The war record of the Fifth Company, New England Regiment, Second Plattsburg Training CampAnonymous
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The war record of the Fifth Company, New England Regiment, Second Plattsburg Training Camp
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Military Training Camp for Business and Professional Men (Plattsburgh, N.Y.); World War, 1914-1918 -- Registers
Commissioned 1st Lieutenant, Infantry, U. S. N. A., November
27, 1917. Assigned to various companies for instruction at Camp
Stanley, Leon Springs, Texas, December 16, 1917 to January 10, 1918.
Transferred to Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina, January 15, 1918,
and was on duty there to July 27, 1918. Adjutant 1st Battalion,
52nd Pioneer Infantry, from January 15 to March 17, 1919. Sailed
overseas from Hoboken, New Jersey, August 2, 1918. Landed at Brest,
France, August 11, 1918. Moved from Brest to St. Nazaire, August 16,
1918—from St. Nazaire to Montoir, August 22—from Montoir to Le Mans,
September 12—from Le Mans to Ancemont, September 18—from Ancemont to
Avocourt, September 22—from Avocourt to Cheppy Woods, October 4—from
Cheppy Woods to camp near Montfaucon, October 9—Montfaucon to Cheppy,
October 20. Attended the gas school at Chaumont, November 2-9, and
rejoined regiment at Nouart, November 12. In camp at Les Senades,
Luzy, and attended the 3rd Corps Infantry School at Clamecy, February
15 to March 15, 1919. On March 17, 1919, relieved as Adjutant of the
1st Battalion and made ranking Lieutenant of Company E. Transferred
to Chemire and then to Brest, March 19. Sailed for Hoboken, April
2, on the SS Rotterdam, landing April 11. Sick in hospital at Camp
Dix; then transferred to the Demobilization Group and was discharged,
August 2, 1919. Retains Reserve Commission as Captain, Infantry,
ranking from March 30, 1920.
*Harold L. Pinkham
_Next of Kin_ Mr. and Mrs. William F. Pinkham (Father and
Mother), 69 Sagamore Avenue, West Medford,
Massachusetts.
Commissioned Provisional 2nd Lieutenant, Infantry, November 27, 1917.
Reported Hoboken, January 8, 1918. Sailed overseas on SS Mongolia,
January 15, landing Liverpool, January 30. Sailed from Southampton,
January 31, landing Le Havre, February 1. Attended 2nd Corps School
(Intelligence Course), Chatillon-sur-Seine, February 5 to March
10. Tour of observation at French Front, March 11-24. Assigned to
16th Company, 5th Regiment, Marines, 2nd Division. Mortally wounded
leading men in assault on machine gun nests in Belleau Woods, June
23, 1918. Died of wounds in hospital, June 24, and was buried at La
Ferte-sous-Jouarre. Reburied in American Cemetery at Belleau Woods
where body will remain at parents’ request.
ELLSWORTH J. PIPER
_Permanent Address_ Bellows Falls, Vermont.
_Business Address_ Same.
_Present Occupation_ Paper Broker.
_Last heard from_ May, 1922.
ARNOLD STUART POTTER
_Permanent Address_ 54 Allen Avenue, Lynn, Massachusetts.
_Business Address_ 261 Franklin Street, Boston.
_Present Occupation_ Accountant with Lybrand, Ross Bros., and
Montgomery.
_Last heard from_ May, 1922.
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