The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-03-27
146TH FIELD
ARTILLERY HAS
GREAT RECORD
Were in Big Scrap Almost Con-
tinuously from July IL Until
Armistice was Signed
BOYS ARE DRIFTING HOME
Arthur Erickson is First Boy to Ar
rive Home who Finished with !.
the Original Battery B

Altho the 146th Field Artillery
which has on it's roster the names Of
more Kenncwick and Benton count,
boys than any other regiment in the
army, is still under orders" on the
Rhine, ard may not return to the gooo
old u. S. A. for several months, the
boys who left the States with the regi-
ment are gradually drifting: back and
every man brings good report of the
doings of the regiment.
The first boys who saw actual SER
vice behind the colors of the 146th are
Sgt. VIM. Tyacke and Arthur Erick-
son, who arrived home last week. Sgt.
Tyacke has received his discharge, but
Erickson has returned to Camp Lewis
for further treatment in the hospital.
Erickson is the first boy to return
who was with the regiment from the
day it was mustered into the service
until the armistice was signed. In
fact he was with the outfit several
days after it had started its march
to the Rhine when he was taken i'll of
influenza and sent to a hospital and
has not yet been given his release.
Sergeant Tyacke was in charge of
one of the guns of Battery E until
last August, when he absorbed too
much of Fritz gas and had to go to
the hospital. He never got back to
his outfit, but was assigned to a cas-
nal company and sent down along the
Swiss border as sharpshooter. While
the sergeant is mighty glad to be
home and got all the fighting he real.
ly craved, yet he regrets that he did
not get to stay with the 146th to the
finish. His enlistment record shows
he was in continuous action for thirty
days at the second battle of the Marne.
Later the regiment beat. this record
on the Meuse-Argonne front when it
was in continuous action for At days.
Anders Christensen, another of. the
original 146th boys, returned home
yesterday, having received his dis
charge at Camp Lewis the day, before.
He left the outfit at LeHavre soon af-
ter 1t landed in France and was trans
ferred to the 74th engineers. Altho
ne met up with plenty Of excitement
and several times got too close to the
German lines to be comfortable, he
too expresses regret that he could not
stick it thru with his original outfit.
The Courier-Reporter is in receipt
OF an interesting historical sketch of
the 146th written by Capt. Frank r.
Jeffrey, regimental adjutant, and pub
llshed in pamphlet form at Grenzhaus-
en-, Germany. The sketch follows:
The 146th Field Artillery is COM
posed of National Guard troops from
the states of Idaho, Washington and
New Mexico. The different units COM
posing the regiment were assembled
at Camp Greene, N. c., and the regi-
ment was formed pursuant to General
order No. 2, 41st Division, dated the
18th of September, 1917.
The Second Idaho Infantry left I
Boise Barracks, Boise, Idaho, on Sep
tember 24th, 1917, arriving at Camp
Greene on October 1st. The Head
quarters and Supply companies, and I
"B," &C" and cd" Companies
were used as the nucleus for the for
maum of the regiment. The other
UNITS OF the Idaho Infantry were put
ineo an engineering regiment and a
machine gun battalion.
Battery "a" of the First New Mex
,co Field Artillery, whose home sta
slon Is Roswell, was mobilized at AL
Ouquerque, N. M. 1t left Albuquerque
on the 24th day of September, arriving
ss camp Green on September 30th.
The First Battalion of Washington
Field Artillery left for Walla Walla,
Washington, on October 9th, 1917, ar !,
irving at Camp Greene on October Is.
: - consisted of three batteries of which
nattery "a" was recruited at Walla
walla, Battery "B" in Benton and
,aklma counties, and Battery "C' at
spokane Washington.
Inc various units of the 146th Field |
aliery were formed as follows:
adquarters company, headquar-
!, s company and company 3D." End
IDAHO Infantry.