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��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��FIRST LIEUTENANT ARTHUR HAROLD WEBBER

84th Squadron, Aviation Section. Killed in an accident at Fort Worth, Tex.

on April 10, 1918.

��1st Lt. ARTHUR H. WEBBER

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��Lieutenant Webber was born in Cadil- lac, Mich., on July 10, 1893. After a public school education in that city he entered Harvard University, graduating in 1915. He then entered the banking busi- ness, being employed by H. W. Noble of Detroit, Mich., which position he relin- quished at the outbreak of war when he was admitted to the First Officers' Train- ing Camp at Fort Sheridan. When the call came for men for the Aviation Serv- ice he responded and was ordered to Columbus, O., for instruction. Receiving a commission, Lieutenant Webber was next sent to Toronto, Can., and then at- tached to the 43rd Wing of the Royal Flying Corps at Fort Worth, Tex., where he qualified as a pilot and was assigned to the 84th Squadron. On April 1 0, 1918, while flying alone, his machine suddenly got out of control and he was instantly killed at Fort Worth. He was unmarried. Lieutenant Webber is sur- vived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Webber, of Cadillac, Mich.

��FIRST LIEUTENANT RAYMOND FREDERIC WEHRLE

Company I, 58th Infantry, Fourth Division. Died of bronchial-pneumonia at Cochem,

Germany, on December 24, 1918.

��1st Lt. RAYMOND F. WEHRLE

��Lieutenant Wehrle w^as born in Brai- nerd, Minn., on October 15, 1893. He was educated in the public schools of Superior, Wis., graduating in 1914, and then taking a course at Wisconsin Normal School, upon the completion of which he entered the employ of the Great North- ern RaiWay as a clerk. He served one enlistment with the Wisconsin National Guard before his admission to the Sec- ond Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sher- idan, VN^here he was assigned to the 9th Company. Winning a commission as sec- ond lieutenant, he was ordered overseas, sailing on January 8, 1918. Upon arii- val in France, Lieutenant Wasson was assigned to the American Infantry Spe- cialists' School at Langres, for further instruction; also took courses at French and English schools and instructed troops before his assignment to the 58th Infan- try, with which regiment he remained until his death. He was promoted to a first lieutenant and had been recom- mended for a captaincy when the armi- stice arrived. On December 18, 1918, he

was taken sick with influenza and died six days later in a hospital at Cochem, Germany, He was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Wehrle, of Superior, Wis., survive

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