CLASS OF 1912

Howard Burchard Lines died in the Argonne, near Verdun, on active service with the American Ambulance Corps, December 23, 1916. "Rainy" was the only son of Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Lines '82, of Paris, France, and was born in 1890. He prepared for college at the Anglo-Saxon School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, the Webster Club, the Cercle Frangais, and Round Robin. He was manager of the Gun Club and circulation manager of the lack-O'Lantern. After graduation he entered Harvard Law School, and had secured his degree. In the summer of 1915 he returned to France and became a volunteer driver in the American Ambulance Corps, in which service he remained thereafter, with the exception of a month or two in the spring of 1916, when he returned for a visit to this country. In the summer of 1916 he was operated on for appendicitis and for an abdominal injury, and was several weeks in a hospital from chicken pox and an attack of the grippe, but returned bravely to his duty at the front. Just before his death he was recommended for the Croix de Guerre. Death was due to a cold, followed by acute pneumonia, contracted at the front. He was buried on Christmas day, with military honors, in Le Grangeaux Boix, a little village in the Argonne, near Verdun, only ten miles from the trenches. On January 11 he was cited in the army orders of the day as follows: "Devoted and courageous, he was sent to the rear ill. He returned again to the front after his recovery, contracted a grave malady, and died for France."