The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-07-11
..OIJR" ARTILLERY
Is MAKING GOOD
Walla Walla Boy Writes that the
146th is Now Known all over
France-Makes Records

The following letter from Carl
Crews, of the 146th Field Artillery.
published in yesterdays Walla Walla
Union, will undoubtedly prove of in
terest to many Courier-Reporter read
srs who have relatives and friends in
the 146th.
The 146th Field Artillery will GER
tainly get their share if we live up to
our reputation (the 146th is known
all over France by some records es-
tablished with certain gum. Some
of our regiment are now ilstructing
the regulars.
A few nights ago scme engineers
went thru here on the tzsin, one of
them asked what outfit we were. When
told it was the 146th, he drew. in his
head and said to his friends, Here's
that 146th F. A" / think nearly ev-
cry man in the regiment il proud that
he belongs. It's distinctly western in
personnel. A battery being from New
Mexico, B and C batteries from Ida
no and D, E and F are from the best
part Of the best state in the Union,
so why shouldn't it be good regi-
ment?
Wednesday we were out on a con-
voy. Got up at $3.50 a. m. and went to
the hills for practice maneuvering. /
hope the battalion commander doesn't
pick out such hard places in real bat
tie, cause the radio men had plenty to
do getting there with the apparatus.
Feet is, we worked two of the lieuten-
ants on a wheel barrow for a few
minutes. No, the barrow isn't part of
our equipment, but we have one box
of stuff that weighs about $50 pounds
and when we saw the hill we had to
climb with it we signed on the wheel
barrow. The view from our position
nearly (bnt not quite) paid for our
labors in getting there. Hills on all
sides, and the patches of different
kinds of growing stuff made it look
very much like the wheat fields on our
own Blue Mountains. You know how
it looks, patches of green, blue, or.
ange, etc., then nesting about the hills
were about dozen towns; some in the
valleys, others on side hills and some
at the top. And l venture to say that
not one Of these towns is under two
hundred years old. The French are
streng for monuments are half
a dozen or so on the hill around US
one in particular is quite beautiful; it
was erected by a woman whose boy
at the age Of fourteen was killed, in
one Of the early French wars. - g
On the outskirts Of Clermont is Roy
al, summer resort, where the king
Of England used to spend his vacation.
I'm not sure whether he got ten days
every six weeks or not, which reminds
me we are entitled to service stripe,
and ten days leave, but owing to a
couple Of bad Investments on the
Bourse, I'll have to postpone mine.
The people in this part Of France
speak little different than the ones
from where we came. One fellow in
my company spoke to one the other
day in French, saying, GLOW are you
today?" He always got by with it in
the other place, but this time the
Frenchman didn't get him at ALL.
Scotty said: "They don't understand
their own language" l suppose it's
about like Frenchman trying to talk
to Westerncr after having been in
New Hampshire for a while.
Sat. evening, June 8, same place.
Today we had our regular Saturday
inspection, this time it was the field
inspection. The general was around
to see us. hope we made good inn
preston on him. (He looked human).
It was quite sight to see all the
khaki clad boys spread out over the
field, standing behind thier layouts.
Read in a Walla Walla paper which
arrived tonight little piece about the
gun we are using. I've thought all the
time we weren't allowed to write it.
and all that time I've just been aching
to. There was fairly good picture
of it in the Spokcsman-Re Review of the
oath. .