Word: regimentation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Hamilton Fish, Jr., '06, 369th Regiment, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre. General Petain made the award with the following citation:--"Captain Hamilton Fish, Jr., commander of Co. K, 369th Infantry Regiment, being on furlough; came back to spend his furlough with the regiment, knowing it had been engaged. Has rendered precious services--exposed incessantly to danger--before, during, and after the taking of a village, and in establishing contact between the regiment and his battalion...
...more former members of the University and one former cadet in the University regiment who was not regularly enrolled as a student have been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism in action. The two graduates are First Lieutenant Robinson Murray '12 and Captain Conrad Wesselhoeft '11, both of Cambridge. Lieutenant Kari C. Payne of Belmont, the third upon whom the honor was conferred, although a student of M. I. T., owes his early training to the University regiment which he joined in the spring...
...trench warfare which I experienced during my year in France, spend most of the time at the front was the first Harvard class banquet ever held under fire," said Major Carroll J. Swan '01, of the 101st Engineers, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "In my own regiment three out of the six company commanders were in the class of 1901 at the University, Captain Edwin Bruch, Captain Charles Roach, and myself. On a section of the Toul front we met two other clasments, one a Colonel of Artillery, C. A. Goodwin, the other a liaison officer, Lt. Harold...
...excellent training and personnel of the old Harvard regiment was felt all through the American Expeditionary Force", said Major Carroll J. Swan '01, of the 101st Engineers, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "I think that everyone associated with the R. O. T. C. should be justly proud of the result attained, and I hope that the work of the regiment will be continued. Military training of some sort should be a permanent feature of our College. It makes for better students, better men, and better citizens...
...longed to be with the army in the field, like the good soldier that he was, he did not complain and was considered one of the most capable officers on the staff. After a year he obtained his transfer and rode all night on horseback to join his regiment at the front, going into action that very morning. He was killed on the second day after being relieved from staff duty, while engaged on an especially hazardous mission, which he accomplished...