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A. B. WARREN DIED IN FRANCE

MAGOUN WOUNDED WHILE FLYING, CAMPBELL GIVEN CROIX DE GUERRE.

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Lieutenant Arthur B. Warren '15 died in France last week from scarlet fever contracted during service in the front line trenches, according to word received from Washington. Last spring Lieutenant Warren received the degree of A.M. at the University and after training in the R. O. T. C., was commissioned a second lieutenant at the first Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg,

Word has also been received that Lieutenant Francis P. Magoun '16 has been wounded flying on the western front. Last fall he was commissioned second lieutenant in the British Royal Flying Corps, as a result of his unusual skill and daring while fighting in the scouts' division of the flying corps. On December 6, 1917, he brought down a German aviator who had previously overcome 16 Allied planes.

Lieutenant Campbell Decorated.

By bringing down a German plane recently, Lieutenant Douglas Campbell '17 has won the Croix de Guerre, as well as the congratulations of the French general commanding the zone in which the machine was downed. It is believed that he is the first graduate of a strictly American aviation school to bring down a German plane.

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