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 THE ROLL OF HONOR

��2nd Lt. ALLEN D. FORD

��SECOND LIEUTENANT ALLEN DARIUS FORD

Company H, 12 7th Infantry, Thirty-second Division. Died in Base Hospital No. 44, Nevers, France, on October 18, 1918, from wounds received in action near Mountfaucon.

Lieutenant Ford was born in Liberty Township, Mich., on October 24, 1884. He received a public school education in Horton, Mich., graduating from the high school of that city in 1901, and then served for tw^o years as a supervising teacher in the Philippines. He later en- tered the employ of the Government Post- office Department, Chicago. He also served three years in the United States Navy as Chief Coxswain of a government launch. He was admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, vi^here he v»ras assigned to the Third Company. Upon receipt of his commission he was assigned to the Eighty-fifth Division, Company G of the 338th Infantry, with which outfit he sailed for France on July 13, 1918. After arrival overseas Lieutenant Ford was sent as a replacement officer to the 12 7th Infantry, w^ith which regiment he was fatally wounded by machine gun bul- lets. Being removed to the hospital, pneu- monia set in, and he died after a two weeks illness. He w^as married on Janu- ary 3, 1916, to Miss Mabel Hammond of Spring Valley, III. Besides his vs'idow, Lieutenant Ford is survived by two children, May Belle Ford, age two years, and Allen Ford, age seven months, who reside at Ypsilanti, Mich. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lowell B. Ford, reside in Horton, Mich.

���REGIMENTAL SUPPLY SERGEANT DONALD FORSYTH

Company K, 58th Infantry, Fourth Division. Killed in action at Chateau Thierry

on July 19, 1918.

��Sergeant Forsyth wras born in Pomona, III., on July I 2, 1 886. He was educated in the Southern Illinois Normal School at Carbondale and had two years of study at the University of Illinois. After leav- ing college he entered the employ of the Government, Vkforking in the post office at Carbondale, 111. He was admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the Nineteenth Company. At the close of the course Sergeant Forsyth was among those who failed to v^^in a commission. Nothing daunted, he enlisted in the Reg- ular Army and was sent to Camp Greene, N. C, where he was assigned to Company K of the 5 8th Infantry, with which out- fit he went overseas in April, 1918, as regimental supply sergeant. While par- ticipating in the Chateau Thierry drive on July 19, 1 9 1 8, he was struck by shrapnel and instantly killed. Sergeant Forsyth was married. His widow, Mrs. Donald For- syth, resides in Carbondale, 111. He is also survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary Forsyth, of Glen Oak, Okla.

��Regt. Sup. Sergt. DONALD FORSYTH

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