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 ��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��SECOND LIEUTENANT JOHN DOUGLAS CRAWFORD

Company H, 28th Infantry, First Division. Killed in action at Cantigny, France,

on May 27, 1918.

��2nd Lt. JOHN D. CRAWFORD

��Lieutenant Crawford was born in Ran- dolph, Mass., on February 25, 1888. After a course in the public and preparatory schools he entered Yale University, from which he graduated in 1911. He then entered the investment and bond business with E. H. Rollins & Sons of Boston, Mass., and was in charge of their Pittsburgh, Pa., London, Eng., and Philadelphia, Pa., of- fices successively. At the outbreak of the war he was admitted to the First Of- ficers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, being attached to the 1 2th Company. Lieutenant Crawford v^ras held over from the First Camp and assigned to the I 7th Company of the Second. Upon receipt of his commission he received orders to go overseas, and sailed in January, 1918. Upon arrival in France was ordered to the infantry school at Chatillon, after which course of instruction he was as- signed to the school at Gondrecourt, and from there ordered to the 28th Infantry, with w^hich regiment he met death by shell fire. He was cited in Army orders for his display of fearless courage. Lieutenant

Crawford was unmarried. His mother, Mrs. Ellen J. Rountree, of Woodlake, Calif., and

his brother, Seth T. Crawford, of Boston, Mass., survive him.

���SECOND LIEUTENANT FRANK J. CROAK

Company A, 28th Infantry, First Division. Killed in action at Battle of Cantigny,

on May 28, 1918.

��Lieutenant Croak was born in St. Louis, Mo., on December 25, 1889. He was ed- ucated in the public schools of St. Louis, St. Francis Xavier School, Christian Brothers College and St. Louis University. He then entered the retail clothing busi- ness with his father, operating under the firm name of M. E. Croak & Son, St. Louis. He was admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, v^rhere he received his commission and orders for overseas, sailing on January 15, 1918. Upon arrival in France, Lieutenant Croak "was assigned to an A. E. F. school for further instruction and was one of a group of officers assigned to the 28th in- fantry, w^ith Vifhich regiment so many Fort Sheridan officers met early death in the Cantigny battle. He was instantly killed by machine gun bullets after leading his platoon 200 yards into the German sector. He was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Croak of 6124 Pershing Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., both are living.

��2nd Lt. FRANK J. CROAK

���BORN DECEMBER 25. IS

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