Marc Larimer graduated from the US Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1912 receiving his commission as an ensign, the same year in which he competed in fencing at the Olympics. He was made a lieutenant in 1915 and became a lieutenant, senior grade, in 1918. During World War I Larimer served as a lieutenant commander aboard the USS Cummings. He returned to the US from Liverpool, England aboard the SS Baltic in May 1918, arriving in New York. His next assignment was in Cuba, serving as an executive officer on the USS Montgomery, but while there he succumbed to the Spanish flu pandemic, dying from pneumonia aboard ship in Guantanamo Bay. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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