Lawrence LaMonte

Rifleman Lawrence Dean ("Dan") LaMonte (or La Monte) was an American soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 26 May 1873, in Bridgeport, Connecticut,familysearch.org. the son of Abram and Helen LaMonte (née Dean), of New York and Massachusetts, respectively. LaMonte, who belonged to the Chi Psi fraternity, received his education at Princeton (class of '96) and New York State's Hamilton College (class of '98). He left the latter institute to travel to South Africa, where he enlisted with the British South Africa Mounted Police and served during the Boer War.Princeton Alumni Weekly (1916), Volume 17, p. 198.Hamiltonian 1920, p. 175. LaMonte decided to settle in the colony and, as he lay in a military hospital in 1916, recounted to another Princetonian that, on the outbreak of the First War War, he had enlisted in a local regiment and participated in the invasion of German South-West Africa.
LaMonte eventually joined the Rhodesian Platoon of the 2nd Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps.Rhodesia and the War, 1914-1917: A Comprehensive Illustrated Record of Rhodesia's Part in the Great War. He sustained fatal wounds when struck by a shell on 1 July 1916. LaMonte succumbed more than a week later, on the 13th, at the 22nd General Hospital. An endowment for undergraduates - the Lawrence Dean LaMonte, Class of 1896, War Memorial Scholarship - was established to commemorate his death.Endowed Undergraduate Scholarships (K-O), giving.princeton.edu. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
He is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery. In addition, a memorial was erected at the LaMonte family plot at Binghamton, New York State.
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*La Monte, Lawrence Dean, cwgc.org. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
Category:1873 births
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Category:American military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:Buried in France
Category:Rifleman