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| Coordinates: 40° 30' 57.60" N 74° 25' 26.40" W |
| Camp Kilmer, New Jersey [S1] From Page 204: Kilmer, Camp -- Stelton, New Jersey Named for Alfred Joyce Kilmer, born December 6, 188t, and American Poet and Essayist. He was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He attended Page 205: Rutgers College from 1901 to 106, and received an A. B. Degree from Columbia in 1908. He taught Latin for a year at the Morristown, New Jersey, High School, and worked on the Standard Dictionary from 1909 to 1912. In 1913 he worked with the Sunday Magazine and Book Review Sections of the New York Times. His first books were: "Sumner and Love," in 1911; and Trees and Other Poems," 1914. He wrote "The White Ships and the Red" about the sinking of the Lusitania. He en- listed as a Private in the 7th Regiment of the Rainbow Division. He was an earnest and sincere Soldier in France until he received a bullet through his brain while scouting for a machine gun nest. He was buried beside a French Stream not far from Seringes. He was awarded a posthum- ous Croix de Guerre. His principal works were "Summer and Love," "Trees and Other Poems," "the Circus and Other Essays," and Literature in the Making (interview), "Main Street and other Poems." He was killed in the second Bat- tle of the Marne. |
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| S1 | Origin of names of Army and Air Corps posts, camps, and stations
in World War II in United States. Mary Moore Allen. Goldsboro, North
Carolina, 1958. Bk4494 https://archive.org/details/originofnamesofa00alle/page/n3/mode/2up |
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