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 THE ROLL OF HONOR

��SECOND LIEUTENANT ARTHUR EUGENE MAXIE

Company D, 302nd Infantry, Seventy-sixth Division. Died at Camp Devans, Mass., of spinal meningitis on June 7, 1918.

��Lieutenant Maxie was born in Chicago, III., on November 3, 1894. He received his education in the grammar and high schools of Chicago, after which he en- tered the employ of the Pullman Company as an accountant. He was one of the members of the Plattsburg Citizens' Train- ing Camp. At the outbreak of war he was admitted to the First Officers' Train- ing Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the 5th Company. Upon re- ceiving his commission. Lieutenant Maxie was ordered to the 61st Depot Brigade at Camp Bowie, later being transferred to the 302nd Infantry at Camp Devans, where he instructed in sniping and scout work. A short time prior to the date on which his regiment was to sail for France, he was taken sick, and after an ill- ness of four days, died on June 7th. He was unmarried. Since his mother's

death in 1903 he had made his home with North Lawndale Avenue, Chicago. His father, Mr. William Maxie, resides in Canada.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT AMIL R. MESSELHEISER

76th Field Artillery, Third Division. Died at Base Hospital No. 88, Langres, France, on December 10, 1918, from w^ounds received in action.

��Lieutenant Messelheiser w^as born in Hampton, la., on November 4, 1 888. Af- ter a public school education he entered Northwestern University, graduating in

1916. He then entered the employ of Pow^ell, Garard & Co., attorneys at law. He was admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he w^as assigned to the 5th Battery. Upon receiving his commission he w^as or- dered overseas, sailing on December 24,

1917. Upon arrival in France, Lieutenant Messelheiser was ordered to the Artillery School at Samur for further instruction, upon completion of which he was assigned to the 76th Field Artillery, with which he served until the armistice w^as signed. Lieutenant Messelheiser became the victim of a gas attack which later caused his death, bronchial-pneumonia setting in on November 2 1, and causing his removal to the hospital, where he died on December

I 0th. He was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adam J. Messelheiser, of Hampton, low^a, survive.

��2nd Lt. AMIL R. MESSELHEISER

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���BORN NOVEMBER 4, DIED DECEMBER 10,

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