Johnson County IL Archives Military Records.....Escue, Elbert Edmund 1915 WWI - Enlistment 37th Division 112 Sanitary Train ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarch.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarch.org/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tim Casey timcasey5@gmail.com and April 7, 2008, 10:11 pm Enlisment And Other Military Info On Elbert E. Escue Elbert Edmund Escue May 25, 1918 -- Enlistment Record -WW I - Elbert E. Escue, Private Inducted May 25th, 1918 at Vienna, IL, serving in First enlistment period at date of discharge. Prior service: None Noncommissioned officer: Never Marksmanship, gunner qualification or rating: Not rated. Horsemanship: Not mounted Battles, engagements, skirmishes, expeditions: A. E. F July 22nd 1918 to March 24th, 1919. Knowledge of any vocation: Machinery Installation. Wounds received in service: None. Physical condition when discharged: "Good" Typhoid prophylaxis completed: June 15th, 1918 Paratyphoid prophylaxis completed: June 15th, 1918 Married or single: single Character: Excellent Remarks: No AWOL or absences under G. O. 31/12 G. O. 45/14 Signature of soldier: Elbert E. Escue Camp Grant, IL Apr 7, 1915 Paid in Full: $112.90 Including bonds of $60.00, Act of Feb 24, 1919. Signed by S. H. Frann?, Captain . M. Corps. and Ray? L. Baldwin? and Capt. Faneson? , Commanding 2nd Co, 161st D. B. April 7th, 1919- Honorable Discharge - U. S. Army - Elbert E. Escue Stamps on top of discharge - State of Illinois, County of Franklin, SS No. 266. This instrument was filed for record this 26th day of Jan, A. D. 1961 at (:50 and recorded Discharge is Record 13, Page 580. Signed Stanley Herbek, Recorder, Franklin Co. Stamp at left top - Copy made by me on the ---- 1923 for the purposes of securing the Illinois Bonus. In witness whereof, have hereunto set my hand and official seal at this 15th day of Jan 1923. Notary public, W. Joe Hill. This is to Certify, that Elbert E. Escue # 2659107 Private 37th Division 112 Sanitary Train. The United States Army, as a Testimonial of Honest and Faithful Service, is hereby Honorably Discharge from the military service of the United States by reason of : for convenience of the government per S. O. 92 Par 2 at Camp Grant, IL 4131. Said Elbert E. Escue was born in Goreville, in the State of Illinois. When enlisted he was 22 11/12 years of age and by occupation a machinery installation. He had blue eyes, light hair, fair complexion, and was five feet 5 1/4 inches in height. Given under my hand at Camp Grant, IL this 7th day of April, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen. Signed by Hamilton D. Turner, Major Inf, U. S. A., Commanding. Transportation was issued April 7, 1919, via the Central Station, Chicago, per a stamp on the record. 1 Jun 1918 - Insurance from The United States of America, Treasury Dept, Bureau of War Risk Insurance, Washington, D. C. Certificate No. 2342796,effective 1 June 1918. This certifies that Elbert Edmon Escue has applied for insurance in the amount of $10,000, payable in case of death or total permanent disability in monthly installments of $57.50. Subject to the payment of the premiums required, this insurance is granted under the authority of an Act amending "An Act entitled 'An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department, approved September 2, 1914, and for other purposes," approved October 6, 1917, and subject in all respects to the provisions of such Act, of any amendments thereto, and of all regulations thereunder, now in force or hereafter adopted, all of which, together with the application for this insurance, and the terms and conditions published under authority of the Act, shall constitute the contract. Signed by William C. DeLanoy, Directory of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, and M. ? McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, and countersigned at Washington, D. C by O. B. Estabrook, Registrar Additional Comments: Elbert used to talk very little of the war, except to say that he served in the Argonne Forest, but there was no forest, only tree stumps. There wasn't even anything to hide behind. He was made a Medic, and had no gun, only a large red cross on his chest. He said that was a great target for the other side to shoot at, and he couldn't even shoot back. But he made it home in one piece, which was not always the case, of course. Several friends of his were gassed with mustard gas. He also talked about the ship that took him there and back. He, being from Southern IL, had never been around ships, or even small boats. He was sick from the time he got on until he got off. He vowed he would never, under any circumstances, get on another boat the rest of his life. And he didn't. He also refused to wait in lines of any duration. He said he had his fill of that in the Army. His old uniform hung in the closet until after he died at age 72. As a child, Joyce, his youngest daughter used to investigate it periodically, just because it was so different, with the leggings to be wound around the tops of the shoes, and with the little sewing kit they all carried. His old overcoat of very heavy wool, led a good life. It warmed him while in the Army, of course, and then warmed he and his bride, Essie Darnell, their first year of marriage, as she did not have enough quilts made yet. It was later given to a poor man in the neighborhood during World War II, as he had none of his own as warm. submitted by Joyce Escue Culver AriesJoy@aol.com Photo: http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/johnson/photos/military/ww1/enlistment/escue22mt.jpg File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/johnson/military/ww1/enlistment/escue22mt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ilfiles/ File size: 5.9 Kb