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...keep this fact in view and to make allowance for it. Periodical shifts among those holding places in the commissioned and non-commissioned grades in the corps tended to divide the leaders from the led. The permanent installation of tested men in the positions of company commander and first sergeant afforded opportunity for each sixty men to be placed under the careful observation of two trained cadets who could discover their individual ability, develop each man to the highest extent of which he was capable, and report to his superiors at stated intervals upon the progress made by each candidate...
...Sergeant Robert Lewis Forbush '13, master engineer, senior grade, in Co. D., 101st Engineers, 126th Division, died in France, March 14, from pneumonia. He enlisted as a private in July, 1917. Before going overseas in the following September, Forbush was made a sergeant. He served in the capacity of master engineer continuously with the 101st Regiment until October 1, 1918, when he was sent to an engineer officer candidate school. He graduated about December 1, but because of the armistice never received his commission. At the time of his death, Forbush had returned to his company and was acting...
...Sergeant Carl Henry Wilson G. '14-15 died at Fort Banks, Mass., January 10, 1919. He had been sent there for medical treatment early in December. Wilson was inducted in December...
Edwin McMaster Stanton '97, 1st sergeant in the 61st Inf., 5th Division, was killed in action, October 14, 1918, near the Bois de Rappe. He enlisted as a private in the regular infantry soon after war was declared, joining the 61st Regt. In a short time Stanton was warranted a corporal and then a sergeant. For service in the field he was recommended by his company and regimental officers for a commission. The orders of approval, though issued, failed to reach him before his death...
Love left College in the fall of 1917 to enlist in the Marine Corps, and was sent to Paris Island for his training. In April, 1918, he was made a corporal, and was promoted to sergeant in August. At the battle of Blanc Mont Ridge in the Champagne Sector, early in October, Love was severely wounded. It is believed that Love's death was the result of these wounds, or that he returned to duty and was killed at Sedan...