Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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WILLIAM T. MURPHY, First Lieutenant Observation Balloon Unit. Born 1888, Milwaukee. Died of influenza November Second, 1918, at Grantham, England. Shortly after war was declared, Murphy offered his services to Uncle Sam and was commissioned a first lieutenant and stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas. He trained here for several months and then was sent overseas. Murphy graduated from the Marquette Medical school and was a partner of his uncle, Dr. J. P. Ward, of Waukesha. His death came unexpectedly, nine days before the signing of the armistice. He is survived by a wife and four children. lr=r== i J i t ir ■ = - J HAROLD EDWARD REILLY. Eighty-First Company, Sixth Machine Gun Battalion, Marines. Killed in action November Second, 1918. Buried in the American Battle Area Cemetery at Landres et St. Georges, Ardennes. Enlisted May, 1917. It was the third of the four greatest American battles that demanded the life of Reilly. After recovering from wounds received at St. Mihiel he returned to his company November First and the next day was ordered to attack regardless of shell fire. He was carrying a machine gun and his “bunkie,” the tripod when a shell exploded behind them killing them both instantly. Funeral services were conducted by the Regimental chaplain and he was buried with full military honors. Up to the time of his enlistment Reilly was in the Economics department. Fourteen

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WILLARD G. MATHER, Company A, Marquette S. A. T. C. Born September Seventeenth, 1918. Died of influenza December Sixth, 1918. Buried at Apple-ton, Wisconsin. Enlisted September, 1918. Mather was registered in the Engineering department and after a short illness died of influenza. He graduated from Riverside High School and joined the S. A. T. C. unit at Marquette last fall. He was popular during the short time at Marquette and his pleasing personality and noble character was the keynote of his success and won him many friends wherever he went. Mather was given a military funeral at Appleton, Wisconsin. WALTER H. LUDWIG. Private. Company Eighteen, One Hundred Sixty-first Depot Brigade. Born July Ninth, 1894, Milwaukee. Died of pneumonia at Camp Grant, October Seventh, 1918. Enlisted May Twenty-seventh, 1918. Ludwig was about to enter an Officers’ Training Camp when he was stricken by pneumonia and passed into the Great Beyond, five months after the date of his enlistment. He entered Marquette Law school in 1913 and received his degree in the June of 1917. His father was the late John C. Ludwig, Judge of the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County. Up to the time of his enlistment Ludwig was employed in the law offices of his brother, Emil Ludwig.

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Fifteen LIEUTENANT HOWARD M. MORRISSEY. Dental Corps of the Three Hundred Sixtieth Infantry, Ninetieth Division. Killed in action at Argonne Forest, November First, 1918. Buried near Banthville, France. Enlisted August Fifteenth, 1917. Morrissey was a graduate of the Dental school and was practicing at Kenosha, Wis., when the war broke out. The following letter was received by his mother from the captain: “Lieutenant Howard M. Morrissey was killed in action the morning of November First. His loss greatly handicapped the work of his detachment of the Third Battalion as he was a remarkably capable assistant. A piece of high explosive shell pierced his brain killing him instantly. His grave is near Banthville overshadowed by the Argonne Forest. ’ ’ EMIL REITMAN, United States Navy. Died of influenza at Great Lakes, October Twenty-first, 1918. Enlisted summer of 1918. Reitman was a member of the Marquette Law school and when war was declared he went to Washington and entered the service of the War Department. He also attended Georgetown University while performing the duty of a patriot. Last summer he decided to enlist in the Navy. After suffering from the influenza plague for a month he was called to the World Beyond. The following is an item taken from the Newsboys’ World with which Reitman was intimately connected: “By his untiring efforts and perseverance, added to his common sense, Emil Reitman guided the Newsboys’ Republic through the foundation building days, and placed it upon a firm base whereon a glorious edifice to the cause of the American newsboy has gradually been erected, until now it is a permanent institution of our city, standing for better citizenship, a greater Milwaukee, and a victorious America. ’ ’