Enlisted, June 29, 1916, in Troop D, Squadron A Cavalry, NYNG, New York City. He mustered in for Mexican border service with Troop D, Squadron A, June 30, 1916. Squadron A Cavalry was assigned to Camp McAllen, Texas, with the 6th New York Division ( later to be he 27th Division ). He returned to New York with Troop D, December 23, 1916 and mustered out of border service, December 28, 1916.
His brother Antonio Lazo served with him in Troop D, Squadron A Cavalry ( Mexican border ).
World War 1, commissioned, Captain, Infantry, November 26, 1917, and assigned to the 304th Ammo Trains, 79th Division, Camp Meade, MD. Reassigned to Assistant Chief of Staff, Headquarters Port of Embarkation, Hoboken, NJ, May - August 1918. Special duty attached to General Staff as an overseas courier, traveling between Washington, DC and Chaumont, France, August 1918. He was the commanding officer of Headquarters Company , 16th Division, Camp Kearny, CA. Discharged from the service December 31, 1918.
Cornell University Law School, 1917; University of Havana
Career, lawyer, a partner of a Havana law firm, he represented many American companies in Cuba.
He took up the case of Howard Anderson, an American who was held as a spy by the Castro government and later executed ( April 16, 1961 ).
He was eventually arrested and told he would be executed but his wife helped to get to the Italian embassy from which he eventually escaped to the United States. He published in 1968 " Dagger in the Heart: American Policy Failures in Cuba ".
Squadron A in the Great War, page 181
The Bridgeport Telegram, March 31, 1976, page 40, obituary
His brother Antonio Lazo served with him in Troop D, Squadron A Cavalry ( Mexican border ).
World War 1, commissioned, Captain, Infantry, November 26, 1917, and assigned to the 304th Ammo Trains, 79th Division, Camp Meade, MD. Reassigned to Assistant Chief of Staff, Headquarters Port of Embarkation, Hoboken, NJ, May - August 1918. Special duty attached to General Staff as an overseas courier, traveling between Washington, DC and Chaumont, France, August 1918. He was the commanding officer of Headquarters Company , 16th Division, Camp Kearny, CA. Discharged from the service December 31, 1918.
Cornell University Law School, 1917; University of Havana
Career, lawyer, a partner of a Havana law firm, he represented many American companies in Cuba.
He took up the case of Howard Anderson, an American who was held as a spy by the Castro government and later executed ( April 16, 1961 ).
He was eventually arrested and told he would be executed but his wife helped to get to the Italian embassy from which he eventually escaped to the United States. He published in 1968 " Dagger in the Heart: American Policy Failures in Cuba ".
Squadron A in the Great War, page 181
The Bridgeport Telegram, March 31, 1976, page 40, obituary
Enlisted, June 29, 1916, in Troop D, Squadron A Cavalry, NYNG, New York City. He mustered in for Mexican border service with Troop D, Squadron A, June 30, 1916. Squadron A Cavalry was assigned to Camp McAllen, Texas, with the 6th New York Division ( later to be he 27th Division ). He returned to New York with Troop D, December 23, 1916 and mustered out of border service, December 28, 1916.
His brother Antonio Lazo served with him in Troop D, Squadron A Cavalry ( Mexican border ).
World War 1, commissioned, Captain, Infantry, November 26, 1917, and assigned to the 304th Ammo Trains, 79th Division, Camp Meade, MD. Reassigned to Assistant Chief of Staff, Headquarters Port of Embarkation, Hoboken, NJ, May - August 1918. Special duty attached to General Staff as an overseas courier, traveling between Washington, DC and Chaumont, France, August 1918. He was the commanding officer of Headquarters Company , 16th Division, Camp Kearny, CA. Discharged from the service December 31, 1918.
Cornell University Law School, 1917; University of Havana
Career, lawyer, a partner of a Havana law firm, he represented many American companies in Cuba.
He took up the case of Howard Anderson, an American who was held as a spy by the Castro government and later executed ( April 16, 1961 ).
He was eventually arrested and told he would be executed but his wife helped to get to the Italian embassy from which he eventually escaped to the United States. He published in 1968 " Dagger in the Heart: American Policy Failures in Cuba ".
Squadron A in the Great War, page 181
The Bridgeport Telegram, March 31, 1976, page 40, obituary
His brother Antonio Lazo served with him in Troop D, Squadron A Cavalry ( Mexican border ).
World War 1, commissioned, Captain, Infantry, November 26, 1917, and assigned to the 304th Ammo Trains, 79th Division, Camp Meade, MD. Reassigned to Assistant Chief of Staff, Headquarters Port of Embarkation, Hoboken, NJ, May - August 1918. Special duty attached to General Staff as an overseas courier, traveling between Washington, DC and Chaumont, France, August 1918. He was the commanding officer of Headquarters Company , 16th Division, Camp Kearny, CA. Discharged from the service December 31, 1918.
Cornell University Law School, 1917; University of Havana
Career, lawyer, a partner of a Havana law firm, he represented many American companies in Cuba.
He took up the case of Howard Anderson, an American who was held as a spy by the Castro government and later executed ( April 16, 1961 ).
He was eventually arrested and told he would be executed but his wife helped to get to the Italian embassy from which he eventually escaped to the United States. He published in 1968 " Dagger in the Heart: American Policy Failures in Cuba ".
Squadron A in the Great War, page 181
The Bridgeport Telegram, March 31, 1976, page 40, obituary
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