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THE ROLL OF HONOR

SECOND LIEUTENANT GUY EDWARD MORSE

Observer, 135th Aero Squadron. Killed in action during St. Mihiel offensive, September 12, 1918.

Lieutenant Morse was born in Wolfville. Nova Scotia, Canada, on May 10, 1895. After a public school education he entered the University of Illinois, taking up the study of electrical engineering. He had completed the second year of the course when war broke out and he was admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp, 4th Company, at Fort Sheridan. He remained at the fort for one month, being transferred to Fortress Monroe, Va., where he was commissioned in the Coast Artillery and assigned for duty at Key West, Fla., where he remained three months and was then transferred to the Air Service as an observer. After a period of training in Austin, Tex., Lieutenant Morse was ordered overseas, sailing in March, 1918, in command of a casual company. Upon arrival in France he was assigned to Samur for further training. In August he was assigned to the 135th Aero Squadron, with which outfit he met death while engaged in combat with German planes. He was cited in orders and awarded the D. S. C. for bravery. Lieutenant Morse had previous military training, both in the Naval Reserve and the Officers' Training Camp at The Presidio, Calif., in 1915. He was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest R. Morse, 4238 Harrison Street, Kansas City, Mo., survive.

CAPTAIN ARTHUR FRANCIS MOSELEY

Company G, 16th Infantry, First Division. Killed in action near Cantigny, France, on July 5, 1918.

Captain Moseley was born in Macon, Ga., on March 14, 1877. He was educated in the public schools of that city and studied for the ministry, which profession, along with writing and lecturing, he practiced until his entry into the British Army in 1900, serving during the Boer war as a despatch rider, and winning the Queen's Medal and several citations. After the South African war he joined a United States Cavalry outfit and served in the Spanish-American war in Cuba as a sergeant. Returning to civil life he again took up pulpit work, but resigned from his position to enter the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan when the Great War broke out. He was assigned to the Twenty-third Company. Upon receiving his commission he was ordered overseas, sailing in December, 1917. After further instruction in France, Captain Moseley was assigned to the 16th Infantry, with which regiment he met instant death on July 5, 1918, near Cantigny. Captain Moseley was twice married. Besides his widow, Mrs. Lily M. Moseley, of Freeport, Ill., he is survived by four children. Grey, aged 22; Lily M., aged 13; Francis D., aged 12; and Oliver I., aged 10 years, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Moseley, of Macon, Ga.