The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-10
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As a special tribute to Brigadier- General Sherberne, 0 former member or the Massachusetts house, more than two-thirds of the members of the legislature were among the weIcOn- Ing hosts. The artillery units arriv- ing on the Mongolia were more di- rectly representative of New England than any of the other contingents Of the Yankee division that have re- turned. Fewer replacements from outside New England. were necessary to maintain the strength of the bat teries in action and they returned composed almost entirely of Massa- chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine and New Hampshire men.
 The official casualty list of the 1O2d Field Artillery Regiment, given out
 by the adjutant, included 30 men and two officers killed in action and 352
 officers and men wounded. Sixty per cent. of the members of the bat
 terles to return today had been with the outfit since 1t went overseas. Colonel J. F. J. Herbert, command ing, told the stories of Private EI- Eott of Battery E of the 102d. who was decorated by General Edwards, and of Private Joseph Parent, anoth- CT Webster boy, who also won the CrolS de Guerre- Elliott was taken prisoner at Selcheprey, April ?, 1917, and was reported as missing. The French awarded him the war cross and it was sent to his mother. When the armistice was signed he was re- leased and sent word home that he had gone back to his battery. Mrs. Elliott forwarded the decoration to General Edwards in order that he l might present it on the transport. Colonel Herbert said that Elliott was one of fl men holding a dugout at Seigheprey against a large number of Germans. The enemy used smoke bombs and attacked with bayonets, four of the Yankees being killed and three wounded. The others were captured. Elliott was one of these. That was before the Germans knew they had lost the war" said Elliott, who was standing near his colonel, and we certainly got rough
 treatment. They took everything away from us but our trousers and shirts. They fed us two bowls of bad soup in the first 48 hours and made us work like dogs, first cleaning streets and later in a mine."
 Private Parent wears both the CroiX de Guerre and the Distinguish ed Service Cross. He won them at Seicheprey when he brought in from No Mans Land a buddy who was badly wounded and then returned and finished the job of reconstructing a wire entanglement he had been work ing on. This was done under fire and Parent was wounded in the head and leg, but stuck to his job. General Edwards gave him a warm hand clasp today.
 According to Colonel Herbert, Ma jor Frank Cavanaugh, the former Dartmouth football coach. who was wounded in the face in the Davine des Bois Caures, north of Verdun. will probably arrive on the next transport. Major Cavanaugh was hit when a shell exploded near him. He received 2 cut under his right eye, but surgeons skilIfuI work saved his eye sight.
 Captain George W. Jones, former star Holy Cross athlete, of Worcester, returned wearing a Distinguished Ser vice Cross awarded because when a shell killed and wounded members of a gun crew he was directing, he help ed to carry the wounded men out of range of other enemy explosives. Cap tain Jones rose from private to cap- tain during the war.