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��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��SECOND LIEUTENANT LOUIS EDDY DAVIS

Aviation. Killed by a fall from airplane at Ellington Field, Houston, Te

on May 10th, 1918.

��2nd Lt. LOUIS E. DAVIS

��Lieutenant Davis was born in Blooming- ton, 111., on November 24, 1893. He was educated in the public schools of Bloom- ington and was a graduate of the State Normal University. His taste being lit- erary he took up newspaper work, being on the staff of The Daily Pantagraph of Bloomington until his admittance to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. He did not finish the course at Fort Sheridan, being transferred to the Aviation Ground School at Austin, and later to Ellington Field, at which place he served until his death. Lieutenant Davis w^as married on August 22, 1917, to Miss Styleta Kane of Watsonville, Calif., who, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Davis, of Bloomington, 111., survive him. His father is a newspaper publisher.

��FIRST LIEUTENANT ANDREW C. DENEEN

��]!ompany , 128th Infantry, Thirty-second Division. Died in A. E. F. hospital

on November 20, 1918, from wounds received in action.

��Lieutenant Deneen was born in Ham- mond, Wis., on September 28, 1880. He entered Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y., after receiving a public school education and later studied normal art and manual training and was, at the outbreak of war, employed by the University of Wisconsin in university extension work. He made application and was admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, being assigned to the 3rd Company. Upon receipt of his commission he was assigned to Camp Grant. He sailed with the Eighty- fifth Division for France on July I, 1918. Lieutenant Deneen was in action from the date of his arrival in France until the day of his death. He was acting as captain when wounded. He was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. Deneen of Ham- mond, Wis., survive him. His father is postmaster at Hammond.

��1st Lt. ANDREW C. DENEEN

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