Arrangement
The unbound diary passages are in chronological order in one folder.
Abstract
Philip T. Cate, a member of the Harvard University Class of 1915, served as an ambulance driver with the American Field Service (AFS) and as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War I. The collection consists of his 119-page typewritten, unbound diary originally written between 1915 and 1916 during Cate’s period of service with the AFS.
Administrative/Biographical History
Philip T. Cate of Boston, Massachusetts, was a member of the Harvard University Class of 1915. After graduating, Cate served as an ambulance driver with Section Sanitaires [Etats-] Unis (SSU) 3 of the American Field Service (AFS), a volunteer organization serving with the French Army during the First World War. He served with AFSin 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.
