San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-29
OFFICERS HERE! /
|. ORDERED AWAY !.
To NEW DUTIES
Seventeen Will Go to In
fantry School at
Benning.
SIX TO LINE SCHOOL
Colonel Lincoln and COL
onel Robinson Both
Transferred.
SIX TO LINE SCHOOL

War Department orders issued last
week will transfer more than thirty
army officers on duty in San Antonio
to other posts. Some officers were as
signed to foreign duty in China, the
Hawaiian Islands and Philippine
Islands.
Orders announced Saturday cad for
the transfer Of Lieut.. Col. frederick
Kelland, Twenty-third Infantry; Maj.
John G. MacComb, First Infantry;
Maj. Albert VI. Jones, Ninth Infantry;
Lieut.. Col. William G. Morris, Inspec-
tor Generals office, Eighth Corps Area
headquarters; Maj. Robert NJ. Cheney,
Fourth Cavalry, and Maj. George d.
Murphy, Eighth Corps Area headquar-
tiers, to Fort Leavenworth on dates
between August 20 and September 8
for duty as student officers in the
Army School of the Line. Maj. Chris
tian II. Dewey, Medical Corps, station
hospital. Fort Sam. Houston, was or
dered Saturday to report for duty at
Walter Reed Hospital in Washington,
D. c.
Benning Orders In.
In previous order twenty other of
ficers located in San Antonio were
transferred to other stations, the ma
jority of whom will attend the In
| fantry School at Fort Benning. The
seventeen officers who have been as
signed to the infantry school are:
Cant. Charles S. Kilburn. aide TO Mai.
| Gen. +. NJ. Lewis, corps area COM
mander; Capt. Nelson NJ. Walker,
Capt. Corday W. Cutchin, Capt. A. H.
PAXTON, Capt. Bert II. Lennon, Capt.
+. p. Strout, Capt. Ernest John, Capt.
Oscar Kahn, Capt. +. c. Aver. Capt.
John C. Cody, Capt. j. ]. Harvey,
Capt. Trevor S. Whallen, Capt. Hugh
/ d. Adair. Capt. John NJ. Weir, Capt.
Charles II. Wilson. Capt. Frank NJ.
Moore and Capt. Charles Lewis.
First Lieut.. Harlan W. Holden,
Brooks Field, was assigned to duty at
Fort Bragg; Capt. Hollie L. Mason,
Judge Advocate Generals Department,
was assigned to duty in the Judge Adj
vocatc Generals office in Washing
ton, d. c., and Capt. Samuel L.
Brown, Medical Corps, was assigned
to duty in the Philippine Islands, sail
ing August IL.
Other army orders of interest to San
Antonians are those announcing the
transfer Of Col. Charles s. Lincoln.
assistant chief of staff for training at
Eighth Corps Area headquarters.
Colonel Lincoln has been ordered to
duty in the Ninth Corps Area. Lieut..
Col. Oliver p. Robinson, Eighth Corps
Area headquarters. has been ordered to
Fort Riley, and Maj. Henry H. Dab
ney, corps area recruiting officer. has
been ordered to foreign duty with the
| Fifteenth Infantry in China. Capt.
/ Norman d. Brophy of Kelly Field is
now on leave before reporting for
foreign duty in the Hawaiian Islands.
Some Ordered Here. -
/ Although many Of the vacancies
made by the transfer of San Antonio
officers have not been filled, an
nouncement of few officers who are
TO fill these vacancies has been made.
!, Orders issued by the War Department.
| Saturday include the names OF Lieut..
Col. Lochlin W. Coffee. Twenty-fifth
Infantry; Lieut.. Col. Paul NJ. Good
rich. Mai. Carl Caspton and Maj.
Robert X. Alcott, all of the Thirty
eighth Infantry, who have been as
signed to duty with the Second Divi-
sion at Fort Sam Houston. These OF
ficers are now in the advanced class
at the infantry school at Camp Ben
ming, Georgia.
Capt. John Z. Stanton, Medical
Corps, has been ordered to report az
Kelly Field upon his arrival in the
United States, and Capt. Gwynne Con-
rad. Quartermaster Corps, has been
relieved of further duty at Fort Ham
ilton, New York, and will report at
Austin, Texas, as quartermaster in
] structor of the Texas National Guard.