Show VETERANS SAIL FOR HOME Transports Carry Units Front From D Di Division vis 7 Casuals Aboard board Washington ob hod 3 The j 27 The war de department c- c announced today the sailing from France FIance of 11 transports transport rt bringing in n all about 0 officers and OO men Among J th the units on board arc are the machine machine machine ma ma- chine gun un battalions ant and divisional l troops formerly attached to the division Tho The transport t 1st Is due at nt Boston Bos nos- Boston ton March S 3 with the Hh regiment coast artillery less hatter battery F and IS S officers officer The transport Orlana Oriana Is due clue at Now ew YOI York March 5 6 with the tho machine gun un battalion complete I The Mongolia scheduled to arrive at New lew York fork March 7 has on board the tho 33 and machine gun Jun batta battalions Ions trench mortar batter battery battery bat bat- ter tery and batteries trench artillery and cn engineers pontoon too trains n meteorological detach detach- meat meni signal corps l Hero aero squad squad- squadron ron pontoon park lOth antiaircraft unit anti aircraft sector and casual officers and seven cn convalescent detachments comprising Cl fil officers and 4 a men AI Also Alfo o announced as os having sailed Hailed with a few Tew ca casuals mals ea each h are the Wyandotte Wyandotte Wyan- Wyan dotte and La- La Lorraine Year Old Y Vet r et Back With lith Stripes Now York Feb 27 The i-The The transports Ulua and Caserta arrived today from French ports with 44 veterans o of tho the American expeditionary forces Tile TIe brought men from convalescent con detachments at Bordeaux company M I Hith infantry and several cral s s medical and antl casual units On the Ulna Clua were the n ith supply train the trench mortar battery the field signal battalion All these troops arc are nc negroes roeL The Caserta transported the Gad coast artillery regiment made up o of 3 39 officers and 1300 men o of the regular regular regu lOg lar ann army and seven officers and men from replacements units recruited recruit recruit- ed throughout tho country Among AmonS tho the passengers ers on tho Wil 11 helmina was Private Robert W. W London Loudon Lou Lon don of Albuquerque N. N M. M who claims the distinction o of being the oldest enlisted enlisted en en- listed man in the arm army He Ito is CO Go il years cars old and wears two wound stripes for Injuries received in the Argonne forest fighting Loudon oudon says sas he enlisted enlisted enlisted en en- listed in the arm army shortly after tho the outbreak of tho the war by giving his ago alO alOas as not quite 40 years cars old Ito IIo says saS he has three sons in the service The Tho 31 th trench mortar battery balter composed of or men recruited from tho west and antl south was the first colored artillery unit to see action at tho rho front according to I William Wise Iso It was in ht the Metz sector ector when the I armistice was signed The supply train for eight months month was on the American an front be between between between be- be tween I and antl Belfort It also I served at Chate Thierry hateau ui J I I |