ISOB Whitmore
Details:
The cemetery is on a hill and you enter halfway up; Whitmore is the second row from the bottom in the furthest section from the gate, grave # 363.
A standard French Military grave marker; a white cross with an inscribed centerpiece.
Frank Whitmore was born near Ellsworth, Maine, on May 21, 1876, the son of Charles Whitmore, a farmer. He went to Virginia as a young man, and worked for years on the Old Dominion Line boats. With money he had saved, he bought a farm on the James River, near Richmond, and was a successful poultry farmer until the war called him to France and death.
"I can truthfully say that Whitmore never knew what fear was. That is why he sleeps peacefully to-day in a little grave with the colonel of the Legion. If he had not been the man he was, he would have been in a hospital instead of in the grave".
From American fighters in the Foreign legion, 1914-1918 by Paul Ayres Rockwell:
From the Mémoire des homes (French Ministry of Defense) Website:
Franck WHITMORE
Mort pour la France le 18-04-1917 (Bouy - Ambulance 9/9, 51 - Marne, France)
Né(e) le/en 21-05-1876 (Etats-Unis)
40 ans, 10 mois et 28 jours
Rank: soldat de 2e classe
Unit: Régiment de marche de la Légion étrangère (RMLE)
Class: 1914 (EV)
Recruitment office:Seine bureau central (75)
Recruitment roll number:10848
Reference:Mort pour la France
Place of transcription of death:Paris 5e arrondissement (75 - Paris (ex Seine), France)
Inhumation:
Département : 51 - Marne
Commune : Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus
Lieu : Nécropole nationale La Crouée
Carré, rang, tombe : Tombe 363
Monument Text:
WHITMORE FRANCK
Légion Etrangère (French Foreign Legion)
MORT POUR LA FRANCE LE 18.04.1917
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
American Volunteer Group
French Foreign Legion
Wars:
WWI
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