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Show HAS LUNG MILITARY RECORD Robert H. Tyndall, National Treasurer, Treas-urer, Was in Command of Regiment Regi-ment Throughout War. Robert II. Tyndall, the newly elected national treasurer of the American Legion, Le-gion, is a native of Indiitnapolis, the permanent home of the Left Le-ft l o n's national headquarters. He was born May 2, 1877, and has for some time been connected with the Fletcher-American banking interests in his native city, w h i c h connec- lion lie " in ir tain during his period of office with the American Legion. He succeeded succeed-ed Casper G. Bacon of Boston, who recently re-cently resigned from the position of national treasurer. Mr. Tyndall has a long military record, rec-ord, having enlisted in Battery A of the Indiana National Guard in October, Octo-ber, 1S97. The battery was mustered into the Twenty-seventh Indiana volunteer vol-unteer battery May 18, 1898, becoming a part of the expeditionary forces in Porto Rico, August 4 to September 7, 1S98. In 1900 he enlisted in the reorganized reorgan-ized Indiana National Guard and served as corporal, sergeant, lieutenant lieuten-ant and captain of Battery A, Indiana National Guard, to April 22, 1913, when he was commissioned a major and placed in command of the First Battalion, Battal-ion, Indiana Field artillery. He served on the border from July 10, 1916, to January 19, 1917, having been stationed at Llano Grande, Tex. He was promoted to the rank of colonel on April 15, 1917, and placed in command of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second division (Rainbow), arriving in France October 31, 1917. He was in command of a regiment throughout the war with Germany, and was part of tne army of occupation until April 7, 1919. He was mustered mus-tered out of the service May 24, 1919. |