Word: cablegram
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unit of the American Field Service, composed of members or recent graduates of the University which sailed from New York June 2 arrived safely in Bordeaux yesterday. The cablegram received by the Boston office of the Field Service yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock also stated that the men proceeded directly to Paris, and that after two days' stay in Paris they will be sent to Meaux, where a school for ambulance drivers is located...
Word was received via cablegram yesterday that two units of men who are to serve at the front and among whom are included a number of members and alumni of the University, have safely arrived in France. One of the cablegrams stated that the steamer Chicago, bearing 16 undergraduates who are enrolled in the American Ambulance Field Service has landed its passengers at Bordeaux. The other cable announced that the three graduates of the University who sailed to join the Lafayette Flying Corps, and disembarked at the same port...
...official cablegram has been received by Herbert H. White '93, manager of the Harvard Surgical Unit and the British Military Hospital Contingent, stating that the steamship Andania, carrying the University contingent under the direction of Dr. Hugh Cabot '94, has arrived safely in England. On account of the strictness of the British War Office the port of landing was not announced, but the cablegram stated that all the members of the party arrived safely, and were proceeding to London. The members of the unit, which is composed of graduates of the Medical School, will go directly from London...
Edward Carter Sortwell '11, of Cambridge, who has been with the American Ambulance Service with the French armies, died of injuries in Salonika, Greece, November 12, according to a cablegram received by relatives. He was 27 years old and a son of the late Alvin F. Sortwell, a former mayor of Cambridge...
Elliot Christopher Cowdin, a student in the University in 1906-1907, has been awarded the French medaille militaire, states an Associated Press cablegram from Paris. Cowdin was also cited for the second time in army orders for his brilliant aviation exploits as a member of the American Flying Corps. The citation says of Cowdin, who is now a first sergeant...