Faced Death Many Times
From Pierce Arrow newletter
“Within a month of their call to Camp Upton, February 25, 1918, the Buffalo boys were sent to France and directly to the front line. The 302d Engineers were a part of the 77th division, which was received by President Wilson on Christmas day in Paris.
The 350 Buffalo members have been continuoosly on the line three months and on November 11th, when the armistice was signed, they had just reached the Meuse river, having gone through the fighting in the Argonne forst. The outfit, under machine gun fire, constructed bridges, repaired roads day and night and cut enemy barbed wire ahead of the infantry. They also made reconnaissance ahead of the fighters, whenever necessary.”52

Ball Player In Hospital55

Northern Masonic Cerification56

77th Infantry Division ("Statue of Liberty Division’), 302nd Engineer Regiment
• Activated: 18 August 1917 Camp Upton in Yaphank, New York.
• Operations: Meuse-Argonne, Oise-Aisne.
The 77th Infantry Division was the first American division composed of draftees to arrive in France in World War I, landing in April 1918; overall it was the seventh of 42 divisions to reach the Western Front. The division fought in the Battle of Château-Thierry on 18 July 1918.
Throughout its service in France the 77th Division sustained 10,194 casualties: 1,486 killed and 8,708 wounded. The division returned to the United States in April 1919 and was deactivated later that month.