David Wooster King was a student at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

from 1912–1914, and subsequently enlisted in the

French Foreign Legion The French Foreign Legion (french: Légion étrangère) is a corps of the French Army which comprises several specialties: infantry, Armoured Cavalry Arm, cavalry, Military engineering, engineers, Airborne forces, airborne troops. It was created ...

in August 1917. He later transferred to the

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in 1915, then in November 1917 was commissioned as a 1st lieutenant in the

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. He was also an author, and wrote a book about his experiences in the Legion and the French Army, ''L.M.8046: An Intimate Story of the French Foreign Legion'', alternate title: ''Ten Thousand Shall Fall'', (NY: Duffield & Company, 1927).

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