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��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��FIRST LIEUTENANT RAYMOND DRISCOLL COOPER

Battery C, 2nd Battalion, Trench Artillery. Died of pneumonia at Detroit, Mich.,

on February 2, 1920.

��1st Lt. RAYMOND D. COOPER

���BORN AUGUST 23. DIED FEBRUARY 2,

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��monia and F. Cooper,

��died on February 2nd

of Detroit, Mich., survive.

��Lieutenant Cooper wras born in De- troit, Mich., on August 23, 1885. He was educated in the public schools of that city and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1912. He took up the prac- tice of law upon completion of his col- lege course, opening offices in Detroit. He was admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan and as- signed to the 3rd Battery. Receiving a commission as second lieutenant, he sailed for France on December 24, 1917, as a casual officer. Arriving overseas. Lieu- tenant Cooper was given further instruc- tion in the A. E. F. schools at Samur, Vincennes and Langres, and then was as- signed to the 54th Artillery, later being transferred to Battery C of the 2nd Bat- talion, Trench Mortars, where he ■was pro- moted. Lieutenant Cooper served throughout the w^ar and came back to the States in April, 1919, being discharged from the army a few weeks later. Arriv- ing in Detroit, he again took up the prac- tice of law. During the latter part of January, 1920, he was taken ill with pneu- He was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph

��SECOND LIEUTENANT PAUL GREENWOOD COX

Company F, 28th Regiment, First Division. Killed in action near Soissons, France,

on July 18, 1918.

��Lieutenant Cox was born in New Haven, Conn., on April 9, 1 894. He was educated in the Wendell Phillips and University High Schools of Chicago, and Norwich University, Northfield, Vt., class of 1915, previously having studied a year in Ger- many. Served enlistment in the Engineer Corps of the Regular Army at Hawaii, and later employed in the steel mills at South Chicago as foreman in open hearth No. 1 . Entered the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. Upon completion of course v^as ordered overseas, sailing in January, 1918. Attended Infantry Officers' Tactical School, Chatillon-sur-Seine, France, and later assigned to 28th In- fantry of the First Division, with which regiment he served in the Toul sector, Cantigny and Soissons. He was twice wounded in action and had been cited for conspicuous gallantry. He was unmarried. Lieutenant Cox's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Cox, residing at 5220 Blackstone Avenue, Chicago, survive him. His father is employed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture as chief of the Weather Bu- reau service in Chicago.

��2nd Lt. PAUL G. COX

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