. Illinois in the World War; an illustrated record prepared with the coöperation and under the direction of the leaders in the state's military and civilian organizations. SALUTING THE COLORS OF THE 131ST INFANTRY AT THE DIVISION REVIEW AT ETTELBRUCK !7o ILLINOIS IN THE WORLD WAR Foch, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, General Pershing, General Petain,and Lord Derby. Marching with the battalion were the staff of the Seventy-third French Division, detachments of French infantry, cavalry and artillery,and squadrons of tanks and armored cars. The governor-general praised the American infantrymen fo
. Illinois in the World War; an illustrated record prepared with the coöperation and under the direction of the leaders in the state's military and civilian organizations. SALUTING THE COLORS OF THE 131ST INFANTRY AT THE DIVISION REVIEW AT ETTELBRUCK !7o ILLINOIS IN THE WORLD WAR Foch, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, General Pershing, General Petain,and Lord Derby. Marching with the battalion were the staff of the Seventy-third French Division, detachments of French infantry, cavalry and artillery,and squadrons of tanks and armored cars. The governor-general praised the American infantrymen for their ap-pearance. You look, he said, like the fighters you are. While the provisional battalion was being feted at Metz, the rest of theregiment assembled and started toward the German border. The march be-gan December 7. It was a sorry-looking column, if judged by boulevardstandards. The men were wearing the clothes they had slept and fought infor two LiliMiRAL PERSHiXG CONGRATULATES COEONEL SAXBORN Every day a drizzling rain fell. The roads were muddy, and the shoesthe men were wearing were none too good. Marching on the rain-soakedroads soon brought an epidemic of sore feet. But the realization that thefighting was over and hope of an early return to the United States kept every-one cheerful. The regiment marched until December 14 when it arrived atEhnen, Luxemburg, on the Moselle River, the boundary line of }^ this time the provisional battalion had returned from Metz and it was acomplete regiment which crossed the Moselle river into Germany on Decem-ber 15 and moved into the Beurig area on the Saar River. The regiments stay in Germany was short, however, for the Thirty-third Division was by a readjustment of troops ordered to occupy Luxem-burg. On December 17 the 131st marched back to the Fels-Larochette areain Luxemburg, where it established its headquarters. Here the regiment wasbilletted until its return to the Unit
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