Clyde Everett Shedd was born April 4, 1893 in Elgin, Illinois; he graduated from the Oakland (California) College of Medicine and Surgery in May 1917, one month after America's entry into World War I; he immediately volunteered as a surgeon in the Regular Army and was assigned to a training course in the Army Medical College in Washington, D.C. He graduated in February 1918, and was assigned at his request to active service, and was sent to Camp Gordon in Atlanta, Georgia, with the Three Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Infantry of the Eighty-Second Division and sailed for France in April 1918. He went through the San Mihel Drive and was in the Argonne drive from the beginning until he met his death in Fleville, where he was instantly killed by a piece of shell on October 16, 1918 and buried in the American military cemetery there. He was unmarried.
Clyde Everett Shedd was born April 4, 1893 in Elgin, Illinois; he graduated from the Oakland (California) College of Medicine and Surgery in May 1917, one month after America's entry into World War I; he immediately volunteered as a surgeon in the Regular Army and was assigned to a training course in the Army Medical College in Washington, D.C. He graduated in February 1918, and was assigned at his request to active service, and was sent to Camp Gordon in Atlanta, Georgia, with the Three Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Infantry of the Eighty-Second Division and sailed for France in April 1918. He went through the San Mihel Drive and was in the Argonne drive from the beginning until he met his death in Fleville, where he was instantly killed by a piece of shell on October 16, 1918 and buried in the American military cemetery there. He was unmarried.
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