COMMENDATIONS
The following Commendatory orders, Memorandums, Telegrams, Letters, etc.;
from The Commander in Chief, American Expeditionary Forces, from Army, Corps,
Division and Brigade Commanders showing their appreciation of the sacrifices made so
willingly are preserved and made of record by all organizations of the Division as
mementos of the days when Young America rewrote the History of Europe:
HEADQUARTERS 90TH DIVISION
AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
France, 15 November 1918.
MEMORANDUM
No. 919.
The following is published for the information of the Division: -
I. BULLETIN, HEADQUARTERS 90TH DIVISION, 15 OCTOBER, 1918:
“In the coming operations of this Division, every member must exert the
maximum of his mental and physical forces in order to hit the enemy the hardest possible
blow. This Division has thus far earned a good reputation by its work at Camp Travis its
fine training zeal in the Aignay-le-Duc Zone, and its effective blows against the enemy
west of the Moselle River.
The next operation, however, is going to classify decisively the Ninetieth
Division, determining where it will be rated with respect to the others which are now in
front of it or which have preceded it between the Argonne Forest and the Meuse River.
The place to be accorded it in the history of the Army of the United States will depend
upon how well it executes the tasks which are about to be assigned to it. The forests of
the Vencheres, des Rappes, and above all the Pretre bear testimony to its gallantry – and
the results there give promise of greater achievements. It must be a matter of duty, pride
and patriotism for every member of this Division to have it make the best record of any
division of any Corps of the First United States Army.
Your states and your country are keenly alert to your acts and expect much of
you. Your Commanding General has a firm conviction, born of his intimate knowledge
of you, that your families and friends will not be disappointed in your military Powers.
(Signed) HENRY T. ALLEN,
Major General.”
II.
TELEGRAM FROM THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF,
16 September, 1918:
“Please accept my sincere congratulations on the successful and important part
taken by the officers and men of the First Corps in the first offensive of the First
American Army on September 12 and 13th. The courageous dash and vigor of our troops
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