University of Illinois - Illio Yearbook (Urbana Champaign, IL)

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Q 32 4 gg?-filxfx XFN fy NC Service on both fronts was the desire of Lt. Chris Gross '17, His wish was granted when he was ordered to sail for Siberia in March, 1919. He saw six months service on the Chemin des Dames sector with the Illini Ambu- lance Corps in 1917 and is now in Archangel fighting the Bolsheviki. 'r'- Behind this paint-daubed sc1'ecn lay potent factors in hastcning the end of the war. Muster of books, the student who succumbed in this fight showed n willingness to battle the elements. but to no uvuil. 1 - , V 5.-m,.,p-,airs f f - ' '4 e . , ep ' . Getting 9. bit of their health back. Far from the field of battle, many Illini rested by this cool lake in Saloniki. , Twenty-fouv' Q i I I1

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Lieutenant Mike Mason '16, was last seen arguing with the Military Police who had limited his stay in gay Paree to a short 24 hours. Mike had run all the way from Lacour- neau which is way down by Bordeaux and of course he did not feel like hoofing it back with so short a rest. It would have reminded him too sorely of the time when he'd win the mile at the Western Conference and after ten minutes rest start the two mile grind. ual . if -. - 4 A chunce shot by the Germans proved 1 Fi I Ruins at Venux where. the marines held vnliantly mrninst a terrible Wh,,'wnS'n nicmbm. of artillery fire ol' the Germans. ruinous to this big gun rst, hunal scenes of the devastation of Belgium w e r 0 witnessed by Prof' T E Oliver the Belgian R c l i ef Commission. Oft in the stilly night these barbed wire entumrlcments protected our boys, und jngunt doom 1.0 the T11-wily-fl11'r'z' V Germans. A- THE 1'YIENTY ILLlO ,

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f H l I i 'I I L A 2 9 CH We 1 1 ' ' XQCQU 7' :QT -432.511, X ff! I. N ,ANN A front linc cemetery at Chateau Thierry. Every man a hero. Their memory shall ever be cherished by the University for whose ideals they 'fought so nobly. we 'f f n 3151 ,,fAf5?dwXq:h..-b'I4'fg3?' KT., A , f v,m,.g:-A , k-. ,Q - 'eff-'N , A - -45 1. . -i 4 was A mere tree stump to the enemy---this observation post grave our boys ax dis- tinct advantage. L4 Many organic chemicals were imported from Germany before the war. When these stocks became exhausted, the American Universi- ties were called upon to supply the formulas required in the making of these chemicals. Illi- nois, with its great laboratories, came forth and performed great deeds for the nation. Many articles were discovered, and many processes developed which cheapened the manufacture of chemicals needed both in martial and peace-time industries. Sergeant-Pilot Everett Buckley of the Lafayette Esquadrille, who was shot down by two German planes after he had destroyed the third of their number, escaped July 1, after ten months in a German prison and reached Switz- erland July 7 after killing a guard with his pocket knife. Buckley has been awarded the French military medal, the French service medal and the Croix de Guerre with palms. Lt. F. B. Cortis '13 Lt. C. Gross '17 Cnpt. E. A. Williford '15 Sgt. P. Van Doren '21 Lt. G. Waters '10 Twenty-five Q:- ..... p THE TWENTY lLLlO s v