The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-07
AR OFFICER ETS DEATH BY E:CE OF SHRAPNEL
Howard L. Smith Was
 nee of Miss Eleanor Anderson of Bir-
 h mingham

ialty lists during the week car-
 anne of Lieut. Howard L. Smith
 h. Wis. but the news of his
 already been conveyed to the
 lieutenant Smith was the fiance
 Eleanor Anderson, daughter of
 Mrs David S Anderson of Bir-
 m.l who was visiting in Chatta-
 lat lthe time the sad news of his
 Farrived.
 buten4nt Smith was one of the most Ialar dricers in the second training Imp at Fort sOglethorpe. where he was DSommissioned first lieutenant. The fist news of his death came through let ter from Bugler Alex Gilmore, Bir- mingham boy of Lieutenant smiths com pany. Gilmore wrote his mother, who informed MT. and Mrs. Anderson, who notified Mrs. Martha Smith of Oshkosh of the death of her son. An indication of the high esteem in which Lieutenant Smith was held by those who knew him best is shown by the following from the Chattanooga Times
 General Pershing's casualty list yes terday carried the name of Lieut. How ard l.. smith of Oshkosh, Wis. who for several months was stationed at Fort Oglethorpe with the ammunition train or the Third division. The press dispatch confirmed a message received the day before by his fiancee, Miss Eleanor An derson of Birmingham, who is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Lewis Shepherd, at 'Altemede Farm
 Miss Ar5arSon'S tala1ra r, r,a frop, Mrs smithA mother of the young man. sana Sbriesly1 stated that he had been killed in adtien June $. Further infor- nation was received in a letter sent to Birmingham by a friend of the officer, who was with him at the time he fell. From hirn it was learned that Lieu tenant Smith was severely wounded when 9 shell splinter pierced his shoulder ana penetrated his lung. Apparently. he lived few days after being wounded It was his first experience in the front line, as previously he had informed friends here that he had been detailed to military po- lice duty
 Additional ipformation regarding the death of the young officer was received by Mrs. Vincent Milligan in letters that \ arrived yesterday from Lieut.. Vincent D21illlgan. One or the letters stated that keutenant Smith had just been placed xhe ambulance and sent to the rear
 a shattered shoulder. The other
 apparently written few days later,
 punced that he had died Lieuten-
 Smith and Lieutenant Milligan were
 he same company.
 iss Andersons engagement to Lieu
 mt Smith has been known to her in-
 te friends, but no formal announce7
 had been made of it by her father
 nsother, MT. and MrsHeD. s. Ander-
 Aey were 4assfave been married
 return from France. Mrs
 Dlother of the young officer, was
 1tor at 'Altamede in March, short after the engagement was made kf$wn toj the immediate relatives of the young c9uple.
 s'The family is one of considerable pro nine1ce in Oshkosh, LieuteTiant Smith hfaving been a director of one of the banks there and also secretary of a trustI company. His older brother is a prominent business man of that place, while his younger brother is also in FranceI His sisters husband is a cap- tain iTf the regular army.
 'Du1ng his stay in Chattanooga Lieu tenant Smith made many friends, to whom 1.-the news of his death will bring toll the war is taking.
 Miss Anderson has been at Alta mede' for the past 20 days. Her mother and father arrived yesterday from Bir- mingham for visit here