Captain Patrick Dunne has arrived from Battle Creek, Mich., where he was in charge of the school for army cooks and bakers. He says he is here to organize the permanent school for bakers and cooks, for whom barracks and mess hall have been ordered built In the absence of other buildings Captain. Dunne is attached to the casual camp, and 53 out of 56 men sent here from the 314th cavalry of El Paso, the 302nd and 308th cavalry at Douglas, as student cooks, are distributed in the kitchens of the same camp for instruction. The other three were sent to the bakery company 345 for instruction.
Captain Dunne was a regular for years, but came back into the army for the term of the war, was made a captain in the quartermaster’s department and was put in charge of bakery and cooking instruction. He has the distinction of being the inventor of the field bake oven and the field cooking range, both of which are in general use in the army. They are known as the “Dunne-Holbrook” patent, Captain Dunne and Col. Holbrooke, now in France, being the patentees. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – July 25, 1918
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