Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-02
SAND SHOTS FROM
1t2TH REGIMENT
Dawn of New Year Finds Boys
Ready for What May Come.
Loss of Well Liked Bunkees
Regretted.

IlZth, refreshed by three-day vacation
at Christmas time and two day vacation
which has just come to a conclusion, are
ready for the most rigid kind of drill
| schedule and the real thing in war work.
| Some were fortunate enough to get home
| for the holidays, but among the great
| majority who didn't get back, the spirit
| OF Yuletide happiness, thanks to the
/ friends back home, the Red Cross and
| AuguStans who opened their homes on
| that day prevailed in all sections of the
camp. no one who enjoyed the~big tur-
/ key dinner that the 112th mess Sergeants
provided win ever forget the day, either.
In many a mess han of the 10Th Regi-
/ ment holiday decorations lent plenty of
| color to the occasion and Companies e
and Il had two OF the prettiest, the latter
company Boosting of two Christmas trees
| as well, and presenting a distribution of
| gifts that was productive of great deal
| OF amusement.
| In the past ten days number of the
| boys have been called upon to say good
| bye to comrades who have been with
! Bill Tobin, popular orderly of the Head
| quarters Company and young fellow
| whose joyial Irish wit was always on
tap, left for home shortly after Christ
mas, having been discharged on account
| of physical disability The same com
| pany lost two other good men, Supply
! Sergeant Clarence Jones and Mess Ser
geant Clyde Perry and enjoying similar
popularity they viii be missed for long
| time.
Company G has hidden good-by to
First Sergeant Joseph r. Winner who
has returned to his home i'm Erie. He
enjoyed popularity second to none
among the enlisted men from the Lake
City and there was indeed a feeling of
| regret when it was announced that he
had been given his discharge on account
Of physical disability
Practically every man in the entire
outfit now has two wooden uniforms OF
the new issue, and though they We're
long in coming, they arrived before
Christmas time and made the fellows
mighty comfortable during the cold spell
that arrived in the holidays. The hob
| nail shoes, issued about three weeks
ago, are already showing signs of ser
vice. and are proving unSurpasSabe, both
as to weight and wear. The new leg
| Inns are also on hand and most of the
men are wearing them.
SO the New Year finds most of the
fellows in flrst-class condition as to the
equipment, and they were never in bet
ter health than at the present time.
The holidays brought scores of visitors
TO Augusta and each mess hail had its
quota of soldiers wives or soldiers moth
ers.
Corporal Bob Jones of Company f has
the distinction Of being one Of the few
men in the 18th to be called in from
drill field to answer a telephone call more
than a thousand miles away. 1t was
Bob's wife. A week later Mrs. Jones
arrived i'll Augusta and on Christmas she
dined with he4 husband in the company
mess hall.
Fewer than a dozen in the regiment
were said to be officially AWOL on
Christmas Day and the majority of these
were absent only from reVeilie and re-
| treat, reporting on the next day. That
| is & record to be proud of, and il shows
| that the fellows took the furlough ruling
| in good spirit.
The Y. M. c. A. certainly played its
part on Christmas Eve, and the spen-
did entertainment given on Monday night
| served to drive away any case of the
| blues that might have been in embryo
| side, they're hoping that such Y. Nj.
| G. A. as Building i6 is with the home
! like spirit that always pervades the
| structure will be there to keep the fell
| lows cheered up.
! Companies A. b. c. and d, compris-
| ing the first battalion OF the 18th, We're
| the first units of the regiment to march
| to the rife range and take target prac-
| tice. Early Friday morning they were
| up and en- their way, and the whole day
| was spent on theA range. The work of
| checking un the other companies Of the
! regiment is proceeding quickly and the
! other units will probably be Out on she
range the latter part OF the week.
| Warren Brakeman of Oil City and Wal
! ter Dippold of Kittauning. both mail
clerks for the regiment, nave the dis
| tinction of dumping into" no less a
| celebrity than Ty Cobb Brakeman and
| Dippoid went down town last Thursday
| on still hunt for coal, and stopped at
a refreshment stand to enjoy some hot
| dogs. Brakeman ordered three; Dippold
| two, and then they swung around and
| started to chat to a weu-dressed, dap
per-loolling yong man who showed great
| interest in them. The dapper young man
not only paid for the sandwiches the
! boys had eaten but handed over several
| boxes of expensive cigarettes. adding
With my compliments Then they
asked him his name I'm Ty Cobb"
| The fellows are still telling the story up
| in clerks row and are just wondering
| whether it would be wise or not to ac-
cept the famous ball players invitation
! to dine with him soon.
Christmas presents. mailed during the
rush hours preceding the big day Itself
We're still ffitering into camp ON FIR day
| and Saturday Of last week. deiighting
many soldier boys who were beginning
| 10 think, owing to unavoidable delays in
the mall that they had been forgotten