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��SECOND LIEUTENANT CLIFFORD BATEMAN BALLARD

Machine Gun Battalion, 339th Infantry, Eighty-fifth Division. Killed in action on February 7, 1919, while on duty in Russia.

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��2nd Lt. CLIFFORD B. BALLARD

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��Lieutenant Ballard was born in Colum- bus, Ohio, on November 5, 1887. He graduated from Amherst College in 1911. After graduation was assistant in geology at Amherst for about a year and a half. Was also interested in social work, Northampton, Mass., being a visitor for the State Board of Charities. In 1916 he accepted position as head of educational work in Detroit Detention Home. En- tered Second Officers' Training Camp. After being commissioned was assigned to Camp Custer from w^hich place he was ordered to Fort Sill for instruction in machine guns. Sailed for Archangel, Russia, on July 20, 1918. On February 7, 1919, while guiding a British officer to the firing line near Kadish, a town on the Emsta River, 125 miles south of Arch- angel, Lieutenant Ballard was instantly killed by machine gun fire. He had been twice wounded in action previous to the day of his death. He was unmarried. His father, Thomas P. Ballard, of 45 Irving Street, Cambridge, Mass., survives.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT LOWELL W. BARTLETT

Air Service. Killed in an accident at Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, Fla. on February 10, 1919.

��Lieutenant Bartlett was born in Rock- ford, 111., on December 6, 1893. He re- ceived his education in the public schools of that city and then entered the Univer- sity of Illinois, where he was in his second year when war broke out and he was ad- mitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. After practically finish- ing the student course there he applied for and was transferred to the Air Service and ordered to the School of Military Aero- nautics, Berkeley, Calif. Lieutenant Bartlett received further instruction at Camp Dick, Tex.; Dorr Field, Fla., where he was commissioned; Air Service Gun- nery School, Dayton, O.; instructor at Payne Field, Miss.; Garden City, Long Island, and Carlstrom Field, Fla., where he met with death on February 10, 1919, when his plane crashed to earth. Lieu- tenant Bartlett was unmarried. He is sur- vived by his mother, Mrs. Myrta A. Bart- lett, 125 Guard street, Rockford, 111., and a brother, J. A. Bartlett, of the same city.

��2nd Lt. LOWELL W. BARTLETT

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