The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-10
PLANS CALL FOR
GUARD UNITS IN
MANY SECTIONS
Official Report Shows In
What Towns In Alabama
Various Units Will Be
Located
By FIRED H. GoRMLEY
Montgomery Bureau The Age-HeraId,
221-2 First National Bank Building

221-2 First National Bank Building
Montgomery, November 8.-(Spe-
cial.)-If plans for the organization
of the Alabama national guard are
carried out units will be in exist
ence in all sections of the state dur
ing the next year. The state military
department has received an official
report from the military department
showing in what towns of Alabama
the various units of the organiza-
lions soon to be formed will be 10
Gated.
The announcement of the state
military department regarding i'm
mediate plans for the organizations
work in Alabama follows:
The Secretary of War has just FUR
nished the military department.
through the militia bureau. the nu-
merical designations of the national
guard units of Alabama, and the :ol-
lowing will be of interest to the citi-
Gems of our state:
The division, which includes the
states of Alabama, Mississippi, Flor
Ida and Louisiana. are in the Sstn In
fantry division. The following spe-
cial divisional units are allotted to
organization:
Seventy-seve infantry brigade
headquarters company Tuscaloosa.
Regimental headquarters company
167th infantry, Montgomery.
Regimen1al service company, 167th
infantry Gadsden.
Regimental Howitzer company
1s7th infantry. Talladega-
First battalion 167th infantry: Bn.
Hq. Co., Montgomery; Company A,
Montgomery; Company b, Demopolis;
Company C. Selma; Company d en-. G.
Coz, Opelika.
Second battalion 167th infantry:
Bn. Hq. Co. oxford; Company e. An
niston; Company +, Gadsden; Com
pany @, Alabama city; Company H
IN. G. Coz, Guntersville.
Third battalion 167 infantry: Bn.
Hq. Co.. Birmingham; Company ],
EnsIey; Company x, Birmingham;
Company l. Birmingham, Company
M IN. CT. Coz, Birmingham.
The 141st field artillery battalion,
rs MN, horse drawn. Battery A, Luz
verne; Battery B, Geneva; Battery C,
Troy
The 140th ambulance company.
Scottsboro; the Hath veterinary CONF
pany, Camden; the $3.50 motor trans
port company Ft. Deposit; seth di-
visional signal company, Birming-
ham; 39th divisional tank company,
Ozark; 135th observation squadron,
Birmingham; 1880 photo section, Bir-
mingham; 65th machine gun squad
ron headquarters and three troops
have been allotted to three communi-
ties and counties in south central
Alabama; 23d cavalry division, head
quarters troop, Birmingham; Troop
C, 109th cavalry, Hartselle; first and
second companies. coast artillery, Mo-
bile.
Headquarters and service company
1880 engineers general service),
Florence; Company &c 1884 engineers,
Sheffield; Company f, 1883 engineers,
Athens; Company G, 1884 engineers,
) Huntsville.
Only Ones Authorized
The above units are the only ones
that the state is authorized to or
ganize by the war department within
the present fiscal year. Some of the
units mentioned above have not been
organized in the communities men
toned, and the state wishes 1T to be
understood that II those communities
to which units have been allotted for
immediate organization are not suffi-
GENTLY interested to take up the
work of organization at once, that
the military department of-the state
will be glad TO take up with any
other community the matter Of or
ganizing the unorganized units. How
ever. it is the policy of the national
and state government to organize
units of the same branch of the sew
ice in adjoining counties in the state,
50 matter of military expediency in
Instruction, administration and re-
placement in time of active service.
2. Because of lack of federal ap-
preparation. the following units are
not allowed for immediate organia-
ton, but by law are to be organ
lied by June so, 1924:
Thirty ninth infantry division
headquarters.
Thirty-ninth infantry divisional
headquarters detachment.
Thirty ninth infantry divisional
headquarters company.
Headquarters, headquarters bat
tory and service battery. One Hun
dred and Firty-first field artillery.
One Hundred and Fourteenth am
munition train, two companies.
Ambulance battalion headquarters,