Register was a 1905 graduate of the Citadel and graduated from the Medical College of Virginia in 1908. Commissioned into the US Army Medical Corps in 1910; tours in The Philippines, China and with General Pershing's Punitive Expedition to Mexico in 1916. During WWI he was in charge of the receiving of casualties debarking from ships in Charleston, and was in France during the summer of 1919 assisting with the repatriation of German POWs when he answered a call from President Wilson for volunteers to assist with a typhus epidemic that was sweeping through Poland. Facing certain death he nevertheless accepted the challenge and immediately was sent to the city of Tarnapol where he organized and ran a 1500 bed hospital; inevitably he too contracted typhus and died on January 3, 1920. He was posthumously awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal and the Polish Order of the Valiant (that countries highest military award). A street on The Citadel campus is named in his memory. He was just elected to The Citadels Distinguished Alumni List.
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Bob Mebane RN
CPT, USAR, AN
The Citadel '80
Bio Submitted by
Bob Mebane RN
CPT, USAR, AN
The Citadel '80
Register was a 1905 graduate of the Citadel and graduated from the Medical College of Virginia in 1908. Commissioned into the US Army Medical Corps in 1910; tours in The Philippines, China and with General Pershing's Punitive Expedition to Mexico in 1916. During WWI he was in charge of the receiving of casualties debarking from ships in Charleston, and was in France during the summer of 1919 assisting with the repatriation of German POWs when he answered a call from President Wilson for volunteers to assist with a typhus epidemic that was sweeping through Poland. Facing certain death he nevertheless accepted the challenge and immediately was sent to the city of Tarnapol where he organized and ran a 1500 bed hospital; inevitably he too contracted typhus and died on January 3, 1920. He was posthumously awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal and the Polish Order of the Valiant (that countries highest military award). A street on The Citadel campus is named in his memory. He was just elected to The Citadels Distinguished Alumni List.
Bio Submitted by
Bob Mebane RN
CPT, USAR, AN
The Citadel '80
Bio Submitted by
Bob Mebane RN
CPT, USAR, AN
The Citadel '80
Gravesite Details
Son of John & Annie Register.
