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Show hd era OFHJSIH Provo Field Artillery Unif to Stand Inspection December 15. Appointment of officers of C battery of the battalion of field artillery, Utah national guard, was announced yesterday by Lieutenant Colonel Kred Jorpensen. adjutant penera of Utah. The selection of Captain J. B. Tucker as commandant of tho battery had previously been announced. an-nounced. The other commissioned of fleers fl-eers of the new battery, now being organized or-ganized with headquarters at Provo. are Robert Ross RatoUfYe and William Pale Wood, first lieutenants; Karl Godfrey r.oshard and Frank Threlfall Gardner, second lieutenants. lieutenant Ratcliffe Is a farmer by occupation and pained his military experience ex-perience in the world war. He was In- (tnctivl into tho s.'rvU-r in tpl'ni.)or, 1 f 1 7 . ami won .1 eoinmlsHlon as a m-eoinl )inlen;uit In lleKl artillery ut Vamp Jiiekson. S. ('.. In June. I'.MS. He was iltee liu. rued Onvinl'iT IS, last yeHf. Lieutenant Wood has Iwul evperlenee In ihe Colorado national K".ud. und Uiter in l he Viah national Kuard. He entered the Tint ional army at tho I'mverHity of I'tah in SeptenihtM. IMS. und was intending in-tending the oflleers" train! ns helnol at (.'amp Z.iehary Taylor, Ky when the nrmistiee was de. -lured. lie is inanaK'T of tho l'rovo interests of tho Mountain Stnte.s Telephont' & Tel'nraph eompany. Lieutenant Hoshar.l. a sulesman, rii-lUied rii-lUied in the l;tali national Kuard in a nd saw scrvieo on tho M eu-an border. Ho ri-m.iiiu-d with the regiment whtn it. loeame i..e l-i&tli Held artillery, and wus first sergeant of F battery ut the time of his ri:s'hari;e. Lieutenant Oardner, sal rsm an for a Froo iiuu'liliHTy and autemohde houpe, enliMed in August, LU7. as s.-.-ant in the niedieal eorps, and. after various promo pro-mo t ions, at lemle.l the ottieers' trainim; sehotd at Kort Dy;!ei horpe, .a., winnl ns' his commission ttiero and later be.n made a hist li on tenant In tho infantry, t le served with several replaei-inent L rit-laitons rit-laitons In the south and south'-ast. and Wiun diseharj;ed at Camp MaeAi thur, Tevas. last lu-eembor. The new battory. which will, from present pres-ent Indications, be Lie ilrst of the, battalion bat-talion to be organize i. will tinders state inspection by .Ma tor FJbert J . Thnmaa, inspector general of t ue uard. I )eeein-ber )eeein-ber IS. Federal inspection is e p--c t-d a week later. On accept ance of tho battery bat-tery by tne federal authorities, the atate will be entitled to an Inspector-lnstriictor In artillery to be stationed here. Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Colonel V. W. Gordon, tnspeetor-instrujtor tnspeetor-instrujtor in cavalry, has been stationed in talt Lake for some months. |