FORESTERS IN WORLD'S LARGEST REGIMENT 



AS the largest regiment in the world the 20th Engi- 

 neers (Forest) will command 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. 1'he total 

 Strength of the regiment will approximate 17,000 officers 

 and men, which will establish a new record for military 

 formation. It was an- 

 nounced early in Novem- 

 ber that two battalions of 

 750 men each were com- 

 pletely organized and 

 would proceed to France at 

 once. Two more battalions 

 were to be organized im- 

 mediately and the others 

 will follow in close success- 

 ion until thf entire strength 

 is in the French forests. 



Col. W. A. Mitchell is 

 commander 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 headquarters are : 



Regimental surgeon, Major 

 W. C. Moore, National Army, 



Virginia, graduate of the Uni 



versity of Virginia; regimental 



adjutant, Capt. H. L. Bowlby. 



National Army, Oregon, West Point graduate, and State Highway 

 Engineer for Oregon ; regimental Engineer officer. Captain F. M. 

 Bartelme, National Army, Minnesota, president of the Bartelme 

 (Lumber) Company, Minneapolis ; regimental supply officer. Cap- 

 tain P. E. Hinkley, National Army, Maine, assistant general 

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



For the First Battalion the officers are as follows : 



Major E. E. Hartwick, president Hartwick Lumber Company, 

 Detroit, Michigan, first vice-president Guaranty 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, president A. W. Elam 

 Company, logging engineers, San Francisco, California; Andrew 

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

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

 State Highway Department. 



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



buyer and contractor for International Paper Company ; Ger- 

 main P. Graham, consulting municipal engineer, Albany, New 

 York; J. C. Williams, Jr., assistant general manager, Geneva 

 Lumber Company, Eleanor, 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. Noyes Lumber Company, Boston, Massachusetts ; 

 T. W. 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 ; 

 R. L. Chaffin, consulting engineer. West Palm Beach, Florida ; 

 Arthur 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 pine lumber, Hortsville, South Carolina. 



For the Second Battalion 



the officers are as follows : 



Major S. O. Johnson, vice- 

 president Wetd 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. V. 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. 

 Ethell, civil engineer, with 

 general engineer experience; 

 E. D. Woodruflf, civil engineer, 

 with experience in timber work 

 and general engineermg work, 

 a brother of Col. James A. 

 Woodruflf, of the 10th Engi- 

 neers (Forest) ; W. O. Crosby, 

 superintendent of the mills of 

 the Holmes Lumber Company, 

 of Oregon ; Marion Nine, 

 owner and operator of saw- 

 mills and president of the Nine 

 Lumber Company ; Frank R. 

 Prince, assistant manager of 

 the Shevlin Hickson Company; 

 P. D. Mackie, civil engineer, 

 (FOREST). with five years' experience in 



shingle mills in Washington: 

 W. H. Crosson, civil engineer, 

 with special experience in bridge building; R. W. Pilling, gen- 

 eral superintendent 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 Alaska and Panama. 



Second Lieutenants : M. 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. H. Grover, assistant engineer with the 

 Fruit Growers' Supply Company, on the Pacific Coast 



Since the first American Foresters went to France 

 several important changes have taken place in the per- 

 sonnel. The Forest Service has received word that 

 United States Forester Henry S. Graves has been pro- 

 moted to lieutenant colonel. Forester Graves was one of 



COL. W. A. MITCHELL, U. S. A.. COMMANDING 20TH ENGINEERS 



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