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Will Be Buried With Military
Honors at Arlington.
FELL IN THE FIGHTING at TIEN FSIN
Remains Are Expected to Arrive
Tomorrow.
HIS CAREER IN THE NAVY

Information has been received by Col
True, depot quartermaster of the army,
that the remains of several officers and men
who were killed in the Chinese campaign of
last summer, which were recently dis
inferred and transported to the United
States, have at the desire of relatives and
friends been forwarded to Washington for
burial in the national cemetery at Airing
ton. Among these is the body of Capt.
Austin r. Davis, L. S. NJ c., who was
killed during the sanguinary battle of Tion
Tsin, in which Col. Liscum of the 9th
United States Infantry also lost his life,
and number of other officers of the army
and Marine Corps were severely wounded
Naval Cadet on the kearsarRe.
Capt. Davis was a son of the Rev. L. b.
Davis, a clergyman of Savannah, Ga.
where he was born in 1871. Appointed to
the Naval Academy May p, 1888, from bis
native state he was graduated in 1892 and
ordered to sea for his two years course,
being assigned to the Kearsarge, famous
for her splendid victory over the confeder
ate cruiser Alabama off Cherbourg, France
in 1864. He was still serving as a naval
cadet on board the Kearsarge when she
cast away on Roncador Bank in the
Caribbean sea, in February, 1894, and par
ticipated in the thrilling experiences CT the
shipwrecked crew of the historicalc old
SloOp- Of-War.
In the Spanish War.
On July 1 of the same year, having COM
pleted the prescribed course of six years
as a naval cadet, young Davis was COM
missioned a second lieutenant in the ma
rine corps, and from October until the
following June he attended the school of
application at the headquarters of the ma
rine corps in this city. After graduation
he ctafj no
marine barracks, Norfolk until the sum-
mer Of 1896. when he was ordered to Mare
Island, Cal, to join the battle ship
Oregon, then Just going into commission
He served on board that vessel during all
her cruising on the Pacific coast and her
magnificent dash around the South Amer-
can continent upon the outbreak of the
with Spain. and took part in the vic
tory over Cervera'S squadron at Santiago de
Cuba, July 3. 1898. In that great sea fight
he had charge of portion of the Oregon's
secondary battery, and highly COM
mended for his GOODNESS and efficiency dur
ing the engagement.
Service in the Orient.
Lieutenant Davis was detached from the
Oregon soon after this and ordered to
Portsmouth, N. H., where he served at
Camp Haywood during the detention of the
Spanish prisoners at that station. In Feb
ruary, 1899, he was promoted to first lieu
tenant and in March to captain, and in
April when the LIST battalion of marines
ordered to the Philippines, he was
signed to the command of one Of its COM
panies. He served at Cavite and the out
lying posts for about year. In the early
summer of 1900, when the position of the
foreigners in Pekin began to be one of
IRENE danger he was ordered to China
with Colonel Meade's regiment of marines
The regiment took the field Immediately
upon disembarking at Taku and Joined the
allied forces under command of the Brit
;r.t, No., -orI -al, a
attack Tien Tsin. 1t to be for
Capt. Davis a brief but glorious cam
paign, for on the very day that the assault
on the city began. and while he was stand
ing at the side of Col. Meade directing the
fire of his company deployed in a trench
a few yards to the front, he was instantly
killed by shot through the heart. Thus
he met a soldiers death, falling in battle
in the very face of the enemy.
Capt. Davis untimely end has been wide
ly lamented, not only by his brother Off
GERS, with whom he was always a favorite
on account of his generosity, unfailins
good nature and companionabe disposition,
but also by his large circle of friends IN
civil life, among whom many Washing
tonians are numbered. He was a man,
who, while making many friends, remained
true to them all. loyalty being one of the
chief characteristics of his nature.
Funeral Arrangements.
The remains of Captain Davis left San
Francisco last Tuesday night and are ex-
pected to reach Washington tomorrow.
Meanwhile his parents have communicated
with friends in this city, who have made
such arrangements for the funeral as are
possible pending the arrival of the family,
which will probably be tomorrow. There
will be no services held over the remains in
any of the Washington churches but only
the usual committal services at the grave
at Arlington. The interment, however, will
be made with full military honors The
escort will consist Of two companies Of
marines and the Marine Band from the
marine barracks.
The exact day of the funeral has not been
definitely fixed, as it will depend upon the
time of arrival Of the body of the gallant
officer and the arrival also of his family
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