New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-12
Officer Sent to Teach u. 5.
Soldiers Was a Har-
ward Man
First Served in Egypt

CAMP UPTON, Long Island, Nov. H.
Captain II. w. Haserick, one OF the
British officers here 10 teach New
York's National Army men how things
are done in the trenches, was to-day
betrayed into revealing a secret that 1t
was all too evident he would much
rather have kept to himself.
Attempts to inveigle Captain Has
erick into narration Of some Of his
trench experiences were dismal fail
ures. Had he, before his transfer from
the infantry to the command Of a
trench mortar battery, ever been over
the top?
Yes. There was nothing more to be
said on the subject.
"Your first visit to America, cap
tain?"
The mortar expert paused TO weigh
the question.
"Well-er-not exactly"
"When were you here lsst?"
Summer of 1915" said the captain
hastily. "But that's Of no interest. II
you'll excuse me, really must
Persistence neid the analogue IN line.
"Oh. well, If you must know. was
IN Harvard, CLASS OF u.
Postgraduate work
NO, indeed; I'm rather young YOU
know
Born in New England
But there is no use delaying the
game with further preAmnares 70 the
important revocation. Captain Iase-
rick, of the Brush trench mortars'
lent 10 Uncle Sam as specialist IN
structor, is one Of Uncle Sans own
repnews. His birthplace was not IN
England, but in New England. Now,
ever. that is not a matter OF record
nor of common knowledge IN the brit-
sh army. The very general VINO as
signed him TO this detached servlce dld
not know he was sending an American
20 America. In fact, up to this pres
ent moment, only one OF his fellow
British officers is in on the secret. As
an American, the captain could not
very well be holding commission IN
the army Of Great Britain.
But II. W. Haserick. Harvard ~.
was pretty we'll equipped 20 pass for
an Englishman when ne applied for
admission into one Of the British Off
GERS training camps. His father was
in business in London. and he himself
had spent two years in an English
public school. Boston breeding boy
lood in prep. school which makes "a
speciality of ending students TO Har-
ward with Harvard accents ready
made, and two years in the broad uni
versity had killed the germ that lodges
in the Y'nkee's throat and gives him
his twang.
First Sent TO Egypt
Accepted as matter of course as a
young Englishman, Haserick was made
an officer by the British. That
was in the sumner of 1915. For seven
months after he was commissioned he
was on outpost duty in Egypt. They
had started him for Gallipoli, halted
him on the way and set him to helping
guard the Suez Canal
For youth fresh from college il was
stirring service. Usually the sounding
Of reveille was an empty formality in
those days. Before getting up time
Nhtit AohHAig "fit n AkW win ltttI 7
tribesmen rushing through his little
camp on camelback, banging away with
fintlocks.
Subaltern Haserick was recalled 70
England, assigned 20 the infantry and
sent 20 the front. Promotion came
quickly. lie was made a captain in the
infantry; then was transferred to the
command OF trench mortar battery
AS an artillery of icer he became so
aole that-well, they are not sending
second-rate men from the other side TO
help prepare this army of freedom for
its work