Fleet William Alexander

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William Alexander Fleet is honored on the following 2 monument(s) in our database:

Princeton Memorial -WW1

ISOB William Alexander Fleet -Grenadier Guards

Name:

William Alexander Fleet

Rank:

Second Lieutenant

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Unit:

British Army

Date of Death:

1918-05-18

State:

Virginia

Cemetery:

Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

Plot:

IV. B. 35.

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Comments:

Graduate of Princeton.

Fleet, William A. (William Alexander), 1883-1918.
Fleet was the first American Rhodes Scholar, 1904-1907, at Magdalen College, Oxford, and later an instructor in classics, 1907-1908, at Princeton University. Due to his father's ill health he returned home and became an instructor at his alma mater, Culver Military College, Indiana. After the outbreak of World War I, Fleet returned to England in 1916 to become a Second-Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards and died in the line of duty on May 18, 1918.