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Clifton J. Cate
Clifton Joseph Cate was born in Dover, New Hampshire, on October 2,
1898. In 1917, after graduating from high school in Sharon,
Massachusetts, he served briefly in the U.S. Army until his unexpecte...view moreClifton Joseph Cate was born in Dover, New Hampshire, on October 2,
1898. In 1917, after graduating from high school in Sharon,
Massachusetts, he served briefly in the U.S. Army until his unexpected
medical discharge. Undeterred, he left for Canada where he joined--and
for the next 20 months served--as a gunner in that nation's army.
Returning to the United States, he spent the boom and bust years between
the first and second world wars rearing a family and working at several
occupations, but always remaining loosely attached to military life,
working his way through the ranks until commissioned as a lieutenant in
the National Guard. WW II saw him back in active service, where he
achieved the rank of Lt. Colonel. After the war, he became the
proprietor of a hardware store in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts until his
retirement in 1960. Moving closer to his ancestral home in South
Effingham, New Hampshire, he became actively engaged in local community
affairs, serving as town clerk and as volunteer fireman, policeman and
ambulance driver until his death in 1973.
Charles Cameron Cate was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on
October 19, 1934, named after two of his father's closest comrades, thus
representing three-fourths of the tight group known in the narrative as
the "Big 4." He first observed military life during WW-II, in Alabama,
where his father was stationed while training infantry replacement
troops for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Toward the end of the Korean War,
after a too brief flirtation with college he opted out of the Army
Reserves and entered active duty, serving in the Military Police from
1953 to 1956, first stateside and then in Italy, Austria, and Berlin,
Germany. He left the service and eventually completed his interrupted
education attending the University of Massachusetts, and West Virginia
University, and enjoyed a career in the biomedical research communities
at Dartmouth Medical School, and at the nearby VA Hospital in White
River Junction, Vermont. Retired, he now lives with his wife by the sea
on the coast of Maine.view less