Milford chronicle., 1956-05-18
Service Slants

FORT BENNING, Ga. = Private
First Glass Ernest L. Ward, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Linwood Ward
Route /, Delmar, Del, recently
fired in the Third Army rife and
pistol matches at The Infantry Cen
ter here.
Ward fired for the Fort Rucker,
Ala, pistol team in the 19-team
meet. The matches top scorers
will become members of the Third
Army team.
Ward is regularly assigned as an
assistant gunner in Company M OF
the 351st Regimental Company
Team at Fort Rucker. He entered
the Army in January, 1856, and
completed basic training at Fort
Rucker.
The twenty-one-year-old soldier
was graduated from Delmar High
School in 1853.
FORT BELVOIR, Va. - Second
Lieutenant Donald A. Ross, son of
MIR. and Mrs. Carl P. Ross. 527
Nylon Boulevard, Seaford, Del, is
in the troop duty phase of six
months of active duty under the
Reserves Forces Act at Fort Bel
voir, Va.
Lieutenant Ross was graduated
from the officers basic course at
The Engineer School, Fort Bel
voir, before his assignment to the
10th Engineer Group at the fort.
officers commissioned by the
ROTC college program may COM
plete their military service in To-
cal Army Reserve or National
Guard units.
Lieutenant Ross entered the
Army in January of this year.
He was graduated from Clark
son College of Technology, Pots
dam, N. Y, in 1855, and is a mem
Der of ri Tau Sigma fraternity. His
wife, Louise, is now living in Alex
andria, Va.
FORT MCCLELLAN, ALA.-First
1t. James S. Charlton, 25, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Charlton
Route 1, Dover, Del, recently grad.
uated from the Army's Chemical
Corps School at Fort Mcclellan
Ala.
Lieutenant Charlton completed
the schools Chemical, Biological
and Pathological officers Course
He entered the Army in July
1853 and was last stationed at Fort
Belvoir, Va.
The lieutenant is a graduate oi
Clarkson College of Technology.
YOKOHAMA, JAPAN-Army Pvt
Wayne r. Brown, son of Odotf
Brown, Harrington, Del, recently
was assigned to the S056th Army
Unit at Yokohama Engineer Depot
Japan.
Brown, a member of the units
Detachment c, entered the Army
in October 1855 and was stationed
at Fort Gordon, Ca, before arriv'
ing in Japan last month.
The twenty-year-old soldier was
graduated from Harrington Higf
School in 1855.
Todendorf. Germany - Pvt. John
w. Mills, Of Rehoboth Beach. Del.
recently completed a month of fir
ing at towed targets with his unit
the DIST Antiaircraft Artillery Bat.
talon, at NATO's Baltic Sea range
in Germany.
The 75-mm "Skysweeper" guT
battalion received both combat
training and proficiency tests il
its semi-annual trip to the range.
Mills, SON of Mr.. and Mrs
Charles w Mills. A Maryland
Avenues is assigned 40 the battal
ions Headquarters Battery He en-
tered the Army in October 1855
and completed basic training a.
Fort Jackson, S. G. He was grad.
uated from Swarthmore (Pa.) Col
lege in 1855.
oath Division, Korea Pvt
Richard ]. Starr. 10, son of Harold
S. Starr, 112 Shipley Street, Sea.
ford, Delaware, recently arrived il
Korea and is now a member of the
oath Infantry Division.
The oath is enc of two American
divisions stationed in Korea. 1t was
the first U. S. unit to fight in the
Korean conflict.
Starr, a rifleman in Company
of the divisions 10Th Regime MT
entered the Army in October 1876!
and completed basic training a,
Fort Jackson. 6. @