Claude Pfaff enlisted and was sent to Camp Jackson, a major training and staging base established near Columbia, South Carolina. Here, battalions were formed before being sent overseas to fight in France.
Claude was promoted to Band Sergeant and assigned to the 156th Depot Brigade. Using his musical talents, he played the bugle for military ceremonial occasions as well as morale-lifting events at such locations as the base hospital, the Red Cross Convalescent House and the Liberty Theater, which seated 3,600 soldiers.
On September 26, he was transferred to Camp Sevier, Greenville, South Carolina, and in October, he was commissioned out of the ranks to lieutenant.
With the war coming to an end and the Armistice going into effect on November 11, 1918, the military quickly demobilized and Pfaff was honorably discharged on November 30, 1918 as a second lieutenant and returned to civilian life.
A World War I Story. --Cooter
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