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��SECOND LIEUTENANT MADS K. MADSEN

Infantry. Died of pneumonia in San Francisco, Cal., November, 1919.

��2nd Lt. MADS K. MADSEN

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��Lieutenant Madsen was born in Den- mark on December 24, 1884. He re- ceived his education in that country and then emigrated to America. He had several years military training in the Danish army. Upon arrival in the United States he located in Chicago, where he was employed by the Pullman Company as an estimator in the engineering department. He applied for and was admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the 1 7th Company. Upon receiving his com- mission he was ordered to Camp Dodge, from which post he was transferred to the Pacific Coast. In October, 1919, he was taken ill and removed to a hospital. Pneumonia set in and he died after a short illness. Information as to the personal history of Lieutenant Madsen is not avail- able; all of his intimate family residing in Denmark.

��FIRST LIEUTENANT HARRY H. MARSH

Company C, 30th Infantry, Third Division. Killed in action during the Argonne offensive, October 15, 1918.

��Lieutenant Marsh was born in Burnetts Creek, Ind., on April I 0, I 884. He was educated in the public schools of Burnetts- ville, Ind., graduating from high school in 1 900, and then taking a course in the Lo- gansport Business College, upon the com- pletion of which he entered the tobacco business. He v^^as admitted to the Sec- ond Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sher- idan, where he was a member of the 1 8th Company. Upon receiving his commis- sion he v^fas ordered to Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C, where he remained until sailing for France with the Third Divi- sion in the early part of 1918. After having participated in the Second Battle of the Marne he became the acting com- mander of his company and, while leading them into an attack during the Argonne drive, he was instantly killed. Lieutenant Marsh was married on September 1 2, 1906, to Miss Nellie Duffey of Burnetts Creek, Ind., who, with two children, John D. and Alice Josephine, aged ten and eight years respectively, survive him. The parents of Lieutenant Marsh, Mr. and Mrs. Melville Marsh, of Awood, Ind., also are living.

���BORN APRIL 10, DIED OCTOBER 15,

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