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Lieutenant Dexter E. Spalding
Amburn | George H | Private 1st class | Norwich, CT |
Axtell | Warren J | Corporal | Grafton, MA |
Carver | Ernest J | Sergeant | Boston, MA |
Chaves | Joseph S | Sergeant | Hemet, CA |
Crowley | Robert E | Fairhaven, MA | |
Day | George A R | Private | Beverly Farms, MA |
Denahy | John J | Corporal | Groton, MA |
Duhamel | Edward W | Private | Lawrence, MA |
Finnie | Andrew L | Corporal | Scituate, MA |
Gardner | Bertrand S | Corporal | Hanover, MA |
Given | Maurice F | Private 1st class (died of influenza at Le Havre) | |
Gould | Alvers B | Corporal | Orleans, MA |
Grant | Frank A | Corporal | Bridgewater, MA |
Hirsh | Louis F | Sergeant 1st class | Boston, MA |
Holder | Frank W | Private | South Portland, ME |
Howe | Oliver J | Sergeant | Brockton, MA |
Jowdrey | Asaph E | Private | Worcester, MA |
Keith | Russell S | Sergeant | Brockton, MA |
Kennedy | Hugh J | Corporal | New Bedford, MA |
Larson | Ludwig | Private | New Britain, CT |
Laschky | Edward | Corporal | Pittsfield, MA |
Lawrence | Perley W | Corporal | Gray, ME |
Leary | Charles F | Corporal | Fall River, MA |
Leighton | Walter E | Corporal | Gray, ME |
Lewald | Oswald J | Corporal | South Braintree, MA |
Lizotte | Adelard | Corporal | New Bedford, MA |
Loring | Harold F | Private | Portland, ME |
Ludgate | Frederick W | Corporal | Attleboro, MA |
Lynes | Francis J | Corporal | Milton, MA |
Macauley | John D | Private | New Bedford, MA |
Macheras | George J | Cook | Lowell, MA |
Macomber | William W | Cook | Providence, RI |
Maitland | James E | Corporal | Fall River, MA |
Maliff | Frank | Corporal | South Easton, MA |
McDonald | William L | Private 1st class | Providence, RI |
McGowan | Martin M | Private | Fall River, MA |
Mesick | Albert | Cook | |
Monaghan | Victor P | Corporal | South Braintree, MA |
Monty | Louis H | Corporal | New Bedford, MA |
Moore | Clarence L | Corporal | Brockton, MA |
Moran | Francis A | Private 1st class | Fall River, MA |
Nadeau | Edward V | Corporal | Fall River, MA |
Nickerson | Claude S | Corporal | Cotuit, MA |
Nickerson | Leroy A | Sergeant | |
Nickerson | Lloyd T | Private | Orleans, MA |
O'Brien | John J | Sergeant | Canton, MA |
Oldham | Raymond B | Corporal | Hanover, MA |
Oliver | Manual F | Corporal | Cohaset, MA |
Olson | Oscar E | Private | Campello, MA |
Pelletier | Joseph A | Corporal | Fall River, MA |
Perkins | Frank A | Corporal | South Braintree, MA |
Phillips | Burleigh E | Private | Dennis, MA |
Piche | Arthur J | Private 1st class | Fall River, MA |
Po | Paul | Private | Plymouth, MA |
Poirier | Henry T | Private | Sharon, MA |
Powers | Charles F | Private | Brockton, MA |
Quealy | John M | Private | Lowell, MA |
Rapoza | R | Private | |
Reed | Arthur M | Corporal | South Weymouth, MA |
Reed | John Leon | Corporal | Pembrose, MA |
Roche | Paul F | Private | Fitchburg, MA |
Roderick | Charles | Corporal | New Bedford, MA |
Rosen | Morris B | Corporal | Newport, RI |
Roy | A J | Private | |
Rushton | Clarence O | Corporal | Brockton, MA |
Sewall | Joseph D | Corporal | Weymouth, MA |
Sheehy | Joseph A | Private 1st class | Lowell, MA |
Shepardson | Robert P | Corporal | Millis, MA |
Smith | Wallace C | Corporal | Mansfield, MA |
Snow | John J | Corporal | Canton Center, CT |
Spalding | Dexter E | Lieutenant | New York City |
Sullivan | Charles R | Private 1st class | Fall River, MA |
Suzan | Manual J | Corporal | Barnstable, MA |
Sylvia | Joseph D | Private | Oak Bluffs, MA |
Sylvia | Lewis | Private | New Bedford, MA |
Taylor | Albert F | Corporal | |
Thorpe | Herbert F | 1st Lieutenant (died of influenza at Transport school in Decize) | New York City |
Turgeon | Eli | Private | Lowell, MA |
Vecchi | Alexander J | Private | Plymouth, MA |
Velzy | Cecil | Sergeant | Little Falls, NY |
Watt | Walter L | Private 1st class | Brockton, MA |
Dance at Lowell: Wednesday Evening, November 7, was a red letter evening for Company 6 (later renamed F). That was the night that Lowell opened her arms to Company 6 and gave her a welcome that we shall not forget. She made us feel proud that we were soldiers. How good it was to have Mayor O'Donnell favor us with his presence and how pleased we were to hear his words of commendation for the Lowell boys and for our own Eddie Quinn. What a gathering of pretty girls it was, and how they could dance. The affair was a great success, socially and financially.
Sailing and Cooking: The trip across the Atlantic on the Winifredian was a nightmare for approximately 2800 men. The provisions for sanitation and rationing were abominable. A few days before the Trained sailed Major June told Sergeant O'Brien of Company F that he was to have charge of the Supply Train mess during our trip across. No information was available as to the arrangements made for the feeding of men on such an improvised transport as the Winifredian. Sergeant O'Brien understood that his duties would consist of the drawing of rations for 550 men. Imagine his surprise when notified at 3 o'clock in the morning by the British steward on the ship, Mr. Maxwell, that he was to be N.C.O. in charge of the feeding of all 2800 men for two weeks. Mr. Maxwell informed the sergeant that the several units would have to furnish the cooks, bakers and butchers for their own kitchens, and assistant stewards and dish-washers for the officers' mess.
The ship was divided into two messes, forward and aft. Two small barred-in and foul-smelling enclosures furnished with steam kettles made up the kitchens. No roasting of meat could be done. Every pound of food used in the after mess had to be carried on the shoulders of the details from the forward end of the boat. After the first day, with sea-sick soldiers filling half the hammocks, a turn at ration-carrying was plain hell. The first morning on the boat was one of terrible confusion. Kitchen police failed to appear. All the oatmeal scheduled for the two messes was dumped in the after-mess. The oatmeal swelled and filled every receptacle. Fifteen thousand pounds of potatoes stored in the midst of soldiers' hammocks, became a reeking mess of vegetable corruption. Details of soldiers waded into the putrid mass in hip rubber boots and shoveled the long-deceased tubers over the side. Fifteen hundred men fed aft. Thirteen hundred men fed forward. One faucet with a two-foot trough on each end of the boat, with cold salt water "sans" soap provided washing accommodations for mess kits.
The ration was cut so low that the food would give out with
several hundred unserved. The steward would refuse to give more
food until compelled to do so by the orders of the officers in
charge of the mess.
Lieutenant Herbert F. Thorpe's dog tag
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