Hedges, Edward S.
survey sheet - handwritten

 

 

Date of Enlistment: June 5, 1917
Military Camps to which went:
* Camp Upton
* Camp Meade
Units to which belonged:
* 367 Inf.
Date of trip overseas: June 10, 1918
Service there:
* Arrived in France June 19, 1918. Left France, Feb. 8, 1919
Date of return: Feb. 17, 1919
Date of demobilization: March 8, 1919
Honors received: one

 

 

NOTES
Camp Upton (Longwood's Journey)
http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/history/upton/uptonhome.htm

World War I (U.S. Army. Fort Meade. Fort Meade History)
http://www.ftmeade.army.mil/pages/history/history.html

Snapshots in Time: World War I (Fort George G. Meade Museum)
http://www.ftmeade.army.mil/Museum/Museum_Timeline_WWI.html

Scott, Emmett J., Special Adjutant to Secretary of War. "Chapter XIII.
The Story of 'The Buffaloes.': Glorious Record of the 367th Infantry
Regiment - Colonel James A. Moss.... In Scott's Official History of
the Negro in the World War , 1919 (Novell Open Enterprise)
http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/comment/Scott/SCh13.htm

Buffalo Soldiers in the Woevre PlainOperation (The Soldier's Burden)
http://www.kaiserscross.com/41815/239601.html

Ed. Note: Mr. Hedges' survey response is a model of understatement