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WWI
Special Recruiting Service
McLean County, Illinois
(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)

Dr. H. W. Grote was the Bloomington and Central Illinois representative of the Military Training Camps association before the war, and during the period of the war he turned his office into headquarters for recruiting men for special service. What was accomplished is shown in the following report issued at the close of the war: Men examined for the first officers' training camp 100; number accepted, 27. Number of men examined for the second officers' training camp, 65; number accepted 25. Number of applications for commissions sent into war department or to military training association, 40; number of men accepted, 12. Number of applications for motor service received by quartermaster department thru this office, 100. Number of mail inquiries answered 71. Number of personal inquiries 453. Number of candidates given preliminary training, 54. Aviators placed, 7; to the English army, 2; to the American tank service, 11. Published notices to the papers, 30. [McLean County, Illinois, in the World War, 1917-1918; by Edward E. Pierson & Jacob Louis Hasbrouck c 1921]

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