Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
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of the reorganized National Guard
of Pennsylvania.
Colonel William r. Dunlap, or
Pittsburgh, commanding the One
Hundred and Ninth Infantry, the
old First, swept proudly by 1nde-
pendence Hall with his men and as
his right hand flashed to a salute
two wound stripes showed on his
sleeve.
Then came Lieutenant Colonel
William Z. Meehan, Philadel-
phian. from whose chest dangled
Distinguished Service Cross.
Generals Wife Sees Parade
Mrs. Muir, wife of the general in
command of the division, after see
ing the start of the parade in the
lower end of the city, motored to the
Independence Hail stand and sat
with Governor Sproul and Mayor
Smith while the soldiers march
ed by.
Nearly 200 motor cars carrying
the wounded of the Iron Division
were parked near the starting point.
When the soldiers of their regiments
tramped by the wounded men were
cheers they forgot their wounds,
leaped and hobbled from the ma
chimes and made their way to the
line of the marching men. They
had not seen these comrades since
they had been carried from the bat
tlefields where they fell wounded by
shell fire.
Rush For Doughnuts
Twenty thousand doughnuts of the
kind that made the Salvation Army
famous in France, were served to
the men before they started on their
parade. When the wagons with the
tootsome cakes and lemonade came
up military discipline, morale and
everything else took temporary de-
parture while the boys broke ranks
and rushed for the -doughnuts. AS
they ate their fill the soldiers rem
inisced about the days on the other
side.
Il saw six of them girls baking
doughhuts under she'll fire and
wearing tin hats, while they did it,"
mubled one doughboy.
The parade was two hours in
passing a given point. At its conclu-
sion the men marched to Shibe Park,
where the Philadelphia American
Here prepara tions for feeding 10, 500
soldiers had kept the Red Cross
workers on the jump. Twenty-six
motor trucks of the motor transport
corps carried food and supplies to
the park.
Roast beef, hot and juicy. steam
ing coffee and potatoes and the other
edibles were in large army food con-
tainers.
Rcd Cross Workers Help
In accordance with the schedule
the soldiers were assigned to places
in the stands. They marched in COM
panies through the temporary food
house and past tables burdened with
food. The Red Crss workers spent
the night in preparing $4,000 sand
wiches. All the soldiers carried their
eating utensils. with the exception
of the casuals. These men had card
board plates and cups. AS they were
given their dinners they marched to
their seats in the grandstand to eat
At 5 o'clock after the last man
had eaten. all marched to the rail-
road station where twenty-one trains
were waiting to take them back to
Camp Dix.
Order of March
The order of march in the Iron
Division parade follows:
Police Escort
Cortege in Honor of Dead of Di-
vision
Major General Charles H. Muir
Division Staff
Enlisted Personnel
Headquarters Troop
55th Infantry Brigade Headquarters
10th Infantry
109th Infantry
56th Infantry Brigade Headquarters
112th Infantry
111th Infantry
109th Machine Gun Battalion
Position Assigned to 10Sth Machine
Gun Battalion, Now at Sea
10Th Machine Gun Battalion
53rd Field Artillery Brigade Head
quarters
Part of 108th Artillery, Remainder
At Sea
109th Field Artillery
107th Field Artillery
103d Trench Mortar Battery
103rd Regiment of Engineers and
Train
103d Field Signal Battalion
103d Train Headquarters
103d Ammunition
103rd Sanitary Train
103d Supply Train
2Sth Division Military Police Com
Wounded Men of Division in Auto
mobiles
Base Hospitals 10, 20, "a, 3S
Navy Base Hospital (Ambulance)
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