Created to train and organize troops for World War I.

Construction of Camp Bowie began on July 18, 1917. The camp, located where Arlington Heights neighborhood is now, about three miles west of downtown Fort Worth.

Shortly after the Armistice on November 11, 1918, Camp Bowie was designated a demobilization center. By May 31, 1919, it had discharged 31,584 men. The heaviest traffic occurred in June, when it processed thousands of combat veterans of the Thirty-sixth and Ninetieth Texas-Oklahoma divisions.

The demobilization having been concluded, Camp Bowie was closed on August 15, 1919. Considered “a wind-swept, untrampled tract of a prairie”, very different from the lush neighborhoods of today.

Charles C Edwards was inducted and discharged here.