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232 Lieutenant Graham had returned to duty, although still suffering from his gassing of a few days before, and had relieved Licutenant Mac Vair at the infantry battalion command post.

On this evening he walked with Captain Belvedere Brooks of the 308th Infantry to a shelter ncar Ville Savoie, known as Cemenocal Cave. The Huns had not, apparcntly, fired on this point before. A number of other infantry officers stood near, and a large group of cnlisted men. This congregation seemed unsafe, and Lientenant Graham spoke of it.

A shell camc over and fell ncar the party, a dud.

Captain, afterwards Major, Breckenridge, cried: "Look out!"

There was a rush for the entrance of the cave. Graham and Brooks with the other infantry officers stood back to let the men in first. A second shell burst in the midst of the little group. Graham, Brooks, and a second infantry officer were killed. Lieutenant Bruce Brooks, Captain Brooks' brother, was at that time assigned to our regiment. Captain Breckenridge got word to him, and tele- phoned Major Easterday of Lieutenant Graham's death. Licutenant MacNair happened to be in the Second Battalion's command post. He was hurricd down to the infantry, while Lieutenant Ellsworth 0. Strong was sum- moned from the echelon to replace Lieutenant Graham, Corporals Hickey and Rice and Privates Golden and Aasgard, who were on duty with the infantry, carried Lieutenant Graham's body to Les Près Farın over heavily shelled roads. Chaplain Sheridan was summoned and the lieutenant was buried in the little cemetery on the Chart- reuve Road where so many of our men lic.

Three days later Lieutenant Strong, who had relieved Lieutenant Mae Vair, was killed with a number of infantrymen near the same spot while going about his work