Show IL ILL L In addition on to the One Hundred and nd Forty fifth field ar artillery the ambulance corps under cO of ot Captain H. H n B B. B Sprague after a thorough training at Ft rt Douglas and at Camp Grant Glant rd Ill wa was ordered overseas and w went nt at once to the front where Jt It was On active duty After the tle signing of ot the armistice the corps rendered most effective service In the hospitals hos boa where it cared for both serice service ser elvice el vice ice men men and civilians civilian Then the fied field hospital hospital hos hos- pital corps was tyas organized in Utah and wi when n Jt it was sent to France Franc it retained its identity as asa asa asa a Utah Utan organization Captain George Roberts Robert was in command and after the thc close ot the of-the the war the signing of the armistice the corps remained In France FIanCe looking after atter skit sick and wounded tnt until l. l In the spring ot of of 1919 when It It was wa's sent back to the tile United States and mustered mustered mus mug out of service ser UTAH CHAPLAIN One oth other r regiment was alt almost ost entirely made of ot men from Utah this being the he Three Hundred and Sixty second second Infantry of or the Nine Nine- t ty fir t or Wild West st division the chaplain of ot which was Calvin S. S Smith a 1 Utah boy O son of ot the late President Joseph Joeph F F. Smith of the L. L D. D S. S church In sevela several other regiments in that division Utah men answered to the The men of ot the Three Hundred and andI second Ninety infantry were all I drafted dratted men The They were in the battle In the Argonne forest and they ther made good In this engagement engagement engagement engage engage- ment the Three Hundred and Sixty- Sixty first infantry was commanded by Captain Charles E. E Chenoweth of Utah who was seriously wounded b by the explosion of ot a shell sheH and al although al- al though wounded he stuck to his post 1051 directing the movements of his men to an attack that was vas suc sue He was decorated at Ft Douglas on his return with the distinguished service cross It might be added that during the war three infantry regiments and the First battalion of ot the Seventeenth Seventeenth Seven- Seven tee nth railway engineers were or organized organized organized or- or at Ft Douglas Dougas as also an ambulance corps carps and and- nd m i d' d ni I the latter being recruited from flom the field hospital company compan which h m UJ seen service on the Mexican border borde and thich was assi assigned ned to Ft Vt Douglas Dougas August 5 1917 with Major John F F. Sharp commanding and which was sent overseas o arriving In m France September 2 1918 and was ordered home April 19 9 1919 and reached Salt Lake City July 4 1919 without the loss of a man manfrom manfrom manfrom from Injury or disease GUARDSMEN INCLUDED When hen the war was declared the arrn army of the United States Sta es numbered aunt num of ot which third one-third were national guardsmen ho had pad be been n called Into federal service along the Mexican border and when the armistice was signed the force had been increased to twenty times this number numberS to four tour million men Nearly 10 per cent of the national army entered through the national guard and of every men ten were from the national guard I There Thereas was as required for the army about officers and of this number there were only around when hen the war was declared of which number were officers of or orthe the national guard in the s service and of ot er e every six officers of oC the one had previous training training training train train- ing in the national nation a guard the regular regular regular regu regu- lar arm army or the ranks Of eer every ery men who ho served In the army ten were national guardsmen There were seventeen divisions of national nation nation- a al guardsmen and the Fortieth di dl division dir vision which consisted of national guardsmen from Arizona California California California Califor Califor- nia Colorado New Mexico and Utah was organized at Camp Kearney Kearney Kearney Kear Kear- ney at San Diego and all the di divisions divisions divisions di- di visions jf qt the national guard reached France One national guard division divisionS the Rainbow re requIred required required re- re no training field being as assembled assembled assembled as- as directly at Camp Mills l New York and were at once sent to France rance and sixteen national guard divisions di were vere trained in cantonments and camps in the summer and fall of 1917 i. i |