Entered military service from Utah.
78th Company, "E", 2nd Battalion, 6th USMC Regiment, 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, A.E.F.
Died of wounds received in action.
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On the night of June 25, our battalion took over the front line at Hill 142, Belleau Woods, Chateau-Thierry Sector, where we were engaged against the enemy until. July 5. Our position on Hill 142 was a good one, being on a hill side facing the enemy, who were in another woods beyond an open wheat field. To add security to this position it was necessary to erect barbed-wire entanglements in front of our line. Preparations for this entailed a great deal of work, as stakes of three and five feet lengths had to be cut and concealed near the line. Also rolls of wire had to be carried by hand from a dump two kilometers back of our position. All this was carried on under cover of darkness, for the enemy had direct observation of our movements, and kept a continuous rain of shells on the entire woods. When all the necessary material was collected on the line, details from every company in the battalion went out into "No Man's Land" one night and constructed the entanglements. A peculiar incident worth mentioning here is the fact that every night when we would go out on working parties back of the line, some of our men would be hit by shell fire, but the night the entanglements were constructed in front of the line, not a single shot was fired at us, and we found the wheat field in "No Man's Land" the safest place in the neighborhood.
While on Hill 142 we would get one meal every 24 hours, which was brought up sometime during the night in Ford cars to a dump one kilometer back of the line, being carried the rest of the way on foot.
July 4, 1918, was celebrated in Paris by a big parade in honor of the American successes in the Chateau-Thierry Sector, and a company, made up of the older men in our battalion, was sent to Paris to represent the United States Marines in the parade.
On July 5, we were relieved by a company of the Twenty-sixth Division, and moved back to a reserve position in woods near the Paris-Metz Road.
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During the war the Seventy-eighth Company was in the front line in seven different sectors, and in the front wave of attack in five different battles. Eight replacements were required to keep the company up to full war strength. Seventy-six men were killed in action and over 500 were wounded. There were no members of the company taken prisoner by the enemy.
Contributor: MGR (46905687).
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78th Company, "E", 2nd Battalion, 6th USMC Regiment, 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, A.E.F.
Died of wounds received in action.
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On the night of June 25, our battalion took over the front line at Hill 142, Belleau Woods, Chateau-Thierry Sector, where we were engaged against the enemy until. July 5. Our position on Hill 142 was a good one, being on a hill side facing the enemy, who were in another woods beyond an open wheat field. To add security to this position it was necessary to erect barbed-wire entanglements in front of our line. Preparations for this entailed a great deal of work, as stakes of three and five feet lengths had to be cut and concealed near the line. Also rolls of wire had to be carried by hand from a dump two kilometers back of our position. All this was carried on under cover of darkness, for the enemy had direct observation of our movements, and kept a continuous rain of shells on the entire woods. When all the necessary material was collected on the line, details from every company in the battalion went out into "No Man's Land" one night and constructed the entanglements. A peculiar incident worth mentioning here is the fact that every night when we would go out on working parties back of the line, some of our men would be hit by shell fire, but the night the entanglements were constructed in front of the line, not a single shot was fired at us, and we found the wheat field in "No Man's Land" the safest place in the neighborhood.
While on Hill 142 we would get one meal every 24 hours, which was brought up sometime during the night in Ford cars to a dump one kilometer back of the line, being carried the rest of the way on foot.
July 4, 1918, was celebrated in Paris by a big parade in honor of the American successes in the Chateau-Thierry Sector, and a company, made up of the older men in our battalion, was sent to Paris to represent the United States Marines in the parade.
On July 5, we were relieved by a company of the Twenty-sixth Division, and moved back to a reserve position in woods near the Paris-Metz Road.
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During the war the Seventy-eighth Company was in the front line in seven different sectors, and in the front wave of attack in five different battles. Eight replacements were required to keep the company up to full war strength. Seventy-six men were killed in action and over 500 were wounded. There were no members of the company taken prisoner by the enemy.
Contributor: MGR (46905687).
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Entered military service from Utah.
78th Company, "E", 2nd Battalion, 6th USMC Regiment, 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, A.E.F.
Died of wounds received in action.
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On the night of June 25, our battalion took over the front line at Hill 142, Belleau Woods, Chateau-Thierry Sector, where we were engaged against the enemy until. July 5. Our position on Hill 142 was a good one, being on a hill side facing the enemy, who were in another woods beyond an open wheat field. To add security to this position it was necessary to erect barbed-wire entanglements in front of our line. Preparations for this entailed a great deal of work, as stakes of three and five feet lengths had to be cut and concealed near the line. Also rolls of wire had to be carried by hand from a dump two kilometers back of our position. All this was carried on under cover of darkness, for the enemy had direct observation of our movements, and kept a continuous rain of shells on the entire woods. When all the necessary material was collected on the line, details from every company in the battalion went out into "No Man's Land" one night and constructed the entanglements. A peculiar incident worth mentioning here is the fact that every night when we would go out on working parties back of the line, some of our men would be hit by shell fire, but the night the entanglements were constructed in front of the line, not a single shot was fired at us, and we found the wheat field in "No Man's Land" the safest place in the neighborhood.
While on Hill 142 we would get one meal every 24 hours, which was brought up sometime during the night in Ford cars to a dump one kilometer back of the line, being carried the rest of the way on foot.
July 4, 1918, was celebrated in Paris by a big parade in honor of the American successes in the Chateau-Thierry Sector, and a company, made up of the older men in our battalion, was sent to Paris to represent the United States Marines in the parade.
On July 5, we were relieved by a company of the Twenty-sixth Division, and moved back to a reserve position in woods near the Paris-Metz Road.
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During the war the Seventy-eighth Company was in the front line in seven different sectors, and in the front wave of attack in five different battles. Eight replacements were required to keep the company up to full war strength. Seventy-six men were killed in action and over 500 were wounded. There were no members of the company taken prisoner by the enemy.
Contributor: MGR (46905687).
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78th Company, "E", 2nd Battalion, 6th USMC Regiment, 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, A.E.F.
Died of wounds received in action.
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On the night of June 25, our battalion took over the front line at Hill 142, Belleau Woods, Chateau-Thierry Sector, where we were engaged against the enemy until. July 5. Our position on Hill 142 was a good one, being on a hill side facing the enemy, who were in another woods beyond an open wheat field. To add security to this position it was necessary to erect barbed-wire entanglements in front of our line. Preparations for this entailed a great deal of work, as stakes of three and five feet lengths had to be cut and concealed near the line. Also rolls of wire had to be carried by hand from a dump two kilometers back of our position. All this was carried on under cover of darkness, for the enemy had direct observation of our movements, and kept a continuous rain of shells on the entire woods. When all the necessary material was collected on the line, details from every company in the battalion went out into "No Man's Land" one night and constructed the entanglements. A peculiar incident worth mentioning here is the fact that every night when we would go out on working parties back of the line, some of our men would be hit by shell fire, but the night the entanglements were constructed in front of the line, not a single shot was fired at us, and we found the wheat field in "No Man's Land" the safest place in the neighborhood.
While on Hill 142 we would get one meal every 24 hours, which was brought up sometime during the night in Ford cars to a dump one kilometer back of the line, being carried the rest of the way on foot.
July 4, 1918, was celebrated in Paris by a big parade in honor of the American successes in the Chateau-Thierry Sector, and a company, made up of the older men in our battalion, was sent to Paris to represent the United States Marines in the parade.
On July 5, we were relieved by a company of the Twenty-sixth Division, and moved back to a reserve position in woods near the Paris-Metz Road.
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During the war the Seventy-eighth Company was in the front line in seven different sectors, and in the front wave of attack in five different battles. Eight replacements were required to keep the company up to full war strength. Seventy-six men were killed in action and over 500 were wounded. There were no members of the company taken prisoner by the enemy.
Contributor: MGR (46905687).
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