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 ��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��SECOND LIEUTENANT CHARLES ROSSITER MIDDAUGH

Company B, 102nd Infantry, Twenty-sixth Division. Killed in action near Chateau Thierry on July 22, 1918.

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��Lieutenant Middaugh was born in Brookfield, Mass., on March 22, 1883. He w^as educated in the public schools of Jackson, Mich., where he graduated from high school in 1902. He then entered the employ of the Jackson Corset Co., becom- ing the advertising manager. He had to his credit three years' service with the Michigan National Guard when he applied and was admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he w^as a member of the 9th Company. Upon receipt of his commission he was ordered overseas, sailing as a casual on January 8, 1918. Upon arrival in France he was sent for further training to an A. E. F. school, and upon completion of the course, assigned to the I 02nd infan- try, with which regiment he remained until he met instant death in the village of Epideas, near Chateau Thierry. Lieuten- ant Middaugh was married to Miss Bertha Bucknell on September 12, 1905, who, with one son, John Stuart Middaugh, aged seven years, survives. He is also survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Harvey Middaugh, 4 I I Union street, Jackson, Mich.

��FIRST LIEUTENANT GEORGE O. MIDDLEDITCH

44th Training Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Killed in an accident

near Lincoln, Eng., on March 12, 1918.

��Lieutenant Middleditch was born in Detroit, Mich., on November 20, 1894. After a public school education he en- tered the University of Michigan, study- ing for two years, and then entering the First Officers* Training Camp at Fort Sheridan where he remained for six weeks and was then transferred to the Aviation School, Champaign, 111., where he qual- ified as a pilot and was commissioned. Lieutenant Middleditch sailed for England early in 1918. Upon arrival he was at- tached to the Royal Flying Corps for further instruction, being attached to the 44th Training Squadron. On March

1 2th, w^hile trying out a new machine, the plane crashed to earth in a nose dive, instantly killing Lieutenant Middleditch. He was unmarried. His mother, Mrs. Lucy H. Middleditch, of 359 Burns Av- enue, Detroit, Mich., and a brother, Lieu- {/ tenant Leigh B. Middleditch, who served with the field artillery overseas, survive.

��1st Lt. G. O. MIDDLEDITCH

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