Lieutenant William T. Fitzsimons (1889—1917) was a United States Army

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 officer in World War I

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, and is considered the first American

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 officer killed in the war. Fitzsimmons gradruated from the University of Kansas School of Medicine

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 in 1912.

Fitzsimons was killed in a German

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 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

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.

In 1920, Army Hospital 21 in Aurora, Colorado

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 was officially renamed the Fitzsimons Army Hospital

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in his honor.