Harry N. Cutting, born 2/3/1889 in New York, New York. Enlisted April 25, 1917 at Fort Ethan Allen. 

Company D 1st Vt Infantry (Co D 57th Pion Inf) to 7/4/1918.zTransferred to the 5th Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun Bn where he went Overseas 9/30/1918 to Jan 16,1919. He was a Battalion Sergeant Major. Discharged 2/8/1919. 

He moved to WaterburyVt in 1920 upon return from the Military.

During the great flood of 1927 Harry lost his son Harry Horace Cutting( age 2), Norris Philip Cutting(age 6), daughter Dorothy Phyllis Cutting (age 5), and Gladys Bertha Smith age 29, his wife. They were swept away on an improvised raft that they made to get away from the rushing water. 

He had a common concern for the Veterans of WWI and their families. He was their guardian angel. He had a genuine warmth for the men  in uniform and their families. 

He died in Monteal age 56 years old. He was being observed by the neurological Institute , Royal Victoria Hospital. He had been suffering from a neurological disorder for about 18 months and it caused him to stagger as he walked and it was getting progressively worse. Complications of the test caused him to slip into a coma and cerebral hemorrhage had occured. He left a town of Waterbury devestated. The Waterbury High School had a special assembly when they recieved the news. The student body and faculty stood for a moment of silence to a man bigger than life in the small Vermont town. 

When his body returned from Canada to Waterbury, he was met by the Waterbury American Legion as his honor guard. 

 

 

He wrote a weekly article to service men in the Waterbury Record and his ending was always "Chins Up and Carry On!" 

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