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��1st Lt. VINCENT J. DUSHEK

��FIRST LIEUTENANT VINCENT J. DUSHEK

idquarters Detachment, Third Aviation Instruction Center, Signal Corps, A. E. F. Killed in an airplane accident at Issodoun, France, on October 16, 1918.

Lieutenant Dushek was born in Melnik, Wis., on December I 9, I 894. He received his early education in the public schools of Chicago, graduating from Crane High and then entering the University of Chi- cago. At the outbreak of wrar he left the university to enter the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the Third Company. After a month's study he w^as transferred to the Air Service and ordered to the training school at Champaign, 111., where he was promoted to a sergeantcy and later v^on a second lieutenancy. In October, 1917, Lieutenant Dushek went overseas, landing in Italy, where he was stationed at Camp Foggio for four months, later going to France and being attached to the Eighth, Second and Third Instruction Centers, re- spectively. At the last-named place he was promoted to a first lieutenancy. On October 16, 1918, while instructing at Issodoun, he was instantly killed when his machine crashed. Lieutenant Dushek was unmarried. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Dushek, 62 7 North Fourth street, Manitowoc, Wis., and one brother, M. Dushek, of the same place.

��1st Lt. ADRAIN C. EDWARDS

��FIRST LIEUTENANT ADRAIN C. EDWARDS

Machine Gun Company, 1 8th Infantry, First Division. Killed in action on May 4, 1918.

Lieutenant Edwards was born in White Hall, 111., on June 25, 1883. He was grad- uated from the Roodhouse, 111., high school in 1904, and, after teaching school a few years, attended the University of Illinois Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1914 and was assistant state's attorney at Rock Island until 1916, when he moved to CarroUton, 111., and opened a lav^r office. Lieutenant Edv^^ards was ad- mitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, and assigned to the 22nd Company. Upon receiving his commission he v^as ordered overseas, sail- ing as a casual officer in January, 1918. After a short course of training in army schools of the A. E. F. he was assigned to the 1 8th Infantry Machine Gun Com- pany, and it was while v^ith this unit he met death. He v^as unmarried. Lieu- tenant Edw^ards is survived by his mother, five brothers and two sisters. Two of the brothers were in service and one of his sisters was a nurse.

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