Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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JAMES LOWELL COREY, Corporal Eighty-third Company, Sixth Regiment, Marines. Killed in action in the battle of Soissons, July Nineteenth, 1918. Buried near Vierzy, France. Enlisted November, 1917. Corey was the first Marquette gold star man. He had been over the top three times and during May and June spent many days in the front line trenches. While recovering from shell shock in a French hospital, he was attended by a fraternity brother, Charles Crottier. He recovered in time to take part in the battle that was the turning point of the war. A letter from his captain says: “We went into the battle of Soissons on July Nineteenth and were pushing the fight on the retreating enemy when we met terrible machine gun opposition from their rear guards. It was during this advance that Corporal Corey was killed by a machine gun bullet near Vierzy, France. He died instantly and was buried on the spot by his comrades. Corey studied Journalism while at Marquette. JAMES D. DESMOND, Lieutenant United States Marine Corps. Born November Twenty-fifth, 1896. Died at Quantico, Virginia, September Twenty-first, 1918. Buried at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Enlisted March, 1915. After his graduation from the academy, Desmond enlisted in the Marines and when the United States entered the war was transferred from the band school to the regular ranks. In the early part of September, 1918, he was commissioned first lieutenant and was preparing to leave for France when death overtook him. The entire Marine forces then at Quantico and a large Naval detachment were present at the military funeral of their dear friend and officer. Sine

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ORLEY CANFIELD BROWN, One Hundred Seventh Field Signal Corps. Killed in action October Tenth, 1918. Buried in France. Enlisted August, 1917. Brown was killed during the fight of Argonne Forest while stringing telephone wires behind the front line of trenches. The men were ordered to finish the work regardless of the number of men lost and while unreeling the wire were caught in a “creeping barrage. The captain in charge said, “Brownie, she’s a long stretch, grab on the wire, let’s go. Brown rose up, grabbed the wire and after going about seventy-five feet two shells burst right beside him killing him instantly. At the time of his death Brown was serving with the Thirty-Second Division. He was killed near Desnes. He was a night Law student and would have been a graduate of the class of ’19. ANDREW CONNELL, Company D, Three Hundred Eleventh Engineers, Eighty-Sixth Division. Died December, 1918, in France. After recovering from a severe illness Connell could not resist the temptation to take part in a game of football with his comrades, but the result was a sad one. He sustained internal injuries and a few days later died. Connell was a student at the Medical school and was an athlete of no mean ability. Whenever the opportunity presented itself he would indulge in athletics. Letters received by his mother, Mrs. Mary Connell, 216 Lincoln street, Janesville, Wisconsin, constantly spoke of his gratification at being able to be overseas. IkF Eight

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Tlie Gold StBook. GEORGE 0. FRIEBEL, Marquette Naval Unit. Died December Twelfth, 1918, of influenza. Buried in La Belle Cemetery, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Enlisted September, 1918. Friebel was the third influenza victim at Marquette and his death came shortly before the demobilization of the Naval unit. He died at his home and a naval guard from the university accompanied the body to its final resting place. Friebel was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Friebel, 1376 Twenty-fifth Street. He was nineteen years of age. Hanson attended the Law school at Marquette two and a half years before he went to the Mexican border. He was known to his classmates as “Red.” JAY BURLEIGH HANSON, Private. Field Hospital, Company One Hundred Twenty-Six, Sanitary Train Ono Hundred Seven, Thirty-Second Division. Died of disease February Sixteenth, 1919. Buried in the American Cemetery at Limoges, France. Hanson was with the army at the Mexican border when the war broke out and early in January, 1918, was sent to Newport News, from where he went to St. Asaire, France. He took part in all the battles that the Thirty-Second Division participated in and shortly after the armistice was signed succumbed to pneumonia, at Base Hospital Thirteen, Limoges, France. m