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Identifier: asyouwere00bang (find matches)
Title: "As you were,"
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: (Bangs, John Kendrick) 1888- ed (Bangs, John Kendrick), 1862-1922, ed
Subjects: United States. War dept. Purchase, storage and traffic division. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, The Knickerbocker press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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became effective July 10th, and assigned to activeduty July 20th. Organized, and was placed in charge of, Purchase Branch at office ofthe Depot Quartermaster, New York, N. Y. For three months following in charge of purchasing of all clothing, equipage, fuel,forage, paints and oils, and all miscellaneous supplies until taken over by the formationof C & E Division, and Fuel and Forage Division. Following that, in charge of Pur-chasing Branch of all miscellaneous supplies at the New York Depot until May, 1918. 1918—In recognition of his successful work in the New York Depot he was orderedto report to the office of the Quartermaster-General, Washington, D. C, where he wassuccessively promoted to the grades of Major, and Lieutenant-Colonel, becoming theAssistant Chief of the Hardware and Metals Branch, which later became the GeneralSupplies Division. 1919—Our Colonel became Acting Chief of General Supplies Division and waselected to the Board of Governors of its Alumni Association.
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Lieut. Colonel H. P. Hill Hardware and Hand Tool Section 9 Its name was changed to Hardware and Small Tools Section.The Hardware and Metals Division rendered practical assist-ance not only in giving freely of the time of its personnel onmatters of urgency, but even in lending for a time several of themembers of its force. Mr. Graham attended a number of theweekly meetings of section heads and took part in the discus-sions. In addition to his position as chief of the section he wasthe official Army representative. By the middle of May, Major Seth Williams for the MarineCorps, Paymaster M. A. Connor for the Navy, and Mr. H. F.Grimes for the Emergency Fleet were appointed to member-ship in the section. The first regular meeting of the sectionwas held on June ist. In addition to the members of thesection, Mr. H. L. Arnold, representing the Army, and Mr.E. L. Crawford, Assistant Commissioner of Finished Products,were present. Among other decisions at the meeting the name waschanged again t

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