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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain C. E. Russell, who will have charge of the work at the University, is making plans for the formation of a company composed of members of the University, and when 40 men are enlisted the company will be organized. A regular company in the Signal Corps is composed of 77 men, 30 of whom are noncommissioned officers...
...Cunningham is captain of the company and is how supervising the enlisting. The training and instruction of the company will begin as soon as the enrolments are complete, probably sometime next week. The work will consist of some regular infantry drill and some theoretical instruction. Lectures in first aid to the injured, elementary hygiene and camp sanitation, administration and customs of the service, and elementary nursing will be given...
This company is being formed in connection with those which the War and Navy Departments have instructed the Red Cross to organize. The functions of the Red Cross Ambulance Companies correspond with those of the Evacuation Ambulance Companies of the regular army. They will probably be used mainly in the transportation of the sick and wounded from the front to hospitals along the line of communication as far back as the base hospitals. But although their duties are mainly to furnish transportation for the injured the personnel may be used in whole or in part to man hospital trains, hospital...
...French officers detailed for service here will continue in their work at Cambridge, it was asserted, until the completion of the comprehensive program of instruction planned for the University Corps. Captain Cordier, as well as Captains Bowen and Shannon and the various non-commissioned officers of the Regular Army now on duty here will also remain with the University throughout the period of intensive training...
...French officers will deliver many of the former, illustrating their addresses by official French War films. Beginning next Monday the drill periods will extend from 8 to 12 in the morning and from 1.30 to 5.30 in the afternoon. Each day at 5 there will be a regular retreat formation followed by a parade. By the following week bayonet drills and target practice with sub-calibre rifles will commence