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 THE ROLL OF HONOR

��CAPTAIN LEON E. BRIGGS

Company E, 305th Infantry, Seventy-seventh Division. Killed in action in the Argonne Forest on September 28, 1918.

��Capt. LEON E. BRIGGS DIED SEPTEMBER 28, I9IG

��Captain Briggs was born in Joplin, Mo., on May 9, 1887. Receiving a public school education he entered the University of Missouri, graduating in 1910. Taking up civil engineering, he was appointed as City Engineer of Webb City, Mo., quitting his position to enter the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the 5th Company and re- ceived a commission as captain. He sailed for France on Christmas Day, 1917. Captain Briggs underwent further train- ing in the School of the Line at Langres, Haute-Marne. He was assigned to the 305th Infantry in May, 1918, and put in command of Company E, serving with that outfit until his death. He was twice wounded by shell fire before the attack in the Argonne which brought his death. He was married to Miss Mabel Balsley, of Joplin, Mo., on November 17, 1915. Be- sides his widow he left a daughter, Mar- jorie Jane, aged two years and four months. His wife resides at 218 West Seventh Street, Joplin. His mother, Mrs. Adah G. Briggs, also of Joplin, survives. His father is dead.

��CAPTAIN HENRY W. BROOKS

Engineers' Reserve Corps, A. E. F., in charge Engineering Depot No. I, Is-sur-Tille,

France. Died at Base Hospital No. I 7, Dijon, France, of pneumonia.

on March 30, 1918.

��Captain Brooks was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on October 19, 1865. After a pub- lic school education he entered Cornell University, graduating in 1 888, after specializing in mechanical and electrical engineering. He v/as for nine years with the electrical engineering firm of Sargent & Lannelly. He v/as at Fort Sheridan with the I 08th Engineers, then went to the Fort Leavenworth Engineering School and later to Camp Sherman at Chilicothe, Mo., where he received overseas orders. He sailed on December 3, 1917, as a casual officer. Upon arrival in France he was assigned to Advance Depot No. I , Is-sur-Tille, where he had charge of part of the construction work. On March 26, 1918, he vsras taken down w^ith pneumonia, and transferred to the hospital at Dijon, where he died four days later. Captain Brooks was married on December 21, 1885. Besides his widows, Mrs. Ellen W. Brooks, 4809 Sheridan Road, Chicago, he is survived by his parents. Rear Admiral and Mrs. William B. Brooks, of Quaker Neck, Chestertown, Md.

��Capt. HENRY W. BROOKS

���BORN OCTOBER 19. I86S

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