History of Howard county in the World War, Part 23

Author: Haworth, Clarence V., 1875-
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: Indianapolis, W.B. Burford, printer
Number of Pages: 372


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Medley, Ovid Albert (45), son of Samuel L. and Idella Medley, was born Jan. 28, 1900, in Kokomo, Ind. He attended high school. When he enlisted in the army at Kokomo, Ind., Jan. 30, 1918, he was assigned to the signal corps, wireless branch, and was stationed at Jersey City, N. J., until May, 1019, when a transfer was made to the military telegraph office, Hoboken, N. J. He was granted his discharge July 22, 1919.


Meguire, Joseph Martin (93), son of Edgar D. and Mary Anderson Megnire, was born at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Oct. 11, 1889. When a small child he moved to Kokomo, Ind., where he attended school. He entered the army there Sept. 21, 1917, and was in training at Camp


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Zachary Taylor. Ky .. until May 5, 1918, when he entrained for an eastern port and sailed for Brest. France, May 18, 1918. He was employed in the construction of the American railway, and the building of roads and warehouses. lle left France June 20, 1919. and was mustered out at Lonisville, Ky., July IS, 1919, having served in the 515th Engineers as corporal of Co. C.


Meiner, Joseph Naron (12), son of Joseph and Mary Ulmer Meiner, was born at Arrow- smith. Ill., June 26, 1>50. He graduated from St. Louis University in 1905, and on June 22, of the same year, married Bertha Johnson. He was practicing medicine in Kokomo, Ind., when he was commission first lieutenant in the medical corps at Fort Benjamin Harrison Sept. 11, 1918. Ile was assigned to the infirmary, Fourth Provisional Engineers Battalion.


Meinzer, John Frederick (51). son of Phillip C. and Susan A. Meinzer, was born in lloward Co., Ind .. May 16, 1891. After graduating from high school be attemled Indiana University two years, lle enlisted in the navy at Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 12, 1917, and after he was sent to the Great Lakes Training School, he was placed on the U. S. SS. "Essex" and appointed third quartermaster. He was transferred to the ensign school at Chicago, III., and received his discharge there Jan. 14, 1919.


Melton, Walter Franklin (79). son of James D. and Nellie E. Baxter Melton, was born at Jerome, Ind. His wife is Cora M. Hess Melton. He enlisted in the army at Peoria, Ill., and became an aerial gunner at the Rock Island Arsenal and the Wilbur Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. He was promoted to sergeant, first class, and was also mess sergeant. Ile received his discharge at Camp Dix. N. J., Dec. 9, 1918.


Merrell, Hall,


Merrell, Leslie C. Malcolm, was born at Galveston, Ind. He was a member of the S. A. T. C. at Purdue University from October to Dec. 19, 1918.


Merrell, Paul Millard (42), son of J. W. and Minnie Dupler Merrell, was born Aug. 20. 1897, in Kokomo, Ind. After his enlistment in the army at Fort Wayne, Ind., he was sent to Fort Thomas, Ky .; one month later he was ordered to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga .; at the end of sixteen days he was transferred to Camp Dix, N. J., and after training there for ten months, be left Wrightstown for France with the 309th Co., F. A., Medical Department, Third Battery, Seventy-eighth Division. He returned to the States in April, 1919, and was mustered out at Camp Sherman, Obin.


Merrell, Ray James (82), son of Elmer and Belle Merrell, was born in Howard Co., Ind., July 2. 1893. He was sent to Camp Sheridan, Ala., April 26, 1918, and there assigned to Co. D. 136th F. A., Thirty-seventh Division.


Merriman, Emmett.


Meshling, Edgar Jesse, was born at Burlington. Ind. His age at enlistment was given as twenty-five years, Corporal Meshling was discharged from the U. S. Army at Camp Zachary Taylor Nov. 29, 1918.


Metz, Emin Leroy (19), son of John and Carrie Schafer Metz, was born in Howard Co., Ind .. but he entered the army at Olivet. Ill., as be was there attending the Illinois lloliness Col- lege preparatory to preaching. He married Lois G. Waltz June 19, 1918, and on June 26, 1918, he left for the National Army Camp at Camp Jackson, S. C. Ile was second cook and later pro- moted to mess sergeant of Co. C, Twelfth F. A. R. D. On Oct. 4. 19IS, he died of pneumonia and was interred in the family cemetery, three miles west of Plevna. Howard Co., Indiana.


Meyer, George W.


Michaels, Albert Lon, Michaels, Chester (Lester).


Michaels, Clifford William, was born Sept. 24, 1594. He enlisted April 19, 1917, and was discharged March 21, 1919. He had been attached to Bat. B. Sixty-sixth Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps.


Michael, fra B., was born at Carl, Ind. He entered the army when he was thirty-one years of age and served as a first class private in the Provost Guard Co., Camp Beauregard, La. Ile was discharged there Dec. 27, 1918.


Michaels, Roy, enlisted in Co. E, of Kokomo. When his company arrived at Camp Shelby, Miss .. he was inducted into the federal service as a member of Co. E, 152nd Infantry. He left for France in October, 1918.


Middleton, Arthur.


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Middletoo, Ervin (49), son of Alvin and Rosa Wright Middleton, was born at Russiaville, Ind., Jan. 12, 1897. Ile enlisted in the navy at Indianapolis, Ind., and was assigned to Co. C, Seventh Regiment, Camp Perry, Great Lakes, Ill.


Mighthelser, George.


Miles, Fred B. (2), was born July 3. 1891. He entered the army Sept. 3, 1917, at Kokomo, Ind., and was sent to France with the 228th Aero Squadron.


Miller, Arthur Franklin (19), son of James II. and Maggie W. Miller, was born in Sully Co., S. D., July 18, 1894. Ile enlisted at Kokomo, Ind., as a chauffeur and was stationed at the following places: Fort Thomas, Ky., Camp Ilancock, Ga., and Camp Merritt, N. J. On Feb. 18, 1918, he embarked for France, where he drove a motor truck, and was sergeant of the First Co., Second Motor Machine Regiment, Signal Corps.


Miller, Clifford Leo (48), son of Chester and Elizabeth Miller, was born at North Grove, Ind., Jan. 12, 1900. After completing three years in the Kokomo Iligh School he volunteered in the navy Jan. 14, 1918, and was stationed at the Great Lakes School. He was promoted to hospital apprentice, first class; then to third class pharmacists mate; and next to pharmacists mate, second class. After the armistice he was on duty at the Naval Hospital, New London, Conn. Hle returned from Annapolis, Md., Oet. 10, 1919, and continued his pharmacy course at Purdue University.


Miller, Curtis A., son of Mrs. Alice Patten, was sent to the Louisville cantonment when he entered the army at Kokomo, Ind., April 26, 1918. He served in France with Bat. A, 349th F. A.


Miller, Curtis (89). Miller, Fred.


Miller, Frederick, son of August and Augusta Miller, was born at Anderson, Ind., in 1899. He enlisted in the army at Kokomo. Ind., Aug. 14, 1917, and in October following he went to France as a member of Bakery Co. No. 306. Oftentimes his work took him into the battle area where the fighting was the hottest, but he enme through it all unharmed, after many narrow escapes.


Miller, George (SS).


Miller, George David (94), son of Samnet D. and Letitia A. Long Miller, was born Oet. 26. 1890, in Carroll Co., Ind. IJe enlisted April 3. 1918, at Tipton, Ind., and was sent to Fort Hamilton, N. Y., where he was assigned to Bat. E, Seventieth Coast Artillery Corps. On July 15, 1918, he sailed for France, and left St. Nazaire for home Feb. 12, 1919. He was mustered out at Camp Sherman, Ohio, March 1, 1919.


Miller, George W. (GS), son of I. F. and Ellen Conwell Miller, was born in Ervin Tp., Howard Co., Ind., Sept. 26, 1895. lle married Mary Mistler. He enlisted in the army at Kokomo, Ind., Aug. 5, 1918, and two days later he was sent from Fort Thomas, Ky., where he was sworn in, to Camp Sheridan, Ala. He was cook in the 233rd Ambulance Company. On Feb. 3. 1919, he received his discharge at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky.


Miller, Harry Afford (73), son of Charles A. and Delilah Miller, was born in Clay Tp., Howard Co., Ind., July 9, 1887. He graduated in 1906 from the high school at Galveston, Ind. On Oct. 2. 1909, he joined the navy at Indianapolis, Ind., and was promoted from hospital apprentice to pay elerk, and then to paymaster. For two years before war was declared he was on the sea, and at the opening of hostilities he was placed on duty at Brest, France, as paymaster. On July 20, 1910, he received his naval diploma.


Miller, Harry Rosroe. was born in Kokomo, Ind. Ile was twenty-five years of age when he was indueted into service. Ilis discharge was given at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., Nov. 9. 1917, because of physical disability.


Miller, Heury E. Miller, Henry.


Miller, Henry Robert, son of August and Augusta Miller, was born in Andersou, Ind., in 1894. Ilis wife is Lillian May Miller. On Oct. 6. 1917, he enlisted at Kokomo as a baker, and after being mustered into the service at Fort Thomas, Ky., he was assigned to the Louisville cantonment, where he remained until discharged, with the rank of sergeant.


Miller, Harry S. (3), son of L. C. and Mary A. Ilite Miller, was born in Monroe Tp., How- ard Co., Ind., April 21, 1890. He left Kokomo, Ind., April 3, 1918, for Fort Hamilton, N. Y., and there was assigned to clerical work in the headquarters company of the Fortieth Artillery Brigade, Coast Artillery. Corporal Miller returned from France and was discharged in Jan- uary, 1919.


RAYMOND S HUNT


WARD C COOPER


FREDERICK ARTHUR HENDERSON


LOWELL R. JONES


WALTER J. FRAME


WALDO BROWN


PAUL AIKMAN


FLOYD A. BOWEN


PAUL A PETRO


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PHYLLIS [ KEYES


GLENN BURGAN


THOMAS ARTHUR BOWEN


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Miller, Harry V.


Miller, Kenneth Edward, son of Elwood O. and Luin Parks Miller (deceased), was born in Peru, Ind. Ile tried to enlist at Kokomo, Peru and Indianapolis, but was rejected each time. Finally, he was accepted at Kokomo, but when given a second examination, he was rejected. Three weeks later he joined the marines and was accepted at Indianapolis and sent to the Brooklyn Navy Yards, where he was still ou duty in the fall of 1919, attached to the Sixtieth Co., Marine Barracks.


Miller, Lennis (98), son of Jerry and Rosa Fairfield Miller, was born in Howard Co., Ind., Jan. 4. 1894. He entered the army in 1917, and the last report received was his transfer from Camp Jackson, S. C., to Camp Custer. Mich., Dec. 14, 1918. He was a corporal in Bat. A. G1st Artillery.


Miller, Marvin Lester (50), son of Oral and Viola Miller, was born May 8, 1897, in Kokomo, Ind. He was at Puget Sound, Wash., when he joined the navy, Sept. 29, 1916. He was sta- tioned on the battleship "Rochester," which patroled the Pacific and captured Mexican smug- glers. When war was declared the "Rochester" was sent to the Atlantic, where it assisted in guarding transports. On one of his trips across the Atlantic he had the satisfaction of seeing a German submarine sunk at the end of a three-hour chase, He was promoted to first class fireman.


Miller, Homer Ralph, son of W. C. and Frances 1. Current Miller, was born at Huntington, Nehr., Jan. 7, 1894. He graduated from the high school at Crofton, Nebr,, and from Val- paraiso University Law School in IDIT. lle was inducted into the army at Kokomo, Ind., Sept. 21, 1917, and upon his arrival at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., he was assigned to Bat. D, 325th F. A .; later he was transferred to Co. K, 152nd Infantry and placed on duty in the records office, Bourges, France, Upon his return to the States he was sent to Washington, D. C., where he had further work in the A. G. O. section. Ilis discharge was given at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., Sept. 15, 1919. He had entered the army as a private and was discharged with the rank of battalion sergeant major.


Miller, Otto Frederick, son of August and Augusta Miller, was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1889. llis wife is Agnes Miller. He has been in the navy since 1909, and during the World War won distinction in fighting submarines. One ship upon which he was stationed was blown up and only forty-seven of the crew escaped. Ile was rescued at the end of the second day by a French liner and landed in France. As chief petty officer he was stationed, after the close of hostilities, at Norfolk, Va.


Mitter, Parks M., son of Elwood O. and Lulu Parks Miller (deceased), joined the regular army before war was declared. On Oct. 14, 1918, he was so severely wounded that he was left crippled for life, and was sent by the government to the vocational training school in Chicago.


Miller, Russell (12), son of Chester and Elizabeth Miller, enlisted in the navy. lle was stationed on the U. S. SS. "Agamenon."


Miller, Virgil Henry, son of Alex. and Mary E. Kiphen Miller, was born Nov. 26, 1895. After graduating from the high school at Greentown. Ind., he attended Valparaiso University. lle enlisted at Kokomo, Ind., Feb. 28, 1918, and was sent to Camp Greenleaf, Ga., for train- ing in the medical department; then he went to Langley Field, Hampton, Va., March 11, 1918. On Feb. 17, 1919, he was transferred to the Q. M. C. and promoted to first sergeant April 19, 1919. He was discharged at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., May 7, 1919.


Milter, William Ora (65), son of Harry and Mary Pullen Miller, was born Feb. 23, 190I, at Kokomo, Ind. lle graduated from the graded schools in 1917, and entered the navy on Feb. 23, 1918. From the Great Lakes Training Station he was sent to Philadelphia, Pa., where he passed the test for second class baker: then in June, 1918, he was ordered to Pondillac, France, and later to Queeustown, Ireland, department of navigation.


Milligan, Garland Brant (86), son of Solomon and Martha Stucky Milligan, was born in Kokomo, Ind., July 2, 1896. Ile began his army service April 5, 1918, when he enlisted at Kokomo, Ind., and was sent to Indianapolis and then to Jefferson Barracks, Mo .; there he was assigned to Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla .; further training was received at Camp Hill, Va., and Newport News, Va., before he went overseas as cook in the Q. M. C. He was discharged at Camp Sherman, O., Ang. 23, 1919.


Mills, Nobte E. (40), son of Frank and Mary Mills, was born Nov. 1, 1895. On Dec. 13, 1917, he enlisted at Kokomo, Ind., and was in training at the following places before going to France with the 308th Field Remount Squadron: Columbus Barracks, Ohio; Fort Riley, Kansas; Jefferson Barracks, Mo., and Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla.


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WILLIAM MERRILL BAGWELL


JOHN W. MULLIKIN


MORTON D. WILLCUTTS


CHARLES W. ALDRICH


OAKLEY V MORGAN


EMERSON BUTLER


REUEL SULLIVAN


RALPH S. GREESON


THEODORE J. HURSTEL JR.


CHARLES R. BOHN


LEE E. WADE


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Mills, Paul (51), son of Charles E. and Edna Mills, was born in Carroll Co., Ind., iu 1897. Hle enlisted in the army at Fort Benjamin Harrison Sept. 16, 1917; later he was transferred to ('amp Custer, Mich.


Mills, Russell R. (12), son of John and Pearl Daniels Mills, was boru at Bunkerhill, Ind., Jan. 8, 1901. From the time he joined the navy at Indianapolis, Ind., until he went to France as a seaman on the U. S. SS. "Leviatbian," he was on duty at the Great Lakes Station, Chicago, and the League Island Navy Yards, Philadelphia. After bis arrival at Brest he was transferred to the U. S. SS. "Carola" in November, 1918, and was stationed at the naval base.


Milloer, Fred B.


Milner, George Robert W. (26), son of Cyrns II, and Mary Elizabeth Whitaker Milner, was boru at Middlefork, Ind., in 1894. IJe graduated from the Kokomo High School in 1914. He registered in Detroit, Mich., but had his records transferred to Kokomo, Ind. At the end of five weeks of training at Camp Zachary Taylor, he was sent to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga .; then he went overseas and landed in France April 28. 1918. Beginning June 1, 1918, he began active service in the Vosges mountains; then followed St. Die, Frappelle, St. Mihiel, Mense-Argonne and many minor engagements. The troops became greatly fatigued by the rapid advance and continuous fighting. Four years of labor by the enemy and the greatest resources at their command had made the positions supposedly impregnable, for the Verdun hills and the al- most impenetrable forest of the Argonne were of themselves a mighty harrier. Yard by yard the Americans penetrated the deep ravines and forests, though greatly outnumbered. When the armistice came the troops, though war weary, went on to Germany, and Private Milner was sta- tioned in Luxemburg with Co. D. headquarters detachment, Finance Department. Ile arrived home early in August, 1919, after spending nineteen months overseas with the Fifth Division.


Milner, Ralph.


Milton, Walter Franklin, was born June 3. 1892. His service in the army lasted from Dec. 15, 1017, to Dec. 9, 1918.


Misfler, John, Jr. (4), son of Jobn and Mary Shock Mistler, was born March 23, 1896, in Dayton, Ky. He entered the army at Kokomo, Ind., Sept. 21, 1917, and was sent to Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., and Camp Knox, Ky,, before going overseas Sept. 7, 1918, as a corporal in Dat. D, 325th F. A. Arriving at Newport News, Va., Feb, 15, 1919, he was discharged March 1, 1919, at Camp Sherman, Ohio.


Mitchell, Charles, entered the army Nov. 11, 1918, and was mustered out the following day, as the armistice had been signed the day he entrained for Camp Wadsworth, S. C.


Mitchell, Dewey. Mitchell, George ..


Mitchell, Herman James, son of Boone and Mollie Mitchell, went to Fort Hamilton, N. Y., April 3, 1918, and was there assigned to the Twelfth Co., but was later placed in the Ninth Co., Coast Artillery Corps, and sent to Fort Sherman, Canal Zone, Panama.


Mitchell, Howard J., was born at Tipton, Ind. When he was assigned to Bat. F. F. A. R. D., Camp Zachary Taylor, be was twenty-one years old. Ilis discharge was dated Dec. 17, 1919.


Mitchell, Kenneth Sylvester (20), son of William and Holdlah Morris Mitchell, was born in Ervin Tp., Howard Co., Ind .. June 16, 1892. In 1911 he graduated from the New London High School; then two years were spent at the Indiana State Normal; two years at Earlham Col- lege; and one year at llaverford College, Pa, On March 29, 1918, he began his army training at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., with the depot brigade, but later he was placed in the Q. M. C., and at the time the war closed he was serving as deputy zone supply officer. Ilis work at Camp Zachary Taylor had been with the cash sales and inspection branch. He was pro- mnoted to corporal and then to sergeant.


Mitchell, Theodore Commett, son of George and Eva Carver Mitchell, was born in Kokomo, Ind., Sept. 26, 1893. Ile pursned his studies through one year of high school. On Dec. 15, 1917, he enlisted in the army at Kokomo, Ind., and until Feb. 6. 1918, served with the 161st Depot Brigade; then he was transferred to the 282nd Aero Squadron. llis foreign service lasted from Aug. S to Dec. 11, 1918. His discharge was received Dec. 27, 1918, at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., and at that time he was attached to the Third Co., First Battalion, 159th Depot Brigade.


Minnick, Earl R.


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Mock, Floyd R. (ST), son of Ralston and Della Sherman Mock, was born Feb. 10, 1905, at Clymers Station. Ind. Ile entered the army at Attica. Ind., June 20, 1918, and was attached to Bat. E, Sixth Regiment, F. A. R. D. Ile was mustered ont of the army at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., Dec. 16, 1918.


Modlin, Walter.


Mohler, Harley V. (20), son of Robert A. and Mary B. Mohler, was born in Henry Co., Ohio, June 28, 1887. He was assigned to Bat. D, 325th F. A., when he entered the army at Camp Zachary Taylor, Sept. 21, 1917. and on June 29, 1918, he was advanced to corporal. He returned from foreign service in France Feb. 15, 1919, and was discharged at Camp Sherman, Ohio, March 1, 1919.


Mohler, Ray.


Molino, Albert, son of - - and Antoinette Molino, was born in Kokomo, Ind. On June 1. 1918, he enlisted in Kokomo and was with the medical department in France at Camp Hos- pital No. 26. Ile was discharged after having served more than one year.


Molino, Joseph, son of --- and Antoinette Molino, entered the army at Kokomo, Ind.


Montgomery, Charles Bernard, was born at Shoals, Ind. He was placed in the limited ser- vice at the age of thirty years and served in Co. D. Fifth Regiment, 161st Depot Brigade. His discharge was issued at Camp Grant, Ill., Dec. 13, 1918.


Molach, Samuel, enlisted in Kokomo and for a brief period was attached to Co. E.


Moon. Don Pardee (19), son of Barnabas (, and Ella P. Bennett Moon, was born in Ko- komo, Ind., April 18, 1894. He graduated from the Kokomo High School in 1912, and having been recommended for appointment by l'. S. Senator Benjamin F. Shively, he was admitted to the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. He was graduated number for in the class of 1916 and commissioned ensign. From the very first he exhibited marked ability and was pro- moted until he became lieutenant, senior grade, U. S. N. He was on the battleships "Alabama" and "Rhode Island" until the "Arizona" was launched. On this, the greatest ship in the American Navy, he was radio officer and broadside battery officer, successively, and during the war he served as assistant in gunnery and plotting room officer. The Arizona was ordered to France to accompany the President on his return voyage to America in July, 1919, but owing to an emergency call for a battleship in the Near East, it was ordered to the Mediter- ranean and proceeded to Smyrna, where she remained for a month in case of trouble in south- eastern Europe; then the Arizona returned to the United States.


Moon, Joseph Emerson, son of Jesse and Frances L. Moon, entered the army at Kokomo, Ind., April 26, 1918, lle was transferred from Camp Zachary Taylor to Camp Sheridan, Ala .. and appointed cook instructor, attached to the First Provisional Co., Development Battalion. Ile received his discharge at Camp Zachary Taylor in January, 1919.


Mooney, Robert S. (92), son of James E. and Sarah A. Forrer Mooney, was born Sept. 14, 1896. On Sept. 5, 1917, he went to Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., and at the end of three months he was transferred to Camp Shelby, Miss., and remained there for thirteen months. While in France, Corporal Mooney was stationed at St. Lucas, and attached to the Fifty-second Guard Co. He reached home again Aug. 16, 1919.


Moore, Lewis Douglas (43), son of Ed S. and Georgiana Scott Moore, was born in Kokomo, Ind .. Dec. 18, 1897. He was graduated from the local high school in 1916 and entered Purdne University the following September. On July 15, 1918, he enlisted in the artillery branch of the service and was sent to Fort Sheridan, Ill. Later he was transferred to Fortress Monroe, where on Jan. 5, 1919, he was gradnated from the C. A. O. R. C. as a second lieutenant and placed in the five-year reserves. Ile will graduate from Purdue in the civil engineering depart- ment in June, 1920.


Moore, Bruce Victor (66), son of Harles Oscar and Ethe Trees Moore, was born in Howard ('o., Ind., in 1891. He graduated from the Kokomo High School in 1910; Indiana University, A. B., 1914; A. M., 1917. He was doing graduate work on a research scholarship at Columbia University when he enlisted in the army Feb. 1, 1918. Ile was assigned to the Psychological Co. No. 1, M. O. T. G., Chickamauga Park, Ga .; later he was sent to the Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, D. C., and commissioned second lientenant. On Nov. 9, 1918, he was ordered to the U. S. General Hospital No. 20, Whipple Barracks, Ariz., where he was chief of reconstruction service until Feb. 23, 1919; then he was advanced to chief psychologist. He was released from service in Angust. 1919, and entered Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, for ad- vanced study.


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Moore, Charles Fry (IS), son of D. N. and Diey A. Moore, was born Aug. 28, IS88, hear Armstrong, Ill. He was inducted into the National Army at Kokomo, Ind., April 26, 1918. and was assigned to the Twenty-fifth Co., Seventh Battalion. 150th Depot Brigade, Camp Zachary Taylor. On May 18. 1918, he was sent to Camp Sheridan, Ala., and placed in the headquarters company of the 135th F. A., which reached England June 28, 1918. He was in the Meuse-Argonne sector from Sept. 29 to Oct. 26; the Marbache sector from Oct. IO to 23; the Troy sector from Oct. 27 to Nov. 11, 1918. Leaving France March 24, 1919, he was mustered out April 11, 1919.


Moore. Raymond C., was born in Kokomo. Ind. He was nineteen years of age when he entered the S. A. T. C. at Indiana University. His period of service Iasted from October to Dec. 21, 1918.


Moore, Roscoe Sherman (67), son of Harles Oscar and Effie Trees Moore, was born in Howard Co., Ind., Jan. 6, 1899. He graduated from the Kokomo lligh School in 1916 and was a student at DePauw University from 1916 to 19IS. Instead of returning to college in the fall of 1918, he enlisted in the navy at Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 7. 1918. After reporting at the Great Lakes Training Station he was transferred to Pelham Bay, N. Y., and was commissioned at the officers' material school in May, 1919. Ensign Moore was then released from active ser- vice and will serve three years in the reserve.


Moore, Wilfred D., was born in Kokomo, Ind. Ile was discharged from the S. A. T. C. at Indiana University Dec. 21. 19IS, after a period of training covering more than two months, He was twenty years of age.




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