Showing posts with label Leslie G. Woods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leslie G. Woods. Show all posts

Thursday, October 5, 2017

Some More on the Attack on Base Hospital No. 5 in WW I


Continued from September 28, 2017.

Also killed in the attack, besides Lt. Fitzsimons:

Leslie G. Woods, Streator, Illinois

Rudolph Rubino, New York City

Oscar Tugo, Boston

Army Hospital #21 in Aurora, Colorado was renamed Fitzsimons Army Hospital in 1920

There is a Fitzsimons Fountain in Kansas City at the corner of 12th and Paseo del Mayo dedicated May 30, 1922.

In 1947, the American Legion Post No. 8 became the Fitzsimons-Battenfield Post.

--Cooter