institution in Hartford. To extricate him from his current situation, the President gave him a commission as a major in the United States Army, and had him transferred and posted to Fort Richardson, Alaska, where he worked as an intelligence officer and helped establish a territorial militia of Eskimos and Aleuts. Death Roosevelt died in Alaska on June 4, 1943, in his room at Fort Richardson, from suicide by a gunshot to the head. He was discovered by Dr. Sanford Couch Monroe, who later filed the autopsy report. His death was reported to his mother, Edith, as a heart attack. He was interred in Fort Richardson National Cemetery near Anchorage, where a memorial stone gateway was erected in his honor in 1949. Legacy The town of Kermit, Texas, was named for him (he had visited Winkler County, Texas, a few months earlier to hunt antelope). The town of Kermit, West Virginia, is also named after him. The Luzon-class repair ship was named in his honor. The town of Kermit, North Dakota was also named after him. There is an annual lecture series given in the United States by a British Army general officer and in the United Kingdom by a U.S. Army general officer named in memory of Kermit Roosevelt. Awards United States World War I Victory Medal Army of Occupation of Germany Medal American Defense Service Medal American Campaign Medal Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal Army of Occupation Medal Foreign decorations Military Cross (United Kingdom) Montenegro War Cross Foreign medals British War Medal (United Kingdom) Victory Medal (United Kingdom) 1939-1945 Star (United Kingdom) Africa Star (United Kingdom) War Medal 1939–1945 (United Kingdom) In fiction Kermit Roosevelt appears as a minor character in the Wilbur Smith novel Assegai on safari in East Africa with his father. Kermit Roosevelt appears in the second episode of 1992's The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles television series. He also appears fleetingly (in a dream) in William Boyd's novel An Ice-Cream War. The book Roosevelt's Beast by Louis Bayard is a fictitious story of the Rondon-Roosevelt expedition, narrated by Kermit Roosevelt. Kermit Roosevelt appears as a main character in the James Ross historical fiction Hunting Teddy Roosevelt about the safari in East Africa with his father. Kermit Roosevelt appears in the fiction book The President's Daughter by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley which is based on Kermit's sister Ethel Roosevelt Derby and their time in