The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-20

toon bridges, machine guns, gas
throwers. flame projectors and all
the other complicated war equip
ment OF the troops. Never before
have these workers at home seen all
these tools OF warfare In their W
warlike setting, however. and the
parade was an education to them.
Up the avenue az the head of the
division rode Major General Edward
F. McGlachlin, commanding, and
with him rode two former COM
manders Of the division the first to
go and the last of the divisions to
come home. They were Major Cen
eral William L. Sibert, who took
it to France, and Lieutenant Gen
eral Robert l.. Billiard, who took it
into action and surrendered COM
mand only to take a higher post.
Marching ahead of the formations,
also, came a host of officers and
men who saw their first service with
the First division in France, later
to go to other units as instructors.
Then came the First infantry
brigade, marching in the French
mass formation, "a men abreast
across the avenue, led by the Third
Machine Gun Battalian with its mo-
I~torized guns. The infantry marched
in column of fours, our companies
abreast and with officers and file
closers ahead, leaving the men to
form a solid block of bayonets for
each battalion. The Sixteenth in
fantry, veterans of the bitter fight
ing at C%antigny where France
learned in what fashion America
could and would fight and breathed
free again after. months of strain,
led the way. After it's three bat
talon blocks had passed came the
Eighteenth infantry in similar form
alton followed by the First Machine
Gun battalion of the brigade.
The Sixth Field Artillery came
next, followed by the Second infan-
try brigade composed of the Twen-
ty-Sixth and Twenty-Eighth infantry
and the Second Machine Gun Bat
TALON, then the long lines of "75s"
and the motor drawn "155's" Of
the First Artillery brigade. the Fifth
and the Seventh Field Artillery.
The horse-drawn guns and limbers
of the Fifth rolled by three columns
abreast and the Seventh pufed and
painted along with its heavier guns
in the same formation.
The regular trains of the divisions
followed, the First Engineer regi-
ment leading the way with the First
Engineer train behind it to be sue
by tts Second Sign: bat
talon. Then came the almost end
less wagon and truck trains of the
ammunition, supply and sanitary
trains and the First company, mill
tary police and finally the hospital
trains, the Second, Third, Twelfth
and Thirteenth ambulance COM
panies and Field hospitals.
At various points in the divisional
line and before the wallowing tanks
hammered and clattered in al up
roaring conclusion to the five hour
spectacle, all of additional
units, not part of the division itself.
were inserted. These included
searchlight trucks, ordnance ma
chine shops, units on motor trucks,
sound ranging devices for detecting
the position of hidden guns, sound
rangers for spotting air raiders at
night and much other mechanical
equipment that has played a con-
stantly growing part in the war.
So far as the First division it.
self is concerned, the official rec
ord of its activities during the war !
recently published by the war de-;
partment speaks for itself. 1t stood
SO days in active sectors of the
front against 1913 IN quiet parts of
the line; it fought it's way forward
over 81 kilometers Of sharply con-
tested grounds; it captured 1873
German officers and 6304 German
men; it captured also 119 German
guns, So trench mortars and Alb
machine guns. 1t lists 4411 officers
and men killed or died of wounds
and had 17,2O1 men wounded or
gassed in the days it spent at the
front and lost only 1852 of it's own
personnel as prisoners to the enemy.
It's requirements yer greater than
it's original strength, 30,206 and
$50 Of its members won Distin-
guished Service Crosses for conspic-
Gus gallantry in action.