Word: bowen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Monday, May 7, the period of intensive training began. Previous to that time drill had been held nine hours a week. For a month the work consisted of close and open order drill, gallery practice, and bayonet instruction under the supervision of Captains Cordier, Shannon and Bowen, and Sergeants Bender, Boyd, Brown, Kennedy and Lynch of the regular army. Gradually the officers of the French Mission--Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Azan, Major de Reviers de Mauny, Captain Adolph Dupont, Lieutenant Andre Morize, and Lieutenant Jean Giraudoux--took the regiment in hand and began the instruction in French open order formations...
Captain Cordier will probably leave for Washington on Friday to take up his duties as a member of the General Staff of the Army. Captain Bowen will not be obliged to go until some time later, and events of the past few days indicate that Captain Shannon will be continued here until the end of the summer...
Application is by mail, up to July 15th. After that date a personal examination will be made of those whose applications are approved. W. S. BOWEN. Captain, U. S. Army, Asst. Commandant. June...
...accorded the great measure of honor due to the success of the corps. But this honor is only increased when it is remembered that the corps is not going to die simply because those who are now at its head are to leave. The influence of Captains Cordier, Bowen, and Shannon is a permanent one. They go with the best of military ideas instilled into their successors and the men who have worked under them. A schedule of training is to be followed which can do nothing but assure to every man a completely satisfactory training. The departure of these...
...Because of the necessity of pressing, cleaning and repairing uniforms, cadets are authorized to attend the evening lectures in civilian clothes whenever such course is necessary. W. S. BOWEN. Captain, U. S. Army, Commandant. June...