Bascom Edgar Dorus

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Edgar Dorus Bascom is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

26th Division Tablets of the Fallen (WW1)

Name:

Edgar Dorus Bascom

Rank:

Second Lieutenant

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Unit:

101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry Division

Date of Death:

1918-10-24

State:

Massachusetts

Cemetery:

Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, France

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EDGAR DORUS BASCOM.
Second Lieutenant, United States Infantry.
Born in Gill, Mass., August 24, 1892.
Prepared at the Greenfield High School.
Entered the Institute in 1911.
Graduated in the Course in Civil Engineering in 1915.
Member of the Civil Engineering Society.
He entered two training camps but failed to receive a commission. He was drafted but refused because he was underweight. He nevertheless enlisted as a private in the 101st Engineers, 26th Division, and accompanied that unit to France. He was promoted to Second Lieutenant and transferred to the 101st Infantry. He saw service at Seiche-prey and at the Marne. He was killed during the Meuse-Argonne offensive on the morning of October 24, 1918, during the attack against Bois de Wavrille, on the heights of the Meuse.
Source of information: Technology's War Record (MIT 1920)