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Camp Meade was a cantonment-training camp that was built in 3 months by 15,000 laborers.
The Camp contained 1,200 barracks to house 40,000 men.
Plus 100 other buildings including remount stables able to care for the 12,000 horses
that would be gathered here then distributed to other camps across the country & Europe.
Remount Station, Camp Meade, Md. (1917)
(click to see full-size image)
Written on the back of the postcard is this:
This will show you some of the sheds and corrals at the remount station where many horses and mules are quartered.
This camp has about twelve thousand horses and mules and more coming in, as high as eleven car loads a day.
WW1 US Camp Meade 1917 patriotic medal award. Decoration reads on the front:
1917 Camp Meade Admiral. MD. We Will Follow Gen'l Pershing To Make The World Safe For Democracy".
Baseball at Camp Meade
Barracks of the neighboring 315th Infantry and 316th Infantry at Camp Meade
View in Camp Meade, MD (postcard)
Camp Meade 1918 Photo Postcard (and close-up) showing many rows of tents in the background
This Log Cabin Memorial - Veterans 314th Infantry Regiment A.E.F. web page last modified:
April 7, 2008