Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Approximately 400 men have reported, and they have been divided up into two battalions of three companies each. Six hours of drill a week will be held, divided into three periods of two hours each. Lectures are to be given on subjects allied to Military Science, and instruction in bomb construction and throwing, and in the use of machine guns will occupy a portion of the time. The system of trenches constructed last summer by the Dartmouth men, will be used again with slight additions and improvements...
Details of the death of Henry Montgomery Suckley '10, of Rhinebeck, N. Y., who, as told in the CRIMSON recently, was killed by a bomb dropped from a German airplane, when serving with the American Ambulance near Saloniki in March, have at last reached Mr. Suckley's friends in this country in a letter from Reginald Signoux of Great Neck, L. I., who served with Mr. Suckley in the same section of the American Corps. The letter says...
...Frederic Schenk '09 delivered the translation of the lecture, assisted by comments and suggestions from the other Frenchmen. With the aid of diagrams the method of constructing the usual shelter trench was described, and instructions were given in the manner of erecting barbed wire entanglements and other obstructions. Bomb proofs, deep dugouts and other shelters were treated in detail, and the Corps was instructed in the art of their construction...
...nine and one-half hours per day will be devoted to military instruction. The schedule is most comprehensive and the training will be thorough in every re- spect. It will include besides instruction in the School of the Soldier, Squad, Company, Battalion and Regiment, the actual construction of trenches, bomb proofs, machine gun positions, etc., similar to those actually used by the French Army on the western front; and also gallery and target practice, bayonet fencing, field exercises, practice marches and manoeuvres. A large corps of topographical instructors have been added to the military department, and each cadet will...
...Europe. Since the beginning of the war, 900 men have been with the Corps in one capacity or another, four of whom have been killed. Richard Hall, of Dartmouth, and William Kelley, of Philadelphia, met their death from shell-fire; Henry M. Suckley '10 was killed by an airplane bomb, and H. Sortwell '11 was crushed beneath a truck at Salonika. Over 400,000 wounded men have been carried by the American ambulances during the last three years, and at present the service is costing $80,000 a month...