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THE ROLL OF HONOR

��SECOND LIEUTENANT CHARLES EVAN HURLBUTT

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

on July 18. 1918.

��2nd Lt. CHARLES E. HURLBUTT

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��Lieutenant Hurlbutt was born in Osh- kosh, Wis., on September 1 6, 1 892. He was educated in the public schools of that and from normal school in 1914. He then took up the profession of teaching, being employed as a manual training instructor in low^a and South Dakota until his admit- tance to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was as- signed to the Eleventh Company. Upon receiving his commission, Lieutenant Hurl- butt was ordered overseas, sailing in Janu- ary, 1918. Arriving in France, he at- tended the First Corps School and was then assigned to the 23rd Infantry, with v^fhich regiment he served until his death. He was wounded by a piece of high explosive on July 2, 1918, and spent two weeks in the hospital, returning to his regiment on July 1 1 th. On July 1 8th he was instantly killed near Chateau Thierry by an enemy aerial bomb. Lieutenant Hurlbutt v^^as cited for bravery and av^rarded the Croix de Guerre. He vv^as unmarried. His pa- rents, Mr. and Mrs. T. Grant Hurlbutt, of Oshkosh, Wis., survive.

��FIRST LIEUTENANT CLAYTON CASKEY INGERSOLL

27th Aero Squadron. Killed in accident on Field No. 5, Issoudon, France,

on April 26, 1918.

��Lieutenant Ingersoll v^ras born in Rock- ford, III., on May 5, 1896. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Rockford, and then entered Lake Forest Academy, graduating in 1914, later entering Cornell University. He gave up his college studies to enter the First Officers' Training Camp Ft Fort Sheridan. On July 21, 1917, he was transferred to the Aviation Section, in which he was commissioned. After further instruction at Toronto, Can., and Fort Worth, Tex., he sailed overseas in February, 1918, with the 27th Aero Squadron, v^^ith which unit he was at- tached until he met death on the Issoudon field. He was unmarried. Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop Ingersoll, Lieutenant Ingersoll is survived by two sisters, Mildred and Helen, and one brother, Harold, all of whom reside at .-- 1239 National Avenue, Rockford, III.

��1st Lt. CLAYTON C. INGERSOLL

���BORN MAY 5. DIED APRIL 26,

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