Word: fields
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Twenty-nine members of the University have signed up to join the American Ambulance Field Service in France. This contingent is scheduled to sail from New York for Bordeaux on May 19. Some Steamer of the French Line will take the unit across. Applications to join the Ambulance Service have been pouring in so fast from all over the country that all accommodations for sailing up to June 2 have already been filled. In all, 192 men will go May 19 to drive ambulances, 203 the following week, and 165 on June 2. Many of these men have signed...
William deFord Bigelow '00, of Cohasset, a member of Section 4 of the American Field Ambulance, has been decorated with the Croix de Guerre. The citation says that Bigelow's car, while running through a most dangerous zone, was hit and pierced and badly damaged by shell fragments during the German attacks around Verdun...
...through its first day's work of intensive training yesterday. From 9 until 12 o'clock in the morning, and from 2 until 5 o'clock in the afternoon the regiment drilled and manoeuvred on Soldiers' Field, and the performance will be repeated every day this week...
...mobilized, August 3, 1914, as adjutant to the colonel commanding the 20th Regiment of Field Artillery. He took part in the early fighting in Belgium, the retreat, the battles of the Marne and Aisne, and the first and second battles of Champagne. Before coming to Harvard he was detailed to the British Ministry of Munitions in the department of Ordnance Research. He has been awarded the Croix de Guerre...
...drafted under the conscription bill will be assigned to the Institute and be allowed to finish their regular course while securing their military training. As the freshman class is already obliged to drill, the new course would not affect them, but the three upper classes would add drill and field work to their present schedule...