Ronald Loban

Private, Headquarters Company

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      Died March 17, 1918, at Evacuation Hospital No. 212 at Baccarat, France. Buried in Grave No. 28, Baccarat. Son of Mrs. Etta Loben, Jewell, Iowa.  Loben was not strong at any time during the hard winter spent in Rimaucourt.  Only a boy, the rigors of that trying period in our first billets without sufficient fire to even dry their clothes, proved to be too much for him.  Hard work and exposure in the trenches took his last ounce of vitality and he died of pneumonia contracted while on duty in the trenches.  Private Loban was born at Blairsburg, Iowa, December 15, 1900.

Russell G. Hughes

Corporal, Company L

#100238

      Killed March 17, 1918, at Badonvillier. Buried March 19th, Pexonne Cemetery, Grave No. 8. Son of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Hughes, Omaha, Nebraska. Corporal Hughes was killed by shell fire during the heavy bombardment of our trenches.  He was standing on watch at his post over the dug-out where he stayed faithfully at his place of duty to the very last.  No corporal of the company was a more dependable leader; whether under fire or back of the lines, he was always on the job.