SEES LONG SERVICE
LIEUT. McKNIGHT A SOLDIER OF
MANY YEARS.
Following a precedent that seems
to exist among all long-service men,
First Lieutenant Marion F. McKnight,
our new assistant adjutant, wears not
a single service pin or a single glis
tening medal, although during his
many years with Uncle Sam he has
acquired several of both.
Lieutenant McKnight first enlisted
on February 24, 1899, at Asheland, Ky.,
and since that date he has seen con
tinuous service ’neath the Stars and
Stripes, having been stationed at the
greater part of all the larger posts in
the middle and far western United
States, exclusive of his eleven years
in the Philippine Islands.
Among the posts where Lieutenant
McKnight has served we find in chron
ological order; Anniston, Ala.; Cuba,
where he spent 15 months; two years
in the Philippines; Port Thomas, Ky.;
Columbus, Ohio; Detroit, Mich.; and
back to the Philippines in 1903, where
he remained until 1912. During this
period he saw service with three dif
ferent regiments of infantry, the sec
ond, third and the fourteenth. In 1912
he transferred to the medical corps
and rapid promotion followed. On
August 2, 1917, he received his com
mission as first lieutenant in the sani
tary corps, national army.
Lieutenant McKnight is considered
by his many friends to be an authority
on phases of life in the Philippines.
When questioned regarding his most
thrilling experience, the lieutenant
was rather uncertain but concluded
that it occurred when he was a mere
recruit and was engaged in his first
battle.
This happened on January 31, 1901,
at Uson Island of Masbate, P. I., be
tween the Insurrectos and Company
M of the second United States infan
try. It seems that the lieutenant w's
a private then, was on guard at the
time, nervously walking his post amid
the crackling underbrush of the trop
ical islands. The sky overhead was
gradually changing from an inky black
to a foreboding gray when from
amongst the thick forest behind him
and from the Uson Bay before him
rang the sharp and defiant yell of the
charging Philippinoes. The din was
fearful, antique spears and poisoned
darts filling the ah
The young recruit was badly start
led and ran for the center of the en
campment discharging his piece as he
ran. The detachment was aroused
and succeeded in repelling the attack
with little difficulty, only one man be
ing wounded.
On his first trip to the “Islands” one
The Base Hospital family has been
Increased this week by the arrival of
Captain Robert M. Jones and Lieuten
ant Leeslie J. Atkins, both of the M.
R. C.
Captain Jones, whose home is in
New York City, was graduated from
the New York Homeopathic Medical
College in 1896, served as interne in
the Rochester Homeopathic Hospital,
and for a number of years has been
engaged in nose and throat work in
New York City, being a nattending
laryngologist and rhinologist at the
New York Ophthalmic Hospital.
Lieutenant Atkins, who comes from
Olean, N. Y., is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Buffalo, T7, and an ex-in
terne of the Buffalo General Hospital.
He was commissioned a 1st Lieuten
ant June 24, 1918. Camp Green is the
first station for both Captain Jones
and Lieutenant Atkins.
WILL DIRECT UNIT.
Lieutenant Dean Cornwall, M. C.,
whose splendid work for many months
in the laboratory of our Base Hos
pital has caused him to be highly re
garded by his fellow officers, has been
order to the Brady laboratory of the
Yale Medical School at New Haven,
Conn., where he is to organize and di
rect a mobile laboratory unit.
Lieutenant Cornwall will be great
ly missed by all at Camp Greene, not
only because of his extraordinary abil
ity but for the many other fine qual
ities that made him popular. He has
our beet wishes.
SEVEN HOT MILES.
Lieutenant Vernonr Condon has
gone to Camp Wadsworth, at Spartan
burg, S. C., where he is attached to
the 61st Pioneer Infantry.
He writes that he is seven hot
miles from town and that the only
visible means of locomotion is his
two feet an da very infrequent jit
ney. Lieutenant Condon has been
succeeded ae officer obstetrician of
the Camp Greene Base Hospital by
Captain George Washington Conterno,
M. R. C.
PLENTY OF 'EM.
LIEUT MARION F. McKNIGHT.
of the passengers on the same vessel
was his present commanding officer,
Lieutenant-Colonel Renn, who was
then a surgeon with that organiza
tion.
Capt. John H. White, known to
some of us as “Uncle John,” writes
from Camp Greenleaf that he has no
complaint concerning any lack of
work and that he has had enough
lame muscles to do for a pair of twins.