Obituaries & Memories – Warren Eastman Robinson

MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR ARLINGTON LIEUTENANT

In honor of the memory of Lieutenant Warren Eastman Robinson of 815 Beacon street, Boston, formerly of Arlington, son of Walter A. Robinson of 36 Jasonn street, that town, a memorial service will be held this afternoon at 4 o’clock in the Church of the New Jerusalen, 132 Bowdoin street, Beacon Hill. The Rev. Henry Clinton Hay will conduct the service. Lieutenant Robinson died Nov. 6, 1918, of wounds suffered the previous day in the Argonne. He was a member of the 102d Machine Gun Battalion, 26th Division. He was junior master of the Boston Latin School before entering the service.

– Boston Sunday Post, 13 April 1919

MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR LIEUTENANT ROBINSON ’10

A Memorial service was held for Lieut. Warren Eastman Robinson, Company C, road Machine Gun Battalion, at the Church of the New Jerusalem on Bowdoin street (Boston, Mass.) last Sunday. Lieut. Robinson took part in all the major battles of the 26th Division, at Chauteau Thierry, St. Mihiel and the last great battle on the Meuse, in which action he fell. He was twice cited in division orders for gallantry in action.

– Bowdoin Orient, 15 April 1919

IN MEMORIAM.

Warren Eastman Robinson

The Great War inexorably exacted from the choicest offered to it its toll of victims and martyrs, regarding not their abounding youth, their high character, their promise of future distinction, nor the world’s need of them. But the world needed more the sacrifice, and they gave themselves gladly. They saved their souls. Then why should we who survive them grieve more at losing them than we rejoice that the sacrifice has not been in vain? Yet it is permitted to us to mingle sincere mourning with our pride that more than one of our number—each of them—this one in particular, who was as brave and gallant in the field as he was noble and gentle always, will forever shine as a bright golden star above the crescent of Alpha Delta Phi.

– Edward Stanwood, Bowdoin Orient, 7 January 1919

A.M. ’14. Second lieutenant Troop C, 1st Massachusetts Cavalry; organization federalized July 25, 1917 and later designated Company C; 102d Machine Gun Battalion, 26th Division; sailed for France September 23; appointed battalion intelligence officer January 1918; detailed to 1st Corps Schools, Gondrecourt, June 8 to July 6; wounded in July at Chateau-Thierry; promoted 1st lieutenant July 31; appointed officer in command Company C; wounded in September at Saint-Mihiel; appointed liaison officer with 102d Infantry, 26th Division. October 13; wounded November 5; died of wounds November 6, 1918 at Verdun, France.

– Harvard’s Military Record in the World War, 1921