HONOR BIOGRAPHIES : STEWART FLAGG, '93
" Thou hast been
As one, in suflFering all, that suffers nothing;
A man that fortune's buffets and rewards
Hast ta'en with equal thanks."
Shakspere.
Stewart Flagg was the oldest Andover man to give his life in the service of his country. When the Great War broke out, he was living in France, and at once volunteered for hospital work, in which he was engaged for nearly nine months. He then joined the Harjes Ambulance Formation, as a member of which he served through the entire Verdun campaign of 1916. In March of that year he volunteered for the duration of the war and was attached to the 66th Chasseurs Division of the French Army. During the next few months he worked under the most arduous
conditions in the Vosges Mountains and in the Champagne sector. Four times his ambulance was destroyed by shell fire, and he was three times cited, receiving
both the Croix de Guerre and the even more coveted Fourragere, He was the first man in the American Army to wear this Fourragere emblem on the American uniform. Mr. Flagg's first citation reads as follows: —
"Ambulance driver, Stewart Flagg, — an American volunteer for the duration of the war ; a man of duty, showing the greatest calmness and devotion under all circumstances, without fear, absolutely disdaining all dangers, — has particularly distinguished himself during the attacks of March and December, 1916, in a very exposed section, by taking away the wounded under an intense bombardment."
When the United States entered the war, the Harjes Formation was disbanded and Flagg enlisted as a private in the American Army; but, because of his previous service with the French troops, he was assigned to continue his duties with the famous Alpine regiment. In the great offensive of July, 1917, he was badly injured, and had to undergo an operation, from which he had apparently recovered. On Friday, December 10, 1918, however, he died very suddenly.
Mr. Flagg was also a veteran of the Spanish-American War, having served as a gun pointer on the after port gun of the U. S. S. "Yankee" in the battle of Santiago and other engagements. He had an adventurous spirit which led him always into the thick
of action in any struggle for the right.
From Member ID#50470203
" Thou hast been
As one, in suflFering all, that suffers nothing;
A man that fortune's buffets and rewards
Hast ta'en with equal thanks."
Shakspere.
Stewart Flagg was the oldest Andover man to give his life in the service of his country. When the Great War broke out, he was living in France, and at once volunteered for hospital work, in which he was engaged for nearly nine months. He then joined the Harjes Ambulance Formation, as a member of which he served through the entire Verdun campaign of 1916. In March of that year he volunteered for the duration of the war and was attached to the 66th Chasseurs Division of the French Army. During the next few months he worked under the most arduous
conditions in the Vosges Mountains and in the Champagne sector. Four times his ambulance was destroyed by shell fire, and he was three times cited, receiving
both the Croix de Guerre and the even more coveted Fourragere, He was the first man in the American Army to wear this Fourragere emblem on the American uniform. Mr. Flagg's first citation reads as follows: —
"Ambulance driver, Stewart Flagg, — an American volunteer for the duration of the war ; a man of duty, showing the greatest calmness and devotion under all circumstances, without fear, absolutely disdaining all dangers, — has particularly distinguished himself during the attacks of March and December, 1916, in a very exposed section, by taking away the wounded under an intense bombardment."
When the United States entered the war, the Harjes Formation was disbanded and Flagg enlisted as a private in the American Army; but, because of his previous service with the French troops, he was assigned to continue his duties with the famous Alpine regiment. In the great offensive of July, 1917, he was badly injured, and had to undergo an operation, from which he had apparently recovered. On Friday, December 10, 1918, however, he died very suddenly.
Mr. Flagg was also a veteran of the Spanish-American War, having served as a gun pointer on the after port gun of the U. S. S. "Yankee" in the battle of Santiago and other engagements. He had an adventurous spirit which led him always into the thick
of action in any struggle for the right.
From Member ID#50470203
HONOR BIOGRAPHIES : STEWART FLAGG, '93
" Thou hast been
As one, in suflFering all, that suffers nothing;
A man that fortune's buffets and rewards
Hast ta'en with equal thanks."
Shakspere.
Stewart Flagg was the oldest Andover man to give his life in the service of his country. When the Great War broke out, he was living in France, and at once volunteered for hospital work, in which he was engaged for nearly nine months. He then joined the Harjes Ambulance Formation, as a member of which he served through the entire Verdun campaign of 1916. In March of that year he volunteered for the duration of the war and was attached to the 66th Chasseurs Division of the French Army. During the next few months he worked under the most arduous
conditions in the Vosges Mountains and in the Champagne sector. Four times his ambulance was destroyed by shell fire, and he was three times cited, receiving
both the Croix de Guerre and the even more coveted Fourragere, He was the first man in the American Army to wear this Fourragere emblem on the American uniform. Mr. Flagg's first citation reads as follows: —
"Ambulance driver, Stewart Flagg, — an American volunteer for the duration of the war ; a man of duty, showing the greatest calmness and devotion under all circumstances, without fear, absolutely disdaining all dangers, — has particularly distinguished himself during the attacks of March and December, 1916, in a very exposed section, by taking away the wounded under an intense bombardment."
When the United States entered the war, the Harjes Formation was disbanded and Flagg enlisted as a private in the American Army; but, because of his previous service with the French troops, he was assigned to continue his duties with the famous Alpine regiment. In the great offensive of July, 1917, he was badly injured, and had to undergo an operation, from which he had apparently recovered. On Friday, December 10, 1918, however, he died very suddenly.
Mr. Flagg was also a veteran of the Spanish-American War, having served as a gun pointer on the after port gun of the U. S. S. "Yankee" in the battle of Santiago and other engagements. He had an adventurous spirit which led him always into the thick
of action in any struggle for the right.
From Member ID#50470203
" Thou hast been
As one, in suflFering all, that suffers nothing;
A man that fortune's buffets and rewards
Hast ta'en with equal thanks."
Shakspere.
Stewart Flagg was the oldest Andover man to give his life in the service of his country. When the Great War broke out, he was living in France, and at once volunteered for hospital work, in which he was engaged for nearly nine months. He then joined the Harjes Ambulance Formation, as a member of which he served through the entire Verdun campaign of 1916. In March of that year he volunteered for the duration of the war and was attached to the 66th Chasseurs Division of the French Army. During the next few months he worked under the most arduous
conditions in the Vosges Mountains and in the Champagne sector. Four times his ambulance was destroyed by shell fire, and he was three times cited, receiving
both the Croix de Guerre and the even more coveted Fourragere, He was the first man in the American Army to wear this Fourragere emblem on the American uniform. Mr. Flagg's first citation reads as follows: —
"Ambulance driver, Stewart Flagg, — an American volunteer for the duration of the war ; a man of duty, showing the greatest calmness and devotion under all circumstances, without fear, absolutely disdaining all dangers, — has particularly distinguished himself during the attacks of March and December, 1916, in a very exposed section, by taking away the wounded under an intense bombardment."
When the United States entered the war, the Harjes Formation was disbanded and Flagg enlisted as a private in the American Army; but, because of his previous service with the French troops, he was assigned to continue his duties with the famous Alpine regiment. In the great offensive of July, 1917, he was badly injured, and had to undergo an operation, from which he had apparently recovered. On Friday, December 10, 1918, however, he died very suddenly.
Mr. Flagg was also a veteran of the Spanish-American War, having served as a gun pointer on the after port gun of the U. S. S. "Yankee" in the battle of Santiago and other engagements. He had an adventurous spirit which led him always into the thick
of action in any struggle for the right.
From Member ID#50470203
Inscription
STEWART FLAGG
PVT. U. S. AMB. SEC. 646
NEW YORK DEC. 10, 1918
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Entered the service from New York.
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