6th Machine Gun Battalion, USMC: Individual Members

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"GOING IN"
The Grueling Night March
to Soissons, July 1918

A First-Hand Account
with Original Art
by a Private in the
6th Machine Gun
Battalion,
Fourth Brigade of Marines

Battalion Commanders

Major Edward B. Cole
16 August 1917 to 10 June 1918

Captain H.E. Major
10 June to 12 June 1918

Captain G.H. Osterhout Jr.
12 June to 20 June 1918

Major L.W.T. Waller
20 June to 24 October 1918

Major M.H. Kingman
24 October 1918 to ?-----

Officers

Headquarters Detachment

Capt Thomas J. Curtis
Battalion Adjutant

Capt L.R. Long
Battalion Intelligence Officer

1st Lt Oscar S. Swan

15th Company

1st Lt Victor F. Bleasdale

23rd Company

Captain Jack Hart

77th Company

Captain William Croka

2nd Lt Fitzhugh L. Buchanan

2nd Lt W.B. Jackson

81st Company

Captain
Allen Melancthon Sumner

Captain Jack Hart

2dLt Vernon Burdette