Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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1920 GORDON BARTLETT JOSEPH JOHN FENTON, JR. ROBERT AUGUSTUS HATCH BENJAMIN HIESTAND CHARLES ALEXANDER HOPKINS EDWARD LOUIS STEVENSON, JR.

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7 hope I have done what Dartmouth will he proud of. — R. N. Hall, ' 15 There is a summons in those tolling guns. There is a warning current in the air That stirs my soul — I feel it stir — and runs Through all my veins, leaving strange fire there. Lo, I have finished ; I have fought with death ; I have given the world the strength I drew from thee, Dartmouth, my mother, of whom my latest breath. Last fleeting thought, and one regret, will be. Dartmouth, my mother, I hold me highly paid For this, my body, if that spirit that lives Within thyself — the spirit thou hast laid As thy most precious gift upon thy sons — Shall be in me fulfilled, — seeing that it gives High strength to meet the summons in those guns. — Franklin McDuffee.

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(BoitiDn Sartlrtf, aa Peace Dale, Rhode Island Spi e Phillips Andover Academy; Freshman Cross Country; Third Honor Croup (1). Gordon Bartlett died September 17, 1918, of wounds received the day before Ml the St. Mihiel drive. He had gone forward with a voluntary giui crew to man some captured German pieces in advanced positions, and was hit while reconnoitering. It was nearly three days after he was reported missing that he was found by a strange division and taken to a hospital. Corporal Bartlett was born in Tottori, Japan, March 12, 1898, a grandson of Sam- uel C. Bartlett, ' 36, an early president of Dartmouth College. When he was fourteen years old he came to the United States to attend Phillips Andover Academy, from which he entered Dartmouth in 1916. In the spring of his freshman year he tried to join the first Dartmouth Ambulance Unit, but as its roster was complete he joined the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps and sailed for France in May. He went into action before Verdun, and won the Croix de Guerre with a star for two occasions of extreme bravery. When the United States took over the ambulance service in November, Bartlett enlisted in the Field Artillery, and was assigned to Battery D, 1 7th Regiment. For some time he acted as orderly and chauffeur to the major-general in the headquarters comjjany of the 1st Army Division. His own regiment saw some of the heaviest fight- ing of the whole summer, serving with the Marines at the battle of Belleau Wood, in the second battle of the Marne, and in the St. Mihiel drive, during which Bartlett received his fatal wound. He is survived by his father, S. C. Bartlett, ' 87, and his mother, now residing at Peace Dale, R. I., and by three brothers, the eldest of whom, Robert I.. Bartlett, is now a freshman at Dartmouth. 10