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��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��SERGEANT THOMAS ABBOTT ABREY

M. D. R. A., Field Hospital No. 34, Seventh Division, 6th Army Corps. Died at Base

Hospital No. 1 7, Dijon, Cote d'Or, France, after one vs^eek's sickness,

on September 18, 1918.

��Sgt. THOMAS ABBOTT ABREY

��f^. DIED SEPTEMBER 18. I9IS

��Sergeant Abrey was born in Detroit, Mich., on December 6, 1895. Graduated and was a senior student in the Detroit College of Law when the war broke out. Attended the First Training Camp at Fort Sheridan where he was attached to Com- pany K of the regiment on duty. Not winning a commission at Fort Sheridan he enlisted and was transferred to Colum- bus, Ohio, and later to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., sailing for overseas on August I 3, 1918. While with his platoon, Sergeant Abrey was taken ill with influenza, which later developed into pneumonia, causing his removal to base hospital No. 1 7, vi^here he died on September 18, 1918. He was unmarried and the son of Mrs. George T. Abrey of 1 Burlingame Avenue, Detroit, Mich.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT MORGAN MacDONALD ANDERSON

Company I, 26th Infantry, First Division. Killed in action near Very, France, October 5, 1918, v^^hile leading his platoon.

��Lieutenant Anderson was born in Mil- waukee, Wis., August 22, 1891. He was a graduate of Milwaukee Normal School, Beloit College and the University of Wis- consin. He was preparing to enter the practice of law when war broke out. At- tended the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, Twelfth Com- pany. Upon receipt of commission was ordered to France, sailing in January, 1918. Received further military training from French and English schools, as- signed to 6 1 St Regiment, finally being transferred to the 26th, with which regi- ment he served until his death. Besides his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. George Anderson, of 2101 Cold Springs Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis., Lieutenant Anderson leaves three brothers and one sister. He was unmarried.

��2nd Lt. M. M. ANDERSON

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