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 ��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��SECOND LIEUTENANT NORMAN F. HOOD

Company G, 23rd Infantry, Second Division. Killed in action near Verdun,

on April 21, 1918.

��2nd Lt. NORMAN F. HOOD

��Lieutenant Hood was born in Kinzua, Pa., on January 29, 1892. After a public school education he entered Ferris Insti- tute, Lansing, Mich., where he took a business course, and then entered the em- ploy of Hood & Wright at Big Rapids, Mich., in which his father holds an in- terest. He was admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, and assigned to the I 2th Company. Upon the receipt of his commission. Lieutenant Hood was ordered overseas, sailing in Jan- uary, 1918, as a casual officer. Upon arrival in France he was assigned for fur- ther instruction in A. E. F. schools, upon the completion of which courses he v^as ordered to the 23rd Infantry, with w^hich regiment he met his death while returning from a successful raid, a bursting shell killing him almost instantly. He vv^as un- married. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred- erick E. Hood, Big Rapids, Mich., survive. Lieutenant Hood was a brother of Lieuten- ant Daniel G. Hood, who lost his life by the influenza epidemic in 1918 at Mineo- la, N. Y.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT FRANK ARTHUR HOWE

Company A, 28th Infantry, First Division. Killed iii action in St. Mihiel offensive, on September 13, 1918.

��Lieutenant Howe was born in Creson, Pa., on June 8, 1896. After a public school education in Philadelphia, he en- tered Girard College, graduating in 1914. He worked himself up from a cadet pri- vate to a cadet captain while at Girard. He then entered business life with the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company of Detroit, Mich., remaining there until his admission to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. Upon receipt of his commission Lieutenant Howe wras ordered overseas, sailing in January, 1918, as a casual officer. Upon arriving in France, after a period of study in the A. E. F. schools, he v^^as assigned to the Forty- second Division, and then to the First In- fantry of the Forty-first Depot Division, finally going to the 28th Infantry, with which regiment he saw much action and finally met death near St. Mihiel. He was unmarried. His mother, Mrs. Effie M. Howe, and one sister. Miss Helen H. Howe, of 225 North Sixty-third Street, Philadelphia, Pa., survive him.

��2nd Lt. FRANK A. HOWE

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