New-York tribune., 1919-04-24
' ansuard of Famous Regi-
ment Landed; Others Are
Expected Saturday or
sunday on Liner Chicago
Twice Cited for VaIor
Picks Dropped for Rifles
When an Enemy Attack
Threatened Allied Line

The first ihstallmont Of the Eleventh
Engineers, the three stripe railroad
builders who dropped their tools and
fought tho Gcrmans with rifles, bay
oncta and trench knives when surprisod
oy the enemy near Epchy on November
70, 19f7, came homo yesterday on the
transport Santa Teresa. They wore
part of 1915 officers and men who ar
rived from overseas on four TRANSPORTS.
The Santa Teresa carried 1929, the
Manchuria 4,769, the Duca degli
Abruzzi l,175 and the Mobile 2,972.
The French liner Chicago. which NAV
arrive Saturday or Sunday. is bring
ing the larger part of the famous reci-
ment, including their leader, Colonel
William Barclay Parsons Onlv two
companies, c. and D., arrived on the
Santa Teresa, consisting of seven Of
flcers and 265 men. Among the lat
ter was Private Charles Goehegan. of
TINS city, who is said to be the first
American prisoner taken by the Ger
mans
ne was working on narrow gauge
railroad when he was surprised bv
the enemy and pushed from a MOVING
tram He was thrown into prison
III west Prussia, and i'll used until
the armisticc released him.
Regiment Greeted by King
ihe Eleventh Engineers. which woe
organized sin this city. left New yorL
Tor France via England in july. 1917
ana was the first American regimcnt
1 10 DC received by the King of Eng
land. 1t was first commanded bv
SoIonei Charles II. McKinstry, then by
Soionei =, George Hoffman, then by
cecded by Colonel Parsons. ~'' Nv
The regiment assisted in hondl;nc
tanks IN advance of the attack or =
Cambrai in November. 1917. AV:tr Aftcr +ba It'
drive companies B, f and mart of II
with the Fourth Battalion of Canadian
hallway troops and Scottish Pioneers
completed the railway connection he-
tween E1pchy and Marcoing. about q
n1lle m and half back of the front. On
Nov 80, 1917, before the line could
De operated the German army made
counter attack and put the whole lino
IN No Mans Land.
In this attack of the onen,v +h
g'neers were caught in the barrare and
ln1antry attack at Gouzeaucourt. about
three miles from their camp, lust as
the regiment was going to work. The
men were without their rifles Hero
they suffered a loss of about thirty in
kllled,, wounded and missing. 1t was
mere that Captain c. Raymond Hulsart
1su1sequently made major), Lieutenant
paul NacLoud subsequently promoted
TO captaln), and Sergeant Donald MIC
isaac Cater promoted to lieutenant and
now captaln) earned their British deco
ratlons and the regiment earned its
first citation.
ABOUT February I, 1918, the entire
regiment was sent to the back area on
raliroad yard construction. but after
the German drive of March it was hur-
rledly assembled and sent back to the
British front near Arras, and later near
bethune, where the men worked on en-
trenchments and held in readiness to
serve as combat troops in event of
iurther German attacks. While here
the regiment suffered further casual
ties TO the extent of about fifteen killed
and wounded. The regiment here earned
ITS second citation from the British.
IN June the regiment was again or
dered to the back area, but in july the
first battalion was sent to serve with
the first army Of the American forces
east of Paris, and Company f was sent
for short while to Trugny, in the
Chauteau- -Thierry salient. In Septem-
Der the entire regiment went with the
First Army to the San Mhiel front,
where Lieutenant Charles r. Cusick
was killed and Captain Donald McIsaac
lthen lieutcnant) narrowly escaped
death while he and Lieutenant Cusick
We're together on reconnaissance.
.NU The d. S. c. was conferred unon
Major Hulsart, Captain Paul MacLoud
and Captain McIsaac, who also received
British decorations for bravery at
Gam bra