SERVED U. S. ARMY WORLD WAR 1
119TH INFANTRY 30TH DIVISION
WOUNDED BY ARTILLERY FIRE ON THE Hindenburg LINE on August 31, 1918!
RECEIVED THE PURPLE HEART
SERVED AS DEPUTY SHERIFF UNDER SHERIFF LEE PRIEST.
SERVED AS POLICE CHIEF CLARKTON, NC
SERVED AS COMMINISIONER TOWN OF CLARKTON, NC
Was a life long member of Lisbon Baptist church.
A cartoon by Norman Lindsay in the Bulletin, 31 January 1918, showing the arrival of the Americans into the war. "Sammy" was a nickname for the Americans, derived from the term "Uncle Sam
Australian and American troops together at Villers-Bretonneux, July 1918.
(AWM E02695)
The troops who had perhaps the most important impact on 1918 were those from the United States. The US entered the war in late 1917 and played a key part in operations and battles during 1918, such as the battle at Hamel with Australian troops. There was a feeling that the American troops were "green", and that often the more experienced Australian troops were the ones to bring the Americans up to battle standard. One such American soldier was Harry S. Truman, who later became a US president.
At the beginning of the year, as more US troops started to arrive destined for the Western Front, Gunner J.R. Armitage recalled his first impressions:
We amused ourselves watching a lot of very brand new looking Yanks arriving with their extraordinary-looking equipment. Some of the officers carried leather suitcases and umbrellas and looked more like commercial travellers than soldiers.
However, the Americans, nicknamed "Sammy" (a reference to Uncle Sam) or "doughboys" as they were also called, soon gained the respect of the Australians. In July 1918, Private Ronald Simpson noted that by the way the Yanks shape up they are going to be good fighters, they think the world of the Aussies we mostly have a few of their N.C.O. in the line with us learning the ropes. They reckon with the Brothers on one side that's us and the cousins on the other that's Canadians ... we will just about win they are a fine body of men.

In early 1918, the following poem was published in the AIF magazine Aussie:
FROM AUSSIE TO SAMMY
Say, how do, old cobber, give us yer mit!
Pleased to meet you I certainly am.
We can now pull together in doing our bit,
Said the Aussies to proud Uncle Sam.
We've both got some stars on our banners, you know,
And I guess that our blood's the same hue,
And the old Southern Cross shining under below
Sends a warm greeting ray out to you.
We are absolute glad that you've joined in the fray,
And have jerried to Fritz's true light.
You can rest quite assured- on the odds I will lay-
Now he's up against something to fight.
We've seen lots of scrapping these three years or more,
And we've stoushed him- yes time after time-
And with your mighty help I guess he'll feel sore
When he's knocked back to hell o'er the Rhine.
So when you hop over the trenches with us,
Pay no heed to his "Kamerad" mania,
But get into him with yer bayonet, the cuss,
And remember the sunk "Lusitania!"
You can never forgive such a treacherous hound-
Giving that name insults any dog-
And a ripe lasting friendship square dinkum we'll found
When we've passed through the war's grimy fog.
- John T. Barrat

The American army magazine Stars and Stripes printed the following:
THE DIGGERS
Most Australians have been out since 1914, going through the hell of the Dardanelles and later being transported to France, where they earned the right, if ever soldiers did, to wear that natty bonnet of theirs at such a cocky angle.
Without exception, the Aussies all hope to be sent home "by the other way so that we can see America". We hope they will be sent home that way if they want to. Besides wishing to have them see America- which we are pardonably proud of - we should like to have America see them.

American Expeditionary Forces
30th Division
Artillery units & 105th Ammunition Train: Lorraine, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne
American Expeditionary Forces
30th Division
Product Flyers Insignia Nickname
Background Primary Units Campaign Participation
Insignia
[Excerpt from Wyllie, Col. Robert E. "The Romance of Military Insignia."
The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 6. December, 1919. ]
It was known as the Old Hickory Division, taken from the nickname of the famous Tennessean, Andrew Jackson, and the insignia shows the letter "O" surrounding the letter "H," with the Roman numerals XXX inside the cross-bar of the "H," representing the divisional number, "30." This is worn horizontally, not vertically, as the design reads. This insignia was used on the divisional transport long before the adoption of the shoulder insignia.

[Excerpt from division history]
THE INSIGNIA
The insignia adopted by the Division is a blue elliptically shaped letter "O" on its side, surrounding a blue letter "H" with blue Roman numerals XXX inside the cross bar of the "H," the "H" superimposed on a maroon field.

It is an interesting fact that the alliances and allegiances of today may be with those who in other years were enemies on the field of battle. Andrew Jackson, "Old Hickory," will be always remembered for his amazing and glorious victory over the British at the Battle of New Orleans; his namesake, the "Old Hickory" Division added glory and perpetuation to his name as allies and comrade-in-arms to those who a century before were his adversaries.
Nickname
"Old Hickory" Division.
Background
On 18 July 1917 the National Guard units of North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee were directed to form the 30th Division. The division was consolidated and trained at Camp Sevier, SC, from 25 August 1917 to 30 April 1918. Movement overseas completed by 25 June 1918. The bulk of the division (less artillery and ammunition train) served with the British.

Primary Units
59th Infantry Brigade:
117th Infantry Regiment
118th Infantry Regiment
114th Machine Gun Battalion

60th Infantry Brigade:
119th Infantry Regiment
120th Infantry Regiment
115th Machine Gun Battalion

55th Field Artillery Brigade:
113th Field Artillery Regiment (75mm)
114th Field Artillery Regiment (75mm)
115th Field Artillery Regiment (155mm)
105th Trench Mortar Battery

Divisional Troops:
113th Machine Gun Battalion
105th Engineer Regiment
105th Field Signal Battalion
105th Train Headquarters and MP
105th Ammunition Train
105th Supply Train
105th Engineer Train
105th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies & Field Hospitals 117, 118, 119, 120)

Campaign Participation

Campaign Streamers (most units):
Flanders
Ypres-Lys
Somme Offensive

Artillery units & 105th Ammunition Train: Lorraine, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne
U. S. Victory Medal Clasps (most units):
Somme Offensive
Ypres-Lys
Defensive Sector

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North Carolina in the World War. An Address Delivered Before the North Carolina Bar Association at Blowing Rock, N.C., July 5, 1923:
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Clark, Walter, Jr.

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(title page) North Carolina in the World War. An Address Delivered Before the North Carolina Bar Association at Blowing Rock, N.C. July 5, 1923
Walter Clark
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[Charlotte, N.C.]
Charlotte Chamber of Commerce
1924
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