the other officers' training camps or else helped organize the various artillery units that were rapidly springing up throughout the state. The contribution of these men to the fighting forces of the United States, as well as of the 800 or so past members who preceded them would take a volume in itself. Some day we hope that their record will be written up. It will show better than anything else could show, the true worth of Battery A.

The spring of 1917 saw almost a complete transformation in the personnel of the Battery. The old one had largely disappeared, but the new one that sprang up rivalled it in practically every respect. How it accounted for itself in the great war, as Battery A of the 101st Artillery, of the 26th Division, we have tried to show in the pages that follow.

As a fighting outfit of the American Expiditionary Forces, few others can compare with its record. It was nineteen months in foreign service. It spent 218 days actually on the front, in position against the Germans. It was the first National Guard unit to fire against the Germans. It fired over 52,000 rounds during its action at the front. Its casualties included 13 killed and 39 wounded. Three of its members received The Distinguished Service Cross, three the Croix De Guerre and 18 were cited in Divisional Orders.

In this History we have traced its progress through the days of its reorganization and rebirth during the spring months of 1917; through the welding together process at Boxford; through the trip across; through the training days at Camp Coetquidan amidst the rain and mud of "sunny" France;

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