Produced by Barbara Kosker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) HEADQUARTERS 28TH DIVISION AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES FRANCE 27th October 1918. MEMORANDUM - RED KEYSTONES A RED KEYSTONE has been designated as the distinctive insignia of this Division. Keystones are to be worn on all coats and overcoats, including the trench and short coats worn by officers, and the Mackinaws issued to Engineers motorcycle drivers, etc., but not on the slicker. A standard size of Keystone of selected color and quality of cloth has been adopted and contracted for by the Quartermaster's Department. These will be issued at the rate of two per man and no others will be worn. They are to be sewed on the left sleeve with red thread, the top to be on the line of the seam. The proportions of a Keystone are shown below: [Illustration] By command of Major General Hay: OFFICIAL: W.C. Sweeney, Richard W. Watson, Chief of Staff. Major, Adjutant [Illustration] THE OFFICIAL ORDER DESIGNATING THE 28TH AS THE KEYSTONE DIVISION (_Reduced_) THE IRON DIVISION NATIONAL GUARD OF PENNSYLVANIA IN THE WORLD WAR THE AUTHENTIC AND COMPREHENSIVE NARRATIVE OF THE GALLANT DEEDS AND GLORIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE 28TH DIVISION IN THE WORLD'S GREATEST WAR BY H. G. PROCTOR [Illustration] PHILADELPHIA THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1919, by THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO. Copyright, 1918, by THE EVENING BULLETIN TO THE MOTHERS OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO MOURN FOR LADS WHO LIE IN THE SOIL OF FRANCE, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED FOREWORD If love, admiration and respect, with a sense of personal gratification at seeing the hopes and predictions of years fulfilled, may be pleaded as justification for a self-appointed chronicler, then this book needs no excuse. It is offered with a serene confidence that it does justice, and nothing more than simple justice, to as fine and gallant a body of soldiers as ever represented this great commonwealth in action. There must be, for the loved ones of these modern crusaders, as well as for the thousands of former members of the National Guard, who, like the writer, whole-heartedly envied the opportunities for glorious service that came to their successors in the organization, a sense of deep and abiding pride in the priceless record of achievement. To all such, and to those others to whom American valor is always a readable subject, whatever the locale, the narrative is presented as not unworthy of its cause. H. G. P. CONTENTS PAGE I. MEN OF IRON 11 II. OFF FOR THE FRONT 25 III. THE LAST HUN DRIVE 48 IV. "KILL OR BE KILLED" 60 V. THE GUARD STANDS FAST 77