Word: platoons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...drill corps this year consists of 12 companies, including a machine gun platoon, a medical detachment and a band. Agitation is at present being made for the establishment of an aero unit. Such a unit, under the instruction of an officer of the United States Army, will be formed should enough men desire...
According to latest dispatches from England, Allen Shortt 17', previously reported severely wounded and missing, is safe and well in a German prison camp. Shortt, who left college last year to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force, was recently awarded the military cross for exceptional bravery in leading his platoon across "No Man's Land" and capturing practically single-handed a German...
...service in memory of Dillwyn Parrish Starr '08, who was killed in action in France on September 15 at the head of his platoon in the advance of the Cold-stream Guards, will be held at Trinity Church, New York City, this afternoon at 4 o'clock. His friends are invited to attend...
...service in memory of Dillwyn Parrish Starr '08, who fell in France, September 15, 1916, at the head of his platoon in the advance of the Coldstream Guards, will be held at Trinity Church, New York City, Tuesday, October 3, 1916, at 4 o'clock. His friends are invited to attend...
...identification. The battalion entered the battle eleven hundred strong, of whom only 98 answered roll call that night. Maxwell was not of this number, and his name was set down under "missing" in the official casualty lists. Of Maxwell's company only twenty men survived and of his own platoon not one. The chance that he still lives, a prisoner in Germany, is said to be very slight, as none of the battalion were made prisoners...