FORESTERS IN WORLD'S LARGEST REGIMENT 



AS the largest regiiiifiit in llu- world the 20th Engi- 

 neers (Forest) will cominand the respect of Allies 

 and enemy alike. This regiment is now in ad- 

 vanced stages of organization. Its ten battalions of for- 

 esters, woodsmen and lumbermen will have a strength of 

 7,500 enlisted men. In addition there will be nine service 

 battalions with a strength of 7,250 enlisted men. The men 

 in the service battalions will be laborers, for use in con- 

 nection with the operations of the regiment. The total 

 strength of the regiment will approximate 17,000 officers 

 and men. which will estalilish a new record for military 

 formation. It was an- 

 nounced early in Novem- 

 ber that two battalions of 

 750 men eacli were com- 

 pletely organized aiu! 

 would ])roceed to France a* 

 once. Two more battalions 

 were to be organized im- 

 mediately and the others 

 will follow in close success- 

 ion until the entire strength 

 is in the French forests. 



Col. W. A. Mitchell is 

 conmiander of the regi- 

 ment. He is a native of 

 Georgia and a regular 

 army man, who graduated 

 from West Point with first 

 honors. Colonel Mitchell 

 has been in command at 

 the encampment at the 

 American University, Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, where 

 the organization of the 

 regiment has been taking 

 place. Officers at regimen- 

 tal headiiuarters are : 



Regimental surgeon, Major 

 W. C. Moore, National Army, 

 VirRinia. Kraduate of the Uni- 

 ver.sity of Virginia; regimental 

 adjutant, Capt. H. L. Bowlby, 

 National .'Xmiy, Oregon, West Point graduate and State Highwav 

 Flngineer for Oregon; regimental Engineer officer. Captain F. .\1. 

 Bartelme. National .^rmy, .Miiuiesota, president of the Bartelme 

 (Lumber) Company, Minneapolis; regimental supply officer, Caj)- 

 tain I'. K. Hinkley, National .^rmy, .Maine, assistant general 

 manager of S. D. Warren & Company, Boston, Massachusetts. 



For the First Battalion the officers are as follows : 



Major E. E. Hartvvick, i)resident llartwick Luml)er Comiiaiiv 

 Detroit, Michigan, first vice-president (juaranty Trust Company. 

 Detroit. 



Captains : Leon M. Pill, division engineer Mobile & Ohio R. R., 

 Mobile, Alabama; Harry V. Campbell, engineer officer, sawmill 

 owner and operator; .Arthur W. Elam, i)residcnt .-\. W. Elam 

 Company, logging engineers, .San h'rancisco, California; .Xndrew 

 J. Fisk, consulting civil and mining engineer and general con- 

 tractor, Montana; H. W. Bostzkes, district enguiccr, Washington 

 State Highway Department. 



First Lieutenants : L. J. Freednian, supply officer, pulpwood 



MITCHKI.L, U. S. A 

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buyer and contractor for International Paper Company ; Ger- 

 main P. Graham, consulting municipal engineer. .-Mbany, New 

 York; J. C. Williams. Jr., assistant general manager, (ieneya 

 Lumber Company, I^leanor. Florida ; Duncan P. Shaw, sawmill 

 owner and operator. North Carolina; Harold C Lyons, consult- 

 ing efficiency engineer. New York City; William A. Clark, man- 

 ager Walter D. N'oyes Lumber Company, Boston, Massachusetts; 

 T. \V. Poindexter, municipal engineer. New York State; R. N. 

 Benjamin, director of vocational training. Fitzgerald High 

 School, Fitzgerald, Georgia; W. J. Wilson, district engineer, port 

 of Seattle, Seattle, Washington; J. L. Wood, sawmill operator. 



Second Lieutenants: John B. Cuno, forester. West Virginia; 

 K. L. Chaffin, consulting engineer, West Palm Beach, F'lorida; 

 .•\rthur N. Drips, efficiency engineer for lumber industry, Western 

 Washington; L. B. McDaniel, district manager for lumber in- 

 terests, Georgia; Hollister Johnson, junior engineer. New York 

 State Conservation Commission; H. T. Hopkins, wholesale and 

 retail dealer in finished jiine lumber. Hortsville, South Carolina. 



For the Second l>attalion 



the officers are as follows : 



Major S. O. Johnson, vice- 

 president Weed Lumber Com- 

 pany. Weed, California. 



Captains : F. F. Spencer, as- 

 sistant to the president of the 

 McCloud River Lumber Com- 

 pany, McCloud, North Caro- 

 lina ; F. A. Horstkotte, master 

 mill builder and inventor of 

 sawmill machinery, formerly 

 connected with W. .A. Wilkin- 

 son ; W. \'. Brookings, vice- 

 president of the California- 

 Oregon Lumber Company ; J. 

 C Perry, connected with the 

 Diamond Match Company, the 

 McCloud River Lumber Com- 

 pany and the Weed Lumber 

 Company; J. C Long, civil en- 

 gineer, connected with the Mil- 

 waukee Lumber Company. 



First Lieutenants : M. R. 

 Flthell. civil engineer, with 

 general engineer experience; 

 li. D. Woodruff, civil engineer, 

 witli experience in timber work 

 and general engineering work, 

 a brother 'of Col. James A. 

 WoodrufT, of the 10th F^ngi- 

 ncers (Forest); W. O. Crosby, 

 superintendent of the mills of 

 the Holmes I^umbcr Company, 

 iif Oregon; Marion Nine, 

 owner and operator of saw- 

 mills and president of the Nine 

 Lumber Company; Frank R. 

 I^rince, assistant manager of 

 the Shevlin Hickson Company; 

 P. D. Mackie, civil engineer, 

 with five years' experience in 

 shingle mills in Washington: 

 W. H. Crosson, civil engineer, 

 with special experience in l)ridge building; R. W. Pilling, gen- 

 eral su|)erintendent of the Rogers Lumber Company ; L. R. Mc- 

 Coy, assistant manager of the Edward Rutledge Timber Com- 

 pany; W. E. Volk. civil engineer, with railroad experience on the 

 Pacific Coast and in .Maska and Panama. 



Second Lieutenants : ^L L. Johnson, assistant engineer with 

 the Weed Lumber Company, Weed, California; E. S. Brush, 

 thoroughly versed in lumber operations, connected with the Loop 

 Lumber Company; W. II. Grover, assistant engineer with the 

 F'ruit Growers' .Sujjply Company, on the Pacific Coast 



Sinci- the tirst .American I'oresters went to France 

 several iiiip(irl;inl I'hanges have t;ikeii phicc in the ])er- 

 sonnel. The F'oresl Service has received word that 

 United States I'orcsler Henry S. Graves has been jiro- 

 miiied til lirnteiKint colonel. Forester Graves was one of 



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