It is too early to record what Topsfield men have accomplished in the actual warfare and in training for the same; nor is the story completed of unwearied service in hospitals behind the firing line. That must come at a later day. Fifty-nine men and two women "did their bit," of whom thirty-four saw foreign service and one man, John J. Farrell, died in France of pneumonia. Major (now Lieutenant-Colonel) Jenkins, M.C., was already in the State militia when war was declared. Augustus A. Laskey was the first to enlist and was assigned to the battleship Virginia. Even before the United States entered into the World War, two went from Topsfield - Henry Beston Sheahan, who enlisted July 25, 1915, in the American Ambulance Field Service and saw nine months' active service near Pont-À-Mousson and in the defense of Verdun, and Helen P. Jordan, who was a nurse joined the Harvard University Hospital Unit of the British Army and sailed for France in November, 1916, where she was stationed at Base Hosital No. 5.

The following list of those who were in the service from Topsfield is believed to be correct. All additional information, or corrections should be sent to the Town Clerk in order that Topsfield's record may be made as complete as possible.

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas L. Jenkins, Medical Corps*
Major Clarence P. Baxter, Medical Corps*
Captain William E. Baxter, Medical Corps*
Captain Sargent H. Wellman, General Staff*
First Lieutenant Philip H. Smith, Sanitary Corps*
Second Lieutenant Joseph N. Smith, Balloon Corps
Second Lieutenant Russell C. Smith, Naval Reserve*
Second Lieutenant Henry C. Williams, Aviation Corps
Ensign Frederick Ayer, Naval Reserve
Ensign Roger B. Fiske, Naval Aviation
Ensign Stephen Wheatland, Naval Reserve

Sergeant Chester C. Andrews*
Sergeant Amedeo Giovannacci
Corporal Roy E. Ford
Corporal Clarence W. Lake*
Corporal William A. Perkins
Yeoman Clarence H. Kneeland

Captain Ernest H. Pentecost, British Naval Reserve*
Henry Beston Sheahan, American Ambulance Corps; Naval Correspondent on Foreign Service*
Rev. Arthur H. Gilmore, Y.M.C.A.*
Alice L. Lake, nurse (rank of Second Lieutenant), Harvard Unit*
Helen P. Jordan, nurse, Harvard Unit, in British Army*

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