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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Since their transfer to Plattsburg Sergeants Bender and Lynch have received lieutenant's commissions in the Reserve. Bender had acted as Regimental Sergeant Major while detailed with...
Captain Constant Cordier, U. S. A., has lately been commissioned a major and is working at the Army War College in Washington where he went at the end of last June...
Captain James A. Shannon has been made a major in his own regiment, the 11th Cavalry, but has been assigned to the 42nd, or "Rainbow," Division, at Camp Mills, Mineola, L. I. He is second in command of the divisional ammunition, sanitary, supply, and headquarters trains, and is in charge of the military police companies. There are three vacancies in those companies, which are later to see line service, and there is an opportunity for members of the R. O. T. C. to fill them. The Rainbow Division, which is composed of former national guard troops from 24 states, will...
Professor Theodore Lyman '97, who was treasurer and adjutant of the R. O. T. C., was made a captain in the Signal Reserve Corps shortly after the training camp broke up and has already sailed for France. He chose this commission rather than that of a major in the Intelligence Department in order to get to the front. His experience as professor of physics and his knowledge of wireless will be of great value to him in his new capacity...
...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 through the course, treating in turn such various...