Cate, Philip Thurston
- Who
- WWI driver
- When
- WWI
- Where
- France
- Education
- Harvard '15
Source: "United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database with images, FamilySearch
Philip Thurston Cate was born on November 16, 1891, to Martha Gertrude Curtis and Martin Luther Cate in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
He was a member of the Harvard University Class of 1915. After graduating, Cate served as an ambulance driver with SSU 3 in the Vosges Mountains in Alsace, France from October 1915 through March 1916. After AFS ceased to exist as an independent entity upon the entrance of the United States into the war in 1917, Cate served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve.
Cate married Helen Thomas in 1917. The couple had two sons, Philip T. Cate, Jr. and William Clark Cate.
Philip T. Cate lived in New London, N.H., and Cambridge, Mass., when he passed away on August 14, 1971 in New London.
WWI File
- Months of service
- 5, 1915-16
- Section(s)
- S.S.U. 3
- Home at time of enlistment
- Boston, Mass., USA
- Subsequent Service
- Lt. U.S.N.R.F
Decoration(s) received while volunteer of the Field Service
- Croix de Guerre WW1