Base Sec. No. 6, S.O.S., Major Arthur S. Dwight, N.Y.
Troops with French, Sgt. L.K. Flynt, Mass.
Troops with French, Capt. A.W. Kipling, Paris, France
Paris Command, Pvt. Harold W. Ross, Calif.
Paris Command, Lt. Col. John Price Jackson
G.H.Q., Bishop Charles H. Brent, N.Y.
1st Army Corps, Lt. Col. Lemuel L. Bolles, Wash.
1st Army Corps, Sgt. Mjr. Race
2d Army Hq., Lt. Col. Burke H. Sinclair, Colo.


The tentative name of this organization was not adopted without a
great deal of discussion. All sorts of titles were suggested to the
committee which considered the matter. Some of them were:

Comrades of the Great War
Veterans of the Great War
Liberty League
Army of the Great War
Legion of the Great War
Great War Legion
The Legion
The American Comrades of the Great War
The Great Legion
The American Legion

The last was tentatively decided upon as the best name although there
was considerable discussion on it. This discussion waxed particularly
warm between a colonel and a corporal and it came to an end only when
some hungry enlisted delegate braved the officer's rising ire to move