Fort Custer – Provost Marshal General’s School Company Roster - Class II (PDF)

Fort Custer – Provost Marshal General’s School Company Roster – Class II (PDF)

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Provost Marshal General’s School — Company Roster, Class II, Military Government Specialists
 • World War II •

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Document Overview:
Compiled by the students themselves as a personal directory, this 1943 company roster records Class II, Military Government Specialists, which trained at the Provost Marshal General’s School, Fort Custer, Michigan, in July 1943. It opens with an appreciation to the company officers, instructors and mess crew who guided roughly 100 men from 36 states through 28 days of readjustment from civilian life to Army routine, then gives detailed biographies of the faculty and company officers followed by an alphabetical roster of the class, Adams through Zempel. Each class entry lists rank and Military Government specialty (Legal, Public Safety, Public Administration, Fiscal, Economics, Public Utilities, Education, Public Relations and more), birth date and place, wife and children, home address, prior military service, education, fraternities and civilian career, revealing a class of city managers, police chiefs, judges, prosecutors, professors, bankers, engineers and editors being prepared to govern occupied territory. Printed by Phoenix Printing Co., Battle Creek, Michigan, this is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original booklet.

Campaigns: None as a unit (stateside officer training class); Military Government and basic infantry training at Fort Custer, Michigan, July 1943, in preparation for civil-affairs duty in occupied areas

Commanders: Col. Parker C. Kalloch, Jr. (Commandant, Provost Marshal General’s School); Lt.-Col. Leslie C. Cave (Director, Officers School); Lt.-Col. William T. Babcock (Chief, Dept. of Military Government); 1st Lt. Richard R. Dickson (Company Executive Officer); 1st Lt. William J. Hammond (Company Officer and Instructor)

Fort publication: The MP Bulletin 

Table of Contents
An Appreciation
Faculty
Company Officers
The Class (Roster, Adams–Zempel)

“So with some knowledge gained, many friends made, some experience recorded, we say, Fort Custer, Hail and Farewell.”
— “An Appreciation,” Company Roster, Class II, Military Government Specialists, 1943