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.
'97
Captain Arthur Steele Dascomb, August 20, 1918.
'00
Major Henry Reuben Weston, November 27, 1918.
'05
Captain Robert Allen French, December 16, 1918.
'06
Conrad Philip Hazen, February 11, 1918.
'08
Lieut. George Elliot Shipley, October 11, 1918.
Sergt. Karl Herbert Pitcher, September 23, 1918.
'09
James Andrew Turner, October, 1918.
Capt. Lester Sherwood Wass, July 18, 1918.
'10
Thomas Start Knox, November 19, 1918.
Lieut. Sturgis Pishon, October 26, 1918.
Raymond Whiton Thompson, September 12, 1918.
'11
Capt. Edward Franklin Chase, August 31, 1918.
Capt. Frederick Whidden Grant, October 7, 1918.
William Thomas Stillman, August 13, 1918.
Charles Henry Ayer, October 16, 1918. Sergt. John Alvord Rose, October, 1918.
'12
Lieut. Harold Francis Jacobus, December 24, 1918.
Howard.Burchard Lines, December, 1916.
William Whipple Poole, Jr., September 12, 1918.
'13
Lieut. Robert Greenleaf Durgin, October 4, 1918.
*Lieut. Errol Dwight Marsh, November 2, 1918.
Corp. Austin Brown Noble, January 5, 1919. Sergt. Earle Cushing Stanley, July 2, 1918.
Curtis Melvin Parkhurst, February 20, 1918.
'14
*Lieut. Henry Bradley Frost, 1918. 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.
Sergt. Frederick Drew Day, January, 1918.
Richard Nelville Hall, December 25, 1915.
Sergt. Allen Scott Norton, October 23, 1918.
Lieut. William Henry Townsend, April 23, 1918.
Lieut. Alan Frederick Waite, September 29, 1918.
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. Chester Albert Pudrith, May 3, 1918.
Harold Bridgeman Stedman, October 9, 1918.
Lieut. Ellsworth Olmstead Strong, August 25, 1918.
Lieut. Karl Eugene Dimick, September 19, 1918.
Corp. 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.
Lieut. Donald Paret MacNutt, July 16, 1918.
Paul Gannett Osborn, June 25, 1917.
Sergt. Afton Eugene Wheeler, September, 1918.
Thomas Brown McGuire, January 15, 1918.
Herman Stockman Robinson, November 24, 1918.
Maurice 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 Frederick Emerson, September 25, 1918.
Stanley Hill, August 14, 1918.
Ensign Eugene Charles Tirrell, October 1, 1918.
Lieut. George Minot Cavis, October 7, 1918.
Lester Lord Horton, September, 1918.
'19
Lieut. Charles Patrick Anderson, September 16, 1918.
Charles Bacon, October 24, 1918.
Fred 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 3, 1918.
Charles Enos Tayntor, October 3, 1918.
Dewitt Gififord Wilcox, August 29, 1918.
Lieut. Stafford Leighton Brown, October 7, 1918.
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.
Edward Louis Stephenson, May 1, 1918 '21
Spencer Wallace Slawson, October 9, 1918.
LIEUTENANT GEORGE ELLIOTT SHIPLEY '08
Lieutenant George Elliott Shipley '08 was killed in action October 11, 1918 in the Argonne offensive while leading his men in an attack near Nantillois, three miles from Mt. Faucon where the battle raged furiously early in October. His chaplain writes that he was instantly killed and was buried in his own blanket near where he fell while the battle was still on, and mentions especially his bravery.
Lieutenant Shipley was a quartermaster's officer in the 304th Sanitary Train, 79th Division. He obtained his commission at the conclusion of the first officers training camp at Fort Sheridan in the summer of 1917, and was assigned for duty at Camp Grant, Ill., Camp Johnston, Florida, and Camp Meade, Md., going overseas in the spring of 1918.
Lieutenant Shipley was born in Detroit, Mich., October 14, 1884, and prepared for college in the Oak Park, Ill., High School. He was a very prominent undergraduate, winning his D in track as a member of the [missing text] Relay Team. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Casque and Gauntlet Senior society, and Palaeopitus. In his senior year he was elected vice-president of his class. After graduation he was connected with Butler Brothers, a mail-order house; in Chicago. During the summer of 1916 he served on the Mexican border with Battery E, 131st Field Artillery. He is survived by his mother and one sister, Mrs. F. W. Leach, of Chicago.
LIEUTENANT ERROL DWIGHT MARSH '13
Lieutenant Errol Dwight Marsh '13 was killed in action on the Western front on November 2. He was a member of the 319th Infantry, 80th Division, to which he had been transferred a few days before his death from the 302nd Infantry, 76th Division. He received his commission as second Lieutenant at the conclusion of the first Plattsburg Camp, and he was assigned with the 302nd Infantry for active duty at Camp Devens. He went overseas on July 4, 1918, and saw continuous active service at the front from the time of his arrival in France until his death.
Lieutenant Marsh was born in Ware, Mass., July 19, 1889, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight F. Marsh, and had spent practically all of his life in Westboro, Mass. He prepared for college at Worcester Academy and entered Dartmouth in the fall of. 1909. He was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. At the end of his junior year he left college to go into business with his father. He was married on August 23, 1917, to Miss Jan? Nason, who with his parents and a brother survives him.
LIEUTENANT HENRY BRADLEY FROST '14
Lieutenant Henry Bradley Frost '14 died of wounds while a prisoner of war in Germany.
He was a member of the 17th Aero Squadron, having enlisted in the Aviation Service in July, 1917. After a brief training at the Massachusetts Institute of Techology he was sent to England where he completed his training and went to the front on April 3, 1918. He remained on active duty until August 3 when he went to England on a two weeks' furlough. He returned to France to become Flight Commander and was leading his patrol in a battle with enemy planes when he fell behind the enemy's line on August 26. A month later his parents heard that he was in good health in the prison camp at Rastatt. No further news came until on February 17 the War Department announced his death, without date.
Lieutenant Frost was born in Arlington, Mass., August 25, 1892, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Frost. He entered college in 1910 from the Arlington High School. In college he was a member of the Kappa Kappa pa Kappa Fraternity and the Gamma Alpha Society. He was an honor man in his studies and a varsity hockey player. He received the degree of A. B. in 1914 and of C. E. from the Thayer School in 1915. For the next two years he was in the employ of Swift and Company, packers. He served for nine months on the Mexican border with the lowa State Guard before his enlistment in the Aviation Service.