McComb, Walter G.
survey sheet - handwritten

 

 

On front of survey sheet (recto):

Date of Enlistment: May 5th, 1918
Military Camps to which went:
* Fort Slocum [N.Y.]
* Camp Wadsworth, S.C. & the [Aero?] fort
Units to which belonged:
* First Inlisted [sic], [Newport] News, Va. [in] the 102nd Corp [regiment?]
* then was transfer[red] to the 102 am[munition] trains
* then to 106 F.A. [Field Artillery] of the 27 Division N.Y.
* 1st A[rmy HQ][14? m? s?])
Date of trip overseas: June 14th, 1918
Service there:
* was with 106 F.A. in the Meuse-Argonne Sector. A high Explosive shell fell near where I was with. Sent me back of lines, after that (other side) -->
Date of return: March 27th, 1919
Date of demobilization: May 7th, 1919
Honors received: the only honors I received was a Honorable Discharge

On back of survey sheet (verso):

to a hospital & after that was attached to the 1st Army Headquarters Motor Section the[n] to the hospital [st] came back to the American 1A [1st Army] Hospital casual

 

 

NOTES
Fort Slocum (New York) (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Slocum_(New_York)

Tent and Trench: A Web Site Dedicated to the Memory of Camp Wadsworth,
Spartansburg, SC
http://www.schistory.net/campwadsworth/

Battery A, 102nd Field Artillery (Doughboy Center)
http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/compositeweb.htm

History of the 26th "Yankee" Division (American Legion Post 35; Lane
Memorial Library)
http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/HAMPTON/history/military/26thDivisionYD/26thDivisionHistory1919.htm

History of Company C, 102nd Ammunition Train, American Expeditionary
Forces, 1917-1918-1919. Pub. by the Co., 1919 (Internet Archive)
http://archive.org/details/historyofcompany00osbo

Base Hospitals of the AEF (Doughboy Center)
http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/basehosp.htm

First Army: History and Operations of the AEF (Doughboy Center)
http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/ghq1arm.htm

Wartime Operation: 1918-1919 (Wikipedia. Motor Transport Corps)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_Transport_Corps#Wartime_operation:_1918.E2.80.931919

Path of Fire: Meuse-Argonne Offensive of 1918 (First World War.com)
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/pathoffire.htm