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THE ROLL OF HONOR

2nd Lt. GEORGE N. HAMMOND

Lieutenant Hammond was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, on October 27, 1895. After receiving a public school education he entered Kemper Military School, where he studied for two years, and then to Cornell, at which place he was in his third year when his application to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan was accepted, and he was assigned to the 17th Company. He received his commission and was ordered to the 14th Cavalry, serving with that outfit along the various border posts until succumbing to the attack of influenza, which rapidly developed into pneumonia. Lieutenant Hammond received further military instruction in the Army School at Fort Bliss, where he qualified as an expert rifleman and was assigned to the position of instructor. He was recommended for promotion a few weeks before his death. He was unmarried. Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Hammond, he is survived by one sister, Miss Helen Hammond, all of whom reside at 365 Keystone Avenue, River Forest, Ill.

SECOND LIEUTENANT DAVID B. HARRIS

First Day Bombardment Group, 20th Aero Squadron. Killed in action near Pierrepont, France, on September 26, 1918.

��Lieutenant Harris w^as born in Bristol, Va., on August 25, 1896. He came to Chicago in 1905, graduated at Hyde Park High School in 1915 and was completing his second year's course at the University of Chicago when the United States de- clared war in 1917. He made applica- tion and was admitted to the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. While there he made application for and wras transferred to the Aviation service being ordered to the ground school at Austin, Tex., and then to Ellington Field, Hous- ton, Tex., where he vs'as commissioned. Lieutenant Harris sailed for France in May, 1918. He was attached to the First Day Bombardment Group, and it was while on that duty near Peirrepont that he was killed piloting a plane in a combat between tv\ro American bombing planes and seven German one-seated battle planes. The four occupants of the American planes, Lieutenants Taylor, Matthews, Harris and Forbes, w^ere all in- stantly killed and buried together in a German military cemetery near Pierrepont. ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. B. Harris, Park

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Lieutenant Harris was unmarried. His Row, Chicago, 111., survive him. Lieute

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��Harris was a grandson of General D. B. Harris of the Confederate Army.

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