Knight-Errant

STORE MANAGER, soldier, adventurerall of these titles have applied, at one time or another, to Captain Charles F. H. Crathern Jr. '2O, now with the AEF in North Africa. Ever since the day in 1917 when he left Dartmouth to join up with the first Dartmouth College Ambulance Unit in the French Camion service, Charles Crathern has been in the thick of things. Early in 1918 he transferred to the U. S. 57th Pioneer Infantry as a private. He was sent home for officer training at Fort Benning and was commissioned a second lieutenant shortly before the Armistice.

After the war he returned to college, but soon set out for Europe again—this time as an athletic director with the Near East Foundation. While there he joined the Greek Army with a commission of major and fought in the Turkish War of 1921-23. He was a friend of Princess Helene of Greece and her brother Crown Prince George, and when the Princess married King Carol of Roumania in 1922, he attended the weddings in Athens and Bucharest.

Captain Crathern was in Honduras working for the United Fruit Company during the revolution there. In 1925 he returned home and settled down to the routine of breadwinning for a wife and three children. However, Spring, 1942, brought with it the old "itch" and, giving his family 48 hours' notice, he once more set off for the wars. The last report on Captain Crathern told of his participation in an Armistice Day celebration in Algeria—the first such ob- servance there since the fall of France.

CAPT. CHARLES F. H. CRATHERN JR. '20