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 ��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��FIRST LIEUTENANT SAMUEL KORNELIUS NORD

Company K, 128th Infantry, Thirty-second Division. Killed in action on November 10,

1918, during Argonne offensive.

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��1st Lt. SAMUEL K. NORD

��Lieutenant Nord was born in Rice Lake, Wis., on January 21, 1892. He -was educated in the public schools of that city, and then entered the University of Wisconsin, v\fhere he studied for one year. ,,b j| and then made application and v^as ad- mitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. Receiving a commission as second lieutenant" he w^as ordered to Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich., where he remained until July, 1918, when he sailed for France with the 338th Infantry. Upon arrival overseas, Lieutenant Nord was transferred to the 128th Infantry, with which regiment he remained until killed. He was promoted on November 3, 1918. On November 1 0th, Lieutenant Nord v^rhile out on a patrol close to the Boche lines, was mor- tally wounded, and it is thought that the Germans buried him v^rhere he fell. He w^as unmarried. His parents. Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Nord, of Rice Lake, Wis., sur- vive.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT PAUL NOWERS

On duty with Director General Transportation, A. E. F. Died of pneumonia on February 2, 1919, at Tours, France.

��Lieutenant Nowers was born in Topeka, Kans., on November 16, 1890. After a public school education he entered the University of Notre Dame, graduating in 1914. He then entered the employ of the A. T. & S. F. Ry. Co., with which he remained until his entrance to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the 8th Company. Receiving his commission, he was ordered overseas, sailing on Jan- uary 8, I 9 1 8, as a casual. Arriving in France he 'was given further instruction in the American Infantry School at Langres and on March 1st was assigned to the 103rd Infantry, Twenty-sixth Di- vision. On April I, 1918, he was as- signed to the Director General of Trans- portation, Tours, France, where he re- mained until his death, which occurred on February 2, 1919, after a ten days' illness of influenza and pneumonia. Lieu- tenant Nowers was unmarried. He is sur- vived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John William Nowers, of Topeka, Kans.

��2nd Lt. PAUL NOWERS

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