Denison, John Hopkins, Jr.

JOHN H. DENISON. Jr. 36 years old, died of pneumonia on March 27th. He was taken ill March 21st just after having arrived at a new post with the Fighting French Corps. He was buried with military honors in a British Military Cemetery, where a number of his A.F.S. comrades were present to form a guard of honor and also a squad of French troops acting as guards. His home recently had been in Bighorn, Wyoming where he owned and operated a ranch, but much of his life had been spent in both archaeological and anthropological studies which took him all over the world.

__ AFS Letters No. 12

On 21 March 1943, John Hopkins Denison, Jr., just arrived at Gambut with a reconditioned ambulance to join the unit, fell ill of pneumonia. Weakened by earlier illness, which had left him unable to receive sulpha drugs, on the 27th he died. Denison---"liked by all, sympathetic, calm, and undemonstrative . . . a man of good heart and good sportsmanship," W. T. C. Hannah wrote---was buried at the Gambut Military Cemetery on the 28th, with a squad of French troops as guard and an AFS guard of honor.

__ George Rock. Chapter 5. "Middle East 3. El Alamein to Tunis (October 1942 to May 1943)" History of the American Field Service, 1920-1955. New York 1956.