Pvt. 1st Class James J. Lydon, New York.
Sergt. Joseph P. Monihan, Wilmington, Del.
[star]Pvt. Alfred Nickerson, Lewiston, N. Y.
Pvt. Andrew R. Pucella, Derby, Conn.
Sergt. John A. Ross, Brooklyn, N. Y.
[star]Sergt. George F. Russell, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Pvt. 1st Class Thomas J. Scanlon, New York.
Sergt. Aris M. Shellman, New York.
[star]Pvt. 1st Class Joseph Strauss, New York.
Sergt. Monroe Todd, Allen, S. C.
[star]Pvt. J. Robinson, Newfane, N. Y.
Pvt. Volney O. Thompson, Honesdale, Idaho.
Corp. Frederick Viemer, Seymour, Conn.
Sergt. Donald M. Wallach, New York.

The
Burke [Illustration: {American Legion seal}] Kelly
Post

That spirit of dominant Americanism with which the war was fought seems
in these times of peace to be best reflected by the American Legion.

Appreciating this, those members of Company B, 307th Infantry, who
regarded with favor the idea of a post-bellum organization applied to
the American Legion for a charter. One was granted and they were
admitted as the Burke-Kelly Post No. 172.

The name was selected in honor of the memory of two of their comrades:
Sergeant Frank W. Burke, killed by a high explosive shell on the line of
the Vesle, August 23d, 1918, and Corporal John E. Kelly, killed by a
high explosive shell during the battle of Merval, September 8th, 1918.

This publication of the History of Company B was made possible by the
members of the Burke-Kelly Post under the following officers:

_President_
WILLIAM F. HOWARD

_Vice-Presidents_
JOHN A. ROSS
ARTHUR J. HAMBLEN
ALFRED HELLER

_Secretary_
A. JAMES DIMAGGIO

_Treasurer_
THOMAS F. TWYFORD

_Corresponding Secretary_
JULIUS KLAUSNER, JR.

_Executive Committee_
DONALD M. WALLACH
FRED A. GLEIFORST
RALPH U. BRETT

[Illustration: Watching the Home Fires]

They were watched, and high they burned, by those who more than all else
represented to us the concrete reason for which we served.

None of us but _felt_ that we were fighting for our Country; but all of
us _knew_ that we were fighting for our Home.

Our Home Folks,--our Mothers and our Fathers, our Sisters and our Wives
and our Sweethearts and our Friends--all banded together so that we,
while never losing the _thought_ of Home, were also not to lose its
_touch_.

Those tenders of the fireside whom we knew as the "Family Unit" were
orga