The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-01-09
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Former National Guard Men From
Central Kentucky Are Aboard
President Grant-MasOnlans
In Regiment.

ly Company az Kentucky National
Guard, are returning to the United
States on the transport President
Grant, according to report Wednes-
day night. Company 81" was organ
lied In Lexington and is composed of
men from Lexington and Central
Kentucky. They are returning with
the 18th Trench Mortar Battery
from service overseas.
Company 81" was Of the Second
Kentucky National Guard regiment,
and the. men of this company were
mustered into Federal service on July
II, 1917, at Camp Stanley, near Lex
ington.
Company C, another one of the
companies organized in Lexington and
composed of men Of Lexington and
Central Kentucky, was one Of the di-
visions Of the 149th Infantry.
All the Kentucky men in this cadre
were ordered to Camp Taylor, near
Louisville where the majority Of them
were discharged on January 6.
The Signal Corps Company A, Or
ganized in Lexington and which was
sent to Hattiesburg, Miss, at the
same time as the Kentucky National
Guard, went to France with the SSth
Division and is at present part of
the 18th Field Signal Battalion sta
toned at Tour en- Sologne. Letters
received states that they are at re-
placement depot at Tour en- Sologne,
France, a small village about forty
/ miles from Bloise and very near
where the old Southern battle line
was.
The 18th Field Signal Battalion Is
composed of three companys. one OF
which is Company B, formerly the
above mentioned Company A. The 9TH
er two companies Of the battalion are
composed of Indianians.
Letters from members Of the sigma
Corps company state that they are bill
leted in houses in the village and thai
they do not expect to return to this
country before spring.
While at Camp Shelby division o
the Kentucky troops began with th'
following results:
Two battalions of the First Ken
lucky were taken to compose th
13Sth Field Artillery, an organization
of six batteries, one of which was II
command of Captain Balm Morrison
of Lexington.
The third battalion of this regimen
was transferred to the 18th Trencl
Mortar Battery. At the time of tn
transfer, Major Thompson Short wa
in command of the battalion and tn
supposition has it that he may still b
in command of this organization
Company I, was part Of the 113t
Trench Mortar Battery.
IL The Second and Third Kentucky al
ter being sent to Camp Shelby wer
taken to compose the 149th Infantr!
: National Army.
1.-The 149th remained for severa
months at Camp Shelby and was sen
overseas in 1918, although the exaC
time of the departure of these men
not known it is thought that the
we mt early last fall. They went as
part of the 3Sth Division.
They landed at lie Harve and afte
short stay there were sent to Nant!
where for three weeks they waite
orders to go to the front The order
came on November s, for the men {
this Division, the 3Sth to move fol
ward. They were at this time unde
the command of General Howe.
It will be remembered that tn
1 band of the old Second Kentuck
spent several days in Maysville on
recruiting trip and that in its tri
through this section many recruit
we're secured. Other Maysville an
Mason county men joined the reg
ment later at Camp Stanley, Lexini
ton. Probably so Mason county me