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J. K. MOORHEAD '17 DEAD

Killed While Leading Troops Against Metz Fortress.--Only Sixteen of His Company Survived.

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Word was received yesterday of the death of Lieutenant James Kennedy Moorhead '17 and Law School, while leading his men in the drive on the Metz Fortress on the Verdun front last October. Moorhead left the University in April, 1917, for Fort Niagara where he was commissioned second lieutenant and assigned to the 22nd Regiment of the Regular Army at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. From there he went to Philadelphia where he and his men guarded the interned German officers and sailors. Detailed to the 61st Infantry at Camp Green, North Carolina, he went overseas on April 15, 1918.

Soon after his arrival in France he received promotion to first lieutenant and was placed in Co. H, 16th Infantry.

The last letter received from Lieutenant Moorhead was dated September 27, and told of his being in the Argonne forest. No further word was received until December 19 when a letter of formal condolence came to his mother from a fellow officer who wrote: "We went through it all together and no one put I knows the glorious battle your son put up." Only sixteen of the company of two hundred and fifty survived.

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