Lt. Col. David Wooster King (5 July 1893 – 5 September 1975) was an American Army officer, legionnaire and author.
His maternal grandfather Jerome Bonapart King had established the hugely successful family firm, Knickerbocker Plaster Mills, in New York.
[2] He was a student at Harvard University from 1912–1914, he subsequently enlisted in the French Foreign Legion in August 1917.
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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