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San Antonio Light in San Antonio, Texas

09 Jul 1916

Page 7

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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jul 09, 1916

Page

7

Wisconsin Officer to Lead State Guard Brigade in San Antonio

War Department authorizes Captain Lorrain T. Richardson to accept a brigadier general's commission in the Wisconsin National Guard. He will command the Wisconsin brigade when three infantry regiments join the reserve camp at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. Most officers in the 29-strong group become colonels or lieutenant colonels. Richardson is 45 and Wisconsin born.

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War Department Lorrain T. Richardson Regular Army Wisconsin National Guard Wisconsin San Antonio Fort Sam Houston Richardson National Guard William 8. McNair New York National Guard Army School of the Line Army Staff College Harry H. Tebbetts Tenth Infantry Ohio National Guard Allen W. Gullion Twentieth Infantry Second Kentucky Infantry Robert Davis Field Artillery First Massachusetts Field Artillery Hugh H. Magee Second Cavalry Minnesota Infantry Infantry Walker Kreuger Third Infantry Tenth Pennsylvania Infantry James B. Kemper Eighth Pennsylvania Infantry Samuel R. Gleaves Pennsylvania Cavalry Raymond Sheldon Illinois Infantry Albert B. Sloan Arkansas Infantry Wilson B. Burtt Leutenant California Infantry Robert R. Danford Fifth Field Artillery Tenth Connecticut Field Artillery William H. Waldron Idaho National Guard Horace M. Hickman Seventh Cavalry Indiana National Guard William S. McNair Inspetor General's Office First Field Artillery Brigade John J. Toffey Jr Alexander Greig Jr Coast Artillery
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Military promotions and society notes from London and Moscow

A list of officer promotions across various U S regiments and a society ladies chorus at charity matinees in London sparking talk of Queen Victoria’s view. Then a Moscow table ranks city death rates with Tokyo leading and New York posting 143 per 100000.

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London Moscow Tokio Petrograd Paris Vienna Philadelphia Chicago Berlin New York
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Bantam Toms Take German Machine Gun in Raid

London dispatch recalls the British Bantams in France after a trench raid in which the small soldiers captured a German machine gun. Lord Kitchener inspired the bantam concept, and the men, though short, are praised for nerve, agility, and scouting in No Man's Land.

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Frederick Palmer France Europe Lord Kitchener Napoleon Lord Roberts No Man's Land
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Turtles as Tommies During Lulls on the Tigris

A London cable reports British troops in Mesopotamia amused themselves during lulls in fighting by bathing in salt marshes and catching tortoises. One Scot died after his tortoise pet starved on the parapet and was buried with an identification disk.

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Tigris London New York Sun Edmond Candler Mesopotamia el Hannah
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