Grave Stie: XII.B.7 Isolated Burial

A standard Commonwealth Gwar Grave Commission (CWGC) upright grave.

Fleet, William A. (William Alexander), 1883-1918.

Fleet was the first American Rhodes Scholar, 1904-1907, at Magdalen College, Oxford, and later an instructor in classics, 1907-1908, at Princeton University. Due to his father's ill health he returned home and became an instructor at his alma mater, Culver Military College, Indiana. After the outbreak of World War I, Fleet returned to England in 1916 to become a Second-Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards (3^rd Company, 1^st Battalion) and died in the line of duty on May 18, 1918.

He is also remembered on the Princeton Plaque in Pershing Hall in Paris.

Additional Info:

Son of Col. Alexander F 9aconfederate States Army) and Belle Seddon Fleet, of U.S.A.; husband of Cecil Fleet, of 96, Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington, London, England.

WILLIAM ALEXANDER FLEET 

Grenadier Guards

18 May 1918, 34 years old

GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS