Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spring of, 1917, Goodwin went overseas, and was a driver with the Ambulance Field Service at Verdun, Brass, and Vacherauville from June 25 to October 24. He enlisted in the Air Service on November 5, 1917, and trained at Tours, St. Maixest, and Ecole de Chateaursoux. He was commissioned May 18, 1918. Lt. Goodwin was buried with military honors in the American cemetery at Chateauroux...
Major Charles F. Mains '96, medical officer of the 103rd Field Artillery was also among those on board. He was first attached to the 101st Ambulance Company, later being transferred to the Verdun front, where he was when the Verdun front, where armistice was signed...
...battles of Chateau Thierry, Chemin des Dames, St. Mihiel, and Verdun being in the last named sector for six weeks. Last summer Walcott was wounded by a shell fragment and severely gassed, and it is believed his death may have been the result of these injuries...
...more acquainted with the men in the higher commands of the 26th Division. Many were Harvard men. Brig. Gen. Sherman was one of them. He went across as a Colonel, was then promoted to the command of the Brigade Artillery of the 92nd Division, fought at Toul and Verdun, and, after the armistice was signed, was transferred to the 26th Division. He was one of three National Guard Colonel's to be promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General during the war. Then there is Col. Richard K. Hale '02, now Chief of Staff of the Yankee Division, who, during...
...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...