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 ��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��SECOND LIEUTENANT FRANK TALBOT MONTGOMERY

Machine Gun Company, 305th Infantry, Seventy-seventh Division. Died i

hospital. La Chalade, France, on October 3, 1918, from wounds received in action same day.

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���Lieutenant Montgomery was born in Wausau, Wis., on September 3, 1893. He graduated from the high school of that city in 1913 and then entered Carroll Col- lege, Waukesha, Wis., and had finished his junior year when war broke out and he applied for and was admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. Upon receiving his commis- sion. Lieutenant Montgomery w^as ordered to Camp Custer, where he remained about six weeks, and v^^as then transferred to Camp Greene, and finally to Camp Up- ton, where he was assigned to the 305th Infantry, w^ith which regiment he sailed for France on April 15, 1918. After re- ceiving instruction in A. E. F. machine gun schools he returned to his regiment in time for the Chateau Thierry battle. On October 3rd, while advancing through the Bois de Naza in the Argonne, he was mortally wounded by shell fragments, dy- ing seven hours later. Lieutenant Mont- gomery v^ras unmarried. He is survived by his parents Mr. and Mrs. James Montgomery, two brothers and one sister, all of whom reside in Wausau, Wis.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT DONALD JAMES MOORE

��Company H, 9th Infantry, Second Division. Killed in action

offensive, October 3, 1918.

��in the Champagne

��Lieutenant Moore was born in Green- field, Mich., on April 27, 1896. He was educated in the public schools of Detroit, and was in the third year of high school work v^hen w^ar broke out and he applied for and was admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the 1 0th Company. Upon receipt of his commission he was ordered to Camp Custer. Remaining there but a short while he was transferred to Camp Greene, and then to Camp Mills, from which place he was ordered overseas with the 163rd Infantry. Upon arrival in France, Lieutenant Moore was taken ill and remained in a hospital for three weeks, after which he wras ordered to the 9th Infantry, going into action at Chateau Thierry. While leading his platoon, near the Bois de Pins, Champagne sector. Lieu- tenant Moore was instantly killed by en- emy fire on October 3rd. He was un- married. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Gertrude M. Moore, of 1308 Joy Avenue, Detroit, Mich.

��2nd Lt. DONALD J. MOORE |

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