THE ROLL OF HONOR
��FIRST LIEUTENANT OLIVER JULIAN KENDALL
Company D, 1st Engineers, First Division. Missing in action on May 25, 1918,
his grave was reported on July 13, 1919, to have been located at
Maresmontiers, Germany.
��1st it. OLIVER J. KENDALL
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��Lieutenant Kendall was born in Naper- ville. 111., on December 30, 1889. He was educated in the public schools of Naper- ville, graduating from high school in 1908. He then entered the employ of the Chicago & North Western Railroad as a field engineer in the valuation department, w^hich position he relinquished at the out- break of war to enter the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. Receiv- ing his commission he w^as ordered over- seas as a casual officer, sailing on Sep- tember 1, 1917. Upon arrival in France he was ordered to the Engineers' School of the A. E. F., where he remained as act- ing adjutant for seven months, and vv^as then assigned to the 1 st Engineers, join- ing that regiment on about the tvi^entieth of May, 1918, at Cantigny. Lieutenant Kendall was leading a detachment out in "No Man's Land" on the night of May 25, 1918. They lost their bearings, and the lieutenant, striving to locate their posi- tion, became separated from the party, and was not heard of again until July, 1919, when the Red Cross reported the
location of his grave, according to Berlin advices. Lieutenant Kendall was unmarried.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Linnie Kendall, and a brother, Ralph E. Kendall, of
Naperville, 111.
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��SECOND LIEUTENANT THOMAS GERALD KENNEDY
646th Aero Squadron. Killed in an accident near Tours, France, on September 14, 1918.
��2nd Lt. THOMAS G. KENNEDY
��Lieutenant Kennedy was born in Sand- wich, Ontario, on December 21, 1893. He was educated in St. Mary's School, Kansas, and then entered Detroit Uni- versity, specializing in the study of lav^. At the outbreak of war he applied for and was admitted to the First Officers' Train- ing Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he w^as commissioned and assigned to the 328th Field Artillery. He applied for a transfer to the Aviation Section and was sent to the Ground School at the University of Texas, where he qualified as an artillery observer. In February, 1918, Lieutenant Kennedy sailed for France. Upon ar- rival overseas he v^ras given further in- struction in aviation at the Second Avia- tion Training Camp near Tours. It was while on a practice flight here that his plane fell 2,700 feet on May 14th. His pilot was killed and Lieutenant Kennedy completely paralyzed. After a critical operation, he was placed in a plaster cast and nine weeks after again reported for duty. On September 1 4, 1 9 1 8, he was ______________
again the victim of an accident which re- sulted fatally to himself and pilot. He was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Kennedy, of 3 1 8 Hubbard Avenue, Detroit, Mich., survive.
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