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 ��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��FIRST LIEUTENANT WELLBORN SAXON PRIDDY

I 68th Infantry, Forty-second Division. Died on May 29, 1918, in Military Hospital,

Baccarat, France, from wounds received in action on

May 27, 1918, at Badonviller.

��1st Lt. WELLBORN S. PRIDDY

��Lieutenant Priddy was born in Findlay, Ohio, on March 1, 1894. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Chicago and vsras in his junior year at the Univer- sity of Wisconsin v^fhen v^ar broke out and he was admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. He ■was commissioned a second lieutenant upon completion of the course and or- dered overseas, sailing on September 1 2, 1917. Upon arrival in France he was given further military training until Feb- ruary, 1918, when he was assigned to the 22nd Infantry, which was attached to the I 68th Infantry. After two months' service at the front. Lieutenant Priddy was so severely gassed on May 27th, that he died two days later. During his serv- ice in France he was promoted to a first lieutenancy and awarded the Distin- guished Service Cross for bravery. He was unmarried. Lieutenant Priddy is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Priddy, of 1650 East 53rd street, Chicago, 111.

��FIRST LIEUTENANT CHESTER ALBERT PUDRITH

44th Training Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Died on April 30, 1918, at Lincoln,

England, from injuries received in an aerial accident

on March 12, 1918.

��Lieutenant Pudrith was born in Detroit, Mich., on June 21, 1894. He was edu- cated in the public schools of that city and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1916. Previous to the war he w^as in the employ of his father, acting as private secretary to the Albert F. Pudrith Com- pany. He 'was admitted to the First Offi- cers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, and later transferred to the Aviation Sec- tion, taking the course of instruction at Urbana and Champaign, 111., and receiv- ing a first lieutenancy commission. He then was ordered to Mineola, N. Y., and sailed for England early in 1918. Upon arrival overseas. Lieutenant Pudrith was attached to the British Royal Flying Corps for further instruction. On March 1 I , 1918, Lieutenant Pudrith received orders to go to France. The next day, while he and Lieutenant Middleditch, another Fort Sheridan man, w^ere testing out a plane, it nose-dived to earth, instantly killing Lieu- tenant Middleditch and mortally injuring Lieutenant Pudrith. He was unmarried. His. parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert F. Pudrith, 62 Longfellow avenue, Detroit, Mich., sur- vive.

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��1st Lt. CHESTER A. PUDRITH

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