Company "H," Sixth Nebraska Infantry was recruited on and after June 24, 1917, in two detachments, one at Chadron, Nebraska, and one at Lewellen, Nebraska, and vicinity. The following named Garden county volunteers constituted the Lewellen detachment: Mucho Balka, Russell Beerup, Jesse K. Bradley, Miles Branson. Louis Brown, Ray Brown. Gordon Cary, Ross W. Casey, William E. Dowson, Dwight Dowson, Gordon Harvey, Archie Johnson. Wesley McLey, Harold Neill. Joseph C. Orr, Howard F. Outson, Charles L. Parachini, Basil F. Roberts, Vester L. Rumsey, Paul D.

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Temple, William Thacker, Frederick Thornton, Irving E. Tilgner, Eldred P. Veatch, Virgil Weatherwax, Robert Weston, Bert W. Wilson, Jesse Young, Okie O. Young, Kootenai Tracy, Harold Anderson, (Ray Clarv, Hdqurs. Co. 109 Engrs.), Geo. B. Cochran. 1st Lieut., Geo. A. Post, who later was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant.

On August 3, orders to mobilize at Chadron were received, and the company was mustered into the Federal service on August 8. 1917.

On September loth, the company entrained for Camp Cody, New Mexico, arriving there on September 17th. Two weeks later, the company together with sixty-five enlisted men from Company "I," and forty men from Company "F," Sixth Nebraska Infantry, was transferred to the 109th Engineers and announced as Company "F," 109th Engineers.

Day after day and month after month, the boys expected orders to go "over there." After a year of training, worrying and waiting at Camp Cody, the orders came, and they started for the front, "rejoicing as a strong man lo run a race."