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��FIRST LIEUTENANT DONALD F. GHENT

Company C, 59th Infantry, Fourth Division. Killed in action near Chateau Thierry

on July 20, 1918.

��1st Lt. DONALD F. GHENT

���Lieutenant Ghent was born in Bay City, Mich., on March 20, 1893. After a pub- lic school education he entered Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, where he studied for two years, and then entered the in- surance business with the firm of Charles E. Bennett, Detroit, Mich., with which company he remained until admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. He was assigned to the 1st Company and held over for the Second Camp, 1 4th Company. Upon receiving his commission he w^as ordered to Camp Greene, N. C, where he was attached to the 59th Infantry. The regiment sailed for France on May 5, 1918. Lieutenant to Company C upon arrival overseas. He was later in command of Company C until his death. He was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Ghent, of 452 Humboldt Avenue, Detroit, Mich., in which city his father is a pharmacist, survive.

��FIRST LIEUTENANT ALBERT A. GLASSFORD

Company L, 1 I 9th Infantry, Thirtieth Division. Died in Base Hospital, A. E. F., on October 18, 1918, from wounds received in action on October 10, 1918, during the Argonne drive.

��2nd Lt. ALBERT A. GLASSFORD

��Lieutenant Glassford was born in Ca- pac, Mich., on October 7, 1 890. He was educated in the public schools of Capac, graduating from the high school there and entering Kalamazoo, Mich., Normal School, from which institution he graduated in

1916. He then took up the profession of teaching, being employed as an instruc- tor of manual training in Capac. At the outbreak of the war he was admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, w^here he w^as assigned to the

1 5th Company. Upon receipt of his com- mission he received orders for overseas, sailing in January, 1918. He then, upon arrival in France, v^fas assigned to the In- fantry Specialists' School at Langres and, upon completion of the course, was or- dered to the 1 1 9th Infantry, with which regiment he met his death, a machine gun bullet passing through his chest. Lieu- tenant Glassford was married to Miss Nina Woolman of Capac, Mich., on December 24, 1912. Two daughters, lileen, aged five, and Eva Belle, aged three years, were born of this union. Besides his wife. Lieu- tenant Glassford is survived by his father, Albert Glassford, and a brother, M. M. ford, both of Capac, Mich.

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