The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-05
HEROES OF FIRST DIV
IN ON 4 TRANSPORTS
1856 Officers and Men Arrive
on Santa Teresa, Edellyn,
Finland and LiberatOr.
FIGHTING CHAPLAIN HERE
Company X of 28th Infantry,
First to Land in France,
Among Arrivals.

-Four transports the Santa Teresa,
yesterday with 4,155 officers and men
of the A. e. L. With the exception of
few casual companies the returning
troops were members of various units
of the FIRST Division.
On the Liberator were the medical de-
tachment and Third Battalion OF the
Twenty-eighth Infantry, and the Third
Field Hospital Company X of the
Twenty-eighth. according to members
of the unit, was the first regular fight
ing organization to land in France 1t
went ashore at st. Nazafre on June
IL. 1917. II also was the last First
Division unit in action, having taken
part in the fighting at Sedan. November
9. 1918. The men returned under the
command of Major w. F. Lee of Am
herst. Mass, a regular army man who
went overseas as a First Lieutenant.
The company was nearly annihilated by
a German attack. May IS, 1918. and
Bugler W. 1. Turner Of 204 West Tenth
| street. with few other survivors Joined
Company / and repulsed the attack He
was shot through the hand. but managed
! to kill the German who had wounded
him. He has been recommended for
the d. S. c.
The men spent the last day of the
voyage writing theh own story Of their
experiences, in accordance with a wire
less request from Division Headquarters
| in New York The only man who couldn't
think Of anything interesting to write
about was Private George Garner Of
| Lonoke, Ark, who has been decorated
| with the d. S. C. for gallantry in ac-
tion.
Used Bucket for Gas Mask.
Frank ]. Dunn Of 2120 Albermarle
road, Brooklyn, another member OF the
company. wears a wound stripe as the
result of being gassed in the Argonne.
| His comrades said that Dunn got ex-
cited when the gas alarm was sounded
and nut a bucket over his head instead
of p gas mask.
Chaplain j. y. King, a Presbyterian
minister of Lima. Ohio. who returned on
| the Santa Teresa, went overseas with
! the 310th Infantry OF the Seventy-eighth
Division and received the d. s. c. for
| his work at St MihieL Another Pres
byterian minister. Clinton ID. Bowman OF
| Tulsa. okla. disembarked yesterday
| from the Callao, which arrived late
| Wednesday evening. He won the name
| of the fighting chaplain" because at
\ St. Etienne, October s, ne went over the
| ton carrying a rife, and between spells
| of carrying back the wounded used the
weapon effectively. He explained yes
| terday that. being a noncombatant' ne
had not deliberately armed himself. but
| happened to stumble over rine as
| the men were going forward.
at looked as IL it might be good
| thing to have in that particular LOCALITY
| inst them ne said, $50 I took IL along
1 ~ tha E-6aIlx-p ware HeldQuar-
] ters and Medical Detachment and COM
panies d and f of the First Engineers
| and the First Engineer Train.
| Monuments to the Dead.
| The First Engineers were several
I times used as infantry In the >Argonne
| and along the Meuse. Capt. Frank VIII
| let's of 5000 Heath avenue. BROOKLYN
! one of the officers aboard. has been IN
| charge of the work of erecting monu-
| ments to the dead OF the First Division.
The monuments consist of concrete
shaft three meters high surmounted by
a bronze eagle resting on a shield. On
the sides are bronze plates bearing the
names Of the dead There are six OF
these shafts. Capt. willets said. one at
| Ruzancy, near Scissors and others at
! St Mihiel, Sedan. Beaumont. Catigny,
| and at the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES cross
| roads in the Argonne.
The First Battalion OF the Twenty
| sixth Infantry and the regimental field
| and staff headquarters and medical de-
| tachment and supply company returned
on the Finland. together with Batteries
d, z, and F of the Fifth Field Artillery.
| the Second Infantry Brigade Headquar-
tiers, the First Ammunition Train and
I two casual companies.
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