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 ��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��FIRST LIEUTENANT MARVIN THOMAS THOMPSON

Headquarters Company, 30th Infantry, Third Division. Killed in action during the Second Battle of the Marne, July 15, 1918.

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��Lt. MARVIN T. THOMPSON 1]/]

���BORN MAY 3(. DIED JULY 15,

��Lieutenant Thompson was born in Menomonie, Wis., on May 31, 1896. He was educated in the schools of that city and graduated from high school in 1915, then entering Stout Institute, where he studied for two years and w^as awarded a diploma. He was with the Wisconsin National Guard on the Mexican border in 1916. At the outbreak of war he made application and was admitted to the Sec- ond Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was commissioned and ordered overseas. He sailed for France in January, 1918. After further inten- sive training in A. E. F. schools. Lieuten- ant Thompson was assigned to the 30th Infantry as a gas officer. He met death on July 1 5th, when the Germans were striving to push south of the Marne. He was twice decorated for bravery, once by the English and again by the French. He •was unmarried. Lieutenant Thompson is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mar- tin Thompson, of 1 I 00 Third street, Me- nomonie, Wis.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT EDWIN BERNARD THORSEN

Machine Gun Company, 12 7th Infantry, Thirty-second Division. Died on August 2,

1918, from wounds received in action at Chateau Thierry,

on July 31, 1918.

��2nd Lt. EDWIN B. THORSEN

��Lieutenant Thorsen was born in Ash- land, Wis., on August 27, 1896. He was educated in the public schools of that city, graduating from high school in 1916. He then entered the employ of the Soo Railroad Company as a shipping clerk. When too young to enlist Lieutenant Thorsen went with the Machine Gun Company of the Wisconsin National Guard to Camp Douglas as a mascot. At the outbreak of war he w^as admitted to the First Officers* Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, and assigned to the Fourth Company. On account of his youth he failed to win a commission. He then en- listed in the same machine gun company he was mascot with and was rapidly pro- moted, w^inning a commission on October 31, 1917. On February 16, 1918. he sailed for France with the Thirty-second Division. On July 31, 1918, while leading his platoon at Chateau Thierry, he was mortally wounded, dying two days later in the hospital. Lieutenant Thorsen was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism. He was un- avenue. West, Ashland, Wis. A brother, First Lieutenant Thorwald E. Thorsen with the same company, and was wounded during the Chateau Thierry fight.

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