��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION
��SECOND LIEUTENANT WILLIAM EWING BOONE
Company E, 26th Infantry, First Division. Killed in action at Chateau Thierry
July 19, 1918.
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��Lieutenant Boone was born in Los An- geles, Calif., on January 13, 1892. He was a graduate of the public schools in Kansas City, Mo. He then took a two- year course in the University of Missouri and finished up his college education by graduating from the University of Vir- ginia in 1914. He then entered the life insurance business under his father in Kansas City, severing his connection w^ith the business world to enter the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was commissioned. Lieutenant Boone sailed for France January 10, 1918. After six w^eeks in an A. E. F. school he was assigned to the 26th Infantry, serving with that regiment until his death. He was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howrard C. Boone, reside in Kansas City, Mo., his father being general state agent for Missouri and Kansas of the in- ternational Life Insurance Company of St. Louis.
��FIRST LIEUTENANT RAYMOND EZRA BOSTICK
Company C, 126th Infantry, Thirty-second Division. Killed in action at Cierges,
France, on August 1,1918.
��Lieutenant Bostick was born in Cadil- lac, Mich., on March 29, 1890. His edu- cation was received in the public schools of Manton, Mich., and he graduated from the University of Michigan in 1913. En- tering the practice of law, he soon became identified with public life, being elected ^^ prosecuting attorney of Wexford County, |i to which office he was re-elected in I 9 1 6. At the outbreak of war he was admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, being assigned to Com- pany 1. Receiving a commission as sec- ond lieutenant, he was assigned to Camp Custer and then transferred to Camp Greene, S. C. He sailed for France in January, 1918. After a short period of military schooling in France he was as- signed to the I 26th Infantry, and saw service with that regiment in Alsace, Chateau Thierry and other points. Lieu- tenant Bostick was promoted to a first lieutenancy, but the commission failed to reach him until ten days after his death. . He w^as unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Bostick, reside in Man- ton, Mich.
��1st Lt. RAYMOND E. BOSTICK
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