Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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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

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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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Sergeant Stephen (i. Sherman graduated from Central with the class of 1916. He was a student at the University when war was declared. and he enlisted in the Marines a short time afterwards. He went to Kranee with the famous 5th Regiment of Maiincs and took part in the defense of Belleau Wood. He was killed in action at Belleau Wood on June 7. 1918. Linton C. Skoijha enlisted in the Marines April. 1917, and was assigned to the 78th Company, 6th Regiment. He served in the battles of Chateau Thierry, Belleau Wood, and St. Mihiel where he was wounded. After being left on the field he was picked up by the Germans and died two months later in a prison hospital at Krusen-ach, Germany, December 4. 1918. Sergeant Lowell Valentine served with the 151st Field Artillery up to his death in July. 1918. He was killed by an accidental explosion while transporting ammunition.