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��FIRST LIEUTENANT PAUL McKINNEY CLENDENEN

Company G, 369th Infantry. Killed in action at Beauzegour on September 12, 1918.

��1st Lt. PAUL M. CLENDENEN

��Lieutenant Clendenen was born in Cairo, 111., on March 9, 1887. He was educated in the Cairo public schools and was graduated from the University of Illi- nois in June, I 909. Entering business life he was employed for four years as an accountant by Armour & Company and prior to the war was with the Silver Burdett Publishing Company of Chicago. Upon admittance to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan he was assigned to the ! 7th Company. Receiv- ing his commission he sailed for France in January, 1918, as a casual officer. Lieu- tenant Clendenen received further mili- tary training in the A. E. F. schools, and was one of the several officers sent from Langres to the 369th Infantry (the old 15th New York National Guard), the col- ored regiment commanded by Colonel Wil- liam Hayward, and which was attached to the French Army under General Gourard.

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by the bursting of a high explosive shell, near the west edge of the Argonne. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Dis- tinguished Service Cross. His promotion to first lieutenant arrived after his death. He was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Clendenen, reside in Cairo, III., where his father is superintendent of schools.

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��CAPTAIN EMIL J. COHEN

Company I, 45th Infantry, Ninth Division. Died of influenza at Camp Sheridan, Ala.,

on October 20, 1918.

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��Capt. EMIL J. COHEN

��Captain Cohen was born in Newark, N. J., on June 24, 1887. Attended Brooklyn, N. Y., public schools and then entered the St. Lawrence Law School, from which he graduated in June, 1907. He then entered the employ of Wilson & Company, Chicago, III., in whose law department he remained until his admit- tance to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was as- signed to the 1 9th Company. Upon re- ceiving a commission as first lieutenant he was ordered to Camp Taylor, Louis- ville, where he was assigned to the 45th Infantry; from Camp Taylor he moved with the 45th to Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga., and thence to Camp Sheridan, Mont- gomery, Ala., v^rhere he was promoted to a captaincy, and where he also per- formed the duties of personnel adjutant for division headquarters. He was ap- pointed a U. S. attache to the French Commission which instructed officers in the new methods of overseas warfare. On October I 3th, Captain Cohen was stricken

w^ith influenza, and died one week later. He was unmarried. Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Cohen, of I 68 Rutland Road, Brooklyn, N. Y., where his father is a merchant, he is survived by two brothers, Benjamin J., and Alvin H., the latter a sergeant in the Ordnance Department.

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