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THE ROLL OF HONOR

��FIRST LIEUTENANT GUSTAVE DE NEVEN WRIGHT

Company G, I I 7th Infantry, Thirtieth Division. Killed in action near Fremont, France, on October 8, 1918.

��1st Lt. GUSTAVE DE N. WRIGHT

��Lieutenant Wright was born in Fond du Lac, Wis., on May 10, 1892. After a public school education in the schools of that city he entered the University of Wisconsin, graduating in 1915, and taking up the practice of law^. At the outbreak of war he made application and was ad- mitted to the First Officers" Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, and having fin- ished that course, he was held over for the Second Camp. Receiving his com- mission. Lieutenant Wright was ordered overseas, sailing in December, 1917. Ar- riving in France he was detailed for fur- ther study in A. E. F. schools at Langres, and the British school at St. Pol, Pas d' Calais, completing which he was assigned to the I 1 7th Infantry, with which outfit he remained until his death, which oc- curred in the neighborhood of the old St. Quentin-Cambrai sector on October 8, 1918. Lieutenant Wright was married on May 6, 1917, to Miss Jane Irish of Oak Park, 111. Besides his widow. Lieutenant Wright is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Wright of Fond du Lac, Wis.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT HOWARD C. SAWYER

Company L, 130th Infantry, Thirty-third Division. Died of pneumonia on December 29, 1918, at Luxemburg, Germany.

��Lieutenant Sawyer w^as born in Carpen- terville, III., on July 14, 1888. He was educated at Dundee High School, St. John's Military Academy and the Univer- sity of Wisconsin, later entering the em- ploy of the Illinois Iron and Bolt Company at Carpenterville, 111. He w^as admitted to the Second Officers* Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he w^as commissioned and ordered overseas upon the completion of the course. He sailed for France in December, 1917. After a course of fur- ther instruction, he was assigned to Com- pany L, of the 130th Infantry, later being transferred to the 129th Infantry as a gas officer, returning to his old regiment after the armistice. Lieutenant Sawfyer was taken sick w^hile with the Army of Occu- pation and, after a ten days' illness, died on December 29, 1918. He was unmar- ried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Sawyer, of Elgin, III., and a brother, Mr. C. E. Sawyer, survive.

��1st Lt. HOWARD C. SAWYER

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