Battalion Officers

Photos of the Officers 

Please contact me if you can identify any of the men in this gallery labeled as "unidentified," or if you would like to add a photo to this collection. Click on the photo to reveal the name of the officer.

The first grouping of photographs were cropped from a larger picture taken at Camp Lee, Virginia, in May 1918. The photograph of the entire 313th Machine Gun Battalion appeared in the 80th Division's official publication called The Bayonet.  The "yard long" photograph was available for purchase after the war through the 80th Division's Service Magazine.

The next group of photos have been collected from various sources. All of the men shown here served as officers with the 313th Machine Gun Battalion at one time during the First World War.

   

 Company A officers

Company A Officers (L-R) Stewart, Lunden, unidentified028, unidentified029 

Officers of Headquarters Company (Back Row L-R) - Jarman, Bradley, unidentified030, unidentified031, unidentified032.  

Battalion officers sailing to France aboard the USS Mercury on June 10, 1918.

313th Machine Gun Officers courtesy Liberty Hall Museum

Photo Above: Officers aboard the USS Mercury (courtesy Liberty Hall Museum, Brothers in Arms exhibit). Back row (L-R) Kirchner - Lunden - Unidentified025 - Unidentified026 - Stewart - Steele - Unidentified006 - Leinhauser - Hamilton Middle row (L-R) Unidentified027 - Maynard - Kean - Foley - Cox - Thomas - Unidentifed009 Front row (L-R) Richardson - Parsons - Bradley - Unidentified018 - Unidentified027 - Unidentified019

The newspapers clipping (above) was printed in a Sharon Hill Newspaper (date unknown) courtesy grandson of Otto P. Leinhauser.

 

Name Rank Company
Applegate, Edward Maskell 1ST LT D
Benson, Theodore Booton 1ST LT B
Bradley, Robert Ballantine 1ST LT HQ
Cox, Robert Hill CAPT A
Foley, Oscar MAJOR HQ
Garrison, Glenn G 1ST LT HQ
Hamilton, Minard 1ST LT C
Jarman, Bernard L 1ST LT MD
Kean, John CAPT C
Kirchner, Harold Chester 1ST LT B
Leinhauser, Otto Paul 2ND LT C
Lunden, Walter Carl 2ND LT A
Mackey, Sidney Augustus 1ST LT A
Maynard, Harry Lee Jr CAPT B
Parsons, Joseph H 1ST LT MD
Preston, William 1ST LT A
Reynolds, Earl C CAPT MD
Rich, Arnold Hoyer 2ND LT C
Richardson, William Emanuel 2ND LT A
Roche, Thomas B 1ST LT HQ
Roller, Francis Oliver 2ND LT B
Schall, Allen Bernard 2ND LT D
Sherwood, Percy Heroy 1ST LT HQ
Steele, Wesley Cozzens 2ND LT B
Stewart, Warren Trusdell 2ND LT A
Stoddart, Robert Stone 1ST LT C
Strailman, Francis Orlando Jr 2ND LT B
Thomas, William George CAPT D
Thorne, Gilbert George Jr 2ND LT C
Thornhill, Thomas Murrell 2ND LT D
Tompkins, Frank McMurray 2ND LT D
Whittle, William M # 1ST LT D

# Sailed to France on May 10, 1918 aboard the Wilhelmina as part of the 80th Divisions Advance Detachment. 

 

 

Battalion officers returning to the US aboard the USS New Jersey dated May 20, 1919.

Name Rank Company
Ashton, Merton E 2ND LT A
Bowdon, William G 2ND LT A
Bradley, Robert Ballantine CAPT HQ
Burkhalter, Henry 1ST LT C
Hale, William H 2ND LT C
Huidekoper, Prescott MAJOR HQ
Kirchner, Harold Chester CAPT B
Leinhauser, Otto Paul CAPT C
Lunden, Walter Carl 1ST LT A
MacWilliam, Alexander 2ND LT B
O'Brein, William T 2ND LT D
Preston, William CAPT A
Reynolds, Earl C CAPT MD
Schall, Allen Bernard 2ND LT D
Sherwood, Percy Heroy 1ST LT HQ
Steele, Wesley Cozzens 1ST LT B
Stewart, Warren Trusdell CAPT A
Stoddart, Robert Stone CAPT C
Strailman, Francis Orlando Jr 2ND LT B
Thomas, William George CAPT D
Thorne, Gilbert George Jr 2ND LT C
Thornhill, Thomas Murrell 1ST LT D
White, Frank C 2ND LT B
Whitten, Harold E 2ND LT A