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

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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

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.4 cs., .,.,, 5' , - .V - - -e'- - - 1- - --Y, ---... .vs-...KA . ...-.... ,, Curr Heroic Dead LEMUE1. CLARENCE DAVIS Lieutenant L. C. Davis was born at Dinan in Walthall county on the twenty-eighth of December, eighteen and ninety-two. He graduated from Tylertown High School and went to work for the l. C. Railroad in Magnolia. Spurred with the ambition to get a higher education, he entered the University where he remained two years. He then took a business course at Savannah. Georgia, and accepted a good position in that city, which he was holding at the outbreak of the war. His intense patriot- ism caused him to give up this position and join the colors. He received his commission as Second Lieu- tenant from Fort McPherson, Ga. From here he was transferred to Camp Beauregard, La., where he won a First Lieutenancy. He was stricken while here with the dreaded meningitis and died january the twentieth. nineteen eighteen. He was buried at his old home near Tylertown. W. L. PIGFORD Will Pigford, as he was affectionately known by the students of Ole Miss, was one of the most popular. if not the most popular boy that ever attended Ole Miss. He entered the University from Lumberton, Miss., in the year l9l4. He took an active part in every phase of college life and was excelled in nothing in which he took part. He won the Sophomore medal in Oratory in l9l6. To numerate the many honors conferred upon him while here would be next to im- possible, but numerous as they were there was not a single one that was undeserved. To know the number of friends that Will had in school each year you had but to know the enrollment for that year, for he was the friend of the entire student body. He received his de- gree here in l9l8, also took one year of law while here. He wanted to enlist as soon as war was declared on Germany, but his father persuaded that it was best to at least remain in school long enough to get his degree. He made application to be taken into the aviation corps but was rejected because of defective sight in one eye. This was one of the greatest disappointments of his life. He entered an Ofhcers' Training Camp on Seo- tember the first, nineteen eighteen. and had been in the service only forty-five days when his death took place as the result of a case of influenza followed by pneu- monia. Profound sorrow spread over the whole campus when the sad news of his death reached here, and his hosts of friends could hardly realize that the cheery, good-natured, and well-beloved Will Pigford was really dead. ln his death Ole Miss truly lost one of her noblest sons. Page If rrlecn -4' as tj.. r JB' .AA I A.. -r sl Q-.,.,. KL .11 -A' ' 'V ---..,,.. v--.-...... -if horny