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 THE ROLL OF HONOR

��SECOND LIEUTENANT PIERRE S. PHILLIPS

I 59th Depot Brigade, Eighty-third Division. Died in hospital at Langres, Haute-Marne,

France, on October 23, 1918.

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��2ncl Lt. PIERRE S. PHILLIPS

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��"^"(--f Lieutenant Phillips was born in Lutes-

ville. Mo., on August 6, 1887. He was educated in the Christian Brothers Col- lege of Caruthersville, Mo. Previous to entering the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, 1st Company, he was city attorney at Caruthersville, Mo. Upon receiving his commission, he was assigned to the 159th Depot Brigade as Battalion Adjutant at Fort Sherman, O. He was then ordered overseas, sailing on January 31, 1 9 I 8, as a casual officer. Upon his arrival in France he was made Assistant Zone Major with headquarters at Montigny-le-Roi, France. On the I 6th of October he was taken ill and removed to a hospital at Langres, w^here he died a week later. Lieutenant Phillips was mar- ried to Miss Llewellyn Barry of Hot Springs, Ark., on July 19, 1913, who re- sides in Caruthersville, Mo. Besides his widow, Lieutenant Phillips is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry N. Phil- lips, who also reside in Caruthersville.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT OTHO BRADFORD PLACE

Company G, 305th Infantry, Seventy-seventh Division. Killed in action on November

I, 1918, during Argonne Battle.

��2nd Lt. OTHO B. PLACE

��Lieutenant Place was born in Bremen, fiV-TT' Ind., on March 27, 1893. He was edu- cated in the public schools of that city, graduating from high school in 1912, and then entering the South Bend Business College for a commercial course. Upon entering business life he v/as employed by the Engberg Electric and Mechanical Works, St. Joseph, Mich., as an auditor; which position he gave up to enter the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the Ninth Company. Upon receiving his com- mission. Lieutenant Place was ordered to Camp Custer, Mich. On September 24th, 1917, he was transferred to Camp Greene, N. C, from thence to Camp Mills, N. Y., sailing for France on December 14, 1917. Upon arrival overseas, he w^as attached to various A. E. F. schools as an instructor, later going to the Fortieth Division. When that division was broken up and used for replacements. Lieutenant Place was as- signed to the 305th Infantry on October 7, 1918. On November 1st, he w^as in- stantly killed by machine gun fire while

leading his platoon against a German strongpoint. He was unmarried. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bradford D. Place, of Bremen, Ind., where his father is engaged in the mercantile business.

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