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This #FortRileyFriday we're back at the Cooks and Bakers School, building 310 Holbrook Avenue, to check out a unique feature on the building's grounds.
On the south lawn of bldg. 310 sits a small stone and metal monument dedicated to Patrick Dunne, a Sergeant in the Quartermaster Corps who was later promoted to the rank of Major. SGT Dunne, along with then CPT L.R. Holbrook (after whom Holbrook Ave. is named) wrote the Army's first cooking
manuals. These works included Handling the Straight Army Ration and Baking Bread; A Practical Manual for Army Cooks, Mess Stewards, and Post Bakers; A Practical Manual for Company Officers, Post Treasurers and Mess Officers of Troops Aboard Army Transports; The Mess Sergeant's Handbook and The Mess Officer's Assistant. Dunne and Holbrook also created an early version of the field oven. They obtained a patent for the oven and then turned all rights to it over to the government.
The undated monument reads, "In Memory of Patrick Dunne, Q.M Sergeant Q.M.C
(Major Q.M. R.C.)"
Pictured: Top left, close up the Dunne monument; top right, Dunne monument
with bldg. 310 in the background; bottom left, Fort Riley bakers take a break to enjoy some watermelon; bottom right, one of the manuals Dunne helped write for the Cooks and Bakers School.
| Date Taken: | 05.03.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 01.04.2024 14:47 |
| Photo ID: | 8189386 |
| VIRIN: | 190523-A-YH536-1001 |
| Resolution: | 526x526 |
| Size: | 62.12 KB |
| Location: | FORT RILEY, KANSAS, US |
| Web Views: | 30 |
| Downloads: | 1 |
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