Word: cablegram
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...special examinations held last spring. They were enrolled to serve a maximum period of six months and should accordingly all be back in the early part of December. Word has recently been received from the Red Cross headquarters in Italy, however, that thirty men are returning via Paris. The cablegram does not state whether any of them are members of the University...
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...
...cablegram just received in Washington announces that Richard Cutts Fairfield, of New Ipswich, N. H., and New York City, who had been admitted this fall as a Freshman, was killed while on duty in the ambulance corps on the Italian front. He is the first American to die in the ambulance service in Italy...
Word has been received of the death of Lieutenant William Halsell Cheney '20, a member of the American Aviation Corps serving in France. A cablegram sent by General Pershing announces that the death was due to a collision of airplanes last Sunday over an aviation school maintained by the American Government behind the lines. Lieutenant Cheney was 21 years of age, and previous to his enlisting in the national service lived in Peterboro, N. H. In the same accident two other men were killed, Lieutenant Oliver P. Sherwood of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Private George A. Beach of Fort Collins...
According to a cablegram received by relatives yesterday, Lieutenant William Hague '04, of Grass Valley, Cal., has died of pneumonia while serving as a member of the American Expeditionary Force in France. Lieutenant Hague embarked for the front only six weeks ago with the 116th Regiment of Engineers. Before entering military service he was an engineer of the North Star Mines in his native state...