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��FIRST LIEUTENANT HENRY E. WOOLFORD

Company D, 120th Infantry, Thirtieth Division. Died on October 11, 19U Hospital No. 53, from wounds received in action on October 10th.

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��1st Lt. HENRY E. WOOLFORD

��Lieutenant Woolford was born in Green Bay, Wis., on September 29, 1892. He received his education in the public schools of that city, later entering St. Norberts School at Depere and, upon graduating, entered the lumbering busi- ness, being employed by the Consolidated Lumber and the Beaver Timber com- panies. He ■was admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan and assigned to the Eleventh Company. Receiving his commission, he was ordered to Camp Taylor, Ky., four months later going to Camp Gordon, Ga. In the later part of July, 1918, he sailed for France in command of an automatic weapon com- pany replacement. Lieutenant Woolford was assigned to the 120th Infantry in August and remained with that regiment throughout its campaign until his death. On October 10, 1918, while leading his platoon in an attack near Busigny, he was struck by shell fragments, which caused his death the next day. He was married to Miss Ruth Hammond of Man- istique, Mich., on October 2, 1915, who, with two children, Paul Hammond, aged three, and Henry E., Jr., aged one year, reside in Gladstone, Mich. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Woolford of Green Bay, Wis., survive.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT ARCH DIXON WORSHAM

��Company G, 369th Infantry, attached to French Fourth Army.

in the Champagne sector.

Lieutenant Worsham was born in Hen- derson, Ky., on October 27, 1887. He received a public school education in that city. Upon his graduation from high school he went to Mexico, remaining

until 1912, when he returned and entered

the emploj' of Morris and Company,

which position he resigned to enter the

Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort

Sheridan. Receiving his commission, he

Vfas ordered overseas, sailing on January I, 1918. Arriving in France, Lieutenant

Worsham was given further military in- struction in American and British schools,

and on May 14, 1918, was assigned to

Company F of the 306th Infantry, later

going to the 120th Infantry. On July

16th he was transferred to the 369th In- fantry, which was brigaded with the

French Fourth Army under General

Gourard. He was killed while leading

a patrol, on July 31, 1918. He was

awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery

and the French named an army camp in

his honor. Lieutenant Worsham was un- married. He is survived by his parents,

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Worsham, of

Henderson, Ky.

��Killed in action on July 31,

��2nd Lt. ARCH D. WORSHAM

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