The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1920-05-14

over peace-time strength. The Eighth
infantry, stationed at Coblenz and on
the right bank of the Rhine. has 115
officers and 1850 men. The Fiftieth
infantry. also in Germany, has IS Off
GERS and 1880 men. Just back from
Siberia. the Thirty-first infantry has
50 officers and 300 men. The TWEEN
ty-fourth infantry. along the border
in New Mexico, has % officers md
3.4S5 men.
With the infantry only at 75 per
cent of authorized strength. and the
necessity of maintaining a number of
regiments above a peace time basis,
many regiments are far below the
average strength. particularly the reg
iments back from France and ma,ie
up when they returned. of casuals.
of requirements and men enlisted only
for the emergency. The famous First
division. now at Camp Taylor. KY.
has only 5000 officers and men. The
men of all the Infantry regiments of
this division wear the French four
ragere Topped over the left shoulder.
The present strengths of these regi-
ments are as follows: Sixteenth infan-
try 81 officers 642 men; Eighteenth
infantry 81 officers. $50 men: Twen-
ty-sixth infantry, 33 officers. $40 men;
Twenty-eighth infantry, "a officers.
626 men.
Some War Divisions.
Down Mt Camp Travis. Texas, is the
Second division, which had the heav-
lest casualties of any division i'm
France. and took one-quarter of the
prisoners and artillery captured by
the A f. F. The marine brigade is
no longer with this organization, and
no infantry brigade has vet been as
signed to its place. The total strength
of the Second division is oil officers
and 2.056 enlisted men. Like the First
division, the infantry regiments of the
Second are proud wearers of the
fourragere. The Ninth infantry. which
fought i'm China and took the village
of Vaux in a brilliant attack in the
Chateau Thierry sector, has Off |
GERS and 372 men. The Twenty-third |
infantry, which fought alongside of |
the Ninth in 1912. in the Civil war and |
in France, has 50 officers and 337 |
men.
The Third division. which fought ut |
the Marne ST. Mhiel and the Argonne
Meuse. has ;13 officers and 2.795 en-
listed men at Camp Pike, Ark. The
Thirty-eighth infantry. which repulsed
six German regiments and took 600 |.
prisoners at the Marine in July. 1918.
has 36 officers and 312 men. The Thir-
west of Chateau Thierry has Al Off
GERS and 22S men. OF the other in
fantry regiments of the Third division,
the Fourth has 80 officers and 80 men.
and the Seventh "a officers and 27S
men.
The Fourth division. thrust into &C.
ton for the first time near Chateau
Thierry, is stationed at Camp Dodge.
Iowa. with 245 officers and 1877 en-
listed men. Strengths of its infantry
regiments are: Thirty-ninth, 81 Off
GERS, 136 men; Forty-seventh. 33 Off
GERS 1873 men; Fifty-eighth, 81 officers,
100 men; Fifty-ninth, 81 officers, 1873
men.
In battle for the first time at ST.
sfihiel. the Fifth division is at Camp
Gordon, Georgia, with 2O6 officers and
2 1856 enlisted men. The Sixth divi-
sion, which boasts of having done
more hiking than any other A.. E. F.
division. is now at Camp Grant, with
2E officers and 1927 enlisted men.
The Seventh division. which arrived
In France in time to hold the left
bank Of the MOselle river until the
armistice, is at Camp Funston. Kansas,
numbering 243 officers and 2.246 men.
The total strength of the seven tao
ical divisions now stationed in this
each of which would have a
wartime strength OF $4,000. is 20,770
officers and men.