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 ��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��SECOND LIEUTENANT JOHN HARDIN DUCKETT

��Officers' Reserve Corps.

��Died of heart disease at Ann Arbor, Mich., on September 1, 1917.

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��2nd Lt. JOHN H. DUCKETT

��Lieutenant Duckett was born in Repub- lic, Mich., on April 26, 1891. He was a graduate of Ann Harbor High School, Howe Military School, Howe, Ind., and attended the University of Michigan for one year, giving up his studies to enter the book business v^ith John V. Sheehan & Company, which was owned by his mother. At the outbreak cf ■war he was admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, being assigned to the 2nd Company. Previous military training consisted of a course at Platts- burg, where he qualified as a sharpshooter and v^ras commissioned a second lieutenant, which rank was also conferred upon him upon the completion of study at Fort Sheridan. Owing to having become physi- cally incapacitated, Lieutenant Duckett was given his discharge from the Army. He vs^as unmarried. Mrs. John V. Shee- han, his mother, 2528 West Grand Boule- vard, Detroit, Mich., survives.

��FIRST LIEUTENANT ELLIOTT DURAND, JUNIOR

24th Aero Squadron. Killed in action near St. Mihiel, France, on September 14, 1918.

��1st Lt. ELLIOTT DURAND, JR.

��Lieutenant Durand was born in Chi- cago, 111., on March 30, 1883. He was educated in Hyde Park schools, St. John's Military Academy and Pennsyl- vania Military College, graduating in 1903. After specializing in civil engi- neering he entered business life as a man- ufacturer's agent. At the outbreak of war he was admitted to the First Officers Training Camp, Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the 4th Company. Upon receipt of his commission Lieutenant Du- rand was ordered to Camp Grant, 111., where he remained for three months and was then transferred to Fort Sill, Okla. He was transferred to the Air Service and qualified as an observation officer. As a casual officer he sailed for France on March 13, 1918, and upon arrival over- seas was assigned for further training at different A. E. F. schools. In August, he was assigned to the 24th Aero Squadron. While returning from a mission over the German lines. Lieutenant Durand and his pilot. Lieutenant J. J. Goodfellow, of San

Angelo, Texas, were attacked by five German planes, tvs^o of which v^^ere downed, but the others succeeded in bringing down the Americans. He vv^as married on October 1, 1908, to Miss Eleanor Tucker of Indianapolis, Ind. Two children, Elliott, HI, aged ten, and Eleanor, aged six years, besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Durand, 5712 Harper Avenue, Chicago, survive him.

���BORN MARCH iO. If DIED SEPTEMBER 14,

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