Texas A and M University - Aggieland Yearbook (College Station, TX)

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ODur dolii tar rtion COLLEGE is no greater than its sons. Its record is the comibined achievements of its graduates and former students. Judged by this acid test, the A. and M. College of Texas takes it place among the really great when considered in its participation in the war just closed. Of her sons, twenty-five hundred were actively aligned with the armed forces of this nation. Forty-nine percent of its former students were in the army, navy, or marine corps. Of the remaining fifty-one percent, a very large number were engaged in agricultural or engineering pursuits as vital to the prosecution of the war as were the operations of the army and navy them¬ selves. This section of the Long Horn is dedicated to the fifty-one men who died so gloriously for the principles in which they believed. The New York Times declared that the A. and M. College of Texas had a larger participation in the war in proportion to its enrollment than any cducatonail institution in the United States. In years to come perhaps we shall cherish this glorious record even more than we do now. May this section perpetuate to succeeding generations of the College this splendid heritage, chronicle the magnificant sacrifice of our soldier dead, and pay tribute to the splendid heroism of our soldier living. Page Six

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Second Lieutenant Air Service Ba linger, Texas Born July 14, 897, at Ballinger, Texas. Received early sclWuing in the Ballinger public schools. AtteHdbd A. and M. fro September, 1914 to Nchgtak er. 1915. listed in the Signal KTrHfc teTl Re sei-ve Corps July 20, 1917, and assigned to Depot Company “K,” Signal Corps, at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Transferred to the School of Military Aeronautics, Austin, Texas, February 25, 1918. Com¬ missioned at Gertsner Field, Lake Charles, La., August 14, 1918. Flying instructor at March Field, Riverside, California, from November 7, 1918, to February 19, 1919. Killed in an aeroplane accident at March Field, February 19, 1919. Parents: Mr. and Mrs. E .C. Allison, 23 Hann Ave., Denton, Tepas. First Lieutenant Field Artillery Mesquite Born March 1, 1895, at Mesquite, Tegas. Received early scdmofing in the Mineral Vells, Texas, pumRc schools. Attended d M. .Sentemher. 1914 to June, 1917L Enter efi the army September 19, 1917 and assigned to Battery “B,” 345th Field Artillery, at Camp Travis, Texas, with the rank of First Sergeant. Attended the Third Officers Training Camp at Camp Travis, Texas, and was recommended for commission. Sailed for France in May, 1918, and was commissioned June 1, 1918. Completed the course for Artillery Officers at the Saumur Artillery School in France and then assigned to the 12th Field Ar¬ tillery. Killed in action October 13, 1918, about one and one-half kilometers west of Attigny, France. Posthumously awarded Croix de Guerre with Palm. Mother: Mrs. M. C. Polk, Mesquite, Texas. Page Seven