Name: Manly Pringle Birth Date: 16 Jan 1899 Birthplace: Sand Lake, Kent, Michigan Gender: Male Father's Name: N.N. Pringle Father's Birthplace: Michigan Mother's Name: Elva Pringle Mother's Birthplace: Michigan Reference ID: item 2 p 357 rn 16711 , GS Film number: 2322869 , Digital Folder Number: 4207563 , Image Number: 1052 Citing this Record "Michigan, Births, 1867-1902," Database with images, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NQFQ-XD9 : accessed 29 June 2015), Manly Pringle, 16 Jan 1899; citing item 2 p 357 rn 16711, Sand Lake, Kent, Michigan, Department of Vital Records, Lansing; FHL microfilm 2,322,869.

Pension Number 1963456 Inscribed on his tombstone "Veteran World War I" Name: Manly J Pringle Event Type: Military Service Event Date: 1934 Event Place: Dayton, Ohio, United States Age: 36 Birthplace: , Birth Year (Estimated): 1898 Page: 76831 Affiliate Publication Title: Historical Registers of National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938 Affiliate Publication Number: M1749 Affiliate Film Number: 80 GS Film number: 1548681 Digital Folder Number: 004832624 Image Number: 00176 Citing this Record: "United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938," Database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZ3Q-SBN : accessed 29 June 2015), Manly J Pringle, 1934; citing p. 76831, Dayton, Ohio, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1749 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 80; FHL microfilm 1,548,681. As part of the 1916 plan for increase of the Army, two cavalry regiments were authorized in the first increment. Designated as the 16th and 17th, they were organized in July 1916 at Forts Sam Houston and Bliss, Texas, respectively. To enable the new organizations to become operational as soon as possible, experienced officers and men from existing cavalry regiments were transferred to the new ones, and by mid-July 1916 the 16th and 17th Cavalry were in fair shape. These were the last additions to the cavalry arm until after the declaration of war on Germany. In the matter of arms and equipment during this period, it is important that in 1904 the new U.S. rifle Model 1903 replaced the Krag-Jorgensen as the standard arm of cavalry, as well as infantry, and remained so until the beginning of World War II. Cavalrymen readily accepted the new shoulder arm. It could be handled as well while mounted as on foot, and it had a range greater than that of the carbine. A new side arm, the Colt automatic pistol caliber .45, was approved 29 March 1911, and by the time of the Punitive Expedition all troops in the United States were armed with it. Units going to the Philippine Islands, where there had been so much demand for an arm of this caliber, took it with them, but no special effort was made to supply those already there. 38 In 1914 the semaphore code, until that time used only by field artillery, was authorized for cavalry, infantry, and engineers. The fifty-six kits furnished for each cavalry regiment were distributed four to a troop. <i>World War I Cavalry </i>The cavalry organization of seventeen regiments in effect when the United States entered the war against Germany was based upon the National Defense Act of 1916. In May 1917 emergency laws called for immediate increase to the full strength authorized by the National Defense Act, and organization of the remaining eight new cavalry regiments began at once. To speed up the process, certain old units in June 1917 transferred two-thirds of their men to the new regiments. The new regiments were numbered the 18th through the 25th. But, one month after their organization was completed, all eight began training as field artillery. On 1 October 1917 Congress acted to make their conversion to field artillery legal, and on 1 November 1917 the 18th through the 25th Cavalry were redesignated as the 76th through the 83d Field Artillery. Although Congress specified that the units would reorganize as cavalry after the emergency, such action was never taken. Hence, the histories of the former 18th through 25th Cavalry are currently perpetuated in a number of artillery units. An act of Congress on 18 May 1917 provided for twenty National Army (or temporary) cavalry regiments, which were designated 301st through 320th. Fifteen of them, the 301st through the 315th, were organized in early 1918 at various National Army camps, but in August of that year they, too, were converted to field artillery. Thirty field artillery regiments, the 44th through the 72d, and nine trench mortar batteries, the 15th through the 23d, were organized from them. None of those units served outside the United States and all were demobilized in January-February of 1919. The 316th through the 320th Cavalry were not activated during the war years. By the time the United States entered World War I, the machine gun, together with improved artillery, barbed wire, and elaborate field fortifications, had produced a stalemate on the European Western Front. The Allies and the Germans, with their opposing armies anchored on the sea in the west and on the mountains in the east, repeatedly used waves of infantrymen and heavy artillery barrages in vain efforts to break the deadlock. Their critical need was for mobility and shock action, both traditional roles of horse cavalry, but static trench warfare and the machine gun had made use of the horse impractical. Four regiments of U.S. cavalry- the 2d, 3d, 6th, and 15th- nevertheless formed a part of the American Expeditionary Forces, and engaged chiefly in remount duty. That they would have been used otherwise during the latter part 39 of the war, had they been available, was implied by General Pershing in 1920. He stated that, once the forces were in the open, cavalry would have been of great value on several occasions, and Allied cavalry trained in American tactics would have been most effective in the pursuit of the enemy northward toward the Meuse. Since U.S. cavalrymen had been trained to fight dismounted as well as mounted, many of them did see action as foot soldiers. Again, as in earlier wars, many individual awards for gallantry were earned by the dismounted troopers who fought in other arms and services. Only a very small portion of the U.S. cavalry saw any mounted service in France. In late August 1918, just before the St. Mihiel offensive, a provisional squadron was formed from Troops, B, D, F, and H of the 2d Cavalry. Fourteen officers and 404 enlisted men from those troops with convalescent horses furnished from the veterinary hospital moved to old Camp Jeanne d'Arc, near Neufchateau, for training in mounted action. Lt. Col. Oliver P. M. Hazzard commanded the squadron. Among the troop commanders was Capt. Ernest N. Harmon who, during World War II, was to command the 2d Armored Division and then the XXII Corps. After about ten days of training, one troop of the Provisional Squadron was detached and marched to Menil-la-Tour, where it reported for courier duty with the 1st, 42d, and 89th Divisions. The remainder of the squadron reported to the 1st Division on the night of 11 September 1918, and by a few minutes past noon of the next day U.S. cavalrymen, mounted, were at Nonsard, about five miles behind the original front line of the enemy. Sent out on reconnaissance duty beyond their capabilities, the cavalrymen met the enemy in considerable force and were routed. Later, in the Meuse-Argonne action, the squadron with three troops maintained liaison between flank divisions and those on the front lines. Among the trenches, which made movement of a whole troop impracticable, small patrols, sometimes riding and sometimes walking, acted as military police and couriers. By mid-October, when withdrawn from the front, the squadron had only 150 mounted effectives, largely because of the evacuation of sick and wounded horses. After the armistice, Headquarters, Band, and six troops of the 2d Cavalry acted as advance guard for the Army movement into Germany, and afterward were stationed along the Rhine with the American Army of Occupation. Although few U.S. cavalry regiments went to Europe during World War I, all were well represented there by individual cavalrymen. For example, between May and September 1917, one regiment alone- the new 16th Cavalry- lost most of its original officers by promotion in the National Army; and from May 1917 until November 1918 more than a hundred enlisted members of that regiment received commissions in the National Army. Many of these men saw 40 service in France. After the armistice twenty-six of them returned and reenlisted as noncommissioned officers. Vacancies in cavalry units created by promotion and reassignment were filled by new personnel, and the regiments were moved to the Mexican border, an area well known to the older cavalrymen. Germany's efforts to rekindle trouble between the United States and Mexico were met by the concentration of a cavalry force in the southwest. In December 1917 the 15th Cavalry Divisionthree brigades of three regiments each- was organized in Texas. There were no other cavalry divisions in the Army then, but no explanation for designating this one the 15th has been found. Like the divisions organized during previous emergencies, the life of the 15th was short. Actually, a full division organization was not completed, and it was discontinued in May 1918. The brigade headquarters lasted until July 1919 when they, too, were disbanded. http://www.history.army.mil/books/Lineage/arcav/arcav.htm

Name: Manley J. Pringle Birth Date: 1898 Birthplace: Sand Lake, Mich. Age: 22 Spouse's Name: Ora Marie Parrott Spouse's Birth Date: 1896 Spouse's Birthplace: Blanchard, Mich. Spouse's Age: 24 Event Date: 20 Mar 1920 Event Place: Lucas Co., Ohio Father's Name: Norman M. Pringle Mother's Name: Alvie M. Bradford Spouse's Father's Name: Charles Parrott Spouse's Mother's Name: Mina Howard Marital Status: Single Spouse's Marital Status: Single Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M01363-8 , System Origin: Ohio-EASy , GS Film number: 2134491 , Reference ID: P94-35927 Citing this Record "Ohio, Marriages, 1800-1958," Database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDWM-DL9 : accessed 17 June 2015), Norman M. Pringle in entry for Manley J. Pringle and Ora Marie Parrott, 20 Mar 1920; citing Lucas Co., Ohio, reference P94-35927; FHL microfilm 2,134,491.

Name: Manley J Pringle Event Type: Death Event Date: 28 Mar 1945 Event Place: Allen Park, Wayne, Michigan, United States Gender: Male Age: 47 Marital Status: Married Birth Date: 01 Jan 1898 Birthplace: Michigan Birth Year (Estimated): 1898 Father's Name: Norman Pringle Mother's Name: Elvie Breakford GS Film number: 1972951 , Digital Folder Number: 005240263 , Image Number: 01802 Citing this Record "Michigan, Death Certificates, 1921-1952," Database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KFQZ-R6K : accessed 17 June 2015), Norman Pringle in entry for Manley J Pringle, 28 Mar 1945; citing Allen Park, Wayne, Michigan, United States, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing; FHL microfilm 1,972,951.

Clinton Grove Cemetery Clinton Township Macomb County Michigan, USA Plot: Section L Lot 226  Created by: Melanie Mardlin Record added: Sep 08, 2010 Find A Grave Memorial# 58328547