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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1919)
' y ' w - si ‘ iJi ,r« u '' (• ^ 'f T|ie Men Behind the Big Guns Always Win. I iMi M 1 VOL. XXVi. W ‘W. Stud-V , U M.cb.nic.l ARTILLERY UNIT ORGAN-1 | CArTAm “ WA *° «> h^ k ,h 3 IZED AT A. & H. COLLEGE The Expansion of the A. and M. College Into Different Military Unite. r April 2, 1919, witnessed the Ant formation of Battery “A” Taaaa A. and 1C. CoUage, R. O. T. C. That day marked the Ant step in the ex pansion of the Military education of A. and M. College of Texaa. T^c Itield Artillery authorities of the War Department ill Washingtor, D. C., chose A. and M. College among the 1st, three colleges of the United States, due to the ihost excellent standing of the institution with ths War Department and the Country at large, not only for the remarkable record of A. and M. students in the World War, but for the proAciency shown by A. and M. students in sll peaceful occupations during the yean proceeding the declaration of War. Heretofore the student at the col lege has been trained >n the Infan try arm alone, and that, like diAerent oerupations or professions In civil - j life, is not suited for all men. The lj new policy is to allow the student of A. and M. College to express a pre- . ference, and train for the branch of the service which moat appeals to him. 1, ; ] » There are many people, I feel sure, will appreciate a short description of the Artillery branch in training and in action,' and for them the follow-' .1 ing is submitted: Artillery dates back to the dark ages when all mankind gloried in combat, and mans work was that of warrior and the woman that of 'the slave of the home. Wars were con ducted without the knowledge of Are arms. Arrows, spears, clubs, knives, i etc., were used, and hence the com bats were held in the open, man io man. a great source for individual glory. Soon man began to devise ( means of defending himself from the sudden and unexpeit*| attacks of his many enemies; these defenses took the form of walls snd moats. This dpearture in mode of warfare in turn called upon the attacker to And some means of getting the wall out of the way in order to reach his foe with the A re leas weapon. Hence CAPT. WINTHROP W. LEACH. LIEI number a 1 ANT-COLON EL LOUIS R. DOUGHF RTY. (Coiitinued on p *e 8) -JT i ' T 7 |From Austin. Texas, comes one of the best little officers the A. and M. Cadet Corps has ever known, k pas’ a source of some worry to Colonel Dougherty to And a man that .couid take command of the artillery fnit that was to be oftfhnized at col^Bg.* this springjk Everyone knew that a man was needed that was a live wire, a man that could put ththg over. Organizing a battery |of artillery from a bunch of fellows’that did hoi know caisaon from a Wbeelbarroiy required a man that was all an effi- cer and half a goo. ‘ But Hop di4 it. Not only did be teach the “number ones" and the “number twos*’ their position in ranks, hut he trained a hundred me nto be the best organ isation on the campua. He instilled the spirit of West Point Academy tin- to them to the degree that the United (Continued on page flii .t IS ■! i : siii L lb .4,11!, iM Captain Win thro p W. Leach was bora in Newtonville, Mssa., June 24, 1891, and graduated from the Uni versity of Colorado in 1918. At the outbreak of the European War he was employed as Chief Chemist at the Globe Smelter, American Smelt ing and Refining Company, Denver, Colorado. He received a commission as Provisional 2nd. Lieutenant of Field Artillery at the Ant officers training camp at Fort Riloy, Kansas, and was assigned to the 20th. Cav alry (later the '78th. Field Artillery) at Fort Riley, Kansas, August IS, 1917. , On December 10th 1917 h»- was transferred to the 10th F. A. at Douglas, Arizona and was promoted to the grade of 1st Lieutenant Feb ruary 20, 191-8. The 10th F. A. wns ordered overseas late in April 19 IS, snd arrived at Bordeaux, France. May 7, 1918. After a *h<>rt period of quarantine at this Port the regi ment left for the Artillery training area at Coetquidan in the northwest ern part of France and remained there until the early part of Jutf, 1918. During this period Captain Leach was detailed on special duty with the S8th Army Corpe, 8th French Army in the Toul sector fsr special training "in the Artillery In formation Service, and numerous op portunities were offered to visit the French troops in the trenches. | He rejoined the regiment early in July and oil the 9th of the month the 3rd Divisioh, «£ which the 10th F. was a part, was ordered 'onto the line and took up a position on the south bank of the Marne River about 6 miles south of Chateau Thierry. On August; 16th. the regiment was “TvKl (Continued on 18) Dougherty was born in Jsnhsry -14,j 1884, i California. commissioned 2nd Lieu- Field Artillery, flaptsuiliir ng assigned i to the 2nd in Artillery) stationed'- A. Russel!, Wyoming, Oc- >08. Was ordered to thg Islands via the Suet Can- 1, 190fe. Sailed from January 9, 1909, stopping , Madera; Gibraltar; Tan- rrocco; Valetta, Malta; bia; Alexandria, Cario, id Sues, Kgypt; Colombo, ingapore, Malay Peasinsu- ing at Manila, P. I., 1909. Upon arrival regi- ' ordered to take station at 'I nsferred to the 6th Field (light artillary) and sailed ' ited States for station at o, San Francisco, Califor- 82, 1910. - >1 talion was ordered to Ft. oma. for dqty as instruc- ■#4 at the School of Fire rry, July 4, 1911. Was 1st Lieutenant, Field Ar- 22,1912. Was de-^ tailed t||the Signal Corps in chance of the Big Be her 3, signed Fort Transt station ef communication in the District of Texas, Decem- iI2, to May 29. 1913. As- the 6th Field Artillery at ing. Minn., May 29. 1913 d to the 3rd F. A. with Fort Sam Houston, Texas, September 6, 1913. Ordered to her der duty-, at Laredo. Texdi, fligitUbl ber 7, lBl8j|t<> September 20, 1914. * to the School of Fire Ft-