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Debate on when World War I ended and first American casualties
The article reviews arguments that the WWI armistice of November 11 1918 did not mark the war’s end for the United States until July 2 1921 and surveys claims of who was the first American killed in the conflict, including candidates from Massachusetts and Illinois. It cites legal debates, memorials, and commemorations in Washington Paris Boston and Fismes France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
United States
Wilson
Court of Claims
Washington
Genera
Germany
Austria
Nannie L.ee King
Washington Star
Marshal Foch
Forest of
Compiegne
Paris
Sir Rosslyn Wemyss
Mathias Erzberger
von Winterfeld
Count von Obernoff
von Saion
Secretary of War
Publi
America
Congress
Army
General March
War Department
France
Department
United States of America
Coolidge
Fismes
Rene Phelizet
Harry Chapman Gilbert
Washington, D. C
Denver
Colo
Baker
Gilbert
White House
Arlington National Cemetery
Canada
George W. Woodruff
Buffalo
N. Y
Woodruff
Flanders Field
George
General Pershing
Louis J. Ganella
New Orleans
Associated Press
Louis J. Genella
Doctor Genella
Second Northumbrian Field Artillery
Tulane University
Cuba
Shi-loh
Waterloo
American Legion
Legion
Edward Mandell Stone
Chicago
Stone
Romilly-sur-Seine
James Bethel Gresham
Evansville
Ind
Massachusetts
Gresham
Sixteenth Infantry
Artais
Lorraine
Luneville
J. B. Gresham
M. D. Hay
Thomas En
Tere
Thomas E. Enright
Pittsburg
Merle D. Hay
Glidden
Oscar C. Tugo
Carl I. Clifford
Newton Upper Falls
Mass
Boston Herald
Clifford
Harvard Medical Unit
Base Hospital 5
Cliford
Harding
Pasteur
Longwond Aves
Harvard Medical School
Boston
Ireland
Wainwright
Major Peters
Edwards
William Lawrence
Brookline