Chapter XXVII: Quartermaster’s Department

Brig. Gen. Charles L. McCawley, was the Quartermaster of the United States Marine Corps, with station at Headquarters, during the entire war. Brig. Gen. McCawley, in company with the Major General Commandant, sailed from the United States on board the _Leviathan_ September 29, 1918, arriving at Brest, France, October 7, 1918. After an extended visit to the Marines as an observer Brig. Gen. McCawley sailed from Brest on board the _De Kalb_ December 9, 1918, arriving in the United States, December 16, 1918.

Upon the increase of the Marine Corps from 17,400 to 30,000 and later to 75,500, it became necessary to increase the commissioned, warrant, and enlisted personnel of the quartermaster’s department, in order that it might successfully meet the heavy demands made upon it by the war and by the large increase in strength.

The increase in the commissioned personnel was made largely by the promotion of experienced quartermaster clerks and quartermaster sergeants to commissioned rank, and the vacancies in the grade of quartermaster sergeant were filled, as far as possible, from selected enlisted men.

Later a school for the instruction of quartermaster sergeants was organized at Marine barracks, Norfolk, and three classes were graduated therefrom.

It was necessary to make large increases in the personnel at headquarters to handle the question of supply, transportation, construction, and finance. The table below shows the strength in the office of the quartermaster on January 1, 1917, and June 30, 1918:

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Grade. | Jan. 1, | June 30,
| 1917. | 1918.
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Commissioned officers | 4 | 9
Warrant officers | .. | 12
Special assistant | .. | 1
Technical engineer | .. | 1
Clerical force: | |
Civilians | 10 | 8
Enlisted (regular) | 43 | 53
Enrolled (reservists) | .. | 111
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Total | 57 | 195
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ADDITIONAL STOREHOUSES AND COOPERATION WITH GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.

Due to changes in the method of purchasing rations, caused by existing conditions, it became necessary to establish commissary storehouses at San Francisco, Charleston, and Baltimore, at which to maintain reserve supply stores. The Baltimore storehouse was later moved to Philadelphia. At the beginning of the war the Marine Corps had in its depots at Philadelphia, Pa., and San Francisco, Calif., a small surplus stock, which had been accumulated from the regular appropriations, sufficient to outfit 8,500 men; consequently when the war was declared against Germany and the corps was increased, first to 1,323 officers and 30,000 men (act May 22, 1917), and secondly to 3,341 officers and 75,500 men (act July 1, 1918), it was necessary to provide simultaneously clothing, equipage, food, and shelter for these men. The question of shelter is discussed in the following pages. In connection with the purchase of these supplies it must be remembered that the Army, Navy, and Allies were in the market for similar articles, and in order to determine supply and allocate demands the President first appointed a Council of National Defense, which was later superseded by the War Industries Board. The quartermaster’s department had representatives in daily attendance at the various meetings of the committees of the Council of National Defense, and later the War Industries Board. All of the above-mentioned supplies, as far as practicable, were purchased in the usual manner, by the bid and tender plan, only those articles on which no bids were received or those controlled by the War Industries Board being allocated.

There was installed in the office of the quartermaster a “follow-up” system, where record was made of all orders, contracts, purchase orders, and requests for transfer of supplies from other departments. The function of this section was to see that the supplies were delivered in accordance with contract obligations and trace delinquent deliveries. The section has proven its value, and satisfactory deliveries have been obtained, with few exceptions. From these records the quartermaster has available at all times the status of all outstanding orders as well as a concise record of completed contracts.

CANTONMENTS.

To furnish accommodations for the increased personnel, cantonments on a large scale were built at Quantico, Va., and Parris Island, S. C., and on a smaller scale at Mare Island, Calif. This work was expeditiously handled and afforded suitable temporary accommodations during the war.

DEPOT OF SUPPLIES, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

During the period of the war the depot outfitted and equipped 36 expeditionary units for service in France and the West Indies, and over 31,000,000 pounds of various kinds of supplies were shipped on Government bills of lading. The depot departments were so organized that it was only necessary to expand each division of the office forces and increase the number of employees and machines in the manufacturing departments in order to meet the increased demands during the war. The personnel of the depot on June 30, 1919, was as follows: Thirteen commissioned officers, 7 warrant officers, 2 civilians, 102 enlisted men of the regular service, 21 reservists, and 1,095 other employees of all classes, making a total personnel of 1,240.

DEPOT OF SUPPLIES, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.

The activities of this depot were increased during the war by the greater number of recruits to be outfitted on the west coast, and by the establishment of the subsistence branch of the depot at San Francisco. This depot has supplied all posts on the west coast, and furnished the supplies for the troops in the Orient.

DEPOT OF SUPPLIES, CHARLESTON, S. C.

This depot was established soon after the declaration of war for the purpose of supplying all posts south of Norfolk, including the West Indies. The storage facilities consist of 7 warehouses and a total floor space of 124,778 square feet. A total of about 14,287 tons of stores were shipped from this depot during the fiscal year 1919, these stores being valued at approximately $12,000,000; during the same period approximately 18,000 tons of stores were received, at an estimated value of $15,000,000. Practically all shipments of supplies of every description for troops in the West Indies are made from this depot.

EXPENDITURES.

The expenditures of the quartermaster’s department for the fiscal years ending June 30ths, 1917, 1918, and 1919, were as shown below, exclusive of appropriations for public works, under the Navy Department, from which figures the enormous increase in the activities and responsibilities of this department, caused by the war and by the increase in strength, is evident:

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Subhead. | 1917 | 1918 | 1919
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Provisions |$1,612,908.30|$6,725,893.05|$10,287,965.53
Clothing | 2,173,501.59|11,123,760.36| 20,275,456.01
Fuel | 248,606.82| 590,120.91| 989,573.08
Military stores | 1,520,289.39| 6,371,978.10| 13,952,476.49
Camps of instruction | 31,871.04| 30,945.83| ..
Transportation and recruiting | 620,667.75| 1,514,657.77| 3,064,099.21
Repairs of barracks | 216,715.56| 3,754,241.58| 5,883,065.69
Forage | 75,018.94| 161,614.81| 163,132.90
Commutation of quarters | 164,497.24| 402,402.51| 363,484.53
Contingent | 983,984.91| 4,864,825.25| 8,674,269.61
Expenditures under appropriation | |
“Reserve supplies, U. S. M. C.” .. | .. | 2,510,527.44
Purchases under second deficiency | |
act from United States Army .. | .. | 772,540.00
+-------------+-------------+--------------
Total maintenance | | |
quartermasters’ | | |
department U. S. M. C. | 7,648,061.54|35,540,440.17| 66,936,590.49
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INDEX.

A.
Page.

Actual strength of Marine Corps, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 73, 74, 84, 85, 89

Adjutant and Inspector’s Department, 5, 83

Advanced Base Force, 10, 19, 37

Aerodromes, 72

Aero Squadrons, 9, 67

_Agamemnon_, 33

Age limits, Marine aviators, 74

Aigrefeuille, France 63

Aisne defensive, 41, 57, 58, 65

Aisne River, 49, 50, 55

Aisne-Marne offensive, 9, 38, 44, 45, 57, 58, 65, 67

_Alabama_, 18

Albany, 18, 61

Allotments, 87

Amaroc Shoot, 70

Ambrose Lightship, 60

_America_, 48

American embarkation center, Le Mans, France, 62

American Commander in Chief, 30, 31, 38, 39, 40, 41, 45, 46, 51, 54,
79, 81, 82

American Peace Commission, Paris, France, 63

Amiens, France, 40

Annapolis, Md., 19

Antitank guns, 67

Antweiler, 56

Archangel, Russia, 20

Argonne-Meuse (Meuse-Argonne). (_See_ Meuse-Argonne.)

_Arizona_, 18

_Arkansas_, 18, 59

Arlon, 56

Arnes, valley of the, France, 51

Armistice signed, 55

Army of occupation (Third Army), 56, 57

Armentieres, France, 40

Artillery captured by Second Division, 67

Asiatic Fleet, 18, 61

Astoria, Oreg., 19

Attigny-Voncq, Aisne River region, 51

Atlanta, Ga., 19, 85

Athens, Greece, 20

Atlantic Fleet, 18, 60

Austria, 61

Automatic rifle competitions, 70

Automatic Rifle School, Overseas Depot, 27

Aviation, 10, 23, 24, 28, 36, 65, 66, 71-75, 79, 83

Azores, 10, 17, 20, 34, 36, 37, 71, 73, 74, 75

B.

Baker, Newton D., Secretary of War, 82

Bakers; Cooks and Bakers School, Parris Island, S. C., 25

Balloons, 71, 73, 74

Bandits, 37, 65, 66

Band School, Parris Island, S. C., 25

Bands, silver, for colors, 57

Bantry Bay, Ireland, 37, 60

Barmant, France, 63

Barnett, George, Maj. Gen., Commandant, 5, 83

Barracks, repairs of, expenditures, 91

Barrett, Charles D., Maj., 56, 63

Base Detachment, Fifth Regiment, 34

Base, naval:
No. 13, Azores, 34, 36, 71, 73, 74
No. 29, Cardiff, Wales, 34

Bassens (Gironde), France, 63

Battleships, 17, 18, 37, 59-61

Battleship Force, 18, 60

Battleship Force One, 17, 60

Battleship Force Two, 17, 18, 60

Bayonet School, Overseas Depot, 27

Bayonville-et-Chennery, France, 55, 57

Bearss, Hiram I., Col., 32, 36

Beaufort, S. C., 19

Beau Desert (Gironde), France, 63

Beaumont, France, 54, 55

Beaurepaire Farm, France, 45

Belgium, 49, 56, 68

Belleau Woods (_see also_ Bois de Belleau), France, 39, 41, 42, 43, 57

Bellefontaine, France, 56

Belmar, N. J., 19

Belval-Bois-des-Dames, France, 55

Belval Forest, France, 54

Berg, 56

Blanc Mont Ridge, France, 50, 57, 58, 67

Bois de Belleau (_see also_ Belleau Woods), France, 10, 39, 41, 42,
44, 48

Bois de Belval, France, 54, 55, 57

Bois de Hazois, France, 53

Bois de la Brigade de Marine, France, 42, 58

Bois de la Folie, France, 57

Bois de Retz, France, 45

Bolinas, Calif., 19

Bolsheviki, 61

Bombs, 22, 72, 74

Bombing School, Overseas Depot, 27

Bordeaux, France, 63, 79

Boston, Mass., 19

Bou-des-Bois, France, 39

Bouresches, France, 10, 41, 43, 57, 58

Bourmont (Haute-Marne), France, 32, 38

Bourmont Training Area, France, 28, 31, 32, 33, 39

Bouvron, France, 48

Bouy, France, 51

Bradman, Frederic L., Col., 60

Brest, France, 32, 33, 39, 48, 56, 60, 62, 63, 72, 79, 83, 89

Breuvannes, France, 31

Brewster, David L. S., Maj., 71

Bridgeheads:
Chateau-Thierry, France, 40
Coblentz, Germany. (_See_ Army of Occupation; Germany; Third Army.)
Meuse River, 54

British. (_See also_ England.)
Aviation Forces, 72
Distinguished Service Order, 68
Forces, 36, 61, 72
Grand Fleet, 37, 59

_Brooklyn_, 18, 37, 61

Budesheim, 56

Bulgars, 49

Bundy, Omar, Maj. Gen., United States Army, 31, 32, 38

Burgbrohl, 56

Butler, Smedley D., Brig. Gen., 62, 63

C.

Calais, France, 20, 72

Caldwell, N. J., 70

Cambria, France, 49

Camp Cabaud, France, 53

Camp Carret (Camp Covington), near Marseilles, France, 63

Camp Covington (Camp Carret), 63

Camp Perry, Ohio, 69

Camp Pontanezen, France. (_See_ Pontanezen Camp.)

Camps of instruction, expenditures, 91

Canadian officers, 26

Cantigny, France, 41

Cantonments, 90

Cape Cod, Mass., 19

Cape Haitien, Haiti, 84, 85

Cape May, N. J., 19, 71, 73, 74

Cape May, N. J., naval air station, 19

Carbon Blanc, France, 63

Cardiff, Wales, 10, 20, 34

Casino-de-Lilas (Bordeaux), France, 63

_Castine_, 18

Castletown Berehaven, Bantry Bay, Ireland, 37, 60

Casual payments, 87

Casualties, 10, 37, 41, 58, 65, 66

Catlin, Albertus W., Col. (brigadier general), 32, 33, 42, 43, 48

Cavite, Philippine Islands, 10, 20

Chalons-sur-Marne, France, 48, 51

Champagne, 50, 55, 57, 60

Champagne-Marne defensive, 44, 58

Chaudenay, France, 48

Chaplains of the Navy, 35, 68

_Charleston_, 18

Charleston, S. C., 19, 89

Charleston, W. Va., navy ordnance plant, 19

Chatham, Mass., 19

Chateau-Thierry sector, France, 9, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 57,
65, 67

Chateauroux, France, 63

Chemin-des-Dames, France, 40

Chesapeake Bay, 59

Chief Paymaster, United States Marines, France, 88

China, 10, 17, 37, 61, 68, 84, 85

Chollas Heights, Calif., 19

Christiania, Norway, 20

_Cincinnati_, 18

Citations by French Army, 9, 42, 46, 51, 67

Civil War, 9

Claims Section, Paymaster’s Department, 87

Clerical School, Parris Island, S. C., 25

Clothing, expenditures, 91

Coblentz, Germany. (_See_ Bridgeheads, Coblentz.)

Cole, Edward B., Maj., 32, 42, 43

Cole, Eli K., Brig. Gen., 33, 62

_Columbia_, 18

Commander in Chief, American Expeditionary Forces. (_See_ American
Commander in Chief.)

Commercial Telegraph & Cable Co., Boston, Mass., 19

Company clerks, 26

Commissary storehouses, 89

Commutation of quarters, 91

Composite Regiment, Third Army, 78

_Connecticut_, 18

_Constellation_, 18

Contingent expenditures, 91

Convoying railroad trains, 63

Convoying troops across Atlantic, 37

Cooks, 26

Cooks and Bakers School, Parris Island, S. C., 25

Copenhagen, Denmark, 20

Cornell University, 23

Council of National Defense, 90

Croix de Guerre (French), 9, 67, 68

Croix d’Hins, France, 20, 63

Cruiser Force, 17, 18, 37, 61

Cuba, 10, 17, 20, 37, 85

Cunningham, Alfred A., Maj., 72

Curtis, Md., 19

Cutts, Richard M., Col., 61

_Cyclops_, 66

Czecho-Slovaks, 61

D.

d’Avours range at Le Mans, France, 70

Damblain, France, 31, 32, 39

Dampierre, France, 51

Daniels, Josephus, Secretary of the Navy, 5, 81, 82

Days in France; Fourth Brigade, 67

Day Wing, Northern Bombing Group, France, 34, 36, 71, 72, 73, 75

Deaths, 65, 66

Decorations, 68

Degoutte, General, 42

_De Kalb_, 9, 30, 32, 33, 34, 72

_Delaware_, 18, 59

Demobilization, 80-81

Denmark, 20

Dental Corps, Navy, 35, 66, 68

_Denver_, 18

Depots of supplies:
Charleston, S. C., 91
Philadelphia, Pa., 19, 90
San Francisco, Calif., 90, 91

_Des Moines_, 18

Dieulouard, France, 48

Distinguished-service crosses (American), 68

Distinguished-service medals (American), 39, 68

Distinguished-service order (British), 68

Division 6, Atlantic Fleet, 18, 60

Division 7, Atlantic Fleet, 18

Division 8, Atlantic Fleet, 18

Division 9, Atlantic Fleet, 18, 59, 60

Divisions, American Expeditionary Forces:
First Division. (_See_ First Division.)
Second Division. (_See_ Second Division.)
Third Division. (_See_ Third Division.)
Fourth Division. (_See_ Fourth Division.)
Sixth Division. (_See_ Sixth Division.)
Twenty-sixth Division. (_See_ Twenty-sixth Division.)
Thirty-second Division. (_See_ Thirty-second Division.)
Thirty-fifth Division. (_See_ Thirty-fifth Division.)
Forty-first Division. (_See_ Forty-first Division.)
Ninetieth Division. (_See_ Ninetieth Division.)
Ninety-second Division. (_See_ Ninety-second Division.)

Division machine gun officer, 52

_Dolphin_, 18

Dominican Republic, 17, 66, 84, 85

Dover, N. J., 19

Doyen, Charles A., Brig. Gen., 29, 30, 32, 38, 39

Dunkirk, France, 71, 72

Dunlap, Robert H., Col., 36

Duration-of-war enlisted men, 80

E.

East San Pedro, Calif., 19

Edinburgh, Scotland, 60

Eighth Infantry Brigade, 36

Eighth Separate Battalion, 27, 34

El Cayay, Porto Rico, 20

Eleventh Regiment, 27, 33, 63, 70, 78, 81

Eleventh Separate Battalion, 27

Ellis, Earl H., Lieut. Col., 39, 48, 55, 56, 63

Emergency payments, 87

England (_See also_ British), 10, 17, 20, 28, 31, 33, 36, 49, 72

Enlistments, 14, 15

Enlisted Staff School, Overseas Depot, 27

Enrollments in the reserve, 14, 15, 76-77

Epidemic of influenza. (_See_ Influenza.)

Eppeldorf, 56

Escorts, 37, 63

Essen Hook (Blanc Mont), France, 50

Eureka, Calif., 19

Evans, Francis T., Maj., 71

Exermont, France, 53, 55

Expenditures, 86, 91

F.

Farallones Islands, Calif., 19

Feland, Logan, Col. (Brigadier General), 31, 38, 47, 51, 56

Female reservists, 12, 13, 76, 77

Field Musics School, Parris Island, S. C., 25

Fifteenth Field Artillery, 38, 39

Fifteenth Separate Battalion, 79

Fifth Corps, 53, 54, 55

Fifth Brigade of Marines, 10, 28, 62, 78, 79, 80, 81

Fifth Brigade Machine Gun Battalion, 27, 33, 64, 78, 81

Fifth Machine Gun Battalion, 38

Fifth Regiment of Marines, 9, 26, 28, 29, 30, 38, 70, 78, 81

Fifth Regiment Base Detachment, 34

Fifth Separate Battalion, 27, 34

Fifty-first Infantry Brigade, 36

Finances, 86, 91

First Army, 48, 49, 53

First Aviation Squadron, 71

First Battalion, Eleventh Regiment, 33

First Battalion, Fifth Regiment, 29, 30

First Battalion, Sixth Regiment, 29, 32, 33

First Casual Replacement Battalion, 34

First Corps, 48

First Depot Division, 62

First Division, American Expeditionary Forces, 28, 29, 30, 36, 39,
41, 45, 46, 79

First Field Signal Battalion, 38

First Machine Gun Replacement Battalion, 34

First Marine Aeronautic Company, 34, 36, 71, 75

First Marine Aviation Force, 34, 72

First Regiment of Marines, 85

First Replacement Battalion, 34

First Replacement Depot, 62

First Separate Machine Gun Battalion, 34

Firth of Forth, Scotland, 59, 60

Flanders, Belgium, 49, 72

_Florida_, 18, 59

Florida Straits, 37

Flying Corps:
England, 72
France, 72
United States. (_See_ Aviation.)

Foch, Marshal, 40, 44, 45, 46, 49, 50, 79

Forage, expenditures, 91

Forty-first Division, American Expeditionary Forces, 62

Forty-second Division, American Expeditionary Forces, 53

Fort Crockett, Galveston, Tex., 19

Fort Lafayette, 19

Fort Lyons, Colo., 19

Fort Mifflin, Pa., 19

Fosse, France, 53

Fossoy, France, 42

Fourragère, French, 9, 67

Fourth Brigade:
Casualties, 10, 65
Composition of, 9, 29
Demobilization, 80, 82
First Division, element of, 29
Formed, 29, 32, 33
Operations, 36, 40-55
Organizations composing, 9, 29
Organization perfected, 33
Organized, 29, 32, 33
P. C.’s. (_See_ P. C.’s of Fourth Brigade.)
Sailed (Fifth Regiment) for France, 9, 30
Strength, 10
Returned to United States, 78
Training, 28, 39

Fourth Division, American Expeditionary Forces, 36

Fourth French Army, 49, 50, 51, 57, 58

Fourth Infantry Brigade, 38

Fourth Machine Gun Battalion, 38

Fourth Separate Battalion, 27, 34

Forwarding Camp, Le Mans, France, 62

_Frederick_, 18

French:
Decorations, 68
Flying Corps, 36, 72
Officers serving with Marines, 26, 68

Freya Stellung, 53

Fryer, Eli T., Col., 61

Fuel, expenditures, 91

G.

_Galveston_, 18, 37

Galveston, Tex., 19

Gamborg-Andresen, Carl, Col., 61

Gas, 22, 27, 65, 66

Geiger, Roy D., Maj., 72

Gendarmerie, Haitian, 10, 37

Genicart, France, 63

Geographical location of Marines, 17

_George Washington_, 18, 60, 78

_Georgia_, 18

Georgia School of Technology, 23

Germainvilliers, France, 32

Germany, 11, 17, 20, 56, 57, 61, 69

German High Seas Fleet, 59

Gerstner Field, Lake Charles, La., 7, 19, 73, 74

Gievres (Loire-et-Cher), France, 63

Gisors-Chaumont-en-Vixen, France, 39

Gleaves, Albert, Rear Admiral, 30

Gondrecourt training area, 28, 31

Gouraud, Gen., 49, 50, 57

Grand Bois de Saint Souplet, France, 51

Grand Fleet, British, 37, 59

Grange Neuve, France, 63

Gratuity of $60, 87

Great Lakes, Ill., 19, 74

Greece, 20

Greenbury, Md., 19

Guam, 10, 17, 20, 37

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 10, 20

Guardia Nacional Dominicana, 10, 20, 37

H.

Haines, Henry C., Col., 5, 83

Haiti, 10, 17, 20, 37, 84, 85

Hampton Roads, Va., 19, 62, 80

_Hancock_, 9, 30, 34

Harbord, James G., Maj. Gen., United States Army, 38, 39, 42, 45, 46,
47

Hart, Franklin A., Capt., 64

Harvard University, 23

Hatenfels, Germany, 56

Haute-Marne, France, 32, 38

_Havana_, 30

Havre, France, 63

Hawaiian Islands, 10, 17, 37

Headquarters Companies:
Fifth Regiment, 29
Sixth Regiment, 29, 32

Headquarters Detachment, Paris, France, 63

Headquarters of Fourth Brigade. (_See_ P. C.’s of Fourth Brigade.)

Headquarters, Washington, D. C., 19, 83

_Helena_, 18, 37

_Henderson_, 9, 30, 32, 33, 34, 39, 79

Herschbach, Germany, 56

Hill 142, 10, 41, 57, 58

Hindenburg Line, 49, 53

Hingham, Mass., 19

Historical Division, Marine Corps, 5

Holland, 17

Hönningen, 56

Hospitals, France; paying men in, 87

Hoyt, Leon W., Maj., 60

Huey, James McE., Lieut. Col., 60

_Huntington_, 18

I.

_Idaho_, 18

Influenza, 23, 83

Indian Head, Md., 19

Inductions, 14, 15, 16

Inglewood, Calif., 19

Inor, France, 54

Inspector General’s Department, 63

Inter-allied rifle championships, Le Mans, France, 70

Interpreters, 63

Iona Island, N. Y., 19

Ireland, 37, 60

Isle of Ste. Anne (Nantes), France, 63

Issonge Farmhouse, France, 43

Issoudun, France, 63

Italy, 20, 68

J.

Japan, 20, 61

Jassy, Roumania, 20

Jaulny, France, 48, 57

K.

_Kansas_, 18

Key West, Fla., 19

Killed in action, 65, 66

Kilometers advanced, 68

Kingman, Matthew W., Maj., 52

Knight, Austin M., Rear Admiral, 61

L.

La Baule, France, 63

La Loge Farmhouse, France, 43

La Pallice, France, 63

La Playa, Calif., 19

La Rochelle, France, 63

La Teste (Gironde), France, 63

La Veuve, France, 51

Lake Charles, La., 71, 73, 74

Lake Denmark, N. J., 19

Landres-et-St. Georges, France, 53, 57

Lansdowne, Pa., camp of instruction bayonet team, 19

Lauchheimer, Charles H., Brig. Gen., 83

Lay, Harry R., Lieut. Col., 30, 32, 48

Lee, Harry, Col., 43, 45, 46

Le Franc aerodromes, France, 72

Le Mans, France, 62, 70

Leffincourt, France, 29, 33, 52

Legion of Honor (French), 60

Lejeune, John A., Maj. Gen., 36, 38, 39, 47, 48, 49, 50, 54, 79, 83

Leland Stanford Junior University, 23

Lents, Oreg., 19

Les Islettes, France, 53

Letanne, France, 54

Letters designating companies, 29

_Leviathan_, 18, 63, 78, 83, 89

Line of Communications, 28, 31, 33

Lironville, France, 48

Little, Louis McC., Col., 61

London, England, 10, 20, 78

Long, Charles G., Brig. Gen., 83

Lormont, France, 63

Lorraine, France, 55

Lost and destroyed records, 87

_Louisiana_, 18

Lugol, G., mayor of Meaux, France, 43

Luxembourg, 20, 56

Lynnhaven Roads, Chesapeake Bay, 59

Lys, Ypres-Lys offensive, 40, 58

M.

_Machias_, 18

Machine guns captured, 67

Machine Gun Company (8th), Fifth Regiment, 29

Machine Gun Company (73d), Sixth Regiment, 29, 32

Machine Gun School, Overseas Depot, 27

Machine Gun School, Utica, N. Y., 23, 28

Machine gun training, 23, 26, 28

Madrid, Spain, 17, 20

Maintenance of Quartermaster’s Department, cost of, 91

Major General, Commandant, 5, 11, 12, 29, 31, 32, 33, 82, 83, 89

Major, Harlan E., Capt., 43

Major offensives, German, 40

Major operations, American, 9, 36, 38, 39, 40-55, 57, 58, 67, 72

Managua, Nicaragua, 10, 20, 84, 85

Manonville, France, 48

Marans, France, 63

Marbache sector, France, 48, 57, 65, 67

Marconi Wireless Co., Boston, Mass., 19

Mare Island, Calif., 19, 22, 25, 26, 90

Margut, 56

Marine Aeronautic Co., 71

Marine Aviation Section, Miami, Fla., 37

Marine Corps Reserve, 11, 12, 13, 76-77, 80, 89, 90

Marine Corps Reserve Flying Corps, 74

Marne, River, salient, Valley, 40, 41, 44, 55

Married men, rejections of, 15

Marseilles, France, 63

Marshall, Calif., 19

Marshfield, Oreg., 19

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 19, 74

Massif de Notre-Dame-des-Champs, France, 50, 51

Massif du Blanc Mont, 51

Matthews, Calvin B., Maj., 63

_Mauretania_, 62

_Mayflower_, 18

McCawley, Charles L., Brig. Gen., 83, 89

McClellan, Edwin N., Maj., 1, 5, 60

McDougal, Douglas C., Lieut. Col., 63

McGill, John F., Col., 60

Meaux, France, 41, 43

Medaille Militaire (French), 68

Medals of honor (American), 68

Medeah Ferme, France, 50, 51

Medical Corps of the Navy, 35, 66, 68

Mehun, France, 63

Menaucourt, France, 31

_Mercury_, 75, 78, 79

Mess sergeants, 26

Metz, 41

Meuse-Argonne, 9, 36, 39, 50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 65, 67

Meuse-Argonne (Champagne), 65, 67

Meuse River, 49, 53, 54, 57

Mexico, 10, 37

Miami, Fla., 37, 71, 72, 73, 74

_Michigan_, 18

Military colleges, graduates of, 21

Military police, 31, 63

Military stores, 91

Mineola, Long Island, 19, 71, 73, 74

Mines, 37

Mine craters, 50

Miners and Sappers School, Overseas Depot, 27

_Minnesota_, 17, 18, 37

Minors, rejection of, 15

Miramas, France, 63

Missing, 65

_Mississippi_, 18

Mobilization Bureau, 19

Money expended, 86, 91

Mont Pelier, France, 52

_Montana_, 18

Montdidier, France, 40

Montierchaume (Indre), France, 63

Montoir, France, 63

Montreuil-aux-Lions, France, 41, 43

Monts, France, 51

Monument commemorating entrance of United States in World War, 79

Morale of the Allies, 40, 42

Moroccan Division, 45, 46

Moscou (P. C.), France, 39

Moselle River, 48, 57

Mouzon, France, 54

Myers, John T., Col. (Brigadier General), 60

Murman Coast, Russia, 37

N.

Naix, France, 31

Nancy, France, 48

Nantes, France, 63

Nanteuil-le-Haudouin, France, 47

Nanteuil-sur-Marne, France, 44

National Naval Volunteers, Marine Corps Branch, 11, 21, 76

Naval air station, Cape May, N. J., 73

Naval ammunition depots, 19

Naval district base, New London, Conn., 19

Naval experimental station, New London, Conn., 19

Naval headquarters, Paris, France, 63

Naval hospitals, 19

Naval Militia, Marine Corps Branch, 76

Naval prisons, 19

Navy allotment officer, 87

Navy Department, 30, 81, 82, 91

Navy distinguished-service medal, 39

Navy welcomes Marines home, 81

_Nebraska_, 18

Negro stevedores, 30

Neuenahr, 56

Neuerburgh, 56

_Nevada_, 18, 60

Nevers, France, 63

Neville, Wendell C., Brig. Gen., 32, 42, 45, 47, 48, 55, 79

New Brunswick, N. J., 19

Newfoundland, 59

_New Hampshire_, 18

_New Jersey_, 18

New London, Conn., 19

_New Mexico_, 18

_New Orleans_, 18, 19, 61

New pay roll, 88

Newport News, Va., 75

Newport, R. I., 19

New York, N. Y., 18, 19, 59, 78, 79, 84, 85

Ninth French Army Corps, 29, 51

Ninth Infantry, 38, 39

Ninth Separate Battalion, 27, 34

Ninetieth Division, American Expeditionary Forces, 36

Ninety-second Division, American Expeditionary Forces, 36

Nicaragua, 10, 17, 37, 84, 85

Nieder Bieber, Germany, 56

Noncommissioned Officers School, Parris Island, S. C., 25

Norfolk, Va., 19, 25, 89, 91

_North Carolina_, 18

_North Dakota_, 18

North Head, Wash., 19

North Island, Calif., 19

Norway, 20, 59

Northern Bombing Group, 34, 36, 71, 73, 75

Notre-Dame-des-Champs, France, 50, 51

Noyers, St. Aignan-Noyers, France, 63

Noyon-Montdidier drive, France, 44

O.

Observation squadrons, 36

Observers, 36, 62, 89

Office of the Chief Paymaster, United States Marines, France, 88

Office of the Judge Advocate General, 19

Office of the Major General Commandant, 83

Officers, 21, 22

Officer in charge, Historical Division, Marine Corps, 5

Officers’ school, Overseas Depot, 27

Officers’ training camps, 22, 23

Oil supply of Allies, 37

Oise-Aisne offensive, 58

_Oklahoma_, 18, 60

Olongapo, Philippine Islands, 10, 20

_Olympia_, 18

One hundred and second Regiment of Infantry, 36

Operations, 36-61

Operations in general, 36

_Orizaba_, 78

Orkney Islands, 59, 60

Orleans, Mass., French Cable Co., 19

Ostend, Belgium, 71

Osterhout, George H., Capt., 43

Otter Cliffs, Me., 19

Overseas Depot, Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va., 22, 26, 27, 33

P.

P. C.’s of Fourth Brigade, 39, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52,
53, 55, 56

Pacific Fleet, 18, 61

Palestine, 49

Paoli, Pa., signal battalion, 19

Paris, France, 10, 20, 34, 40, 41, 63, 70, 78, 83, 88

Paris-Metz Highway, France, 41

Parris Island, S. C., 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 86, 90

Pauillac, France, 20

Pay for personnel, expenditures, 86

Pay roll, new, 88

Pay School, Parris Island, S. C., 25

Paymaster, Chief, United States Marines, France, 88

Paymaster’s clerks, United States Marine Corps, 21

Paymaster’s Department, 84-88

Peace memorandum No. 1, 55

Peace treaty, 56, 80

Pearl Harbor, Hawaiian Islands, 10, 20, 37

Peking, China, 10, 20, 37, 84, 85

Pen Houet, France, 63

_Pennsylvania_, 18, 60

Pensacola, Fla., 19, 71, 73

Pentland Firth, 59

Perkins, Ernest A., Maj., 64

Pershing, John J., Gen., 30, 31, 38, 39, 40, 41, 45, 46, 51, 54, 79,
81, 82

Petain, Marshal, 31, 43, 45, 46, 49, 50, 51

Petrograd, Russia, 20

Philadelphia, Pa., 10, 19, 25, 30, 37, 90

Philippine Islands, 10, 17, 20, 37

Pistol matches, 69, 70

_Pittsburgh_, 18, 37

Plan directeur, 42

Planning section, 83

Plebiscite, 79

_Pocahontas_, 34

Point Arguello, Calif., 19

Point Isabel, Tex., 19

Pointe de Grave, France, 79

Police sergeants, 63

Pont St. Vincent, France, 48

Ponta Delgada, Azores, 20, 34, 36, 71, 74

Pont-a-Mousson, France, 48, 57

Pontanezen Camp, Brest, France, 62, 63, 64, 79

Port au Prince, Haiti, 84, 85

Portland, Me., 19

Portland, England, 60

Porto Rico, 10, 17

Portsmouth, N. H., 19

Portuguese decorations, 68

Pouilly, France, 54

_Prairie_, 18

President of the United States, 11, 14, 29, 30, 60, 79, 90

Price, Charles F. B., Maj., 79

_Prinz Eitel Fredrich_, 30

Prison:
Guards, 63
Naval prisons,19
Officers, 63

Prisoners, 61, 65, 68

Provisions, expenditures, 91

Provost guards, 31, 63

Provost marshals, 31

Provost Marshal General, 14, 23

Prum, 56

Public works, 91

_Pueblo_, 18

Puget Sound, Wash., 19

Purchases under second deficiency act, from United States Army, 91

Q.

Quarters, commutation of; expenditures, 91

Quartermaster’s Department, 89-91

Quantico, Va., 22, 23, 26, 28, 33, 73, 79, 80, 83, 85, 90

R.

Radio, Va., 19

Radio School, Parris Island, S. C., 25

Radio stations, etc., 19, 61

Rations, expenditures, 89

Records, lost and destroyed, 87

Recruit depots:
Mare Island, Calif., 21
Norfolk, Va., 25
Parris Island, S. C., 21
Philadelphia, Pa., 25
Rejections of applicants at, 15
Training at, 27, 28

Recruiting statistics, 14, 15

Recruiting and transportation, expenditures, 91

Rejections of applicants for enlistment, 14, 15

Remenauville, France, 48

Repairs of barracks, expenditures, 91

Replacements, 28, 34

Reserve, Flying Corps, 24, 74

Reserve, Marine Corps, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 21, 23, 24, 76-77, 80, 89,
91

“Reserve supplies, U. S. M. C.,” expenditures, 91

Retired officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men, 11, 12

Return of Marines from Europe, 75, 78, 79

Rheims, France, 40, 50, 51, 57

Rheims Massif, France, 49

Rheinbrohl, 56

Rhine River Patrol, 56

_Rhode Island_, 18

Richards, George, Brig. Gen., 84

Rifles captured, 67

Rifle competitions and practice, 69, 70

_Rinjdam_, 78

Rochefort, France, 63

Rockport, Mass., Postal Telegraph & Cable Co., 19

Rome, Italy, 20

Romorantin (Loire-et-Cher), France, 63

Roosevelt Field, Mineola, L. I., 73, 74

Roosevelt, Franklin D., Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 81, 82

Rosyth, Scotland, 59, 60

Royal Flying Corps of England, 36, 72

Russia, 20

Russian Island, Siberia, 61

Rye Beach, Me., 19

S.

St. Aignan-Noyers, France, 63

St. Etienne, France, 50, 51, 57, 58

St. Juliens Creek, Va., 19

St. Loubes, France, 63

_St. Louis_, 18

St. Mihiel offensive, 36, 48, 57, 58, 65, 67

St. Nazaire, France, 30, 31, 75

St. Quentin, France, 49

St. Sulpice (Gironde), France, 63

Samoa, 17

_San Diego_, 18, 37

San Diego, Calif., 19, 74

San Francisco, Calif., 19, 84, 85, 89, 90, 91

San Juan, Porto Rico, 10, 17, 20

_Santa Paula_, 78

Santiago, Dominican Republic, 84, 85

Santo Domingo, 10, 17, 20, 37, 65, 84, 85

Sappers, 27

Sarry, France, 48

Savenay, France, 63

Sayville, N. Y., 19

Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, 57, 60

Scarponne, France, 48

Schleswig-Holstein Battalion, 79

Schools, United States Marine Corps:
Armorers, 26, 74
Army balloon, 73, 74
Army candidates, 23
Automatic rifle, 27
Bakers, 25
Band, 25
Bayonet, 27
Bombing, 27
Clerical, 25
Company clerks, 26
Cooks, 25
Enlisted staff, 27
Field musics, 25
Gas, 27
Machine gun, 23, 27, 28
Mess sergeants, 26
Miners, 27
Noncommissioned officers, 25
Officers, 22, 23, 27
Overseas depot, 22, 26, 27, 33
Pay school, 25, 86
Quartermaster sergeants, 89
Radio, 25
Scout snipers, 27
Signaling, 25

Scout snipers school, Overseas Depot, 27

Sea duty, 9, 10, 17, 20, 59-61

Sea Girt, N. J., 70

_Seattle_, 18, 30

Second ammunition train, 38

Second Battalion, Fifth Regiment, 29, 30

Second Battalion, Sixth Regiment, 29, 32, 33

Second Battalion, Eleventh Regiment, 33

Second Casual Replacement Battalion, 34

Second Division, American Expeditionary Forces, 9, 10, 28, 29, 31,
32, 33, 36, 58, 78, 79, 81, 82

Second Engineers, 38, 54

Second Engineer Train, 38

Second Field Artillery Brigade, 36, 38

Second Headquarters Train and Military Police, 38

Second Machine Gun Battalion, 27

Second Replacement Battalion, 34

Second Sanitary Train, 38

Second Separate Machine Gun Battalion, 27

Second Supply Train, 38

Second Trench Mortar Battery, 38

Secretary of the Navy, 5, 14, 15, 56, 59, 60, 81, 82, 86

Secretary of War, 14, 23, 82

Selective service law, 14, 15

Services of Supply, 28, 47, 63

Seventeenth Field Artillery, 36, 38, 39

Seventh Regiment of Marines, 85

Seventh Separate Battalion, 27, 34

Seventy-third Machine Gun Company, 32

Shearer, Thomas R., Capt., 73

Siberia, 37, 61

Sibert, W. L., Maj. Gen., United States Army, 30

_Siboney_, 62, 78

Signal Battalion, Paoli, Pa., 19

Signal School, 25

Signal School, Parris Island, S. C., 25

Silver bands for colors, 57

Sixth Battle Squadron, British Grand Fleet, 18, 59

Sixth Division, American Expeditionary Forces, 36

Sixth Division, Atlantic Fleet, 37, 60

Sixth French Army, 42

Sixth Machine Gun Battalion of Marines, 9, 26, 29, 32, 38, 78, 81

Sixth Regiment of Marines, 9, 26, 29, 32, 38, 70, 78, 81

Sixth Separate Battalion, 27, 34

Sixty-fourth Infantry Brigade, 36

Slovaks, 61

Smith, Holland M., Maj., 32

Snyder, Harold C., Col., 47, 56

Soissons, France, 9, 38, 40, 44, 45, 46, 57, 67

Somme, France, 40, 63

Somme-Py, France, 50

Sommerance, France, 55

Souain, France, 62

Souain-Suippes area, France, 49

_South Carolina_, 18

_South Dakota_, 18

Spain, 17

Spanish War, 9

Special Assistant, Quartermaster’s Department, 89

Special disbursing agents, 84, 85

Stadenburg, 72

Staff School, 26

States, enlistments by, 14, 16

States, Naval Militia, Marine Corps Branch, 76

Statutory strength of Marine Corps. (_See_ Strength of Marine Corps.)

Stevedores, 30

Stockholm, Sweden, 20

Stores, military; expenditures, 91

Storehouses, 89

Strength of Marine Corps, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 73, 74, 84, 85, 89

Students Army Training Corps, 23, 24

Suarce sector, France, 36

Submarines, 30, 59, 60

Suippes, France, 49, 51

Suippes River, France, 49, 50, 51

Suippes-Somme Suippes-Nantivet area, France, 51

Summary of operations, 57

Supplies, expenditures, 90

Supply Company of Fifth Regiment, 29

Supply Company of Sixth Regiment, 29, 32

Surrender of the German High Seas Fleet, 59, 60

Sursol (Gironde), France, 63

Swiss border, 36

T.

Taillefontaine, France, 47

Target practice, 69, 70, 83

Tatoosh, Wash., 19

Taylor, Charles B., Lieut. Col., 61

Tebbs, Richard H., Maj., 61

Technical engineer, Quartermaster’s Department, 89

_Tenedores_, 30

Tenth Separate Battalion, 27

_Texas_, 18, 59

The Hague, Holland, 17, 20

Thiaucourt, France, 48, 57

Third Army (Army of Occupation), 56, 57, 70, 78, 79

Third Battalion, Eleventh Regiment, 33

Third Battalion, Fifth Regiment, 29, 30

Third Battalion, Sixth Regiment, 29, 32, 33

Third Corps, 46

Third Division, American Expeditionary Forces, 36, 40, 70

Third Infantry Brigade, 38

Third Machine Gun Battalion, 27

Third Replacement Battalion, 34

Third Separate Battalion, 27, 34

Third Separate Machine Gun Battalion, 27

Thirteenth Regiment of Marines, 27, 63, 70, 78, 81

Thirty-fifth Division, American Expeditionary Forces, 36

Thirty-second Division, American Expeditionary Forces, 36

Tiburon, Calif., 19

Tigny, France, 45, 46

Toul, France, 39, 48

Toulon, France, 63

Toulon (P. C. of Fourth Brigade), France, 39

Toulon sector, France, 57, 65

Tours, France, 62, 63

Traffic police, 64

Training of enlisted men, 22, 25, 27, 28, 39

Training of officers, 22-24

Transportation and recruiting, expenditures, 91

Travel allowance of 5 cents a mile to discharged men, 87

Treaty of peace, 56, 80

Trench mortars, 67

Tuckerton, N. J., 19

Turnage, Allen H., Maj., 64

Twelfth Company of Marines, 34

Twelfth Field Artillery, 38

Twelfth Replacement Battalion, 34, 35

Twelfth Separate Battalion, 79

Twenty-eighth Division, 40

Twenty-sixth Company, 34

Twenty-sixth Division, American Expeditionary Forces, 36, 41, 43

Twenty-third Infantry, 38

U.

U-boats (_see also_ Submarines), 59

University of—
Kansas, 23
Minnesota, 23
North Carolina, 23
Texas, 23
Washington, 23
Wisconsin, 23

Usine Brulee, France, 63

Usseldange, 56

_Utah_, 18, 60

Utica, N. Y., 19, 23, 28

V.

Vadenay-Bouy-la-Veuve-Dampierre area, France, 51

Van Orden, George, Col., 63

Vaux, France, 10, 41, 42, 57, 58

Vaux-en-Dieulet, France, 54

Velaine-en-Haye, France, 48

Verdun, France, 28, 39, 55, 57, 65, 67

_Vermont_, 18

Venault-les-Dames, France, 39

Vierzy, France, 45, 46, 47

Virgin Islands, 10, 17, 20, 37, 84, 85

_Virginia_, 18

Virginia Military Institute, 23

Vitry-le-François, France, 39

Villers-les-Nancy, France, 48

Vivieres, France, 45

Vladivostok, Siberia, 37, 61

_Von Steuben_, 32, 33, 34, 56

Voncq, France, 51

Vulte, Nelson P., Maj., 59

W.

Wakefield, Mass., 19

Wales, 10, 34

Waller, Littleton W. T., Jr., Maj., 43, 46, 52

Wars:
Civil, 9
Germany, declared against, 11
Spanish, 9

War Industries Board, 90

War Risk Bureau, 87

Warehouses, 91

Washington, D. C., 16, 19, 78, 79

Waxweiler, 56

Wehr, Germany, 70

Wellfleet, Mass., 19

West Indies, 90

Weymouth, England, 60

Western Union Co., Boston, Mass., 19

Wiesbaum, 56

_Wilhelmina_, 78

Wills, Davis B., Maj., 88

_Wilmington_, 18, 37

Winthrop, Md., 19

Wirgman, Harold C., Maj., 60

Wise, Frederic M., Col., 36

Wise, William C., Maj., 63

Wissahickon Barracks, N. J., 19

Women, Female reservists, 76, 77, 86

Wounded, 32, 65, 66

_Wyoming_, 18, 59

X.

Xammes, France, 48, 57

Y.

Yale University, 23

Yokohama, Japan, 20

_Yorktown_, 18

Yorktown, Va., 19

Young Men’s Christian Association, 68

Ypres-Lys offensive, 58

Z.

Zeebrugge, Belgium, 71

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