Word: toul
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lieutenant Paul Borda Kurtz A.B. '16 was killed in action while flying near Toul, May 22, 1918. He was one of the first to enlist in the American Ambulance, becoming chief of Section 18, April 17, 1917. In May of the same year he was decorated with the Croix de Guerre for extraordinary heroism near Mort Homme at Verdun. In July of 1917 he left the Ambulance and enlisted in the American air service. That fall he was commissioned a 1st Lieutenant...
...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 Winslow...
...exhibition flight shortly before scheduled to sail for America, Hobey Baker, former Princeton football and hockey star, met his death December 21, at Toul, France. While an undergraduate, he was captain of the Princeton hockey team and was one of the most brilliant players the game has produced. Throughout his athletic career he remained an amateur in spite of many professional offers. After graduation from college he played with the St. Nicholas Hockey Club of New York, which won the National Amateur Championship...
...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 of all the fighting in the vicinity of Chateau-Thierry, and was later transferred to the Toul sector...
Lieutenant Sumner Sewall '20, of Bath Me., according to dispatches just received from France, on Monday shot down an enemy two-seated airplane inside the American lines northwest of Toul. Six German and three American planes participated in the encounter. After a running fight from an altitude of 500 meters to within 200 meters of the earth, Sewall finally brought down a Hun airman in an open field...