The report of J. J. Sullivan, representative at Camp Cody of the American Railway association, states that it has required 63 passengers trains to transport the present strength of the Thirty-fourth division into Camp Cody. It was necessary to use, in addition to these trains in the movement of construction material, subsistence supplier and other property and animals which did not accompany the organization from their home stations 1,860 freight cars. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – November 27, 1917
January 23, 2021
January 9, 2021
South Dakotan, Pvt. Fred Rice, Dies after Operation at Camp Cody
Private Fred Rice, company E, 136th infantry, (Second Minnesota) died at the new base hospital at Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, having failed to rally from the effects of an operation for appendicitis. He had just recently came into this regiment with a portion of the South Dakota troops. His home was near Dallas, South Dakota, where his father is a farmer. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – November 13, 1917
January 2, 2021
Men to Photograph Camp Cody in Deming, NM
Some of the best known photographers in this country and men from a company which has a world-wide reputation in making historical photographs have been sent to Camp Cody in Deming, New Mexico to put the camp in pictures.
The men are from the Mayhart studio, of Chicago, which is the company which has been doing the official picture making for the United States navy, and now has the authority to make photographs and moving pictures in all the national guard camp and the national army cantonments. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – October 16, 1917
December 26, 2020
Camp Cody Officers Bring Families to Live Near Them
Commissioned officers of Camp Cody are rapidly providing quarters for their wives, that is those that are fortunate to have them, and it is expected that the end of this month will see families of two thirds of the officers quartered here at Deming.
Mrs. Roy Norris, wife of Lieutenant Norris, 126th field artillery, was the first officer’s wife in Deming, having arrived here prior to the departure of her husband for Camp Cody. Her arrival was the signal for more to come, although lack of quarters made many of the officers hesitate to send for their families.
Several of the commissioned officers of Camp Cody have their families quartered at El Paso, it having been practically impossible to get proper living apartment in Deming at the time of their arrival.
As is the custom in practically every army post of any importance, a colony of officers’ wives will be formed and a definite form of social intercourse established. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – October 16, 1917
December 19, 2020
Doing Laundry at Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico
Ford Carr, company E, 134th infantry, (formerly Fifth Nebraska), doing his “bit” of washing at Camp Cody. The absence of adequate laundry in and near Camp Cody has taught many men the art of “sudsing.” Simply another one of the values of army life, they may make better husbands when they return. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – November 13, 1917
December 13, 2020
Major Davis’s Staff Now in Camp Cody’s Hospital
Removal of the offices of Major A. O. Davis and his staff from the old base hospital in Deming to the new one recently completed on the west side of Camp Cody has been finished. Moving has been going on for the past two weeks but is now practically complete and the division medical corps has ample and up to date quarters for patients. The old base hospital will be used for selected cases. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – November 13, 1917
December 5, 2020
French Sergeant At Camp Cody, Deming, NM
Fernand Dumont, distinguished French sergeant who is now at Camp Cody instructing the members of the artillery corps in the latest maneuvers in modern warfare. His many medals attest his own bravery and skill on the field and his modesty is made the more conspicuous by the absence of the medals. Sergeant Dumont removed his medals before he would consent to be photographed. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – November 13, 1917
November 30, 2020
New Census On Men of Camp Cody To Be Out Soon
Captain Harold J. Smith and W. S. MacArthur, military and civilian, division personnel officers, respectively, state that their trained crews have brought in cards of the vocational census of the division of all the men except a few soldiers who were on detached duty. Cards for these are being received. The work of checking up the cards and classifying them and tabulating the census of vocations will probably take ten days more. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – November 27, 1917
November 21, 2020
Camp Cody Officers Hunt Quail and Rabbits Often
Officers of the 34th division are learning that there is fine sport close at hand in hunting cottontail rabbits and quail. They go out in autos over the plains and find it a great diversion. Major F. B. Ray, of the 59th depot brigade, and Lieutenant Colonel C. B. Belman, of the 136th infantry (Second Minnesota), in and hour and a half brought down about 75 rabbits and a dozen quail. “It was the best shooting of the kind I ever had,” said Major Ray. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – November 27, 1917
November 14, 2020
Lighting for Camp Cody Poor; Headquarters Often Dark
The lighting of Camp Cody, not withstanding the importance of the military work going on here, is poor, although lights for merry-go-rounds and carnival shows in Deming are furnished by the lighting company. It is no uncommon thing for all lights to go out in the headquarters of the 34th division at 6 p.m. and remain out for some time, it is claimed. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – November 27, 1917