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 ��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��SECOND LIEUTENANT RALPH WALDO TIPPET

Company E, I 1 th Infantry, Fifth Division. Killed in action near St. Mihiel on September 12, 1918.

��2nd Lt. RALPH W. TIPPET

��P^ ~" Lieutenant Tippet was born in Mani-

towoc, Wis., on March I, 1891. After a public school education in Appleton, Wis., he entered Lawrence College of the same city, graduating in 1913, and then taking up studies in the University of Illinois, from which he graduated in 1916. He then took up the profession of chem- istry, being employed by Stephen Murphy of Appleton. He was admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan and assigned to the 1 3th Com- pany. Upon receiving a commission he was ordered overseas, sailing on January 9, I 9 I 8, as a casual. Arriving in France, Lieutenant Tippet was given further in- struction in American and English schools and then assigned to the I 1th Infantry, v^rhere he was made a battalion gas com- mander and scout officer. He was wounded in May, 1918. On September 12, 1918, while advancing to locate a ma- chine gun nest in the St. Mihiel sector he ,v,., DIED SEPTEMBEK iz, iai8 ,,, ^«« instantly killed by shrapnel. Lieu- (J4r*i. * ^ '~t ■ tenant 1 ippet was unmarried. Besides

his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James H. Tippet, he is survived by three brothers, Charles J., Earl J., and Walter P., of Appleton, Wis.

���BORN MARCH I, I89t

��FIRST LIEUTENANT STEPHEN GEORGE TOWNSEND

Company F, 167th Infantry, Forty-second Division. Killed in action in the St. Mihiel offensive on September 16,1918.

��Lieutenant Tov^rnsend was born in Mar- inette, Wis., on October 13, 1896. He was educated in the public schools of that city, graduating from high school in 1914. He then entered the employ of F. E. Noyes as advertising manager, with which company he remained until his admittance to the Second Officers' Train- ing Camp at Fort Sheridan. Upon the com- pletion of the course he wras commissioned a second lieutenant, and assigned to the 167th Infantry, with which regiment he sailed for France. After the Second

Battle of the Marne he was promoted and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery. During the opening days of the St. Mihiel Offensive, while lead- ing his platoon near St. Benoit, Lieuten- ant Townsend was instantly killed by a high explosive shell. He v/as unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Town- send, 1418 Carney Boulevard, Marinette, Wis., survive.

��1st Lt. S. G. TOWNSEND

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