1. George Dilboy was born in the Greek town of Alatsata, in Ottoman Turkey in Asia Minor, near Smyrna.
13 Facts About George Dilboy
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George Dilboy's father emigrated to the United States in 1908, and George later joined him in 1910, settling first in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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George Dilboy remained there to successfully fight in Macedonia in the Second Balkan War of 1913.
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George Dilboy was a member of the 26th "Yankee" Division, which arrived in France in fall 1917.
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George Dilboy gave his life during that action, dying at 9:30 am on the 18th.
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George Dilboy, accompanying his platoon leader to reconnoiter the ground beyond, was suddenly fired upon by an enemy machine gun from 100 yards.
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George Dilboy was initially buried at Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in Belleau, France.
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At the request of his father, George Dilboy was later buried at his birthplace, Alatsata, which was then a predominantly Greek city.
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George Dilboy's remains were collected and a Turkish guard of honor delivered his casket to an American landing party in Smyrna.
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George Dilboy's remains were taken aboard the USS Litchfield and returned to the United States.
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Several institutions in Somerville, Massachusetts, where George Dilboy lived upon first immigrating to the US, bear his name.
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The George Dilboy Post is located at 371 Summer Street.
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On May 24,1942, the George Dilboy Memorial Foundation erected a memorial to Dilboy at the Hines Veterans Administration Hospital in Hines, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago.