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 THE ROLL OF HONOR

��SECOND LIEUTENANT FORREST L. BELL

Company L, I I 9th Infantry, Thirtieth Division. Killed in action.

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��2nd Lt. FORREST L. BELL

��Lieutenant Bell was born in Corder, Mo., on February 19, 1896. After a pub- lic school education he entered the Uni- versity of Missouri, finishing the course there he next studied at Missouri Valley College, specializing in the literary course. With six months to complete his studies, he left college to enter the Second Of- ficers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the 6th Com- pany. Upon receipt of his commission. Lieutenant Bell was ordered overseas, sailing on December 2 7, 1917. Upon arrival in France he was ordered to A. E. F. schools for further instruction, after which he was assigned to the 119th In- fantry, with which regiment he met his death leading the men in his platoon in a successful attack against the enemy. He was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Bell, of Corder, Mo., survive.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT FRANKLIN B. BELLOWS

Observer, 50th Aero Squadron. Killed in action near Brin, France, on September 13, 1918.

��2nd Lt. FRANKLIN B. BELLOWS

��Lieutenant Bellows v^as born in Evans- ton, 111., on July 9, 1896. After graduat- ing from the New Trier High School he entered Northw^estern University, from which he graduated in 1917. At the out- break of v^^ar he applied for and was admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the 8th Company. After a short time at Fort Sheridan he was trans- ferred to the Coast Artillery and sent to Fort Monroe, Va., where he was commis- sioned upon the completion of the course. He was then sent to the School of Aero- nautics at Austin, Tex., where he qualified as an artillery observer. On March 29, 1918, Lieutenant Bellows sailed for France. After further instruction in vari- ous artillery and aviation schools he was assigned to the 50th Air Squadron and it was while acting as an observer for the Eighty-second Division that he was killed while flying over the German lines. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in action and had been recommended for promo- tion. He was unmarried. Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Bellows, I I 09 Green- wood Avenue, Wilmette, 111., he is survived by three brothers and one sister.

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