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��SECOND LIEUTENANT GEORGE ELIOT SHIPLEY

Headquarters Staff, Fifth Army. Killed in action near Nantillios, France, on October 11, 1918.

��2nd Lt. GEORGE E. SHIPLEY

��Lieutenant Shipley was born in Detroit, Mich., on October 14, 1883. He was edu- cated in the public schools of that city and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1908. He then entered the employ of Butler Brothers, giving up his employment to enlist in Battery E of the 1st Illinois Field Artillery, with which outfit he served on the Mexican border during 1916. He was admitted to the First Officers' Train- ing Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was commisioned in the Q. M. C, and ordered to Camp Grant, 111., later going to Camp Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla., for further instruction. On July 4, I 9 I 8, he sailed for France with the 304th Sanitary Train. Upon arrival overseas. Lieutenant Shipley was transferred to the headquarters staff of the 5th Army. On October 1 I th, while on duty in the town of Nantillios, he was instantly killed by a high explosive shell. He was unmarried. His mother, Mrs, E. S. Shipley and several brothers and sisters survive, residing at 190 East Chestnut Street, Chicago, 111.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT JOHN PAUL SLADE

Battery D, 121st Field Artillery, Thirty-second Division. Died of pneumonia at Le Courneaux, France, on September 17, 1918.

��Lieutenant Slade was born in Clay Cen- ter, Kans., on July 1 6, 1 893. After a pub- lic school education he entered the Uni- versity of Kansas, and was in his junior year v^rhen war broke out and he took a three months' training course at Camp Funston, after which he was admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he received his com- mission. On December 12, 1917, Lieu- tenant Slade sailed for France as a casual officer. Arriving overseas he w^as de- tailed for further intensive training in A. E. F. schools, and then assigned to the I 2 1st Field Artillery. On September I 3th, he was taken ill and removed to a hos- pital at Le Courneaux, where, after an ill- ness of four days, he died of lobar pneu- monia. Lieutenant Slade was married on December 4, 1917, to Miss Mildred Dyer of Emporia, Kans. Besides his widow, who resides in Reece, Kans., he is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Slade, of Clay Center,

��2nd Lt. JOHN P. SLADE

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