Surviving members of Company E;
2nd Engineers

Note the two fine German citizens enjoying the moment at right! I remember reading somewhere that in the end, when the war was over, the Americans admired the German people for their industriousness and cleanliness. ed.

There are 59 2nd Engineers in this photograph. Company "E" came to France with approximately 160 men. About 100 of them did not make it to the Rhine.

The Second U. S. Engineers left the United States on September 10th, 1917, sailing on board the R.M.S. Carpathia from New York and arrived in Halifax on the morning of September 12th. The boat lay anchored in the harbor of Halifax nine days waiting for a convoy to be made up for the trip. The convoy of fourteen boats pulled out on September 21st, and no more land was seen for eleven days. On the early morning of October 2nd, the shores of Scotland were sighted and before noon the Regiment was sailing between the beautiful banks of the Clyde. The boat docked at Glasgow, the Regiment debarked, and immediately boarded waiting trains for Southampton, England. After a few days' rest in Southampton, and a "rocky" trip across the Channel, came the first ride in "Hommes 40, Chevaux 8" to the billeting area around Colombey-les-Belles.