��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION
��SECOND LIEUTENANT CLAYTON W. BEACH
Company I, 165 Infantry, Forty-second Division. Killed in action near Chateau Thierry, France, on July 28, 1918.
��2nd Lt. CLAYTON W. BEACH
��Lieutenant Beach was born in Muske- gon, Mich., June I 7, 1 890. He was a graduate of Albion College, Northwestern University, Muskegon Public Schools, American College of Physical Education and Normal College of the N. A. G. U. He was specializing in physical education and, at the outbreak of w^ar was engaged as athletic director in Muskegon. He en- tered the First Officers' Training Camp and was held over for the Second Camp. Upon receiving his commission he went overseas as a casual officer on January I 5, 1918. Upon arrival he underwent two or three months' extensive training in A. E. F. schools, and wras th^n transferred to the Thirty-second Division as an instruc- tor in automatic v^eapons and trench at- tack, later being assigned to the Forty- second Division. He was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Beach, re- side at 22 West Hamburg Street Muske- gon, Mic!i.
��FIRST LIEUTENANT LLOYD ORENDORFF BEATON
Headquarters Company, 1 1 9th Field Artillery, Thirty-second Division. Killed in action near Juvingny, France, on August 30, 1918.
��Lieutenant Beaton was born in Kan- sas City, Kans., October 20, 1889. He w^as graduated from Baker Uni- versity in 1912, taking up journalistic duties. At the outbreak of war he was an editor for the Associated Press. Ad- mitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, he v^fas assigned to the 2nd Battery. Upon receipt of his commission as second lieutenant he was ordered overseas, sailing December 24, 1917. After a three months' course in the artillery school at Samur, Lieutenant Beaton was assigned to the I 1 9th, and w^as with that regiment on June I I , when the first engagement in the Toul Sector occurred. He was promoted to first lieu- tenant and was twice cited for bravery. He was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Beaton, reside at Baldwin City, Kans. He was their only child.
��1st Lt. LLOYD O. BEATON
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