=James Norman Hall=, Corporal, Colfax, Iowa, aviator, author of “Kichinger’s Mob,” shot down two Boche machines, and destroyed a third. Four days later, June 25, 1917, fighting seven machines, was wounded, and reported killed. However, he managed to make the French territory, and landed in an empty trench with the wings of his machine resting on each side. Writing to a friend, he said:—“I am flying 125 miles an hour and now I see why birds sing.” Hall was the first American aviator to win the distinguished service cross of the American Army. =John Earle Fike=, Wooster, Ohio, Foreign Legion, killed at Givenchy, June 17, 1915. =James B. McConnell=, 28 years of age, born in Chicago, graduate of Haverford, Pennsylvania, and University of Virginia, a Railroad, Land and Industrial Agent, by profession. Writing for an American magazine, he was killed before the material was printed. He said:—“The more I saw of the splendidness of the fight the French were making, the more I felt like a slacker.” He was decorated with the Croix de Guerre, and killed March 26, 1917, while fighting two German aviators. His body was found amid the wreckage of the machine by French troops on the advance through the devastated district. The old bullet marked propeller from this wrecked machine, which formerly marked his grave, has now been superseded by two cannon, erected by special order of the U. S. Government. McConnell said,—”The war may kill me but I have to thank it for much.” =Schuyler Deming=, American citizen, soldier of the Legion, killed in attack August, 1917. =Dr. James A. Blake=, American Surgeon, who gave his services to France at the outbreak of the war;—was requested by the French Government to take charge of the hospital in the Ave. du Bois du Bologne with 300 beds. He was decorated with the Legion of Honor. =Marius Roche=, New York, arrived in France in 1914, only 17 years of age, decorated with the Croix de Guerre, wounded at Verdun. =Edward Mandell Stone=, a Harvard graduate, was the first American volunteer killed in France. =N. Frank Clair=, Columbus, Ohio, died in hospital of wounds received in action. =Nelson Larson=, a former American sailor, was killed on the Somme on our Independence day, July 4, 1916. =Brock B. Bonnell=, Brooklyn, New York, soldier of the Legion, seriously wounded, returned home to America, decorated with the Croix de Guerre, the Medaille Militaire and a wooden leg. =Frank Whitmore=, Richmond, Va., decorated for conspicuous bravery, on the Somme, July, 1916, wounded in the spring offensive, 1917, now in hospital, covered with bandages, medals and glory.