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��SECOND LIEUTENANT AUGUST LEO SUNDVALL

43rd Company, 5th Marines, Second Division. Died on April 20, 1918, from wounds received in action on April 19, 1918.

Lieutenant Sundvall was born in Lake- land, Minn., on August 10, 1889. He was educated in the public schools of New Richmond, Wis., and after finishing high school entered Bethel Academy, St. Paul, where he studied for two years; he grad- uted from Franklin College in 1916 and took up post-graduate work in Chicago University, at which institution he was studying w^hen war broke out and he was admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, which course he finished and was held over for the Sec- ond Camp, being assigned to the 22nd Company. Receiving his commission, Lieutenant Sundvall w^as ordered overseas, sailing in January, 1918. Upon arrival in France he was given further instruc- tion in A. E. F. schools and then assigned to the 5th Marines. While on a volun- teer mission and seeking information as to the location of German machine gun nests, on April' 19, I 9 I 8, he was mortally wounded by enemy fire, and died the next day. He was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nels Sundvall, of Route 3, New Richmond, Wis., survive.

���SECOND LIEUTENANT GEORGE RALPH SUTHERLAND

Company A, 102nd Machine Gun Battalion, Twenty-sixth Division. Killed in action near Marcheville, Meuse Sector, on September 26, 1918.

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��2nd Lt. GEORGE R. SUTHERLAND

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��Lieutenant Sutherland was born in Ke- nosha, Wis., on September 8, 1879. He received his education in the schools of that city, graduating from high school in I 896. He then entered the employ of the Safe Cabinet Company of Chicago as a salesman, remaining v^rith that firm un- til his admittance to the Second Officers Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the 20th Company. Upon winning his commission. Lieutenant Sutherland was ordered overseas, sailing on January 20, 1918. Arriving in

France, he was detailed for further in- struction at minor tactics and machine gun schools, completing vv^hich he was assigned to the Thirty-second Division as an instructor. Lieutenant Sutherland was the company train commander of Company A of the 120th M. G. Battalion for four months. On September 26th he was assigned to the 102nd M. G. Battalion to assist in a raid against Marcheville, and it was while performing this duty that he was hit by a shell and blown to pieces. He was married on September 6, I 900,

to Miss Belle Redeker, of Kenosha, who, with three children, Donald R., aged 16; Richard V. A., aged 14, and Mary L., aged nine, survive, and reside in Columbus, Ohio. Besides his mother, Mrs. Mary E. Head Sutherland, 221 Sheridan Road, Kenosha, Wis., he is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Cora Sutherland Skinkl?, of the same city.

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