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��FIRST LIEUTENANT GEORGE JOSEPH READ

Company F, I 1 8th Infantry, Thirtieth Division. Killed in action near Montbrehain,

on October 5. 1918.

��1st Lt. GEORGE J. READ

��Lieutenant Read was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on January 12, 1880. After a public school education in that city he entered Oberlin College, graduating in 1907, and then taking a course at the University of Chicago, graduating in 1911. He then entered the employ of the Illinois Public Utilities Commission, w^ith vi'hich body he remained until his admis- sion to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, w^here he v^ras assigned to the Eighteenth Company. Re- ceiving his commission. Lieutenant Read was ordered overseas, sailing in Novem- ber, 1917. Arriving in France he w^as given further military training at the British Headquarters School, St. Pol, Pas d'Calais, completing which he w^as as- signed as an instructor. In June, 1918, he was ordered to the 1 1 8th Infantry, with which regiment he met death while reconnoitering a for"ward position; shell fire killing him instantly near Montbre- hain, France. Lieutenant Read was a widower, his wife having died while he v^as overseas. He is survived by one

daughter, Metha Mae Read, aged two years, who resides with her grandmother, Mrs.

Sarah M. Thompson, of 4617 North Central Park avenue, Chicago, 111.

���BORN JANUARY 12. DIED OCTOBER 5,

��CHIEF QUARTERMASTER CHARLES B. RICE

U. S. Navy. Died of influenza, September 27, 1918, at Great Lakes, 111.

��Chief Quartermaster Rice vv^as born in Highland Park. 111., on May 17, 1893. He wras educated in the public schools of Racine, Wis., and v/as finishing his last year at Racine College when v^^ar broke out and he applied for and -was admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. Previous to his en- trance to the training camp he had served one year with the 1 49th Field Artillery, being vv'ith that outfit w^hile they were on border duty. Due to physical disability Chief Quartermaster Rice was discharged from the training camp. After a trip south in v/hich his health improved, he enlisted in the Navy and was ordered to Dunwoody Institute, Minneapolis, for in- struction. Taken ill again, he was sent to the Great Lakes hospital for a minor operation. Upon recovery from the op- eration he was taken sick with influenza, which developed into pneumonia and caused his death after one week. He v^as unmarried. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary W. Rice, Chicago, 111.

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