Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-05
RICHMOND MEN NAMED
FOR OFFICERS SCHOOL
Third Training Course Gets Under
way at Camp Lee With
Many Virginians.
ELEVEN ARE FROM THIS CITY
Total of sol Candidates Made Hap
py by Announcement Of Decision
OF Division Examining Board.
Three Deaths at Cantonmcnt.
ELEVEN ARE FROM THIS CITY

CAMP LEE. January 4.-Thrcc hun
dred and ninc;y-one men were made
glad tonight when the decision OF the
division examining board. composed of
Colonel Fitzhugh Lee. Major George T.
llawcs and Major Bruce II. Campbell.
was announced. This number OF men.
rhe majority OF whom are now non
commissioned officers. will report to-
morrow morning TO Lieutcnant-Colonel
James Love, the comma ndant Of the
ihird-linc officers training school
Here they will receive a three month
course OF Instruction, which is calcu-
lated to qualify them for commissions
! IN the army of the United States
While at the school the men Will re-
tain their member sh;p In the com
| paniesit OF which, they are now mem-
bers. and IL they should fail TO pass
the examination at the end Of their
course OF instruction they will be re-
turned To their commands.
OF the tifty-ninc men who we're ap-
pointed from the Three Hundred and
! Eighteenth Infantry. there were eleven
thermometers. These were: Private r.
Holiday. from the Supply Company:
from Headquarters Company. Sergeant
Major T.. c. Worthington Company ~,
Sergeant L. w. Koontz Company R).
Sergeant NJ. w. Lee and Sergeant |.
| bernstein: from Company T.. Se-Gcan,s
W. Sitterdng, L. G.. Floyd. W. Smith
and \. W. browning: From Company
]. Sergeant II. Davis: from Company
*. Sergeant W. Wright.
DAVID DUNLOP AMONG THOSE
WHO WILL ATTEND SCHOOL
Another Richmonder was Corporal $.
r. Hurt. OF the Three Hundred and
Nineteenth Ambulance Company. Jo-
seph L. Moaby. also OF Richmond, who
is member OF Headquarters Company.
will attend the school as Il designated
representative of the Virginia Poly
technic Institute.
An appointment of interest is that
of David Dunlop Supply Company.
Three Hundred and Seventeenth In
fantry. Dunlop is from Chesterfield
County. and his claim for exemption on
agricultural grounds prior TO his being
forwarded In the quota from his county
attracted consid derable attention. He
was recently assigned to duty with the
supply Company. having been IN Head
quarters Company since his arrival at
camp.
infantry, which is also composed OF
NirGinians. will be represented by sixty
men.
AT the line officers camp there Will
probably be CTS men. In addition 10
tho 39l men appointed to-day. there
will lie 172 men from the following
schools, University OF Virginia. Nir-
einia !.oly.echnic Institute. Virginia
Academy and 81. Johns OF AIanlus.
Of this section will send 10 men TO
the school.
vIRGINIANS APPOINTED
TO ATTEND SCHOOL
F:csides the Richmond men. the fol-
lowing members OF the Virginia regi-
mcnts were appointed TO the school:
THREE HUNDRED AND
SEVENTEENTH INFANTRY
Medical Observation-Disclosures Will
liam IL. Nair
Machinc.tiun Company First Ser
eeant II. i. i;opp.
headquarters rompany--privatc \,
! T. Johnson. ScrseantMajor W. $.
rrzyb ybyszc"ski. Sergeant Major l.. L..
crowcli. Sergeant g.. =. Griffith. SER
Scant Major Irving Compton. l'rivatc
;. &. Sprinkle, Private I. u. Aieman
First Sergeant i. Mackenzie .Ir.. Eat
TALON Sorgeant-Majo ". II. Smith.
supply Company. II irivatc David
punlGp.
Company .A.-SerGeant u. NJ. Howell.
Sergeant J. j. Coleman, Sergeant II. f.
Coz, Sergeant William l.. Sour5. Cor
porai John III. Petty. Sergeant +. Il.
Bobbit.
Company R.-SerEeaut G.. r. I.arus
Sergeant +. L. Bcamer Sergeant 1. T.
Maddccks, Private J. l.. Gdanico, Cor
por;l W. S. Smith.
Company C.-priva,c ). i. Shel-
bourne, Corporal II. y. Russell Ser
geant q. Smiley, Sergeant J.. C.. Eowcli,
First Sergeant S r. Seblett. Private
William X. Fletcher.
Company D.--Corporal w. NJ. Brown.
{contln6cd on Fourth Pase,)