Word: verdun
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...three corps, all composed of Buicks and Fiats, now in the field, and the two new Golelet Corps are nearing a satisfactory completion. Both of the old corps have seen service in nearly every sector in France. Section 7 was in Champagne during the offensive there, and was at Verdun all during the offensive. The section has received several citations, and 37 individual citations. The Harjes Section has been in Alsace and at Verdun. It has received the citation of the army, a distinction no other American section has received, and 34 individual citations...
...given. Taylor reports that the University contingent that left for France last February is already hard at work on the western front. N. Wainwright '19 and K. Merrick '19 have been transferred from their original sections to Section 8, which did such gallant work during the heavy fighting at Verdun in May and June of last year. Taylor, together with W. K. B. Emerson '16, H. J. Kelleher '18, R. B. Varnum uC, and C. A. Amsden uC have been detached to Salonika to flH vacancies in Section 3, where the qualifications are especially severe, and an ambulance driver...
...volunteered in the Ambulance and served in the Vosges Mountains through the winter of 1915. For bravery in action during the intense attack by the Germans, lasting over a month, he was awarded the Croix de Guerre and promoted to sous-lieutenant. In this capacity he served at Malzeville, Verdun and Port-a-Mousson, distinguishing himself at all times by his executive ability and coolness under shell-fire. Last September, he returned to this country for the purpose of recruiting a new section of the Ambulance, which he subsequently did, getting 20 ambulances from the New York Stock Exchange...
Chapman was a student in the Ecoledes Beaux Arts in Paris at the time of the outbreak of the European war. He first enlisted in the Foreign Legion, and later was transferred to the Flying Corps of the French Army. He was killed in action over Verdun on June...
March 23: Bataille de Verdun...