WWI · Battle Death Record
George Howe
First Lieutenant, U.S. Army · Massachusetts
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- George Howe
- Entered the Service From
- Massachusetts
- Rank
- First Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Unit / Regiment
- Medical Reserve Corps (attached to 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, British Army)
- War
- WWI
- Date of Death
- September 28, 1917
- Awards
- Distinguished Service Cross
- Burial / Memorial
- Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial, Waregem, Belgium
- Grave
- Plot C, Row 4, Grave 1
Their story
George Plummer Howe, a Massachusetts physician commissioned in the U.S. Army Medical Reserve Corps, volunteered in 1917 and was lent to the British Army, serving as medical officer of the 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. He was killed by shell fire near Polygon Wood (Ypres) on September 28, 1917, while tending the wounded, and his conduct was so valued by the British that he was recommended for the Victoria Cross, for which as an American he was ineligible, and instead received the U.S. Distinguished Service Cross posthumously.
Compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and National Archives (NARA) records and public sources.
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