. The history and achievements of the Fort Scheridan officers' training camps . g in 1915, and then taking upemployment with Ericson & Hogenah, ofChicago, 111., as a public accountant. Healso took a course at the University ofChicago, graduating in 1917. He was ad-mitted to the Second Officers TrainingCamp at Fort Sheridan, where he vfascommissioned and ordered overseas, sail-ing on January 6, 1 9 I 8, as a casual. Afterfurther instruction in France, LieutenantSchmitt was assigned to Company K ofthe 125th Infantry. He was wounded onJuly 29, 1918, and remained in the hos-pital for five weeks. A
. The history and achievements of the Fort Scheridan officers' training camps . g in 1915, and then taking upemployment with Ericson & Hogenah, ofChicago, 111., as a public accountant. Healso took a course at the University ofChicago, graduating in 1917. He was ad-mitted to the Second Officers TrainingCamp at Fort Sheridan, where he vfascommissioned and ordered overseas, sail-ing on January 6, 1 9 I 8, as a casual. Afterfurther instruction in France, LieutenantSchmitt was assigned to Company K ofthe 125th Infantry. He was wounded onJuly 29, 1918, and remained in the hos-pital for five weeks. After returning tohis regiment he participated in numerousengagements. On the morning of OctoberII, 1918, while leading his platoon in anattack on Hill 258, near Gesnes, Meuse-Argonne sector, he was reported missingin action. No trace of his remains orburial place has been recorded. Lieuten-ant Schmitt was unmarried. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Schmitt, and three brothers and two sisters, all of w^hom reside at 4 76 Fortieth street, Milwaukee, BORN DECEMBER 29, 1890DIED OCTOBER II. 1918 SECOND LIEUTENANT VERNON C. SWIHART Intelligence Officer, 355th Infantry, Eighty-ninth Division. Killed inaccident at Saarsburg, Germany, on April 18, 1919. Lieutenant Swihart was born in Sag-inaw, Mich. He was educated in thepublic schools of Clio, Mich., graduatingin 1912. He then entered the employof the Flint Varnish Works as a served with the Michigan NationalGuard at the Mexican border, and waspromoted to sergeant. He was admittedto the First Officers Training Camp atFort Sheridan and assigned to the 6thCompany. Lieutenant Swihart, thoughfailing to win a commission at the con-clusion of the training period, re-enlistedin the Michigan National Guard, goingoverseas with the Thirty-second was sent to the Army CandidatesSchool at Langres, France, and commis-sioned a second lieutenant on July 9,1918, and v^^as then assigned to the 355thInfantr
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