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...Quentin Roosevelt, of Oyster...
Colonel Raynal Cawthorne Bolling '00, of New York, former Chief of the Air Service, who has previously been reported missing was killed in France last March; it was learned yesterday. While passing in an automobile along the Amiens-St. Quentin road near Estrees he was surprised by a party of Germans, and shot down after a short one-sided fight...
Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt '19, and Captain Douglas Campbell '17, are mentioned in French Army citations. Lieutenant Roosevelt is referred to as "an excellent pilot and scout, possessing the highest qualities of courage and devotion to duty." The order concludes "He gloriously fell in the course of an aerial combat on July...
...January 12, 1919, of complications resulting from wounds received in accident last September. He received a bul in the lungs at the action in which 27th and 30th American Divisions, operating with the Army of Sir Douglas Haig captured the defenses of the denburg line between Cambrai and Quentin. After treatment in army capitals in France and England, Corp. Vought was invalided to the Columbia Hospital, New York. He was on rough from there at the time of his with...
...relics of a score of other conflicts fought for their possession. Julius Caesar led his legions across the the present battlefield in B.C. 57, while in pursuit of the Nervii. The Franks wrested the region from the Romans and the Northmen in turn from the Franks, sacking St. Quentin in 883 A.D. Picardy was devastated in the Hundred Years' War between France and England, and the armies of the Emperor Charles V. invaded it, besieging Peronne in 1536 and St. Quentin 21 years later. Wellington led the English army through Peronne on the way to Paris after Waterloo. The neighboring...