Sdt 2e Cl Edward Mandell Stone, 2/RMLE.
Born in Chicago, Illinois on 5 January 1887, Edward studied law at Harvard (class of 1908) and had worked voluntarily in Buenos Aires during 1909 as private secretary to the US Minister to the Argentine Republic. Continuing with studies at Law School in 1910, he developed an interest in France and went to live there in about 1912. Upon the outbreak of war on 2 August 1914, he enlisted into the Foreign Legion in central Paris and found himself as part of a machine gun section at the front by October 1914. Serving mainly in the vicinity of Craonne, Aisne, Edward was severely wounded by shrapnel near Craonelle on 15 February 1915 and withdrawn to the military hospital at Romilly where he died of his wounds on 27 February. Post war, Edward's family decided that he would have probably preferred to lie in the soil of the country he loved and fought for, so, he remains buried in the French military plot at Romilly.
27 February 1915
Research by David O'Mara, Croonaert Research Services.
