Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "75436709",
    "label": "General Order Number 9 from Colonel H. S. Hawkins",
    "core": "doc",
    "dtoType": "document",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75436709"
}

{
    "id": "75436709",
    "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75436709",
    "contentType": "document",
    "title": "General Order Number 9 from Colonel H. S. Hawkins",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75436709",
    "collections": [
        "Harry S. Truman Papers Pertaining to Family, Business and Personal Affairs",
        "Military Files"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "World War, 1914-1918"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/598589/961747-086-01.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/598589/961747-086-01.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/598589/961747-086-01.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "hasImages": true,
    "source": "import",
    "hasTranscription": false
}

{
    "url": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75436709",
    "naId": 75436709,
    "levelOfDescription": "item",
    "productionDates": [
        {
            "day": 16,
            "logicalDate": "1919-01-16",
            "month": 1,
            "year": 1919
        }
    ],
    "recordType": "description",
    "ocrSource": "nara-archive"
}

{
    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/598589/961747-086-01.jpg",
    "mediaId": "6073c6ca41b8ce22",
    "ocrText": "nd Prive\nHeadquarters 35th Division\nAmerican Expeditionary Forces\n16th January 1919.\nand\nGENERAL ORDERS\nNATIONAL\nARCHIVES AND\nRECORD®\nNo. 9\n789\n1. The following police regulations are published for\nthe information and compliance of all the troops billeted,\npermanently or temporarily, or visiting in Commercy, France,\nor its vicinity.\nThey will be enforced by the 35th Military Police Company\nOfficers of all grades are cautioned as to their re-\nsponsibility to render to the police, in the performance of\ntheir duty, all direct and indirect assistance in their power.\nREGULATIONS.\n1, All enlisted men, except such as may be on duty,\nwill be off the streets by 10:30 o'clock P.M.\n2. Enlisted men in cafés at 8:00 b'clock P.M. will\npromptly leave them at that hour.\n3. Neither officers nor enlisted men will enter a\nhouse of prostitution nor one occupied by a woman following\nthe calling of a prostitute.\n4. The hand salute by officers and enlisted men will\nbe rendered as prescribed in orders from General Head quarters.\n5. No loud and profane, vulgar or obscene language\nwill be indulged in on the streets.\n6. No nuisance will be committed in the street or in\nview thereof.\n7. Officers and soldiers on the streets will present\na neat and soldierly appearance.\nThe cap will be worn by enlisted men in the shape\nissued, ridge from front to rear, The collar of the 0. D.\nshirt, when in view, will be worn turned down over the collar\nof the heavier coat, The service coat and overcoat will be\nworn buttoned and with collar hooked; the collar of the over-\ncoat will not be turned up unless the weather is very cold\nand then will be completely so. The raincoat will be worn\nhooked, its collar will not be turned up unless it is raining\nor snowing, it may th en be turned up but must be completely\nso. Sniral outtees will be properly put on. Shoes will\nbe\nclean. Rubber boots being provided for use on certain duties,\nwill not be worn unless those duties are being performed.\nJerkins will be worn under the cover of the coat, overcoat,\nor raincoat.\n8, The conduct and appearance of officers and enlisted\nmen on the streets will at all times be orderly and creditable\nto the service.\nBy Command of Brigadier General Dugan:\nOFFICIAL:\nH. S. HAWKINS\nColonel, General Staff,\nWM. ELLIS\nChief of Staff.\nIt. Col., Inf., U.S. Army\nDivision Ad jutant"
}