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��SECOND LIEUTENANT MYRON A. KENNY

Company C, 30th Infantry, Third Division. Died in Paris on November 28, 1918, from wounds received in action at Chateau Thierry on July 15, 1918.

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��2nd Lt. MYRON A. KENNY

��Lieutenant Kenny v^ras born in Chicago on November 17, 1893. He v^'as educated in the public schools and Culver Military Academy. After graduating he entered the employ of the Public Service Com- pany of Northern Illinois, being connected ■with the purchasing department. At the outbreak of war he applied for and was admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan where he v^as commissioned and w^as ordered overseas, sailing on January 9, 1918. Upon ar- rival in France he w^as assigned to the In- fantry Specialists' School at Langres, after vi^hich course of instruction he was ordered to the 30th Infantry, with, which regiment he v^as wounded and gassed during the Chateau Thierry operations. He w^as removed to a hospital in Paris, where he succumbed to his v^rounds on November 28. Lieutenant Kenny vv^as unmarried. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Katherine M. Kenny of 4041 Ellis Avenue, Chicago, and three brothers, James A., Albert R., and Paul M., of the rame address.

��1st Lt. HAROLD J. KING

��FIRST LIEUTENANT HAROLD JAMES KING

Battalion Scout Commander, 126th Infantry, Thirty-second Division. Killed in action near Romagne, France, on October 10, 1918.

Lieutenant King was born in Manistee, Mich., on January 19, 1892. He was -^-^ educated in Manistee High School, St. fit/i John's Military Academy and Manistee Business College. He served eight months with the Michigan National Guard on the Mexican Border before his admis- sion to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. He was commissioned a second lieutenant at the finish of ths training camp course and then ordered to Camp Custer, thence to Camp Greene and then to Waco, Tex., v^rhere he w^as as- signed to the 126th Infantry, with which regiment he sailed for France in February, 1918. Lieutenant King was promoted to a first lieutenancy and awarded the D. S. C. for gallantry in rescuing the wounded under fire near Fismes. At the time of his death he was battalion scout commander. While on a reconnaisance in the Argonne, one kilometer south of Romagne, at midnight of October 1 0th, he became the victim of a German sniper and was instantly killed. He was un- married. His parents. Dr. and Mrs. James A. King, reside in Manistee, Mich.

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