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THE ROLL OF HONOR

��FIRST LIEUTENANT BRUCE WALRATH CLARKE

Company G, 12 7th Infantry, Thirty-second Division. Killed in action at Fismes, France, on August 6, 1918.

��1st Lt. BRUCE W. CLARKE

��f^Yfj' ' Lieutenant Clarke was born in Au-

' • - - .- ^w^.,^w, ..r ^. . ^.^.^ gusta. Wis., on June 2, 1890. He was ed-

ucated in the public schools and gradu- ^^^^^^^^^^^ ated from Augusta High School. Enter-

^^^^^^^^^^9^^ ing the University of Wisconsin he grad-

/ ^^^^^BBV'ImI^^ uated in June, 1914, after specializing in

law. Upon leaving college he accepted a position as a principal of schools, v^^hich position he relinquished to enter the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the 1 0th Com- pany. Upon receipt of his commission, second lieutenant, he was ordered to Camp Custer; from Camp Custer he was assigned to Camp Greene, N. C, then Camp McArthur, at Waco, Texas, which place he left to sail in February, 1918, with the 12 7th Infantry. After a period of training in France his regiment moved into Alsace; from Alsace they marched over the Marne and engaged in the Chateau Thierry victory. With sixty-four other men Lieutenant Clarke helped to capture and hold Fismes three days before relief reached them. As they were being relieved, a high explosive shell burst and fragments killed Lieutenant Clarke. He v^as unmarried. His mother, Mrs. Georgia Clarke, of Augusta, Wis., survives. His father, now dead, was formerly editor of the "Madison Democrat."

��FIRST LIEUTENANT JOHN BLACK CLARKE

Company G, 167th Infantry, Forty-second Division. Killed in action near Baulny, Meuse, France, on October 18, 1918.

��Lieutenant Clarke was born in Chicago, III., on October 20, 1889. After receiv- ing a public school education he entered Pomona College (California), studying for three years, and then entering the brokerage business. He v\ras manager for the Milwaukee branch of Halsey, Stuart & Company of Chicago, severing his posi- tion to enter the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, w^here he w^as assigned to the Eleventh Company. Upon receipt of his commission he was ordered overseas, sailing in January, 1918, as a casual. After receiving further military schooling in France, Lieutenant Clarke was assigned to the Thirtieth Division and saw action w^ith them on the British front. Later he was transferred to the 167th In- fantry, with which regiment he served until the time of his death. He was unmarried. His mother, Mrs. James H. Barnard, of 1325 Astor Street, Chicago, survives.

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