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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...regiment all this time, except for one month in which he was sent to the British front near Armentieres. During his last six months in France he was commander of Company M of his regiment. Shortly before his return he was recommended for promotion but he did not actually get his captaincy until he arrived in this country, on July...
...ideal of what an American officer should be Lieutenant Colonel Shannon. The graduates of the Harvard 1917 summer military camp and the University itself owe him a great debt. His last words to the Harvard regiment on the platform of Sanders Theatre in August, 1917, were: "If I ever get any of you in my outfit, I won't let you go." The University is proud of having had him in its outfit, and will not let his memory go. JOSEPH WARREN...
...Sothern or other players like him get little or no salary for working the great Y. M. C. A. circuit in France. Yet there is a large and increasing number of our best known artists who are cheerfully undergoing unusual hardships in order to bring wholesome cheer and amusements to our boys in khaki whereever they...
...interesting. I visited nearly all of my sections. They had been rolling steadily for more than twenty-four hours. No less than four of the sections had had men killed the first day, three others had men taken prisoner and all of them had men wounded. I did not get back to my cantonment until after midnight, and left early the next morning to see the remaining sections. It was just the same in these sections, and the barrage was equally intense in this particular part of the sector, in fact not until the French started their counter attack...
...believe I wrote you a little note some two weeks ago--promising to write more fully almost immediately--if not sooner--and there I've allowed all this time to slip by with never a word. But--when you get this--you will allow your mind to slip back through all the weeks that will have elapsed since my last hurried little note, and recall some of the things that were heralded in the papers of the 15th to 22nd of July you will perhaps see why I did not keep my promise more punctiliously--for you will recall that...