Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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WALTER 0. REINHARD, Lieutenant Fourteenth Supply Train of the Fourteenth Division. Died of pneumonia October Third, 1918, at Camp Custer. Buried at his home, Reeseville, Wisconsin. Lieutenant Reinhard entered the service on the nineteenth of June and was commissioned a first lieutenant at Camp Custer. He graduated from the Marquette Dental school in 1916 and was better known to his countless friends as “Reinie” and “Soft. He was married shortly before he entered the service. ALEXANDER E. SHIELLS, Lieutenant, Labor Bureau. Died of pneumonia March Sixteenth, 1919. After surviving all the battles that the terrible Thirty-Second participated in, Alexander Shiells died a few days before sailing for home—the trip that would have brought him back to his wife and twenty months’ old baby. Lieutenant Shiells went overseas as a member of the One Hundred Seventh Engineers, but when the armistice was signed, was transferred to the Labor Bureau. He was a member of Company E of the old National guard and was an expert marksman. He graduated from Marquette in 1912 with an E. E. Degree. i l r- =U =r= 1 '1 Sixteen

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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. ’ ’

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LIEUTENANT J. MICHAEL TROCK, Medical Corps, One Hundred Twenty-Sixth Ambulance Company. Died of disease July Twenty-third, 1918, at Base Hospital No. Seventeen, Dijon, France. Enlisted April, 1917. Trock was a member of the One Hundred Seventh Field Signal Battalion under Major Lewis of Racine and was transferred to the One Hundred Twenty-Sixth Ambulance Company, which went overseas in February, 1918. While in France he was transferred to his former company and went over the top several times. Lieutenant Trock graduated from the Medical School in 1913 as an M. D., and at the time of his enlistment was a south side physician. RAYMOND J. SINNOT, Battery A, One Hundred Twenty-First Field Artillery. Born January 3, 1897. Killed in action October Third, 1918. Buried in France. Enlisted April, 1917. Ray enlisted at the outbreak of war and in January 1918 he landed in France. He was in all the battles up to that of Argonne Forest. A letter from his commanding officer describes his death: “Sergeant Sinnot and a friend of his volunteered to go off a short distance for supplies one night during the Argonne drive. The roads were very bad, but they drove on until a blockade prevented them going any further. They did not stop at this, however, and jumping off the wagon the two trudged along the road until, being overcome with fatigue and the dampness of the night, they decided to build a fire in a nearby dugout to dry their clothes and rest. They were just seated comfortably when a shell exploded close by, fatally wounding Sinnot and blinding his friend for a few minutes. However, they reached a First Aid station and Sinnot died shortly after.” Seventeen rr