Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...commanding officer is a living representative of the Stars and Stripes, and as such he deserves to be saluted even more than the flag," says Major Humphreys of the British Army, stationed at Camp Jackson as an instructor...
...material gains; part of the Zeebrugge mole was destroyed and the channel at Ostend blocked up, but the chief advantages of the raid were moral. It will probably not take the Germans long to repair the damage, but they will now have to face a reawakened spirit in the British Navy that bodes no good for them. For a long time Zeebrugge and Ostend seem to have held the British in the spell of inaction; they have been regarded as impregnable fortresses that it would be folly, to attack, but now it is clear that they can be attacked...
Lieutenant Gustav H. Kissel '17, an American in the British Royal Flying Corps, was yesterday officially reported as missing in action, in a cablegram from the British headquarters in France. It is believed that he was forced to I behind the enemy lines and was captured by the Germans...
Word has also been received that Lieutenant Francis P. Magoun '16 has been wounded flying on the western front. Last fall he was commissioned second lieutenant in the British Royal Flying Corps, as a result of his unusual skill and daring while fighting in the scouts' division of the flying corps. On December 6, 1917, he brought down a German aviator who had previously overcome 16 Allied planes...
...essential spirit. Indeed, the fact that every patriotic individual has a part to play in the war is far more apparent in the thirteenth month after our entry than it was in the first. Then the French were wresting the Chemin des Dames heights from the Germans, the British were driving the enemy at Arras, while revolutionized Russia was hopefully expected to recover from her bribed lethargy of 1916. Our impetuous publicist, Mr. J. M. Beck, was bewailing the fact that our late entrance into the war forbade our participation in anything more glorious than a triumphal march of occupation...