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| | 1ST SERGT. LANGLEY Y. KELLEY
Saginaw, Mich.
Assigned for duty September 22, 1917.
Sergt. Kelley was tall and of such natural soldierly bearing that he at once impressed the command, who made him First Sergeant October 1st without much of the preliminary experience and training usually deemed necessary.
He attended all the training schools at Custer and was an example of a good disciplinarian. Quick and alert of mind, and could give command of such a snappy nature that we would all lump up and take notice.
His attainments soon got him in line for Officers’ Training School, where he was sent September 15th, at Camp Coetquidan.
After leaving Officers’ Training School he was attached to the Field Artillery Replacement Battery, leaving Laceneau for Mearns with 1,000 men under his command, where they were to be divided into different organizations. He was afterwards transferred to Railway Guard Service under Captain Coy, and on June 2nd he left St. Nazaire to sail for the United States.
Leaving France June 27th, he arrived in the United States July 7th, traveling on the steamship Mongolian, the first American ship to sink a German submarine.
The command regarded Sergt. Kelley as an ideal First Sergeant and considered him from the military standpoint of discipline and morale the most proficient First Sergeant in the regiment.
The boys will remember his snappy executive command, “Ho,” instead of the usual military term “March.” |