A small sampling of Harvard Veterans in service:

Medal of Honor Recipients from Harvard University

Major General Leonard Wood
(Harvard Medical School, Class of 1883; Medal of Honor Recipient; Commander "Rough Riders”

The U.S.S. Harvard
(a brief, but more interesting story than sistership USS Yale, during the Spanish American War)

Norman Prince, and The Lafayette Escadrille
(this graduate of the Harvard Class of 1908, and the Law School, was a founder, in 1916, of the French aero squadron, to become known as the Lafayette Escadrille. Like many young Harvard men, Norman Prince volunteered to help France in her dire situation, long before the United States joined World War I.. He was among those killed in the effort.)

Quintin Roosevelt
Quentin Roosevelt is one of more than 1,100 Harvard War Dead whose names are engraved on the walls of Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. This article also includes 3 of Harvard's Medal of Honor Recipients, his father President Thodore Roosevelt, his brother Theodore Jr; and General Leonard Wood.