Word: 101st
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Staff of the Yankee Division, who, during the war, was on the General Staff of the A. E. F. as Assistant Chief of Staff of the Second Corps that fought with the British in Flanders. Among some of the others are Col. R. F. Goodwin, who commanded the 101st Field Artillery throughout the war, Major Wendt, Adjutant of the Brigade Artillery in the Division, and Major Carrol J. Swan '01, who as Captain of a Company in the 101st Engineers, the old First Corps Cadets, was not satisfied enough with engineer work, dangerous as it is, but jumped...
...course I was not so well acquainted with the junior officers in the Division, but there were many Harvard men among them especially in the 101st Engineers, the old First Corps Cadets, and in the 101st and 102nd Field Artillery, having been transferred from the old Battery A. They were not less spirited than their senior officers. A good example is Captain H. Frothingham, commander of Co. F, 104th Infantry. An old football player, he used to go into battle as if he were going into a Yale game. For gallant conduct while under fire, he was promoted...
Captain Leonard left the University shortly after the declaration of war, enlisting in the 101st engineers. He was later sent to the first Plattsburg Camp, where he was commissioned a second lieutenant. He was then sent to France, and served with the 9th infantry, 2d division, A. E. F. Captain Leonard was wounded at Soissons and sent home as an instructor in September...
...most interesting events concerned with the lighter side of trench warfare which I experienced during my year in France, spend most of the time at the front was the first Harvard class banquet ever held under fire," said Major Carroll J. Swan '01, of the 101st Engineers, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "In my own regiment three out of the six company commanders were in the class of 1901 at the University, Captain Edwin Bruch, Captain Charles Roach, and myself. On a section of the Toul front we met two other clasments, one a Colonel of Artillery...
...excellent training and personnel of the old Harvard regiment was felt all through the American Expeditionary Force", said Major Carroll J. Swan '01, of the 101st Engineers, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "I think that everyone associated with the R. O. T. C. should be justly proud of the result attained, and I hope that the work of the regiment will be continued. Military training of some sort should be a permanent feature of our College. It makes for better students, better men, and better citizens...