University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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N t. -jf-Tx ' - .. 7 J Ylssfr X li . 'iiX??44- .I -fern... -f :L-' 511.2 ixx 'r . Y 3.1 L, 'Af 5 L1 EM Af- l' .i Y' 'I 1'- xg gg. pmgtsree wr Tig' an 1f fffTf 1 s , 'Vis' ij ,yy 4 K kr Our Heroic Dead HUGH ZOLLICOFFER BROWNE Lieutenant Hugh Zollicoffer Browne entered the Uni- versity at the beginning of the session of l905 and graduated from the Medical Department in l909. While here he was editor-in-chief of the University Magazine, associate editor of The Annual, and one of the main speakers on the Semi-Centennial Celebration of the Hermaean Literary Society. He graduated in medicine from Tulane University and located in Kos- ciuslco at which place he was practicing his profession at the time of his enlistment. He voluntered in june. l9I8, in the Medical Corps and received his commission as First Lieutenant shortly afterward. He had been in the army only about three months at the time of his death which occurred at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, on October the twenty-second, nineteen eighteen, as the result of pneumonia following a severe atack of influ- enza. He was very popular among his men and brother officers, and during his short illness it was nec- essary to post a bulletin telling of his condition, so many were the inquiries concerning his condition. His colonel pronounced him his most popular officer, an honor which he justly deserved. He was junior Re- placement Offlcer at Camp Oglethorpe. Lieutenant Browne left a wife, young daughter, mother, several brothers, and unnumbered friends to mourn his loss. No clearer statement of his view of life can be given than a quotattion talcen from one of his own poems: He best can wage the battle well Who drowns the outer throng And standing staunch in Duty's ranlc, lVloves onward with a song. ANDREW H. SIVLEY Lieutenant Andrew H. Sivley received his commis- sion at Fort Logan H. Roots on September the first. nineteen seventeen, at which date he was transferred to Camp McArthur. On October the fifteenth of the same year he was transferred to Camp Beauregard. Louisiana, where he was attached to Battery l40th Field Artillery. On june the eighth he was sent to Camp blaclcson, South Carolina. On .luly the twelfth he volunteered to be transferred to the air service, and was sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. during the last of July, and while here had the distinction of being the only man in his class to hre two '-erfect problems. From here he was sent to Selfridge Field. Michigan. where he was to complete his training. Four days be- fore he would have graduated he was lcilled in an aero- plane accident, being at the time of his death twenty- two years old. Page icn

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LE, QMUSQ' C - 'E' H E Y ,,..,..'?SZ,, cyl.. Our Heroic Dead ROBERT M. CAMPBELL Robert M. Campbell graduated from the University in I9l7, being awarded the degree of Bachelor of Law. He was practicing his profession in Kosciusko when he entered the service of his country. On ac- count of a physical defect he was rejected for active service and enlisted in the Y. M. C. A. work at Grenada, Miss., on May the eleventh, nineteen hun- dred and eighteen. After taking a course of train- ing at Blue Ridge, North Carolina, Camp jackson, and Columbia University, he sailed from New York on july the twenty-third and reached London August the twenty-eighth. From here he went to Paris, remaining there for one week, after which he was placed on active duty in a Y hut Somewhere in France. While here he contracted influenza and pneumonia and died on September the fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen. He was buried in an American Military Cemetery by a group of his fellow workers of the Y. M. C. A. ln the words of one who knew him as a Y. M. C. A. worker, He was a fit representative of the Young Men's Christian Association and an honor to his country. ORIN DUNCAN Orin Duncan enlisted in the Marine Corps at Memphis in the spring of l9l8. After training at Paris Island for a short while he was sent across, landing in Brest. France, September the twenty-third, and after a brief illness of meningitis died on the twenty-eighth of the same month. He attended the University during the sessions of l9l6-'l7, and 'l7-'l8, graduating in law in the spring of l9l8. He was a quiet, unassuming and well liked young fellow and was one of the two Ole Miss men who died while in the service of the Marine Corps. Page mnc

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- - If 5 5 L...-.--2 ...- - - ..f.,.-.....T,L-:J .W .. ,gig , -'LW f-..4'., 7 Our Heroic Dead joH N H. Moom' john H. Moodv entered the University in September. l9l6, from Mississippi Heights Academy and finished his sophomore year here. At the time of his call to the colors he was teaching school at Delay in Lafayette county. He was stationed at Camp Pike, Arkansas, at the time of his death, which resulted from a combined attack of measles and bronchial pneumonia. The local board of his county offered him deferred classihcation in order that he might finish the year at his school but he refused it, saying, I would feel that l would be to that extent a slackerf' ln the words of his best friend. He was willing to lay down his life on the altar of his country. His last words were, lf I die it will be only the blood of one more young American given in order that the world may be free. ROGER MONTGOMERY' Lieutenant Roger Montgomery graduated from Cham- berlain Hunt Academy in I906 and entered the Uni- versity during the fall of the same year. He took his B. A. degree here and one year and a half of law, after which he obtained a license to practice and en- tered into partnership with his father, a prominent lawyer of Tunica, in l9ll. Roger Montgomery was well known at the University and was a member of the D. K. E.. fraternity here at that time. He was re- fused entrance to an Ofhcers' Training Camp because of his weight, but on a second application was accepted. He entered the Ofhcers' Training Camp at Camp Leon Springs, Texas, in August, l9l7, and in November of that year received his commission as a First Lieutenant in the infantry. He volunteered to be transferred to the Signal Service in l9l8, and was sent to Ellington Field, Texas, where he also took a special course in machine gunnery, and was made an instructor in the machine gun service. From here he went to San Leon, Texas, as machine gun instructor and while here also trained to be an aviator He was killed june the eleventh. nineteen eighteen, by the accidental fall of an aeroplane in which he was flying. At the time of his death he had been recommended for a captaincy but his com- mision had not then reached him. He was buried at Qakwood Cemetery near the scene of his childhood. Ar the time of his death Lieutenant Montgomery was twenty-eight years of age. Page eleven