THE ROLL OF HONOR
��FIRST LIEUTENANT STEPHEN J. LINK
339th Infantry, Eighty-fifth Division. Died in Northern Russia on September 19, 1918,
from wounds received in action.
��1st Lt. STEPHEN J. LINK
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��Lieutenant Link was born in Troy, N. Y., on May I 6, I 886. He was educated in the public schools of Taylorville, 111. After graduating from high school he enlisted in Company G of the 8th U. S. Infantry, serving v^^ith that regiment for three years, and rising to a sergeancy. Part of his enlistment period v^^as spent in the Philippines. Coming back to Taylor- ville he vs^as appointed chief of police, which position he resigned to enter the First Officers' Training Camp, 5th Com- pany. Upon receipt of his commission he was sent to the training school at Cam- bridge, Mass., where he acted as in- structor in trench mortars for about six weeks, and then to Camp Custer, where he remained until sailing for Russia with the 339th Infantry on July 20, 1918. While leading his platoon in an attack he was so severely wounded that death re- sulted. Lieutenant Link was not married. His father, Joseph J. Link, dying from exposure while attending an encampment of the New York National Guard in 1895, and his mother dying within the same
he was brought up by his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Dovifney, who
resided in Taylorville since 1 898.
���SECOND LIEUTENANT EDWARD H. LOCKE
Company A, 128th Infantry, Thirty-second Division. Killed in action at Romague,
Meuse, on October 15, 1918.
��Lieutenant Locke was born on July 7th, 1890. He was educated in the public schools and was a graduate of Detroit Uni- versity School. In 1911 he entered the employ of the American Radiator Com- pany of Chicago, with which firm he re- mained until his admission to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. Upon receipt of his commission he was ordered to Camp Custer, where he re- mained with Company L, of the 338th In- fantry, until sailing for France in July, 1918. After a course of further instruction overseas he was assigned to the 128th In- fantry, v^rith w^hich regiment he met death during the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Lieutenant Locke is survived by a widow^ and one daughter, Marion Elizabeth Locke, who reside in Madison, Me. His father, Colonel Charles E. Locke, of De- troit, Mich., also survives.
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