Word: belleau
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Edmund Coolidge '22, first class private, Headquarters Company, 101st Infantry, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in action near Belleau Bois, France, on October 23, 1918. His citation is as follows: "He felt shelter and exposed himself to intense machine gun fire, when he saw a soldier lying wounded in advance of our lines. He reached the wounded man despite the enemy fire, and dragged him back to a place of safety...
...college man myself, but my brothers were Harvard men. One of them Major Edward P. Cole '04 fell mortally wounded at the Battle of Belleau Wood. For bravery and gallantry on the field of battle' he received the Croix de Guerre, the Distinguished Service Cross and the French Legion of Honor...
...commissioned a lieutenant in the Marine Corps in April, 1904, and served at a number of posts until commissioned a captain in February, 1914. He was given the rank of major just before sailing for France in 1917, and met his death in the battle of Belleau Wood...