The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-07
TRANSPORT BROUGHT
1924 OFFICERS AND MEN
Major General Flagler of the
Rainbow Division Was a
Passenger Also, His Divi-
sion Being the Next One
to Come Back from Over
seas Service.

Boston, April THE troopship Aga
memnon with 1924 officers and dough
boys arrived from France to-day Her
first message to the waiting thousands
was 1--WE have no sick or wounded"
On board the Agamemnon are 1924
officers and men, including the l02d in
fantry regiment and the l0lst machine
gun battalion, made up of Connecticut
and Vermont men; companies L and NJ
Of the l03 infantry; and field and staff
officers of the l0lst field artillery, to-
gether with batteries A and B Of the
same organization. A number Of casual
companies made up Of men from New
York and Ohio also are on board.
Major General Clement A. F. Flaglcr,
commander of the AID tRainbow) divi-
sion, also is returning on the Agamem-
non. His division is expected to be the
next complete organization to be re-
turned to this country.
Connecticut troops returning from
France to-day on the transport Aga
memnon had happy welcome in store.
More than one thousand men and WON
en- from their state, including state and
city officials and relatives and intimate
friends of the soldiers, were here to
greet the former Connecticut National
Guardsmen, who went overseas as the
l02d infantry regiment and as members
of the l0lst machine gun battalion, re-
cruited largely from Hartford and New
Haven.
These visitors were given special priv.
ileges by the welcoming officials here
Passes to 90 down the harbor on vessels
of the reception feet, and later to greet
the boys on Commonwealth pier when
the ship docked, were provided by Mayor
Andrew j. Peters, and other arrange
ments were made to afford the visitors
every opportunity to carry out their
plan of giving the Connecticut boys a
welcome long to be remembered.
Governor Marcus H. Holcomb headed
the Connecticut delegation which in
cluded in addition to general state
committee, individual committees from
Hartford, Waterbury, New Haven, New
Britain and Bristol Lieutenant Colonel
James NJ. Howard, who commanded the
l0lst machine gun battalion when it
went overseas, and Captain Morgan G..
Bulkely, jr., who also went with the unit
and later returned to this country, are
members of the committee named by
Mayor Kinsella of Hartford to meet the
members of their former commands to-
day.
Mayor Fitzgerald and President Ar.
thur T. Hadley of Yale headed the New
Haven delegation, which included repre-
sentative merchants, newspaper publish.
ers, labor delegates and women war
workers The Bristol delegation came
prepared to present to the commanding
officer Of Co d, l02d infantry, victory
wreath in the name of the people Of that
town.
Mayor William H. Sandland of Water
bury brought 81 veterans of the l02 in
fantry 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 ac-
companied by fife and drum corps and
had chorus leader.
The Meriden committee was led by
Mayor Henry 7. King, Mrs. John r. Fee.
gal, and Fl. Wales Lines. This delegation,
like the others, was provided with cigar
cites and chocolates for the boys on the
troop ship.
The Connecticut visitors went down
the harbor on the steamer John H. Sulli-
van, the scout patrol boats Actus and
Machigonne and the gunboat Don Juan
d'Austria.
Of the 1924 officers and men on the
Agamemnon more than 4200 are mem
bers OF the l02d regiment and the l0lst
machine gun battalion, the Connecticut
organizations The infantry, however,
met with such heavy casualties over.
seas that less than half the present
membership actually are Connecticut
men, the other~ being requirements from
many sections of the country.
The Connecticut troops, according to
war department records number 80 Off
GERS and 1889 men out of a total
strength of 80 officers and 3,7SS men. On
that account it had been announced that
40 officers and 1000 of the men eventual
ly will be sent to camps other than Camp
Devens for rehabilitation. They will be
permitted to remain at Devens until aft
er the parade of the 26th division in Bos-
ton if they wish, but if they prefer will
be forwarded Immediately to other de
mobilization centers. The many sections
from which they come is indicated by
the announcement that they will be mus
tered out at Camps Upton, Dix, Lee,
Jackson, Gordon, Sherman, Taylor, Cur
tis, Grant, Pike, Dodge, Funston, Logan
and Lewis.
The l02d infantry left New Haven in
October, 1917, with Colonel f. L, Isbell,
formerly of the National Guard, com
manding. Later in France he was re-
G.ved and assianhj 4n nthar duty in