Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-04-04 | Page 24 | Yankee Engineers are Reaching Home

SERGEANT J. E. M'CAETY, who l.-i lioiiic from active service iu ' Franca. He toll: of surly conii:: 1 , home of Halt X,;.ke eif '-iiueeri. ! . " : r - . ; i, i j YJUVKEE - ENGINEERS ARE REBffi HOME J. E. McCarty Arrives and Tells of War Participants Soon to Arrive. Sergeant J. E. McCarty, who lives at K14 South Fifth East street, arrived in Salt Lake yesterday and announced that the following l:tah men who served with him in the Thirty-seventh engineers will reach Salt Lake in the next few clays: T. W. Coates, 875 West Second South street- Frank Rofrers, HUM South Ninth East street; -Ben Kiehey. A. J. Mathews unci Jack Youni?, of Salt Lake; C. R. Farley, George Knight. Harold Austin and George Everett of Ogden; A. L. Clausing of Tooele, and William Wilson of Bingham. Bing-ham. The Thirtv-scventh engineers was a special mechanical electric unit, organized j for the purpose of charging of barbed wire entanglements with electricity, pumping water into the front line trenches for the soldiers to drink 'and looking after all mechanical and electrical apparatus on the firing line. The men left the United States on May S. 191S, and arrived in Brest ten clays later. Their work, Mr. McCarty says, took them to all parts of the front and they wero In the thick of tho fighting during the Aisne-Marne offensive, July 26 to August 6, 191S; the St. Mihiel drive, September Sep-tember 12 to 1G, .1918; the Meuse-Argonne offensive, September 26 to November 11, 191S, and were with the army of occupation occupa-tion from November 26, 191S, to January 9, 1919. They were constantly under fire, and their regiment received honorable mention from General Pershing and was cited by General Petain for efficient work. The chief engineer of the first army, commenting on the achievements of the regiment to the chief of staff, stated that it "was the best army engineer organization organiza-tion under his command. The men of the Thirty-seventh engineers also hold the distinction of being the first American soldiers who crossed the Rhine. On March S, 1919, just ten months after their arrival In France, the engineers set sail for home on the U. S. S. Princess Matalka. They arived in the United States on March 19. Each member of the regiment regi-ment , received honorable mention from the colonel for faithful services.