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Captain Charles C. Dunn, Commander of the First Battalion of the S. A. T. C., has served 11 months in France. Before this country entered the war, he was a first lieutenant in the Second Massachusetts Regiment of the National Guard. This regiment was called into national service on March 25, 1917, and later, in August, it was combined with the Eighth Massachusetts to form what is now the regular 104th United States Infantry, of the 26th Division. This division left for France soon afterward, and was assigned to the Chemin-des-Dames sector. It bore the brunt...
Captain Dunn, then a first lieutenant, was with his 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...
...lists of last Monday as killed in action. During the spring and summer of 1917 Colonel Shannon, then major, was in charge of the military program here, and was a member of the Faculty. It will be remembered that when he was transferred to an overseas division, the University regiment marched in a body to his home on Mercer Circle and presented him with several gifts, among which were a saddle and bridle. His immediate family includes his wife, three children, and his father-in-law, Brigadier-General Eli D. Hoyle. Colonel Shannon was a graduate of West Point...
...June, 1917, when Captain Cordier, the commanding officer of the Harvard R. O. T. C., who had done so much for military training at the University, was called to Washington, the regiment suffered a severe blow. The organization and preliminary training had, indeed, been ably accomplished, Colonel Azan and his distinguished associates were ready to begin their instruction; but arrangements for the Barre Camp which was to be the culmination of three months' intensive training had to be carried through Captain James A. Shannon, 11th Cavalry, U. S. A., took up the work as commanding officer and carried the difficult...
...regiment went to Camp Thayer at Lancaster July 22. They entrained for Clinton and then hiked the three miles to the camp ground. It had been planned to march the entire distance back to Cambridge, but this was given up at the last moment...