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 THE ROLL OF HONOR

��FIRST LIEUTENANT CHARLES E. DA VANON

Company H, 14th Infantry (Recruiting Officer). Died of peritonitis on March 2, 1920, at Camp Custer, Mich.

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1st Lt. CHARLES E. DA VANON Lieutenant Da Vanon was born in

Yuma, Colo., on May I 5, 1 886. He was educated in the public schools of that place, later moving to Chicago, where he was employed as a salesman by the Schulze Baking Company. He served in the Regular Army and Illinois National Guard prior to his admittance to the Sec- ond Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the Twenty-second Company. Upon receiv- ing a commission. Lieutenant Da Vanon was ordered overseas, sailing as a casual on December 25, 1917. After further training in France, he was assigned to a combat division and participated in several engagements, finally being returned to the United States on account of v^^ounds re- ceived. He was cited for bravery in ac- tion. After leaving the hospital he was transferred to the I 4th Infantry, with which regiment he was doing recruiting work. On March 2, 1920, he was taken to the hospital and operated on for an abscess. Peritonitis set in and he died on March I 7th. Lieutenant Da Vanon was mar- ried on October 24, 1912, to Miss Josephine Duffner of Chicago, who, with two children, Frank, aged six, and Charlotte, aged three years, survive, and reside at 5800 Maryland avenue, Chicago. He is also survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Da Vanon, also of Chicago.

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��FIRST LIEUTENANT LLEWELLYN RICHARDSON DAVIES

Headquarters Detachment, 3 1 0th Supply Train, Eighty-fifth Division. Died of cerebral spinal meningitis on January 7, 1 9 1 9, at Lagney, France.

��Lieutenant Davies was born in Detroit, Mich., on June 16, 1892. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Detroit and, in 1910, graduated from Detroit Univer- sity School, after which he entered the insurance business, being employed by Walter C. Piper Realty Company of Detroit. Was admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp, upon completion of which, he received commission as second lieutenant and was ordered to Camp Custer, where he was promoted to first lieutenant of infantry. Lieutenant Davies was ordered and sailed for overseas in July, 1918, with the Eighty-fifth Division. Upon arrival in France he requested a transfer to the Air Service. This request was granted and Lieutenant Davies was just finishing training as an observer when the armistice was signed. It was while awaiting orders to return to the States that Lieutenant Davies contracted the sickness which caused his death. He Vk^as married on August 21, 1917, to Miss Doris S. Chapman of Rochester, Mich., who, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William L. Davies, of De- troit, Mich., survive him.

��1st Lt. LLEWELLYN R. DAVIES

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