The Prescott daily news., 1921-04-08

army, that dates back to the time when the regimental machine gun unit was not even q company but was one platoon commanded by the regi' mental adjutant, has been disbanded
 This is the Machine Gun company of the Sth Infantry.
 It was organized in July and Aug ust of 1915 by the Sth. in the Philip pine Islands, and had hardly assumed a position of much importance, due to the fact that no one knew much about the possibilities of the machine gun or believe in it very strongly, when the Sth Infantry sailed for the Gold en Gate," San Francisco, August 15, 1917. The regiment arrived at Camp Fremont. California, September 2S, 1917.
 On January 1, 1918, the strength of the company was five officers and twenty-nine enlisted men, command ed by Lieutenant Collyer. Captain Reinhart took over the command of the company February IT, with strength of five officers and thirty nine enlisted men. On arrival at Camp Fremont, the company did the usual camp duties and few men and one officer were transferred to Ma chine Gun battalion for transfer over seas. May 3fst. Captain Reinhart was transferred to Camp Pike, Ark ansas, and Lieutenant Edward T. Harrison assumed command which at this time had a strength of five off cers and 110 enlisted men.
 All of this time everybody was hoping that the next day would bring orders for service overseas and both officers and men labored diligently in the endeavor to make themselves fit for fighting.
 The long awaited orders came at last and on October IS. 1918, the first section of the company entrained at Camp Fremont for Camp Mills, ar irving there on October 25, after seven-day trip across the States and part of Canada.
 The morning of October 28, the company left Camp Mills and arrived in Hoboken, N. J., at noon, embarked or the U. s. S. President Grant and sailed out of New York harbor at 1:30 same date, with five officers and IA enlisted men.
 After a twelve-day voyage the President Grant arrived in Brest No vember 9, 1918. The company dis embarked and marched to the so- called rest camp, at Pontanezen, where they were assigned to plot Nc. 59, which was nicknamed by the men Camp De Mud"
 On November 11th the news which caused all the whistles in town to make deafening noise and every Frenchman to celebrate, had the op- posite effect on the new arrivals who had hoped to the last to be able to reach the front But instead of be- ing in the fighting line, the regiment had arrived just in time to clean up and the machine gun company to be policemen.
 On November 17th, 1918, the con- pany moved out of Brest and en- trained on string of 40 Hommes" for Jonzac, a small town near Bor- deaux, France, arriving there after two days. In Jonzac, the company was again military police and the machine gunners, though a bit dis
 ppointed at their new role, took it Ike soldiers and so performed theil duties that they received many com mendations. However, everyone was glad when November 26th brought rders to return to Brest.
 March 1st, 1919, Captain E. T. Harrison was placed on detached ser vice at Oxford, England, and 1st Lieu tenant Collyer assumed command July 3rd, all men who had dependant~ were transferred to casual companie: for transfer to the United States, ant one day later, 108 replacements iron the home land were assigned to fill the vacancies in the company.
 The company continued to do duty