Class of 1938
66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division
Douglas T. Cameron (World War I)
First Lieutenant
7th Field Artillery, 1st Division
American Expeditionary Forces
In the fighting west of the Meuse (France) on November 3, 1918, Lieutenant Douglas Tilford Cameron was assigned to an accompanying battery. ‘Here,” writes a correspondent, “he was in his element, and in the desperate fighting that ensued young Cameron’s pieces were boldly serving in the fact of decimating casualties. He met death as an honorable, gallant soldier prefers to die.”
John I. Burns (World War I)
Class of 1912
Marine aviator
Samuel H. Bolton (Civil War)
Samuel H. Bolton
34th Infantry, New Jersey
Died of disease in 1865 at St. Mary’s Hospital, Montgomery, Alabama, while serving with 34th NJ Infantry; he served through the end of the conflict, and died of disease at St. Mary’s Hospital in Montgomery, Alabama while his regiment was performing post-War occupation duty
Gordon Bettles (World War II)
Bettles died in an internment camp in the Philippines.
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Zadoc Aydolette (Civil War)
Class of 1861
F Company, 81st Pennsylvania Regiment
On the morning of December 13, the Union attacked Fredericksburg. Aydelott was leading Company F and encounrered a terrific storm of fire, when a ball shattered his right arm. With sword in his left hand he continued to advance until struck by a shell, which broke his leg in three places and fractured a number of ribs. He fell bleeding from nine wounds, and died January 5, 1863, in Washington, D. C., aged nineteen years.