331st field artillery, United States army, 1917-1919 . who infested the well known Western Front. SUPPLY COMPAKY-Pigf 5311 Field Artillery All will remember the day when the gas masks and tin hats (Made by HenryFord) were passed out. But alas, never to be used. Then came the Armisticeand the rush to clear for home. The weeks of waiting. About this time CaptainBecker and Lieutenant Pearce were detached from the regiment for furtherservice in France, and Lieutenant Radermacher assumed command of the came the final orders to move, and the homeward journey via Souges, Bord-eaux, -Mars
331st field artillery, United States army, 1917-1919 . who infested the well known Western Front. SUPPLY COMPAKY-Pigf 5311 Field Artillery All will remember the day when the gas masks and tin hats (Made by HenryFord) were passed out. But alas, never to be used. Then came the Armisticeand the rush to clear for home. The weeks of waiting. About this time CaptainBecker and Lieutenant Pearce were detached from the regiment for furtherservice in France, and Lieutenant Radermacher assumed command of the came the final orders to move, and the homeward journey via Souges, Bord-eaux, -Marseilles, Gibraltar, New Nork and Camp Grant. A further formal account by the Editor, of the history of the Company canfurnish no information of great value to the alumni of the Supply is far better to see the life in the Company through the eyes of one who livedit. In lieu, therefore, of any further comment we take the liberty of inserting thestory of the personal experiences of one who has been a mule skinner and abuck with the old On You Mademoiselle! l g e 450 — SUPPLY COMPANY 551SJ Field Artillery, My Memories of the Supply Company By Private First Class. Vernon J. Kenney There came one day into the sand swept planes of Camp Grant, a timid still clad in his oldest cits, he was already feeling the touch of theArmys long arm. For no sooner had the batch of recruits tumbled off their cramp-ed quarters on the train which brought them from their loved ones at home tothe bleak and forbidding camp, than the harsh command Fall in was , picking up their bags, they fell into column after a fashion and were pilotedby a gruff regular army sergeant to the barracks of the old 331st, at SeventhStreet and South Service street. Our rookie hiked along with the rest past what seemed miles of stables, withwhich he was later to become all too well acquainted, and ended up at one of thebattery buildings. Here they gave him a nice steel cot to lie on. Th
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