| Col. Joseph B. Daughtery |
16 COL Joseph Daughtery Goes to Post in Indiana
Col. Daughtery is scheduled to leave next week for Camp Atterbury, Ind., where he is slated to become deputy post commander. The assignment is right near home for the colonel, who is a native of Indianapolis, 30 miles from the post. However, he says, "It will be the first time near home for me since I left Fort Benjamin Harrison in 1928." However, before Col. Daughtery left Fort Lee, he received a letter from Maj. Gen. H. L. Peckham, commanding general, the Quartermaster Training Command. The letter said, in part: "...I desire to express my appreciation to you and your staff and the members of your cadre for the highly efficient manner in which the QM RTC has been operated, and for the smooth way in which its activities have been discontinued or transferred since mid-July, when the phase-out began. "The Quartermaster Replacement Training Center has trained approximately 31,000 men since it was activated on 25 August 1950 ... "As you and the remaining members of your command close out the residual activities of the QM-RTC, you may take pride in a job 'well done'. "Best wishes to you all in your new assignments." Col. Daughtery graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1925, and since then has served in many posts in the United States. During World War II, he served as Quartermaster Supply Officer of the Atlantic Branch of the Corozal General Depot, and then as Quartermaster Supply Officer of the entire Depot. Before taking command of the QM RTC last Nov. 9, Col. Daughtery had served with the American Military Advisory Group to the Chinese Nationalist forces on Formosa. The colonel wears the Army Commendation Ribbon, the American Defense Ribbon, the American Theater Ribbon, the Yangtze Medal and the World War II Victory Medal.
Graduated from West Point class of 1925. Was a military advisory to Chinese Nationalist forces on Formosa in the 1930's. Was Supply Officer in charge of the Atlantic Branch of the Corozal General Depot. His father, William Wirt, was well known, and fought at Gettysburg as a Sergeant. Retired as a Major about 1882. At this time, Major Wirt married 18-year-old Mathilda Anderson. She was believed to be the last living wife of a Civil war veteran. She died at age 85, December 26, 1954 at Fort Benning, Georgia, during the Colonel's command at Camp Atterbury. The Colonel's home town was the Indianapolis north side. He had one brother also a West Point graduate He stayed on at the point as a teacher . He had one sister (?) who married General Joseph H. Harper, Fort Benning, Georgia. |
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After staying with
the QM RTC right to the end, the organization's last commanding officer,
Col. Joseph B. Daughtery, today is packing and ready to leave for his
next assignment.
Colonel Joseph B. Daughtery
