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THE ROLL OF HONOR

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��Mr. CHARLES W. NULF

��CHARLES WARREN NULF

Died at Copmish, Mich., of pneumonia, on December 23, 1918.

Mr. Nulf was born on a farm near Cope- mish, Mich., on August 21, 1885. He attended the public schools of Copemish, graduating in 1906. He next took a course in Forest College, from which he graduated in 1908, and then entered the law school of the University of Michigan, graduating in 1913. Upon his admittance to the bar in 1913, he practiced law in Copemish until his entry to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. Owing to poor health, Mr. Nulf failed to win a commission. Returning to Cope- mish, he re-engaged in the practice of law, but gave up his work to aid his parents on the farm. On December 14, i 9 1 8, he was taken ill with influenza and died on the 23rd. He was unmarried. Mr. Nulf is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Nulf, of Copemish, Mich., and two brothers and two sisters, all of whom re- side in Michigan with the exception of one brother in Russia.

��SECOND LIEUTENANT JOHN CASHMAN OLDFIELD

Company C, 103rd Infantry, Twenty-sixth Division. Died on August 5, ! 9 1 8, at Vittel, France, from wounds received in action near Chateau Thierry on July I 8th.

Lieutenant Oldfield was born in Garner- ville, N. Y., on April 12, 1890. After a -

��public school education he entered Ford- ham College, graduating in 1911. He then became an instructor in the high schools of Detroit, Mich., later going to work in the law department of the City cf Detroit. He was admitted to the Sec- ond Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was commissioned and ordered to the Twenty-sixth Division. He was assigned to Company C of the 103rd Infantry, with which regiment he sailed for France in January, 1918, and re- mained with that outfit until his death. During the Chateau Thierry fighting, near Torcy, Lieutenant Oldfield -was severely wounded on July 18, 1918. After being conveyed to base hospital No. 2 3, at Vit- tel, he died on August 5th. He was un- married. Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Oldfield, of Garnerville, N. Y., he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Bertha O. Sward, the wife of Col. F. L. Sward, Detroit, Mich., and Miss Harriet C. Old- field, of Garnerville, N. Y.

��2nd Lt. JOHN C. OLDFIELD

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