. The history and achievements of the Fort Scheridan officers' training camps . en-tered the employ of the Government Post-office Department, Chicago. He also servedthree years in the United States Navy asChief Coxswain of a government was admitted to the First OfficersTraining Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he■was assigned to the Third Company. Uponreceipt of his commission he vk^as assignedto the Eighty-fifth Division, Company Gof the 338th Infantry, with which outfithe sailed for France on July 13, arrival overseas Lieutenant Ford■was sent as a replacement officer to the1
. The history and achievements of the Fort Scheridan officers' training camps . en-tered the employ of the Government Post-office Department, Chicago. He also servedthree years in the United States Navy asChief Coxswain of a government was admitted to the First OfficersTraining Camp at Fort Sheridan, where he■was assigned to the Third Company. Uponreceipt of his commission he vk^as assignedto the Eighty-fifth Division, Company Gof the 338th Infantry, with which outfithe sailed for France on July 13, arrival overseas Lieutenant Ford■was sent as a replacement officer to the12 7th Infantry, with which regiment hewas fatally wounded by machine gun bul-lets. Being removed to the hospital, pneu-monia set in, and he died after a twoweeks illness. He w^as married on Janu-ary 3, 1916, to Miss Mabel Hammond ofSpring Valley, 111. Besides his widow. Lieutenant Ford is survived by two children, MayBelle Ford, age two years, and Allen Ford, age seven months, who reside at Ypsilanti,Mich. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lowell B. Ford, reside in Horton, BORN OCTOBER 24,DIED OCTOBER 18. 18841918 REGIMENTAL SUPPLY SERGEANT DONALD FORSYTH Company K, 58th Infantry, Fourth Division. Killed in action at Chateau Thierry on July 19, 1918. Sergeant Forsyth was born in Pomona,111., on July 12, 1886. He was educatedin the Southern Illinois Normal School atCarbondale and had two years of studyat the University of Illinois. After leav-ing college he entered the employ of theGovernment, working in the post office atCarbondale, 111. He was admitted to theSecond Officers Training Camp at FortSheridan, where he -was assigned to theNineteenth Company. At the close ofthe course Sergeant Forsyth was amongthose who failed to win a daunted, he enlisted in the Reg-ular Army and was sent to Camp Greene,N. C, where he was assigned to CompanyK of the 58th Infantry, with which out-fit he went overseas in April, 1918, asregimental supply sergeant. While par-ticipa
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