He was promoted to corporal and assigned to duty with the Judge Advocate General, Headquarters, Service of Supply, and was discharged April 1, 1919.
By his marked zeal and aggressiveness he greatly added to the successful administration of the Services of Supply.
The Services of Supply: A Memory of the Great War, 1927.
In March 1942, the transportation functions were consolidated into the Transportation Division of the newly created Services of Supply.
Service of Supply.
He became Chief of Staff of the Services of Supply on 29 July, with the rank of brigadier general from 6 September 1942.
Services of Supply became one of the three autonomous components of the Army of the United States on 9 March 1942.
Most theatres of war had their own logistical organisation, usually also named the Services of Supply.
The trouble began when SOS (Services of Supply) troops, long stationed in Oran, closed their clubs and installations to our combat troops from the front.
In a reorganization later that year, Farrell became Chief Engineer of the Services of Supply in the China-Burma-India theater.