Lieut.
Giles was very popular with the men and with his brother officers.

He was popular among the members of the race section in which he lived in Chicago, and was regarded as a young man of great promise.
One of the engagements of the first battalion that received more than honorable mention was on the morning of November 6th, when the battalion crossed the Hindenburg line and after extremely hard fighting captured on St.Pierre Mont, three 77 guns and two machine guns.

Captain James H.
Smith of 3267 Vernon Avenue, Chicago, commanded the company, and Lieutenant Samuel S.Gordon of 3842 Prairie Avenue, Chicago, the assault forces making the capture.

The battalion continued across the Serre river and when the armistice was signed was at a small place in Belgium.
Several of the officers passed through practically all of the fighting with hardly a scratch, only to be taken ill at the finish and invalided home.

These men would have been greatly disappointed had the war continued after they were put out of action.