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��1st Lt. HARRY A. GROSS, JR.

��FIRST LIEUTENANT HARRY A. GROSS, JUNIOR

Machine Gun Company, 120th Infantry, Thirtieth Division. Killed in action at St. Pol, Pas d'Calais, France, on September 8, 1918.

Lieutenant Gross was born in Lancaster, Penn., on March I, 1888. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Newark, N. J., and then entered the University of Colorado, Boulder, Col., where he studied electrical engineering for one year and then entered the employ of the American Radiator Company at Chicago, Detroit, and Minneapolis, remaining with the com- pany until his admittance to the Second Officers* Training Camp at Fort Sheri- dan, where he was assigned to the 2 I st Company, prior to which he had enlisted in the Marine Corps, and trained at Nor- folk, Va., where he received notice to re- port to Fort Sheridan. Upon receipt of his commission he vv^as ordered -to Camp Taylor, Ky., serving with the 326th Ma- chine Gun Battalion. After four months at this post he was ordered to the 2nd In- fantry Replacement Regiment, Camp Gor- don, Ga., where he remained until ordered overseas, sailing on July 20, 1918, having in charge several hundred troops. Upon arrival in France he was ordered to the I 20th Infantry Machine Gun Company, and served with that regiment in Belgium. While on military duty in St. Pol he became a victim of a bomb dropped from a Boche plane and was instantly killed. He was unmar- ried. Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Gross, he is survived by one sister, Miss Marie L. Gross, all of whom reside in Chicago, 111., where his father is traffic agent for the U. S. Railroad Administration.

���SECOND LIEUTENANT GEORGE PHILIP GUSTAFSON

Company B, 26th Infantry, First Division. Died in Base Hospital No. 31,

A. E. F., on June 5, 1918, from the effects of gas received

in action near Belleau Woods.

��2nd Lt. GEORGE P. GUSTAFSON

��Lieutenant Gustafson was born in Chi- cago, 111., on December 8, I 894. He received his education in the public schools, graduating from the S3'camore, 111., High School, and then entering the University of Illinois, from which he grad- uated in 1916. He then entered the em- ploy of the Goodrich Rubber Company, remaining with that firm until his admit- tance to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. Upon receiving his commission he w^as given orders to pro- ceed overseas, being with ^he first group of Fort Sheridan officers to dtipart, sail- ing on September, 1917. After a short course of further study in France Lieu- tenant Gustafson was assigned to the 26th Infantry, with which regiment he remained until his death, which was brought about by a heavy concentration of gas thrown over by the Germans. After about ten days in the hospital Lieutenant Gustafson succumbed from the effects of the attack. He was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and West State Street, Sycamore, 111. Lieu- tenant Gustafson enjoyed the friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and was in the or Major 1 heodore Roosevelt, Jr.

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