Word: forested
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Distinguished Service Cross was awarded posthumously to Lieutenant Gardner for "extraordinary heroism in action in the Argonne Forest, October 3, 1918." While leading his company up a steep slope in the face of machine gun fire, he displayed the highest courage, and was killed before he saw his objective fulfilled...
Captain Edward Leslie Grant '06, who met his death in action in the Argonne Forest last fall will be honored by a memorial which is to be erected at the Polo Grounds in New York. Captain Grant was a former third baseman on the New York National League nine. Mr. John McGraw, manager of the New York Nationals is heading the committee which is to raise funds for the memorial...
Lieutenant Earl Thompson West '18, of Woburn was killed in action in the Argonne Forest on September 30, 1918, instead of at Chateau-Thierry on July 1, as was previously reported. Lieutenant West was leading a patrol to find out the position of the German front line trenches...
Lieutenant George Alexander McKinlock, Jr., '16, of Lake Forest, Ill., has been reported killed in cavalry action near Soissons on July...
...last letter received from Lieutenant Moorhead was dated September 27, and told of his being in the Argonne forest. No further word was received until December 19 when a letter of formal condolence came to his mother from a fellow officer who wrote: "We went through it all together and no one put I knows the glorious battle your son put up." Only sixteen of the company of two hundred and fifty survived...