World War I training camps at VMI

Creator:

Boykin, Henley P.

Extent:

3 items

Scope and content:

Three notebooks, including "Record of Drills", "Inspection Book", and "VMI T. C. Delinquencies".

Language:

English .

Biographical / historical:

VMI sponsored military training camps (two in 1917 and one in 1918) to help prepare men before they went into the service. The attendees were not VMI cadets. An officer of the Institute, Captain Henley P. Boykin (Class of 1912) was detailed as the camp's commandant, and VMI cadet First Classmen were assigned to duty as instructors. Subsequently, an officer of the Canadian Expediat5ionary FOrces provided instruction in bombing, bayonet fighting and trench warfare.

Subjects:

Virginia Military Institute -- History -- World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918
Military training camps

Names:

Boykin, Henley P.

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