Postscript of the Apache sentinel. [volume], September 14, 1945, Image 1

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APACHE SENTINEL
vol. 2 no. 19 1922 3CU, Station Complement, Fort Huachuca, Arizona Friday, September h, 1945
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Colonel Edwin N# Hardy, • Cavalry, who has beer', in command at Fort Huachuca since
) April 17 9 1942, is awaiting retirement for physical disability as a result of the
*• recasuendations of Retiring Board at William Beaumont General Hospital at El Paso,
Texas * The new Coanaading Officer at Fort lluachuca is Colonel Charles R. Smith,
• COL. CHASi R. SMITH and training Cavalry, Field Artillery COL* EDWIN N, HARDY
and Infantry Units for overseas duty.
Upon the completion of World War 1* he was detailed as military attache. to Colombia
and Ecuador, South America and remained on such duty until April 1922* Before his
return to the United States he was awarded the Medal of Merit by the Ecuadorian
Govern.!/*: at •
* Upon his return to the Stitos, he was assigned as a student to take the Troop Of
ficers* and* Advance Course it the Cavalry School upon completion of which he was
detailed as a student to the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas# In 1926 he was detailed as a member of the Genera] Staff Corps and served
t.s G-3 of the’Philippine Department. Returning to this country in Sept 1929 he.com
manded the Ist Gqdn, 13th Cav., Ft, Riley, Kansas, and after two years was assigned
to the Staff and Faculty of the Cavalry School at the request of Col. Wainwight,
now General of Bataan fame. In 1932, Col# Hardy commanded Ft, Robinson, Neb., Re
mount for five years, after which he served two years at Lexington, Ky. His
next assignment was to Washington as Chief of Remount which position he. held until
relieved, at his own request, to accept co.nmand of Fort Huachuca, Under his command
m Fort Huachuca became the largest Negro training center in the world, two complete
divisions and many thousands of miscellaneous troops having been trained for over
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POSTSCRIPT OF THE
Infant*-. , recently returned frun over
seas dr f .y in China.
In*retiring, Colonel Hardy ends a
long’and distinguished military career#
Colonel Hardy graduated from West
Point in 1911 and was assigned as a 2d
Lt,, to the Bth Cavalry at Batangas,
Fhiliopine islands. He served from
1911 to 1913.
On his return to the United States
in 193-3, he was assigned to the 15th
Cavalry at Fort. Bliss, Texas and ser
ved with the 3.7th Cavalry and 3th Cav
* airy in extensive border patrol act
livities along the Mexican border. He
took part in the military operations
in northern Mexico during the Pershing
j Punitive Expedition as aerial observer
i and with cavalry troops.^
I During world War Ihe saw service at
12 different stations in tho United
;States where he was used in organizing
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