WWI VET, INSTRUCTOR AT LEAVENWORTH, DEAD BY SUICIDE
Leavenworth, Kansas (JFK+50) On March 16, 1926, Associated Press reports Major Philip H. Bagby*, "an infantry officer...at the General Services Schools...committed suicide last night."
Major Bagby, a Lt. Col. of infantry during the world war, was 43 years old. He received the Distinguished Service Medal in support of army intelligence in the last year of the war.
*Philip Haxall Bagby (1882-1926) was born in Richmond, Virginia, served in WWI & at the time of his death was an instructor in tactics & military history at GSS.
SOURCES
"Lt. Col. Bagby Earns Distinguished Service Medal," by Fiora G. Holter, November 29, 2022, DVIDS, www.dvidshub.net/
"Maj. P.H. Bagby Commits Suicide," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., March 16, 1926, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
"Maj. Philip H. Bagby," Family Search, www.ancestors.familysearch.org/
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