When George Buchanan Redwood was born on September 30, 1888. Redwood was the son of Francis Tazewell Redwood, a prominent figure in Baltimore's banking and brokerage circles, and Mary Buchanan Coale.

After graduating from Harvard, Redwood went to work for Moffett-Lynch Advertising and later joined the staff of the Baltimore News. He attended officers' training camps — mainly with other Ivy Leaguers — at Plattsburgh, N.Y., in 1915 and again in 1916.

"He had longed for war his whole life, ever since he had spread his lead soldiers on the floor of his parents' home and marveled at the pomp and panoply of his arrangement; and the war had waited for him, even as he puttered in this job and that for seven years following graduation from Harvard in 1910," writes Nelson.

Redwood was called to active duty in April 1917, and he sailed that September from Hoboken, N.J., in a convoy bound for France that also included two other Harvard men — William Otho Potwin Morgan and George Guest Haydock. In mid-October, he joined the 28th Regiment of the Army's 1st Division, and in a letter to his friend, Stephen Luce, mentioned another Harvard friend, Richard Ager Newhall. "By the way, there is another Reserve officer attached to this regiment whom I have seen a good deal of and who asked me to give you his regards when he heard that I was writing to you," he said. Under cover of night, Redwood, a scout who was fluent in German and a known risk-taker, would lead a small party of fellow soldiers from the trenches and cross into no man's land looking for any kind of useful intelligence.

At Cantigny, France, Redwood's luck ran out. On May 29, 1918, he was hit in the shoulder by an enemy bullet. After it was dressed, he returned to the front, where he was wounded in the jaw, this time severely. Redwood, who insisted that he was going to die with his men, nonetheless headed back to the front, where he was killed by an artillery shell. He was 30.

A private wrote later that Redwood's body had been "picked up by soldiers of his command. … There was a hole above his right temple and a piece of shrapnel through his heart."

He was buried near a quarry, his grave marked with a propeller from a crashed German airplane that served as a cross and two French 75 mm shell casings. Small stones were carefully arranged to read: "Gone but not forgotten."

He is now buried in Somme American Cemetery, Bony, France.

Source of information: www.ancestry.com, http://www.baltimoresun.com/g00/news/maryland/bs-md-backstory-redwood-street11-20130110-story.html?i10c.encReferrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS5waC8%3D&i10c.ua=1&i10c.dv=14