TOM BENNETT

First Lieut, Thomas E, Bennett, of Holton, severely wounded

es mine explosion near Metz, France last October where he was

serving with the Seventh Army 163rd Engineers, died March 29, 1945

in the Army Hospital at Brigham, Utah, Tom spent two years in the :
K. Ue School of Architecture and was sworn into the United States

Army as an inductee on October 18, 1942. He always planned and

expected to return to Mt. Oread to finish his education, but over and
above this he was always a loyal Jayhawker as is shown by many

personal remembrances which are prized possessions of his family,

For instance there is the picture of his jeep taken in Paris with its
name "Jayhawker" plainly visible on its side, But even more significant
are the contents of his personal notebook which he always carried in

his pocket, In this book, next only to the data which he kept on all

of the men in his platoon, appear in his own handwriting the complete
words to "I'M A JAYHAWKER" and "CRIMSON AND THE BLUE", Truly Tom Bennett

was a loyal Son of Kansas as well as a faithful and brave soldier,