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 THE ROLL OF HONOR

��CAPTAIN HAROLD HATHAWAY POUND

Personnel Officer, Eighty-fifth Division. Died in Coblenz, Germany, on January 30, 1919, from injuries received when thrown from horse.

Captain Pound was born in Wakeman, Ohio, on January 23, 1889. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Detroit, Mich., and graduated from the Evanston (111.) Academy in 1907. He then en- tered the employ of the New York Life Insurance Company, which position he relinquished to enter the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the Fourth Company. Re- ceiving a commission as second lieutenant, he was ordered to Camp Custer and as- signed to the Headquarters Company of the 338th Infantry. On January 1, 1918, he was promoted to a captaincy and ap- pointed divisional personnel officer of the Eighty-fifth Division, with which outfit he sailed for France in July, 1918. Af- ter the armistice Captain Pound was trans- ferred to the 3rd Army Headquarters, becoming assistant personnel officer to Major-General Dickinson. On January 24, 1919, Captain Pound was thrown from a horse, receiving internal injuries which caused his death six days later. He was married to Miss Marguerite Math-

eson of Detroit, Mich., on June 16, 1914, who, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William

H. Pound, survive, and reside in Detroit.

���SECOND LIEUTENANT OLIVER WILLIAM PRESCOTT

Company K, 120th Infantry, Thirtieth Division. Killed in action near Bellicourt,

France, September 29, 1918.

��Lieutenant Prescott was born in Sheboy- gan, Wis., on June 28, 1893. He was educated in the public schools of that city, graduating from the Sheboygan High School in 1911. Previous to entering the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, he was employed as sales manager for the Excelsior Wrapper Com- pany, Grand Rapids, Mich. Upon receiv- ing his commission, he v^^as ordered over- seas, sailing January II, 1918, with casual officers. After a course of further in- struction overseas, he was assigned to the 307th Infantry of the Seventy-seventh Division as an instructor and later to the 1 20th Infantry, vv'ith which regiment he met his death while leading his platoon in an attack, machine gun fire killing him instantly. Lieutenant Prescott was unmarried. He is survived by his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Anson C. Prescott, who reside at 1 626 North Sixth street, Sheboy- gan, Wis., where his father is engaged in the practice of law.

��2nd Lt. OLIVER W. PRESCOTT

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