Malcolm MacLaren Johnstone

1892–1918 (age 26)

Military Officer

Biography

Malcolm MacLaren Johnstone belonged to the generation of Americans who took up arms for the First World War, earning praise for the calm steadiness with which he led his men into the fighting in France.

He paid the ultimate price in 1918, and those who visit Arlington National Cemetery remember him as one of the many young officers whose promise was cut short by the war.

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