Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-28
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I VI lNSlCN, november gI,--NSwS
! seventh and Thirtieth Divisions, which
have been lighting with the British
with only approximately IL, 500 oiicers
and men in each, does not mean that
these orsanizations have been reduced
| strength in the. severe lighting on tho
British front before the signing of
the arniistice.
Army officers recalled to-day that
| units of these divisions went into action
With the British forces, the artillery
sarded as more than possible that the
infantry and machine gun units were
reduced In number so as to make tho
divisions with which they were Gpe-
rating. The British divisional unit
numbers about 1880 mon.
New York National Guard division,
commanded by Major General John i.
O'Ryan. the only National Guard Of
s aas sss 1aas tn ffi5ss'n
see see: Nc North Carolina and South Caro-
Both these organizations saw heavy
action with the British, and were high
their, desperate hghting when Marshal
Haig's armies were smashing the Hin
denbure line in Northern France. Their
but it is not regarded as probable that
half their. original strength figured on
the Casualty lists.
the return of these or any other divi.
sions from France has been fixed. Sec
rotary Baker. said to-day that none of
rive home. before Christmss
When the divisions DO return from
thsy ~il bear itG
divisions when they. started overseas.
Application OF the one army theory 10
all the forces. and the systems Of re-
10 have. obliterated to a very large
psfture 'd Divided eS the 't divisions into Sa
iional Guard. National Army or regu-
lar organizations.
day by news from France that the
Scvcnty-sixth Division has reached it's
smbarka f port on the ether side
The seventy sixth is the National
Army division trained at Camp Devcns'
The report o-day from France shows
that not only have, 5000 OF the 1900
men of the original Seventy-siXth been
drafts for requirements AT the front:
but that probably largo number of
saK N the s Same waS 4he aHson
evident that the bulls of it's original
personnel did sec action in other di-
II may be that the extraordinary
depletion In the ranks Of the seventy.
suffered by he
the New England National Guard force
that was hrst of the troops other than
France.
Even If the men of the Seventy. sixth
have not gone into the Twenty-siXtn.
divisions. 1t is obvious that the re-
placement system has served to break
ar ALMOST ,,e en,1Tsy the iHGaised char
the active units are now filled with
men from the selectiye service; Ma
criminately and had the war. continued
tho whole army would have been weld
ed together in this fashion until there
was no possibility of distinguishing
between the units except by number.
WAR DEPARTMENT GIVES
MAKEUP OF ARMY CORPS
The organization of American army
corps in Frame as. 1t existed Norem-
t hsr 2; four days before the signing. or
corps then had been organized. but
shs of fS' six vas a,xse shs X
twenty divisions made up the corps.
In the iirSt corps were the Sixth Di-
EifSn ade En ae and Fty
Thira sf'"s snd h nnS aes
Artillery Regiments; the Thirty-sixth
Division. One Hundred and Forty.irst,
Hundred and For,y-third and One
Hundred and Forty fourth Infantry
Regiments and the One Hundred and
second and One Hundred and Thirty
third Artillery Regiments; tho Forty
siSty-tifth, One Hundred u and six uSo
sixth. One Hundred and Sixty-seventh
and One Hundred and Sixty-elghth In
dred and Forty ninth. One Hundred
and Fiftieth and One Hundred and
Ftfty-nrst Artillery Regiments: the
dred and Fifth. Three Hundred and
Sixth. Three Hundred and Seventeenth
and Three Hundred and Eighteenth In