The sun., 1919-08-19
OF HEROIC SD
DIVISION RETURNS
First Units Welcomed as Some
Arrive With Brides on
Agamemnon.
TROOPS HAVE SIX STARS
Sergeant Routed Many Ger
mans and Brought Back
Nine Prisoners.

With six stars on their victory rib
bons, Indicating participation in as many
major engagements, the FIRST returning
units of the Third Division reached port
yesterday aboard the transport Agamem-
non, which sailed August 10 from Brest
They comprised the Ninth Machine Gun
Battalion complete, Batteries A. B, c,
and Z Of the Eighteenth Field Ar
tillery, and the supply and machine gun
companies Of the Thirty-eighth Infan-
try. Other passengers were so7 casual
officers. representing every branch Of the
service; n convalescent detachment, eight
nurses. fifteen army field clerks. nifty
welfare workers, sixty-nine soldiers
wives and eight children.
The total Of 2,662 military passengers
who returned on the former North Ger
man Lloyd liner lie scarcely half her ca
pacity, and the officers aboard said the
harbor Of Brest was filled with vessels
waiting the arrival of homeward bound
troops. The Agamemnon will make sew
eral more voyages to the French port as
part OF feet of transports which will
maintain a regular weekly service until
the last American soldier has been landed
in the United Slater.
Sergeant Proves Hero.
Major II. r. Wheeler of Macon, Ga,
commanding officer Of the Ninth Ma
chine Gun Battalion, was the troop COM
mander on board. Among the enlisted
inen under him was Sergeant lie Roy E.
Bicknell OF Company d, who won the
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DE- Guerre with palm and the Medaille
Militaire for single handed attack on
b body of Germans who had taken an
American machine gun and its crew.
Bicknell killed a number Of the enemy
effected the release of his own men and
brought back nine German prisoners
The Thirty-eighth Infantry won the
sobriquet OF the Rock of the Marine"
for it's gallant stand in the Mezy-Sur-
melin sector between July 10 and 22.
1917, when the regiment took prisoners
from every one OF the nine regiments of
three German divisions. which attacked
them during that period-the Tenth and
Thirty-sixth Guards divisions and the
Tenth Landwehr. More than 500 enemy
dead were buried in front OF the sector
held by a single company Of the Thirty
eighth and a total of twenty-one regi-
having engaged in the series of attacks
which the regiment repulsed.
According to the statement Of cap
tured officer, only six men from the
Sixth Grenadier Guards regiment man
aged to get back across the Marine.
War Furnishes Brides.
Capt Carl d. Ford of Hamilton, Ala,
and Capt. II. C. Halverson. who was as
sistant superintendent of the Los An
geles Street Railway Company before
the war, returned with their brides.
Capt. Fords wife was Miss Katherine
Vaughan, a Scotch lassie who was act
ing as chauffeur for Gen. Sir Henry
Rawlinson at British G. II. Q. She found
Capt. Ford one day near Rouen lying
under fiivver trying to make the thing
go. and the romance began when she
went to his assistance. Capt. Halver-
sons wife was Mile. Germaine Helder-
son, daughter OF an Antwerp merchant.
Sergeant r. p. Drake. whose parents
live in Elizabeth. N. j., was accom-
panied by his bride. formerly Mile Nellie
| Scrick OF Steenvorde, France.