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1917, he proceeded to England and France, studying organization and
training of the British and French armies.
In August, 1917, he was appointed brigadier general of the National
Army and assigned to the command of the 67th Field Artillery Brigade
of the 42d Division. On December 22, 1917, he took command of the
First Artillery Brigade of the First Division and found the Division
preparing to enter the line north of Tou!' When the German drive
began in March; 1918, the First Division proceeded to Picardy, where
it took over the Cantigny Sector. In May, 1918, Cantigny was captured
as a result of the first American offensive. In June, 1918, General
Summerall was appointed a major general and was assigned to the
First Division, which he commAndedat Soissons and at St. Mihiel where
the Division was charged with connecting with the attack on the west of
the salient. He again commanded in the first phase of the Meuse-
Argonne. One October n, 1918, General Summerall was promoted to
the command of the Fifth Army Corps, which occupied the center of
the American line.
After the Armistice General Summerall commanded successively
the Fifth and the Ninth Army Corps in France, and the Fourth Army
Corps in Germany. He was one of the American generals invited to
be present at Versailles at the signing of the treaty of peace. In July,
1919, he was appointed a member of the Allied Mission of Generals at
Fiume. He returned to the United States in September, 1919. General
Summerall then commanded the First Division at Camp Zachary Taylor,
Kentucky, and later at Camp Dix, N. J. In the meantime he had been
appointed a brigadier general in the Regular Army, January, 1919, and
a major general in the Regular Army in May, 1920. In 1921 he assumed
command of the Hawaiian Department, where he remained until 1924.
Following his foreign service he assumed command of the Eighth Corps
Area with headquarters at San Antonio, Texas, remaining there three
months. On January 16, 1925, he succeeded Major General Robert L.
Bullard in command of the Second Corps Area with headquarters at
Governors Island, 1\ew York.
General Summerall was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross,
the Distinguished Service Medal, and the Croix de Guerre with palm.
He -was decorated as Commander of the Legion of Honor by France,
as Grand Officer of the Crown by Belgium, as Commander of the Order
of the Crown by Italy, with the Order of Prince DaniIo I by Montenegro,
and with the Military Medal by Panama. General Summerall
also wears the Spanish-American War Badge, tIre PhiIippino Campaign
Badge with two silver stars, the China Campaign Badge with two silver
stars, and the World War Campaign Badge with five stars for major
operations.