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Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Cabot '94, M.D. '98, for the last year commander of the Harvard Medical Unit stationed on the western front with the British Army, will speak on "The Causes of the British Retreat on the Somme in 1918" in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. The meeting is open to all members of the. University and is given under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...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...
...seemed fitting at this place that we have an old-fashioned class banquet This was arranged in an artillery dog out in the front lines. While the Colonel was making his after dinner speech, such a terrific bombardment arose that he could not continue. At the same time he was obliged to give orders to his battery to send a round of shells into the 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...
...author of "My Company", who had been a member of the First Corps Cadets since his graduation in 1901, went overseas as a Captain of Engineers in September, 1917. For a short time he was attached to General Pershing's staff at Chaumont and was then transferred to the front, where he was stationed for almost a year...
...with the army in the field, like the good soldier that he was, he did not complain and was considered one of the most capable officers on the staff. After a year he obtained his transfer and rode all night on horseback to join his regiment at the front, going into action that very morning. He was killed on the second day after being relieved from staff duty, while engaged on an especially hazardous mission, which he accomplished...