Evening star., 1919-02-23
TWO D. c. SOLDIERS
BACK FROM FRANCE
Sergt. Dixon and Corp. Harr
of 161st Infantry Land
at Hoboken.
From Staff Correspondent.

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sixteen months in France, four of
which were spent at the battlefront,
Sergt. L. n. Dixon and Corp. George
Harr of Washington arrived here to-
day from overseas. They were aboard
the cruiser Pueblo, which landed $500
troops at Hoboken, after an eXcep-
tionally stormy voyage.
Both these Washington soldiers
We're members of the old Sd Regiment
of Infantry, District National Guard
Sergt. Dixon was in Company d and
Corp. Harr was bugler of Company
G. They now are both in Company |
of the 161st Regiment. Infantry, of
the 4ist (Sunset) Division.
Served in Lorraine Sector.
For the greater part of the time
they spent at the front they were on
the Lorraine sector and experienced
terrific fighting at Tours. where they
were at first engaged in trench build
ing, cable laying and barbed-w wire
stretching.
Neither of them was wounded. hut
both were slightly gassed, neither
seriously and with apparently no bad
effects.
Both of these District boys are
proud of the part they took in the
flghtins and the distinction achieved
py their company, but they admit
that it was a grueling experience
and are glad they are back in Amer
lca. Their companies during the
hghting period from March : to June
20, 1918, had been detached from the
4lst Division and assigned to the 25th
m tp iStn
designated as combat labor com
panies. but, because of almost inces-
SAINT attacks. much of their time was
spent in lighting rather than in con-
struction work.
The capital men consider them
selves fortunate in being members of
Company /. as it and Company X of
the l61st Infantry We're the only com
panies of the 41st Division which
took part in the fighting as a body,
although many individuals partici-
pated.
Both of these washingtonians were
in the oll Sd Regiment for more than
three yesrs before the war and served
with 1t Oh the Mexican border.
Takes Four D. G. Companies.
The 161st Regiment at the time the
41st Division was organized received
lOui companies ltci,i the O1u od INtki-
ment, and although practically the en-
tire regiment has returned to America
less than a dozen of Washington s
former guardsmen were among the
returning troops.
At the time the old Sd Regiment was
absorbed into the 41st Division the
old National Guard companies from
the District did not go into it as .
body, the men being scattered
throughout the various units.
The troops that arrived on the Pueblo
will go to Camp Dix tomorrow, where
they will be demobilized.
Both Sergt. Dixon and Corp. Harr
have heard of the welcome home"
parade that Washington has planned
and are anxious to be on hand for
that event. IN
Corp. Harris parents live at 907
Maryland avenue northeast and at
one time he worked on a delivery
route of The Star. Sergt. Dixon's
home is at 4s4 street southwest.
He is a glassblower by trade.
Their companies were cited in gem
eral orders following the big offensive
last summer in the Lorraine sector,
but neither was at the front at that
time and so they were not individu-
ally decorated. They served much of
the time at st. Aignin. the great re-
placement camp in France.
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