Special Order Number 15 Extract from Colonel H. S. Hawkins

2nd for headquarters 35th Division American Expeditionary Forces 15th January 1919. Special Orders ) ) THOMAS 797 No. 15 Q PATIONAL ARCHIVES AND Extract. RECORDS o SERVICE" to ** * 3. Lieutenent Albert G Hogan, Sanitary Corps, having reported to the Commanding Gemeral of this Division, in com- pliance with instructions from Headquarters, second Army, for temporary duty in connection with the improvement of the organ- ization messes, is hereby announced as Division Mess Officer. This officer will establish a school in this Division for the instruction of cooks and mess sergeants and for the improve- ment of mess arrangements, veriety of menus, cooking, kitchens, kitchen sanitation, elimination of waste, and general mess manage- ment. This school is named "The Divisional School for Mess Management. Its personnel will be as follows: 1 officer in charge of the school; 4 mess sergennts; Cooks and privates as may be detailed from time to time. Each regimental commander of Infantry will select his best mess sergeant, who will report to Lieutenant Hogan at the se Howdquarters, at the office of C-1, at 11:00 o*clock A.M., January 18th. The School will be mobile, travel from one regiment or groupof separate units to another, and remain approximately four days in ecch place. The officer in charge of the school will report to the commanding officers of each regiment or group of units, in turn, for the purpose of establishing the school. Commanders will provide every facility possible for the carrying out of this work in an enthusiastic manner so that yreal benefits may accrue to the Division through the efforts of this school. Each of the instructor cooks will be assigned to a group of three or four kitchens. They will give necessary demonstrat- ions and will see that directions in mess management are complied with. The work of the school will be done in co=operation wi th mess officers of the various units. Organizations will be rated during the period of observation by company and by battalion. * * * By Command of Brigadier General Dugan: H. S. HAWKINS Colonel, General staff, Chief of staff. OFFICIAL: WM. ELLIS Lt. Col., , Inf., U.S.Army Division Adjutant Copy to all organi zations