Word: fell
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...college man myself, but my brothers were Harvard men. One of them Major Edward P. Cole '04 fell mortally wounded at the Battle of Belleau Wood. For bravery and gallantry on the field of battle' he received the Croix de Guerre, the Distinguished Service Cross and the French Legion of Honor...
Yale has decided to accord a special honor to her athletics who fell during the war. Although no definite plans have been made as yet there will be established a particular memorial, entirely separate from the general war memorial which will be erected by the university...
...need of a new gymnasium building to take the place of Hemenway, long antiquated and outgrown. Even more obvious is the ardent wish of every Harvard man that in time there be erected a fitting and enduring memorial which may ever stand as a concrete tribute to those who fell--a tribute that will recall to successive generations of Harvard men the glory and honor due that gallant group of three hundred and four soldiers and sailors...
...Leslie Orland Tooze, Law '19, was killed in the battle of the Argoone on September 28. He had distinguished himself on the field of battle, and the fact that his body was found lying at the farthest point of advance showed that he was leading his men when he fell...
Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt '19, and Captain Douglas Campbell '17, are mentioned in French Army citations. Lieutenant Roosevelt is referred to as "an excellent pilot and scout, possessing the highest qualities of courage and devotion to duty." The order concludes "He gloriously fell in the course of an aerial combat on July...