Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...show that 287 citations and decorations have been awarded to Princeton men during the war; 22 decorations were won by men who graduates before 1900, while the class of 1919 had eleven who were either decorated or cited. Of these decorations and citations, 79 were American, 180 French, 18 British, 16 Belgian, 17 Italian, four Greek and one Montenegrin...
...Magoun, who will speak on the Treaty from the point of view of the service man, was attached to the American Ambulance Field Service before the United States entered the war. In March, 1917, he joined the British Army, and was shortly afterwards commissioned a first lieutenant in the Royal Air Force. Last year he was wounded in action and was awarded the British Military Cross. He was honorably, discharged last June and is now an instructor in Comparative Literature at the University...
...Harvard Unit was organized in the spring of 1915, and in June of that year 32 surgeons and physicians, three dentists, and 75 nurses, in charge of Dr. Edward H. Nichols '86, sailed for England. The Unit was assigned to General Hospital 22, British Expeditionary Forces, and remained in service, except for a break of three weeks in 1915, until the conclusion of hostilities. After several physicians had each had a term of service in charge of the Unit, Dr. Hugh Cabot '94 took permanent charge, was made Commanding Officer of the Hospital by the British Army, and was commissioned...
King George in person decorated several members of the Unit last winter, and A. J. Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, in a letter to President Lowed about the work of the members of the Unit, said...
...Leacock's address at the Union is the second of the November speeches made here, as on November 13 Hugh Walpole spoke. An interesting program is assured for December and January, since Viscount Grey, British Ambassador to the United States, has promised to come on the 8th of next month and Donald MacMillan, the famous Arctic explorer, is scheduled to appear early in January...