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football team, organized and coached by a lieutenant, 

 formerly Yale crew and football man. With the coming 

 of spring a volley ball court was laid out and has proven 

 extremely popular. Basket ball and "horse shoes" are 

 popular in the company. The baseball season opened on 

 Washington's Birthday when a team from the Battalion 

 won a badly contested game with a Battalion from our 

 sister regiment. Company has the champion base- 

 ball team of the Battalion having yet to lose its first 

 game, having won from all the other companies in the 

 Battalion and several games from the Canadians. 



A field meet on Decoration Day and a meet with 

 aquatic sports on July 4th were features of the recrea- 

 tional program. The Y. M. C. A. during the year has 



247 men and of these 240 men had taken out War 

 Risk Insurance to the value of $1,891,000, or an average 

 of something like $7,879.16 per man. The following 

 table may be of interest showing the amounts : 



Number of Men. Amount of Policy. Total. 



10 $2,000 $20,000 



8 3,000 24,000 



240 $1,891,000 



An occasional airplane sails over the camp but aside 

 from this, the news in the daily papers and the 



Underwood and Underwood British Official Photograph 



"PERSHING'S PUSHERS" HOLDING UP THE HUN 

 These men are busy wiring fallen trees across a canal to hang up the enemy a difficult and unpleasant job. 



provided an excellent series of concerts and entertain- 

 ments, the entertainers oftentimes being theatrical stars 

 for example, Elsie Janis, who made her usual hit. 



As is well known, the Engineers is made up of 

 volunteers, men who came into the war game to help beat 

 the Boche, in a line of work for which they were best 



fitted. Many of the men of Company are married or 



have dependent relatives that must be cared for. A 

 splendid record has the company along this line. At 

 the time of my leaving the company its strength was 



rush lumber orders that come in, it is difficult for 

 the men to realize that they are a part of the A. E. F. 

 and serving their country just as truly as though 

 they were in the front line trenches. In spite of this 

 the morale of the men of Company has been ex- 

 cellent, and it is not easy to do good and faithful work 

 day after day when you are miles and miles away from 

 the big guns and the fighting, when you want to get 

 into the big game, and make a try at going over the top. 

 The men of the Forestry Regiments deserve a world of 



