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 ��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��FIRST LIEUTENANT ELDEN SPRAGUE BETTS

Machine Gun Company, I 6th Infantry, First Division. Killed in action at Hill 240, Argonne Forest, on October 9, 1918.

��1st Lt. ELDEN S. BETTS

��Lieutenant Betts was born in Alton, 111., on October 1 8, I 892. He was educated in the Alton grade and high schools, graduating in 1910. He then became pur- chasing agent for the Illinois Terminal Railroad, which position he gave up to enter the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, v^rhere he w^as assigned to the I 0th Company. Upon receipt of his commission he was ordered overseas, sailing in August, 1917. Upon arrival in France, Lieutenant Betts w^as sent to a French school for further military instruc- tion, upon the completion of which course, he was assigned to the I 8th In- fantry Machine Gun Company. After serving as battalion adjutant for some time he was transferred to the Machine Gun Company of the I 6th Infantry, with which outfit he met instant death while in charge of the company. He had been recommended for promotion at the time death overtook him. Lieutenant Betts was unmarried. Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Betts, he is survived by a sister. Miss Edith M. Betts, all of whom reside at 234 Twelfth Street, Alton, 111.

��FIRST LIEUTENANT GUY BLACK

Company C, 307th Infantry, Seventy-seventh Division. Killed in action near Fismes, France, on September 14, 1918.

��Lieutenant Black v^as born in Atkinson, Wis., on May 26, 1894. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Atkinson, graduating from the high school in 1913, and then entering the University of Wis- consin, from which he -graduated in 1917. He v^as admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, Vk^here he w^as assigned to the 5th Company. Upon receipt of his commission as second lieutenant he v^fas ordered to Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich., and then to Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C, and thence to Camp Upton, w^here he received orders to sail overseas, going with the 307th Infantry, with which regiment he was promoted to a first lieutenancy. While leading his platoon near Fismes, France, he was instantly killed by ma- chine gun fire. Lieutenant Black was unmarried. He is survived by his father, Robert Black, a retired farmer of Fort Atkinson, Wis., and one sister, Mrs. War- ren Burnham.

��1st Lt. GUY BLACK

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