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��1st Lt. WILLIAM H. RUST

��FIRST LIEUTENANT WILLIAM H. RUST

Company K, I 25th Infantry, Thirty-second Division. Died on September 2, 1918,

from wounds received in action at luvigny Plateau,

August 29, 1918.

^' -)f*?-«?::=i' Lieutenant Rust v\ras born in Grand

Blanc, Mich., on March 2 7, 1893. He was educated in the public schools of Flint, Mich., and also took one year at Ferris Institute and two years in Michigan Agri- cultural College. He then went to work on his father's farm. At the outbreak of war he was admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, being assigned to the 9th Company. He w^as commissioned a second lieutenant and or- dered to Camp Custer, Mich. He served in succession at Camp Greene, N. C; Camp McArthur, Tex., where he was pro- moted to a first lieutenant on January I 9, 1918, and was later transferred to Camp Merritt, N. J., sailing for France v/ith the 12 5th Infantrj'. After serving in vari- ous sectors on the front. Lieutenant Rust was mortally wounded on August 29th while leading Company K in an attack against German positions, dying four days later. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery. He w^as un- married. Lieutenant Rust is survived by his father, Edward G. Rust, an agricul- turist of Merrill, Mich.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT HAROLD JAMES SARGENT

Company L, 369th Infantry, attached to French Army. Killed in action at Fontaine-en-Dermoise, on September 28, 1918.

��Lieutenant Sargent was born in Mar- kesan, Wis., on September 25, 1895. After a public school education he entered the University of Wisconsin, but gave up his studies to enter the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the 1 0th Company. Upon receiving his commission he v^as ordered overseas, sailing in January, 1918. Ar- riving in France Lieutenant Sargent was sent to the American Infantry Specialists' School, Langres, Haute-Marne, for further instruction, upon the completion of which he was appointed an instructor in gas warfare. He was then assigned to the 305th Infantry of the Seventy-seventh Di- vision, later to the 1 1 9th Infantry of the Thirtieth Division, and then to the 369th Infantry, which was operating with the Fourth French Army. While leading his platoon during an attack in the Cham- pagne Sector, Lieutenant Sargent met in- stant death from machine gun fire. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery. He was unmarried. His par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Sargent, of Antigo, Wis., survive.

��2nd Lt. HAROLD J. SARGENT

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