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Show j in iteJleiO&l fc-c " " ii- i i " l -vj Camp Cavalcade CIIADOWY figures in a cavalcade of American history such as the men behind the names of the great army cantonments scattered all over the United States, where young Americans are learning to be soldiers sol-diers In order to defend their country coun-try when the need arises. Near Watsonville, Calif., is the only camp named for an army chap- H - 4 I lain Father Joseph Jos-eph P. McQuaide, who served as chaplain for the corps in the Philippines Phil-ippines from 1899 to 190 0, was drafted into the federal service August 5, 1917, went overseas and served there until December, Joseph P. 1918, Commis-McQuaide Commis-McQuaide sioned a major in 1922, he became regimental chaplain of the 250th 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, 365th infantry, Eighty-ninth division, divi-sion, who was awarded, posthumously, posthu-mously, the Congressional Medal of Honor "for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity, above and beyond the call of duty, in action with the enemy near Pouilly, France, November No-vember 8, 1918." Barkeley responded respond-ed to a call for volunteers to swim across the River Meuse to recon-noiter recon-noiter enemy positions, secured the desired information but was drowned while returning. California also has a camp near San Miguel, named for a soldier who was awarded, posthumously, a Congressional Medal of Honor. He was Corp. Harold W. Roberts (1899-1918) (1899-1918) of Company A, 344th battalion, tank corps, who, when- the tank which he was driving slid into a shell-hole, 10 feet deep and filled with water, gave up his chance to escape, pushed his gunner through the back door of the tank and was himself 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 A.E.F. and winner win-ner of the D.S.M. Camp Croft, near Spartanburg, S. C, is named for South Carolina's Maj. Gen. Edward Croft (1875-1938), 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 major-general and was made chief of infantry in-fantry of the army in 1933. Camp Williams, near Sparta, Wis., bears the name of a Pennsylvania- born journalist who, after working work-ing on newspapers newspa-pers in Missouri, became a foreign c orrespondent and gave up that career to become first lieutenant with the 128th machine gun battalion bat-talion of the A.E. F. He is Maj. Gen. John F. Wil- John F hams, who be- Wn,iams came a colonel in the Missouri National Guard in 1923 and is now chief of the National Guard bureau of the war department depart-ment in Washington. Camp Wolters, near Mineral Wells, Texas, recalls the services of Brig. Gen. Jacob F. Wolters of Houston, Hou-ston, who organized the Texas cavalry cav-alry during the World war and afterwards after-wards recruited a regiment of cavalry cav-alry 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 A.E.F. 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 D.S.M. 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 Novem-ber 5, 1918, at which time he was a major (temporary colonel) in the coast artillery corps. Mood of the American Soldiers "It is a stoical determination to see the thing through. They have entered this war after reading of it for three years. They know its horrors. hor-rors. In this they are unlike the men of any nation whom circumstances circum-stances rushed into war, as into an unknown adventure. Our men know this war; they followed it in the press since its outbreak. They are going in, dogged and grim; theirs is a solid courage which is the most sublime." Capt. E. L. Fox, in Forum magazine, January, 1918. |
