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Title |
"18th Infantry Honored by French Government" Newspaper Clipping |
Object ID Number |
13745-4 |
Object Name |
Newspaper |
Description |
Newspaper clipping titled, "18th Infantry Honored by French Government." Article was published in New York on September 3, but no year. William Frye Martin of Lexington, Massachusetts was part of the Medical Corps, 18th Infantry, 1st Division, where he served until he was killed in action at Hill 240 near Exermont during the Argonne Forest Offensive on October 9, 1918. "Four thousand officers and men of the famous First Division of the regular army, veterans of some of the bloodiest victories which ever crowned American armies, returned home today on the transports Amphion, Suwanee and Mobile. The little strips of various-colored ribbons that decorated the tunics of hundreds of the returning soldiers bore silent testimony to the deeds which have made the division historic. "As far as individual decorations were concerned the palm was borne by the 18th Infantry, every man of which wore the fourragiere of the Legion of Honor conferred by the French government just before the unit boarded the Mobile at Brest. "But the 18th had little to boast of over their comrades, noticeably the Second Machine Gun Battalion, forty per cent of whom had been decorated. Incidentally this battalion, which returned under the command of Major S. Warren of Gainsville, Florida, suffered 70 per cent casualties." |
Size & Extent of Item |
5"h x 5"w |
Collection |
World War I Collection |