Milford chronicle., 1936-06-26
NATIONAL GUARD
READY FOR CAMP
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until $3.50 o'clock IN the afternoons,
and the recreation period will be
from 1880 to 4:50 o'clock, for swim
ming, athletics, and competitions.
The night period, from o'clock
until taps, will be devoted to guard
mount, paTades and amusements,
but searchlight drill may be con-
Quoted in lieu of morning drill on
approval of the executive officer. If
weather conditions require the fir
ing Of service or record practice
from $3.50 to O'Clock, recreation
will be from $3.50 in the morning
to noon. In inclement weather,
schools will be substituted for NOR
ming infantry and artillery drill.
Schools To Be Conducted
Schools will be conducted for
command and staff, battery officers, !
and nOn-cOmmissiOned officers and I
enlisted men. The regimental com
mander will make a field inspection |
August 8 and board of ohiceFs to 1
be appointed by the Corps Area
commander will make a held inspec-
tion August II.
Enlisted men who have not had
two months service or completed
recruit instruction and passed the
required tests will be formed into
a recruit battery for training in the
Of the first week, and
those who then fail to meet the
tests will drill with their units in
the mornings of the second week
-
The afternoon.
instruction also will be given in ,
he use of gas masks, and swimming ,,
will be included in the
periods. Physical exami- ,
nation of officers is set for Friday :
August IA. Each unit :
will be required to have ;
100 per cent of the minimum en-
listed strength present at the camp.
Colonel Duncan announced that
III units will be moved from their
armOries to camp on Au- d
ust l, without requiring second j
rips of any of the trucks. Six hours b
or convoy to camp md six hours S
Dr return will be allowed. Complete a
onvOy details will be issued next F
lOnth. L
Pioneers To Have Reunion t,
A reunion of veterans Of the 59th o
iOneer Regiment, which served I
Verseas during the World War, will
e held on Saturday and Sunday, Au- {
ust and 8, during the annual
ncampment of the 19Sth Artillery.
The regiment comprised about g.
10 officers and men, the majority
ON Delaware and the rest from
1rthern New Jersey, southern New th
ork, and other parts of the cOun- III
v. The late Colonel J. Warner Reed X
Wilmington was the commanding &C
hcer. The highest ranking officer fil
the outfit surviving is former Ad- je
tant J. Austin Ellison, who was
lutenant colonel in the Pioneers. in
Plans for the reunion were actu- 81
ly started at the National Guard n,
campment last year when a num- or
r of the veteran Pioneers assem- M
ID and selected a committee, head si,
by Colonel John P. LeFevre, Do e.,
r. retired, as chairman. The COM ~
ttee met in the State Armory at ~
lmington' recently and discussed ~
ms for the affair, fixing the def ~ ~
e dates for it. Some committee 81, 81
mbers will meet in Wilmington ~,
ain next Monday night to send out ~ i'i
tees to the last known addresses
all members of the Pioneers. lOL
yards will be directed to each,
cards to be returned to Captain orc
IN ]. Dugan, committee secretary, sp'
the armOry. Sleeping accOmmoda- TOT
rs and nominally-priced meals in lis'
np will be arranged for all who VeI
end. COZ
his years reunion, it is hoped, as
l result in the formation of VIII
manent organization. viii
.mong those who attended the list
citing we're: Adjt. Gen. Weller E. bee
yer, Col. George J. Schulz, Colo L
LeFeVre, Lieut-Col. Silas B. /. NIT
lcan, Major Henry C. Ray, and uri
L. Horace N. Wilkinson. che
he battalion commanders in the pra
neers were: Major w. c. Lank, con
ford, first: Major Ernest c. VIII;
ks. now of Denver, second, and DOS
onel LeFevre, then a major, Do con
third. Colonel Schulz, present and
ional Guard regimental COM con
lder, was a first lieutenant in the she,
neers. title