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Proceedings and Report of Special War Department Board on
Courts-Martial and Their Procedure
July 17, 1919
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In May 1919,
the War Department convened a board of officers in order to consider
all recommendations looking to the improvement of the system of
military justice, and to recommend to the War Department any changes
in the Articles of War and administration of military justice in
the Army that the board members believed to be necessary. The board
of officers consisted of Maj. Gen. Francis J. Kernan, United States
Army, Maj. Gen. John F. O’Ryan, New York National Guard, and
Lt. Col. Hugh W. Ogden, judge advocate. Lt. Col. F. M. Barrows served
as board recorder. The board invited all officers in command who
currently exercised general court-martial jurisdiction, or who had
exercised it, as well as all judge advocates, to make recommendations
regarding the improvement of the system of military justice. Their
report and recommendations, Proceedings and Report of Special War
Department Board on Courts-Martial and Their Procedure, was issued
on July 17, 1919. (Library of Congress
Call Number UB853.A35
1919d; OCLC Number 993666)
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