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He was the 18th company and then 6th Machine Gun -
Location
Annapolis, Maryland; Norfolk, Virginia; Quantico , Virgina; Cuba; France -
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He was the 6th machine gun Battslion -
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Causes
A tangle of alliances made between countries, to maintain a balanced power in Europe which brought about the scale of the conflict. -
Causes
The Bosnian Crisis where Austria-Hungary took over the former Turkish province of Bosnia in 1909 angering Serbia. -
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The Moroccan Crisis where Germans were protesting in 1911 against the French possession of Morocco. -
War
In all, 1,195 passengers including 128 Americans, lost their lives. Americans were outraged and put pressure on the U.S. government to enter the war. -
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Allen was an officer in the United States Marine Corps -
Begin
The first world war began in August 1914. It was directly triggered by the assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand, and his wife. -
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WW1 journalists risked their lives to report on the war. -
War
In the war, the combat lasts up for only seven and half a month during that time 116,000 were killed and 204,000. -
War
In the Battle of Verdun in 1916, there were over a million casualties in ten months, -
Allen Melancthon Sumner, Jr.
Allen Was the 6th machine gunman and he began serving on active duty at Marine Barracks, Quantico, on July 5, 1917. -
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He was then ordered to Cuba with the 1st Provisional Regiment of Marines in the Army of Cuban Pacification. -
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Sumner trained in the Vosges and was in the front lines in March at Mont-sur-la-Cote on the Verdun front. -
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He Sailed from New York on December 14, 1917, and arriving in St Nazaire on December 31. He was busy most all the time in the travel a lot he was the first gunman when he got there, -
UnderAge
Even the youngest boys that were 12 in up was in the war over underage soldiers were allowed to fight in the war -
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World War 1 was one of the biggest conflicts to ever happen it last up to 1914 to 1918 and all the most powerful country was in the world -
Links
https://memory.loc.gov › American Folklife Center
https://www.findagrave.com › memorial › allen-melancthon-sumner
