THE ROLL OF HONOR
��FIRST LIEUTENANT WILLIAM T. McNEIL
Company I, I 1 st Infantry, Twenty-sixth Division. Died on December 2 7, 1918, at
Evacuation Hospital No. 1 0, from w^ounds received in action near
Verdun, France, October 2 7, 1918.
��1st Lt. WILLIAM T. McNEIL
���Lieutenant McNeil v^ras born in Caro, Mich., in I 888. He was educated in the public schools and then entered Michigan Agricultural College, graduating in 1912. He was then employed as chemist for a sugar factory. He relinquished this posi- tion to enter the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, I 3th Company. Upon being commissioned a second lieu- tenant, he was ordered overseas, sailing on January 25, 1918 as a casual officer. Upon his arrival overseas he received further training and became an instruc- tor and later was assigned to the 1 1 st Infantry. He was promoted to a first lieutenancy in September, 1918. On the 2 7th of October he was so severely wounded in the battle of Belieu Bois, northwest of Verdun, that death resulted a month later. Lieutenant McNeil was not married. He is survived by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John McNeil, v^ho reside in Caro, Michigan.
��FIRST LIEUTENANT WELCOME H. McNIESH
Company H, 33 7th Infantry, Eighty-fifth Division. Killed in action in Argonne Forest on October 10, 1918.
��Lieutenant McNiesh was born in Fox Lake, Wis., on July 23, 1883. He was educated in the Lawrence College, Apple- ton, Wis., graduating in June, 1912, after which he became a teacher of chemistry. Previous to entering the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, he was a member of the Wisconsin National Guard. Upon receiving his commission he was ordered overseas, sailing in July, 1918, with Company F, 337th Infantry, Eighty-fifth Division, and later transferred to Co. H, I 8th Infantry. He was killed in action while leading his platoon in an at- tack in the Argonne Forset. Lieutenant McNiesh was married to Miss Hildegarde C. Kreutzer of Appleton, Wis., on August 27, 1912. Besides his widow. Lieutenant McNiesh is survived by tv^ro children, Thomas McNeish, aged four years, and Robert McNiesh, aged two years, who re- side in Appleton, Wis. His parents are dead.
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��1st Lt. WELCOME H. McNIESH
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