Tag Archives: Carleton Burr

Carleton Burr was a Harvard graduate who served as an American officer in the First World War. He perished in battle in France in 1918.

Veterans Day and World War I Double Quarantines

Remembering the war to which Veterans Day owes its date with a harrowing story of a “double quarantine”

“In the land he loved next to his own he will always lie, content that he gave his all to a cause that was so near to his heart.”