The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-05-22

Vorpel road assisting over a difficult
hill which lieutenant and his detach-
ment made the hike the next day. On
November 4th this entire platoon had
their packs on for ten hours hiking
across fields without food
8. wish to call attention to Sergt
James D. Smith, 1S6S43 and Sergt.
First Glass F. A. Blackwell, 1862.
both of Company A, 117th Engineer
regiment, who on the night of Novem-
Der 5 remained all night with snatch
teams on the corduroy road across
the Bar Valley at Brieulles maintain
ing the passage of traffic, who with
their squads worked the following
day and made all the subsequent
hikes.
4 l wish to call attention to Sergt
Walter E. Johnson, 1S6970, Com
pany A, 117th, Engineer Regiment,
who worked all night November 6
assisting traffic at the causeway at
Bar Creek, and who with his squad
on November Z hiked % Kilometres,
which kept them on duty 40 hours
without rest.
5. The spirit of the men of this com
pany throughout this campaign was
splendid. No one grumbled at the
hardships, lack of food and sleep and
long hours of work, but seemed hap
py at an opportunity to serve.
Part Five.
l. l wish to call attention to Capt.
John L. NJ. Irby, Company B, 117th
Engineer Regiment, who with his
company on November was put
to work on the corduroy at Bar Val
! ley, who worked continuously until
10 o'clock the following night in spite
of the fact that they had been for
several days hiking with insufficient
food and rest and who on the fol-
lowing morning were interrupted by
the division engineers on their way
forward to strengthen the approaches
to the temporary bridge built by this
regiment at Petite Armoises, the ap-
proaches to this bridge having been
found insufficient. He got his COM
pany dispatched On this work with in
credible promptness, and while ma
terials were lacking his men procur-
ed materials from telephone lines,
transporting the same on their shoul-
ders and allowing the truck supply
to pass this bridge within three hours,
constructing something like 100 feet
of corduroy road for this purpose.
Captain lrby is to be complimented
very highly on the extreme judgment
and sound engineering principles ex-
hibited on the Corduroy roads he
constructed both at this point and
Brieulles.
2. wish to call attention to First
Lieut.. Joseph B. Stribling, Com
pany B, One Hundred and Seven
teenth Engineer Regiment, who from
O'Clock p. m, until midnight on
November with snatch team and
detachment aided the traffic on the
Verpel road and who made the hike
the following day with his company
and served with them through all
subsequent difficulties.
8. Captain Irby says that no one
in his company needs special men
ton; that everyone in his company
worked with equal willingness and de-
light. Throughout this campaign the
men of this company in spite of the
excessive hardships and the fact that
they were working night and day
seemed delighted to know that so
much depended on them and were
sensitive TO their responsibilities.
They deserve great credit for the
manner in which they discharged
their duties and the espirits de corps
exhibited.
Part Six.
l | wish to call attention to Capt.
Beverly M. English, Company G,
One Hundred and Seventeenth Regi-
ment, who was ordered to reassume
the role of engineers from that of in
fantry reserve at o'clock, November
5, and who at 2:30 that afternoon
was at work on the corduroy road
across the Bar Valley at Brieulles
and completed in highly creditable
manner it's work by 10 p. m, Novem-
Der 6. The following day they were
ordered forward to Chemery and up
on arriving there were ordered to
Chehery, where they arrived with the