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��SECOND LIEUTENANT ERNEST ALFRED McNISH

Company D, 369th Infantry, brigaded with French Army. Killed in action at Sechault, France, on September 30, 1918.

��' 2ntl Lt. ERNEST A. McNISH

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��Lieutenant McNish was unmarried. W. McNish, of Brookfield, Mo.

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��Lieutenant McNish was born in Brook- field, Mo., on November 6, 1889. After a public school education he entered Drury College of Springfield, Mo., grad- uating in 1914 and then entering the employ of the Hunt Brothers Fruit Co. of St. Joseph, Mo., as an accountant, which position he gave up to enter the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the Second Company. Upon receiving his commis- sion he was ordered overseas, sailing on January 3, 1918. Upon arrival in France, Lieutenant McNish was sent to the Brit- ish Headquarters School at St. Pol, Pas d'Calais, for a six weeks* course, after which he returned to Langres, Haute Marne, where he was assigned to the 305th Infantry, Seventy-seventh Division, and later to the I I 7th Infantry, Thirtieth Division. On August I, 1918, he was transferred to the 369th Infantry, with which regiment he met instant death when a piece of high explosive shell hit him while he was leading his platoon in an attack in the Champagne offensive, rvived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew

��FIRST SERGEANT FRANK ANTHONY MOTTEL

Headquarters and Supply Company, 20th Battalion, Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky. Di following an operation for appendicitis at Mattoon, Wis., on September 14, 1919.

��Sergeant Mottel was born in Antigo, Wis., on May 15, 1889, and he was edu- f cated in the public schools of Mattoon, Wis., then entered the employ of the Stolle Lumber Company as veener mill superintendent, which position he relin- quished to enter the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the Ninth Company. Ser- geant Mottel, failing to w^in a commission, enlisted and was ordered to Camp Zachary _ Taylor, Ky., where he was promoted to a | first sergeancy with the headquarters com- ' pany of the 20th Battalion, later being transferred to the Supply Company. He served throughout the war at Camp Tay- lor, where he was discharged from the army. In September, 1919, he was oper- ated on for appendicitis and died on Sep- tember 14, 1919, after a three days' illness. He was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mottel, and a sister, Marie Mottel, of Mattoon, Wis., survive.

��1st Sgt. FRANK A. MOTTEL

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