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Home Town Garfield
Last Address Riverside
Date of Passing Nov 02, 1969
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As a boy, he spent a good bit of his time riding the range in Washington and Oregon and leter
attended the University of Washington for a short time. He was back in the saddle when he went to Chicago with a load of cattle in 1915.War in Europe had started, and he enlisted in
the Marine Corps there on 21 December.
His first duty as a Marine in WW I was aborad the USS Oklahoma,
He was aboard this ship when it was commissioned.
After a year and a half as an enlisted man, he was selected to attend the Candidate Class
for Commission in Washington D.C. He was commissioned a 2nd Lt., 6 June 1917, and
retuned tu Cuba for duty with the famous mounted troops, the " Horse Marine. "
Between the two WW''s, Larkin served in Cuba ans Haiti, with expeditionary forces in China,
flew with an air unit base atSt. Thomas,Virgin Island, and spent considerable time at
domestic stations.
