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Enlisting in Engineer (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Art Siegel said:

  Recruiting at 190 6th Ave., Manhattan. "500 IN RUSH TO JOIN ENGINEER REGIMENT; Officers Expect to Recruit the New York Quota of 1,061 Within a Week. RECRUITING BEGINS TODAY Volunteers in Other Cities Eager to Get in the Nine Units to Go to France. More than 500 volunteers, including laborers, draughtsmen, dockmen, yardmen, mechanics, and full-fledged civil engineers rushed forward yesterday to join the First Reserve Engineer Regiment which will by recruited in this city as New York's quota of the nine regiments which the Government intends to send to France." New York Times, May 9, 1917 query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A0CE0D7123BEE...

• Ryan (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks so much for your excellent research Art Siegel. We'll add some of this information to the record the next time we update.