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 THE ROLL OF HONOR

SECOND LIEUTENANT EDWARD J. VEASEY, JR.

Company F, 168th Infantry, Forty-second Division. Died on July 16, 1918, at Evacuation Hospital, Ecury-sur-Coole, from wounds received in action near Vadenay, Marne, July 15th.

2nd Lt. EDWARD J. VEASEY, JR. (photograph) BORN MAY 7, 1889 DIED July 16, 1918

Lieutenant Veasey was born in Lima, O., on May 7, 1889. He was educated in St. Rose School of that city, graduating in 1905. After seven years as a civil engineer in Allen County, Ohio, he entered Kent College of Law, Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1915. He then became affiliated with the law firm of James C. McShane, of Chicago, but gave up his work to enter the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the Twentieth Company. Receiving his commission. Lieutenant Veasey sailed for France on January 22, 1918, as a casual. After a course of further instruction overseas, he was assigned to the 168th Infantry, with which regiment he was mortally wounded on July 15, 1918, during the Second Battle of the Marne, dying the next day. He was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Veasey of 478 Northwest street, Lima, Ohio, survive.

FIRST LIEUTENANT CHARLES A. WAGNER, JR.

Company E, 61st Infantry, Fifth Division. Died on November 8, 1 9 1 8, at Paris, France,

from wounds received in action during Argonne Offensive,

October 13, 1918.

Lieutenant Wagner was born in Spring- field, Mo., on August 4, 1893. After a public school education he entered the University of Illinois and was in his third year when war broke out and he was admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the 1 st Company. Upon re- ceiving a commission as second lieutenant he w^as ordered to Gettysburg, Pa., where he remained one month, and was then transferred to Camp Greene, N. C, re- maining until April, 1918, when he sailed for France w^ith the 61st Infantry. On October 13, 1918, Lieutenant Wagner v^ras hit by shrapnel and so severely wounded that he died on November 8th. He was promoted to a first lieutenant shortly after arrival in France, and was recommended for a captaincy shortly before his death. He was unmarried. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Wagner, of Springfield, Mo.

1st Lt. C. A. WAGNER, JR.