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 THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��SECOND LIEUTENANT THURMAN G. FLANAGAN

��Company L, 58th Infantry, Third Division, received in action at

2nd Lt. THURMAN G. FLANAGAN

��Died on October 5, 1918, from v^ounds Argonne Offensive.

Lieutenant Flanagan was born in Ken- ton, Ohio, in 189L He graduated from the Kenton high school, and, after a year's w^ork as a newspaper reporter, entered the Ohio State University taking the jour- nalistic course. He then returned to Ken- ton and took up active work on the Daily Democrat of that place, which paper his father had been editor of before his death, and on wrhich his brother is the present editor. At the beginning of the vs^ar, Lieutenant Flana- gan held the position of associate editor and assistant manager. He w^as admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. Upon receipt of his com- mission he w^as ordered overseas, sailing in January, 1918. Upon arrival in France he v^^as assigned for a course at the In- fantry Specialists* School at Langres, and also took the machine gun course at Fort de Peigney, and v^'as then assigned to the 106th and later to the 58th Infantry, with which regiment he met his death during the early part of the Argonne drive. He was unmarried. He is survived by four sisters, Helen, Clementine and CIo of

Kenton, and Mrs. Frank Dugan, of Columbus, Ohio, and one brother, Curran E. Flanagan,

managing editor of the Kenton Daily Democrat.

���BORN SEPTEMBER DIED OCTOBER 5,

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��FIRST LIEUTENANT MARSHALL WARREN FOOTE

Battery C, 1 0th Field Artillery, Third Division. Died of pneumonia at Coblenz, Germany, on February 11,1919.

��1st Lt. MARSHALL W. FOOTE

��Lieutenant Foote was born in Erie, Pa., on October 27, 1890. After receiving a public school education he entered the University of Michigan, graduating in 1914. He then entered the employ of the Great Western Sugar Company as an ag- riculturist, which position he occupied until his entry into the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was commissioned second lieutenant of artillery. He received sailing orders for overseas after the close of the camp and embarked in January, 1918, as a casual. officer. Upon arrival in France Lieu- tenant Foote was assigned for further in- struction in the artillery school at Samur, and was then assigned to the I 0th Field Artillery as instructor, and later as a com- bat officer, serving throughout the Cha- teau Thierry, St. Mihiel and Argonne campaigns. He v^as promoted to a first lieutenancy and was, at the time of his death, serving in a "model battalion" of the officers' school in the Army of Occu- pation. Lieutenant Foote had been recom- mended for a captain's commission and

also cited in orders and recommended for the Distinguished Service Cross. He married Miss Margaret Watson of Greeley, Colo., on February 15, 1917. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Foote, Erie, Pa., also survive.

���BORN OCTOBER 27, DIED FEBRUARY II,

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