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THE ROLL OF HONOR

��SECOND LIEUTENANT HAROLD E. KINNE

Company K, 16th Infantry, First Division. Killed in action near Soissons

on July 19, 1918.

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��Lieutenant Kinne was born in Shell Lake, Wis., on February 28, 1896. He was educated in the public schools of Oro- fino, Ida., where he graduated from high school in 1915. He then entered the University of Wisconsin, studying for two years, but left college at the outbreak of war to attend the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. Upon receipt of his commission. Lieutenant Kinne v^ras among the officers selected to go over- seas, and he sailed on September 1 0, 1917. Upon arrival in France he at- tended an officers' school for six weeks and then received further intensive train- ing behind the lines. On January 1 5th he was assigned to the 1 6th Infantry, and remained with that regiment until he v^ras instantly killed by a machine gun bullet during the engagement at Soissons. He was unmarried. Lieutenant Kinne is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Kinne, of Orofino, Idaho.

��FIRST LIEUTENANT LYLE A. KNEELAND

Headquarters Company, 329th Field Artillery, Eighty-fifth Division. Died at Camp Hospital No. 3, Brest, France, of pneumonia, on October 10, 1918.

��Lieutenant Kneeland was born in Owosso, Mich., on September 2, 1893. He was educated in the public schools of that city and then entered the employ of the Owosso Sugar Company. At the out- break of war he resigned his position and applied and was admitted to the First Of- ficers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the 2nd Com- pany. Upon the completion of the course he was commissioned a second lieutenant and ordered to Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich., then to Fort Sill, Okla., and finally to Selfridge Field, where he was promoted to a first lieutenancy and quali- fied as an aerial observer. Lieutenant Kneeland served one year with the 33rd Regiment of the Michigan National Guard. He sailed for France on Septem- ber 15, 1918. While crossing the At- lantic he became ill with influenza and, when the boat landed at Brest, he was conveyed to the hospital, where he finally succumbed. He w^as unmarried and the only child of Mr. and Mrs. J. Kneeland, of 815 Summit Avenue, Owosso, Mich., who survive him.

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