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

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,L s- ' XX: 5 X -- ,'. QX , it , Q g l, .. I J 'i X UIQ? E ZMIHS3 4 5515 Qi r g - g X, J' gags- 4-seem' Hf3gg:.iT'111'F cage mg 5. , X. ,ig x Our Heroic Dead A. P. H. SAGE Lieutenant A. P. H. Sage entered the University from A. 81 M. College in l908, and was a student here dur- ing the sessions of i908-'09, '09-'l0, and 'IO-'lI, re- ceiving his diploma in the study of medicine. From here he went to jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, for his junior and Senior years of medicine. He re- ceived, upon graduation, an appointment to Kings County Hospital, New York, and for almost two years was House Surgeon there. From there he came to Memphis and practiced medicine and surgery. His future promised to be a useful as well as a successful one. When the United States declared war he volun- teered immediately and asked for active service. He was commissioned a First Lieutenant and assigned to duties with the British Army. He trained at Plymouth, Leeds and Blackpool, England, before being sent to France. He was assigned to a Field Ambulance Corps and was in the thick of the fighting during the famous battle of the Marne. He was next attached to a Ca- nadian Casualty Clearing Station, fifteen miles behind the lines, at a place named Doulleus. On the night of the twenty-ninth of May, l9l8, the Huns made a raid on this hospital and bombed it. At the time of the raid Lieutenant Sage was administering to a wounded British soldier. He and seven others who were in the room at the time were instantly killed. He was given a military funeral Somewhere in France and in that grave lies the body of an Ole Miss man, who died like a man while performing his duty. MARSHALL MONTGOMERY CARLETON Marshall Carleton was born at Decatur, Miss., Sep- tember 25th, 1898, and moved to Union, Miss., in l9l0, where he attended high school for two years. From high school he went to Smith County Agricultural High School, finishing there in l9l7. He entered the Uni- versity in Seotember, l9l7, and took up the study of pharmacy. Before the establishment of the S. A. T. C. Marshall was very anxious to enlist, but as soon as its establishment, his father persuaded him to join the S. A. T. C. and thereby serve his country and at the same time continue his studies. During the epidemic of in- fluenza which raged here he was stricken with the deadly disease on the sixth of October and later de- veloped pneumonia. Of the brave fight he made for his life, every member of the S. A. T. C. at the Uni- versity knows. But his manly hght was in vain and on October the seventeenth he succumbed. Several of his friends accompanied the body home and a military funeral was accorded him. Only once did Old Glory hang at half mast at Ole Miss, and that was when she lost one of her deserving sons, Marshall Carleton. Page llllcfvc