FORESTERS IN WORLD'S LARGEST REGIMENT 



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CAPT H. L. BOWLBV, REGIMENTAL ADJU- 

 TANT, 20TH ENGINEERS (FOREST). 



CAPT. F M. BARTELME. REGIMENTAL EN- 

 GINEER OFFICER. 20TH ENGINEERS 

 (FOREST) 



CAPT. P. E. HINKLEY, REGIMENTAL SUP- 

 PLY OFFICER, 20TH ENGINEERS (FOREST). 



the tirst Ameri- 

 cans to go into 

 the war zone af- 

 ter the openins.' 

 of h o s t i 1 ities 

 with Germany. 

 As director of 

 the division of 

 forestry w i t h 

 the American 

 Exp editionary 

 forces his duty 

 has been to 

 work out prob- 

 lems in connec- 

 tion with the 

 general forestry 

 si t u a t i o n in 

 France, w it'; 

 reference to 

 military needs 

 and future de- 

 velopment. H e 



is assigned to no regiment and ajjjfears on the records of 

 the service as on temporary detail to the War r3epart- 

 ment. His original commission was as a major. 



Word also conies from France that Major William R. 

 Greeley has been assigned as deputy director. head((uar- 

 ters, division of forestry, American Expeditionary 

 Forces. He is in charge of lumber operations and has 

 supervision of the entire work in France. Major Greeley 

 went to France early in August. Major Coert DuBois. 

 who was district forester in charge of the National For- 

 ests of California, is on the regimental staf? of the 10th 

 Engineers (Forest). Donald Bruce (Yale, 1910), pro- 

 fessor of forestry at the University of California, has 

 been assigned in charge of timber reconnoisance in 



MAJOR E E. 



HARTWICK, 20TH ENGINEERS 

 I FOREST). 



France, over a 

 party of six 

 m en. Swift 

 Berry, who went 

 as a civilian 

 from the district 

 office of the 

 Forest Service 

 at San Fran- 

 cisco, has been 

 assigned as log- 

 g i n g engineer. 

 Theodore S 

 W o o Is e y, Jr. 

 (Yale, 1902), 

 who was for- 

 merly with the 

 Forest Service 

 and who went to 

 France as a civ- 

 ilian, from Al- 

 buquerque, New 

 Mexico, has 

 been assigned to special work and designated as timber 

 negotiator. 



The need for skilled workers in the French forests is 

 considered urgent and vital by the army authorities of 

 the United States and the allied nations. Their work will 

 be to provide the timbers and lumber which are essential 

 to military success and which cannot be provided through 

 other channels. To ship the material from America is 

 out of the question because of a lack of transportation 

 facilities. 



If the commander of any one of the 30 or more army 

 camps in the United States wants to build a new ware- 

 house or determines that a new bridge is a military ne- 

 cessity he has no difficulty in setting in motion the forces 



MAJOR S. O. 



TOHNSON, 20TH 

 (FOREST). 



ENGINEERS 



