Brooklyn and Long Island in the war; . 302d Ammunition Train 302d Supply Train Military Police and TrainIldqrs Train Sanitary Train (Four fieldhospitals and four ambul-ance companiest ft62472 337S4 Total 049 .IC The .Artillery Brigade, arriving atBre»t May 2, enjoyed a day or two ofbaths and resting and entrained on May7 for Soiige, about rifteen miles outsideof The infantry the units with them marched tenmiles from Calais to an enlrainmentpoint, then rode about eight miles in;cars of the Uninines 40. Chevaux 8class. Their journey was to a trainingarea back o
Brooklyn and Long Island in the war; . 302d Ammunition Train 302d Supply Train Military Police and TrainIldqrs Train Sanitary Train (Four fieldhospitals and four ambul-ance companiest ft62472 337S4 Total 049 .IC The .Artillery Brigade, arriving atBre»t May 2, enjoyed a day or two ofbaths and resting and entrained on May7 for Soiige, about rifteen miles outsideof The infantry the units with them marched tenmiles from Calais to an enlrainmentpoint, then rode about eight miles in;cars of the Uninines 40. Chevaux 8class. Their journey was to a trainingarea back of Ypres, with divisionuUheadiuartcrs at Kperlecci, near ; Ini6r. The various units of the divi-!sion were billoled through a score \illages round about. The 154tlif5rig»de was tlrst to arrive there and. treed it did .save the men some-r.:itit at facts record that regimentalheadquarters of the 305th Inf. in thisarea were at I^lcqucs. The headqtiart-crs of the others are still hidden InobHCurity. Thus, early In May, we have the In- extraordinary hiking, and ot intensive p^^^p^^ j},at the division should take a position in reserve where it was to blockthe Germans if they broke through. At just this lime, however—it is notcertain it it was .lune 1 or 2—orderscame transferring the division to a posi-tion back of Doullens in the Arrassector. Here. too. there ?ivas Germanpressure, and reserves needed to be athand. The 77th marched all the way toDouUens over a route that made itsjourney about 100 miles. Arriving attheir destination, they were brigadedwith British regiments under the com-mand ot Gen. Ironsides—an imposingfigure of a man about six feet five in-ches in height who landed inFrance as a lieutenant at the outbreakof the war, who had been sent to j
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