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Corporal Thomas Walter Butcher '04 of Fort Worth, Texas, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by General Pershing. The citation follows...
...have attempted to portray his life have ascertained only a dozen dates of his career, and several of these indicate in a very uncertain manner the more important events of his life. The records state that he was born in 1607, that he was the son of a butcher and that four of his brothers and sisters perished in the great plague at London...
...authentic clue to the exact date of John Harvard's birth was found until recently, when research students discovered the following record in the baptismal files of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, England: "1607, November 29, John Harvye, S. of Robt., a Butcher." Since it was the custom in the churches at that time to require the baptism of a child three days after his birth, the Memorial Society, which each year holds commemoration services, decided in 1910 to fix November 26 in the year 1607 as the correct date of the birth of John Harvard...
...result were disarmed and made the slaves of the Turkish soldiers. Many escaped and the Turks on finding it somewhat difficult to persuade those friends with whom they had taken refuge to give them up to be shot as deserters, a general massacre was ordered. The "Butcher Regiment," made up of former criminals, was ordered by the governor-general to begin the slaughter of the innocent Armenian women and children. The Armenians were murdered by the thousand, 55,000 were killed in one day. The rivers were blocked by the bodies and were turned from their regular courses...
...authentic clue to the exact date of John Harvard's birth was found until recently, when historians found the following entry of his birth in the baptismal files of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark--"1607, November 29, John Harvye, S. of "Robt., a Butcher." Since it was the custom in the churches at that time to require the baptism of every child three days after its birth historians were led on the occasion of the 300th annivesary of John Harvard's birth to fix November 26th in the year 1607 as the correct date of his birth...