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��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��FIRST LIEUTENANT HAROLD RUDOLPH WIEBEN

On detached service from Company F, I 0th Infantry. Died of bronchial pneumonia on October 2, 1918, at Milwaukee, Wis.

��1st Lt. HAROLD R. WIEBEN

��Lieutenant Wieben was born in Mil- waukee, Wis., on October 19, 1895. He was educated in and graduated from the grade schools of that city in 1910; North- western Military and Naval Academy in 1914 and then entered the University of Wisconsin, at which institution he was a student when w^ar broke out. He was employed as a journalist during his vaca- tion periods by the Milwaukee Free Press. He applied for and w^as admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan and assigned to the Fifteenth Company. Receiving a commission as sec- ond lieutenant, he was ordered to Com- pany I of the 10th Infantry, later being transferred to the 305th Cavalry at Camp Stanley, Tex.; on April 8, 1 9 1 8, he was transferred to Company F of the 1 0th Infantry, where he was promoted, and then detached for service at Fort Sheridan S. A. T. C. on July I 8th, later taking up the same work as an instructor at Crane Technical High School, Chicago. While on a leave to Milwaukee on September 24th, he was taken ill, and died one week later. He was unmarried. Lieutenant Wieben is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Wieben and one sister, Doris Mathilda, all of whom reside at 133 29th street, Milwaukee, Wis.

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��SECOND LIEUTENANT LLOYD GARRISON WILLIAMS

Company K, 28th Infantry, First Division. Died in Base Hospital No. 34, Nantes, France, on November 26, 1918, after an illness of a few days.

��Lieutenant Williams was born in Elgin, III., on July 1, 1889. After a public school education in that city he entered the University of Illinois, graduating in 1912. He then took up the practice of lavv^, w^hich profession he continued until his admittance to the First Officers' Train- ing Camp at Fort Sheridan and assigned to the 6th Company. Upon receiving his commission he was ordered to France, sailing on August 28, 1917, as a casual. Arriving overseas. Lieutenant Williams received further military training and was then assigned to Company D of the 1 64th Infantry, and later transferred to Com- pany K of the 28th Infantry, with which regiment he was recommended for pro- motion and cited for bravery. On Novem- ber 29, 1918, he was taken ill and con- veyed to Base Hospital No. 34, Nantes, where he died a few days later. He was unmarried. His parents. Judge and Mrs. John H. Williams, of 62 7 Douglas ave- nue, Elgin, III., survive.

��2nd Lt. LLOYD G. WILLIAMS

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