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Updated: June 7, 2025
Engineers Busy Right From Start Seen On All Fronts Great Aid To Doughboys Occasionally Obliged To Join Firing Line Colonel Morris Gives Interesting Summary Of Engineer Work General Ironside Pays Fine Tribute To 310th Engineer Detachment.
The 337th Field Hospital Company was trained at Camp Custer as a part of the 310th Sanitary Train, was detached in England and sent to North Russia with the other American units. It was commanded by Major Jonas Longley, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, who till April was the senior American medical officer. The enlisted personnel consisted of eighty men.
Fresh companies of Americans and Russians relieved those who were shivering and exhausted in the snow camp at Verst 18. Company "C," 310th Engineers platoon, hastily threw up barricades of logs for the doughboys and before the day of attack, had completed two of the several projected blockhouses.
SGT. MATHEW G. GRAHEK, "M" Co., 339th Inf. SGT. F. W. WOLFE, "K" Co., 339th Inf. SGT. G. M. WALKER, "K" Co., 339th Inf. SGT. CHAS. J. HAYDEN, "I" Co., 339th Inf. CORP. J. C. DOWNS, "B" Co., 339th Inf. SGT. A. V. TIBBALS, "A" Co., 310th Engrs. CORP. GEORGE R. YOHE, Signal Platoon, "Hq." Co., 339th Inf. PVT. WALTER A. SPRINGSTEEN, Signal Platoon, "Hq." Co., 339th Inf.
CORP. JAMES MORROW, "B" Co., 339th Inf. SGT. PETER CSATLOS, "A" Co., 310th Engrs. SGT. FLOYD A. WALLACE, "B" Co., 339th Inf. Military Medal SGT. CARL W. VENABLE, "L" Co., 339th Inf. PVT. 1ST CLASS JAMES W. DRISCOLL, "M.G." Co., 339th Inf. SGT. MICHAEL J. KENNEY, "K" Co., 339th Inf. SGT. E. J. HERMAN, "A" Co., 310th Engrs. CORP. J. S. MANDERFIELD, "A" Co., 310th Engrs.
His second battalion under Major J. Brooks Nichols was on duty in Archangel and the nearby suburbs. These forces, and his 310th Engineer Battalion and his Ambulance and Hospital Units were shifted about by the British Generals and Colonels and Majors often without any information whatever to Colonel Stewart, the American commanding officer. He lost touch with his battalion and company commanders.
CAPTAIN ROBERT P. BOYD, "B" CO., 339th Inf. Commanding officer American and Allied troops left bank of Dvina, fall offensive and winter defensive campaigns of Dvina-Kotlas Force. LIEUT.-COL. P. S. MORRIS, JR., 310th Engineers. Chief Engineer A. E. F., North Russia, during fall offensive and winter and spring campaigns. Military Cross CAPT. OTTO A. ODJARD, Commanding Officer "A" Co., 339th Inf.
"Unfortunately, sir, he is not in this regiment." "Smithson! how can you?" cried the lieutenant in lachrymose tones. "What is the use of raising my hopes to dash them down? Is he a man of bad character who wants to join?" "No, sir; he is a soldier already; but he is in the 310th, sir the regiment we `played in' the other day." "In the 310th?" said the lieutenant, thoughtfully.
I'd been idgit enough to think as I could make a lot o' money with my savings by putting 'em on hosses, and so soon as I did, sir, they wouldn't win a bit; and, from going to the hosses, I went next to the dogs; and then I was in such a state that there was no chance for me at all; and I wrote to him at last, for I see his name in the paper as being gazetted to the 310th.
PVT. CLARENCE A. MILLER, "M" Co., 339th Inf. Meritorious Service Medal All of "A" Company, 310th Engineers St. Vladimir with Swords and Ribbons REAR-ADMIRAL NEWTON A. McCULLY, Commanding U. S. Naval Forces. MAJOR MICHAEL J. DONOGHUE, 339th Inf. MAJOR J. BROOKS NICHOLS, 339th Inf. COL. JAMES A. RUGGLES, Chief of American Military Mission, Military Attache to Embassy in Russia. St. Anne With Swords
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