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GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 162.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON, August 1, 1907.

The national team match, the national individual match, and the national pistol match for the current year, prescribed in General Orders, No. 47, War Department, March 8, 1907, will be held at Camp Perry, Ottawa County, Ohio, commencing August 28.

The executive officer of the national match, Lieutenant Colonel Robert K. Evans, 5th Infantry, United States Army, will have charge of the same, making arrangements therefor. The teams from the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the United States Naval Academy, the States, Territories, and the District of Columbia that are to enter this match will be provided at the range with the usual tentage and quartermaster's supplies for their accommodation while in camp. The captains of the teams and those intending to enter the individual matches will give the executive officer of the range the earliest possible information as to the accommodations required, in order to enable him to make the best practicable arrangements, including messing facilities, for them.

The composition of the Army teams will be as follows:

United States Army Cavalry Team.

Captain William H. Hay, 10th Cavalry, captain.

Captain Malin Craig, 1st Cavalry, coach.

Sergeant Michael Kelly, Company C, Corps of Engineers,

spotter.

Captain Charles A. Romeyn, 2d Cavalry.

Captain Thomas Q. Donaldson, jr., 8th Cavalry.

Captain Hu B. Myers, 6th Cavalry.

Captain Reginald E. McNally, 8th Cavalry.

First Lieutenant William H. Clopton, jr., 13th Cavalry. First Lieutenant Theodore H. Dillon, Corps of Engineers. First Lieutenant Morton C. Mumma, 2d Cavalry.

First Lieutenant Lewis Foerster, 5th Cavalry.

First Lieutenant Charles W. Van Way, 12th Cavalry.
First Lieutenant Charles C. Winnia, 5th Cavalry.

First Lieutenant Clifton R. Norton, 14th Cavalry.

First Lieutenant Alexander H. Davidson, 13th Cavalry.

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Quartermaster Sergeant Edward C. Jackson, Troop D, 14th

Cavalry.

Sergeant Alfred G. Horn, Troop F, 12th Cavalry.

Sergeant James J. Gibney, Company M, Corps of Engineers. United States Army Infantry Team.

Major David C. Shanks, 4th Infantry, captain.

First Lieutenant William A. Alfonte, 18th Infantry, spotter. Captain Fred L. Munson, 9th Infantry.

Captain Paul A. Wolf, 4th Infantry.

Captain Theodore A. Baldwin, jr., 8th Infantry. First Lieutenant George C. Shaw, 27th Infantry. First Lieutenant Walter B. McCaskey, 21st Infantry. First Lieutenant Arthur L. Bump, 25th Infantry. Second Lieutenant Townsend Whelen, 30th Infantry. Second Lieutenant Smith A. Harris, 14th Infantry. Second Lieutenant Joseph O. Mauborgne, 6th Infantry. Second Lieutenant Samuel M. Parker, 29th Infantry. First Sergeant James A. Landers, Company M, 12th Infantry.

Sergeant Richard N. Davidson, 93d Company, Coast Artillery Corps.

Sergeant Martin B. Dunbar, Company E, 4th Infantry. Sergeant Oscar Fox, Company M, 25th Infantry. Sergeant John S. Skees, Company F, 14th Infantry. The members of the Army cavalry team will proceed from Fort Keogh, Montana, and the members of the Army infantry team from Fort Sheridan, Illinois, in time to arrive at Camp Perry, Ohio, not later than August 15, to enable those who so desire to participate in the matches of the National Rifle Association of America and the Ohio State Rifle Association and in the preliminary tests to determine the personnel of the team that is to be selected to represent the riflemen of the United States in the competition for the Palma Trophy, which is to take place at the Rockcliffe range, Ottawa, Canada, beginning September 7.

Upon the completion of the matches at Camp Perry the commanding general, Department of the Lakes, will order the officers and enlisted men on duty in connection therewith to return to their proper stations, excepting those who may be designated to participate in the Palma Trophy contest and

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in the matches held under the auspices of the New Jersey State Rifle Association at Sea Girt, New Jersey; these he will send to their respective destinations. He is authorized to grant leaves of absence or furloughs for twenty days upon application therefor to officers and enlisted men belonging to the cavalry and infantry teams upon the completion of their duties with the matches in which they are authorized to participate, and to direct the officers and men to join their proper stations upon expiration of the leaves of absence or furloughs granted to them.

It being impracticable for the enlisted men to carry rations in kind they will be commuted in advance at the rate of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) a man for each day during the time occupied in travel under this order, and for the number of days spent in camp at Camp Perry, Ohio, at Sea Girt, New Jersey, and at the Canadian range on which the competition for the Palma Trophy will be held, during the progress of the shooting tournaments.

The travel directed is necessary in the military service. [1207494, M. S. O.]

BY ORDER OF THE ACTING SECRETARY OF WAR:

OFFICIAL:

JAMES T. KERR,

Colonel, General Staff, Acting Chief of Staff.

HENRY P. MCCAIN,

Adjutant General.

GENERAL ORDERS, J

No. 163.

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, August 2, 1907.

The appointments in the Army of the United States, to date from June 14 and 15, 1907, and the assignments to corps, regiments, and other organizations of the following-named cadets, graduates of the United States Military Academy, are announced:

CORPS OF ENGINEERS.

To be second lieutenants from June 14, 1907.

1. Cadet James Gordon Steese.

2. Cadet Roger Gordon Alexander.

3. Cadet John Augur Holabird.

4. Cadet James Alexander O'Connor.
5. Cadet Lewis Hayes Watkins.
6. Cadet Gilbert Edwin Humphrey.
7. Cadet Richard Park.

9. Cadet Daniel Isom Sultan.

FIELD ARTILLERY.

To be second lieutenants from June 14, 1907.

18. Cadet Edwin Eastman Pritchett to the 1st Field Artillery, Battery D.

25. Cadet Roy Boggess Staver to the 1st Field Artillery, Battery F.

26. Cadet Fred Taylor Cruse to the 3d Field Artillery, Battery F.

27. Cadet James Preston Marley to the 1st Field Artillery, Battery C.

33. Cadet Waldo Charles Potter to the 5th Field Artillery, Battery D.

34. Cadet Harry Pfeil to the 5th Field Artillery, Battery B.

COAST ARTILLERY CORPS.

To be second lieutenants from June 14, 1907.

8. Cadet Richard Herbert Somers.

10. Cadet Thomas Lee Coles.

11. Cadet John Boursiquot Rose.

12. Cadet Truman Darby Thorpe.

13. Cadet Nathaniel Pendleton Rogers, jr.

14. Cadet Charles Tillman Harris, jr.

15. Cadet Maxwell Murray.

16. Cadet Geoffrey Bartlett.

17. Cadet William Edgar Shedd, jr. 19. Cadet James Arthur Gallogly.

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