The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-07-04
COIQpeb M'Mahon win Command
Ninth Field Artillery and COL
oneI Atkinson, infantry
COMMISSION PERSONNEL OF
NEW UNITS ARE ANNOUNCED
Enlisted Men May Be Taken From
excessIn First and Second 81
Infantry

Following the announcement that
there are to be created on Oahu a new
regiment of infantry and a new regi-
ment of heavy field artillery, despatch.
ea from the war department yesterday
give the personnel OF officers Of the
follows:
The Ninth Field Artillery--Col. John
+. Mcmahon, from lieutenant c colonel,
First Field Artillery; Lieut.. Colonel
William :. Guignard. from major, First
ield Artillery; Maj. Henry W. But
Nor, from captain, Sixth Field Artill.
cry; Capts. John w. Kilbreth, Jr., vii.
liam S. Browning, Raymond s. Pratt,
Samuel Frankenberger and Henry 8.
kilbourne, all formerly captains in the
First Field Artillery; Capts. George H.
Paine, Harry Pfel and Herman Erlen-
hotter, all former first lieutenants in
the First Field Artillery.
The following who were second lieu
tenants in the First Field Artillery are
now second lieutenants in the Ninth
Field Artillery: Clyde A. Selleck, Rob
ert C. F. Goetz, at present aide-de.
camp to Brig Gen. Clarence r. Ed
wards, Ancon, Canal Zone; Joseph An.
drews, Harold c. Vandeveer, John N
Hauser and Joseph o. DAILY. No sec
Ond lieutenants have yet been assign.
cd to the new regiment, so far as known
ut local army headquarters, and the
dearth of officers of that grade in the
artillery service, or in the entire army
FOR that matter, makes it unlikely that
any will be assigned soon.
Thirty second Infantry
The new infantry regiment is to be
known as the Thirty second Infantry,
and has for its Commanding officer Col.
Benjamin w. Atkinson, formerly lieu
t"naht.eOlOnel in the Second Infantry.
The lieutenant colonel of the new regi.
mcnt is Michael J. Lehman, formerly
major, Second Infantry, and at present
on duty as acting chief of staff, Ha-
wuiian Department. Lieut.. Col Francis
r. Lacey, Jr., formerly major in the
FIRST Infantry, is attached to the
Thirty second Infantry, as an extra
heutenant-colonel, and the majors all
come from the captains of the Twenty
fifth Infantry, who have been promoted,
viz: Samuel p. Lyon, Henry +. Eames
and Rufus +. Longan. The captains
of the Thirty-second all come from first
heutenants of infantry at present sta
toned in Oahu, as follows: Capts Fred
w. Pitts, John d. Burnett, James A.
Tho, Thomas H. Lowe, Walter F.. Prid-
gen, Charles c. Bankhead, Byard Sneed,
all from the First Infantry: Capts.
John b. Richardson, Paul r. Manches.
ter, Clyde r. Abraham, Lloyd R. Fred.
"ndall, all formerly of the Second In
fantry, and the following from the
Twenty-hith Infantry: Capts. Charles
\. Meals, Robert p HarbOld, John B.
COrbly and George c. Keleher
The first licutenants also come from
the organizations stationed here, have
been promoted from second lieutenants,
and are ms follows: First Lieuts. John
X. Baxter Hugh b. Keen, James N.
Pealr, Otis X. Sadtler, from the First
Infantry; William A. McCulloch, Rufus
=. Bratton, Carl J.. Cohen, Robert G.
Calder, Douglas r. Greene, Charles B.
Lyman, W0Odfn G. Jones, Second In.
fantry, and from the Twenty fifth, the
following; Bernard p. Lamb, Alfred F..
Sawkins, Carl Spatz, and Howard Mill
gan.
Short First Lieutenants
Only fifteen first lieutenants have
been provided for the new regiment,
while the new national defense act
provides for sixteen first lieutenants
in regiment of infantry after the
first Of the present month No second
Hcut"n0ntS have as yet been made
available for the Thirty-second regi-
mrnt, and nothing is definitely known
"s to when any will be assigned to the
organization.
No official information has been re.
c"iNed concerning the enlisted person
mel Of the new regiment but it is the
general belief that the nucleus for the
organizations will be taken from the
excess in strength of the First and Sec
"hd Infantry regiments, and thai the
First Field Artillery will furnish some
enlisted personnel for the new Ninth
regiment, which has none Of its equip.
mcnt at the present time, assigned to it.
Where tn" new regiments will be sta
toned has not yet been announced by