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History of the 17 Separate Company
(Santa Ana), Infantry, California
National Guard
1918-1921
This history was completed in 1940 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in conjunction with the
California National Guard and the California State Library.
Digitized by the History Office, Camp San Luis Obispo, 24 January 2015
Original document on file at the California State Library
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Jeaoe L. !lliott, !irat Lieut.
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Prom the !irat monthly return !uguat 1918, of t
the following bit of hiator,y wae takena
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wenteenth S8Parate Compan,
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l60th
SEVENTIENTH SEPARATE COMPANY
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the first Capt&in o! the new Company and Jesse
L. Elliott •• liret Lieutenant.
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paaeed muster
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On Kay 30 1 1921, Company F attended Memo~ial exercises at Rosedale cemetery
in the morning, end fired the usual salut e. In the !fternoon the Company
attended exercises at Huntington Beach, where th&y fired the customary salute
also. The Unit marched four miles dUl'ing the day.
Company F attended two annual encampments before beooming a unit of the l60th
Infantry Regiment. The tir:st was held at Laveaga Park,near Santt. Crus on
September 12 to 26, 1920. Lieutenant-Colonel Harold D. Coburn, United Statee
.&.rmy, waa appoined commander :<?f ·the -~ eneampment. .A.ll the instructors. at the
camp were Regular Army men. For fifteen ·aays Company 1 and the other units.
- in the National GuArd were drilled and instructed in eveq dtftail as to what
constitutea a good soldie~ and a good company. Several reviews and inspection
were held during the encampment, one of which ~as for Colonel Robert Noble,
United &tatee Ar~, Cheif ~ilitia officer.* The second enc~pruent was held
the following year 1921, from July eleventh to twc:;nty-sixth. The c&mp site
~as on the old Camp .Ahwanee grounds below the village ot Yosemite.
Like the
year previous, the camp was under the leadership of Colonel H. D, Coburn, wit
United Statea Army officers as. instructors. Approximattely 2500 men ....ttended
the encampment.**
About one month after the clot:~e of the encampment at IosG¢ta1 Co:mpany F 1 Third
Battalion Infantry was transferred and on August 2.3 1 1921 1 became part of the
l60th Intantcy Regiment, California National Guard •
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*San Francisco Chronicle
September
**Los Angeles Times July 13,
19~1,
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1920, page 17, column 5
6, coluren 5.