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THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

��FIRST LIEUTENANT JAY H. HAGUE

R. T. O., A. E. F., Bordeaux, France. Died of pneumonia on October 26, 1918,

at Base Hospital No. 1 .

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��1st Lt. JAY H. HAGUE

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��Lieutenant Hague was born in Bellevue, Ida., on March 11, 1884. After a pub- lic school education he entered the Mil- itary College of Logan, Utah. Upon his graduation he entered the employ of the City of Chicago as a police officer. At the outbreak of war he applied for and was admitted to the First Officers' 1 rain- ing Camp at Fort Sheridan, being assigned to the 1 0th Company, previous to which he had seen service as a first sergeant with the Illinois Signal Corps along the Mexican Border. Upon the receipt of his commission he was ordered overseas, sail- ing on September 11, 1917. Upon arri- val in France he v^ras made a bayonet in- structor, and later assigned to the R. T. O. headquarters at Bordeaux. On October 20th he was suddenly taken ill and con- veyed to the hospital where, after a week's illness, he died. Lieutenant Hague was married on January 14, 1911, to Miss Ethel M. Farrell of Chicago, 111., who, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Hague of McCammon, Ida., survive him.

��FIRST LIEUTENANT GORDON ROBERT HALL

Battery E, 308th Field Artillery, Seventy-eighth Division. Died on September 18, 1918,

at Evacuation Hospital No. 1, A. E. F., from wounds received in action

on September 17, 1918.

��Lieutenant Hall was born in Chicago, 111., on February 23, 1887. After a course in the public schools he entered Amherst College, graduating in 1 909, and then entered the employ of W. D. Allen & Company of Chicago, as an advertising man. He attended the Second Platts- burg, N. Y., Training Camp in 1916, and was admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he was assigned to the 7th Battery. Upon receiving a commission as second lieuten- ant he was ordered overseas, sailing on December 24, 1917. Upon arrival in France, Lieutenant Hall was given further instruction in the A. E. F. artillery school at Samur, then went to the 120th Field Artillery, remaining with them for two months, after which time he vs^as recalled to Samur as an instructor. He was then ordered to the 308th Field Artillery, w^here he was promoted to a first lieu- tenancy, and with whom he served until he was mortally wounded. Lieutenant Hall was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis T. Hall, reside in Chicago, at 1 1 West Walton Place.

��1st Lt. GORDON R. HALL

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