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 THE ROLL OF HONOR

��FIRST LIEUTENANT MANIERRE BARLOW WARE

Company K, 362nd Infantry, Ninety-first Division. Killed in action near Epinonville, France, on October 12, 1918.

��1st Lt. MAINERRE B. WARE

��Lieutenant Ware was born in Kenil- worth. 111., on December 19, 1895. He was educated in the public schools and graduated from the University of Illi- nois in 1915. He attended the Platts- burg Camp in the summer of 1916; also had had military experience in the Stu- dents' Corps during his college days, holding the rank of major. At the out- break of war he was admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan and assigned to the I 5th Com- pany. Receiving his commission, he was ordered to Camp Lewis, Wash., and as- signed as an instructor to the 3 1 6th En- gineers, later being transferred to the 362nd Infantry, w^ith which regiment he sailed for France in July, 1918. Arriv- ing overseas. Lieutenant Ware underwent further training and, completing the same, was ordered to the Headquarters Com- pany of the 362nd Infantry, later being placed in charge of the 3 7-milimetre guns of Company K. It wras while in com- mand of this work that he was killed on October 12, 1918. He was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ware, of Kenilvvorth, 111., survive.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT LOWELL THAYER WASSON

Company M, 120th Infantry, Thiitieth Division. Killed in action near Ypres, Belgium, on August 9, 1918.

��Lieutenant Wasson v^as born in River- dale, Mo., on August 25, 1890. He was educated in the public schools and grad- uated from Drury College in 1912 and from the University of Missouri in 1914, after which he entered the employ of the City of Springfield, Mo., as food inspector. He served in the Missouri National Guard for three years. He was admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was commissioned. Lieutenant Wasson sailed for France on January 8, 1918. Arriving overseas, he received further military instruction in American and British schools, after which he became an instructor in minor tac- tics. He was later assigned to the 120th Infantry, with which regiment he met death by shell fire during the heavy fighting in the Ypres neighborhood on August 9, 1918. He was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Was- son, of R. F. D. 2, Ozark, Mo., survive.

��2nd Lt. LOWELL T. WASSON

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