Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-02 | Page 24 | Officers Named for Guard Unit

W1XLAED G. BURTON, who ras been appointed captain of lie Troop, cavalry squadron, national J J guard of Utah. i " OFFICERS m FDR GUARD UIT Burton, Morrison and ThomasAppointed Leaders Lead-ers of C Troop. "Willard G. Burton, captain; Frank "Wilfred "Wil-fred Morrison, first lieutenant, and Del-bert Del-bert Wilfred Thomas, second lieutenant, are the officers designated for C troop, cavalry squadron of the national guard of Utah, according to announcement from the office of Lieutenant Colonel Fred Jor-gensen, Jor-gensen, adjutant general of Utah. The appointments are subject to the national guard regulations, and date from yesterday. yester-day. C troop will be located at 'Salt Lake. Appointments of artillery officers for the batteries at Salt Lake and Prove are expected to be made in the near future. fu-ture. v Captain Burton is a native of Salt Lake and is engaged in the wholesale lumber business. He was an employee of the city engineer's office from 1901 to 1903, and for the three years following was vice consul at Glenean, in the British Islands. He received his commission by promotion from private in A troop, already al-ready organised. He served two years in the citizens' training camp at the University of Ut&h. LUutenan I Morrison is a native of Blairton. Wyo,, and a graduate of the Los Angeles high school and of the field artillery officers' (raining school at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky. He served at various va-rious times as battery sergeant major, personnel officer, assistant brigade adjutant ad-jutant and was commanding officer of the Twenty-first battery, field artillery, when the armistice was signed. He is now chief clerk of the Utah Fuel company com-pany offices here. Lieutenant Thomas is a dentist by profession, pro-fession, and a native of Winchester, Ont. Tie graduated a t the high school there i.ana suosenuenny ac lug reunsyivania j College of Dental Surgery. He was ser-1 ser-1 geaiit in the Fifth Royal Scots from 1904 1 to 1906. and in the First infantry of Ver-j Ver-j mont. 1906 to 1909. He was a private in the First infantry, national guard of Utah, 1918 and 1919. and has since been sergeant ox A troop, First cavalry, national na-tional guard of Utah,