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 THE ROLL OF HONOR

��CAPTAIN CLARE PARSONS McCASKEY

Company K, 120th Infantry, Thirtieth Division. Killed in action near Bohain, France, on October 10, 1918.

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��BORN DECEMBER 9, DIED OCTOBER 10.

��Captain McCaskey was born in Eldo- rado, Kan., on December 9, 1 886. He was educated in a Chicago high school and the University of Illinois. After gradu- ating from the University, he entered the employ of the Commonwealth Edison Company as commercial salesman, vi^hich position he relinquished to enter the Sec- ond Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sher- idan, 2 I St Company. Upon receiving his commission as first lieutenant he w^as ordered overseas, sailing in January, 1918. After a period of further military training and instruction work in A. E. F. schools he was assigned to Company L, three months, and Company K, one month, of the 120th Infantry. He was promoted to the rank of captain and was in com- mand of Companies L and K, 1 20th In- fantry, on the battle line four and one- half months at Mt. Kemmel, Canal du Nord, Belicourt, Cambrai and St. Quentin. Captain McCaskey was killed in action near Bohain. He was twice cited in or- ders for braverj. He v^as unmarried. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emerald Av., Chicago, III.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT MALCALM CLARK McCOY

4th Infantry, U. S. A. Mysteriously killed while in command of company stationed on rifle range at Vancouver Barracks, Wash., October 20, 1917.

��Lieutenant McCoy was born in Sparta, Wis., on August 5, 1895. He was edu- cated in the public schools of that city and attended the University of Wisconsin. He took up school work during his spare time, being employed by the school board of Estelline, S. D. He left his university studies to enlist in the 3rd Wisconsin In- fantry of the National Guard and saw service on the Mexican border. He was admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, vvrhere he won a commission and was assigned to the I 4th Infantry, stationed at Vancouver, Wash. On October 20, 1917, while in charge of a company on the rifle range at Vancou- ver Barracks, Lieutenant McCoy v^^as in- stantly and mysteriously killed by rifle fire. He was unmarried. His father. Colonel Robert B. McCoy, who served overseas with the Thirty-second Division as com- mander of the 1 28th Infantry, and two brothers. First Lieutenant Bruce R. Mc- Coy, Thirty-second Division, and Robert C. McCoy, First Sergeant, Company C, 107th Ammunition Train, of the same division, survive, and reside at 42 I East Oak street, Sparta, Wis.

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��2nd Lt. MALCALM C. McCOY

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