. Transactions. inished all but one month of a four-yearcourse in metallurgical en-gineering at the MissouriSchool joi Mines, Rolla, Mo.,when on May 12, 1917, heentered the first Officers Train-ing Camp at Fort Riley, the close of the trainingperiod, he was commissioneda Second Lieutenant and as-signed to Co. B, 355th Infantry,89th Division, and stationed atCamp Funston. He left thiscamp with his company onMay 21, 1918, and sailed froman eastern port on June 4, ar-riving in England on June 15,1918. After a short stay at arest camp there, he proceededto France. On August 14, hewrote tha
. Transactions. inished all but one month of a four-yearcourse in metallurgical en-gineering at the MissouriSchool joi Mines, Rolla, Mo.,when on May 12, 1917, heentered the first Officers Train-ing Camp at Fort Riley, the close of the trainingperiod, he was commissioneda Second Lieutenant and as-signed to Co. B, 355th Infantry,89th Division, and stationed atCamp Funston. He left thiscamp with his company onMay 21, 1918, and sailed froman eastern port on June 4, ar-riving in England on June 15,1918. After a short stay at arest camp there, he proceededto France. On August 14, hewrote that he was with Bat-talion Headquarters as ScoutOfficer, 1st Battalion, 355thInfantry, 89th Division. Thelast letter received from him,dated September 2, was written in his dugout and contained the follow-ing: Here it is a. m. Sitting in a dugout waiting for some patrolsto report back in, I am writing this by the light of two candles. Hewas killed in action on the night of Sept. 3, 1918. The letter of notifi-. LlECTENANT MARTIN F. BOWLES. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES 727 cation received from Brigadier General Thos. G. Hanson said: It is mypainful duty to communicate to you the fact of the loss of your son,Martin F. Bowles. About 11 oclock on the night of September 3,Lieutenant Bowles, with Lieutenant Joseph B. Keckler, 355th Infantry,in command of a reconnoitering patrol of our troops, encountered theenemy. In the ensuing engagement your son received a rifle bulletthrough his heart. His death was instantaneous and painless. His re-mains were interred with full military honors on the 4th of was promoted to First Lieutenant, but his commission did not reachhim before his death. He was president of the Missouri Mining Asso-ciation, Missouri School of Mines, for the year 1916-17. William Morley Cobeldick William Morley Cobeldick, one of the British Royal Engineers, diedfrom gas poisoning on Oct. 7, 1915. Mr. Cobeldick was born Mar. 21, 1882, in London, England, wherehis ear
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