. The history and achievements of the Fort Scheridan officers' training camps . r to the war was with the SilverBurdett Publishing Company of admittance to the Second OfficersTraining Camp at Fort Sheridan he wasassigned to the 1 7th Company. Receiv-ing his commission he sailed for France inJanuary, 1918, as a casual officer. Lieu-tenant Clendenen received further mili-tary training in the A. E. F. schools, andwas one of the several officers sent fromLangres to the 369th Infantry (the old15th New York National Guard), the col-ored regiment commanded by Colonel Wil-liam Hayw^ard, a
. The history and achievements of the Fort Scheridan officers' training camps . r to the war was with the SilverBurdett Publishing Company of admittance to the Second OfficersTraining Camp at Fort Sheridan he wasassigned to the 1 7th Company. Receiv-ing his commission he sailed for France inJanuary, 1918, as a casual officer. Lieu-tenant Clendenen received further mili-tary training in the A. E. F. schools, andwas one of the several officers sent fromLangres to the 369th Infantry (the old15th New York National Guard), the col-ored regiment commanded by Colonel Wil-liam Hayw^ard, and which w^as attached tothe French Army under General was while acting captain of CompanyG that Lieutenant Clendenen met his deathby the bursting of a high explosive shell,near the west edge of the Argonne. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Dis-tinguished Service Cross. His promotion to first lieutenant arrived after his death. Hewas unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Clendenen, reside in Cairo, 111., wherehis father is superintendent of BORN MARCH 9, 1887DIED SEPTEMBER 12, 1918 CAPTAIN EMIL J. COHEN Company I, 45th Infantry, Ninth Division. Died of influenza at Camp Sheridan, Ala. on October 20, 1918. Capt. EMIL J. COHEN Captain Cohen was born in Newark,N. J., on June 24, 1887. AttendedBrooklyn, N. Y., public schools and thenentered the St. Lawrence Law School,from which he graduated in June, then entered the employ of Wilson &Company, Chicago, 111., in whose lawdepartment he remained until his admit-tance to the Second Officers TrainingCamp at Fort Sheridan, where he was as-signed to the I 9th Company. Upon re-ceiving a commission as first lieutenanthe was ordered to Camp Taylor, Louis-ville, where he was assigned to the 45thInfantry; from Camp Taylor he movedwith the 45th to Camp Gordon, Atlanta,Ga., and thence to Camp Sheridan, Mont-gomery, Ala., where he was promoted toa captaincy, and where he also per-formed the duties of pe
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