The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1919-03-27
OHIO FIGHTERS
IN CONTINGENT
LANDING TODAY
Heroes of Scheldt Arrive on
Cruiser Pueblo = Ambul-
ance Men Return.

NEW YORK, March 27.-Fifty-nine
troops, including "a officers of base
hospital No. q of western Pennsyl-
vania, arrived here today on the
steamship Tivives, from st. Nazaire.
Other units we're detachment of
base hospital No. and casual de-
tachment of New York men.
The steamship Westboro, from Bor-
Geaux, brought % casuals, including
one officer and ten men comprising a
Massachusetts casual company.
Twenty-eight officers and $40 men
of the S7th division (former national
guard of Ohio and West Virginia) ar
rived from Brest on the cruiser Pueb-
10, which brought altogether 1,791
troops. The 37th division contingents
were third battalion headquarters and
companies l, X, L, and M, 13 officers
and 365 men of the 147th infantry, for
Camp Sherman; and the 112th supply
train complete, Is officers and AS
men for Camps Sherman and Taylor.
Ten sections of the army ambulance
service returned on the Pueblo. as
signed to Camps Upton, Dix, Devens,
Grant, Sherman, Kearney and Funs-
ton. Also companies of causals from
Ohio, Georgia, Montana, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, New York and Massach-
usetts.
Casual Detachment Arrives
The steamship Deep Water arrived
from ST. Nazaire with casual detach-
ment of two officers and 19 men for
Camp Upton.
The 147th which returned in COM
mand of Major M. H. Pugh. Toledo,
in onfj Cf nj
August / until the armistice was
signed, taking six objectives near the
river Scheldt few hours before firing
ceased It's casualties were 20 per
cent.
Major Pugh's father-in-law, the Rev.
DR.. Harry F. Maclane Of Toledo, was
the regiments chaplain. Sixty-three
years old last Sunday he is said to
be the oldest volunteer in the Ameri-
can forces. He was twice wounded
and once gassed while aiding the
wounded While he was kneeling over
fallen soldier in the Argonne Ger
man aviator twice fired at him, one
bullet which he retains as souvenir,
striking him in the ankle. The Ohio
MacLane birthday dinner on the
voyage.
Cut Off BY Barrage
While battalion Adjutant Lieutenant
Kenneth French of Cleveland, COM
manding Company NJ, was with 115
men at Cierges on September 20, his
troops were cut off by barrage, killing
Is men and wounding Lieut. French in
the leg. When he tried to rejoin the
main body of the company, an ex-
ploding shell killed two of his COM
panions and wounded him in the back.
He was one of the few men OF this
contingent able to rejoin the regiment
The ambulance men who returned
were mostly university and college
students who entered foreign service
before America went into the war.
Ten per cent Of those arriving today
have been decorated or cited. Lieut..
Basil Neftel of Larchmont, N. Y, won
the Croix de Guerre, four citations and
has been proposed for the Legion Of
Honor for service with the French
since 1916. Corporal Wayne Fulton,
Woodbury.. N. j., was awarded the Dis
tinguished Service Cross and the
Croix de Guerre for bringing in the
wounded and taking the place of q
stretcher bearer killed in action r,
Calvo, Dayton, O., also won the Croix
de Guerre. Other arrivals We're ,.i-
vate Walter Garrett, former Harvard
baseball pitcher who was in ambu-
lance service, and Sergeant Harry w.
Ryer Hawthorne, N. Y, of the 165th
infantry, who was gassed in the Lor-
raine.