The Washington herald., 1919-02-05
DISTRICT TROOPS.
REACH new YORK.
200 Men of Battery D, Goth
Heavy Artillery, Soon
VIII Be Home.

Will Be Home.
Laden with troops. including Bat
tery- D, of the Sixtieth Heavy Ar
ti'fery. consisting of 200 former Ma
t1onal Guardsmen of the District OF
Columbia. the transport Cedric ar
rived at New York Monday from
Brost. The battery will soon be in
Washington
Arrival of these veteran artillery
men assure ethe District of at least
one Of its overseas units for the
biz Welcome Home demonstration to
be held in honor of President Will
son and the thousands Of troops who
played a glorious part in the great
world war
Made Splendid Record.
Battery u formerly WAS the First
Company. Coast Artillery. of the Dis
trict National Guard. It gave early
promise of making the record of the
American Big Gun Corps in France
. glorious page in the history OF
the war. having Won the national
tr0phy for craftsmanship wiki Il
and 1l-inCh guns before being sent
overseas.
In the hard campaigning around
Metz in the last days Of the war, it
handled giant cannon hurling half-ton
high explosive shells TO such good
effect that the retrcating Germans Of
ten We're foiIed in their purpose OF
carrying of into sCTfdOm hundreds of
French girls and women. Starting
firing dS early as O'Clock i'm the
morning, its crews stuck to their
task OF "strafing" the boches' strong
points Of troop concentrations. am
nUniti0n dumps. and railroad centers
with such deadly accuracy of fire
THAI the French air observers reports
showed more than - per cent of hits,
a splcbdid record considering that
the ranges varied from fifteen to
thirty miles.
Mai Gen. Frank W. Coe. chief of
~" Ccast Artillery Corps. has order
al these troops to be brought TO Fort
Washington. Md. fourteen miles down
the Potomac. where they trained. for
dcr.ObiHzatIOn.
Roster of Battery.
Members Of the u. c. Coast Artil-
l"ry mustered into Federal Service
ON August =. 1917. were:
Captains. Burns. ". W. Guy. +.
t.. first IicUtenants Stewart. F.:
-S"y.I. y. T. H.: second lcutenants.
u"yIe. Il. :; Christmas. J. X; first
.=er-"aut. Myers. g. NJ: SorE cants.
H,chc. FL p. Chaddick. II. H.. Light
foot. T.. K. Towncr. II. c.: Corpo-
rsls, EuHInks. IT. IT,. Gronna, \. j..
49, bert. G.. W. cooks. Tcates. r. W.
uN.rt~. NJ. Y. mechanic. Garner. II.
IL bU-IcTs. CpfFin. Il. NIcFIin. L. G..
:. iyatos-Adanrson r. BalIenCer.
IT IL Eanui-tcr J O.. Becker. r.
~ Evmar. D. c.. Carmody. J. +.
'aruw. p. Coleman. T.. L.. Collins.
sN- n Duu"hoC. j. c.. Edmunston.
e. b.. Eu-lfSh. !. T.. l'itz@i bbun. \
~. FiCmCr G. r. Ford. W r..
- e0drirh. a.. T.. Cicur-c. s. r..
80 fovaunettf. C. W. Hall T. H.. ir..
aI...1, " 2. L.. Haas. }. r.. Hill :
- HiH. w. w. Hoe. j. Il. Honey.
". d.. Johns. 20. r.. Johueou. w.
Il l.a.. J. E.. Eeror<. NJ Kerr. W.
y -'''Hsr-' 3. T.. g.. knight. L..
sI..ndresu y. e. I.,ith. H. T. Lrpper.
- a.. LEous. ". !. Lowcy. II. T..
,i.rGur~. - j. AIahau"y. NJ. J.. Max
s,.r 3D. H.. LiIbUru. Il. n. Miller r.
AZ. NtIinr. r. T. Morris, l.. E.
AurU Uhr. r.. E"irz"y. T.. NJ Nickel.
- IT,. TarkIr~. ". c.. Peasc. J. L.:
Pnlur+. r. j.. rhHrps. L. H., Pres
s'..,r. -. s.. I.c.S,.. q. T.. Rose, l. j.,
'SuHnl-y. y. = simmons. ". D..
'sr5tM g. f. A. Smith. ". NJ,
~. y-u'y. T.. y. Tinker. +. NJ.
~ ma. + A. Van Horn. p. W.
= uccut. IL. T.. Walters, j. W.
,W"Il. T. y. jr., Wyville, q. A. Nan
Ten. J. y.
ID. {. Officers Return.
Among the decorated men were:
s;erEt- Lester Seets. Marion. Va. who
seod BY his gun although wounded.
. rNmcng the officers were Maj NJ
81. Milton and Jaj. John lard, both
from Roanoke. Va.
Casual officers included Lieut.. VI.
e. Rich. Washington, and Capt. F.
~ Hyde. Washington.
CAPT Hyde lives at III Fifth
srreFt northeast. He received his
Commission in 1916. He was honor
imam in his class in st. Johns Col
Iegg.- lie first saw service in Mexico.
where, with his brother, John W.
Hyde. ne was one Of the first Dis
lr1rt mon tU cross the border.
~Nuvth Regiment Machine Gun Corps.
N.ter seeing service with that unit
hu- was transferred to the chemical
warfare branch. lie is one Of the
Two SURVIVORS Of the SiNticth Machine
GIu Corps
e- Commended Three Times.
70. fought mt Chateau Thierry, Bet
Infu Wood and was severely wounded
..d later Ensscd in the fighting along
Oh. Mouse. While in the hospital re-
covering from these wounds he was
told that he had been placed on the
lisl foFsarIy return. Capt Hyde has
roru commended for bravery on three
90. rasIous.
t+euC NJ e. Rich. who lives in
Mount Rainier. Md. has also seen
service ON the Mexican border. with
the .. -. y. G. Lieut. Rich resigned
his commission when he returned from
Mexico, but when the United States
entered the war he applied for REIN
statement. Lieut.. Rich has a wife
and one child
Early Action on Bill Asked.
FUauG Morrison, secretary Of the
American Federation Of Labor with