April 27, 1920
The two husky soldiers who are seen walking
the street of El Paso these days,, their shoulders decorated with the
bright green and red cord, are men of Chateau-Thierry. Sgt. Ogder L.
Beckman, company G, Ninth infantry, and Sgt. Fred E. Smith, company K,
Ninth infantry, wear the French fourragere as the result of four
regimental citations in French orders, Chateau-Thierry, Soissons, the
Champagne and Argonne forest. The Ninth regiment of infantry, now
stationed at Camp Travis, was part of the famous Second division which
made the name of “marine” immortal in American military history. It was
a marine, General Lejeune, who commanded at Chateau-Thierry and the
other battles of the Second. The glory of the marines somewhat
overshadowed the work of the regular infantry regiments, the Ninth and
the Twenty-third, which fought side by side in all the battles with the
soldiers of the sea. But France did not forget, even if the marines did
receive the more notice over here. Sergeant Beckman and Sergeant
Smith received notice of the authorization to wear the fourragere while
in New Orleans several months ago. Sergeant Beckman’s home is in
Sacrament, Cal., and Sergeant Smith is a native of New York. ELEVEN ENLIST IN ARMY AT EL PASO OFFICE Enlistments
Monday at the El Paso army recruiting station were: Alfredo Martinez,
Burch Durham and Walter P. Salmon, El Paso, and William G. Ragsdale,
Amarillo, Texas, coast defenses, San Francisco, Cal.; Morris Lipson,
Las Vegas, N.M., Seventy-sixth field artillery; Telesoro Morales, El
Paso, Second engineers, Camp Travis; Elbert S. Black, East Las Vegas,
N. M., Fifty-fifth coast artillery corps, San Diego, Cal.; Charles G.
Salters, El Paso, machine gun company, Twenty-fourth infantry, Douglas,
Ariz.; William E. Miller, Albuquerque, N. M., infantry, Panama; James
E. Gibson, Sweetwater, Texas, tank corps; Eddie Baugh, El Paso, supply
company, Twenty-fourth infantry, Douglas Ariz.
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