Brigadier General, U. S. Army, WW1

Awarded:

Army Distinguished Service Medal

AWARDED FOR ACTIONS DURING Russian Civil War

Service: Army

Rank: Brigadier General

Division: American Military Mission, Petrograd, Russia

GENERAL ORDERS: War Department, General Orders No. 11 (1921)

CITATION:

The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Army Distinguished Service Medal to Brigadier General William Voorhees Judson, United States Army, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services to the Government of the United States, in a duty of great responsibility during World War I, while serving as Chief of the American Military Mission to Russia and military attaché to the American embassy at Petrograd, Russia.

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Also awarded:

Order of St. Anne, second class with swords (Russia)

Order of St. Stanislas, first class with swords (Russia)

Brigadier General William V. Judson was the sixth Commanding General of the 38th Infantry Division from April 15, 1918 to July 12, 1918 when the division was activated as a National Guard Division from Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia for WW I. The division was overseas in October 1918 for approximately six months but was skeletonized and its personnel went to other units. Prior to activation the division previously been in existence for a few months as the 17th Division, drawing personnel from Indiana and Kentucky only.

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Fact Sheet of the 38th Infantry Division

TYPE OF DIVISION: National Guard. Troops from Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia..

NICKNAME: Cyclone Division. While the division was in training at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, during World War I its tent city was leveled by a storm. It promptly became known as the Cyclone Division. After its action at Bataan during WW II, the men of the 38th began to use the phrase "Avengers of Bataan" as a divisional nickname.

SHOULDER PATCH: The patch is in the form of a shield divided vertically into a field of red and a field of blue. In the center of the shield, in white, are the letters "C" and "Y" interlocked.

HISTORY: The division was organized and trained at Camp Shelby MS and overseas between September and October 1918. The division was overseas for six months, but during that period it was skeletonized and its personnel were sent to other units. It never saw action as a division in World War I. The last element of the 38th to return to this country from France was demobilized by June 1919. The 149th Infantry Regiment was formally the 2nd Kentucky Infantry, which was commanded by Daniel Boone, frontiersman. The 138th Field Artillery Battalion was the former colonial 1st Kentucky Infantry and at one time was commanded by George Rogers Clark, old Indian fighter. The 152nd Infantry Regiment identifies itself with the 2nd Indiana Regiment which was organized in 1810 and saw service at Tippecanoe.

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-Graduate of Harvard University, 1911

-Member American Society Civil Engineers

-Inventor concrete caisson for breakwater construction

-Chief engineer and president of the Board of Public Works of the Island of Porto Rico, 1899-1900

-Engineer commissioner of the District of Columbia, 1909-1913

-Assistant division engineer, Atlantic Division, Panama Canal Construction, 1913-1914

-Military Attache with the Russian Army during Russo-Japanese War

-With Root mission to Russia, 1917, detached therefrom and remained in Russia as a military attache, the American embassy, Petrograd, and chief, of American military mission to Russia until the Spring of 1918.

-Commanding 38th Division, Camp Shelby, Mississippi, 1918

executive assistant to General Goethals, director of purchase, storage and traffic, 1918

-Commanding port of embarkation, New York, 1919