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Yale College
109
vice-president Chase National Bank, New
York City, son of Albert Bromfield and
Mary Louise (Schuveldt) Dewey Mother,
Suzette de Mangny (Hall) Dewey, daughter of William Cornelius Hall, '75 S, and
Marie Suzette de Mangny (Thomas) Hall
Yale relatives include Edward J Hall,
'73 S, and Sherman R Hall, '95 S (great-
uncles), William C Hall, Jr, '04, and
Albert B Dewey, '15 S (uncles)
Le Rosey, Switzerland, and St Paul's
School, Concord, NH 150-pound crew
squad Freshman year, on board Yale Daily
News Sophomore and Junior years, circulation manager Senior year, member Yale
Political Union Freshman and Sophomore
years, Timothy Dwight College, Zeta Psi,
and Berzehus
Appointed private secretary to Ambassador Hugh R Wilson in Berlin 1939, reporter Chicago Daily News in Pans 1939-
40, served in Polish Ambulance Service,
First Polish Tank Brigade, 1940 (given
honorary rank of Second Lieutenant); attended University of Virginia Law School
1940-41; Coordinator of Research and Intelligence, Inter-American Affairs, Washington, September, 1941-June, 1942 (sent
to London on confidential mission December, 1941), member St Chrysostom's
Church (Episcopal), Chicago
Married August 1, 1942, in Washington,
Nancy, daughter of Joseph I and Margaret
(Barnnger) Weller Daughter. Nancy
Pritchard
Enlisted in Intelligence Division, US
Army Air Forces, as Second Lieutenant
July 27, 1942, served in British West and
French Equatorial Africa August-November, 1942; promoted First Lieutenant November 1, 1942; served in Anglo-Egyptian
Sudan, French North Africa, French
Somahland, and Arabia November, 1942-
June, 1943, promoted Captain September
13, 1943, and assigned to U S Army Office
of Strategic Services, Paratroop Infantry,
on missions in England and North Africa
September, 1943-November, 1944 (parachuted into southern France prior to D-
day as commanding officer of combat intelligence mission "Etoile" and operated
behind enemy lines with French Forces of
the Interior [Maquis] in France and North
Africa), commissioned Major November
2, 1944, returned to Washington and
assigned a member of Secretariat of the San
Francisco Conference of the United Nations, ordered to report to Commanding
Officer in Kandy, Ceylon, appointed Senior
American Officer for Office of Strategic
Services in Saigon, charged with sending
out of American prisoners of war and looking after American interests; recommended
for commission of Lieutenant Colonel September, 1944; author As They Were
(1946) and of an unpublished novel concerning French hfe during the period of the
Franco-Prussian War, awarded Legion of
Merit with two Oak Leaf Clusters, Legion
of Honor, Croix de Guerre with palms and
star, and Croix de Combattants, made
honorary Brigadier of the Second Hussar
Regiment, French Army, awarded Chevalier's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
(Poland) and Nichan Iftikar (Tunisia)
Lieutenant Colonel Dewey was killed by
the Annamese during a rebellion in Saigon
His body was taken by the enemy and never
recovered Posthumously awarded the Silver Star A plaque in his memory has been
installed in the Cathedral of Bayeux, Calvados, France, and by action of the Municipal Council of Isigny-sur-Mer his name
was engraved on the war monument as
a son of Isigny who died for France Survived by wife, daughter, parents, two sisters, Mane Suzette de Mangny Dewey
Alger, the wife of Frederick Moulton Alger, Jr, of Detroit, and Louise de Mangny
Dewey Smith, the wife of Edward Byron
Smith, '32, of Lake Forest, 111, and a
brother, Charles Schuveldt Dewey, Jr, of
Far Hills, NJ
JOHN GARRISON MERSEREAU
ba 1939
Born July 12, 1917, in Tacoma, Wash
Missing in action June 18,1944, over China
Presumptive date of death Fehuary 27,
1946
Father, Eugene L Mersereau, '06
Mother, Lucile (Parker) Mersereau (B A
Smith 1908) Yale relatives include William E Wheeler, '66, and John D Mersereau, '75 S (great-uncles); Roland W
Mersereau, '05, and Egbert W Mersereau,
Object Description
| Title | Yb 65, Obituary Records of Graduates of Yale University Deceased During the Years 1945-1950 |
| Creator | Yale University |
| Place of Publication | New Haven, Connecticut (Conn.) |
| Date | 1945-1950 |
| Call Number | Yb 65 |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Yale University -- Biography |
| Type | Periodical |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3036259 |
| Repository | Manuscripts and Archives |
| Repository URL | http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa |
| Series | Bulletin of Yale University |
Description
| Title | Page 109 |
| Transcript | Yale College 109 vice-president Chase National Bank, New York City, son of Albert Bromfield and Mary Louise (Schuveldt) Dewey Mother, Suzette de Mangny (Hall) Dewey, daughter of William Cornelius Hall, '75 S, and Marie Suzette de Mangny (Thomas) Hall Yale relatives include Edward J Hall, '73 S, and Sherman R Hall, '95 S (great- uncles), William C Hall, Jr, '04, and Albert B Dewey, '15 S (uncles) Le Rosey, Switzerland, and St Paul's School, Concord, NH 150-pound crew squad Freshman year, on board Yale Daily News Sophomore and Junior years, circulation manager Senior year, member Yale Political Union Freshman and Sophomore years, Timothy Dwight College, Zeta Psi, and Berzehus Appointed private secretary to Ambassador Hugh R Wilson in Berlin 1939, reporter Chicago Daily News in Pans 1939- 40, served in Polish Ambulance Service, First Polish Tank Brigade, 1940 (given honorary rank of Second Lieutenant); attended University of Virginia Law School 1940-41; Coordinator of Research and Intelligence, Inter-American Affairs, Washington, September, 1941-June, 1942 (sent to London on confidential mission December, 1941), member St Chrysostom's Church (Episcopal), Chicago Married August 1, 1942, in Washington, Nancy, daughter of Joseph I and Margaret (Barnnger) Weller Daughter. Nancy Pritchard Enlisted in Intelligence Division, US Army Air Forces, as Second Lieutenant July 27, 1942, served in British West and French Equatorial Africa August-November, 1942; promoted First Lieutenant November 1, 1942; served in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, French North Africa, French Somahland, and Arabia November, 1942- June, 1943, promoted Captain September 13, 1943, and assigned to U S Army Office of Strategic Services, Paratroop Infantry, on missions in England and North Africa September, 1943-November, 1944 (parachuted into southern France prior to D- day as commanding officer of combat intelligence mission "Etoile" and operated behind enemy lines with French Forces of the Interior [Maquis] in France and North Africa), commissioned Major November 2, 1944, returned to Washington and assigned a member of Secretariat of the San Francisco Conference of the United Nations, ordered to report to Commanding Officer in Kandy, Ceylon, appointed Senior American Officer for Office of Strategic Services in Saigon, charged with sending out of American prisoners of war and looking after American interests; recommended for commission of Lieutenant Colonel September, 1944; author As They Were (1946) and of an unpublished novel concerning French hfe during the period of the Franco-Prussian War, awarded Legion of Merit with two Oak Leaf Clusters, Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre with palms and star, and Croix de Combattants, made honorary Brigadier of the Second Hussar Regiment, French Army, awarded Chevalier's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland) and Nichan Iftikar (Tunisia) Lieutenant Colonel Dewey was killed by the Annamese during a rebellion in Saigon His body was taken by the enemy and never recovered Posthumously awarded the Silver Star A plaque in his memory has been installed in the Cathedral of Bayeux, Calvados, France, and by action of the Municipal Council of Isigny-sur-Mer his name was engraved on the war monument as a son of Isigny who died for France Survived by wife, daughter, parents, two sisters, Mane Suzette de Mangny Dewey Alger, the wife of Frederick Moulton Alger, Jr, of Detroit, and Louise de Mangny Dewey Smith, the wife of Edward Byron Smith, '32, of Lake Forest, 111, and a brother, Charles Schuveldt Dewey, Jr, of Far Hills, NJ JOHN GARRISON MERSEREAU ba 1939 Born July 12, 1917, in Tacoma, Wash Missing in action June 18,1944, over China Presumptive date of death Fehuary 27, 1946 Father, Eugene L Mersereau, '06 Mother, Lucile (Parker) Mersereau (B A Smith 1908) Yale relatives include William E Wheeler, '66, and John D Mersereau, '75 S (great-uncles); Roland W Mersereau, '05, and Egbert W Mersereau, |
