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��SECOND LIEUTENANT MARION LESLIE CARTER

Company M, 332nd Infantry, Eighty-third Division. Died in 331st Fi Hospital, Gestoga, Italy, on September 13, 1918, from wounds caused by premature explosion.

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��2nd Lt. MARION L. CARTER DIED SEPTEMBER 13, I9I£

��Lieutenant Carter was born in How- ard, Kans., on October 16, 1891. He was educated in the public schools of that city, graduating from high school in 1 909, and then entering the University of Kansas, where he had one year to finish at the time of his admittance to the Sec- ond Officers* Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, Third Company. Upon re- ceipt of his commission. Lieutenant Carter was ordered to Camp Sherman, O., where he remained until sailing for France with the Eighty-third Division on June 8, 1918. Upon arrival overseas, he w^as detached with his regiment and sent to Italy, where, on September I 3th, he was mor- tally wounded by the premature explosion of a trench mortar shell. He -was unmar- ried. Lieutenant Carter is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Carter, of Howard, Kans. His father is a retired farmer.

��FIRST LIEUTENANT DANIEL WATERS CASSARD

First Pursuit Group, 147th Aero Squadron. Killed in action near Dormans, France, on July 16, 1918.

��Lieutenant Cassard was born in Chi- cago, 111., on March II, 1894. After his public school education he entered Yale University, graduating in 1916. At the outbreak of the war he applied and was admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. Upon receiving his commission he w^as one of eighteen men sent to Canada for special instruc- tion, upon completion of which he v^ras ordered to Fort Worth, Texas, as an in- structor. After several months at the lat- ter place he was ordered overseas. After another short course of study Lieutenant Cassard went into active combat w^ork and it was while thus engaged his plane was shot down and he met death. He was unmarried. Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Cassard, of Grand Rapids, Mich., he leaves two brothers, Morris, Jr., years.

��1st Lt. DANIEL W. CASSARD

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