The daily banner., 1919-05-20
FIRST OF 3l3TH SAILS;
DUE TO LAND MAY 29
Welcomed, Starting at Newport
News. Will Continue Weeks All
NaZaire.

NaZaire.
With virtually all Maryland soldi-
ers of the Twenty-ninth Division
lclose to American shores, word came
from Washington yesterday that the
Three Hundred and Thirteenth In
fantry the biggest Baltimore unit in
the Seventy-ninth Division, is now
on its way and is due to land at New
Port News, Va, on May 29th.
The reception of Maryland troops
at the Virginia port will be. there
fore, practically a continuous perfor-
nance until about the middle OF
June, for the Twenty-ninth Division
soldiers will just about have finished
debarking when the Maryland he
roes who fought under Kuhn and
Sweeney at Montfaucon, in the
| Grande Montague sector and other
bloody battlefieids, will reach home
SOIL
The Washington announcement
yesterday was the first definite news
| that the Three Hundred and Thir-
teenth had actually started across the
| ocean. The first detachment is COM
posed of the headquarters staffs OF
the First and Second Battalions of
the Regiment, the Machine Gun Com
pany and Companies C, +, &, H, Tx,
and M. In all, there are in this first
detachment, which is on board the
transport Paysandu, 1851 men and
26 officers. OF these, nine officers
and 757 men will be sent to Camp
Meade for demobilization
The fact that only a little more
than half of those arriving on the
Paysandu are Marylanders, is ex-
planned by the losses which the Three
Hundred and Thirteenth suffered in
it's many battles, hundreds of those
wounded having already been re-
turned as casuals. Their places were
filled by replacement troops, men in
replacement divisions being from
all sections of the country.
That the headquarters staff of the
Seventy-ninth is also at st. Nazaire
is indicated by cable message, sent
yesterday morning and arriving here
yesterday afternoon from James M.
Cain, who is a member of the head
quarters troop. AS this unit is there
and part of the Three Hundred and
Thirteenth has already sailed, it is
practically certain that Col. Claude
B. Sweeney, who commanded the
Baltimoreans who trained at Meade
and who fought with tkem-at the
front at all times-during the battle
of Montfaucon and in the latter en-
gagements, is also at the embarka-
tion port.
From the heads of the gangplanks
of the boats which are bringing them
home, through the demobilization
camps, then out to their home towns
and villages in the far corners of
the State, Maryland heroes of the
Seventy-ninth and Twenty-1inth Di-
visions are going to have welcome
that will do lot toward making
their sacrifices worth while
In fact, SO many features presen-
ted themselves at the various meet
ings of the Gov@ nor's committee, the
individual auXi!iaries and the State
of nnf nCfn dow hot
the chief trouble found was not how
to welcome the boys, but how to
avoid having SO many kinds of well
come that they might smash into
each other and cause confusion. Ev-
erybody wanted to DO everything,
and was willing to do it alone.
But things were straightened out
and a great deal was accomplished.
Following is list of the Maryland
Units coming home:
Twenty-Ninth Division.
1O4th Military Police, May 20.
111th Machine Gun Battalion, May
goth.
1O4th Field Signal Battalion, May
goth.
18th Infantry (part), May goth.
10th Machine Gun Headquarters
and Companies A and B., May 2Otn.
54th Field Artillery, Brig. Head
Fquarters, May 21st.
112th Field Artillery, May 21st.
104th Ammunition Train. May 21.
10th Field Artillery, May 21st.
5Sth Infantry. Brig. Hdqts, May %
104th Supply Train, May 22nd.
104th Engineers, May 22nd.
1O4th Sanitary Train, May 22nd.
1O4th Mobile Ordnance Train May
22nd.
104th Train Headquarters, May %
10th Infantry. May 22nd.
115th Infantry, May 23rd.
112th Machine Gun Battalion.
May 23rd.
111th Field Artillery, May oath.
Co. E, 104th Ammunition Train,
May oath.
Seventy-Ninth Division.
313th Infantry, Cos. E, F, G, Fl, 1,
K, and M, Headquarters of 1st and
End Battalion and Machine Gun Co.,
May 10th.
316th Infantry, May 28th.
3O4th Ammunition Train, May 20.
154th Field Artillery Brig. Head
quarters, May 9th.
314th Infantry, May 9th
310th Machine Gun Battalion,
May 27th.
310th Machine Gun battalion
May 9th.
304th Sanitary Train, May 28th.
3O4th Div. Supply Train, May %.
3O4th Ord. Repair Shop, May %.
18th Military Police, May 2Sth.
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