. The history and achievements of the Fort Scheridan officers' training camps . McNIESH Company H, 33 7th Infantry, Eighty-fifth Division. Killed in action inArgonne Forest on October 10, 1918. Lieutenant McNiesh was born in FoxLake, Wis., on July 23, 1883. He waseducated in the Lawrence College, Apple-ton, Wis., graduating in June, 1912, afterwhich he became a teacher of to entering the First OfficersTraining Camp at Fort Sheridan, he wasa member of the Wisconsin NationalGuard. Upon receiving his commissionhe was ordered overseas, sailing in July,1918, with Company F, 337th
. The history and achievements of the Fort Scheridan officers' training camps . McNIESH Company H, 33 7th Infantry, Eighty-fifth Division. Killed in action inArgonne Forest on October 10, 1918. Lieutenant McNiesh was born in FoxLake, Wis., on July 23, 1883. He waseducated in the Lawrence College, Apple-ton, Wis., graduating in June, 1912, afterwhich he became a teacher of to entering the First OfficersTraining Camp at Fort Sheridan, he wasa member of the Wisconsin NationalGuard. Upon receiving his commissionhe was ordered overseas, sailing in July,1918, with Company F, 337th Infantry,Eighty-fifth Division, and later transferredto Co. H, 18th Infantry. He was killed inaction while leading his platoon in an at-tack in the Argonne Forset. LieutenantMcNiesh was married to Miss HildegardeC. Kreutzer of Appleton, Wis., on August27, 1912. Besides his widow, LieutenantMcNiesh is survived by two children,Thomas McNeish, aged four years, andRobert McNiesh, aged two years, who re-side in Appleton, Wis. His parents aredead. -rrm 1st Lt. WELCOME H. McNIESH. BORN JULY 2.!, 188!DIED OCTOBER 10. 1918 Mi 128 THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION SECOND LIEUTENANT ERNEST ALFRED McNISH Company D, 369th Infantry, brigaded with French Army. Killed in actionat Sechault, France, on September 30, 1918. Lieutenant iMcNish was born in Brook-field, Mo., on November 6, 1889. Aftera public school education he enteredDrury College of Springfield, Mo., grad-uating in 1914 and then entering theemploy of the Hunt Brothers Fruit Co. ofSt. Joseph, Mo., as an accountant, whichposition he gave up to enter the SecondOfficers Training Camp at Fort Sheridan,where he was assigned to the SecondCompany. Upon receiving his commis-sion he w^as ordered overseas, sailing onJanuary 3, 1918. Upon arrival in France,Lieutenant McNish was sent to the Brit-ish Headquarters School at St. Pol, PasdCalais, for a six weeks course, afterwhich he returned to Langres, HauteMarne, where he w^as assigned to the305th
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