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 ��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��SECOND LIEUTENANT WILLIAM PARREL LELAND

Machine Gun Company, 369th Regiment. Died on September 29, 1918, in French Military Hospital from wounds received in action.

(5^jff'|E=^ ■ Lieutenant Leland was born in Troy,

f/nl „ 1 I »MiiiAiv/i r ifiAKirk Kans., on January 27, 1887. He was edu-

///5' 2nd Lt. WILLIAM F. LELAND ^^^^j .^ ^^^ public schools of Topeka,

Kans., and Washburn Academy. He then entered Annapolis Naval Academy, re- signing in 1 908 after two years' study, after which he entered the University of Michigan Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1916, and entered the em- ploy of the Missouri Pacific Railway as an assistant attorney, which position he held until his admission to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, 4th Company. Upon receiving his com- mission Lieutenant Leland was ordered overseas, sailing on January 10, 1 9 1 8, as a casual officer. Upon arrival in France he studied further at the American In- fantry Specialists School, Langres, Haute- Marne, and was then assigned, with sev- eral other officers, to the 369th Infantry, w^hich regiment was brigaded with the „ „.. .....,.„v. .,, .„„, French Fourth Army. On the 26th of

III? i BORN JANUARY 27. 1887 c- i i i i i- i • I ^

mil* „.^„ o^„^^..r,^r, .,„ ....„ September, while leading his platoon,

iuCJ DIED SEPTEMBER 29. 1918, .^ i i i , ii i j

L^r^— Lieutenant Leland was mortally wounded

by gunshot fire, dying three days later. He was cited for bravery in action and awarded the Croix de Guerre, and also recom- mended for promotion. He was married to Miss Hazel \. Sheppard of Plymouth, Mich., on August 2, 1911. Besides his widow, Lieutenant Leland is survived by two children, William F., Jr., aged six, and Kathryn F., aged five years, who reside in Ardmore, Okla.

���SECOND LIEUTENANT SCOTT LINCOLN LENNEN

Company D, 23rd Infantry, Second Division. Died on July 2, 1918, at Evacuation

Hospital No. 8, from wounds received in action near Chateau

Thierry on June 6, 1918.

��Lieutenant Lennen was born in Lakin, Kans., on April 2, 1891. He was edu- cated in the public schools and graduated from Drake University, Des Moines, la., in June, 1917. Taking up a position w^ith an investment company of Clarinda, la., he resigned the same to enter the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, 1st Company. Upon receiving his com- mission he was ordered overseas, sailing on January 21, 1 9 1 8, as a casual officer. After a further course of instruction in A. E. F., schools he was assigned to Com- pany C, 9th Infantry, and then transferred to Company D, 23rd Infantry, with which regiment he was mortally wounded by machine gun fire while leading his platoon in the Bois des Clerembauts, near Chateau Thierry. Lieutenant Lennen was unmar- ried. He is survived by his father, F. W. Lennen, who is superintendent of schools at Lyons, Kansas.

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��2nd Lt. SCOTT L. LENNEN

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