A Journal of the Great War

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Engineer Corps 1st Member ? Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel Thomas H. Jackson. 2d Colonel J. A. Woodruff. 3d Colonel C. McD. Townsend. 4th Colonel F. C. Boggs. 5th Colonel Thomas H. Jackson. Air Service 1st Member ? Major Edgar S. Gorell. ad Lieutenant-Colonel A. P. Spaulding. 3d Captain, Major Morrill...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Engineer Corps 1st Member ? Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel Thomas H. Jackson. 2d Colonel J. A. Woodruff. 3d Colonel C. McD. Townsend. 4th Colonel F. C. Boggs. 5th Colonel Thomas H. Jackson. Air Service 1st Member ? Major Edgar S. Gorell. ad Lieutenant-Colonel A. P. Spaulding. 3d Captain, Major Morrill Dunn. 4th Colonel H. Dunwoody. Signal Corps 1st Member ? Captain James B. Taylor. 2d Major, Lieutenant-Colonel A. G. Gutenshon. 3d Lieutenant-Colonel L. T. Gerow. Ordnance Department 1st Member? 1st Lieutenant Olney Bonar. ad Lieutenant-Colonel E. D. Bricker. United States Navy Ist Member ? Captain George C. Schafer. Chemical Warfare Service 1st Member ? Captain, Major L. F. Urbain. ad Captain, Major R. S. Ward. 3d Major L. F. Urbain. Motor Transport Corps 1st Member ? Captain, Major Hugh Tolman. The following is a classification of the authority and functions of the G.P.A. and the G.P.B.: 1. Coordination of Purchases. The supply division of the A.E.F. being composed of eight independent services, each possessing its own appropriation from Congress and authority to make purchases for its own department, General Pershing, in order to coordinate the procurement activities in Europeof these independent bodies, in G.O. 23, G.H.Q., August 20, 1917 (attached hereto as an appendix), established in Paris a General Purchasing Board composed of eight independent officers of the independent services and appointed as Chairman of the Board the General Purchasing Agent to whom these officers reported for duty. As emphasized before, the G.P.A. possessed no authority to make purchases under the law, but exercised the power of control and veto of purchases, and to this effect all orders, ...