MILITARY NEWS

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Major G. M. Watson, M. C. U. S. A., is stationed at U. S. General Hospital No. 26, Fort Des Moines, lowa.

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Captain W. D. McFee, M. C. U. S. A., is at the Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, assisting in reconstructing returned soldiers who have suffered shellshock, gas, and injuries.

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W. T. Atwood went overseas early in November as a Y. M. C. A. secretary, and is stationed at the port of St. Nazaire. His address is 12 Rue d'Aguesseau, Paris, France.

Doctor E. V. Hardwick was appointed a captain in the Medical Corps, October 18, 1918, and has since been stationed at Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va.

O. A. Hoban was a lieutenant in the State Guard during the summer.

Captain H. L. Watson has been in command of Co. A., 102 Field Signal Battalion, formerly Co. A of First Battalion Signal Corps of New York State Guard.

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Captain Harry B. Johnson of the Ordnance Department, who was in charge of the French Bill Section dealing with the French authorities in connection with bills from the French Government, has returned from France, received his honorable discharge, and resumed his work with Harris, Forbes and Company.

Captain David E. Ford, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, returned home with the Harvard unit from General Hospital No. 22.

Captain James S. Brotherhood is at U. S. General Hospital No. 1 at Williamsbridge, N. Y.

Major H. G. Sharpe is in charge of the S. A. T. C. at Corvallis, Oregon.

Lieutenant Colonel M. A. Dailey is at the Embarkation Camp at Bordeaux, France, where he is busy with the examination and discharge of troops.

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Dr. E. S. Cogswell, who was commissioned a first lieutenant June 25, 1918, and was shortly after assigned to Camp Green, received his honorable discharge on December 6.

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Dr. R. C. Cochran, who saw service in France from July, 1918, to February, 1919, has returned to this country and received his discharge.

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Captain H. E. Meleney, M. C. U. S. A., is at Base Hospital 103, Dijon, France.

Sergeant C. W. Pearson is in the reconstruction department General Hospital No. 42, Spartanburg, S. C.

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R. B. Jones was discharged February 1, 1919, from the Field Artillery Central Officers' Training School at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, and was commissioned a first lieutenant in the reserve.

Lieutenant F. L. Meleney, Mobile Operating Unit No. 1, Section V, Medical Corps, who saw service in the St. Mihiel and Argonne sectors, is now at Camp D Louge, Bordeaux, France.

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Edward B. Hatch has been discharged from military service at Camp Devens, and has become salesman in a general store at Chelsea, Vermont.

S. W. Rockwood has been a Y. M. C. A. secretary in France since July, 1917.

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H. S. Harmon, who was at Camp Zachary Taylor Field Artillery School at the time of the signing of the armistice, has returned to Hangchow, China, where he is manager of a branch of the Standard Oil Company.

M. W. Reed, who served with the Camouflage Section of the 40th Engineers for nearly a year in France, returned to this country and' received his discharge about March 1. He is the author of the comedy "She would and She Did," now being played by Grace George in a tour through the middle west.

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Chaplain R. W. Barstow was discharged at Camp Lee, Va., in February and has returned to his parish at Woodstock, Vermont. He was. commissioned in June, 1918, and was assigned to the Coast Artillery at Fort Rodman, Mass. Later he was transferred to the 81st Field Artillery, then at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; in October the regiment started for France, but Chaplain Barstow was taken ill with influenza which developed into double pneumonia, and he was unable to go across.

Lieutenant Chester P. Dudley returned on the Arizonian, landing in New York on April 4. He has been awarded the Croix de Guerre.

First Lieutenant C. C. Meleney, Q. M. C., has been in charge of the Sales Commissary at St. Nazaire, France.

R. J. Powers is on the staff of the OntarioPost published by the enlisted personnel of U. S. A. General Hospital No. 5, Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York.

Lieutenant (J. G.) C. E. Shumway, U. S. N R. F., has been relieved from active duty and has returned to his business in Boston. He enlisted July 10, 1917, and went overseas in February, 1918. For a time he acted as Commanding Officer at the Naval Air Station at Castletown-Berehaven, Ireland, the largest United States Kite Balloon Station in Europe. In August he was transferred to Plymouth, England, with a kite-balloon crew to take charge of aviation operations and later went to France.

Assistant Surgeon Bernard' Spillane was commissioned lieutenant (J. G.), U. S. N., on March 13, 1918.

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N. A. Farwell, who has been driving an ambulance in France since July, 1917, has been cited recently by the French Government for his work during the nights of November 2 and 3, 1918, and has received the Croix de Guerre. This is his second decoration and is indicated by another star on his first Croix. He is at present attached to the 6th French Army and has recently been in Belgium and Germany.

Lieutenant A. A. Tukey was decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross on March 7, 1919, by the Commandant of the Fort Des Moines Hospital. Lieutenant Tukey was decorated in the very coat he wore in action, which bears eighteen bullet holes as testimony to the danger he has been through. He went overseas in August, 1917, and was first in the trenches with the British. He was again in the trenches with the Americans in March, 1918, and was in the first wave of General Foch's counter offensive to go over the top. On July 19 he was wounded in the leg, near Soissons, but remained with his platoon until relieved. The citation reads:

"The leadership of his platoon was exceptionally distinctive by reason of courage, initiative and presence of mind. While advancing on the second day of the attack, he was wounded but continued with his command, until he had given complete instructions to his platoon sergeant and notified his company commander of the disposition of his guns, after which he was compelled to yield command because of weakness from his injuries".

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G. F. Ingalls, who was a private with the Army of Occupation on the Rhine, has been picked by the government for entrance to Sorbonne University, Paris, to study architecture, engineering, and landscape architecture, the government paying his expenses.

C. L. Wanamaker, who recently returned from France after service with the French Ambulance Corps, has been made superintendendent of the Stoughton Rubber Plant.

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W. A. Hale is at present at Tours, France. He is a second lieutenant of field artillery.

Lieutenant E. B. Frey of the 101 st Engineers and W. A. Mackie of Battery B, 103rd Field Artillery have returned to the States with the 26th Division.

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Ensign D. B. Aldrich, who entered the service in April, 1917, and received his commission May 16, 1918, was discharged from active duty on December 16.

W. H. Allison, who has been in service with Company E, 604 th Engineers, and later with Section 10, 71st Engineers, Washington Barracks, D. C.. was discharged December 31, 1918, with the rank of sergeant first-class.

Lieutenant W. L. Birtwell, Jr., who served as an assistant instructor in the E. O. T. S., Camp Humphreys, Virginia, from August 27 to December 6, was discharged from the service on the latter date.

G. K. Burgum, who was drafted July 24, 1918, and who rose to the rank of sergeantmajor, in the 34th Machine Gun Battalion, Camp Devens, Mass., was discharged from the service February 1.

Sergeant R. E. Carpenter is with the 2nd Company, Headquarters Detachment, A E F,) Tours, France.

First Lieutenant E. R. Cowles, A. S. U. S. A., who has been in France since October 25, 1917, and who took part in the St. Mihiel, Meuse, and Argonne offensives, is with the 2nd Pursuit Group, 3d Air Park, France.

Lieutenant W. D. Fleming, U. S. N., has been in the office of the Supply Officer at the Radio School in Cambridge, having charge of all purchasing, store-keeping, and accounting for general stores for a station of 5000 men, and the upkeep of 35 buildings. In 1917 he passed the examination for ensign in the Pay Corps with a mark of 93.2, which was second highest in the United States. On October IS, 1917, he was promoted to a lieutenancy, junior grade, and on July 1, 1918, to a lieutenancy, senior grade.

Second Lieutenant Hobart Ford, who went overseas last October, is now at Gievres, France.

Captain A. B. Gile, who has been in service in France since May, 1917, and recently stationed on Spager-on-Rhine, has returned to this country. He was promoted from a first lieutenancy to a captaincy in February. On July 14, 1918, he received the Croix de Guerre and early in November the American Citation for Bravery. This citation, made by Colonel P. C. Field, M. C., Divisional Surgeon, and indorsed by the Major General commanding the division, is as follows:

"This office believes it is due to the officers and men of the S. S. U. Sections 593 and 640 attached to this division, to state that their services during the prolonged period that this division was in combat was most excellent. These officers and men never faltered when ordered forward under shell fire, and by their promptness and skill saved many seriously wounded, who otherwise might have been still more seriously wounded by any delay in evacuation. The former training and adaptability of these drivers was illustrated by the remark of a line officer who watched them frequently on blocked roads, and who stated that 'they did everything except go under trucks in their successful efforts to move forward under blocked road conditions' Captain Gile was commanding officer of S. S. U. 640.

First Lieutenant E. J. Gray, Battery D., 16th Field Artillery, has been awarded the French Cross.

Lieutenant (J. G.) J. Gregory, Jr., U. S. N., is attached to Nucleus Crew No. 1 to take over Germany ships and supplies at Bremen and Hamburg.

Lieutenant (J. G.) S. T. Haskell, U. S. N. R. F., has been on duty on U. S. Submarine Chaser 122.

Ensign E.' A. Keddie, on duty at the U. S. N. Air School at Pensacola, Florida, saw six months of service abroad as a pilot in aviation at Dunkirk and L'Aber Vrach, France.

Ensign D. B. Litchard was placed on the inactive list on April 17.

Second Lieutenant B. A. Ludgate, Jr., was discharged at Camp Zachary Taylor on December 22.

E. S. Morton, who saw eight months' servict as a Machine Gun officer with the 49th Aero Squadron, was discharged on March 13.

Ensign E. B. Mudgett received his commission on February 19.

Second Lieutenant L. S. Ollis, A. S. A. R. N. A., was discharged from the service at Souther Field, Americus, Georgia, on December 4.

Lieutenant W. F. Palmer, U. S. N., who since September, 1917, has been assigned to the U. S. S. Wyoming, had fourteen months' service abroad with the 6th Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet.

Second Lieutenant Ralph Sanborn, who went across in September, is still in France.

Sergeant N. H. Scott is with Battery F, 303 d Field Artillery, A. E. F.

H. L. Searles acted as representative of the National Service Commission in the S. A. T, C. in lowa State University.

W. C. Sisson has recently been commissioned a captain in the. Motor Transport Corps, U. S. Reserves. He went abroad in May, 1917, with the First Dartmouth Ambulance Unit and after going through the French Training School at Meaux, was commissioned a Sou-lieutenant and was in active service on the Chemin des Dames and Compiegne Front until October 1917, when he enlisted in the U. S. Reserve Corps, and received a commission as second lieutenant at Montdidier. In March, 1918, he was given command of a company of all U. S. Regulars at Nevers, France, where he assisted in the reorganization of the Motor Transport System of the U. S. Army, receiving a commission as first lieutenant in November, 1918, and since then acting as commanding officer of the Motor Group.

Ensign C. A. Steiger, U. S. N. R. F., who received his commission in the Pay Corps on January 21, was released from active duty on March 3.

"Lieutenant K. G. Stillman, Ordnance Department, who sailed for France in October, 1917, in the Rainbow Division, had fifteen and a half months of active duty in France receiving his honorable discharge on February 10, 1919. For six months he was the chief clerk in the largest Artillery Ammunition Depot of the A. E. F.; for three months Field Representative for the "Stars and Stripes ; for one month an instructor in an Artillery Ammunition School; and for two months in charge of all ammunition supply for American Artillery Training Camps in France. He received his commission on September 11, 1918.

Second Lieutenant W. B. Sturtevani has been in the office of the Chief Ordnance Officer, A. E. F., since September 29, 1918.

Ensign C. W. Sweet, U. S. Naval Flying Corps, was released from active service January 25.

Sergeant G. S. Tracy was discharged from service in the F. A. C. O. T. S., Camp Taylor, Kentucky, on December 9.

Lieutenant D. S. Trenholm, who has been on active duty in France since July 15, 1918, was gassed on October 11, and spent about three months in the hospital at St. Nazaire.

R. G. Tyler, who went overseas September 18, 1918, has spent six months in hospitals in France and this country.

Lieutenant H. J. Weeks is Operating Officer, having supervision of storage warehouses at the Ordnance Depot, Middletown, Pa.

Sergeant R. A. Wells, who went overseas July 5, 1918, is on duty at U. S. Base Hospital 44, M. E. S. V. E. S., France.

Lieutenant John Young, U. S. Aviation Service, was awarded the Croix de Guerre twice, which entitled him to the Palm; was recommended twice for the Distinguished Service Cross, and once for the Distinguished Service Medal; and just before the Armistice was signed was recommended for a captaincy.

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George C. Arnold, Jr., sailed April 3 on the Guiseppe Verdi for Italy, where he is to take up the work of athletic director and hut secretary with the American Y. M. C. A. in the Italian army. Arnold has been in the naval aviation service, being discharged in January.

Ensign Lawrence Doty received his commission at Annapolis January 31, and was assigned to the U. S. S. New York.

Lieutenant A. C. Gottschaldt, who served as commander of the first battalion of the S. A. T. C. at the Georgia School of Technology, at Atlanta, Georgia, from June to December, 1918, is still in Atlanta.

Ensign J. E. O'Gara, U. S. N., had his resignation accepted on December 10.

Lieutenant H. K. Whitmore, who was captured by the Germans while flying over the enemy lines, and spent several months in a German prison, returned to America on February 19.

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Lieutenant J. E. Berry, British Royal Air Force, who received his commission in Canada May 1, 1918, has been discharged with two hundred air battles to his credit.

First Lieutenant R. H. Potter, Jr., received on February 16 a second citation for the Croix de Guerre, giving him both a bronze and a gold star on his cross.