Word: firing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...received his commission seven days later. Lieut, White sailed with the 26th Division in September, 1917, and went into action near Soissions in February, 1918. In March he was ordered away from the front, but returned again in July. He was Mortally wounded July 19 by machine gun fire...
...received the Distinguished Service Cross with the following citation:--"For extraordinary heroism in action near Fismes, France, Aug. 26, 1918, and near Remily, France, Nov. 10, 1918. On Aug. 26, Lieutenant Gilbert made a daylight reconnaisance of the ruins of Tannerie near Fismes, entered Fismes under direct observation and fire of the enemy, and continued his reconnaisance along the Rouen-Rheims road under machine gun fire, for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the terrain was favorable for an attack on the Chateau du Diable. On November 10 he voluntarily led a patrol across the river Meuse and located...
Captain Wesselhoeft, in action near Verdun in November, 1918, went forward under heavy machine gun fire, to the aid of a wounded soldier. The fire was so heavy that the two were compelled to remain in the shell hole until nightfall, when the wounded man was carried back to safety...
...most interesting events concerned with the lighter side of trench warfare which I experienced during my year in France, spend most of the time at the front was the first Harvard class banquet ever held under fire," said Major Carroll J. Swan '01, of the 101st Engineers, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "In my own regiment three out of the six company commanders were in the class of 1901 at the University, Captain Edwin Bruch, Captain Charles Roach, and myself. On a section of the Toul front we met two other clasments, one a Colonel of Artillery...
...hostile lines. After the deafening noise had ceased and the Colonel had resumed his place, the celebration continued and was finished without interruption. We believe that the class of 1901 holds the honor of being the only class in any college to have held a class banquet under fire...