Word: unitate
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...days' fighting from the eighth to the nineteenth of March, with absolute disregard of danger, the transportation of wounded in a zone particularly swept by enemy artillery. Moreover, all its personnel exhibited proof of remarkable devotion and endurance in maintaining throughout nineteen hours daily a maximum service from this unit...
...time, transporting wounded soldiers from the front under heavy fire. Merrill Stanton Gaunt, a member of the Divinity School, who was killed in service a short time ago, and Walter Heber Wheeler, Jr., '18, now serving at the front in the ambulance corps, were members of the same unit as Lathrop. All three of these men were graduated from Worcester Academy...
Merrill Stanton Gaunt, And., of Methuen, a member of the University Medical Unit engaged in Red Cross work in France, died of cerebro spinal meningitis in a hospital at Bar-le-Due early this week, according to a cablegram received by his family. Mr. Gaunt was for two years a student in the Andover Theological Seminary, but last February volunteered with the second University Unit. A cablegram was received on Saturday stating that he was seriously ill, and the announcement of his death came several days later...
...Medical School company of the University Regiment is now a well organized unit. The company has about 100 men in its ranks, and regular drill has been held during the past four weeks. Foot-drill is still being practiced, for this is as essential to a medical corps as to the regular army corps. As soon as this foot-drill has been perfected, the company will start on litter practice and first-aid work. Men skilled in this field of military training will instruct the company...
...Dartmouth, training began a week ago, with a drill in wall-scaling. While primarily an infantry battalion, there will be a corps of 20 men who will study camp sanitation and similar subjects. It is expected to form a wireless unit in the signal corps also. A canvass of the college shows a proportion of three men opposed to two men unopposed to incorporating military instruction into the curriculum of the college. Outside drill and target practice will be taken up after the Easter recess, and arrangements are now being made for the construction of rifle ranges...