Ware, Manierre Barlow (Died)

Before he was killed in action in the Argonne on October 12 [1918], Lieutenant Manierre B. Ware [illegible] won the red [illegible]...regiment the Three Hundred and [illegible] Second Infantry [illegible]. He was the son of Charles T. Ware of Kenilworth, director of the National Bank of the Republic, and associate director of the bureau of supplies of the Central division of the Red Cross. Lieutenant Ware's command had been ordered to "mop up" a German machine gun nest on the crest of a wooded hill. They were subjected to heavy fire. A one pound gun had been trained on the nest, but the officer in charge was killed. Lieutenant Ware took his place and himself was killed.