The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-15

Plans Announced for Sending
State Troops to the War
Front.
DESIGNATED 42ND DIVISION
Brioadfer General w. A. Mann, Head
of the Military Bureau at Wash
ington, VIII Command the
Unit to Be Sent Abroad.


Washington, Aug. 15.-Plans for
sending the first National Guard troops
to France have been perfected by the
war department with the organization
of q division which will include troops
from 26 states and the District of CO.
lumbia.
The commanding officer of the di-
vision will be Brig. Gen. w. A. Mann
Of the regular army, now chief of the
division of militia affairs of the war
department.
The states from which the National
Guard troops are to be assembled are !:
Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,
New York, Ohio, Georgia, Alabama,
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota,
Maryland, South Carolina, California,
Missouri, Virginia, North Carolina,
Kansas, Texas, Michigan, New Jersey,
Tennessee, Oklahoma, Nebraska Colo
RADIO, Oregon. The others come from
District of Columbia.
War Department Announcement.
Following is the war departments
announcement under the heading,
Composite National Guard Division :"
'The following organizations of the
National Guard have been selected to
compose the Forty-second division.
''The following numerical designa-
tons have been assigned:
division headquarters troop to con-
sist of the Second separate troop. Lou
isiana cavalry.
'"The division machine gun battalion,
No. 149, to be composed of the Third
battalion, Fourth Pennsylvania infan-
try.
''The infantry brigades to be num-
bered S3 and 81.
'The Eighty-third infantry brigade
to comprise the 150th machine bat
talon composed Of companies r, F
and G, Second Wisconsin infantry; the
165th infantry (Sixty-ninth New York
Infantry, and the 166th infantry
(Fourth Ohio Infantry
'"The Eighty-fourth infantry brigade
to comprise the 151st machine gun bat
TALON Companies B, G and f, Second
Georgia Infantry, 167th infantry
(Fourth Alabama Infantry and the
168th infantry (Third Iowa Infantry.
Place for Illinois Artillery.
"The artillery brigade, to be num-
bered Sixty-seventh, comprises:
"The One Hundred and Forty-ninth
field artillery (First Illinois field ar
tllery), the One Hundred and Fiftieth
field artillery (First Indiana field ar
dllery), the One Hundred and Fifty
first field artillery (First Minnesota
field artillery, and the One Hundred
and Seventeenth trench mortar bat
terry, to be composed of the Third and
Fourth companies Maryland coast ar
tillery corps.
To Be Known as the 117th.
"The divisional field battalion signal
troops will be organized from the Mis-
souri, National Guard. The headquar-
ters train and military police will be
organized from the coast artillery
csrps, Virginia. The engineer train
will be organized from the North Caro-
lima troops. The ammunition train
will be organized from the Kansas
troops and the supply train from the
Texas troops. They will be known
respectively as the One Hundred and
Seventeenth field battalion signal
troops, the One Hundred and Seven
teenth headquarters train and military
police, the One Hundred and Seven
teenth engineer train, the One Hun
dred and Seventeenth ammunition
train and the One Hundred and Seven
teenth supply train.
'The sanitary train to be known as
the One Hundred and Seventeenth
sanitary train, will be composed of the
First, Second, Third and Fourth ambu-
lance companies, being respectively,
the First ambulance companies of
Michigan, New Jersey, Tennessee and
Oklahoma; the First Second, Third
and Fourth field hospital companies,
being respectively the First field hos
pital companies of Nebraska, Colorado,
Oregon and the District of Columbia.
Force to Be About 10000.
Discussion of the time and place of
mobilization of the division or of IFS
departure for France are not permis-
sible under the voluntary censorship.
The structure of the division as oiven
In the official statement shows If will
conform to the reduced trench warfa re
divisional organization recommended
by Major General Pershing, which
would give 1t total strength With aux
iliary troops, of approximately 10000
men.
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