2006/2007
Voiture 1390 Officers
HENDRICKS COUNTY VOITURE
1390
c/o Brownsburg American Legion Post 331
636 E. Main Street
Brownsburg, IN 46112
(317) 852-3200
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La Societe des Quarante Hommes at
Huit Chevaux is an independent fraternal organization
of U. S. veterans, more commonly known as the Forty
& Eight.
The Forty & Eight was formed in 1920 by American
Legionnaires as an honor society and from its earliest
days it has been committed to charitable aims. Membership
is by invitation for members of the American Legion
who have shown exemplary service. All Forty & Eight
members are thus veterans of congressionally recognized
wartime periods via their Legion membership.
The Forty & Eight’s titles and symbols reflect
its First World War origins. American servicemen in
France were transported to the battlefront on narrow
gauge French railroads (Chemin de Fer) inside boxcars
(Voitures) that were half the size of American boxcars.
Each French boxcar was stenciled with a “40/8”,
denoting its capacity to hold either forty men or eight
horses. This ignominious and uncomfortable mode of transportation
was familiar to all who traveled from the coast to the
trenches; a common small misery among American soldiers
who thereafter found “40/8” a lighthearted
symbol of the deeper service, sacrifice and unspoken
horrors of war that truly bind those who have borne
the battle.
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Chef de
Gare - Dennis Donahue
Chef de Train - Michael McClain
Sous Chef de Train - Stan Bacon
Commissaire Intendant - Tom Garrison
Sous Commissaire Intendant - Paul Sorrentino
Garde de la Porte - Ron Curry
Lampiste - Norm Curts
Cheminot - Stan Bacon
Cheminot - Tom Garrison
Correspondant - Tom Garrison
Sous Correspondant - Jim Ray
Conducteur - Ralph Robbins
Avocat - Ron Curry
Amonier - Stan Bacon
Public Relations - Jim Jones
Child Welfare - Dennis Donahue
Americanism - Jim Jones
Box Car - Jim Ray
Ritual - Ron Curry
Carville Star - Michael McClain
Nurses Training - Dennis Donahue
POW/MIA - Dennis Donahue
Youth Sports - Vacant
Historian - Norm Curts
Auditor - Paul Sorrentino
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