Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-12-23 | Page 16 | Battery Mustered out of the Service

BATTERY MUSTERED OUT DFTHE SERVICE Members Now Return to Civil Life; Hospital Corps on Way Home. I Members of the Utah hospital corps entrained at Nogales, Ariz., yesterday morning at 10:30 o'clock for Salt Lake, according to advices- which reached the city yesterday afternoon. The arrival of tho organization here is expected Christmas eve. but the exact hour of the arrival has not yet been announced. an-nounced. The reception that has been planned for the members of the hospital corps on their arrival here will be held Tuesday, Tues-day, instead of Christmas day. Fpon arrival the members will be allowed to go to their homes for the holiday. They will report at Fort Douglas Tuesday morning. The dinner to be given to the hospital hos-pital bovs will be similar to that given the members of the Utah battery upon their arrival last week. Arrangements for the welcoming is in the hands of the citizens' training camp committee, with J. A. Reeves chairman. Upon the arrival here the medical corps will have completed nearly six months of federal duty. The command left during the middle of July with the second squadron of XTtah cavalry, which is still on the Mexican border. For the past two months members of the medical med-ical corps have been assigned to duty with the Utah troopers, who have been doino- dutv alone- 150 miles of the international inter-national line. Medical corps from other state orzanizations were detailed with the Utah troops when the order came for the hospital unit to entrain. The Utah batterv was yesterday mustered mus-tered out of federal service at Fort Douglas and the members allowed to return to civil life. The official mustering mus-tering out and paying off of the men was completed at 2 o'clock. As the men left the pdst for their homes Captain William C. Webb, commander com-mander of the battery, thanked each man personally for his faithful performance perform-ance of dutv "while in the federal service. serv-ice. In parting he wished them a merry mer-ry Christmas and happy Now Year. " Thirty-two horses which were brought from the border bv the battery are now quartered nt the state fair grounds, together to-gether with the mounts of the first squadron of cavalry. The animals will be used for drill purposes during the winter.