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��SECOND LIEUTENANT DWIGHT L. BROWN

any D, 136th Machine Gun Battalion, Thirty-seventh Division. Died of wounds November 29, 1918, in British Stationary Hospital No. 8, Boulogne, France.

Lieutenant Brown was born in Madison, TM!l Kans., on October 15, 1896. After a public school education in his home town he entered and graduated from Kemper Military College. After finishing school he entered the drug business, being em- ployed in Madison. He applied for and was admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, and was assigned to the 9th Company. Upon re- ceipt of his commission. Lieutenant Brown was ordered overseas, sailing on January 21, 1918. Upon arrival in France he was assigned to the Infantry Specialists' School at Langres, and was then ordered to take the machine gun course at Fort de Peigney, upon the completion of which he was ordered to England as an instructor, and then later assigned to the 136th Machine Gun Battalion, with which outfit he remained until mortally wounded. Lieutenant Brown was cited for the in- dividual capture of 23 Germans. He was unmarried and the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin L. Brown, who survive him and reside in Madison, Kans., where his father is employed by the Missouri Pa- cific Railw^ay.

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��SECOND LIEUTENANT GLENN LEON BROWN

Company L, 359th Infantry, Ninetieth Division. Died at Base Hospital No. 23,

on September 23, 1918, from w^ounds received in action in the

St. Mihiel Offensive.

��Lieutenant Brown wras born in Onarga, 111., on December 25, 1890. He grad- uated from the Onarga High School in I 908 and entered into railroad w^ork with the A., T. & S. F. Railway. He entered the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, being assigned to the 1 8th Company. Upon receipt of his commis- sion he was ordered overseas, sailing for France on January 15, 1918. After at- tending various schools of instruction. Lieutenant Brown wras attached to posi- tions in the S. O. S., until the middle of August, at which time he w^as assigned to the 359th Infantry, with which regiment he went into action. Lieutenant Brovv^n was married to Miss Jessie O. Talbert, of Onarga, 111., on September 17, 1913. Be- sides his wife, he left one daughter, Mar- garet Lucille, aged five years. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Brown, of Plainview, Texas, survive him. His father is engaged in the hardware business.

��2nd Lt. GLENN L. BROWN

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