SECOND LIEUTENANT MYRON A. KENNY
Company C, 30th Infantry, Third Division. Died in Paris on November 28, 1918, from wounds received in action at Chateau Thierry on July 15, 1918.
DIED NOVEMBER 28, 1918.
Lieutenant Kenny wras born in Chicago on November 17, 1893. He was educated in the public schools and Culver Military Academy. After graduating he entered the employ of the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois, being connected with the purchasing department. At the outbreak of war he applied for and was admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan where he was commissioned and w^as ordered overseas, sailing on January 9, 1918. Upon arrival in France he was assigned to the Infantry Specialists' School at Langres, after which course of instruction he was ordered to the 30th Infantry, with, which regiment he was wounded and gassed during the Chateau Thierry operations. He was removed to a hospital in Paris, where he succumbed to his wounds on November 28. Lieutenant Kenny was unmarried. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Katherine M. Kenny of 4041 Ellis Avenue, Chicago, and three brothers, James A., Albert R., and Paul M., of the same address.
FIRST LIEUTENANT HAROLD JAMES KING
Battalion Scout Commander, 126th Infantry, Thirty-second Division. Killed in action near Romagne, France, on October 10, 1918.
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DIED OCTOBER 10, 1918.
Lieutenant King was born in Manistee,
Mich., on January 19, 1892. He was
educated in Manistee High School, St.
John's Military Academy and Manistee
Business College. He served eight
months with the Michigan National Guard
on the Mexican Border before his admission to the First Officers' Training Camp
at Fort Sheridan. He was commissioned
a second lieutenant at the finish of the
training camp course and then ordered to
Camp Custer, thence to Camp Greene and
then to Waco, Tex., where he was assigned to the 126th Infantry, with which
regiment he sailed for France in February,
1918. Lieutenant King was promoted to
a first lieutenancy and awarded the D.
S. C. for gallantry in rescuing the
wounded under fire near Fismes. At the
time of his death he was battalion scout
commander. While on a reconnaisance
in the Argonne, one kilometer south of
Romagne, at midnight of October 10th,
he became the victim of a German sniper
and was instantly killed. He was unmarried. His parents. Dr. and Mrs.
James A. King, reside in Manistee, Mich.
