On September 30 arrived Frank Whitmore, of Richmond, Virginia, a thirty-eight-year-old chicken farmer who had come to France as soon as he could sell out his business and get passage across the Atlantic, after the outbreak of the war.
~~ Paul Rockwell, American Fighters in the Foreign Legion, 1914-1918
(NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925).
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Frank E. Whitmore, of Richmond, Virginia, joined the 3d Marching Regiment of the Legion and participated in the Somme battles in July 1916. He was wounded twice and awarded the Croix de Guerre. He died of wounds received in action on April 17, 1917, when, already wounded himself, he went to retrieve a wounded comrade between the lines. He was posthumously awarded the Medaille Militaire.
~~ Walt Brown, Jr., An American for Lafayette: The Diaries of E.C.C. Genet, Lafayette Escadrille. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981), p 23-4.
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The French Army Death Certificate of Frank Whitmore.
~~ Courtesy of Rich McErlean
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