Word: 77th
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Major General Robert Alexander '92, commander of the 77th Division, has announced the citation of Second Lieutenant Samuel Freedman '09, 305th Infantry, for bravery under fire. During the advance from the Aisne near Pincon Farm on September 7, 1918, when his company was obliged to fall back on account of heavy shelling, and after suffering heavy casualties in bringing his men from the field to their new position, with absolute disregard for his own personal safety, Freedman returned and directed the work of bringing in the dead and wounded, and in doing so was himself severely wounded...
Major James Alfred Roosevelt '07 died aboard the transport Great Northern, which was due in New York yesterday, while on his way back from France to arrange for the reception of the 77th Division. He went over as a captain and became commander of the 302nd Ammunition Train. Major Roosevelt was a second cousin to the late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and a nephew of President Lowell...
Word has been received that Observer Carle E. West, Company "I", 305th Infantry, was killed inaction on September 30. West was a member of the class of 1918, but left College early in the year and went across with the 77th Division from Camp Upton on April 7. Soon after the division arrived in France he was sent to the front, and remained continuously until his death...
...accepted applicants have been ordered to the 77th Division at Yaphank and will report to the Commanding General on January 5, 1918. They will be required to pay their own travelling expenses to the camp, but they will be reimbursed later at the rate of three and one-half cents per mile. Candidates for commissions are at liberty to buy their own uniforms in advance, but the War Department will not allow them any money for this purpose...