. The history and achievements of the Fort Scheridan officers' training camps . ng Camp at Fort Sheri-dan, w^here he -was assigned to the 2 i stCompany, prior to which he had enlistedin the Marine Corps, and trained at Nor-folk, Va., where he received notice to re-port to Fort Sheridan. Upon receipt ofhis commission he vs^as ordered to CampTaylor, Ky., serving with the 326th Ma-chine Gun Battalion. After four monthsat this post he was ordered to the 2nd In-fantry Replacement Regiment, Camp Gor-don, Ga., where he remained until orderedoverseas, sailing on July 20, 1918, havingin charge several
. The history and achievements of the Fort Scheridan officers' training camps . ng Camp at Fort Sheri-dan, w^here he -was assigned to the 2 i stCompany, prior to which he had enlistedin the Marine Corps, and trained at Nor-folk, Va., where he received notice to re-port to Fort Sheridan. Upon receipt ofhis commission he vs^as ordered to CampTaylor, Ky., serving with the 326th Ma-chine Gun Battalion. After four monthsat this post he was ordered to the 2nd In-fantry Replacement Regiment, Camp Gor-don, Ga., where he remained until orderedoverseas, sailing on July 20, 1918, havingin charge several hundred troops. Uponarrival in France he was ordered to the1 20th Infantry Machine Gun Company,and served with that regiment in Belgium. While on military duty in St. Pol he becamea victim of a bomb dropped from a Boche plane and was instantly killed. He was unmar-ried. Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Gross, he is survived by one sister,Miss Marie L. Gross, all of whom reside in Chicago, 111., where his father is traffic agentfor the L. S. Railroad / BORN MARCH SEPTEMBER SECOND LIEUTENANT GEORGE PHILIP GUSTAFSON Company B, 26th Infantry, First Division. Died in Base Hospital No. 31 A. E. F., on June 5, 1918, from the effects of gas received in action near Belleau Woods. Lieutenant Gustafson vsas born in Chi-cago, 111., on December 8, I 694. Hereceived his education in the publicschools, graduating from the S5camore,111., High School, and then entering theUniversity of Illinois, from which he grad-uated in 1916. He then entered ihe em-ploy of the Goodrich Rubber Compan},remaining with that firm until his admit-tance to the First Officers ; Campat Fort Sheridan. Upon receiving hiscommission he was given orders to pro-ceed overseas, being with ^he first groupof Fort Sheridan officers to ciiipart, sail-ing on September, 1917. After a shortcourse of further study in Frince Lieutenant Gustafson was assigned to the 26lhInfantry, with which r
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