History of Troop A Cavalry, Connecticut National Guard and its service in the Great War as CoD, 102d Machine Gun Battalion . band. Local talent of all kinds was plentiful and withthe assistance of Johnson and Hine the Salvation Army workerssold cocoa and doughnuts to lines of men which lasted as longas the supplies held out. The dearth of company officers was felt when LieutenantNelson left for the school at Gondrecourt, Lieutenant Carrollhaving been previously called to Battalion Headquarters to actas gas officer. Moving to the east the battalion sector embraced positionsnear the village of F
History of Troop A Cavalry, Connecticut National Guard and its service in the Great War as CoD, 102d Machine Gun Battalion . band. Local talent of all kinds was plentiful and withthe assistance of Johnson and Hine the Salvation Army workerssold cocoa and doughnuts to lines of men which lasted as longas the supplies held out. The dearth of company officers was felt when LieutenantNelson left for the school at Gondrecourt, Lieutenant Carrollhaving been previously called to Battalion Headquarters to actas gas officer. Moving to the east the battalion sector embraced positionsnear the village of Flirey. It was to relieve a French unit insome of the new territory that the third platoon left on thenight of the 12th. The balance of the Company moved out thefollowing night to take up positions in the ruins of Seichepreyand on the ridge just to the southwest of that place, protectingBeaumont, which place had served successively as a post ofcommand for the I02d and loist Infantry Regiments. Passingsafely through the perils of Dead Mans Curve, the Companycompleted the relief under the protection of midnight Lfpcr, left to rifiht—Capt Frank E. Wolf, Lt. (French army, in-structor), Capt. George D. Condren. Center, left to rifiht—U. John C. Dolan, Lt. John C. Carroll, Lt. BarryKeenan, Lt. Sidney Bacharach. Lower, left to right—U. C. Lyon Rogers, Lt. Gustaf A. Nelson, Lt. JohnC. Carroll.
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