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 ��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��2nd Lt. WILLIAM J. SENSE

��SECOND LIEUTENANT WILLIAM J. SENSE

Company F, 103rd Infantry, Twenty-sixth Division. Died in Base Hospital No. 23,

Vittel, France, July 2 7, 1918, from wounds received in

action near Chateau Thierry, July 22, 1918.

Lieutenant Sense was born in Alliance, Nebr., on October 29, 1888. He was educated in the public schools of Wat- seka, 111., and then entering the University of Illinois, which course he did not finish, owing to the war and his admittance to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was a member of the 2 I st Company. Upon receiving his commission he was ordered overseas, sail- ing in January, 1918. After a further period of instruction in France, Lieuten- ant Sense was assigned to Company F of the 1 65th Infantry. In April, 1918, he was transferred to Company G of the 103rd Infantry and later to Company F of the same outfit. While leading his pla- toon in action at Epieds, near Chateau Thierry, on July 22nd, he was wounded in several places by machine gun bullets. He was transferred to the hospital where complete paralysis set in, and he died af- ter an illness of live days. He was mar- ried on June 28, 1917, to Miss Cordelia M. Curby of Beaverville, 111., who with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David L. Sense, and one sister. Miss Mattie A. Sense, all of Watseka, 111., survive.

���BORN OCTOBER 2U, DIED JULY 27. I

��FIRST LIEUTENANT DANIEL SHARP Le Mans, France, on December 29, 1918.

��1st Lt. DANIEL SHARP

��Lieutenant Sharp v^ras born in Dor- chester, Mass., on April 4, I 888. He was educated in the public schools of Boston, Mass., and then entered the employ of the Standard Oil Company, being sta- tioned in China for three years. He served with Battery A of the Massachusetts Na- tional Guard for several years. At the outbreak of war he -was admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan and assigned to the 1 6th Com- pany, where he received a commission as second lieutenant upon completion of the course. Lieutenant Sharp sailed for France on January 10, 1918. After a further period of military instruction in the A. E. F. schools at Langres he was as- signed to the headquarters stafif of the Seventy-seventh Division and on the first of June w^as transferred to a similar posi- tion with the Thirtieth Division, v^here he was promoted. He served with the Thir- tieth throughout its engagements and was overcome with gas on October 25, 1918, after which he -was taken to the hospital for an operation. While convalescing, pneumonia set in and he succumbed on December 29th. He is survived by his father, Mr George H. L. Sharp, of 301 Congress Street, Boston, Mass.

���BORN APRIL 4, I8f DIED DECEMBER 29,

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