MILITARY NEWS

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Dr. F. P. Reed is a captain in the U. S. A. Medical Corps, stationed at Fort Williams, Portland, Maine.

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Major F. W. Cavanaugh of the 102d Field Artillery, who was wounded October 23 by a bursting shrapnel shell, pieces of metal fracturing his skull and breaking bones in his head and face, is now, after several operations, convalescing at Hyeres, France.

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Harry Hutchins entered the Y. M. C. A. service early in the fall and was sent to Grantham in England for preliminary work. Early in January he went to Paris, and from there has been transferred to Le Mans. Just what Harry Hutchins' duties are we are unable to determine from his, letters, but he will evidently be connected with the educational work of the Y. M. C. A. and expects to stay in France for some time.

Past Commander John Hathaway Long returned to this country in January and is now engaged in active practice. Dr. Long was head of an operating team which left Brest June 1 and did not return to their base until November 17, after being in all the drives, Juilly, Chateau-Thierry, Fismes, Coincy, Chaumont Meaux, and for the last two months at Souilly, just below Verdun.

Major James B. Woodman is now located at Beau Desert, France, a hospital center just out of Bordeaux. He is connected with Base Hospital No. 111, A. E. F.

Captain John C. Redington of Battery C, 149th Field Artillery, has been recommended for the Distinguished Service Cross. The citation reads as follows: '"When at Jonchery-sur-Suippes, he voluntarily left his trench and went 300 meters under shell-fire to aid Private Paul Sutton, who was wounded." Captain Redington is now with the army of occupation in Germany.

The following is a record of Major William Stickney's war career as told by himself without comments or embellishment: "My story is rather short. August 3 to September 4, 1917, on duty at Rutland, Vt; September 4, 1917, to May, 1918, Camp Upton, L. I. ; May 20 to July 4, Allentown, Pa.; July 4 to 12, on the boat; July 12, Liverpool; July 14, Le Havre; July 17, Basoille; July 20 to August 1, French Hospital and U. S. Evacuation hospitals with an operating- team back of Soissons; August, round Chateau-Thierry; September, October, and November, St. Mihiel. We started in with three hours off from Saturday p. m. at 4 till 3 p m. Monday, then anywhere from twelve to thirteen hours a day for five or six weeks; that kept getting less and less, till now have it down to scarcely anything at all since the 22d of November."

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Captain A. B. Ruggles, after a year's service with the 17th Engineers in France has been discharged and has begun work as Engineer of Construction and Surveys with the Cleveland Water Department.

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The Rev. R. C. Falconer, who has been with the Y. M. C. A. in France since the fall of 1917, has recently been transferred from the Toul Sector to the Army of Occupation in Germany.

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W. B. Smith is. now in the Red Cross Service in Germany with the Army of Occupation.

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Captain B. R. Allison, U. S. Medical Reserve Corps, was discharged from the service at Camp Meade, Maryland, February 18. Captain Allison went overseas in May, 1917, with Base Hospital No. 2, the Presbyterian Hospital Unit of New York. He was first attached to a British Base Hospital at Etretat. During November, 1917. he was at the British front in Flanders near Ypres during the Passchendaele offensive on a surgical team at Casualty Clearing Station No. 17. In June, 1917, he was transferred to Mobile Hospital No. 2, A. E. F., assembled at Auteuil, where men were received from the first Chateau-Thierry fight. He later saw service at Bassi in the Champagne, at Chalons and at Lizy, whence he followed the Chateau-Thierry advance. August 25 he was'sent to St. Mihiel for five weeks. On September 24 he was transferred to the Lysme and followed the offensive army coring for the wounded until the armistice.

L. P. Hall has been promoted to a captaincy in the field artillery. On December 6 he moved with the army of occupation to Treves, where he remained until December 20, when he returned to the United States.

Arthur J. Knight, who went to France last summer as a lieutenant of artillery, recently received his captain's commission in France.

Captain T. C. Sterling has been in the ordnance service since October IS, 1917.

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Ensign C. M. Hammond has been on the U. S. transport Leviathan for several months.

Captain L. W. Snow, who for many months before the signing of the armistice was at Orly Field, the American aircraft acceptance park No. 1. is now in "Vienna representing Hoover. He has charge of the American Postal Express service in Austria Hungary and its dependencies. He had been recommended for promotion to the rank of major at the time of the signing of the armistice.

Sergeant R. W. Tobey, Battery A, 29th Artillerv, C. A. C., who enlisted December 17, 1917, was honorably discharged at Fort Preble, Maine, on December 23.

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Rollo W. Hutchinson (M.D. Harvard 1916) has been doing surgical work at the Newport naval station, and holds a commission as lieutenant in the navy.

First Lieutenant J. A. Randall, 302d Ammunition Train, is stationed at Cour 1' Evêque, He has been in France since last May, and saw active service at the front at Alsace, on the Vesle and the Aisne, and in the Argonne.

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Lieutenant Dean A. Emerson returned in December from overseas service with the engineers.

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Lieutenant P. K. Murdock has returned to this country after eighteen months' service with the coast artillery in France.

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Lieutenant C. F. Durgin, who was an officer on the George Washington when it carried President Wilson to France, has been discharged from the navy and is soon to leave for Yokohama, Japan, where he will be employed by the American International Banking Corporation of New York.

L. W. Joy is flying at Park Field, Memphis, Tenn. He expects his discharge from the service within a short time.

C. N. Holmes was promoted at the front from second to first lieutenant. He was in heavy action from the middle of October till the 11th of November. Previous to that period, he put in a short furlough at Nice, recovering from the effects of mustard gas. At the present time he is at Coblenz with his unit, the 11th Machine Gun Battalion.

J. D. Little is a chauffeur in the 301st Field Signal Battalion. This unit has been in Luxembourg and is now in a concentration camp in France. Address, care of Chief Signal Officer.

Barrett Studley is an ensign in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps.

Lieutenant (J. G.) F. S. Wilson is stationed with the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, Commonwealth Pier, Boston, Mass.

Lieut. Walter York of the Lafayette Escadrille, who has been on furlough in this country, has arranged matters so that he can secure his discharge from the French army without the necessity of returning to France.

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K. L. Thielscher has been ordered to Sparta, Wisconsin, to superintend the building of T.N.T. storehouses for the Ordnance Department.

E. S. Morton is with the second pursuit group of the 49th Aero Squadron.

H. G. Fowler has returned from France slightly wounded in the leg, but is now almost entirely recovered.

Second Lieutenant H. C. Hoyt, A. A. S., who enlisted April 15, 1917, and received his commission March 30, 1918, saw three months' service abroad. He received his discharge on February 14.

Roy E. Johnson has received a commission as first lieutenant, aviation section, Signal Reserve Corps, dated February 19. Reserve officers are to be called to duty each from fifteen to thirty days for training.

Ensign W. G. Reycroft, naval aviation, after six months with the Northern Bombing Group in France, is now with the U. S. Naval Air Station, Hampton Roads, Virginia.

J. L. Rubel of the 24th Aero Squadron, A E. F., had five Hun planes to his credit at the time of the armistice, and had been cited for bravery.

Second Lieutenant H. L. Ruggles, C. A. C.v who was commissioned at Fort Monroe September 25, 1918, was discharged December 24.

R. E. Adams, who'has been in France since October, 1917, with the 29th .Engineers, intelligence section, A. E. F., was advanced to a corporalcy in November and transferred from Company A to Company M.

Second Lieutenant W. A. Barrows, 56th Artillery Corps, C. A. C., who served in France from March, 1918, to January, 1919, was discharged from the service at Fort Totten, New York, February, 1919.

E. W. Berry, who is with Battery A, 135h Field Artillery, 37th Division, A. E. F., had spent nearly three months at the Saumur Artillery School when the armistice was Signed, and the men in training there were returned to their regiments.

Chief Yeoman Donald Brooks, who for thirteen months was attached to the Enrolling Office, Headquarters Second Naval District, Newport, R. I., was released from active duty on December 14.

Sergeant R. P. Chadbourne, who went abroad in August, 1917, with the First Divisional Engineers' Train, Searchlight Section, A. E. F., and was transferred in February, 1918, to Company A, 56th Engineers, as a wagoner and who saw service with both the English and French armies, received his honorable discharge at Camp Humphreys, Va., on February 17.

W. B. Fleming is a lieutenant in the Paymaster's Corps, United States Navy.

Lieutenant F. A. Grady, who served as a camion driver in the French army from June to December, 1917, and then enlisted in the United States Air Service, after fourteen months' service, returned to this country and was discharged on February 6.

Ensign J. G. Hallett, who was stationed at St. Trojan, France, on submarine patrol duty from August to November, 1918, was discharged from the service on January 2.

Major M. G. Hammond, 20th Division, Quartermaster's Corps, is still in service at Camp Sevier, South Carolina.

K. W. Koeniger, Chief Quartermaster, Aviation, U. S. N. R. F., has been released from active duty.

First Lieutenant L. F. Lagay, who enlisted June, 1917, in the Ordnance Department, U. S. A., and was promoted to a second lieutenancy January 1918, and a first lieutenancy in September, was discharged from the service at Washington February 1.

First Lieutenant J. E. McMartin, who served as chaplain of the 96th Engineers, Camp Leach, since August 1, 1918, was discharged from the service on December 18.

D. H. Norton has been in France since July of last year in the Personnel Office, Headquarters Base Section No. 2.

P. G. Perrin, who was in service with Field Hospital No. 248, 12th Sanitary Train, at Camp Devens, was discharged on January 3.

L. N. Randall, who was stationed with U. S. Nitrate Plant No. 1, Ordnance Department, Nitrate Division, at Sheffield, Alabama, since September, 1918, was discharged from service on January 14.

Corporal E. E. Robie has been with the 20th Provisional Ordnance Depot Company, First Provisional Regiment, A. E. F., since June, 1918.

First Lieutenant E. B. Robinson is with C. O. Section 570, U. S. A. A. S., A. E. F. He enlisted in the Dartmouth Ambulance Corps of the A. A. S. in June, 1917, but upon being commissioned on September 21, 1917, he was given command of Section 570 and has been in command of this section ever since. He served with the Italian army for two months from June, 1918, and was then ordered to join the American Forces in France, and is now with the Army of Occupation. On January 1 he was decorated with the Italian War Service Ribbon.

Lieutenant R. D. Scott, Company D, 547th Engineers Soc. Bn., A. E. F., has been in France since October, 1918.

First Lieutenant William Sewall, who after a year's service in France was returned to this country as an instructor in September, 1918, was discharged from the service at Camp Devens, January 29.

B. C. Shackford, Medical Corps, U. S. N. R. F., who served for two months with the Harvard Naval Unit (Medical Division), was discharged from active duty on December 10.

First Lieutenant L. G. Sherman of the Air Service, who saw service abroad from October, 1917, to December, 1918, was discharged from the service at Garden City, L. I. January 8. On November 30, 1918, he was decorated with the Italian Service Ribbon.

Lieutenant H. D. Stillman, Paymaster Corps, U. S. Navy, who served for a year on a Convoying Cruiser, has been in the United States Naval Hospital at New York since September 30, 1918, recovering from influenza, pneumonia, and empyema.

Second Lieutenant K. G. Stillman, who saw fifteen and a half months service in France in the Ordnance Department, was discharged from the service on February 10.

Ensign A. H. Sturgis, who enlisted in the U. S. N. R. F., May, 1917, and was commissioned May, 1918, an ensign, U. S. N. R. F., after a fifteen weeks' course at Annapolis, was commissioned in the regular navy. He then served for three months as assistant navigator on the U. S. S. Georgia, doing convoy duty. He resigned from the service in December.

Sergeant A. S. Supot, Ordnance Detachment, 210th Engineers, was discharged from the service at Camp Mills, December 19.

Ensign G. N. Swett, Naval Aviation, who was commissioned for Flying Duty, February 13, 1918, and who saw nine months service in Italy and France, was discharged from the service at" Hampton Roads, Va., January 19.

Lieutenant James M. Switzer, who went overseas in May, 1918, with Company D, 312th Infantry, 78th Division, was commissioned a second lieutenant October 1, and transferred to Company C, 125th Infantry, 32nd Division. He saw four weeks of active fighting in Argonne Forest and on the Meuse, serving during that time as acting captain of his company. He was recommended for promotion but the signing of the armistice forestalled advance in rank. He is now with the Army of Occupation.

Second Lieutenant H. A. Sym was discharged from the service at Camp Shelby, Miss., on December 27.

Lieutenant C. B. Thompson, who has been in service in France since May, 1917, is with Escadrille Squad 99, Groupe de Combat 20, Secteur Postale 25, on detached duty for the U. S. army.

Ensign W. B. Thompson, Jr., after eight months of service in France at Naval Air Stations in Moutchic, Geronde, and L'Aver-Vrack, Finistere, was put on the inactive [missing text] September 20.

Corporal C. E. Valentine, Company B, 301st Field Signal Battalion, A. E. F., who went overseas in July, 1918, is now with the Army of Occupation.

H. B. Wendell, who has been with the Ordnance Department Inspection Division since August 23, 1917, and who between April 25 and June 5, 1918, visited every district office in the United States, is now with the District Salvage Board, Ordnance Department, Bridgeport, Conn.

Lieutenant (J. G.) J. W. White (Temporary), U. S. Navy, who enlisted April 4, 1917, and who served on the U. S. S. New Hampshire on convoy duty and on the U. S. Navy receiving ship Philadelphia, was discharged from the service, February 17.

Corporal W. H. Wyeth, Battery C, 57th Artillery, C. A. C. after ten months service overseas, was discharged at Fort Hancock, New Jersey, on January 22.

Second Lieutenant N. S. Young was discharged from the service at Kelley Field, San Antonio, Texas, on January 9.

Lieutenant W. C. Sisson has been promoted to a captaincy in the Motor Transport Corps. Captain Sisson went overseas in May, 1917, with the First Dartmouth Ambulance Unit. He received a commission as Sou-Lieutenant in the French army after going through the training school at Meaux, and saw active service on the Chemin des Dames and Compiedme Fronts. In October, 1917, he enlisted in the U. S. Reserve Corps, being commissioned second lieutenant the following month and first lieutenant a year later.

First Lieutenant W. P. Ponder, Aviation Section, 103rd Aero Pursuit Squadron, has been awarded the Medal of Honor for extraordinary heroism in action near Fontaines, France, October 23, 1918. His citation reads: "Having been separated from his patrol, Lieutenant Ponder observed and went to the assistance of an allied plane which was being attacked by 30 of the enemy. Lieutenant Ponder destroyed one enemy plane and so demoralized the remaining that both he and his comrade were able to return to their lines."

Lieutenant A. W. Emmons, 39th Infantry, 24th Division, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery under fire with total disregard of his own wounds. In an engagement on July 19, 1918, though severely wounded by shrapnel, he helped transport wounded in the face of a severe machine gun barrage.

Lieutenant T. King has been assigned to the Committee of Appraisal, a board subordinate to the Peace Commission at Versailles. This committee will travel over France and Belgium to estimate the damage done by the German armies and report to the Peace Commission.

Lieutenant (J. G.) W. D. Kipp is stationed at Naval Base No. 25 in the Adriatic.

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P. F. Boynton is an ensign in the United States Navy.

Lieutenant A. B. Street is the commanding officer of the 18th Photographic Section, Air Service, A. P. O. 786, 3d Corps School, Clamacy (Nievre), France, and does not expect to return to this country before midsummer.

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Ensign L. C. Bixby is executive officer on U. S. S. C. 287, Atlantic Section, 15th Naval District, Cristobal, Canal Zone.

Ensign M. S. Hodgdon is on duty on the U. S. S. Nahma at Constantinople, where he expects to remain for six months.

Sergeant D. Kingsbury, 101st Engineers, is now stationed at LeMans near Brest, France, awaiting sailing orders. He has been overseas since the spring of 1917 and was engaged in active engineering work until just before the July drive of last year, when he and his brother were called from the front line to give mandolin and piano entertainments in various camps and cantonments in France.

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Ensign A. W. Gorton had a most thrilling experience on February 22, when he lay stretched out on the wing of an airplane for two hours and thirty minutes, holding open the throttle of the motor of the crippled plane while it flew two hundred miles, carrying mail between Hampton Roads and Washington. Ensign Gorton's official report reads as follows: "The connecting rod from throttle to motor was broken, but we discovered that by having a man ride on the top wing to hold the throttle open we could complete the trip.

"I climbed upon the wing and held the throttle open with one hand and hung one leg over the leading edge of the wing. The wind pressure held my leg to the wing. I was not in a very good position so was unable to hang on for longer than five minutes. By that time we had reached the lee shore of the Potomac, and I let go of the throttle and my assistant pilot landed the plane.

"I changed my position and braced one leg against the gravity tank on the top wing. In taking off this time the plane made a couple of bad bounces and I had to hold on to the radiator cap. It came loose and a spray of hot water blew in my facer I managed to drag myself a few inches along the top wing to evade the water, and in doing so my foot touched the revolving propeller of the radio set. This shattered the propeller and caused me to pull my leg up suddenly, just losing my hold on the wing so that I had to let go of the throttle and we landed again.

"After a short rest I climbed up on the wing again and this time was able to sail for an hour. Then after another rest, we took off again and about one hour and thirty minutes later we landed at Anacostia, arriving there at 5.20 o'clock."

The following 1920 men were commissioned second lieutenants in the Heavy Artillery Reserve at Fort Monroe, Va., on February 7: B. B. M. Farnsworth, A. W. Frey, W. S. Gault, C. E. Newton, and R. C. South wick.

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W. P. Clark has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Infantry Reserve at Gettysburg, Pa.

R. W. Elsasser and R. A. Libby have been commissioned second lieutenants in the Heavy Artillery Reserve at Fort Monroe, Va.

R. L. Tracy, Jr., was commissioned an ensign, U. S. N. R. F., at Cambridge, October 14, 1918.