Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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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

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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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 TEeHILLTOP °f 19 Tfie Gold Star Book. = =i=- J s f afjji HE pi GEORGE WAYNE WHITNEY. First-class seaman, United States Transport, Harrisburg. Born March Third, 1896. Died of pneumonia October Nineteenth, 1918. Enlisted April, 1918. While making his fourth trip, transporting soldiers, Whitney succumbed to pneumonia. He was a student in the Economics department and came to Marquette from Ripon College. He was called into the service May Tenth and soon “shoved off to sea” aboard the U. S. S. Harrisburg. George was well known and liked by all the professors and his fellow students. His death came as a shock and was mourned by all those who knew him. u WILLIAM M. WILLIAMS, Company B., Marquette S. A. T. C. Born August Thirteenth, 1899. Died of influenza October Eleventh, 1918. Enlisted September, 1918. Williams -had scarcely been in the service two weeks when he became a victim of influenza. His home was in Columbus, Ohio. He was enrolled in the Engineering department, but transferred to Economics. Dean Atkinson said of him: “He was a fine boy. We are used to hearing praises of the dead, in fact it is a custom to say nothing but good of them. However, I feel certain that, had Williams lived, he would have had many fine things said of him while at school and afterwards.” Eighteen