William T. Fitzsimmons
Lieutenant William T. Fitzsimmons (died 1917) was a United States Army officer in World War I. He is considered one of a group of four men who were the first Americans killed in the war
Fitzsimmons was killed in a German air raid on September 4, 1917 along with Pvt. Oscar Tugo, Pvt. Rudolph Rubino and Pvt. Leslie Woods when bombs fell on Base Hospital No. 5 near Dannes-Camiers in Pas-de-Calais, France.
In 1920, Army Hospital 21 in Aurora, Colorado was official renamed the Fitzsimmons Army Hospital in his honor.
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Fitzsimmons Army Hospital | Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center
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