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ORIFLAMME 13 SERGEANT EDMUND RUHE SYKES Sergeant Sykes was born April 27, 1899, and attended the public schools of Allentown for some years, afterwards entering the Allentown Preparatory School where he graduated in 1915. In the Fall of the year he entered Franklin and Marshall as a Freshman with the class of 1919. During his stay in college be became well known for his prowess in foot ball. He was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity and sang on the Glee Club his Freshman and Sophomore years. Shortly after Amcrica's declaration of war, Sergeant Sykes enlisted. lle joined Company 15, -1-th ltegiment, N. G. P., on April 39, 1917, and remained with it for several months. He was soon however transferred to the Headquarters Staff of General C. T. O'Neill as mounted orderly, ranking as first-class private in which capacity he went to Camp Hancock, Ga., early in September, 1917. While at Camp Hancock, be was promoted to a mounted corporal and transferred to 1'leadquarters, 103rd Ammunition Train, 28th Division. He took the course of Bayonet Drill and was made instructor in Bayonet Drills, signalling, etc. While at Camp Mills in May, prior to sailing, he was promoted to a sergeant and during the voyage was one of the sergeants of the Deck Guard where he no doubt contracted the cold which led to his final illness. He was taken sick on the train between Liverpool and Ramsey, l'lngland, which was the Rest Camp, and transferred to the emergency hospital at ltumsey. He was sent from here to the Hursley Military Hospital, near XVinchester, lingland. During the voyage across be caught a eold and on landing was suffering with tonsilitis which developed into pneumonia. Empyema developed and an operation was performed June 24- which was apparently successful. Ilowever within a few days complications developed that resulted fatally at 5:15 on the morning of .Tuly 16, 1918. Miss Lora 13. Roscr, Chief Nurse, Unit I, U. S. Military Hospital, in a letter to Sgt's Sykes' father said: You should be very proud to be the father of such a boy. He was a good soldier, never complaining, and always smiling. IIis body lies in a beautiful little cemetery near VVinchester, England. We were all very fond of your son, he was so patient?
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