The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-18
FIRST DIVISION IN
GRAND REVIEW MAKES
WASHINGTON THRILL
Continued from Page u

Lieutenant General Robert l.. Bullard,
who took it into action and surrender
ed command only to take a higher
post Marching ahead of the forma-
tions. also. came q host of officers and
men who saw their first service with
the First Division in France, later to
go to other units as instructors.
Then came the First Infantry Bri'
gade. marching in the French mass
formation, "a men abreast across the
avenue, led by the 3rd Mavhine gun
battalion with its motorized guns. The
infantry marched in column Of fours,
four companies abreast and with Off
GERS and file closers ahead, leaving
the men to form u solid block of bayo-
nets for each battalion. The 10th In
fantry, veterans of the bitter fighting
at Cantigny where France learned in
what fashion America could and would
fight and breathed free again after
months of strain, led the way. After
its three battalion blocks had passed
came the 18th Infantry in similar for
nation followed by the lst Machine
Gun Battalion of the Brigade
The sixth Field Artillery came next,
followed by the Second Infantry bri-
gade composed of the 2Gth and 18th
Infantry and the 2nd Machine Gun
Battalion, then the long lines Of 10 $
and the motor 1855" of the lst Ar
tillery Brigade, the 5th and the Ith
Field Artillery. The horse-drawn guns
and limbers of the 9Th rolled by
three columns abreast and the 7th
puffed and painted along with its heaV'
ier guns in the same formation.
Long Wagon Trains
The regular trains of the divisions
followed, the lst Engineer regiment
leading the way with the 1st Engineer
train behind it to be succeeded by the
End Signal battalion. Then came the
almost endless wagon and truck trains
of the ammunition, supply and SAM
tary trains and the lst company, mill
tary police and finally the hospital
trains, the 2nd, 3rd, 18th and 18th am
bulance companies and Field hosplt'
ais
At various points in the divisional
line and before the walowing tanks
hammered and clattered in an uprodr'
ing conclusion to the five hour specta-
Gle, all manner of additional units, not
part of the division itself, were insert
ed These included searchlight trucks,
ordnance machine shops, units ON mo
tor trucks, sound ranging devices Tor
detecting the position of hidden guns,
sound rangers for spotting air raiders
at night and much other mechanical
equipment that has played Il con
stantly growing part in the war.
So far as the First division itself IS
concerned the official record of its
activities during the war recently pub
lished by the war department speaks
for itself 1t stood SO days in active
sectors Of the front against l23 IN
quiet parts of the line; it fought its
way forward over 81 Nometers OF
sharply contested grounds; it captured
163 German guns; G2 trench mortars
and 4l3 machine guns. 1t lists 4.4ll
officers and men, killed or died OF
wounds and had l720l men wounded
or gassed in the days it spent at the
front and lost only l52 Of its own per
sonnel as prisoners to the enemy. Its
replacemente were greater than its orl-
ginal strength, 80 .2O6 and 1856 Of its
members won Distinguished Service
Crosses for conspicuous gdllantry III
action.