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THE ROLL OF HONOR

��FIRST LIEUTENANT HARRY A. HOLLIDAY

Machine Gun Company, 30th Infantry, Third Division. Died in Base Hospital No.

8, at Savenay, France, on October 6, 1918, from wounds received in

action at Chateau Thierry on July 15, 1918.

Lieutenant Holliday v^ras born in Trav-

��1st Lt. HARRY A. HOLLIDAY

���erse City, Mich., on February 21, 1893. He w^as educated in the public schools of Traverse City, then entering Olivet Col- lege, from which he graduated in 1916. He then became affiliated with the whole- sale paper firm of Beecher, Peck & Lewis of Detroit, Mich., with whom he remained until he was admitted to the Sec- ond Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sher- idan, where he was assigned to the 1 I th Company. Upon receipt of his commis- sion he was ordered overseas, sailing on December 24, 1917. Upon arrival in France he was assigned to the Infantry Specialists School at Langres. After a course there he was sent to the British school at St. Pol for a course in bayonet work and then to Fort de Peigney for the study of machine guns. After comple- tion of the last course he was assigned to the machine gun battalion with which he remained until seriously wounded on July

lUy DIED OCTOBER 6. 1918 " ' ^ , ' ^J t' ^e was awarded the Distin-

LRTL^ guished oervice Cross and the Croix de

Guerre for bravery. Lieutenant Holliday was unmarried. His parents. Captain and Mrs. George A. Holliday, and two sisters, Dorothy and Margaret, all of whom reside in Traverse City, Mich., survive.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT DANIEL GEORGE HOOD

52nd Aero Squadron, Aviation Section. Died at Mineola, N. Y., from pneumonia, on November 2, 1918.

��Lieutenant Hood was born in Kinzua, Pa., on January 21, 1894. After receiv- ing a public school education he entered Purdue University, making a specialty of electrical engineering. At the outbreak of war he gave up his studies and was ad- mitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, being assigned to the 5th Company. Upon receipt of his commission he requested a transfer to the Aviation Service, vi^hich w^as granted, and he was ordered to the aviation school at Austin, Tex., and then to Gerstner Field, Lakes Charles, La., from which place he was ordered to Mitchell Field, Mineola, N. Y., where he was assigned to the 52nd Squadron. At the time of his illness Lieu- tenant Hood was awaiting sailing orders. He was married to Miss Cora Amphlett of Big Rapids, Mich., on May 9, 1918. Besides his widow he is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Hood of Big Rapids, Mich. A brother, Lieutenant Norman F. Hood, also a Fort Sheridan man, was killed in France.

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��2nd Lt. DANIEL G. HOOD

���BORN JANUARY 21, DIED NOVEMBER Z,

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