New Britain herald., 1919-04-07
GOV. HOLCOMb HEADS
 CONNECTICUT GROUP
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m eet the members of their forme commands today.
 Other Cities RHDreSented

commands today.
 Other Cities Represented.
 Mayor Fitzgerald and President Arthur T. HIadley, of Yale, headed the
 New Haven delegation, which in cluded representative merchants,
 newspaper publishers, labor delegates and women war workers. The Bris- tol delegation came prepared to pre- sent to the commanding officer of Company D, 102d Infantry, a Victory wreath in the name of the people of that town.
 Mayor William A. Sandland, of
 Waterbury, brought 31 veterans of the
 102d Infantry, sent home because of
 wounds, to assist him in telling the
 Connecticut boys how glad the city is
 to have them back. There were at least 200 others in the Waterbury party also. They were accompanied by a fife and drum corps and had a chorus leader.
 The Mertden committee was led by Mayor Henry T. King, Mrs. John R. Feegal and H. Wales Lines. This del- egation, like the others, was provided
 with cigarettes and chocolates for the boys on the troopship.
 The Connecticut visitors went down the harbor on the steamer John H. Sullivan, the scout patrol boats Actus and Machigonne, and the gunboat Don 1 Juan d'Austria.
 4,2OO of 1O2d and 1Otst. Of the 5,824 officers and men on 1 the Agamemnon, more than 4,200 are i members of the 102d Regiment and the 1o1st Machine Gun Battalion, the 1 Connecticut organizations. The in 1 fantry, however, met with such heavy 1 casualties overseas that less than half l of the present membership actually , are Connecticut men, the others being l replacements from many sections of l the country.
 1 1,6S9 Are Connecticut Men.
 The Connecticut troops according 1 to War departm ent records, mum Der l 50 officers and 1,689 men out of a 1 total strength of 99 officers and 3,7SS men. On that account it had been 1 announced that 49 officers and 2,099 ; of the men eventually will be sent to 1 camps other than Camp Devens for l denobilization. They will be per 1 n1itted to remain at Devens until after l the parade of the 2eth Division in Boston if they wish, but if they pre- 1 fer, will be forwarded immediately to ] other emobilization centers. The ! many sections from which they come 1 is indicated by the statement that they l would be mustered out at Camps I Upton, Dix, Lee, Jackson, Gordon, l Sherman, Taylor, Curtis, Grant, Pike, 1 Dodge, Funston, Xeogan and Lewis. Left New Haven in 1917. ] The 102d Infantry left New Haven
 in October, 1917, with Colonel F,. L. 1 Isbell formerly of the National l Guard, commanding. Later. in France l he was relieved and assi gned to other 1 duty in England and France and has l not yet returned. The regim ent re- l turned in command of Colonel Doug las Potts.
 The 102d Infantry took part in op- l erations of the 26th Division from the ! Chemin des Danes to the Meuse-Ar. 1 gonne offensive. Just before leaving for home the regiment was billeted
 south of IIe Mans.
 Included in the 101st Machine Gun l Battalion are men from Worm ont as
 we'll as from Connecticut The bat
 talion is commanded by Captain Raw don ". Myers.
 The Ayam emnon's passeng gers in
 cluded Base Hospital No. f. consisting