The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-04-23
D. s. C. feature
OF !ODAy'S RECORD
OF RICHMOND MEN

Carl William Sporting entered the
service Dec. IS, 1917, and was as
signed to NJ. r. c. GA with Sixth
French Army; embarked from New
port News, Va, Feb. %. 1918, and ar
rived at st. NaZaire, France, March
O. 1918; battles, Somme defensive,
Aisne defensive, Champagne Marine,
Aisne offensive and Ypres, Lys. Dis
tinguished service cross awarded on
May Is. 1919, by John J. Pershing
for exceptionally meritorious and con-
spicuous services at Chateau Thlerry.
Arrived back in United States May
%, 1919, Boston, Mass, and was dis
charged May -, 1919; sergeant, first
class.
Raymond Henry Wickemeyer en-
tered the service March l, 1913, as
private and was assigned to Fourth
Casual, S. p D. Assc., Regular Army;
transferred to Eigth Provisional Dl-
vision Regiment, Vancouver, Wash;
discharged Jan. 16, 1919.
Stephen Frederick Rohlting enter
ed the service Oct. l, 1918, and was
assigned to Company A, Wittenberg
Unit, Infantry, Students Army Train
ing Corps; discharged Dec. 10, 1918.
Spent Time on Seas
Kirk LongfeIlow BLY, entered the
Great Lakes, H., and Naval Radio
School, Cambridge, Mass; assigned
to u. S. S. New Mexico, Atlantic fleet
arriving at Brest, arriving at lie
Have and Portland, Eng, on Ell Occi-
dente; last trip arrived in United
States June %, 1919, from Portland,
England, and discharged Aug. IL,
1919, New York.
Francis Earl Glass entered the serv-
ice March 3. 1917, Great Lakes, Ill,
chief yeoman in the United States Ma
val Reserve Force; secretarial work
at Great Lakes, H.; U. S. S. Essex,
y. S. S. Yantic; then at Bureau Steam
Engineering. War and Navy building,
Washington, D. c.; receiving ship at
Philadelphia, Pa; L. S. S. Columbia,
TO which is at present attached; u
S. S. Nunwood. a freighter running be-
tween the United States and France;
then U. S. S Columbia, which is now
cruising the Caribbean and Gulf of
Mexico: discharged April %, 1919, but
re-enlisted Aug. Is. 1919.
Thomas Elmer Elliott entered the
service June 16, 1917, and was as
signed to Company f, 152nd Infantry,
3Sth Division, National Guard; en-
parked from Hoboken, N. j., Oct. 5,
1918, and arrived in Liverpool, Eng,
oCl. ~, 1910. Trained III + rance, sail
ed for United States July |, 1919. and
arrived Boston, Mass. July -, 1919;
discharged July 10, 1919; sergeant.
Got Back in Service
Clarence Blair entered the service
June 5. 1917 and was assigned 10 Bat
terry E, 18th Field Artillery, Fourth
Division; embarked from Camp Mer-
rift, N. j., May %. 1918. and arrived
in Brest, France, May 80. 1918; bat
ties, Aisne, Marine, Vase Champagne,
ST. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne; sailed for
United States July 81, 1919, and az
rived Newport News, Va, Aug |,
1919: discharged Aug. 6, 1919: cor
poral: re-enlisted for one year, Supply
Company, Infantry, Camp Taylor, Ky.
Edmund Lawrence Hiatt entered
the service Aug. Il, 1918 and commits
stoned captain 154th Engineers Regu-
lar Army, 101st division, Camp Hum
phreys, Va; discharged Dec. II, 1915
captain.
George Erwin Reed entered the serv-
ice Sept. 20, 1917 and was assigned TO
Company c, Infantry; transferred to
301st B. \. Tank Corps; embarked
from Hoboken, March 81, 1918 and ar
rived in Brest, France, April 6, 1919:
battles: Somme offensive, August, 1918
10 Nov. H., 1918; sailed for United
States, February p, 1919 and arrived
Hoboken, n. J., March II, 1919; dis
charged April 10. 1919, Camp Sher-
man.
Windsor Bonv Harris entered the