Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-06
Transfer Order
Affects Number
of M. C. Officers

An additional transfer Of machine gun
officers to join the divisions now being
formed throughout the country has been
ordered.
These officers ike their predecessors
are all graduates Of the Machine Gun
Training Center which IS turning our
expert machine gun officers and men with
more speed and accuracy than the kals-
ers realization Of his ultimate defeat.
Machine gun officers to command bat
talions IN the new divisions. recently
graduated from the Machine Gun School,
closely follow the enlisted men sent TO
form the nucleus for the machine gun
units.
The feature Of the new machine gun di-
visions now being formed Is that all off
GERS and men were trained and are ex-
per!enced In ali the various duties re-
CURED Of machine gun unit
The efficiency Of the machine gunners
at this camp has been strikingly Illus
trated many times when competitive dem
onstratiOns Of accuracy and skill we're
displayed in many cases records for
mounting loading and diemounting the
machine guns were broken, with speed
and accuracy which aroused the admira-
ton Of the allied machine gun missions
who were attached TO this camp as IN
structors.
In a contest last week one Of the ma
chine guuners mounted machine gun
blindfolded in the remarkable time of
SO seconds The merit Of the feat can
be realized when it is understood that 1t
requires extraordinary ability to judge
the exact place where the Tripod is
planted in order to mount the machine
gun accurately.
That the rapid fire officers and men
win render splendid service is an assured
Officers Affected
The officers affected by this transfer
are as follows:
To the Ninth Division, Camp Sheridan.
Alabama: Lieut.-Col Thomas Hood Cum
ninghsm Chief Machine Gun officer and
Second Lieutenants Russell Lane, Otto
Roth, Almus r. Evans, L. Jones. John c.
Kelley W r. Rand y S. Burney, Carl
r. Stebbus Charles r. Barthomew John
r. Hattery. Raymond G. Smith. ]. w
Livingston Fred 2. Feliz Edward NJ
Sc0vile Stewart F, Swift Herbert
Wichelns. Edward Elmer and William J.
Hart
To the Tenth Division, Camp Funston.
Kansas Lieut-Col, Samuel Marten and
Second Lieuteuants Dudley II Willard
Irving w Thompson, Rex b Dunlap, Jas
r. c. Buughuer, Alvin NJ Smith, Lester
A Chickerng, William 3 ROhrbaugh Os-
TO C Garrs Louis q. Hutto, Henry w.
Eskew, Clinton j.. Hawkins. Leland r
Wood Bernard y. Tucker, Louis Fl.
Bown. Floyd r. BeaU. william G. King
ensmith. Andrew x MCGOWAN and Ever
cite II Fuller
To the Twelfth Division, Camp Devens,
Massaclusetts l.leut.-CoL ifa a.
Slnllh a49 Seco4o tsleu tI5stlls oWeh g.
htesleri N&Her ! stone f1ugar y Jei o.
Ifles, Leroy Llpihah ~ =. f1etlst 20 o.
WARD inter lI Eqlauna ~ Ac1 army! az
John r. Mccarthy, George L. Arnold.
Charles + Wait, Elmer c. Startup James
r Gale, Galen l.. A1bcrtson, Fred W
Holmes, r E. Clausen and Russell l.
Mustard
To the Thirteenth Division. Camp
Lewis Washington Second Lieutenants
Ferdinand c Smith Eueuy A Dodge
James r. Fisher James ~ Higgins, Der
uard A. HeHner Archibald Jones Arthur
f, Ager Ma III. Alexander, Charles s
Warren II, T. tulbertsou, J. A. prou.
glarence a. BunneH' OllVer kornagay,
waiter al. Manning, Frank F. Ftnuegan.
George A. Harmon, Larry =. Huttieson,
Lee S Richter and Robert II 5onle
10 the Fifteenth Division, Camp Lo-
gan, Texas Lieut. Col W. f. G Jepson
and Majors Terry a. Humble, Robert r,
y. Mccullough with Second Lieuteuants
William G.. Blemoleyi Hugh Edgley, Lee
roy Hoffman John p Abbott Nelson +.
Fisher, Barnett Buck Leon w. Fourier,
Dewitt Lee, Winfield Il. Newton, James
a, Seogglns Harvey J Kicks, p. p, VIII
hanson. Eugene L Collins. John F. Han
and Colonel r. Carnes
TO the sixteenth Division Camp Kear-
uey. California Lieut. Col William w
Edward Major Duncan e. Richart and
Second Lieutenants Anthony c. Pariss.
Ellis Taylor Joseph r. Eetterer, Harry
K Lieberman George Fl Stroud, Albert
J Bglyer I'D ward " Water r Il epb