The English of military communications

by William Addleman Ganoe

Official:
W. A. SIMPSON,
Adjutant General,
Adjutant.

The above order is the first page of an alphabetical list of general orders in force in the Department. Some of them have been originated by the Department Commander and some have been made to comply with War Department instructions.

The general order of a Department covering court-martial cases is the same as that of the War Department, with the exception of the caption which is given below.

General Court-Martial }HEADQUARTERS EASTERN
Orders, No. 6. } DEPARTMENT.

Governors Island, N. Y., Jan. 22, 1916.

Here is an example of a Post General Order.

Headquarters United States Military Academy,
West Point, N. Y., February 27, 1917.

General Orders, }
No. 7. }

1. A vertical filing system (the War Department Correspondence File, a subjective decimal classification for arranging and filing War Department correspondence) will be used exclusively in recording and filing correspondence at these headquarters and also in the offices of the Quartermaster and of the Treasurer on and after March 1, 1917.