Word: regiments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Throughout all of her varied experiences with military training, both in the Regiment of 1916 fame, and in the later units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, the University has endeavored to keep this fact in view and to make allowance for it. Periodical shifts among those holding places in the commissioned and non-commissioned grades in the corps tended to divide the leaders from the led. The permanent installation of tested men in the positions of company commander and first sergeant afforded opportunity for each sixty men to be placed under the careful observation of two trained cadets...
...list commences with the name of George Williamson '05, of Montreal, Canada, who as a lieutenant in the second battalion of the Duke of Wellington's Riding Regiment, was so badly wounded during the opening engagements of the war, that he died of his injuries in a hospital on Nov. 4, 1914. He is believed to have been the first graduate of any American college to have been killed during the World...
...engineer, senior grade, in Co. D., 101st Engineers, 126th Division, died in France, March 14, from pneumonia. He enlisted as a private in July, 1917. Before going overseas in the following September, Forbush was made a sergeant. He served in the capacity of master engineer continuously with the 101st Regiment until October 1, 1918, when he was sent to an engineer officer candidate school. He graduated about December 1, but because of the armistice never received his commission. At the time of his death, Forbush had returned to his company and was acting as second lieutenant...
...Major Norman M. MacLeod '02, of Providence, R. I. The latter received the D. S. C. and Croix de Guerre with a palm for conspicuous service at Macheville, when an attack was directed against this town last September. Major MacLeod was liaison officer at the time with the 102nd regiment, and took command of the scattered elements of infantry which did not have sufficient officers, owing to losses. With these men, Major MacLeod, then captain, successfully resisted an enemy counter-attack...
...sailed for Europe last April. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Infantry in June and assigned to the 109th Infantry. He commanded a company through the battle of the Argonne and was promoted to a First Lieutenancy. He was in command of the One Pounder section of the regiment on November 11, when he was mortally wounded. The Distinguished Service Cross was awarded him posthumously for conspicuous bravery in action...