AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
FRANCE.
January 16, 1919.
_From:_ Commanding Officer, 805th Pioneer Infantry.
_To:_ The Adjutant General, G. H. Q., A. E. F.
_Subject:_ Commendation of Regiment.
1. I feel it a duty which I owe the officers and enlisted men of
this regiment which the War Department has given me the honor of
commanding, to place on record at General Headquarters, American
Expeditionary Forces, the enclosed papers commending their
conscientious and intelligent work.
2. The first is a letter from the Chief Engineer, First Army,
regarding the services rendered by the 805th Pioneer Infantry in the
Argonne-Meuse Campaign, which began September 26, 1918, in which
this organization participated from October 3rd to the conclusion
of the Armistice. The second is a letter from the Chief Salvage
Officer, First Army, stating that the regiment “by its intelligent
co-operation and initiative” was of great assistance to him.
3. I claim no credit for myself, but only for the officers and men to
whose energy, judgment, tact and force of the highest grade, must be
attributed any success this regiment may have attained.
2 Encl. C. B. HUMPHREY,
_Colonel Infantry, U. S. A., Commanding_.
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