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Donald M. Call
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Donald Marshall Call (November 29, 1892–March 19, 1984) was a United States Army soldier during World War I who received the Medal of Honor.
Call was the son of the late Edward Payson Call, once business manager of The Journal of Commerce, and a grandson of General Francis X. Marshall, a well-known Indian fighter and one of the pioneers of Colorado. He was also the son-in-law of New York State Senator Clarence Lexow.
Prior to the war, he had studied landscape architecture at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and performed as a stage actor. Following the war, he resumed his acting career and in 1926 he became the resident landscaping architect for Conde Nast Publications and later worked in the Vogue magazine Pattern Department. In 1936, he obtained employment with the Federal Housing Administration in Washington, D.C. and ten years later opened a landscaping business there, running it until his retirement 1975. Call died in 1984 at the age of 87.
He was working as an actor in the stage production “Fair and Warmer” when the United States entered the war. He enlisted in the City Club Unit of the American Field Service and served as an ambulance driver with S.S.U. 32 of the American Hospital of Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, for a period of three months. On July 31, 1917, S.S.U. 32 left the camp at May-en-Multien and came to Paris to get its ambulances. It left the city in convoy on August 2, arriving two days later at Ablois Saint-Martin. On August 16, it was attached to an attacking division - the 48th French Division de Maroc where it was assigned until February, 1919. On August 28, it moved with the Division to Romigny, near Verdun. The Division remained here until October 2, when it went into the line on the Verdun front, in a sector on the Meuse River. S.S.U. 32's cantonment area was at Houdainville. During his service with the French division, Call was awarded a divisional citation for the Croix de Guerre with silver star. S.S.U. 32 returned for rest and recuperation on November 4, and was relieved by the men who were to take over S.
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