Authorized in May 1917 until it was decommissioned in December 1918, the camp trained 6,640 officers and 31,138 enlisted men.

After stopping briefly in England they boarded the Londonderry and landed in France on August 21, 1918.

[5] Of the nineteen members of the Siamese Expeditionary Forces who lost their lives during their WWI deployment, eleven died in hospitals.

In February 1919 five of these hospital-bound Thai soldiers died at the American Base Hospital No.

[2] The unit returned to America on August 22, 1919, aboard the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, and was demobilized soon after.