Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain William John Bingham '16, of Methuen, has been awarded the French War Cross for heroism at the battlefront in the closing days of the war and has received the personal thanks of the general of his division for the part he took in the October fighting. Captain Bingham was very prominent in College affairs, being president of the Phillips Brooks House and the Exeter Club, First Marshal of his class, leader of the Glee Club, captain of the 1916 track team, and a member of the Nominating and Athletic Committees...
...latest lists of government citations the Distinguished Service Cross is awarded to First Lieutenant sumner Sewall '02, of Bath, Me., one of the seven University "Aces." The citation reads--"for repeated acts of extraordinary heroism in action near Menilla Tour, France, June 3, 1918, and near Landres, St. Georges, France, October...
Recent citations of the American and French Armies contain the names of three University men. Captain John Mitchell '18, of the 95th Aero Squadron is cited, posthumously, by the U. S. Department for "extraordinary heroism in action." He was killed during an aerial combat against superior numbers, after having downed an enemy biplane, near Beaumont...
...Pittsfield, who was a first-year student in the School of Business Administration in 1917, had accounted for seven enemy flyers before his death in action. In a list of citations issued by the War Department last week Lieutenant Hamilton was awarded posthumously the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in action...
...cant, unfairness, untruth and un-Americanism; not that he took always the most dangerous part for himself; not that he was a man of splendid human qualities; not for anything that can be set down in words, but for something to which his deeds and attributes and heroism all pertained--for himself we loved...