Word: degroot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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First Lieutenant Alfred A. DeGroot, commander of the second battalion, has been in active service in France for about one year with the 28th Infantry, First Division. This unit fought in the San Mihiel section, and later in the province of Loraine...
Lieutenant DeGroot was born in Morristown, New Jersey, 38 years ago. In 1898 he enlisted in the army, was assigned to the 18th Infantry, and immediately sent to the Philippine Islands, where he remained until after the capture of Manila and the cessation of hostilities. After the war Lieutenant De Groot remained in the army, and was commissioned second lieutenant in the 28th Infantry in May, 1917. He was promoted to his present rank in August, 1917, but whether he was in France at that time or not is not yet known, because the date of sailing of his unit...
Battalion commanders are Captain C. E. Dunn and First Lieutenant A. A. Degroot, each of whom has served a year in France. Lieutenant H. R. Davenport, a graduate of the Small Arms Firing School at Camp Perry, Illinois, is ordnance officer and rifle instructor. The quartermaster department is under the charge of Lieutenant W. Weinrich, Jr., and Lieutenant P. W. Long '98 is the personnel officer...