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 THE ROLL OF HONOR

��Capt. WILLIAM M. WINKLER

��CAPTAIN WILLIAM M. WINKLER

Company E, 311th Engineers, Eighty-sixth Division. Died of double pneumonia in base hospital, Bordeaux, France, on October 7, 1918.

Captain Winkler was born in Saginaw, Mich., on May 28, 1883. He was ed- ucated in the public schools of that city and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1909. He then became affiliated with the Reordway Company of Chicago, 111., as a mechanical engineer, which position he relinquished at the outbreak of war. He was admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan and assigned to the First Com- pany. He was then ordered to Fort Leavenworth, Kans., for further instruc- tion, and upon receiving his commission, was assigned to the Eighty-sixth Divi- sion at Camp Grant, 111., w^here he was promoted to a captaincy. Captain Wink- ler sailed for France with the 311th Engineers about the first of September. Arriving overseas, he was taken down with influenza, which later developed into double pneumonia and caused his death on October 7, 1918, after an illness of ten days. He was unmarried. Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Winkler, of 1124 Genesee street, Sagi- naw, Mich., he is survived by two sisters. Misses Helen and Henrietta Winkler, and one brother, George, who served in the Ordnance Department as a sergeant during the war.

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��CAPTAIN FRANKLIN WOOD

Company D, i32nd Infantry, Thirty-third Division. Killed in action in the Bois de Chaumes, near Verdun, on October 11, 1918.

��Capt. FRANKLIN WOOD

��Captain Wood was born in Ridgefield, N. J., on January 2, 1895. He was ed- ucated in the public schools of Chicago, 111., and graduated from the Marshfield Wis., High School in 1913, after which he entered the employ of the Quaker Oats Company. From November 26, 1912, until January 26, 1914, he served writh the Wisconsin National Guard. He then re- enlisted in Company F of the 2nd Regi- ment, Illinois National Guard, serving on the Mexican border in 1916, where he w^as promoted to a sergeantcy and offered a commission. Was rejected for admis- sion to West Point and failed to ■win a commission in the First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Sheridan, 4th Company, on account defective eyesight. He was

called in the first draft and again rejected for the same reason. He then re-enlisted in the 2nd Infantry, Illinois National Guard, with his old rank as duty sergeant. At Houston, Tex., he passed examination for commission and was awarded a first lieutenancy. He sailed for France with the 132nd Infantry in May, 1918. In August,

1918, he w^as promoted to a captaincy and cited for bravery. On October 11, 1918, while leading his company in the Bois de Chaumes, east of the Meuse, he was instantly killed by enemy machine gun fire. Captain Wood was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. George S. Wood, and two brothers, Captain Norman B. Wood, Company C, I 32nd Infantry, and Captain George S. Wood, Jr., Company A, 33 7th Infantry, survive.

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