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Show Th ree Utah Soldiers Dead in France FjveAre Wounded in Recent Fighting rpP RW, left to right, Theras Kechepalos, Salt Lake, killed 111 action; William B. Steglisli, Salt Lake, died of I LakePneUni0nla' GUbert L- Smith, Randolph, Utah, killed in action. Second row, left to right, Marcellus Bills, Salt C1 e' Vao Schofield, Spring City, and Corporal Hoswell Howell, wounded. Bottom row, left to right, Sergeant jracej3, Purdue and Moroni StrlngfeUow, Salt Lake, wounded. 1 1 s . , wvwvrwvs uuodT Upon being wounded on October 10, it was three days before Mr. Bills could be conveyed to a hospital on account of the ferocity of the fighting. He is able to assist about the hospital now, however. Mr. Bills left Salt Lake with the national na-tional guard October 10, 1917, received training at Camp Koarny with the 145th field artillery, and went overseas over-seas with the June replacement unit. He was attached to the Seventeenth artillery. ar-tillery. Vao Schofield, son of Joseph G-. Schofield Scho-field of Spring City, was wounded September Sep-tember 28, according to a letter to bis garents from a hospital in France. Mr. chofield was wounded in the legs by shrapnel. He received his training at Camp Lewis, leaving home in May, and sailed for France July 4. Corporal Roswell Howell, son of Mrs. Hattio E. Howell of Tooele, has been wounded in France, according to a letter, let-ter, dated October 8. Corporal Howell also reports that Vcrn AHsop, also of Tooele, was wounded in the fighting. Corporal Howell says there has been much excitement at the front, but it is not a very desirable place to pass the time. A gain of five and one-half miles in one day was made by his uuit, Corporal Cor-poral Howell says'. He is in a hospital wounded are: Marcellus Bills, Salt Lake; Vao Schofield, Spring City; Corporal Cor-poral Roswell Howell, Tooele; Sergeant Ser-geant Clarence E. Purdue and Moroni Stringfellow, Salt Lake. News wa receeived yesterday by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Steglish of 1063 First avenue of the death in France on October 18 of their son, Private William Wil-liam R. Steglish, member of the 145th field artillery. Hc succumbed to bronchial bron-chial pneumonia. Private Steglish, who was 21 years old, was born in Germany and came to this country with his parents in 1003. He enlisted in the Utah National Guard in 101G, and served on the Mexican border in 1017. When tho 145th regiment regi-ment went to Camp Kearny he accompanied accom-panied it, and later wont to France with the organization. In addition to his parents he is survived by one sister and six brothers, two of whom also are in the service. News baa been received by Mr. and Mrs. George A Smith of Randolph, Utah, of the death of their son on the front in France. Private Gilbert L. Smith onlisted in tho Third Wyoming infantry in July, 1017, and trained first at Camp Russell, Cheyenne, Wyo., later liointr transferred t.n i'anm Mills, ("hnr- and expected to rejoin his company soon. Corporal Howell was trained at Camp Lewis and was sent to FYanco last Juno. He is an uncle of James Ervin Howell, who was killed, and a brother of Mrs. J. C. Cotterell of Tooele. , Sergeant Claronce E. Purdue, former manager of the Taxi company in Salt Lake, and a director of the Lehi Tintic . Mining company, now in France, has. written an interesting letter, under date'-of date'-of October 15, to a Salt Lake friend. Sergeant Purdue is in G company, 362nd infantry, Ninety-first division.-He division.-He was at the Verdun front and also' Argonne wood when the allied forces rooted out the Huns from their trenches and dugouts, and drove them back eighteen kilometers in four days. September 29 he was wounded by shell in tbe shoulder and leg, and vf. taken back of the lines, operated and sent to a base hospital. Sergeant Purdue writes he had man narrow escapes. One day he was in ' rofk barn when a shell exploded in tli center of it. Sergeant Purdue expected, he sai. to be out within a few days. Special to The Tribune. ' OGDEX, Nov. 14. Sergeant CT Mssages to Relatives Tell of Casualties on the Western Front. Tbce deaths of b'tah soldiers in Frane were reported yesterday and five .thcrs have been wounded, accora- e I messages received by relative, TKfl did are: Theras Kechepalos of G fie' killed in a,tion; William R. , h had como Gnswold of the finance department, the quartermaster corps of the Anie can expeditionary forces in Fran, died from an attack of influenza, A cording to the advices received in C. den by Mrs. Ada Griswold, wife of t' soldier. Sergeant Griswold was formerly i the employ erf the telephone company Ogden, and had been in army ser'vic for about a year. Mrs. Griswold wai formerly Miss Ada Riley, sister o' James liilcy, cashier of the Pingree Na4 I tional bank. i lotte, N. G.'j whence he embarked. He is survived by hi- parents, a brother, Moroni Smith, and a sister, Mrs. Alice Sutton, of Randolph. The official report stated Private Smith was killed in action July 26. News has been received by George and John Kechepalos of Smelter Town, Garfield, that their brother, Private Theras Kechepalos, had been killed in Franco. Private Kechepalos was born in Greece thirty-one years apo, coming to the United 'States in 1909 and becoming be-coming a naturalized citizen. Besides his brother?, he is survived by his parents par-ents in Greece. Kechepalos enlisted in tho army in August, 3917, and after training at i 'amp Lewis was assigned to F company, com-pany, 362nd infantry. He had been in Franco nine months before meeting death. Ho was the first to enter the firmv from Smelter Town, and the first employee of the Garfield smelter to be killed iu action. y After having been in the hardest fighting for ive months without the loss or a r F1' from the Seventeenth field artillev i Marcellus Bills, son of Parley Bills, J.SZ2 South Eleventh West street, memfter of that organization, haa boon wotwded. Mr. Bills wrote on August 31 't, considering the work against win tan gl erne nts and seem inglv itnpr. ,vvble trenches the regiment regi-ment had bi -doing, the escape of its ic J almost |