Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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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

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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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3io5fpf) ioftn Jfrnton, 3ir., 4 m4 Bellows Falls, Vermont Joe St. John ' s Preparatory School; Freshman Baseball Squad. Joseph John Fenton, Jr., was drowned August 13, 1918, at Pensacola, Fla., in a seaplane accident. He was making a landing on the bay while engaged in night flying practice, and misjudged the distance of the water from the plane which turned turtle, this action allowing fenton no chance to escape. A rescue party was unable lo right the plane for over an hour, and by that time it was too late to resuscitate the young aviator. Fenton was born at Bellows Falls, Vt., May 7, 1897, and attended the high school in that village. After further preparation for college at St. John ' s School, Dan- vers, Mass., he entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1916. During the latter part of his freshman year he left college to enlist in the Naval Reserve Force, and was sent to Newport, R. I., the following summer, for duty as a third-class quartermaster. In the fall, when there was considerable agitation on the part of the government for the reserves to return to college, Fenton went to the Catholic University at Wash- ington. In March, he received his transfer to the Naval .Air Service, and was sent to the Naval Aviation T raining School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for preliminary instruction. After graduating on May 25 he went to Key West, Miami, and later to Pensacola for training in flying. At the time of his death he had nearly completed his course. Fenton is survived by his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Fenton. of Bellows Falls, Vt., and a sister, Elaine Fenton. II