DARTMOUTH ROLL OF HONOR
The following list contains the names, arranged by classes, of all Dartmouth men who have died in the service of their country since the beginning of the Great War, and whose deaths have been reported to the Secretary of the Alumni Association. ,In every case where it is known, the date of death is also given. Those names which are starred have not been reported in any previous number of the MAGAZINE.
'93 Med.
Lieut. James Brown Griswold, October 25, 1917.
'00
Major Henry Reuben Weston, November 27, 1918.
'05
*Captain Robert Allen French, December 16, 1918.
'06
Conrad Philip Hazen, February 11, 1918.
Ex-'08
*Sergeant Karl Herbert Pitcher, September 23, 1918.
Ex-'09
James Andrew Turner, October, 1918.
Captain Lester Sherwood Wass, July 18, 1918.
'10
*Thomas Start Knox, November, 1918.
Lieut. Sturgis Pishon, October 26, 1918.
Ex-'10
Raymond Whiton Thompson, September 12, 1918.
'11
Captain Edward Franklin Chase, August 31, 1918.
Captain Frederick Whidden Grant, October 7, 1918.
William Thomas Stillman, August 13, 1918.
Ex-'11
Charles Henry Ayer, October 16, 1918.
*Sergeant John Alvord Rose, October, 1918.
'12
*Lieutenant Harold Francis Jacobus, December 24, 1918.
Howard Burchard Lines, December, 1916.
*William Whipple Poole, Jr., September 12, 1918.
'13
Sergeant Earle Cushing Stanley, July 2, 1918.
Ex-'13
Curtis Melvin Parkhurst, February 20, 1918.
'14
Lieut. Guy Edson Fuller, May 31, 1918.
Phillips Haskell, September 29, 1918.
Robert Turner Kelley, October 16, 1918.
Ralph Henry Kelsey, October 16, 1918.
Lieut. George Francis Watkins, July 24, 1918.
'14 Med.
Lieut. William Edward Emery, June 11, 1918.
'15
Charles Edward Bishop, October 4, 1918.
Sergeant Frederick Drew Day, January, 1918.
Richard Nelville Hall, December 25, 1915.
*Sergeant Allen Scott Norton, October 23, 1918.
Lieut. William Henry Townsend, April 23, 1918.
Lieut. Alan Frederick Waite, September 29, 1918.
Ex-'15
James Lloyd Churchell, August 29, 1918.
'16
Lieut. Lawrence Sanderson Ayer, April 20, 1918.
Frederick Olney Garrison, October 23, 1917.
Charles Raymond Janes, September 13, 1918.
*Allen Dodge Lewis, October 13, 1918.
Louis Frank Pfingstag, April 6, 1918.
Lieut. Charles Albert Pudrith, May 3, 1918.
Harold Bridgeman Stedman, October 9, 1918.
Lieut. Ellsworth Olmstead Strong, August 25, 1918.
Ex-'16
Lieut. Karl Eugene Dimick, September 19, 1918.
Corporal Cecil Winfield Fogg, July 21, 1918.
Vernon Kellogg Penny, July 24, 1918.
Ensign Russell Dexter Tibbitts, October 14, 1918.
'17
Clark Aaron Goudie, August 5, 1918.
Lieut. Joseph Welch Emery, Jr., July 18, 1918.
Sergt. Winfield Skidmore Knowles, April 3, 1918.
Paul Gannett Osborn, June 25, 1917.
Sergt. Afton Eugene Wheeler, September, 1918.
Ex-'17
Thomas Brown McGuire, January 15, 1918.
Herman Stockman Robinson, November 24, 1918.
Morice Gordon Smith, April 10, 1918.
'18
Sergt. Rodney Donnell Brown, October 26, 1918.
Sergt. William Wendell Drabble, October 10, 1918.
Lieut. Harold Field Eadie, March, 1918.
Lloyd Franklin Emerson, September 25, 1918.
Stanley Hill, August 14, 1918.
Ensign Eugene Francis Tirrell, October 1, 1918.
Ex-'18
Lieut. George Minot Cavis, October 7, 1918.
Lester Lord Horton, September, 1918.
'19
*Charles Bacon, October 24, 1918.
Frederick Cook Gilpatrick, Jr., October, 1918.
Lieut. Ernest Armand Giroux, May 22. 1918.
Lieut. Warren Tucker Hobbs, June 26, 1918.
Lieut. Frederick Plant McCreery, May 11, 1918.
Donald Mansfield McMahon, October 14, 1918.
Charles Enos Tayntor, October 3, 1918.
DeWitt Gifford Wilcox, August 29, 1918.
Ex-'19
Ensign Philip Bernard Frothingham, September, 1918.
Wainwright Merrill, November 6, 1917.
Lieut. Thomas Cushman Nathan, March 20, 1918.
'20
Corp. Gordon Bartlett, September 17, 1918.
Joseph John Fenton, Jr., August 13, 1918.
Robert Augustus Hatch, October 5, 1918.
Lieut. Benjamin Hiestand, June 10, 1918.
Charles Alexander Hopkins, January 30, 1918.
George Ouray Kane, November 21, 1918.
Ex-'20
Lieut. Stafford Leighton Brown, October 7, 1918.
Edward Louis Stephenson, May 1, 1918.
'21
Spencer Wallace Slawson, October 9, 1918.
WILLIAM WHIPPLE POOLE, JR., '12
Private William Whipple Poole, Jr., '12, was killed in action at St. Mihiel on September 12. Private Poole was a member of Company B, 165th Infantry, and went across with the First Army Corps, 42nd (Rainbow) Division. No details concerning his death have yet been received.
Private Poole was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Poole of Westbrook, Maine. He prepared for college at the Westbrook High School and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1908. In college he was prominent in various activities, singing for four years in the choir, taking part in the production of the Greek play, and being a member of the Glee Club. He belonged to the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. After graduation he engaged in the business of paper manufacture, working first for the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company at Piedmont, W. Va.; then for several years serving as boss color-mixer in the plant of the Maine Coated Paper Company at Rumford, Me.; and going in 1916 to the Bryant Paper Company of Kalamazoo, Mich., where he held the position of night superintendent in the coating paper mill. He still held this position at the time of his enlistment. In December, 1916, his engagement was announced to Miss Delia F. McPhee of Rumford, Me.
SERGEANT KARL HERBERT PITCHER, EX-'08
Mess-Sergeant Karl Herbert Pitcher, ex-'08, died September 23, 1918, in Base Hospital Number 50, at Cosne, near Orleans, France, from the effects of fatigue and exposure. Sergeant Pitcher enlisted April 12, 1917, as a private in Battery A, 102nd Field Artillery, 26th Division. He received his first training at Camp Curtis Guild, Boxford, Mass., where he was promoted to a corporalcy. He sailed with the rest of the command April 23, 1917, and soon after arriving in France was promoted to mess-sergeant. He was in line for further advancement, and the major commanding his battalion states that he would soon have received a commission. Letters from officers and members of his battery speak of his efficiency and his self-sacrifice in keeping his men well supplied with food while in action at the front and during forced marches. He was cited for high efficiency in an order of June 22.
Sergeant Pitcher was born in Haverhill, Mass., September 6, 1885, the son of Dr. Herbert E. and Genette M. (Sheldon) Pitcher. He prepared for college at Haverhill High School. He was a member of the class of 1908 at Dartmouth during its freshman and sophomore years, and later a member of the class of 1910 during a part of its junior year. He also studied for a short time/in the Medical Department of Columbia University. He was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity. In March, 1911, he entered the employ of the C. K. Fox Shoe Company of Haverhill, and remained with this company until his enlistment. January 4, 1911, he was married to Miss Marjorie Whitney Fox, who survives him with two sons, Charles Herbert and Kilburn Fox.
SERGEANT JOHN ALVORD ROSE, Ex-'11
Sergeant John Alvord Rose, ex-'11, of the Sanitary Corps, U. S. A., lost his life when the R. M. S. Leinster was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland in October. Sergeant Rose enlisted in the Sanitary Corps on October 3, 1917, and in January, 1918, he was chosen with nine other men to go to London to supervise the manufacture of gas-masks. While there he perfected the canister of the gas-mask. He was returning on the Leinster from a furlough spent in Ireland when the vessel was torpedoed. Passengers on the ship said the last they saw of him he was struggling in the rough sea, holding a girl above the water. His body was recovered and buried in Dublin on October 13.
Sergeant Rose was born in Littleton, Mass., June 29, 1888, the only son of Dr. and Mrs. Alvord H. Rose. He was graduated from the high school in Concord, Mass., in 1907, and attended Dartmouth for two years. On July 21, 1909, he was married to Miss Elsie E. Lowden of Concord. He was appointed assistant state gas inspector by Governor Walsh. He is survived by his wife, father, mother, and two sisters.
ALLEN DODGE LEWIS '16
Allen Dodge Lewis '16 died on October 13, 1918, at the Officers' Training Camp for the Engineer Corps at Camp Humphreys, Virginia, after an illness of about three weeks.
Lewis was born in Manchester, N. H., October 5, 1894, the son of George E. and Lucretia Lewis. He prepared for college at the Manchester High School and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1912. Both at school and in college he was prominent in track athletics, being a member of the varsity cross-country team and winning his D as a long-distance runner. He was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. Having chosen civil engineering as his profession, he took the Thayer School course and received his degree of C.E. in 1917. Immediately after graduation, he was appointed first assistant engineer on the new government dry dock at Portsmouth, Virginia. About July 1 of this year he resigned his position, to enter the Officers Training Camp. He is survived by his parents, who reside in Manchester.
SERGEANT ALLEN SCOTT NORTON '15
Sergeant Allen Scott Norton '15 of the Ambulance Service of the Army Medical Corps, died in France of accident on October 23, 1918. No details of his death have as yet been received. Sergeant Norton enlisted in the Medical Corps in the spring of 1917, and with many other Dartmouth men received his training at Allentown, Penn. In December of last year he went overseas and was attached to S.S.U. 562. He served with this section until April, when he was transferred and at the time of his death was stationed in the Vosges section in charge of a group of fifty-five ambulance drivers.
Sergeant Norton, whose home was in Hudson Falls, N. Y., was born at Glen Falls, December 22, 1893, the son of Mr. John A. and Mary V. (McConihe) Norton. He prepared for college at Hudson Falls High School and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1911. In college he was a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and played on the Mandolin Club for four years. He was an excellent student, receiving departmental honors in German during his senior year. The year following his graduation he remained at Dartmouth as an instructor in German, at the same time pursuing work for his M.A. degree, which he received in June, 1916. He then went to Oakwood Seminary, Union Springs, N. Y., as an instructor in modern languages and still held this position at the time of his enlistment.
Sergeant Norton is survived by his parents and by one brother, Max A. Norton, until recently a yeoman in the U. S. Navy and at present a senior at Dartmouth.
CHARLES BACON '19
Private Charles Bacon '19 was killed in action on the western front on October 24. Private Bacon left college in his sophomore year to enlist, with the American' Field Service, with which he served as a driver of an ammunition truck with the French army from June to November, 1917. After the American Field Service was taken over by the American Expeditionary Force, he enlisted in Battery C, 103rd Field Artillery of the 26th Division.
Private Bacon was born in Waltham, Mass., twenty-three years ago, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Bacon. He was graduated from Waltham High School with the class of 1914. Both in school and in college he was interested in athletics and was a member of the track squad at the time of his withdrawal from Dartmouth to enter the service. He was a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity.
MAJOR HENRY REUBEN WESTON '00
Major Henry Reuben Weston '00 died at Windsor, Vt., November 28, 1918, of empyema. He was summoned from Camp Humphreys in late October to attend his wife, who was at that time very ill with influenza and pneumonia. The day after his arrival in Windsor he began to experience severe pain, but his wife's condition and the impossibility of securing adequate nursing kept him from taking his bed for some little time. Meanwhile, a condition of the lungs had developed for which an operation offered no relief. Death followed soon after. The courage he exhibited was remarkable. He had had a number of similar cases at Camp Humphreys and knew their seriousness. The nurse he finally obtained asked him how these cases got along. His reply was, "They don't get along; they all die." Even in the face of what must have been known to him as certain death, he was extremely cheerful.
The funeral service was held in Windsor on the afternoon of Sunday, December 1. Vermont Lodge of Masons conducted the Masonic ritual service. Eleven army officers were present and acted as bearers and escort. A detachment of fifteen privates with a bugler and sergeant from the S. A. T. C. unit at Dartmouth fired the usual volley at the grave and the bugler played taps.
Major Weston was born in Windsor, Vt., March 13, 1878, the son of the. late Charles J. Weston and Mrs. Elizabeth A. Weston. His early education was gained in the Windsor public schools, and he entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1896 from the Windsor High School. He distinguished himself scholastically in college, receiving the degree of A.B. cum laude, and being elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa. For a year after graduation he remained at Dartmouth as an instructor in the biological department. He then attended the New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, receiving his degree of M.D. in 1903. After another year in New York as attending physician at DeWitt Dispensary, he returned to Windsor for private practice, which he continued until 1908. He then entered the medical department of the United States Army and served in the Philippines and in various sections of this country. While stationed at Fort Strong in Boston Harbor, he did post-graduate work in the Harvard Medical School. In 1914 on account of the ill health of members of his family caused by long residence in the tropics, he requested to be put on the inactive list of the army, and after taking special work at the New York PostGraduate Hospital he once more returned to Windsor to resume private practice. On the day after the United States declared war he offered his services to the government and was shortly called. He served at various camps in responsible positions, and since about the middle of June had been assistant camp surgeon at Camp Humphreys, Virginia, in charge of instruction of medical officers and medical enlisted personnel. He was promoted to the rank of major early this fall.
Major Weston was married in December, 1902, to Miss Emir Root of Windsor, who survives him, with a daughter, Doris Josephine, aged fifteen, and a son, Barrett Locke, aged twelve; his mother, his sister, and one brother, Charles J. Weston '05 of Springfield, Mass., also survive him.
Major Weston was a good soldier, an able physician, and a loyal alumnus. He was the only member of the class of 1900 permanently enrolled in the military service. He had already achieved distinction when death overtook him long before his prime, and the recognized position which was his had come solely as the reward of high character and unusual ability. He held certificates for the practice of medicine in Vermont, Massachusetts, California, and New York. He always kept in close touch with the members of his class and with the college; he will be deeply missed by all who knew him.
THOMAS START KNOX '10
Thomas Start Knox '10 died during the last week of November at Camp Hancock, Georgia. He had been in the service only a few weeks when he was taken ill with scarlet fever, and died in less than a week.
Knox was born in Jackson, Minn., September 19, 1888, the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Knox. His father was one of the foremost lawyers of southern Minnesota. Knox prepared for college in the Jackson High School and entered Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., in the fall of 1906. At the end of his junior year, he transferred to Dartmouth and was graduated with the class of 1910. Immediately upon his arrival here he became prominent in college activities, making the football squad and the glee club in both his junior and his senior years. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and of the Casque and Gauntlet Senior Society. Since graduation Knox has been engaged in the banking business in Jackson, and held the position of cashier at the time of his enlistment.
CAPTAIN ROBERT ALLEN FRENCH '05
Captain Robert Allen French 'OS died of double pneumonia at the emergency hospital, Washington, D. C., December 16, 1918. Captain French successfully underwent an operation for hernia in the early summer in order to make himself physically fit for service in the army and enlisted with the tank service. He was soon transferred to the military intelligence department and advanced to the rank of captain. He had been stationed at Washington.
Captain French was born in Nashua, N. H., September 13, 1882, the son of Mr. George B. French '72 and Mrs. Sadie E. (Burnham) French. Preparing for college at the Nashua High School, he entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1901. While in college he was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. After graduation from Dartmouth he attended Harvard Law School, from which he was graduated in 1908. He entered upon the practice of law with his father in Nashua and attained a considerable measure of success in his profession. He was well known and well liked in his community, and at the time of his death was secretary of the Nashua Country Club.
He is survived by his parents, two sisters, and a brother, Sergeant George M. French '11.
LIEUTENANT HAROLD FRANCIS JACOBUS '12
Lieutenant Harold Francis Jacobus '12 died of pneumonia in a base hospital in France on December 24. Lieutenant Jacobus enlisted at the outbreak of hostilities and was commissioned a second lieutenant at the end of four months' training at Camp Riley, Kansas. He was sent to Camp Custer, Mich., where after a short time he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant and transferred to Battery E of the 342nd Field Artillery, going to France with his command in May, 1918. His battery was a part of the 79th Division and saw much hard service. At the cessation of hostilities this division was one of those selected to make up the occupational army.
Lieutenant Jacobus was born in Turners Falls, Mass., twenty-seven years ago, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Jacobus. He was a graduate of the Turners Falls High School in the class of 1908, and of Dartmouth in 1912. He also studied music for a time at Montreal College, Montreal, P. Q. He was an excellent musician and took an active part in all musical activities during his college course. He was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. After his graduation from college he accepted a position with the Travelers Insurance Company; he worked for them in Hartford and Springfield and was so successful in his work that he was soon advanced to the position of cashier in the office of the company at Kansas City, Missouri. He still held this position at the time of his enlistment. Lieutenant Jacobus is survived by his parents and one brother.
