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 ��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��SECOND LIEUTENANT CHARLES BOWEN BUSEY

Infantry, unattached. Killed in action while on an inspection trip with Company

L, 3 1 0th Infantry, Seventy-eighth Division, near Grand Pre, France,

on November 1, 1918.

��2nd Lt. CHARLES B. BUSEY

��Lieutenant Busey was born in Urbana, 111., on January 22, 1887. He graduated from the University of Illinois in June, 1908, and studied for one year at Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology. He then entered the banking business, being em- ployed as cashier of Busey's State Bank, Urbana, 111. He applied for admittance to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, and, upon entrance, was assigned to the Nineteenth Company. Re- ceiving his commission he v^as ordered overseas, sailing on December 2 7, 1917, as a casual. Upon arrival in France he was ordered to the Infantry Specialists' School at Langres, Haute-Marne, where he studied and was assigned to duty as an instructor in Minor Tactics. After several visits to different parts of the Al- lied front for purposes of observation, he finally went to the 3 I 0th Infantry, with v^hich regiment he met his death while attempting to storm a machine gun nest. He was married on June 7, 1 9 I 1, to Miss Louise M. Carter of Dallas, Texas. Be- sides his widow he left one son, Charles B. Busey, Jr., aged four years, and his mother, Mrs. S. T. Busey, all residing in Urbana, III.

���BORN JANUARY 22, DIED NOVEMBER I,

CAPTAIN WAYLAND HAMILTON CABEEN

Battery F, 329th Field Artillery, Eighty-fifth Division. Died of pneumonia in France on December 16, 1918.

Capt. WAYLAND H. CABEEN

Captain Cabeen was born in Chicago, III., on November 18, 1891. He was educated in the public schools of Denver, Colorado, graduating from high school in 1907, and then taking a fifteen months' course in Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo., after which he entered the automobile business, being employed by the Studebaker Corporation in Detroit, Mich. He was a member of the Wisconsin National Guard and applied for entrance to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. He was admitted and secured a commission as captain at the finish of the course. After several months' service at Camp Custer he was ordered overseas with the 329th, sailing in August, 1918. Arriving in France, his regiment underwent intensive training, and moved up into the St. Mihiel Sector along the Metz front, where they pushed ahead in the big drive. His death was due to the exposure undergone in that action. He was married to Miss Gladys Newell, of Saginaw, Mich., on May 12, 1917. Besides his widow, who resides in Detroit, Mich. Captain Cabeen is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cabeen, of Alsea, Oregon.