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THE ROLL OF HONOR

��FIRST LIEUTENANT JOHN GORDON MITCHELL

Company A, 52nd Infantry, Sixth Division. Died of bronchial pneumonia on January 4, 1919, at Red Cross Hospital No. 3, Paris, France.

��1st Lt. JOHN G. MITCHELL

��Lieutenant Mitchell was born in Mil- waukee, Wis., on August 5, 1895. After a course of study in the public schools of the city he entered the Milwaukee State Normal School, from which he graduated in 1915. He then went to the University of Wisconsin, where he was studying lavv at the time war broke out. He was ad- mitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at .Fort Sheridan, I I th Company. Receiving his commission, Lieutenant Mitchell was ordered to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., and assigned to the 52nd Infantry, w^ith w^hich regiment he sailed for France on July 3, 1918. He remained with the Sixth Division throughout its engage- ments. While on leave at Nice he •was taken ill with pneumonia and rushed to Paris, where he died in the Red Cross Hospital No. 3 on January 4, 1919, after one week's illness. He was unmarried. Lieutenant Mitchell is survived by his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Mitchell and one sister. Miss Marie Mitchell, of 5 74 Fifth Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT HENRY ORSAMUS MOE

Company A, 23rd Infantry, Second Division. Killed in action on Blanc Mont Ridge,

Argonne Forest, October 5, 1918.

��Lieutenant Moe was born in Chippewa Falls, Wis., on March 23, 1892. He re- ceived his education in the public schools of that city, graduating from high school in 1910. He then entered the employ of the Barron County Bank, Rice Lake, Wis., as assistant cashier. He served an enlistment w^ith the Wisconsin National Guard before being admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. Upon receiving his commission, Lieuten- ant Moe was ordered to the 33 7th Infan- try at Camp Custer, w^ith which regiment he sailed for France in July, 1918. Upon arrival overseas, he was sent to the Second Division as a replacement officer, remain- ing with the 23rd Infantry until his death. Lieutenant Moe w^as awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery. He was unmarried. Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Oleson Moe, 1052 Sixteenth Avenue, S. E., Minneapolis, Minn., he is survived by three brothers and two sisters.

��2nd Lt. HENRY O. MOE

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