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DARTMOUTH WAR RECORD

November 1917
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DARTMOUTH WAR RECORD
November 1917

The MAGAZINE will attempt in this department to keep its readers informed of the war activities of the alumni and undergraduates. Provision is being made to keep a permanent record, and all information of this kind should be sent to Mr. H. M. Tibbetts, Hanover. N. H. It is hoped to print monthly in the MAGAZINE news items as to the war work of the alumni with such brief information in each case as can be obtained. To make this department successful complete cooperation of all alumni and their friends is necessary and urgently requested.

'85

Alton E. Briggs, executive secretary of the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange has been appointed a member of the advisory committee in connection with the work of Food' Administrator Hoover.

'95

Charles H. Hunkins is attached to the French Army as an ambulance driver. He had a year's leave of absence from Brown University at the end of the college year and expects to stay in France until next September. His forwarding address for mail in: S.S.A. 4, Par Convois Automobiles, B. C. M., Paris.

'00

John C. Redington is Ist Lieutenant in Battery C of the 149th U. S. Field Artillery. This regiment was one of the first chosen for the Rainbow Division. He reports two other Dartmouth men in the Battery, Philip Chase and Stewart Burns, both of the class of '18.

Aside from the '00 men referred to in the report from the Dartmouth Medical School, the other doctors of the class have responded immediately to war demands. Henry R. Weston is in the regular army and is stationed at Port-land, Maine. John H. Long is commissioned in the Medical Reserve but has not yet been called out.

Frederick H. Barrett, non-grad., is connected with the base hospital at Camp Hancock, Augusta, Georgia.

'02

George W. Elderkin is a member of the Princeton Ambulance Unit and expects to sail immediately for. France.

Archille Fontaine has served as Captain in the U.S.A., and is now enrolled, it is believed, in the Canadian forces.

Henry C. Pillsbury and Arthur H. Ruggles are enrolled as majors in the Medical Reserve.

Arthur V. Ruggles; has been made Captain of the Engineering Officers' Reserve Corps in Cleveland, Ohio.

Dr. John C. O'Connor is with the 301st Infantry at Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass.

'03

Dr. Charles B. Chedel is now in training in Company 11, M.O.T.C., Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.

Joseph A. McVicar is an Ensign in the Naval Reserve Corps.

'06

Conrad P. Hazen is in the Aviation Corps.

'07

Richard S. Southgate has received a lieutenant's commission and is now at Camp Dodge, Des Moines, lowa.

Many of the items sent in by class secretaries regarding war activities of the alumni will appear in the next issue of the MAGAZINE,

'01

Herbert C. Coar has received a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the 103rd Infantry.

Harold S. Winship has been drafted in Connecticut.

'11

Dr. Philip McQuesten is 1st Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps.

Edward Stafford is a Captain in the Coast Artillery.

'12

Roswell E. Hall is 2nd Lieutenant in the Ammunition Train.

Fletcher Clark, Jr., is 2nd Lieutenant in the 103rd Infantry.

'13

E. Lawrence Brown has been commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 102nd Artillery.

Harry H. Semmes is a Lieutenant of Cavalry, U.S.A.

Howard Stoughton was drawn in the first quota of the draft at Baltimore.

Thomas A. Nichols is at the Water-vliet Arsenal, Watervliet, N. Y., in the Ordnance Department.

Earle V. K. Wilson is Ist Lieutenant in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps.

Edward A. Davis is in the Naval Reserve.

Austin B. Noble has been drafted in Vermont.

George B. Watts is a Secretary of the Y.M.C.A. with the Expeditionary Forces in France.

Joseph Y. Cheney is attending the 2nd R.O.T.C. at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.

His address is Co. 4.

F. P. Walsh is enlisted in the Naval Reserve and is Chief Storekeeper at Mare Island, San Francisco, Cal.

C. H. Linscott, non-grad., has been moved with Co. I, 49th Inf., from Syracuse, N. Y., to Camp Merritt, Tenafly, N. J., where he expects to be encamped for the Winter.

Lieut. George B. Davidson is in Camp at American University Grounds, Washington, D. C.

George A. Hayes, non-grad., is now at Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., in the 304th Infantry, having received his commission of Captain at Plattsburg, N. Y.

Captain Thomas J. Scully, non-grad., is attached to the 302nd Pioneer Engineers at Long Island.

Lieut. Harold C. McAllister is in the Quartermaster's Dept., at Ayer, Mass.

Donald B. Gilchrist has been commissioned Captain in the Field Artillery and is in Camp at Des Moines, lowa.

Lieut. Pierce Webster is attached to the 333rd Field Artillery at Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill.

Lieut. Wright Hugus received his commission at Fort Benj. Harrison, In-dianapolis, and aftjer a four weeks' course under the French officers at Harvard, will go either to some Southern camp or to France.

Lieut. G. W. Kimball was ordered to France after his training at Plattsburg.

R. G. Durgin has enlisted in the Coast Artillery Corps, and is now at Fort Stark, New Castle, N. H.

Sidney M. Akerstrom has enlisted in the U. S. Navy as a Dental Surgeon.

R. W. Hutchinson is an Assistant Surgeon in the Navy stationed at Newport, R. I.

John A. Randall has enlisted in the U. S. Army Medical Corps.

Lieut. Harvey C. McClary received his commission at Fort Riley, Kansas, and is now in Company E, 42nd Inf., at Fort Douglas, Utah.

Carl Shumway has enlisted in the Naval Aviation Corps and is to be sent either to Pensacola or Toronto.

Ray L. Bennett and Lincoln S. Wilson are in the R.O.T.C. at the Presidio, San Francisco, Cal.

Leonard R. Manley is in the R.O.T.C. at Fort Snelling, Minn.

'14

Theodore Main is in the Quartermaster's Corps at Charlotte, N. C.

Henry W. Barnes is a Lieutenant with the 303rd Infantry and is stationed at Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass.

Thorndike Saville is in the Engineering Corps, U.S.A.

Francis F. Jones is an Assistant Paymaster, U.S.N.R.F. at the Chester Shipbuilding Co., Chester, Pa.

Walton Parker is a Sergeant in the Motor Truck Service of the Q.M.C., and is at present training at Camp Funston.

Alexander J. M. Tuck, Captain in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, Attached Royal Scots has been awarded the Military Cross for bravery in reorganizing his company within 150 yards of the enemy under heavy enfilade fire.

'15

Harold K. Davison is 2nd Lieutenant in the 101st Infantry.

Harold E. Corwin is a private in the regular artillery and is now at camp in Syracuse, N. Y.

Herbert F. Comstock, non-grad., has just finished his course at the aviation school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and will be sent to a training camp at once.

Charles E. Griffith, Jr., has been appointed an expeditionary secretary to the Y.M.C.A. for service in France.

Philip D. Smith is Ist Lieutenant of the Aviation Division and is stationed at Rantoul, Ill., as an instructor at the government aviation school.

William H. Townsend has completed his training at Camp Borden, Ontario, and received his lieutenant's commission as pilot in the Canadian Royal Flying Corps.

Robert L. Fitts is a Sergeant in the Ordnance Department with the 26th. Division.

Albert Bradley is an accountant in the Division of the Signal Corps in connection with the newly allotted aircraft contracts.

Ralph W. Brown is an Ensign in the Naval Reserve and is serving as Junior Officer on the S.S. Kroonland.

'16

Henry C. Bean is at the Naval Cadet School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Harold Tuttle is in the American Ambulance Corps.

Glenn C. Gould is in France with a sawmill unit.

Lawrence S. Ayer is a lieutenant now in training in France. He will later be assigned for duty at Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass.

Louis H. Bell has been commissioned a Captain of Infantry.

F. S. Wilson and W. P. McCoy have received temporary appointments as ensigns in the Naval Reserve. They are to be sent to Annapolis for a three months' course of training.

'17

John A. Pelletier has been made a Sergeant in the French Army.