRANK RAYMOND. Cook, 32nd Tr. Bn.. F. A.. Central O. T. S.
Trained at Camp Taylor from July 22. 191S. until discharged there,
on December 21, 1918. Had influenza five weeks in October. 191S.

LA FOLLETTE, GEORGE BENJAMIN, Private. Battery B, 72nd F. A.
Trained at Camp Taylor, Ky., from September 6. 191S. to Septem-
ber 30. 1918. At Camp Knox. West Point. Ky., from September 30,
1918, to discharge there, on February 3. 1919.

LITTLE, WALTER CARBIX. Private. 4th Co., Sec. B.. S. A. T. C. Trained
at Valparaiso, Ind., and at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor,

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Mich., from August 1, 1918, to discharge at Ann Arbor, December
10, 1918.

LIPPERD, HILLIARD WILLIAM, Seaman, U. S. Navy. Trained at Great
Lakes, 111., from July 3, 1918, to discharge at Philadelphia, Pa., on
January 13, 1919.

LIVINGSTON, EDWARD ALVIN, Private, Battery C, 4th F. A. Trained
at Camp Taylor from July 22, 1918, to discharge there, on Decem-
ber 17. 1918.

LOSTUTTER, CLYDE DIBBLE, Private 1st Class, Base Hospital 54.
Trained at Camp Taylor, Ky., Camp Greenleaf, Ga. and Camp Green,
N. C, from May 27, 191S, to August, 1918. Overseas from August
14, 1918, to May 16, 1919. Located at Meves, Bulcy Hospital Center,
while in France. Served as orderly. Returned to United States,
May 16 — May 28, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, June 16, 1919.

McCLANAHAN, VIRGIL, Private, Co. F, 4th Infantry, 3rd Division.
Trained from enlistment in June, 1917, at Camp Sherman, until as-
signed to 4th Infantry. Overseas from April 15, 1918. Trained in
France at Juzzencourt. Battles: Chateau-Thierry, Champagne-Marne
Defensive, Aisne-Marne Offensive, St. Mihiel Offensive, Meuse-Argonne
Offensive. Wounded in hip. Hospital treatment in France and Camp
Sherman, Chillicothe, O. Returned to United States in summer of
1918. Assigned to Co. G, 40th Infantry, at Camp Sherman. Discharged
in November, 1920.

MORRISON, PORTER DAVID, Private, Co. G, 3rd Infantry, Regular
Army. Enlisted, April 9, 1917, at Ft. Thomas, Ky. Trained here and
at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas, Eagle Pass, Texas, and Camp Funston,
Kas.,to discharge at Camp Funston, on January 26, 1919. Was pro-
moted to Wagoner in March. 1918.

MORRISON, WALTER, Sergeant, Co. C, 12th M. G. Bn„ 4th Division.
Trained at Ft. Thomas from enlistment, March 23, 1917, for three
weeks. At Ft. Brown, Brownsville, Texas, for two months. At
Camp Colt, Gettysburg. Pa., for six months. At Camp Green, Char-
lotte, N. C, for six months. Overseas from April 29, 1918, to July
21, 1919. Battles: Second Battle of Marne, July 18 — August 11;
Meuse-Argonne, October S — October 19: First and Second Army De-
fensive, near Metz; Toul Front, October 19 — November 11, 1918.
Wounded near Fismes, August 11, 1918, shrapnel in left ankle.
Treated at Base Hospital 25 at Allerey, France, for nearly two
months. Marched to Germany, November 11 — December 3, 1918. by
way of Luxemburg to Coblenz Area. Stationed at Cochen, twenty-
five miles from Coblenz to April 10, 1919. Moved to the Rhine until
July 1, 1919. Returned by train to Brest, France. Returned to
United States, July 21 — July 29, 1919. Will be discharged in No-
vember, 1920.

MORRISON, HARRY ELWYN, Private, Battery B, 18th F. A. Trained
at Camp Taylor from March 29, 1918, to October 31, 1918. Trans-
ferred to Camp Jackson, S. C. and assigned to 18th F. A., Replace-
ment Detachment. On November 8, transferred to 27th Overseas
Battery, November Automatic Replacement Draft. Back to Battery
B, 18th F. A. on November IS, 191S. Returned to Camp Taylor, De-
cember 22, 1918. Discharged. January 2, 1919, at Camp Taylor. Hos-
pital record: April 6 — August 24, 1918, acute bronchitis, pericarditis,
rheumatism. Eye operation on May 18, 1918. Throat operation on
August 9, 1918.

PENN, HARRY FREMONT, Private 1st Class, 42nd C. A. C. Trained
at Ft. Wadswcrth, Staten Island, N. Y., from April 3, 191S, to July,
1918. Overseas from July 15, 1918, to February 5, 1919. Trained at
Haussimont, France. Battles: St. Mihiel. Was sent overseas in
July Replacement Draft. Returned to United States, February 5 —
February 18, 1919. Discharged at Camp Sherman, March 10, 1919.

PREBLE, FREDUS WALTER, Private, S. A. T. C, Motor Transport Corps.
Trained at Rolling Prairie, Camp Interlaken, in Co. A., Tr. Det.,
M. T. C, from October 15, 1918, to discharge at Valparaiso, Ind.,
on November 21, 191S.

ROBERTS, THORNTON BQRCHFIELD, Private, Supply Co., 350th In-
fantry. Trained at Camp Dodge, la., from February 23, 1918, to April,
1918. Sent to Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga. Developed measles in
transit; entered Base Hospital on arrival at Camp Gordon; developed
measles and died, April 19, 1918.

RUPP, CHARLES HAROLD, Private, Co. C, 333rd Infantry, 84th Division.
Trained at Camp Sherman from June 26, 1918, to September, 191S.
Overseas from September 1, 1918, to April 16, 1919. "Was transferred
in France to another regiment and sent into the trenches at Pont-
sur-Meuse, Verdun Sector, October IS, and again on October 26. Re-
mained at Pont-sur-Meuse until March, 1919. Returned to United
States, April 2S, 1919. Discharged at. Camp Taylor, June 21, 1919.

SCHORNICK, HARRY ALFRED, Corporal, Headquarters Co., 2nd Infantry,
9th Division. Trained at Camp Dodge, la., from August 30, 1918,

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to discharge there, in January, 1919. Was first assigned to 163rd
Infantry. Hospital record: Influenza in October, 1918.

SHELTON, ORLA, Cook, 6th Co., Dev. Bn. Trained in Cook and Baker
School at Camp Taylor from May 27, 1918, to discharge there, March
S, 1919. Hospital record for influenza.

SHELTON, FRANK LEROY, Private, Supply Co., 27th F. A., 9th Division.
Trained at Camp Taylor, three weeks from July 22, 1918. At Camp
McClellan, from .August 14, 191S, to January 25, 1919. Discharged
at Camp Taylor, February 4, 1919. Hospital record, influenza at
Camp McClellan.

VANDOLAH, ROBERT WAYNE, Private, Co. B, 112th Am. Tr., 37th Di-
vision. Trained at Camps Taylor and Sheridan, from April 30, 191S.
to June, ISIS. Overseas from June 27, 191S, to March 20, 1919.
Battles: Baccarat, August 4 — September 16; Avocourt, September
21 — September 25; Meuse-Argonne, September 26 — October 9; Pannes,
October 11 — October 16; Ypres-Lys (Belgium). October 31 — November
4; Ypres-Lys (Escaut), November 9 — November 11, 1918. Returned
to United States, March 20 — April 2, 1919. Discharged at Camp
Taylor, April 14, 1919.

WILSON, JAMES WILLIAM, Private, Field Artillery. Trained at Camps
Taylor and McClellan, from July 22, 191S. to January 31, 1919. Dis-
charged at Camp Taylor. Hospital record: Influenza at Camp Mc-
Clellan.

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A Few War Poems by Ripley County Writers

THE FLAG IS CALLING

April, 1917.

Rise! Arise! The flag is calling,

Foemen trample at our door!
Peace is dying on the border!

Honor sends us to the fore!
Rise, O men, for love of freedom!

Rise for rights of brother men!
We must stand for right and justice,

E'en though blood must flow again.

Long we've waited, hoping, praying,

Holding off the stain of war,
As a mother guards her children.

From the deaths that lurk afar.
Long we've tried to keep our honor

Safe upon its lofty throne —
Honor now uplifts the colors!

Guard ! Columbia, guard your own !

Loud we hear the colors calling,

High above all other sounds,
Calling East and West and rolling

Far to North and Southern bounds.
Yes, the country's call is ringing,

Bidding men to rise and come !
For the Nation needs its millions —

Hear you now the rising drum !

Rise, Columbia's men, undaunted !

Rise and save your Freedom's life!
Keep the banner bravely floating

Fair and clean above the strife !
Hark, your flag is calling to you ! —

Flag of equal rights of men, —
Calling all its free-born guardsmen !

Up! and meet that call again!

— Elizabeth Stewart Ross.

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THE ATONEMENT

September, 1918.

Hark, the god of war is marching! Hear the drum beat's loud alarms!
High above the deeper thunder soars the bugle call to arms!
Proudly wave the flags of battle o'er the hosts of marching men,
Calling sons and calling brothers out to die on field and fen.
'Tis the hand of Cain uplifted, calls the soaring bugles out,
Calls the drums to beat the marches, calls for battle lust and shout.
God of right and God of justice, stand beside the sons of peace!
Bind the god of war forever, bid the blood atonement cease!

Fruitful fields and fruitful valleys, golden glow of dawning day,
Call to life, not death, oh brothers! Bend the knee and let us pray.
God of Mercy, God of Kindness, stay thy scourging Hand of Might!
We are paying full the tribute, lead us now into the light.
We are fighting for our freedom, give us Victory once more,
And we pledge our lives to triumph o'er the awful god of war.
Blood for blood we know is flowing, until every drop is paid.
Grant us now, oh God of Battles, that our last blood debt is made.

Once the Prince of Peace descended, entered life through lowly birth,
Lived and loved and fully suffered, preaching peace, good-will on earth.
Yet today we miss the message of the brotherhood of man,
Groping still within the darkness, seeing not God's perfect plan;
Seeing not that Love must guide us, love of each for one and all,
We are brothers; help us, Father, help us, lest again we fall!
Lest again we make atonement, blood for blood a crimson tide,
Help us now to live henceforward, brothers, working side by side!

— Elizabeth Stewart Ross. ,

WAY DOWN IN INDIANA

Way down in Indiana, that boasts her hundred years,
There's a grist of quiet laughter, though near akin to tears.
The reason for our merriment — Uncle Samuel ought to know —
For down among us Hoosiers is where the old clothes grow!

We're not exactly "scare-crows", we're not fastened in our place,

Are all too busy hustling — scarcely time to wash our face —

Should "Our President" come calling, we'd give him greeting and then

say,
"We're all abackin' of you, Woodrow — but don't stop here in our way!

"See, our wheat is nicely growing, our fodder's in the shock;
The good wife's in the kitchen — no, don't take time to knock —
She's makin' apple-butter, the girls are at the churn ;
Walk in and make yourself to home — but — don't let the apple-butter
burn."

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Way down in Indiana every Hoosier's on his job,

With "dodger" on the table and mushpot on the hob;

And it's good to be a Hoosier, as everybody knows,

And there's no badge of Honor, now, like the wearing of old clothes.

Hoosier girls are fair and helpful, with cheeks just like the rose,
Their "best dress" is "made over" and frost may nip their toes,
But each is knitting for some laddie, across the ocean wide.
Who, when the war is ended, will claim her for his bride.

The woman who sports finery is not treated over-fond ;

There's two questions: "How'd she get 'em?" and "Did she buy a

bond ?"
But the girl with dress "made over" is welcome everywhere,
Nowadays she's called "the stuff" and needs no labeling "with care".

Our matrons, they are comely and there's beauty, even grace,
When they wield the mop or mush-stick and look you in the face!
They're the mothers of our soldiers — one of their many charms —
They've given heart's blood to the Cause — the boys once cuddled in
their arms.

Way down in Indiana — where the old clothes grow —
We're proud of 'em as Lucifer — Uncle Samuel ought to know —
With our aims and hopes all centered in our boys across the pond.
Old clothes are marks of honor — ivhen the ivearer owns a bond!

— Emma King Benham.

WELL, WHY NOT?

We're "Souvenir-hunters" — so they say —

In that shell-pocked country "Over the way".

Yes, we have had 'em, bullets and shells,

Helmets, meerschaums — and all kinds o' spells,

Cushions, 'kerchiefs and ribbons fine

To among blond and dusky looks entwine;

Post cards, and albums things gory, things grim,

And canes that were cut from down-drooping limb,

Near lordly castles all gray and old,

By venturesome Sammy — but, behold !

We've risen above these — and who would not? —

With our Toms, Dicks and Harrys right on the spot?

When the Peace-Dove fluttered its winglets white,

As the "Great Big Black Thing" scudded with fright! —

So as to make the glad tidings most truly true,

To the home-abiding, to me, and to you,

Each Sammy must send to his own heart's queen,

A German airplane or a submarine!

— Emma King Benham.

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OUR BOYS WHO REMAIN "OVER THERE"

Did they miss her when they ventured
To cross the Golden Strand ?
Did they long for Mother-comfort,
For the touch of Mother-hand?

Did they miss the Mother-pillow,
Her dear, heart-throbbing breast,
When they sought that deeper slumber,
That long, unbroken rest?

Did the soul glance 'cross the waters
Of the great dividing sea?
Did they hear the Mother praying,
See her on her bended knee?

Then, they knew her love unending
Spanned all distance, all time,
And her soul spoke theirs departing,
With comforting divine.

— Emma King Benham.

THE SERVICE FLAG

A beautiful little service-flag,

Against the window-pane,
We look at you and think of him,

We never shall see again.

He never was known in wealth or fame,

He was just a soldier boy,
Who went to fight for our country's flag

Rich blessing to enjoy.

But now he sleeps on the battle-field,

He'll never more return.
And — beautiful little golden star,

Our hearts for him will yearn.

We'll look on you with saddened hearts,

The tears will come to our eyes,
When we think of him who for you died,

And is now in Paradise.

— Opal Deburger.

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A WAR MOTHER'S SERVICE FLAG POEM

We the service-flag unfurl

For our sons and brothers through the world,

Who to battle bravely muster

To emblazon freedom's luster.

Wherever they may be,

They are revered in our memory

By the service-flag with its stars.

War shadows o'er our land have fallen —

An enemy has assailed us —

But our boys will fight

With rifle and with blade,

With shell and hand grenade.

Our sons will never fail us,

Old Glory shall ever float above us,

We sent our boy to France

To fight in Freedom's name,

And we want him to do his bit,

Without a thought of fame,

To help defeat the Kaiser,

In his shameful traitor's game.

And for him a star is on this flag;

He is just a lad, but we love him

For the way he squared his boyish shoulders

And lifted high a firm round chin,

While he faced the highway

And the distant battle's din,

He is just a lad, but the bugle clear and sweet,

And the drum's incessant beat

Thrilled him to exalted manhood.

America shall still be free,

For a nation's brave defender, he

Will prove a true and valiant soldier,

We didn't raise our boy to be a coward,

So when our nation called he answered clearly,

"Oh, my country, I am coming".

Our boys with shining swords,

Shall defend our land from foreign hordes.

So for them the service-flag unfold.

For the service of their souls;

For their hearts' supreme endeavor,

They shall cross red fields of fight,

To the peaceful fields of white.

But our love forgets them never; ■

And when the war is over,

A prayer to God we'll send

Of thankfulness the war-clouds are scattered.

When peace reigns supreme,

The deeds of our heroes will ever be our theme.

— May V. Wagner.

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YOUR ANSWER

What will you say, Sonny,

What will you say,

When the troopship brings you home —

Kneeling at last by your mother's chair,

You and your mother alone?

What will you say, Sonny,

What will you say,

As she searches your face to see

If the boy she gave to the country's call

Is still her Sonny — free?

Free of the taint of lust and drink,
Free of all hidden shame,
Free of the bonds that slave the soul —
Her son — in heart and name?

What will you say, Sonny,

What will you say?

Will your heart be full of mirth —

Holding her close in your strong young arms,

The mother who gave you birth ?

What will you say, Sonny,

What will you say,

As her dear eyes turn to you —

The Mother who guarded your boyhood years?

Say, was she ever untrue?

And now what anwser have you for her,
Her fair regard to win —
That for the faith she placed in you,
You fought your fight with sin?

What will you say, Sonny,
What will you say?
Will you answer — "Mother of mine,
Look in my eyes, look in my heart,
Yea, read them line on line ?
Days of fighting in field or trench,
Nights 'mid the city's lure,
Battle by day, or battle by night
I kept your son's heart pure!

—I did."

— John Adam.
Headquarters, 148th Infantry, 37th Division.

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OUR COUNTRY

Our cornerstone of Liberty was laid by master hands,
On solid blocks of statesmanship our country firmly stands,
While course on course of history we're adding year by year,
Cemented by a people's love who all their lives hold dear.

We're carving for Eternity, each one, his block of Fate;
On how we carve and how we build depends this nation great;
For one small flaw in workmanship will spoil a builder's plan
And future storms of Time will test the work of every man.

We're builders of America, our home, our country free,
She may mean much to others, but more to you and me;
In righteous cause, across the seas, our noble boys have gone —
Our Flag and all its folds imply, they mean to "Carry On".

— Lucy Roberts, Osgood, Ind.

GO QUICKLY, MY LETTER

Tune: "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton"

Go quickly, oh letter, across the blue sea,
Bear quickly this message to a soldier for me,
A soldier who's lonely and longing to hear
From home land and loved ones a message of cheer.

REFRAIN

We love you, our soldiers, wherever you are,
Our love is not bounded by near or by far,
Wherever you're bearing the "Red, White and Blue",
The prayers of a Nation are ever with you.

The home-fires are burning in cottage and hall,

There's a place ever ready for one and for all.

When war-clouds have scattered and Peace reigns supreme,

The deeds of our heroes will e'er be our theme.

REFRAIN

We love you, our soldiers, wherever you are,
Our love is not bounded by near or by far,
Wherever you're bearing the "Red, White and Blue,"
The prayers of a Nation are ever with you.

— Lucy Roberts, Osgood, Ind.

AT LAST

When at last world's peace is sounded
And we finish all this grind —
When we start upon the homeward trip
To the girls we left behind —
When we turn in all our ordnance
And barrack bags so full ;

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Sacrifice the month rotation

Of good old Army "bull" —

When we sing our last together

And start out for the West —

When we do our last fatigue work

And leave the squadron pest —

When the time has come and it's over —

No more traveling to be done,

And the Government has called in our haversacks and —

Won't we miss the Army routine?

Won't we miss the good old bunch?

I'm thinking, well, backward;

We'll be longing for the good old

Times the boys had overseas,

Traveling in box cars and sleeping on our knees.

Yes, even cooties chasing

And sleeping in the tents,

And crapping by sevens for our last fifty cents.

The traveling that we've done

With the poor old squadron nut,

Is much more than we'll ever do

In the home civilian rut.

But experience has taught us that

Adventures, great or small,

Will come if they are destined,

Or they'll never come at all ;

And if we've another war, the

Good old bunch we've got

Will join up in a body and be

"Johnny on the spot."

—Joseph B. Keene, Co. D., 23d Inf., A. E. F.

A SOLDIER'S THOUGHTS

As I retire each night to rest,

On my little bed so queer,
WTith its poultry-netting mattress —

(Tho' to me it's very dear)
As I lie there in my slumbers,

I often dream of home.
My dreams are many in numbers

Of the happy days to come ;
That when the war is ended,

We'll have gained what we intended,
An everlasting peace ;

And of when I may return,
To those so dear to me,

I never more shall yearn,
To cross the deep blue sea.

— Edgar G. Steingruber, Friendship.

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THE WISE MEN'S PRAYER

Shut within a quiet cloister in the heart of London's rushing life,
Seven wise men, old and hoary, ceaseless pray beyond the strife.
They are of the chosen people, Israelites who know their God,
Bending daily there together — long-white-bearded, sandal-shod —
Looking not unlike the elders Moses led to Canaan's land —
For the people call for prophets who will know God's guiding hand.
And with faithful patience, born of endless toil and thought and love,
Have grown fit to raise their prayers to Jehovah's throne above.

Without, the war-god marches onward, ever onward in his might,
Rolling war-trucks, blazing star-shells burning always day and night;
Striking out the lives of millions caught within his battle fire;
All the bloom of youth of many countries heaped upon the pyre —
Dying men and dying nations, groaning in one mighty cry —
While the death-rain pours upon them from the earth and from the sky —
And no God seems yet to hear them, though they pray with bloody hands,
Kneeling in the shackles of the war-god's white-hot iron bands.

But the old, old men of Israel bend their seven hoary heads,
Pausing not nor tiring not in the glow the raging battle sheds,
Interceding daily, hourly, for their God to hear His own;
Knowing as they pray, at last their plea will reach Jehovah's throne;
Knowing surely, back of all the sorrow, all the pain and death,
Back of all the dreadful horrors killing mortals at a breath,
God is waiting, listening, for us all to turn again to Him,
Leaving false gods strewn behind us 'mid the martial lust and din.

"We have died, so many of us," pray the sages o'er and o'er again,
"Going forth from life's allurements, leaving all our work as men,
Leaving all our future offered on the altar-fires of death,
All the glory life could bring us lost within one fleeting breath ;
Leaving all, our flags to follow, be it weal or be it woe —
God of Battles, stay the conflict, we are mad, there is no foe !
We are fighting brothers in the fog of age-long hate and wrong!
Give us love, our Father, love, the godly right of weak and strong!

"Hear us, Father, hear us, for we know that Love Thou art;
Know that Good and Right, and Love and Light, can not be torn apart ;
Know that all together build for Life and building thus will grow
Past th' opposing force of Hate, which word names all that is our foe.
Help us now, our Father, soon to see each other face to face,
Clouded not by hate or malice, children of one mighty race,
Holding hands toward each other, ready for Thy blessed peace,
Ready for Thee, Lord, to bid all further wars forever cease.

"Hear, Jehovah, hear us, as we bow within the choking dust;
Thou alone art God, and Thou alone art wise and good and just.
Peace, we pray Thee, give us now, Thy healing, loving bond of peace,

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Which we swear to keep forever sacred, sure, without release;
Building new the ruined world Thou gave us, Father, Mighty God,
Who hath left us now so long beneath the war-god's burning rod.
Just Thou art and wise Thou art, but love alone Thy essence is :
Bend Thou low and give to us at last a loving Father's kiss."

So the seven wise men pray within the shadow cast by war,
While the thunder-bolts of hate still are hurled abroad by Thor,
Mighty war-god, loosened for a space, to scourge the world for guilt,
Burning out the envy, taking blood for blood in sorrow spilt —
Shriving souls to meet their Maker as they pass the trenches red —
God of Nations, must we all lie on this altar of the dead ?
Will it take the lives of all before the hate of man is done?
All, before the prayers avail and peace at last is won ?

— Elizabeth Stewart Ross.

"WE'VE WON THE WAR!"

"We've won the war!" chime the old farm bells,

"We've won! We've won!" each the story tells!

Each iron tongue wags merrily

Across our land from sea to sea,

And who, a braver story tells,

Than the iron tongues of the old farm bells?

Hark! Our country called: "We must be fed!"

The Old World called: "More bread! More bread!

Give us sustenance, O give us, for

Food we must have if we win this war!"

The farmer responded, his work-worn mate

Toiled by his side, early and late.

Wooed and won succor from Mother Earth's breast,

Giving the great cause their first and best.

They spread home tables with homely fare,

To send their luxuries "Over There" —

There to our boys in that blood-stained world,

Who fought that our flag might ne'er be furled.

O! the gaps in the line where our boys went through,

Out of the old way and into the new, —

Leaving the plow and the team (their pride),

The hoe and the reaper, the chosen bride!

And who took up their burdens — "put by tears,"

Adding the yoke to their own weight of years?

Who but the farmer and his staunch mate,

Their daughter, their schoolboy, early and late,

Rain-washed, dew-drenched in early morn,

Sowing and reaping, and hoeing corn —

Back-break, heart-break, and rough handed all,

But obeying that mandate, the world's Food-Call!

This the victory that iron tongues tell

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In the gladsome chimes of the old farm-bell.
Hark! Their glad tidings of grand work done!
"We've won the War! We've won! We've won!"
'Tis not the voice of one Liberty bell,
'Tis thousand on thousand the glad tidings tell —
Hear their iron tongues chiming a-near, afar,
"We've won the war! We've won the war!"

— Emma King Benham.

MY STAR

There's a little gold star in the window,

Of the large house over the way,
There's a big boy gone from the fireside,

He's "somewhere in France," today.

First appear'd a blue star in the window,

Of course, he was ready to go
When his flag and his country call'd him,

He couldn't stay out, you know.

I watch 'd it with fear and with pride,

Till at last, it seemed, over night,
The blue star changed without warning

To a little gold star so bright.

Now when folks are talking of war,

To me, oftentimes, they will say:
"You have no one to go — " but I'm glad

I can think of the star 'cross the way.

— Emily Humphrey Cline.

THE STORY OF THE STAR

Little gold star shining bright,
Shining through the day and night,
Though your home is not so far
As the stars above us are,
Tell, I pray thee, what you see,
Tell, I pray thee, who you be.

"If I can, that I will do —
I was once a mortal, too.
Once I was a mother's boy;
Life to me was but a toy.
I could take it, I could make it,
I could lose it, or could break it.
Never thought I of the morrow,
Never dreamed I of the sorrow.

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"Then, almost without a warning,
Came to me another morning;
Came to me in manner lowly,
Touched my heart and whispered — holy.
Now I'm something more than he
Who with mortal eyes did see,
For I see the mothers, bending
On their knees, and prayers ascending.

"Prayers toward the Throne of Peace,
Petitions that shall never cease
Till the cannons, grim and crushing,
Forever stop their death-knell gushing;
Till from veins no blood is seeping,
Flesh and bones no steel is meeting.
'Tis not common prayers they're prating,
Nor a common answer waiting.

"Yes, and there is more I've seen
On the battle-fields of green.
I have seen the soldiers lying
Here and there, and many dying —
Slowly dying, many dead,
And their blood that once was red,
Early spilled, and early cold,
Makes a star of molten gold.

"Do not mourn the ones who lie there;
Sorrow not for those who die there.
Well is known what they are leaving,
No one knows what they're receiving.
Your's the pain and bitter loss,
Their's the gain and their's the cost.
Through their deaths there is a birth
Of a firmament here on earth."

— Emily Humphrey Cline.

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ADDENDUM

Mrs. Emma King Benham, of Benham, Brown township, may be
called Ripley county's war poet. Having previously published a volume
of verse under the title of "Wayside Flowers," Mrs. Benham had won
a place among Indiana poets a number of years ago. Her war poems
and songs would make a small volume in themselves. Of the entire
number, a few, illustrative of different phases of our war record, have
been selected for a place in the County War History. Mrs. Benham
was also active in the Liberty Loan campaigns and personally sold ten
thousand dollars' worth of bonds. She was appointed by the county war
historian as the chairman of the war poetry committee to collect Ripley
county poems for the State Historical Society in the spring of 1919. A
few selections from other Ripley county poets have been made for the
County History from this collection at Indianapolis, the aim being to
use a limited number of productions to illustrate our county's part in
the World War as voiced by its verse-makers, at home or abroad.
Thanks are due Mrs. Benham for a comprehensive collection. Per-
mission was obtained of the state historian, Mr. John W. Oliver of
Indianapolis, to use these poems in our county history.

The photographs of service men have been selected on a basis of ser-
vice, every branch of the service being represented. In some cases no
photograph was obtainable, so that a number, whose pictures should have
been included, are not represented. Of those who are given a place
in the book, importance and length of service has been the basis of se-
lection in each branch. Our regret is that so many could not furnish the
required photographs. A reference to locality has also been considered,
so that every part of the county will find some of its own soldiers' or
sailors' familiar faces. To have been entirely complete every service
man's face should be in the collection.

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