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 THE ROLL OF HONOR

��SECOND LIEUTENANT FREDERICK KARL HIRTH

Aerial Observer for Heavy Artillery, 91st Aero Squadron. Killed in action near Metz,

on July 16, 1918.

��2nd Lt. FREDERICK K. HIRTH

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��Lieutenant Hirth was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., on July 10, 1891. After a public school education he entered the University of Michigan, graduating in 1916. He then w^as employed by the City of Flint, Mich., as an engineer, which position he resigned in order to enter the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. After six weeks' instruction at Fort Sheridan he was transferred to For- tress Monroe, Va., where he was commis- sioned and ordered overseas, sailing on December 10, 1917. Arriving in France, Lieutenant Hirth received further instruc- tion in A. E. F. schools, and also served two months with a French Escadrille. He was then assigned to the 9 I st Aero Squa- dron as an observer. While flying over German territory, near Metz, his plane was shot down and he and the pilot were instantly killed. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palm for bravery. Lieutenant Hirth was unmarried. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John S. Hirth, 140 Twenty-first Street, Toledo, O., and a sister. Miss Mary Hirth, of the same address.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT EDWARD AUBREY HOFFMAN

2nd Battalion, 125th Infantry, Thirty-second Division. Died in Mobile Hospital No. A. E. F., on October 12, 1918, from w^ounds received in action in the Argonne offensive, on October 8, 1918.

��Lieutenant Hoffman was born in Crown Point, Ind., on August 24, 1885. He was educated in the public schools of Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit, and graduated from the Detroit College of Lawr in June, 1911. He then took up the practice of law in Detroit, until the outbreak of war, when he was admitted to the First Offi- cers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. His previous military experience con- sisted cf one year's service writh the Mich- igan State Cavalry. Upon the receipt of his commission he wras assigned to Camp Grant, 111., remaining at that post until he sailed for France with the Eighty-fifth Division in July, 1918. Upon arrival in France he was assigned to the 125th In- fantry as a replacement officer, and it was while advancing at the head cf his platoon that he was struck by shrapnel and wounded so seriously that he died four days later. Lieutenant Hoffman was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Hoffman, 1 75 East Adams Street, Detroit, Mich., survive.

��2nd Lt. EDWARD A. HOFFMAN

���BORN AUGUST 24. DIED OCTOBER 12,

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