“BORN OCTOBER 28, 1894
DIED JULY 23, 1918

FIRST LIEUTENANT MANIERRE BARLOW WARE

Company K, 362nd Infantry, Ninety-first Division. Killed in action near Epinonville, France, on October 12, 1918.

Lieutenant Ware was born in Kenilworth, 111., on December 19, 1895. He was educated in the public schools and graduated from the University of Illinois in 1915. He attended the Plattsburg Camp in the summer of 1916; also had had military experience in the Students’ Corps during his college days, holding the rank of major. At the outbreak of war he was admitted to the First Officers’ Training Camp at Fort Sheridan and assigned to the I 5th Company. Receiving his commission, he was ordered to Camp Lewis, Wash., and assigned as an instructor to the 316th Engineers, later being transferred to the 362nd Infantry, with which regiment he sailed for France in July, 1918. Arriving overseas. Lieutenant Ware underwent further training and, completing the same, was ordered to the Headquarters Company of the 362nd Infantry, later being placed in charge of the 37-miIimetre guns of Company K. lt was while in command of this work that he was killed on October 12, 1918. He was unmarried. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ware, of Kenilworth, Ill., survive.”

Reference Data:

The History and Achievements of the Fort Sheridan Officers' Training Camps, by Fort Sheridan Association, 1920, page 165