Show camp cavalcade shadowy CnA DOlVY figures in a cavalcade J of american history such as the men behind the names of the great army cantonments canton ments scattered all over the united states where young americans are arc learning to be soldiers in order to defend their country when the need arises near watsonville Wat sonville calil calif is the only camp named for an army chaplain father jos eph P mcquaide who served as chaplain for the corps in the philippines from 1899 to 1900 was V drafted into the federal service august 5 1917 went overseas and served there 4 I 1 until december joseph P 1918 commissioned mcquaide a major in 1922 he became regimental chaplain of the coast artillery a position which he held when he died in los angeles march 29 1924 camp barkeley near abilene texas is named for private david B barkeley 1898 1918 of company A infantry eighty ninth division who was awarded posthumously the congressional medal of honor for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action with the enemy biear near pouilly france november 8 1918 barkeley responded to a call for volunteers to swim across the river meuse to reconnoiter enemy positions secured the desired information buteas drowned while returning california also has a camp near san miguel named for a soldier who was awarded posthumously a congressional medal of I 1 honor H he e was corp harold W roberts AS g of company A battalion tank corps who when the tank which he was driving slid into a shell hole 10 feet deep and filled with water ga gave ve up his chance to escape pushed his gunner through the back door of the tank and was himself ims elf drowned camp davis at holly ridge N C honors a north carolinian maj gen richmond pearson davis 1866 1937 chief of artillery of the ninth corps of the and winner of the I 1 camp croft near spartanburg S C is named for south carolinas maj gen edward croft 1875 1938 1933 who came out of the world war as a colonel with two decorations the silver star and the purple heart rose through the grades to major general and was made chief of infantry of the army in 1933 camp williams near sparta wis bears the name of a pennsylvania born journalist who after working on newspapers in in missouri became a foreign correspondent and gave up that career to become first lieutenant with the machine gun battalion of the AE F he is maj gen john F williams john F who became williams a colonel in the missouri national guard in 1923 and is now chief of the national guard bureau of the war department in washington camp wolters near mineral wells texas recalls the services of brig gen jacob F wolters of houston who organized the texas cavalry during the world war and afterwards recruited a regiment of cavalry in new mexico to complete the brigade later he was placed in command of the fifty sixth cavalry brigade of the texas national guard and he is said to be the only man ever awarded a service medal of appreciation given by an act of the legislature of the lone star state camp blanding near starke fla bears the name of maj gen albert H blanding born in iowa in 1876 commander of the thirty first dixie division of the and until his retirement in 1940 chief of the national guard bureau of the war department camp hulen near palacios texas honors brig gen john A hulen who won the for services during the meuse argonne offensive in october 1918 camp wallace near hitchcock texas honors the memory of col elmer J wallace of south dakota who was killed in france on november 5 1918 at which time he was a major temporary colonel in the coast artillery corps |