Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-09
OFFICERS TRAINING CAMP
HAS 1872 ENLISTED MEN
zIajor Fuqua Announces Names of Men Selected 1000
Applcants-No Former Rank Recognized-Win
Start at he Bottom

dJDIICdUIs
to the Officers Training Camp begun in
Camp Hancock last Saturday, 482 enlisted
men won tho coveted honor and are now
starting at the foot of the ladder, deter
mined to gain q commission il intelli-
genee. experience and determination are
tho deciding factors.
Major Stephen O. Fuqua, assistant chief
Of staff. announced the names Of the
successful candidates last week, almost
every branch of the service being rep
resented among the winners. As the
school progresses, an alternate list of
fifty men win be drawn upon. These
are considered the next best
1t is an assured fact that the Camp
Hancock Officers Training Camp will
have the finest personnel of any training
camp established in the United States,
for every man has been carefully Sc
lected. Company commanders first picked
the men to be examined and the weed
ing out process was conducted by the
examining board.
No police or guard duty will be ex-
pecsed Of the men. but they will be re-
sponsible for the condition OF their tents
and personal equipment. Civilian cooks
and walters will attend them in the mess
hall and they will wear the regulation
training camp hat cord of red, white
and blue, No former rank will be recog
equal bass at the bottom. The eff
cheney of tho man will be the determin-
ing factor in awarding the second lieu
teuantcy.
Quarters were provided for the men
on the site of the old Sixth Infantry
next to the old First Pennsylvania cav
airy, on Pennsylvania avenue. The reg-
mental infirnary of the old Sixth is be-
ing used as headquarters for the camp.
Following are the instructors:
Successful Candidates.
These arc the men who won their
spurs and are looking forward to a sec
ond lieutenantcy before summer smiles
again:
From Division quartermasters de
partment: Sergeant Martin D. Fetter-
off
Medical Corps, division headquar-
ters: William S. Kelly Jr.
Personnel officer 18th Division: Ser
geant Francis E. Leinback
103d Signal Battalion.
Headquarters detachment Kenneth
Burlington.
Company A: Privates Kelley S. Eden
and Alfred F. Mech.
Company B: Clyde A. Lutes, Donald
v. Sawhill and William A. Rattleman.
Company c.: William S. Cooper,
Thos. p. Colburn, Crank r. Kirk and
Hugh T. Atkinson.)
Headquarters, 2sth Division.
: James P. Kessler, Brewster c.
Schock and John K. Bender
Military Police.
Headquarters: Ordnance Sergeant
Charles E. Cooper and Regimental
Sergeant Major Robert r. Goise.
Sanitary Detachment.
Sergeant Harold 3. Curriden and
Sergeant Wade F.. Muldoon.
Second Company: Private Samuel L.
Loeb Bennett /. YarnelI, Horace II.
Roebuclz, William III. Diem and Cor
poral John E. Stevenson.
First Company: John ]. Downs.
1880 Troop, Military Police: Private
Lloyd v. Hayney.
10th Infantry.
Burton G.. Duffy Chauncey I.
Young, Walter E. Baker. II Martin
Lee, James A. Devine, Frank H. High
berger, Cloid S. Duck, Graham E
Somers, John T. Wurtz, Arthur L.
Byrne, Sergeant John Carrick. Ser
geant James Taylor, Sergeant John
Doolan, Corporal Daniel M. Mcguire,
Corporal Elmer =. Caddell, Bruce r.
Crissinger, Corporal Arthur G. Witt,
Joseph Malek, Alexander Hanna, Will
liam Caskey, Lawrence S. Little, D. r.
Finkenbinder, Donald T.. Davis, Harry
L. Elston, Charles r. Pinder. William
+. Caldwell, Donald E. Shumaker, Rob-
ert D. Bracken, Russell X. Davis, Fred
E, Bussard, James A. Lewis, r. q.
Goodbridge, r. r. Bridges, Thomas
Bridgon, Guy Day, Wilbert McColly,
Craig C. HILL James r. Truxal, Thorn
as W. Glennan, William w Hague, III.
r. Crawford, Walter D. Riggle, Ser
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