Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0164Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a soldier standing beside the guard rail that surrounds a grave, in addition to the tombstone there are two croses and several flowers. Above the image "W233 (Star)" is printed, below the image "V19225 Grave of Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt. Buried by Germans where He Fell." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood Inc. Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
V19225
GRAVE OF LIEUT. QUENTIN ROOSEVELT
This lonely grave on a broad plain hard by the little village of Chamery, near the city of Reims, in France, will ever be sacred to American young manhood because it contains the remains of one who embodied in his own person to an eminent degree those qualities of heart and soul which led so many thousands of them to cross the seas, and to face for their country's sake death and mutilation in a foreign land.
Quentin Roosevelt, the youngest of Theodore Roosevelt's children, a lieutenant in the 95th American Aero Squadron, First Pursuit Group, fell in single combat with a more experienced adversary, at Chamery, near Reims, on July 14th, 1917. Although new to the flying game he had but three days before won the Croix de Guerre by a daring exploit typical of the man. While scouting nover the German lines he became separated from his companions and, on dropping through a patch of cloud, found himself in the rear of six German machines. Prudence dictated an about face and retreat, but it was never Roosevelt's way, to retreat and he resolved to attack. When within shooting distance he opened on them with his machine gun and had the satisfaction of seeing one of the enemy lurch to a side and fall. Instantly verring in a wide arc he flew for the Allied lines, pursued by the five remaining German planes. Bullets flew overhead and on every side, but fortune was with him that day and he escaped without a wound.
One of our own doughboys, in the cap and ulster we so well remember, stands by Liutenant Roosevelt's grave in silent tribute to the dead, as many Americans will stand in the years to come.
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