Kenneth Weeks was born in Chestnut Hill, a Boston suburb, on December 30, 1889. He was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the Beaux Arts in Paris, planning to make architecture his career. About 1910 he made two decisions: first, to devote his life to writing, and second, to reside permanently in Paris. Four years later the Great War opened, and on August 21, 1914, Kenneth Weeks was in the Foreign Legion in the service of his adopted country...
... On June 16th and 17th, 1915, the Legion was engaged in heavy fighting near Souchez, and Kenneth Weeks was among those reported missing. He was last seen, on the 17th, running towards the third line of the German trenches, his right arm extended, and facing the enemy. Months followed with no definite news of him. On November 25 his body was recovered from between the lines and buried in the military cemetery at Pylones, near Mont St. Eloi.
~~ Alice S. Weeks, Greater Love Hath No Man (Boston: Bruce, Humprhies, Inc., 1939).
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Special to the New York Times
BOSTON, Jan. 16 (1916) -- Kenneth Weeks of Cambridge, whose death in France is reported, was 26 years old and had written five volumes of short stories, besides several plays. He went to Paris
five years ago to study at the Beaux Arts. He was a member of the DKE fraternity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Devoted to France, he enlisted at the outbreak of the war, and spent the first Winter in the trenches. He was chosen as bomb-thrower for his squad, and took part in the offensive of May 4. He was mentioned in dispatches for bravery. He was regarded here as a writer of much promise.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Kenneth Weeks, A Soldier of the Legion. (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1916).
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