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 ��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��CAPTAIN HENRY BLAIR KEEP

Company A, 1 0th Machine Gun Battalion, Fourth Division. Killed in action in the Bois de Fay on October 5, 1918.

��Capt. HENRY B. KEEP

��Captain Keep was born in Chicago, 111., on September 25, 1891. After a public school education he entered Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., where he finished and entered Yale University, graduating in 1915. He then vs^ent to work for McCord & Company of Chicago, relinquishing his position to enter the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was a member of the 1 7th Company. Re- ceiving a commission as first lieutenant he w^as ordered to Camp Greene, N. C, where he was assigned to the 58th In- fantry, and with which regiment he sailed for France on May 6, 1918. Captain Keep, upon arrival overseas, was detailed for study in an A. E. F. machine gun school and, upon completion of same, was assigned to the 1 2th Machine Gun Bat- talion and later to the I 0th M. G. B. He was promoted after the Chateau Thierry battle and w^as killed by shell fire while placing his guns during the Meuse-Ar- gonne offensive on October 5, 1918, meeting death in the Bois de Fay. Cap- tain Keep was married on December 2, 1916, to Miss Katharine J. Legendre of New Orleans, La., who, with a fifteen-months' old son, Henry Blair Keep, Jr., survive. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Keep, of I 200 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, 111., also survive.

��FIRST LIEUTENANT HARRY MASE KEISER

Company H, 125th Infantry, Thirty-second Division. Killed in action at Cierges,

France, on July 31, 1918.

��1st Lt. HARRY M. KEISER

��Lieutenant Kaiser was born in Dubuque, T'M'f^

la., on March 12, 1888. He was edu- cated in Boston, Mass., graduating from Roxbury High School in 1908. He then entered the employ of the Hydrox Com- pany, advancing to the position of cashier. He served five years with the Massa- chusetts Volunteer Militia previous to his admittance to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was as- signed to the I I th Cavalry Troop. He was held over for the Second Camp, and assigned to the 21st Company. Receiving his commission, Lieutenant Keiser was ordered to France, sailing on December 27, 1917, as a casual. Arriving overseas, he was ordered to Langres for further training, but had to go to Base Hospital No. I 5, Chaumont, for an operation after a few weeks. On April 25, 1918, he was assigned to the 125th Infantry as an in- structor, later being given command of a

he ■was instantly killed near Cierges. He was awarded the Distinguished Service

Cross and the Croix de Guerre for extraordinary heroism in action. Lieutenant Keiser was married to Miss Irma McChesney Craw on December 8, 1917, who, with his mother, Mrs. Florence Mase Keiser, of 242 West 73rd Street, Chicago, 111., survive.

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