The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-15

Division to be Known at the 42d, But
No Discussion is Allowed as to Proba-
BILE Date of Experimentation 10000
Men in Unit.
WASHINGTON, Aug. -. Troops
from the National Guard of twenty six
States and the District Of Columbia
are being organized into a division, to
be known as the Forty division,
and will be sent to Frcnce soon under
the command of Brighten. w. A. Mann
of the regular army, now chief of the
division of militia affairs in the war de-
partment.
The only regiment from New York
included is the famous Fighting Six
ty-ninth The total number Of men
in the division will be about 10000.
These will he the first National
Guard troops to be sent to France No
discussion is permitted by the censor
ship regulations, however, of the time
of their mobilization or departure for
the front
The other states from which the Ma
tional Guard troops are to be assembled
are: Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Wis
consin, Ohio Georgia, Alabama, Iowa,
Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Maryland
South Carolina. California, Missouri,
Virginia. North Carolina, Kansas, Tex
as, Michigan, New Jersey, Tennessee,
| Oklahoma Nebraska. Colorado, Oregon.
The remainder come from the District
Of Columbia
Following is the war department s
announcement:
1.-The following numerical designa-
tions have been assigned
| " Division headquarters troop to con
| SiSt Of the Second separate troop, Louis
lama cavalry.
| The division machine gun battalion,
| NO. l49, to be composed OF the Third
| Battalion, Fourth Pennsylvania Infan-
| try.
THE infantry brigades to be mum
| bered So and 81
1.-The Eightythird Infantry Brigade
to comprise tbs ,l@9tl Waehine, gun bat
| talon COMPOSED of Companies T.. F
and G, Second Wisconsin Infantry
the l65th infantry (Sixty ninth New
York Infantry, and the Tooth Infan.
try. Fourth Ohio Infantry.
''fhe Lightly Infantry Bri-
Eade, to comprise the 15lst Machine
Gun battalion Companies b, c and F
Second Georgia Infantry, l67th Infan
try (Fourth Alabama Infantry, and tn,
| l6oth Infantry (Third Iowa Infantry
1.-The artillery brigade, to be mum
bered SiXty-seventh, comprises;
1.-THE l49th Field Artillery (Firs
| Illinois Field Artillery, the l50th Fiel,
| Artillery First Indiana Field Artil
leryJ, the l5lst Field Artillery (Firs
Minnesota Field Artillery and tn
ll1th trench mortar battery, to be com
posed of the Third and Fourth com
panies, Maryland Coast Artillery.
THE engineer regiment of the divi
sion will be numbered ll7th The frs
, battalion will he formed from the frs
! separate battalion, engineers, Sout
Carolina, and the second battalion wi
be formed Of the first separate bat
talon. engineers, California.
"'Tha divisional field battalion, 81.
nal troops, viii be organized from tn
/ | Missouri National Guard The hea,
. quarters train and military police wi
| he organized from the coast artillcr
corps, Virginia. The engineer train wi
| be organized from the North CAROLYN
! troops. The ammunition train will |
organized from the Kansas troops an
the supply train from the Texas troop
They will be known respectively as Il
. ll7th Field Battalion, signal troops Il
: l11th headquarters train and milital
police, the ll7th engineer train, u
= Hath ammunition train and the III
. supply train.
! The sanitary train to be known
: the ll1th sanitary train, will be col
priSed Of the First, Second Third al
Fourth Ambulance companies, being
spcctiycl, the First Ambulance COZ
gs panies Of Michigan, New Jersey, TIE
M ncsSee and Oklahoma. the First, Spcor