Troy University - Palladium Yearbook (Troy, AL)

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Page seven -1, we ,V--X P1 3-,' - ' ' 2 ff f ' V A f - ' ' in , . '--A-fn ----'4-41 ' A W ' see- - '-11 , rs s at lffilisp-42125919 P13 PIZYTON V. DEESE Peyton V. Deese enlisted in the National Guard lrom Dale County, june 26. l9l6. Alter several months of service on the Mexican border he was made a Lieutenant of Company G, lCi7th lnfantry. and sailed with that unit to France in the winter ol l9l7. He saw active service on various sectors of the western front in France, and in the hattle of Chateau Thierry. on july 28, l9l8, he received the wounds from which he died on the 7th of the following September. Lieutenant Deese was a student in the Troy Normal School during the session of l9Il-IZ. being a member of the junior Class. He was twenty-eight years of age when he died.

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A' .M 5 ?Q Irie. D,-X......-ll XDJUJJ -. fJ as e H WALTER S. RICHARDSON Class of 1917 Died in France of typhoid fever, January 27, l9l9. NOTE.-Among the hundreds of splendid young men who have been students with us we apprehend that there yet may remain some whose names should be recorded' here, and we have delayed publication for sometime hoping to complete this roll, and we trust our friends will find it so. If, however, any name has been omitted it will be a source of very poignant regret to us, for it is equally to them, as well as those named and pictured here, that this book is dedicated.