Home of Record: Cold Spring, New York.
Died of Wounds suffered on September 28 in the Bois de la Grurie, southeast of Binarville.
Awarded the Distinguished Servce Cross. From his citation: "For extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 305th Infantry Regiment, 77th Division, A.E.F., near Bazoches[-sur-Vesle], France, 3 September 1918, and in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, 27 September 1918. On September 3 Lieutenant De Rham led the first patrol of his brigade across the Vesle River, exposed to heavy enemy machine-gun fire. On September 27 he led five attacks against enemy machine-gun positions. He was killed [mortally wounded] while making the fifth attack."
Died of Wounds suffered on September 28 in the Bois de la Grurie, southeast of Binarville.
Awarded the Distinguished Servce Cross. From his citation: "For extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 305th Infantry Regiment, 77th Division, A.E.F., near Bazoches[-sur-Vesle], France, 3 September 1918, and in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, 27 September 1918. On September 3 Lieutenant De Rham led the first patrol of his brigade across the Vesle River, exposed to heavy enemy machine-gun fire. On September 27 he led five attacks against enemy machine-gun positions. He was killed [mortally wounded] while making the fifth attack."
Home of Record: Cold Spring, New York.
Died of Wounds suffered on September 28 in the Bois de la Grurie, southeast of Binarville.
Awarded the Distinguished Servce Cross. From his citation: "For extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 305th Infantry Regiment, 77th Division, A.E.F., near Bazoches[-sur-Vesle], France, 3 September 1918, and in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, 27 September 1918. On September 3 Lieutenant De Rham led the first patrol of his brigade across the Vesle River, exposed to heavy enemy machine-gun fire. On September 27 he led five attacks against enemy machine-gun positions. He was killed [mortally wounded] while making the fifth attack."
Died of Wounds suffered on September 28 in the Bois de la Grurie, southeast of Binarville.
Awarded the Distinguished Servce Cross. From his citation: "For extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 305th Infantry Regiment, 77th Division, A.E.F., near Bazoches[-sur-Vesle], France, 3 September 1918, and in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, 27 September 1918. On September 3 Lieutenant De Rham led the first patrol of his brigade across the Vesle River, exposed to heavy enemy machine-gun fire. On September 27 he led five attacks against enemy machine-gun positions. He was killed [mortally wounded] while making the fifth attack."
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NEW YORK
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