El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-15
Estimates Are That 10000
Americans Are Fighting in
Armies of Etente Allies.

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= mate) fighting in the armies OF
! the entente a1iies. several thousand
have been killed or wounded. Stories
J of their deeds of bravery and their
! gallant ends trickle over to the United
/ States from time TO time. but the vast
/ majority Of their exploits viii go I'M
sung. The total of American volun-
teers participating in the great war
( will never be accurately known.
Many Would Fight for Germany.
Many thousands would also be fight
! ing for Germany and her allies I'M
dOubtedly. if the British blockade did
not prevent them from reaching the
| Lewellyn. who happened to be in Ger
many when the conflict began. accom-
panied a German regiment into Bel
GUM without having any official rec
ignition and was wounded on one Of
the early battlefields. near Ypres
Then there was first Lieut. Heinrich
Won HeinrichShOfen- of St Louis. killed
while fighting for Germany May Is,
1915. He was in the insurance bust
ness IN Missouri During the Spanish
American war he Joined the volunteer
army and rose TO the rank of captain.
Most Are in Canadian Corps
Most OF the American soldiers are
in the Canadian corps. In fact. IL is
said in some quarters that a major
ity of men in the first Canadian con-
tingent to enter the fighting were
from the United States. They died
by the score when the Germans used
gas for the first time-in the socalled
second battle Of Ypres.
Americans are prominent in the cele-
brated French Foreign Legion. and
many have died in the engagements OF
that hard hitting organization
Hero List Comes Weekly.
Almost every week news comes of
the death "On the field OF honor" of
an American For one whose name
gets in the newspapers probably a
score OF TWO die without recognition
of this kind.
one of the latest to fall was H r
Deighton Simpson. son OF Henry W.
Simpson. of New York. who had been
flying for the past two years in Eng
land and France as a British aviator.
He did not die in one of the many
air battles he engaged in, however, but
came through them unscathed TO meet
his end in flying accident in Eng
land.
Simpson had been a schoolboy in
Eton and he fought in the flying corps
with many of his old schoolmates.
The American contingent in the For
eign Legion suffered exceptionally
heavy losses in the Champagne battle
at the beginning of October. 1915
Lieut. Sweeney, who had seen SER
vice at West Point; Frederick Capde-
vile. who already had been wounded
in engagements; Edmund c. c. Genet
of New York, a great grandson of De
Witt Clinton; Paul Pavelka. of Madi-
son, Conn. ElOV Nelson. Of MilWau-
kee; Robert Soubrain. of New York;
David King. of Providence. and Frank
Musgrave. of New Orleans. fell in this
awful Champagne attack.
In this same battle DR.. David Wheel
er. a Boston surgeon, came to an end
truly heroic He quit the comparatively
was wounded near the first line.
Suffering. Relieves Others.
Suffering intense pain. the surgeon
crept along the battlefield refusing TO
give up. that he might minister to the
needs Of the men in the trenches
groaninE from their injuries.
How many he temporarily put out OF
agony nobody viii ever know. but his
hypodermic and his supply of morphine
were used on all the fallen soldiers he
could find in five mile crawl. Then
he was picked up and carried to the
rear. exhausted and unable TO aid
further.
While talking to the captain of his
company. a German bullet killed the
captain and wounded DR.. Wheeler a
second time. But even after that he
several wounded men,
Kitten Rockwell. of Atlanta. Ca.
Ga, came to a spectacular end in an
air battle on the Alsace front.
He arose alone in an armored air
plane and attacked a German machine
He emptied the magazine of his rapid
firer at his adversary. but while turn 3
ing to encircle his foe, the German shot
him in the head.
With his machine he dropped like
stone. Whether the bullet or his fall
killed him was impossible to determine. 3
Fall in Givenehy Battle.
The engagement at Givenchy. on
June Il, 1915. also resulted in the
deaths Of several American legion
naires. These were Russell Kelly, Of
New York: Herman z. Hall, of Chicago;
John Earle Fiske. of Wooster, Ohio,
and Kenneth Weeks and Henry Farms
worth. both of Boston.
William LAWRENCE Breese. soninlaw .
OF Hamilton Fish and formerly secre- i
tary to American ambassador Page. in ,
London, became a naturalized British :
citizen after the war started and was
killed by an explosion while testing a
new grenade apparatus he had invent /
ed He was lieutenant in the Royal :
Horse Guards .
Sergt. Florence 7 Price. star athlete .
of Brown university and former New ,
Ork newspaDerman. died when a
shell burst in the dugOut !
" here he WAS sleeping
Dies COurageOusIy. /
Aifr,d I.ucien Pierre Ferry would /