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Birth of Edward J Bayon
Edward was born in Holyoke,MA,the son of Fred J. and Margaret Hogan Bayon on November 6, 1909. He graduated from Holyoke High School in 1927 and received a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1931. In 1991, he received the Herbert F. -
Bayon in War
Branch of service: Army Air Forces/ Corps
Unit of Service: Office of Strategic Services
Highest Rank: Staff Sargent
Prisoner of War: Unknown
War or Conflict: WWI and WWII -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
A teenage Serbian nationalist, gunned down Franz and his wife as they were driving down the streets of Sarajevo. -
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World War 1
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Battle of Tannenberg
The battle was between Russia and Germany from the 26-30th of August. The battle resulted in the complete destruction of the Russian second army. Germany won the battle. -
First Battle of Marne
The Battle of the Marne was a First World War battle fought from the 7th to the 12th of September 1914. It ended in a result as an Allied victory against the German Army. The goal of the battle was to allow Germany to advance into France and pursuit the Allied armies which followed the Battle of the Frontiers in August and had reached the eastern outskirts of Paris. -
Battle of Verdun
Fought from the 21st of February to the 18th of December. This was the largest and longest war that anyone had seen in World Ward 1. The war was between the French and German armies, 11 months later the French walked away with the victory. -
Battle of the Somme
The war was between British and French empires against the German empire. The battle was intended to hasten the victory for the allies. Due to the deaths and injuries of over 1 million men this was the most bloodiest war yet to be seen in the World War 1. -
Germany Invades Belgium.
The German invasion of Belgium was a military campaign which started on 4 August 1914. Before that on 24 July, the government of Belgium had announced that if war came it would maintain its historic country. The Belgian government mobilized its armed forces on the 31st of July and a state of heightened alert was proclaimed in Germany. -
USSR Withdraws
The Russian military had herd of negative outcomes virtually from the beginning of the war according to the BBC. Though they were able to mobilize faster than their enemies had expected they were still not ready. They were outgunned and outclassed by the Germans. A brief rebound in 1916 things managed to get worse for the Russians. -
RAF Formed
Royal Air Force is formed with the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. The RAF took its place beside the British navy and army as a separate military service with its own ministry. -
Second Battle of Marne
The Second Battle of the Marne was the last huge German attack on the Western Front during the First World War. The attack failed when an Allied attack by French and American forces had several hundred tanks, scared the Germans on their right flank inflicting severe casualties. -
After WWI
After World War I ended, Edward Bayon an ex staff sergeant with the Army he got married to a French girl and decided to stay in France when he signed on with the American Graves Registration service. -
Bayon's Charge
In April 1923, Bayon was charged with taking a barge laden with the caskets of 952 American soldiers through the canals of France, Holland and Belgium. Bayon recorded his memory of the event in the one document in his collection. He was not prepared for the reception that the Belgians provided him on his mission. -
Bayon's Death
