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THE ROLL OF HONOR

��SECOND LIEUTENANT CLARENCE MILTON DRUMM

Company K, 28th Infantry, First Division. Killed in action at Battle of Cantigny,

on May 28, 1918.


��2nd Lt. CLARENCE M. DRUMM

��Lieutenant Drumm was born in Bige- low, Kansas, on October 28, 1889. He was educated in the public schools of Irv- ing, Kans., and Grand Island, Nebr., and then taught in the Grand Island Business College for one year, after which he en- gaged in farming. He entered the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. Upon receipt of his commission Lieutenant Drumm was ordered overseas, sailing in January, 1918. Upon arrival in France he entered an A. E. F. school for further instruction and was then assigned to the 28th Infantry, with which regiment he was killed instantly in the Cantigny battle. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery. Lieutenant Drumm was unmarried. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Drumm, of Bigelow, Kans., and one brother, C. E. Drumm.

��FIRST LIEUTENANT JAMES MODESITT DUNCAN

9th Infantry, Second Division. Killed in action near Soissons, France, on July 18. 1918.

��Lieutenant Duncan w^as born in Clover- land, Ind., on January 28, 1893. He was educated in the public schools of Brazil, Ind., and then entered the employ of Mar- shall Field 6c Company as a salesman. He served on the Mexican border with the Illinois National Guard previous to his ad- mittance to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the Seventh Company. Upon receiving his commission. Lieutenant Dun- can was ordered overseas, sailing in Au- gust, 1917, as a casual. After further instruction in France he was ordered to the Sixteenth Company of the 5th Ma- rines, later being transferred to the 9th Infantry of the Second Division, with which regiment he met death by rifle fire in the fighting south of Soissons on July 18, 1918. He v^fas unmarried. Lieutenant Duncan is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Mason Duncan, of 450 North 6V^ street, Terre Haute, Ind.

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