Yanks in British Commonwealth Forces in the Great War

[Sir William]

Oops!

Sorry, Sir William -- you wanted WWI. Look no further that Teddy Roosevelt's son Kermit, who served with the British in Mesopotamia as a Captain in the Machine Gun Corps. He wrote a memoir of his experiences entitled "War in the Garden of Eden", and was awarded the MC before transferring to the AEF in late 1918. In 1939, he received a commission in the Middlesex Regiment (with the help of Churchill) and was going to lead British volunteers in support of the Finns in their war with the Bolsheviks in 1939. He later served with British forces in Norway before being discharged from the British Army in 1941. He once again entered the US Army and was posted to Ft. Richardson, Alaska where he took his own life in 1943.

http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/kermit.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13665/13665-8.txt

T.

Outstanding! I never knew that (but then I'm only now delving into that conflict).