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The “Era” will be pleased to receive short sketches from parents or friends, of soldiers who gave their lives in our country's cause in the Great War, and who have not yet been mentioned in this column. Address, Editor “Era,” Room 406 Church Office Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. For complete index see “Era” for November, 1919.

Private William Squires, of Salt Lake City, was reported killed in action, in France, in the casualty list published November 9, 1918.

Corporal George R. Day, of Bountiful, was killed in action in France, September 17, 1917. He entered the service of the United States; and in June, 1917, he left Camp Lewis for overseas.

Privates Martin Sanders, of Richmond, Utah, and Lavon A. Marshall, of Franklin, Idaho, died of wounds received in action, in France, according to reports issued by the war department the latter part of November, 1918.

Frederick F. Smaltz, born South Weber, Davis county, Utah, December 18, 1887, and son of Mrs. F. Smaltz, was killed in action October 3, 1918, in the Argonne Forest. He was drafted May 27, 1918, and was in Company M, 109th infantry.

John Gunnell Darley, of Wellsville, Utah, 29 years of age, died of influenza and pneumonia, October 12, 1918, at Fort Logan, Colorado. He entered the army October 1, 1918, and is survived by his wife, one child, mother, father, brother and two sisters.

Private George Benson Parkinson, son of President William C. Parkinson of the Hyrum stake, and wife, died at the Agricultural College, Logan, one day during the last week of October, 1918, and was buried with military honors, at the Logan cemetery, November 3, 1918.

William Wallace Asher, of Lehi, died November 23, 1918, at Douglas, Arizona. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Asher. Influenza was the cause of death. He enlisted in the United States cavalry two years prior, at the age of 16. He was a lieutenant's orderly at the time of his death.

Amasa Lyman Green, Jr., son of Amasa Lyman and Ada Cutler Green, of Mona, Utah, died in the service of his country at Camp Funston, Kansas, October 18, 1918, of influenza. He was born at Glendale, Kane county, Utah, June 8, 1896. He enlisted in the engineering corps and left home July 29, 1918. His remains were shipped to Mona, Utah, for burial.

The death of George P. Ketcham, of Cowley, Wyoming, at sea, October 11, 1918, was announced in due time. He and his brother, Dote, left Cowley, June 13, for Logan, Utah, to take special training preparatory to going to France. He was buried with military honors at sunrise, the morning following his death. He was the first Cowley boy to die in the war.

Private Russell Muir, of Heber City, died in a hospital in France, of influenza, according to a message to his sister, Mrs. Clifton Pierce, of Springville, Utah, received the latter part of November, 1918. He was 23 years old. Mr. Muir was a member of an artillery regiment. He was trained at the University of Colorado, at Boulder, and went to France in September, 1918.

Private Henry M. Zabriskie, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Zabriskie, of Mt. Pleasant, Sanpete co., Utah, 26 years of age, was killed in action in France, October 1, 1918. He entered the service in April of that year, and went to France the following July. Before enlisting, he was a member of the national guard and took part in the military expedition on the Mexican frontier, in 1916.

Corporal Arthur R. Green was killed in action, October 5, 1918, according to a telegram received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George R. Green of Murray. The young man was a member of the 362nd infantry and was trained at Camp Lewis. He left Salt Lake September 19, 1917. Corporal Arthur Green was the first Winder ward boy to be killed in action. He was a nephew of the late Bishop Orrin P. Miller.

Private Ebbie Christensen, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Christensen, of Lehi, Utah, died of influenza, November 1, 1918, at the Presidio, San Francisco, California, 26 years of age. Mr. Christensen enlisted August 2 and joined the students' army training corps at the University of Utah where he was in training until October 18, when he was sent to the Presidio. He was a member of the coast artillery.

Private Bert Spackman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Spackman, of Richmond, Utah, was reported killed in action in France, some time during the month of October, 1918. He is said to have been the second soldier of Richmond, Utah, to die in his country's service. He left September 21, 1917, for Camp Lewis, in company with Ephraim Woodland, and arrived in France early in July, 1918. He and Woodland were members of the same machine-gun corps.

Cyril Arthur Gooding, son of W. J. Gooding, Cardston, Alberta, Canada, died in action, at Vimy Ridge, April 9, 1917. At the age of 14, he came to Cardston, from Chatham, Kent, England with his parents in March, 1912. He was an attendant of the public schools in Cardston.

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joined the Lethbridge Highlanders, January 10, 1916, passed first-class on signals and as marksman. first-class Leaving Canada for England, September, 1916, he was transfered to the 16th Canadian-Scottish Regi- ment, on volunteering for the front, was sent to France in October, 1916, and fell in action at Vimy Ridge, on April 9, 1917. Orson J. Kunz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kunz, both of whom are dead, died of Pneumonia at Kelly's Field, San Antonio, Texas, December 7, 1918. He was born May 11, 1891, in Bern, Idaho, and enlisted in the Aviation Section, December 15, 1917, and for a time was stationed at Fort Douglas. He was later sent to Lake Charles, La., then to Waco, Texas. In June, 1917, he graduated from the Brigham Young Academy at Logan, Utah. He is survived by a step-mother, six sisters and eleven brothers. His body was brought home and buried in the Bern, Idaho, cemetery.

Frank Alma Maughn, nineteen years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Maughn, Salt Lake City, Utah, died December 20, 1918, at the hospital at Fort Douglas, of an attack of influenza, followed by pneumonia. Young Maughn was a member of the S. A. T. C, at the University of Utah, and a former student of the L. D. S. U. Before his military service, he was employed as a register clerk at the Hotel Utah. Besides his parents, he is survived by his sister, Mrs. Clara Maughn Richardson, and five brothers, four of whom were in the army. Wesley and William were members of the 145th Field Artillery in France, and Edwin and Benjamin were in the serv- ice in this country.

Captain John Crum, of Pocatello, Idaho, was killed September 29, 1917, in the battle of the Argonne Forest. He was 35 years of age. He had been a commissioned officer under Madero in Mexico; had fought with the British; was in China during the Boxer uprising, and passed through the Philippine campaign. After two and a half years' service with the famous British hussars, he came to the United States and entered the service when America entered the world war. Captain Conrad E. Mortensen, of Ephraim, Sanpete co., Utah, died in a hospital in France, September 27, 1919, the cause of death not stated. Captain Mortensen was born at Ephraim 30 years ago, and was a prac- ticing dentist when he went into the service of the government. He was a graduate of Northwestern university. Went to Camp Lewis for train- ing, he was promoted to a captaincy before he went to France in the spring of 1918. Captain Mortensen served with a dental corps in the Ninety-first division and also with the 145th field artillery. Shortly before leaving for France Captain Mortensen married Miss Afton Parrish of Centerville, who survives him. Ross Moore, Heber City, Utah, son of Caleb and Jane Carlile Moore, born in Idaho, in 1887, was killed in action on the day he went into battle, September 26, 1918, in France. From the time he was seven years old, he made his home with his grandfather and step grana-mother, Mr. and Mrs. George Carlile, Heber City. After the war was declared, he tried several times to enlist, but was not physically able until May 1, 1918, when he left for Camp Lewis. He sailed for overseas on July 6, 1918; went into battle on September 26, 1918, and was killed in action the same day. He leaves a mother, a brother, and a sister, in Salt Lake City, and an aged — step grand-mother in Heber. T. Fred Winterton.

Raymond C. Hanford, born Salt Lake City, thirty-eight years ago, died Tuesday, August 12, 1919, in Salt Lake City, and his funeral took place from the Emerson ward chapel, on the 14th, Bishop Lloyd having charge of

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the services. Mr. Hanford attended the schools of Salt Lake City, and in 1900 took the civil service examination, being appointed to the postoffice, Salt Lake City. He was later transferred to the railway service, and in March, 1917, he was called to France, to serve in the postal service of the American Expeditionary Forces. He served as postmaster with the first division United States army. After the armistice, he was transferred to the sixth division, and sent to Germany. He arrived from Germany in Salt Lake City, July 31, 1919, and immediately took to his bed. He is survived by his widow, Elise Larson Hanford, and four daughters. Lenoy Quincy Eyres, son of James W. and Rosella Murdock Eyres, born November 19, 1897, Minersville, Utah, died at Logan, Utah, October 21, 1918. He received his early education in the public schools, gradu- ating from the eighth grade at the age of 15, entered the Murdock Acad- emy at Beaver, where he completed his first year in high school. He was deprived of attending school in 1914-15, owing to sickness and other misfortune, and spent his time helping his father on the farm, using his spare time in working for the different auxiliary organizations of the Church. He filled every office in the Aaronic Priesthood, and was secre- tary of the Y. M. M. I. A. for two years. In 1916 he entered the Miners- ville high school, completing his second year in the spring of 1917. En- tering the Beaver A. C, that fall was chosen one of the members of the State Athletic Club, his activity making him especially popular and re- spected by all his associates. He volunteered early in the summer of 1918, in his country's cause, leaving home on the 27th of September, 1918, to enter the S. A. T. C. at Logan, Utah. He passed a first class physical examination on the second day of October. A few weeks later, he was stricken with influenza and died October 21, 1918. Several of his officers and teachers said in letters to the family: "To know him, was to love him." Howard J. Hales was born at Spanish Fork, Utah, April 5, 1894, son of George and Eliza Brockbank Hales. He received his education in the district schools of Spanish Fork, and at the hlmv i ga Brigham Youug University. For eight years he was very active in athletics, being captain of the Spanish Fork high school team, in 1914,

^F* "- when they earned the state championship in basketball. He played on the Brigham Young University college team two yesrs, and went back to Chicago with the B. Y. U. team, in

a8SI 1916, when they received second place in the world's championship teams in basketball. He was a leader in all the school activities. In the m$ % :; four years he attended high school, he was Stu- dent Body president, president of the Agricul- tural Club, and captain of the basketball team Howard J. Hales for two years. He would have finished his stud- ies in the Brigham Young University and taken his degree, in one more year, from the time he entered the service of the United States. He was stationed at Camp Lewis where he arrived September 10, 1917; he returned home for a short furlough, May 1, 1918, returned to Camp Lewis, and sailed from New York for France, July 5, 1918. Howard was killed in a railroad wreck at Bonnieres France, July 23, 1918, and buried at Freneuse, together with 29 of his comrades, a few days later. His brother, H. Milton, a U. S. soldier in France, at the time, later visited the cemetery and dedicated Howard's grave, also the graves of two other "Mormon" boys who are resting beside him.

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Harmon T. Draney, son of Samuel E. and Clemence A. Draney of Auburn, Wyo., born in Plain City, Weber County, Utah, March 21, 1896, was killed in action November 8, 1918, in the village of Eckhar, not far from Andenard. He was a member of company E., 361st Infantry, 91st Division. He had been through both the Argonne Drive and through the hard first three days drive of the Belgium battle without being hurt. He left for camp Lewis, October 4, 1917, went over-seas in July, and into action on the 26th. He was the last man killed outright in the 91st Division. He acted as a member of the Sunday School Superintendency of Auburn, Wyom- ing, when drafted. Don Crandall Wade, son of James M. and Isa- bel C. Wade, of Ogden, was killed in action June 15, 1918, in the battle of Belleau Wood. He en- listed in the early part of December, 1917, went to Kelley Field, Texas, thence to Camp Hancock, Georgia, in the latter part of December, and sailed with the Expeditionary Forces to France, Harmon T. Draney April 4, 1918, arriving April 15. His last letter was written the day following "Mothers' day," and on July 10, 1918, he was reported missing in action. On June 15, no further word was received of bim until October 14, 1918, when it was reported by the Red Cross, that two of his companions had stated that he vent over the top on June 15, one of them stated that he saw him fall, and that he never moved after. On March 14, 1919, his parents received official notice of his death. He was born in Warren, Weber county, Utah. Was a man of clean habits, and an active worker in the Church, and was Assistant Superintendent in the Warren Sunday school at the time of his enlistment. He is survived by his parents, six brothers and five sisters, he was the third son to enlist, Lester A. and Heber C. being the other boys of the family who were in the army.

[The Y. M. M. I. A. Stake Board of the Taylor stake, Alberta, Canada, have compiled a few facts concerning the Latter-day Saint boys from that stake, who gave their lives in the World War. Many Alberta boys went over with the early Canadian contingents, several of whom made the su- — preme sacrifice, and now sleep in France and Flanders. A. E. Palmer, Supt.; E. J. Fawns, compiler. From the information available the following gave their lives for the common cause of humanity] Pvt. Phillip Palmer, Magrath, son of Wm. and Harriet B. Palmer, born atLoughborough, England, December 20, 1896, enlisted September 30, 1915, went overseas with the 82nd C. E. F., and was killed at Lens, June 3, 1917.

Pvt. George Baxter, Magrath, son of Wm. and Mary Lindsey Baxter, born May 18, 1891, at Park City, Utah, enlisted in 1915, went overseas in September of that year with the 175th. Batt. Was wounded and missing November 6, 1917. Pvt. Earl Betts, son of the late R. S. and Julia A. Betts of Raymond, born May 10, 1890, at Benjamin, Utah, went overseas with the 113th Bat- talion, landing in France in November, 1916, killed in action, April 9, 1917. while fighting gallantly with the 16th Canadian Scottish, at Vimy Ridge.

Pvt. Benjamin Carter, Grassy Lake, son of Caroline Carter Flew, age 21 years, born at Castle Gate, Utah, enlisted June 18, 1918, went overseas

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with the 84th draft, First Depot Battalion, transferred to the 21st reserves, in England, died of influenza, October 25, 1918, at Bramshot Military hos- pital.

Sapper William Howard, Raymond, son of John and Annie Sinnets How- ard, born May 5, 1885, at Small Bridge, England, enlisted March 8, 1916, went overseas in September, 1916, wounded, gassed, shell shocked; in hos- pital at Brighton, England, sixteen weeks; died and buried at sea Novem- ber 26, 1917. Sapper Howard is survived by a wife and two children. Leroy V. Harris, Magrath, son of Chas. V. and Minerva Harris, born at Lehi, Utah, August 25, 1893, enlisted in April, 1915, going overseas with the 113th Canadian Mounted Rifles, killed by shell shock at Vimy Ridge, June 27, 1917. Roy was always a faithful member of the Sunday School and M. I. A., and took an active part in the Magrath Band.

Pvt. Newel K. Milner, Raymond, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Milner, born January 5, 1889, at Provo, Utah, enlisted December 8, 1916, went to France with the 9th Reinforcement Draft, died of influenza, November 14, 1918, at the base hospital, Itaples, France, and is buried in the British ceme- tery, Douai, France. At the time of his death he had a brother in the service in the U. S. forces.

Pvt. Reed Card, Raymond, son of Chas. W. and the late Alice Muir Card, born May 18, 1892, at Logan, Utah, went over with the 113th Canadian Highlanders, landing in France in October, 1916, fought witfl the Canadian forces at Vimy Ridge and on the Lens and Arras fronts, killed at Paschen- dale, October 26, 1917, and is buried in the Paschendale Waterloo PiU Box. Reed was a fine type of young manhood, and was popular in his home town in social and athletic circles. Corporal Jens Leslie Stevenson, Raymond, son of John G. and Elsie M. Stevenson, born June 28, 1890, at Ephraim, Utah, departed for a mission to the Eastern States, December 20, 1916, and was assigned to labor in Pitts- burg and vicinity. "While laboring as a missionary he was drafted into the United States Army, although he might have been exempted for two rea- sons, being a minister and a Canadian citizen. October 4, he left Pittsburg for Camp Lee, Va., where he was assigned to Co. F. F. 319th Infantry, 80th Division, which left for overseas in May, 1918. While under heavy artillery fire in the Meuse-Argonne battle, he left cover to assist a wounded comrade, and was killed by a machine gun bullet while bandaging the comrade's wounds. He was posthumously awarded the distinguished Service Cross which was sent to his father. While in the army, Leslie continued to preach the gospel, and was called the "Parson," by his company. He was re- quested to conduct a Bible class, and won the respect of all his associates.