Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Saill!ll2aiklllIOIIIIIIIIIIIiliailii!Ilinillllll!i: Pul M. Cl krik entered the service December 15. 1917. After graduating from the School of Military Aeronautics lie took his Hying course at Kelly Field No. 2. where he was killed in an airplane accident May 27. 1918. Corporal Roiiert Fischer was a student at the University in the spring of 17 when war was declared. He enlisted in the Marines on the 23rd of April, and was assigned to the famous 5th Regiment. He was killed in action at Belleau Wood on June 7. 1918. Liei t. 11 i on P. Kidder enlisted as a private in May, 1917, and was commissioned second lieutenant on the Rheims battle field. His death occurred on October 3, 1918. after he had led his platoon in the attack on Mont Blanc. He was killed while placing his men in better position. ( 12 l

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 To The Honor THE STUDENTS AND ALUMNI OF CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL. WHO IN RESPONSE TO THE CALL OF THEIR COUNTRY. FOUGHT VICTORIOUSLY IN THE GREAT WAR FOR THE PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY AND THE CAUSE OF HUMANITY. THE CLASS OF 1919 THOSE WHO FELL Donald Badger Charles Beal ROBIN BORTLE Clement Brooberg | Parker Bruce Cyrus Chamberlain Paul Currie Harry Elliott Edwin Erickson Robert Fischer Glen Glasby Harold Hoopes Hugh Kidder Claudius LaLone Grant Lorenz Harold T. Linnell Lloyd C. McArthur Leonard Murray Stanley Nilsson Robert Northway Dewitt j. Payne Stephen Sherman Donald Skidmore Clifford Skobba Lowell Valentine Laurence h. Wadsworth luratuniwiiiiiiiniifiiiuiiiuii ;iiiiiuiimiiini:3ni:iiii uiiiiii[S}tiiiii!aitiiiiim ffliiiii!!Kriiii!iiiiiiftmiiiui»:ifliiiiiinr!iiiiiiiiis;;iin;ii iiiii! uiiiiic iiimiiiiiiiiiiiiHSiniiiiiiii it aiiiiiuraiiiiiiiitiHiiiiiii iiiiiiHiiiiwiiiiniiiiiiiiiniiii iiiimitniihr I u i

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Claudius A. La Lone was a junior in Central High when he enlisted in Sepembter, 1916. He entered the radio service and was in charge of that work on an interned German liner. When the liner caught fire May 8, 1917, lie was fatally burned and died a few weeks later. 11 arold T. Linkell, while still in his first year at the University, enlisted on April 6, 1917, in the Marine Corps, being among the first 500 in the United States. After preliminary training he went to France as a member of the famous 6th regiment. While placing his machine gun in an advanced position on June 6. 1918, he met his death in the battle of Belleau Wood. His friends have learned since his death that he received the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor citation. Lloyd McArthur enlisted in the 151st Field Artillery shortly after war was declared. During his regiment’s service at the front he served on the guns through the campaigns in Lorraine. Chateau Thierry. Champagne, and St. Mihiel. It was the morning after one of the hardest attacks, that the counter-battery bombardment commenced, which caused his death. The men were lying around the guns, ready at a second’s notice to man the piece, when lie was killed by an enemy shell. [iiuninimiii iBgiiiiiinHgiuiimia HaiagiH ami I 13 i ill! mnamiimmiinia