Word: zone
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Seminary, has received orders from the War Department to report in Washington. Dr. Fitch undertook inspection work in France for the war council of the Red Cross. It is probable that he will make speeches throughout the country describing the conditions as he found them in the war stricken zone of France. He will return to Amherst college on October...
...fourth course will be by H. Charles Woods, F.R.G.S., author of "The Danger Zone of Europe," "La Turquie et ses Voisins," etc., late Military Diplomatic Correspondent of the London Evening News, on "War and Diplomacy in the Balkans." It also includes eight lectues: 1. The Near East before the Great War. 2. The Near East in the Great War. 3. The Danube to the Egean and the Adriatic to the Bosphorus. 4. The Baghdad Railway in the War. 5. The Dardanelles. 6. Saloniki. 7. Constantinople. 8. Mesopotamia. The Future of the Balkans. This last series will be held on Wednesdays...
...last September. Boit went to France in the spring of 1916 and has been in the second section of the American Ambulance Field Service, driving at Verdun, Hill 304, Dead Man Hill, and more recently in the Argonne forest. He was cited for carrying wounded men from the firing zone under heavy shelling from the German batteries...
William deFord Bigelow '00, of Cohasset, a member of Section 4 of the American Field Ambulance, has been decorated with the Croix de Guerre. The citation says that Bigelow's car, while running through a most dangerous zone, was hit and pierced and badly damaged by shell fragments during the German attacks around Verdun...
...later army order said: "American Section No. 5 (Norton-Harjes) has made possible during a period of 11 days of fighting, March 8 to 19, with a perfect contempt of danger the removal of wounded in a zone heavily swept by the enemy's artillery fire. Furthermore, the whole staff has shown proof of remarkable devotion and endurance by giving the maximum service of the unit, and by working an average of 19 hours...