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Company D at Fort Devons
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September 1917 to February 1919 |
February 1919 to June 1919 |
Abbot | Herbert F | 1st Lieutenant | |
Anderson | Chris P | Private 1st class | Hackensack, NJ |
Bennet | Reginald | Cook | Branchville, CT |
Bogikas | George | Cook | Fitchburg, MA |
Burrill | Harry E | Private 1st class | Chicopee, MA |
Chandler | Merle N | Corporal | Livermore Falls, ME |
Daly | Raymond J | Lieutenant | Riverside, CT |
Dicantia | Tony | Private | Woonsocket, RI |
Enright | William E | Private 1st class | Windsor, VT |
Gaffey | Frederick | Corporal | Brighton, MA |
Galligan | Joseph F | Corporal | Somerville, MA |
Garlick | E Earle | Lieutenant | Bridgeport, CT |
Gazette | Alfred A | Sergeant | Boston, MA |
Geragosian | David | Private 1st class | Bethlehem, PA |
Gill | Roger J | Corporal | Beverly, MA |
Gill | William C | Corporal | Dorchester, MA |
Gillar | William | Private | Chelsea, MA |
Goralsky | Benjamyn | Corporal | Chicago, IL |
Gotz | Alexander | Corporal | Chelsea, MA |
Gould | William H | Sergeant | Fitchburg, MA |
Greene | James T | Lieutenant | Woonsocket, RI |
Gross | John A | Corporal | East Boston, MA |
Grover | Milton L | Corporal | Chelsea, MA |
Hartnett | John F | Sergeant | Amherst, MA |
Heron | John J | Corporal | East Boston, MA |
Hood | Ralph C | Sergeant | Roxbury, MA |
Howland | George W | Sergeant 1st class (later 2nd Lt Inf) | Brockton, MA |
Hutchinson | Joseph | Corporal | East Boston, MA |
Johnson | Arthur R | Corporal | Jamaica Plain, MA |
Kaplan | Morris | Private | Somerville, MA |
Karle | Harlod L | Corporal | Dorchester, MA |
Keefe | David L | Corporal | Boston, MA |
Kelly | George G | Corporal | Lowell, MA |
Kerrig | Joseph E | Private | Lynn, MA |
Kosick | Stanislaw | Private | New Bedford, MA |
Kosminsky | Benjamin | Private | Roxbury, MA |
Lavin | Joseph W | Corporal | Rosindale, MA |
Law | Wallace G | Private | Elba, AL |
Loftus | Anthony | Private 1st class | Cambridge, MA |
Long | Jack D | Private 1st class | Roxbury, MA |
Loughnane | Patrick J | Corporal | Dorchester, MA |
MacDonald | Raymond J | Corporal | Roxbury, MA |
Mahoney | James | Private | Brighton, MA |
Marchione | Raffaele | Private 1st class | Lowell, MA |
Marley | Frank G | Corporal | Dorchester, MA |
McClellan | Harold P | Sergeant | Roxbury, MA |
McDonough | Patrick J | Corporal | South Boston, MA |
McGee | John T | Corporal | Roxbury, MA |
McGuiggan | Francis J | Corporal | Charlestown, MA |
McSharry | John | Corporal | Braintree, MA |
Murphy | Peter F | Private | Achusnet, MA |
Murray | Leo M | Private 1st class | Houlton, ME |
Nitsche | Elmer C | Private 1st class | Bridgeport, CT |
Nugent | Frederick T | Corporal | Cambridge, MA |
Nuttall | Fred R | Corporal | Fall River, MA |
O'Brien | Fred A | Private | Lowell, MA |
Petrin | Alexander | Corporal | Biddeford, MA |
Pierce | Charles T | Corporal | Chelsea, MA |
Reardon | Timothy J | Private | Braintree, MA |
Regan | William F | Cook | Boston, MA |
Rooney | Thomas G | Private | Hyde Park, MA |
Ross | Harry J | Corporal | Dorchester, MA |
Russell | Fred L | Private | Somerville, MA |
Russell | Harry G | Sergeant | Brighton, MA |
Scaramella | Nicholas | Corporal | East Boston, MA |
Schoonmaker | Wardell A | Private 1st class | Hudson, NY |
Schuster | William | Private | Lowell, MA |
Shaughnessy | Patrick S | Corporal | Brighton, MA |
Sheltry | Leon | Private 1st class | Boston, MA |
Silvia | Anthony R | Corporal | Oak Bluffs, MA |
Smith | Harry | Sergeant 1st class | Boston, MA |
Stewart Jr | William J | Private 1st class | Leominster, MA |
Stone | James H | Private 1st class | Marblehead, MA |
Tessier | Roy | Corporal | Brookline, MA |
Tilley | Malcolm E | Sergeant (died at Officers' Training Camp) | Brockton, MA |
Walsh | Joseph A | Private | Auburn, MA |
Wing | Edward H | Private |
No one will forget Major Schoonmaker and the flying barber kit. On several Saturday morning inspections he had made unfavorable references to litter under the bunks. Finally an order went forth that no more articles should be kept there at all, and proceeded to devote the next inspection especially to that matter. Thru barracks after barracks he went, finding all clear spaces, until he came to one corner on the second floor of Company D's abode. A huge box under the corner bed. A pause. A look. A quick decision. A few swift movements and out the window went the company barber's kit of tools, which it had been taken for granted was exempt from the ruling.
Company D was the chief defender of Hogan's Alley in Le Havre, a famous line of portable trucks used as the headquarters for the various companies. Harry Smith, first sergeant of Company D was Mayor of the Alley, and from him went forth an edict that none should enter of leave its sacred precincts without a pass. Pyrenes were the frowning fortifications that constituted the defense of the Mayor's decrees. However, all this didn't prevent stuffing up a few chimneys upon occasion.
The following images were sent by John Loughnane, grandson of Corporal Loughnane.
Full certificate with an excerpt from a December 4, 1917 speach
by President Wilson.
A close up of the text shows that Loughnane's last name was mispelled.
The certificate is signed by 1st Lt. W. D. June and 2nd Lt. James
T. Greene. Judging by the date of the quote and the fact that
Lt. June became a Captain in early April of 1918, these certificates
must have been awarded sometime between January and March of 1918.
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