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Rene Phelizot was a big game hunter, and the first soldier to carry an American flag in WWI.[1]
Rene was born Claude Rene Phelizot 27th July 1881 in Paris, France, to a French father, Victor Phelizot and an American mother Kate Noonan.[2] Victor and Kate had married in Ohio in 1867[3] and had two children before leaving for France where three more children were born, including the youngest, Rene. The family returned to the United States in 1882.[4] Rene grew up in Chicago, where his mother ran a boarding house in Division Street.[5]
In 1901 went travelling around the world
Around 1908 Rene went to Africa and became an ivory hunter.[6] Rene used to visit Paris regularly, and was well known there as his hunting exploits were reported in the newspapers.[7] Rene was on holiday in Paris in July 1914 when France was invaded by Germany.[8]
Rene was among several Americans who joined the French Foreign Legion in order to fight for France. On the 21st August 1914, the foreign volunteers marched behind the flags of their countries to the Hotel des Invalides where they were officially welcomed by the French government.[9] On the 25th August, the Americans marched behind a American flag carried by Phelizot and Alan Seeger, from the Palais Royal to the Gare Saint-Lazare to board a train for Rouen.[10]
In December 1914 Rene was promoted to private first class.[11]
- ^ "Veteran's Story "Stranger than Fiction"". The Burlington Hawk-Eye. 10 January 1932. p. 17. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
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- ^ "Ohio, U.S., Compiled Marriage Index, 1803-1900". Ancestry. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957". Ancestry. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Chicago Boy is Fighting". The Chicago Daily News. 15 December 1914. p. 3. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
- ^ "Two Phases of an Adventurer's Life". The Daily News (Chicago, Illinois). 23 December 1914. p. 6. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
- ^ Werstein, Irving (1967). Sound no trumpet; the life and death of Alan Seeger. Thomas Y. Crowell Company New York. p. 58.
- ^ Mason, Herbert Molloy (1964). The Lafayette Escadrille. New York: Random House. p. 12.
- ^ Rockwell, Paul Ayres (1930). American Fighters in the Foreign Legion, 1914-1918. Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 7.
- ^ Rockwell, Paul Ayres (1930). American Fighters in the Foreign Legion, 1914-1918. Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 8.
- ^ Roberts, Charley; Hess, Charles P. (2017). Charles Sweeny, the Man Who Inspired Hemingway. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 93. ISBN 978-1-4766-2884-4.