Word: french
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Taking advantage of President Lowell's offer made during the latter part of the Summer the War Department detailed 550 newly commissioned Reserve Officers to report to Captain Shannon at Cambridge on August 19 for three weeks training under Lieutenant Colonel Azan and the other members of the French Military Mission at the University. The men were selected from the various training camps of the East, and consisted for the most part of first and second lieutenants, although the number included also six majors and 98 captains. Unfortunately, Captain Shannon was ordered to Washington before the men reported...
...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 and tactics of defense and attack. There was begun the valuable series of lectures which extended...
...relieved by the third. At the conclusion of the academic year on June 25 the companies moved into barracks in the Freshman Dormitories. Captains Cordier and Bowen and also the regular non-commissioned officers were at this time ordered away from Cambridge by the War Department, but the French officers and Captain Shannon remained. During the month in barracks the time was taken up with maneuvers on Soldiers Field, military map sketching, trench construction at Fresh Pond, and combat exercises at Waverly and elsewhere. Section meetings in the mornings and afternoon were devoted to the study of the Infantry Drill...
Maneuvers under the French Officers were held throughout the period of the encampment, by night as well as during...
Although the instruction given by the French Mission, their interest and zeal in the work and their skill in conducting the exercises were responsible for the great success of the R. O. T. C., no less credit is due to Captain James A. Shannon, who was in charge of the regiment for the greater part of the three months. Less known to the University at large, but hardly less deserving, was the part played by Major Theodore Lyman '93 in handling the finances of the Corps. Had it not been for his work at several critical periods in the earlier...