Iowa National Guard Activities

In Each Company

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      (Duty) Sergeants will be selected whose order of rank among themselves is as follows: Second, third, fifth, sixth (machine Gun Company, second, third, fifth.)

      Corporals will be selected whose order of rank among themselves is as follows: Tenth, eleventh, eighth, third, second,, sixth, thirteenth, fifteenth.

      Wagoners will be selected by taking the even numbered in the alphabetical list of their names.

      First class privates will be selected by taking the even numbered in the alphabetical list of their names.

      Privates will be selected by taking the odd numbered beginning with (1) in the alphabetical list of their names until the quote is completed.

 

      After the call of the President of July 3, 1917 which was the final call for the National Guard units, permission was granted for the organization of several new units. According to this authority a field hospital was immediately organized at Iowa City under the of Major Frank L. Love. This was given Federal recognition but was denied the right to be mustered into Federal service as a National Guard unit. They therefore asked to be individually inducted into service according to the selective regulations and were sent to Fort Riley, Kansas for this purpose. After being individually inducted into service they were then re-organized as a field hospital company. Major Love was not sent with this unit but was later called into service.

      The proclamation of the President dated July 3, 1917, not only called Iowa Guardsmen to Federal service, but also drafted them into the Army of the United States on August 5, 1917. Paragraphs two, three and four of the proclamation say: