Goldsboro Boys Training at Camp Bragg, Aug. 7, 1922

Goldsboro Boys to Camp Bragg Monday. . . Artillery Battery and Medical Detachment Off for 15 Days Training

Fifty-five men and four officers of Battery “A”, 117th Field Artillery, and the medical detachment comprising one officer and eight men will leave Goldsboro Monday morning for Camp Bragg, near Fayetteville, for a 15-day training course under regular army officers.

One baggage car and two passenger coaches will be required to transfer the Goldsboro complement to camp. The troops will move entirely over the Atlantic Coast Line, leaving here on the 11 o’clock train to Wilson and going down from Wilson to Fayetteville. No motorized equipment will be carried to camp as the soldiers will use camp equipment in their maneuvers.

Hesitancy of a number of employers to relinquish members of the outfit for the training period forced Captain Edwin Michaux, commanding the company, to issue an arbitrary order yesterday for the mobilization of the entire company.

The officers leaving for camp are Captain E.R. Michaux, commanding; Capt. A.J. Ellington of the medical detachment; Lieutenants Leslie Brown, Ernest Lashley and Arnold Smith.

The non-commissioned offers of the battery are:

Sergeant R.P. Astterfield, Sergeant W.C. Crawford, and Corporals T.W. Pate, John B. Hooks Jr., K.W. King, Chockley Gardner, John Kannan, Paul Sadler and T.J. Hood Jr.

Privates first class include Bradshaw, Brown, Gardner, R.E. Keller, Roy H. Keller, and W.E. and Luby King.

The “bucks” are: Privates Allen, Baldwin, Barnes, Butler, Carmack, Edgerton, Edmundson, Edwards (L.H., M.W. and Vance), Epps (Edward and Luby), Epstein, Gore, Grantham, Griffin (H. and T.), Hardy, Heeden, Henley, Hollowell, Hunt (Lesley and Ralph), Jones, Justice, Kannon (Ellis), King, Merrit, Morris, McCarter, McIllhenny, Nash, Odom, Pollock, Pope, Price, Parker, Raekley, Sammeth, Sanders, Smith and Wellons.

The recently organized medical detachment was inspected and mustered into service yesterday by Captain A.R. Ives, U.S.A. Artillery instructor from the Adjutant General’s department, and Sergeant Ferguson.

From the front page of The Goldsboro News, Sunday, Aug. 6, 1922