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 THE ROLL OF HONOR

��SECOND LIEUTENANT LESTER CLEMENT BARTON

Battery B, 1 1 st Field Artillery, Twenty-sixth Division. Killed in action Belleau Woods, near Chateau Thierry, on July 18, 1918.

��2nd Lt. LESTER C. BARTON

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��Lieutenant Barton was born in May- wood, 111., on June 27, 1884. He at- tended Chicago Manual Training Schools, Phillips Audown, and graduated from Yale University in 1 906, taking up the practice of law. Upon the outbreak of war he entered the Second Officers' Train- ing Camp. Receiving his commission he w^as ordered overseas, sailing on Christ- mas Day, 1917. Upon arrival in France he was sent to an artillery school and w^as assigned to active combat duty on May I , 1918. He wras cited for his splendid work as liaison officer, and it was while per- forming this duty that he was killed by a direct hit of an enemy shell. He was unmarried and is survived by his father, George P. Barton, of Altadena, Cal.

��Lt.-CoL HAROLD H. BATEMAN

��LIEUTENANT-COLONEL HAROLD HUBERT BATEMAN

9th Field Artillery. Gave his life attempting to save an enlisted man from drowning at Fort Sill, Okla., on July 4, 1919.

Colonel Bateman was born in Red- lands, Calif., on September 30, 1887. His father being an Army man Colonel Bateman received most of his education at schools near Army Posts where he was stationed. At the age of eighteen he en- listed in Troop D of the 5th Cavalry in Arizona, three years later being commissioned second lieutenant in the I st Field Artillery, joining that regiment in the fall of I 909, serving in the Philip- pines for three years; he was then trans- ferred to the 3rd Field Artillery, and saw much service on the Mexican border; promoted to first lieutenant and assigned to 4th Field Artillery, with which outfit he accompanied General Pershing's Puni- tive Expedition into Mexico. He was com- missioned a temporary major at Platts- burg, and entered the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan as a Captain of Regulars, being assigned to the 1 0th Battery. Colonel Bateman sailed for France on May 9, 1918, along with the 1 6th Field Artillery, of which he was temporarily in charge. He was in the

��Chateau Thierry, Meuse-Argonne and St. Mihiel Offensives, part of the time in command of the regiment. After the Armistice Colonel Bateman was assigned to the 1 49th Field Artillery, Forty-second Division, and came back to the States in May, 1919, with that regiment. His father is Chaplain (Major) C. C. Bateman, U. S. Army. Besides his parents. Colonel Bateman leaves a widow, Mrs. Winnifred Palmer Bateman, 1 Gorham Street, Madison, Wis., and one daughter, Suzanne Bateman, aged three years.

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