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 THE ROLL OF HONOR

��FIRST LIEUTENANT CEDRIC HADAWAY SHAW

Company L, I I th Infantry, Fifth Division. Killed in action in Argonne Forest,

on October 14. 1918.

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��1st Lt. CEDRIC H. SHAW

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��Lieutenant Shaw was born in Prophets- town, III., on May 8, 1891. After a public school education he entered the Kansas State Agricultural College, where he stud- ied for two years and then became part owner of a furniture business in Pratt, Kans. He also took a one-year course in the New Mexico State Military School. He was admitted to the Second Officers' Train- ing Camp at Fort Sheridan, receiving a commission upon completion of the course. He was ordered to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., and assigned to the 11 th Infantry of the Fifth Division, with which regiment he sailed for France on April 20, 1918. While leading his platoon in the Argonne Forest fighting he was instantly killed by enemy fire. Lieutenant Shaw was cited for bravery in action. He was married on September 15, 1915. Besides his widow, Mrs. Harriet G. Shaw, he is survived by one son, Robert Ernest Shaw, aged four years, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. Shaw, all of whom reside in Pratt, Kans.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT HERBERT JEROME SHELDON

Intelligence officer, 1st Battalion, 125th Infantry, Thirty-second Division. Killed in action in Argonne Forest on October 10, 1918.

��2nd Lt. HERBERT J. SHELDON

��Lieutenant Sheldon was born in Sag- inaw, Mich., on July 26, 1891. He was educated in the public schools of that city and graduated from Michigan Agricultural College in 1914. He then took up the profession of teaching, being employed by the Central High School of Grand Rapids, Mich. At the outbreak of w^ar he was admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he w^as as- signed to the 2nd Company. Upon re- ceiving his commission he was ordered to Camp Custer, Mich., where he remained until July, 1918, when he sailed for France with Company G, 33 7th Infantry, Eighty- fifth Division. Upon arrival overseas, Lieutenant Sheldon was transferred to the 125th Infantry and assigned as intelligence officer. On October I 0th, while he was in command of the scouts of the I st Battal- ion, Lieutenant Sheldon became a victim of a German sniper. He was married to Miss Emily Frances Parson of Jacksonville, Fla., on August 18, 1917, who at present resides at 300 Webb Avenue, Detroit, Mich. His father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Sheldon, of 124 West Kilborn Street, Lansing, Mich., also survive.

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