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Start-in-life: Sergeant-Major in the Spanish American...
...France was the body of a soldier suicide. Says he: there was a good deal of shooting in the War that never got into the newspapers. Two young miners hated their sergeant and decided to kill him. Later they reported to the adjutant: "'We've come to report, sir, that we are very sorry but we've shot our company sergeant-major.' The adjutant said: 'Good heavens how did that happen?' They answered: 'It was an accident, sir . . . we mistook him for our platoon sergeant.' So they were both shot...
...School of the Company in close order, and next week the schedule includes extended order and bayonet fighting. The bayonet work will be conducted according to the very latest British methods, as two members of the company attended the divisional bayonet school conducted by Captain Harrop and Sergeant-Major Richards of the British army at the S. A. T. C. Camp at Plattsburg this summer. Before outdoor drill is stopped by the weather, it is expected that the company will have finished the old extended order drill, and have started on the new American formations as taught this summer...
...order of the Commandant. S. N. DUNTON, Acting Sergeant-Major...
...Members of Military Science are directed to call at Sergeant-Major's office Monday, April 22nd, to obtain copies of the Field Exercises for Tuesday, April 23rd...