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Find-A-Grave - Lowell Thayer Wasson (1890-1918) "Notable Missourians involved in ‘The War to End All Wars’," by Paul Johns, Buffalo Reflex (Buffalo, MO), May 3, 2017

[...] Lowell T. Wasson of Ozark. Born in 1890, he was the only son of James A. and Mary (Jones) Wasson, who were living on a farm near Riverdale at the time of his death. Lowell was a 2nd Lieutenant in Company M of the 120 Infantry and was killed in action at Ypres, Belgium in 1918. A graduate of Drury College, he was 16 days shy of his 28th birthday and he left behind no wife, no children, no grandchildren and no great-grandchildren.

Borrowed Soldiers: Americans under British Command, 1918, by Mitchell A. Yockelson, 2008, Page 102:

Friendly fire incidents were an unfortunate consequence of war. The 30th Division had recently lost two ment this way. . . . An officer in Company M of the 120th Infantry, 2nd Lt. Lowell T. Wasson, was shot by a private from his unit on 7 August [1918]. Wasson apparently became confused after returning from a patrol near Swan Chateau and entered a listening post unannounced. The private guarding the post was ordered to fire on Wasson hy his superiors, who thought the intruder was a German conducting a trench raid. . . . Brigadier General Tyson concluded that in Wasson's case, the shooting could have been avoided. "Orders will be issued to prevent a recurrence of such deplorable results," Tyson wrote in his report.

See also, from Internet Archive Book Images on the Flickr Commons:

This is a Committee on Public Information photo, No. 4315.. From the Committee's catalog: "4315 SHOWING HIS PROWESS TO HIS INSTRUCTORS This marine now undergoing intensive training in France received approval from his instructors." Catalogue of Photographs and Stereopticon Slides United States. Committee on Public Information. Division of pictures March 1 to June 1, 1918 books.google.com/books?id=DYxDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA25&lp...

Art Siegel: Thanks for finding the related image in the Catalogue of Photographs and Stereopticon Slides. We will include more details in our updated description.

French government archive of CPI photos has same photo, dated 3-27-18, with caption "Ce Marine américain est, après un long entraînement en France, considéré par ses supérieurs comme prêt à faire la guerre" www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memsmn_fr?ACTION=RETRO...

Date on bottom of image is 7-19-18

From Catalogue of Photographs and Stereopticon Slides ... Oct. 25, 1917 to Jan. 31, 1918 from Committee on Public Information books.google.com/books?id=DYxDAQAAMAAJ caption is "IN TRAINING: Our boys in camp making a practice sortie."