. The history and achievements of the Fort Scheridan officers' training camps . McCord& Company of Chicago, relinquishing hisposition to enter the Second OfficersTraining Camp at Fort Sheridan, where hewas a member of the I 7th Company. Re-ceiving a commission as first lieutenant hewas ordered to Camp Greene, N. C,w^here he -was assigned to the 58th In-fantry, and with w^hich regiment he sailedfor France on May 6, 1918. CaptainKeep, upon arrival overseas, was detailedfor study in an A. E. F. machine gunschool and, upon completion of same, v^rasassigned to the I 2th Machine Gun Bat-talion and l
. The history and achievements of the Fort Scheridan officers' training camps . McCord& Company of Chicago, relinquishing hisposition to enter the Second OfficersTraining Camp at Fort Sheridan, where hewas a member of the I 7th Company. Re-ceiving a commission as first lieutenant hewas ordered to Camp Greene, N. C,w^here he -was assigned to the 58th In-fantry, and with w^hich regiment he sailedfor France on May 6, 1918. CaptainKeep, upon arrival overseas, was detailedfor study in an A. E. F. machine gunschool and, upon completion of same, v^rasassigned to the I 2th Machine Gun Bat-talion and later to the 10th M. G. B. Hevsras promoted after the Chateau Thierrybattle and was killed by shell fire whileplacing his guns during the Meuse-Ar-gonne offensive on October 5, 1918,meeting death in the Bois de Fay. Cap-tain Keep was married on December 2,1916, to Miss Katharine J. Legendre of New Orleans, La., who, with a fifteen-monthsold son, Henry Blair Keep, Jr., survive. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Keep, ofI 200 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, 111., also FIRST LIEUTENANT HARRY MASE KEISER Company H, I 25th Infantry, Thirty-second Division. Killed in action at Cierges, France, on July 31, 1918. 1st Lt. HARRY M. KEISER Lieutenant Keiser was born in Dubuque,la., on March 1 2, I 888. He was edu-cated in Boston, Mass., graduating fromRoxbury High School in 1908. He thenentered the employ of the Hydrox Com-pany, advancing to the position of served five years with the Massa-chusetts Volunteer Militia previous to hisadmittance to the First Officers TrainingCamp at Fort Sheridan, where he was as-signed to the I 1th Cavalry Troop. Hewas held over for the Second Camp, andassigned to the 2 1 st Company. Receivinghis commission. Lieutenant Keiser wasordered to France, sailing on December2 7, 1 9 I 7, as a casual. Arriving overseas,he was ordered to Langres for furthertraining, but had to go to Base HospitalNo. I 5, Chaumont, for an operation aftera few weeks. On
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