Word: furloughs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...were finally sent to the front in the spring of 1915 as members of the first detachment of England's volunteer army. Captain Beith's ability and courage soon won him a commission and he rose rapidly to the rank of captain. He has recently been granted a furlough by the British War Office to lecture in this country on England's part in the war and has already spoken at several universities and colleges, including Yale and Princeton, and at several preparatory schools...
...regiment suffered heavily in the famous "Battle of the Slag Heaps" in the Loos offensive of a year ago. For some mysterious reason, as he characteristically puts it, he was recommended for the Military Cross, and after being subsequently transferred to a machine gun company, he was given a furlough to enable him to come to America. Captain Beith sees the humorous as well as the serious side of the situations created by the war, and if the graphic pen pictures in his book may be taken as a criterion, he is the best qualified of any of the lecturers...
Captain Beith, or Ian Hay as the literary world knows him, was sent to the front with the "first hundred thousand." His bravery won him many promotions, and he finally received the rank of captain. He is now on a furlough and has been sent to this country by the British government to explain England's position...
...company of the Eighth Regiment: W. G. Renwick '12, captain; R. T. Merrill '06, first lieutenant; H. C. Blanchard '09, second lieutenant; O. P. Johnson '18, first sergeant; N. B. Grigg '18, sergeant; H. G. Reynolds '17, top sergeant; E. C. Wilkins '16, corporal; D. Duncan '17, corporal (on furlough); R. T. Whistler '16, corporal; F. Parkman '19, corporal; R. Batchelder '18; R. S. Codman '18; C. J. Coulter '19; G. A. Cook '16; J. Preston '19; G. Townsend '17; W. B. Wilson...
...members of the Eli squad in the Yale Battery were all granted special furlough, so that the race can be held on Friday...