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 THE ROLL OF HONOR

��FIRST LIEUTENANT ELMER STANLEY TERHUNE

Battery B, 1 2 I st Field Artillery, Thirty-second Division. Killed in action near Montfaucon, France, on October 8, 1918.

��1st Lt. ELMER S. TERHUNE

���BORN AUGUST 6, \i

��Lieutenant Terhune v^as born in West Milford, N. J., on August 6, 1888. After a public school education he entered Cor- nell University, graduating in I 909 as a civil engineer. He then engaged in the engineering business for himself, being a member of the firm of Terhune and Mor- ton, of Peoria, 111., which work he left to enter the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, w^here he was assigned to the 3rd Battery. Receiving a commis- sion as second lieutenant, he was given orders to go overseas, sailing on Decem- ber 2 7, 1917. Arriving in France, Lieu- tenant Terhune v^ras detailed to the artil- lery school at Samur for further instruc- tion, upon the completion of which he was assigned to the I 2 I st Field Artillery, with which outfit he remained until his death by shell fire on October 8, 1918, during the fighting around Montfaucon. He was promoted after the Chateau Thierry battle. . Lieutenant Terhune was unmarried. He is survived by his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Terhune, of 668 Prospect avenue, Newark, N. J.

��1st Lt. CARL THOMPSON

��FIRST LIEUTENANT CARL THOMPSON

Company E, I 26th Infantry, Thirty-second Division. Killed in action near Juvigny,

France, on August 31, 1918.

Lieutenant Thompson was born in Cur- tiss. Wis., on August 4, I 888. After a public school education in that city he entered the University of Wisconsin, grad- uating in 1913. After leaving college he was employed by the United States Department of Agriculture, working in the Soils Department. He left his posi- tion to enter the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the 23rd Company. Receiv- ing a commission as second lieutenant he was ordered overseas, sailing on January 16, 1918. Arriving in France, Lieuten- ant 1 hompson received further military training in the Infantry Specialists' School at Langres. In March he was assigned to Company G of the 166th Infantry of the Forty-second Division, and w^as later transferred to the I 26th Infantry, with w^hich regiment he met death from a sniper s bullet while on a reconnaisance patrol near Juvigny. Lieutenant Thomp- son was promoted after the battle of Chateau Thierry. He w^as also wounded slightly by shrapnel during that engage- ment. He was unmarried. His father, Mr. Ole Thompson, a farmer of Curtiss, Wis., survives.

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��BORN AUGUST 4, DIED AUGUST 31.

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