Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-03-28
Honor Roll Men OF Olney District.
Montgomery County, Md.

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States to enter the World War, Olney dis
trict was not backward in offering the ser
vices of her sons.
By the middle of April. 1917, Tyson Mar
shall had enlisted. On May the 18th Stanley
Wetherald, Rob't Wetherald, Thomas Hyde,
4th. and George Pryor johnson had entered
the first Reserve Officers Training Camp,
all receiving commissions.
James S. Petit joined the Ambulance
Corps in May, was wounded while remov-
ing the Injured from the field of battle and
was awarded the "croix de guerre."
Dorsey Dill joined the Marines and
George Marshall enlisted for duty on a
transport.
Arthur Douglas Farquhar entered an
Aviation School in Texas. passed high
in his class and in August, 1917, was sent
to Italy, where he did great work with
bombing machines. He was wounded in
action. awarded Caproni medal and an
Italian war cross.
Edgar Rohrer entered the ranks of Mont
gomery County's Company X. with which
he fought until obliged to return from over
seas duty, having been gassed.
Before we entered the war, John Hall
Janney had taken up his duties with the
Medical Corps of the British army.
Rev. Henry II. Marsden gave up his
charge at st. Johns Church, 0lney. to be-
come Chaplain for one of the regiments of
the District of Columbia National Guard.
He was transferred to the l4Sth Field Ar
tillery. which did such wonderful work on
the fighting line.
Mahlon Kirk. 4th. and Uric Hutton en-
tered the second Officers Training Camp.
Early in September the selective draft
began, calling the boys from all parts of
the district until finally our Roll Of Honor
inclused 101 names, as follows
Adams. Herbert; Awkward Robert.
Bacon. Lloyd; Bacon. Melehial; Ban
croft, john Barnsley. James Furguson;
Bell. Basil; Bellows. Archie l. Benson,
Harry E.: Bentley. John Needles; Bond,
Ulysses; Bowen, Stanley; Broadly. Arthur
c.; Brooke. Allan Farquhar; Brown. John
Fletcher; Brown. Malcolm R. {, Burriss,
Pearl Lee; Burriss, William R.. Burroughs,
Oscar w.. Butler. Albert d.
Carroll. Harry M. ; Cashell. Charles Pearl !;
Cole, John Frank Cole, Robert A.: Cook,
George E.; Cook, Wilbert A.; Copeland,
Charles Matthew Copeland. Gilmore Coul-
ter, Roger Brooke; Craver. Charles Dorsey.
Dill, Gustavus Dorsey; Dorsey, Elsar !;
Downey Frank j.. Downey, John j.
Ewing, Granville.
Farquhar. Arthur Douglas; Farquhar.
Elgar; Farquhar William j. T.; Frazier,
Howard
Gartrell, William C.. Gilpin. William H.
Hackett, Israel D.; Harvey, Alpheus D. /;
Hill, Thomas A.; Hines. Martin Richard {;
Howard, Dowell Jennings Hoyle. Leonard
II. Hutton, Samuel Janney Hutton. Uric
Orlando: Hyde. Thomas.
Jackson. Andrew; Janney. John Hall ;
johnson. George Pryor; johnson, Lewis
o. p; Jones. Charles Frederick.
Kemp. Robert W. King, Oscar p; Kirk,
Mahlon. 4th; Kirk. Rudolf
Lea, Ellicott Snowden; Leizear. Burh-
nard s.; Lincoln, John, Jr. Lucas. Paul.
Marsden, Henry Howard Marshall, Geo.
S.; Marshall. Henry Tyson: Matthews,
Robert Douglas Miller James Arthur ;
Murphy, Elge.
Newgent. Joseph
Parsley, Charles Elear Parsley, George
M. Petit. James S.; Price. Norman B.
Humphrey. Samuel d.. Purvis, Eleie G.
Rohrer, Edgar.
Sharp. Alexander Shipley, Milton; Shoe
maker, Henry Reese; Simpson. Robert ;
Smith, John T. E.; Snowden, Bernard M. /:
Snowden, Edward; Snowden. Nicholas !;
Speck. Samuel c.; Stabler, Snowden /:
Stephens, Charles Elmer.
Thomas, James M. Thomas. Robert
James; Thompson, James W.
Walker, Thomas j.. Jr.; Washington.
George Washington. William X: Waters.
Clarence Edward Waters, Joseph Frank
lin; Webster. George Cooke /; Webster. How
ard; Wetherald, J. Stanley; Wetherald.
Robert p. White. Charles II.
But one of this number, Norman Price,
who died of pneumonia. in France. has
been called upon to make the supreme
sacrifice
This record has been prepared by Mrs
Josiah W. Jones, Thrift Stamp Leader for
Olney district, under the Montgomery
County Council of Defense. Woman's Sec
ton.
The Womans Section. together with the
Home Service Section Of the Montgomery
County Chapter Of the American Red Cross.
is earnestly working TO complete the Honor
Roll of the entire county. To this end ii
is requested that names which belong on
the Honor Roll be sent at once to Miss
Martha Poole. Rockville, Md. In addition
to name Of man kindly give organizations
with which he served and the name Of his
nearest relative. and state in which dis
trict Of the county il is wished to have the
name appear on the Honor Roll. With the
assistance Of Mr.. Eugene Cissel and other
volunteers. it is hoped lists similar to this
one may be published for each district.
Kindly make il your business to see that
this Honor Roll is accurate, and send any
corrections or additions to Miss Poole now.
Circuit Court.
The following cases have been disposed
OF up TO the present time