Tawney was a member of Company C of the 2nd Minnesota National Guards, assigned to the Mexican border in 1916. He resigned to take a position with exporting / importing house in Japan. The the United States entered the war against Germany in April 1917, Tawney left Japan for Winona, only to find that his vacancy in Company C had been filled, so he went to Washington, D.C. and commissioned a first lieutenant in the Signal Reserve Corps. Promoted to captain, Tawney was put in charge of the Student Army Training Corps in Valparaiso, Indiana. He did not make it to the European battlefront. Instead, Tawney became ill with pneumonia and died in Valparaiso just eleven days after the armistice. Tawney's father, James A. Tawney, served in the U.S. House of Representatives
Tawney was a member of Company C of the 2nd Minnesota National Guards, assigned to the Mexican border in 1916. He resigned to take a position with exporting / importing house in Japan. The the United States entered the war against Germany in April 1917, Tawney left Japan for Winona, only to find that his vacancy in Company C had been filled, so he went to Washington, D.C. and commissioned a first lieutenant in the Signal Reserve Corps. Promoted to captain, Tawney was put in charge of the Student Army Training Corps in Valparaiso, Indiana. He did not make it to the European battlefront. Instead, Tawney became ill with pneumonia and died in Valparaiso just eleven days after the armistice. Tawney's father, James A. Tawney, served in the U.S. House of Representatives
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