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Company D, 5th Regiment, Illinois National Guard
McLean County, Illinois

[McLean County, Illinois, in the World War, 1917-1918; by Edward E. Pierson & Jacob Louis Hasbrouck c 1921]
(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)

Company D, Bloomington, Fifth regt., of the Illinois National Guard was called to service March 26, 1917, and ordered to Camp Parker, Quincy, Ill., for training, remaining there until August 20 that year when the command moved to Houston, Texas, later being reorganized as a machine gun company and expanded to 150 men. While at Quincy the personnel of the company was as follows: Roster of Company D Captain Burr Irwin. Lieutenants William Goff and R. W. Jackson. Sergeants Carl E. Moothart. Rolla E. Hinshaw, Chester Hull, Lee Lishka, Joseph Million and Harry A. Marshall. Corporals William Hibbens, Edward Burns, Hobart M. Trent, Elmer McAfee, Homer A. Bowers, Herbert C. Taylor and Lyle Fike. Cooks Lewis C. Dears and Herbert C. Garr. Privates James G. Dennis, Paul E. Draper, Joseph A. Erbe, Clifford W. Huffmaster, Emery B. Quinn, Joseph F. Ranney, Edward C. Albee, William A. Albee, Claude F. Armstrong, Charles Baine, Harry H. Campbell, Charles S. Carter, John Wm. Cooper, Pearl S. Dennison, Otho S. Earl, Guy H. Frisbey, Roy Goodwin, Oscar Hall, Lewis Hardman, Clarence Harmon, Harold Hartley, Henry M. Hartley, Charles W. Hildreth, Raymond Joquesh, John D. Jordan, Russell C. Logsdon, Carl S. Martin, William B. Mattoon, Clarence F. Miller, Joseph L. Miller, Thomas F. Miller, Peter M. Owen, Marshall N. Palmer, Merle M. Payne, Leslie G. Pfiffner, Leslie C. Pitzer, Paul V. Poole, Leslie E. Rankin, Herbert C. Rediger, Charles V. Riley, James S. Sears, Thomas J. Underwood, Leslie A. Vaughn, Roy Varner, Earl E. Hodgson, Floyd O. Haynes, James M. Jones, Fred Bloodgood, Henry E. Batson, Cecil Hammett, Vernon W. Winnin, Samuel W. Ashworth, James F. Baer, John J. Anderson, Alvin R. Austin, Donald Brigham, Russell Brigham, Cecil D. Collins, Floyd Crist, Thomas I. Costigan, James B. Chapman, Ray Dotson, Lee H. Ellis, Roy M. Fitman, Rolland Henshaw, Clyde Hewitt, Willard J. Jenkins, George Kraus, Leslie H. Larison, Andrew Miller, Earl Potts, Scott Poynter, Everett Phillips, Ralph Simms, William F. Smith, Lem Landers, Paul Smith, George G. Sprouse, Frank L. Simpson, Carl A. Truitt, Robert Switzer, Robert S. Turner, Sylvester Thorpe, Lawrence Wright, Sidney Webb, Kieth M. Wilcox, Curtis Waggoner, Owen P. Ely and William Campbell.

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