Van Hise, Edward Preston
survey sheet - handwritten

 

 

On front of survey sheet(recto):

Date of Enlistment: Oct. 27, 1917
Military Camps to which went:
* Camp Meigs, Washington, DC
Units to which belonged:
* M.R.S. 303
Date of trip overseas: Jan. 15, 1918
Service there:
* Motor Transport Corps. Station Nevers, France, from Feb. 3 to July 11-[19]18
* from July 11, Verneiul, France
Date of return: June 19-1919
Date of demobilization: Oct. 28,-1919
Honors received:
* Three gold chevrons
* Commissioned 1st Lieut., Oct 27, 1917
* " Capt., Oct. 17,[19]19

On back of survey sheet (verso):

* Now. Station at Camp Holdbird, Md.
* Motor Transport Training School, from June 23, 1919 as Chief Instructor in the [Painland] Training Dept. 9 A.

Home address

218 R St., NE
Washington, DC

E. Preston Van Hise
Capt. M.T.C.T.S.
Camp Holabird,
Md.

 

 

NOTES
Camp Meigs, Washington, DC, July 20, 1918 [panoramic photo] (U.S. National
Archives. Records of the War Department. General and Special Staffs)
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/panoramic_photography/images/camp_meigs_1918.html

Motor Transport Corps (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_Transport_Corps

Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General [OQMG] (U.S. National
Archives. Guide to Federal Records)
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/092.html

Nevers, France During WWI (Ancestry.com. RootsWeb)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gregkrenzelok/neversfranceduringww1.html

World War I Memorial, Verneiul, France (Flickr.com)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leonandloisphotos/5988426870/

Camp Holabird (Scout)
http://www.scout.me/camp-holabird--near--dundalk-md/e-19153919