The Westfield Cadets were organized July 3, 1895, under the name of the Woronoco Gun Club.

The cadets met Friday evenings each week and held drills in the hall of the old Normal school that stood at that time on School street.

The officers of the company were: Captain, W. N. Clifford; first lieutenant, G. H. Graves; second lieutenant E. Burlingame; first sergeant, A. fuller; second sergeant, John Frasier; third sergeant, Guy Herrick, corporals, Wm. Burlingame, Louis Stevens; company quartermaster and treasurer, H. P. Perry; chief musician, James Generous, with Sergeant Frasier as instructor in rifle practice.