Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...however, is the time to look forward rather than back and to consider what is to be done to continue the work Yale has already so mightily begun for the cause of military preparedness. We are glad to see the Tenth Field Artillery disbanded; we should like to see the whole militia system meet a similar fate but we should regard it as little short of a catastrophe if the spirit already manifested and the work already actually accomplished in the cause of preparedness at Yale were to go for nothing more than a mere ephemeral outburst of one summer...
...expect to be at full war strength in Great Britain until the spring of next year," said Captain Ian Hay Beith, of the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, speaking in Sanders Theatre yesterday afternoon. "At that time the nation will at last be fully prepared industrially and in the field. July 1, 1916, was a momentous day for the British 'Tommy' for on that day the war realy began, as far as the Allies are concerned and with the first rush of the Somme offensive the British soldier, inexperienced and hastily trained, proved himself the equal, nay, the superior...
Captain Beith was just under the maximum age limit for enlistment at the outbreak of the war and immediately enrolled in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, which went into training at Aldershot in the fall of 1914. The regiment remained in training for six months and were finally sent to the front in the spring of 1915 as members of the first detachment of England's volunteer army. Captain Beith's ability and courage soon won him a commission and he rose rapidly to the rank of captain. He has recently been granted a furlough by the British...
...Lecture for the benefit of the Cambridge Surgical Dressings Committee. "The Human Side of Trenell Warfare," by Captain Ian Hay Beith, of the Tenth Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders. Sanders Theatre...
Word has been received at the University office that Clyde Fairbanks Maxwell '14, was reported missing on July 3, 1916, in the first engagements of the battle of the Somme. He was a second lieutenant in the Tenth Battalion of the Essex Regiment, British Army...