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THE ROLL OF HONOR

��FIRST LIEUTENANT RICHARD EDMUND LLOYD

Aviation Section, Signal Reserve Corps. Killed in accident at Issouden, France,

on July 12, 1918.

��1st Lt. RICHARD E. LLOYD

��Lieutenant Lloyd was born in Peoria, 111., on December 14, 1892. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Chicago, graduating from Hyde Park High School in 1914. He then started work as a sales- man, resigning his position to enter the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, 7th Company, at the outbreak of war. He also served five years v^ith Company E of the 1 st Regiment, Illinois National Guard. Requesting a transfer to the Aviation Section, which was granted, he left Fort Sheridan on July I, 1917, to enter a school at Rantoul, 111., for that purpose, where he qualified and was com- missioned. Upon completion of the course he received further instruction at various American fields, after w^hich he sailed for France on February 26, 1918, as an unattached officer. Upon arrival overseas he was sent to the 3rd Aviation Center at Issouden, then to a French school, and back to Issouden, where he met his death when his machine got be- yond control. Lieutenant Lloyd was mar- ried to Miss Mary Helen Collins of Chi- cago on January 22, 1917, who, with one child, Richard Edmund Lloyd 111, aged tw^o years, reside at 162 7 Springfield Avenue, Chicago. He is also survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary Lillian Lloyd, 5 1 4 Belmont Avenue, Chicago.

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��SECOND LIEUTENANT WILLARD THOMAS LUSK

Company 1, 308th Infantry, Seventy-seventh Division. Killed in action at Ville Savoye, France, on August 21, 1918.

��Lieutenant Lusk was born in Chicago, 111., July 19, 1890. He gained his educa- tion at Linn Military Institute, Sweetwater, Tenn., graduating in 1910, after which he taught stenography and bookkeeping for one year. He then accepted a position for the Union Central Life Insurance Com- pany of Cincinnati as state agent for Florida, headquarters at Jacksonville, for about two years; also two years with the Equitable Life Insurance Company of New York as state agent, having his head- quarters at Milwaukee, w^hich position he held until his admission to the First Offi- cers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. Upon receiving his commission, Lieu- tenant Lusk was ordered to Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich., from which post he went to Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C. He sailed for France on March 1, 1918, with Company I, 308th Infantry, with which regiment he was assigned as gas officer. He met his death at Ville Savoye, France, while in action. He was unmar- ried. He is survived by his father, J. W. Lusk, who resides at Montrose, S. D., and Pensacola, Fla.

��2nd Lt. WILLARD T. LUSK

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