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THE ROLL OF HONOR

��SECOND LIEUTENANT JEROME LESTER GOLDMAN

Company F, 5th Marines, Second Division. Killed in action at Belleau Woods

on June 12, 1918.

��2nd Lt. JERO.ME L. GOLDMAN

���Lieutenant Goldman was born in Cin- cinnati, Ohio, on May 5, 1888. After a public school education he entered Smith Academy, after which he entered the furniture business with his father and brother, under the name of Goldman Brothers, I I 04 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. He made application and w^as admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he received his com- mission and was ordered overseas as a casual officer, sailing in January, 1918. After a course of instruction in the Au- tomatic Weapon Schools at Fort de Peig- ney, France, he was assigned to the 5th Marines, with which regiment he remained until killed by a machine gun bullet. He was unmarried and is survived by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Goldman, and two brothers Stanley and Gilbert Goldman, all of 5133 Washington Boulevard, St. Louis, Mo.

��FIRST LIEUTENANT ISAAC V. GOLTRA

Company D, 23rd Infantry, Second Division. Killed in action near Chateau Thierry,

France, on June 7, 1918.

��1st Lt. ISAAC V. GOLTRA

��Lieutenant Goltra was born in Spring- field, 111., on March 22, 1883. He re- ceived his education in the public schools of Springfield and was a graduate of Shat- tuck Military Academy. He entered into business life for himself, being the owner of a men's furnishing store in Springfield. Having a natural preference for military life. Lieutenant Goltra sold out his store and enlisted in the 28th Infantry at Fort Snelling and served three years with that regiment and gained much military ex- perience w^hile on the Mexican border. He was a student at the First Plattsburg Camp, where he received a commission as second lieutenant. He vs'as admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, w^here he received a commission as first lieutenant. He sailed for France in August, 1917, with the 23rd Infantry. For his leadership in the Chateau Thierry battle, w^hen he took command of the company after the captain had been killed he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, and it was while leading his men that he was instantly killed. Lieutenant Goltra was unmarried. Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac V. Goltra, of Springfield, III., he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Harry T. Willett, of Blue Mound, 111., and Mrs. Robert H. Lord, of Boston, Mass.

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