William T. Fitzsimons
Military Person
1889 – 1917
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Who was William T. Fitzsimons?
Lieutenant William T. Fitzsimons was a United States Army officer in World War I, and is considered the first American officer killed in the war. Fitzsimmons gradruated from the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 1912.
Fitzsimons was killed in a German air raid on September 4, 1917 along with Pvt. Oscar Tugo, Pvt. Rudolph Rubino and Pvt. Leslie Woods, when bombs fell on Base Hospital No. 5 near Dannes-Camiers in Pas-de-Calais, France.
In 1920, Army Hospital 21 in Aurora, Colorado was officially renamed the Fitzsimons Army Hospital in his honor.
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- Born
- 1889
Burlington - Also known as
- William Fitzsimons
- Education
- University of Kansas
- Died
- 1917
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on July 23, 2013
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