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 THE ROLL OF HONOR

��SECOND LIEUTENANT RALPH PHELPS COLLIER

Air Service. Killed at Love Field, Texas, on December 7, 1918, vsrhile instructing.

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��2nd Lt. RALPH P. COLLIER

��Lieutenant Collier was born in Battle Creek, Mich., on August 2, 1894. He was educated in the public schools of Battle Creek, being a 1913 graduate of the high school there, and then entered the University of Michigan, specializing in the study of lav/. Giving up his college w^ork at the outbreak of war, he made applica- tion and was accepted for the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, being assigned to the Tenth Company. He was discharged from Fort Sheridan that he might enter the Air Service. Entered Ground School at Columbus, Ohio, No- vember 1, 1917. After completion of training received commission and w^as or- dered to Wichita Falls as flying instructor, from which place he was assigned to Brooke Field, San Antonio, Texas, and then to Love's Field, where he met death. He was unmarried. Lieutenant Collier's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Collier, reside at Battle Creek, Mich., Rural Route No. 3. His father is engaged in farming.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT DE LANCY J. COLVIN

Intelligence Officer, I 2 7th Infantry, Thirty-second Division. Killed in action at Gesnes, France, on October 14, 1918.

��Lieutenant Colvin was born in Medina, Mich., on October 19, 1893. He was ed- ucated in the public schools of Hudson, Mich., where he graduated from high school in 1911. He then entered the dairy business of his father, resigning to enter the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan at the outbreak of war, previous to which he had served with the Michigan National Guard on the Mexican Border. Upon receipt of his commission he was assigned to the 1 60th Depot Bri- gade at Camp Custer. On November I , 1917, he w^as transferred to the 337th In- fantry, with which regiment he moved to Camp Perry, O. In July, 1918, Lieu- tenant Colvin sailed for France with the Eighty-fifth Division. Upon arrival over- seas, he v^ras transferred to the 12 7th In- fantry as a replacement officer and was made battalion intelligence officer of that regiinent. Lieutenant Colvin met instant death by machine gun fire while on a scouting patrol. He -was married on July 21, 1917, to Miss Harriet E. Young of Jackson, Mich. Beside his widow, -who resides at 64 Brighton Street, Rochester,

��2nd Lt. DeLANCY J. COLVIN

��N. Y., Lieutenant Colvin is survived by his

��parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Colvin of Hudson, Mich.

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