*** Source: Record of Eighty-sixth Company California Military Reserve; San Francisco?: unknown, 1920?, 37 pgs. Notice: This data is donated to the Public Domain by TAG, 2004, and may be copied freely by anyone to anywhere. *** ---page 11--- Armistice having been declared on November 11, 1918, no instruction was ever given at the trenches although instruction in the use of the bayonet in trench fighting was given at the Armory during the period construction of the trenches was under way, extra drill being given each week in order to make the instruction more intensive. On Sunday December 15, 1918, twenty-one members of the company met at the trenches in uniform and were photographed in various positions. Owing to the small number attending it was impossible to assume a strictly military formations in every instance so the photographer was given considerable license in the arrangement of the groups. The slow progress made in trench construction was due to the fact that during practically the whole of the period there was an epidemic of Spanish Influenza. There was a sickness in the families of many of the men and a natural disinclination to expose one's self that made the attendance very light on two or three occasions. Those who did attend did not observe "union hours", and genuine regret was expressed when the work was completed. PARADES. In addition to the parade in aid of the Fourth Liberty Loan, which has been mentioned, the company paraded on the Fourth of July and also the evening of August 6, 1918, when it acted with the other three companies, as escort to Governor Stephens, who addressed a patriotic meeting in the Richmond District. *** end ***