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��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��SECOND LIEUTENANT LESLIE G. CHANDLER

Instructor, Aviation, Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas. Killed in accident while instructing pupil on March 8, 1918.

��/ 2nd Lt. LESLIE G. CHANDLER

��Lieutenant Chandler was born in Wau- kegan. 111., on September 28, 1895. He w^as educated in Hinsdale High School and the University of Illinois, giving up his college work to enter the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the I 0th Company. He did not finish the course of instruction at Fort Sheridan, but made application and was accepted for entrance to the Avia- tion Ground School at Champaign, 111., where he received his commission. Upon receipt of his commission he was as- signed to Kelly Field as an instructor and it was while pursuing that duty he met death. Lieutenant Chandler was unmar- ried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Chicago Avenue, Hinsdale, 111.

��FIRST LIEUTENANT FRED EUGENE CLARK

Company M, 120th Infantry, Thirtieth Division. Died at Base Hospital in Rouen, France, on September 30, 1918, from wounds received in action.

��Lieutenant Clark was born in Del Rey, 111., on January 26, 1882. He received his education in the public schools and graduated from Onarga, 111., High School in 1 898. He took up the business of plumbing after his school days, but dropped the work to enlist in the army for the Spanish-American War, being with Troop D of the 7th Cavalry; he served in the Philippines with Company G of the 34th Volunteer Infantry. At the begin- ning of the Great War he applied for ad- mission to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was a member of the I 6th Company. Receiv- ing his commission he was detailed for duty at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky., from which place he w^as ordered overseas. Lieutenant Clark was twice married, but no children v^rere born of the unions. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin R. Clark, were among Illinois' early settlers, his father having been a veteran of the Civil War. Mr. and Mrs. Clark are both dead. He is survived by a brother, Clyde E. Clark, of Yakima, Wash.

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��1st Lt. FRED E. CLARK

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