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Show UTAH ENGINEER IS AIDE TO PERSHING ON FRENCH FRONT LIEUTENANT 0. M. BURTON. . VKW!? from Franco has just been re-cclvcd re-cclvcd by Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Burton Bur-ton that their son. Lieutenant Clarence M. Burton, S3 years of auc, has had the unusual distinction of bcln ai)pointed to duty on the enyineerint; wlaff at American Ameri-can expeditionary forces headquarters. Lieutenant Burton is a UUO titan ford graduate. In April, 1917, he enlisted for service in San Krancist-o. On June -S he received his commission, heinjj sent to Fort Leavenworth, Kan., lor three months' training. Uiter he was us&inned to duty at l-'orl Worth, Texas. From there he was ordered to Kuiope. Lieutenant Burton sailed in the same convoy as was the ill-fated Tusranla, landing- at a north Filmland port on February Feb-ruary 6. Immediately he was sent to Franc. where, on April L'C', he completed his second course in special engineering. The present important work of Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Burton is map mark inc. and lie sees Genera! IYrshing practically daily, lie is lot-aied In excellent iiiarters, he writes Ins parents, and is down to the grind of continuous hard war winning work. |