Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-20 | Page 10 | Army Officer Has Retired on 64th Birthday

Army OffIcer Officer Has Retired on onS S Birthday Veteran of fo four campaIgns and ono of those few ew enlIsted men who ho have worked their way to toS S commands Variant War War- Officer Jesse Tyson has been placed on the reS retired re- re S tired list of th thU the U United States Stales army The Tho rn- rn became on on his sixty fourth birthS birtho birth birth- S S o a September 1 la 5 Although horn born S In Baltimore Md S Tyson has has seen r i I with boU boti the the British and i tk State WJk tw Fe wa B the British ft- ft v arm army i South Jesse Tyson Africa for over live five years ears serving servingS S the last two and a half years during dur- dur Ini ing the Boer war Returning lt tUrning to r. Ame-r. a shortly after an honorable discharge from the British army arm Tyson enlisted as a private with Sec rid iid United States cavalry in A August gust 1902 and andor for or the the following lg three years was stationed In tb Philippines He served with several different units until 1911 1011 whet when he he decided to give UI lp his army career Years ears of oC military life proved too great a temptation however and andIn andin In 1916 he reenlisted and was sent to the Mexican n border In 1918 lie he Commissioned second lieutenant lieuten- lieuten ant in the corps and to France as supply officer with the remount squadron He served In France for eleven and on returning to Amer- Amer lea ica agaIn enlisted He has been stationed at Fort Douglas with the tho Thirty eighth infantry for five lve years cais S SS r ryson was highly commended for S his enviable record by Colonel H. H S C. C Price Fort Douglas command command- ant who declared that the entire command extends Us ts respect and andS S for his exceptional rec- rec ord