Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-25
MEDICAL CORPS
IS MUSTERED IN
Hospital Arm First Of Virginia
Volunteers to Enter Fed
eral Service.
RUSHING WORK AT CAMP
All Commands Ordered Out Will
Be in Richmond on
Tuesday.
RUSHING WORK AT CAMF

Licutenant-Coloncl a. y. Stark and
Captain Arthur NJ. Shipp United States
Army, yesterday mustered the Medical
Corps Of the Virginia Volunteers into
the Federal service. giving that branch
of the State militia the distinction Of
hcing one of the first organizations in
the country TO become members of the
volunteer army OF the United States
under the terms OF the Hay-Chamber-
lain reorganization act, which has
become effective as an emergency
measure.
Under the reorganization plan. Lieu
tcna Colonel Junius +. Lynch, sur
gcon- general in Nirginia's military or
ganizatioD. now becomes major in
the volunteer army; Major Giles B.
Cook, OF the First Regiment. Medical
Corps. retains his former rank. and II.
Norton Mason and W. Nelson Mercer
have been designated as captain and
first lieutenant. The officers underwent
the physical examination yesterday
afternoon at the Grays' Armory.
ELEVEN OF NINETEEN
PASS PHYSICAL TEST
Out of the nineteen members OF the
Hospital Corps who applied for admis-
stood successfully the rigid test OF
physical ability prescribed by army
regulations Eight OF these will he
assigned 10 duty with the First Regi-
ment, and three Will go with the newly
constituted First Cavalry Squadron, for
merly designated as the Light Infantry
Blues Battalion
Lieutenant Colonel Stark is a mem
Der of the Medical Corps OF the United
States Army. and was transferred here
from Fort Monroe to assist Captain
Shipp, who has been designated as chief
mastering officer at CAMP Stuart. mus
ter the Virginia Volunteers into the
Federal service. The riedical examina-
tions are conducted h" Iolcnel Stark.
Enlisted men in the Hospital Corps
who stood successful tests are: Marshall
w. Sinclair sergeant of the first class;
Stuart d. Scott. sergeant; Horace G.
Dodd. Harry G. Inman. Leonard II. May
nard Thomas T. Sharpley. Leon ].
Walton and Eugene +. Wittcn, of the
First Regiment, and John NJ. Hughes.
Henderson r. Harris and John Mcguire,
OF the Blues
UNDER CANVAS AT CAMP
on TUESDAY NIGHT
Orders have been issued by the Ad-
iutant-Gencral 10 commanding officers
OF every military unit in the Virginia
Volunteers included in the mobilization
cal! from the War Department to move
their men to Camp Henry Carter Stuart
on Tuesday. Special railroad facilities
have been provided for the troop move
ment To Richmond. and little trouble is
anticipated In converting the Fair
Grounds site into an armed camp of
troops by nightfall OF the day speci-
fed.
Immediate steps will be taken on the
arrival OF the men to transfer them
from the State militia to a part of the
volunteer army OF the United States
under the terms Of the Hay-Chamber-
lain act. now effective. Captain a. NJ
Ship. mastering officer for the War
Department in Virginia. and Colonel
Alexander Stark, United States Army
medical officer, have already mustered
in the Medical Corps, which will assist
in the general muster
Major ]. G. Bowman, Of the Field
Hospital Corps East Radford. has been
directed by the Adjutant-Cieneral to
proceed with his stan of assistants TO
the camp site to-day, so as to be in
readiness for any emergency that may
arise. The corps. consisting OF forty
men and Ave officers, will he quartercd
In the Hermitage Road corner of the
Fair Grounds, at the junction of the
hermitage Road with the Boulevard.
The order for troop movement went
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