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Serbian military personnel of World War I (1 C, 119 P) South African military personnel of World War I (3 C, 48 P) Pages in category "Military personnel of World War I"
Continued to lead after being mortally wounded while aiding an injured soldier Thomas A. Pope: Army: Corporal: Hamel, France: Jul 4, 1918: Single-handedly attacked and silenced a machine gun nest John H. Pruitt † Marine Corps: Corporal: Blanc Mont Ridge, France: Oct 3, 1918: Single-handedly captured two machine guns and forty prisoners [n 1 ...
Name Activated Entered Combat Commanding General Campaigns 1st Division ("The Big Red One") 24 May 1917 28 May 1918 Maj. Gen. William L. Sibert Maj. Gen. Robert L. Bullard Maj. Gen. Charles P. Summerall Brig. Gen. Frank Parker: Cantigny Aisne-Marne Saint-Mihiel Meuse–Argonne: 2nd Division ("Indian Head Division") 26 October 1917 1 June 1918
This is a list of the last known surviving veterans of the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) who lived to 1999 or later, along with the last known veterans for countries that participated in the war. Veterans are defined as people who were members of the armed forces of the combatant nations during the conflict, although some ...
An article in the Army and Navy Register from July 4, 1918 [12] states that the rank of motor sergeant had been created under authority granted to the president to reorganize the army as needed during the war. The article goes on the state that there was a law before congress that would create the rank of motor sergeant in all branches and ...
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[1] 1914. Battle of Liège; A diagram of the fortifications surrounding the city. The Battle of Liège was the first battle of the war, and could be considered a moral victory for the allies, as the heavily outnumbered Belgians held out against the German Army for 12 days. From 5 to 16 August 1914, the Belgians successfully resisted the ...
A. Charles Wheaton Abbot Jr. Frederic Vaughan Abbot; Frank Herman Albright; James B. Aleshire; Robert Alexander (United States Army officer) William Herbert Allaire Jr.