The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-29
FIRST CASUALTIESIN
DRIVE ARE LISTED
1iput. Jauss. Married Two
DAYS Before Sailing, Killed
in Action.
OLD GOTH MAN IN FIGHT
Jersey Youth Dies in Battle;
Yonkcrs Boy, Once Gassed,
Is Wounded.

American doughboys inflicted upon the
Germans in the Marine drive settled
heavily upon New York yesterday when
tho first considerable number OF casual
Ties suffered by the Americans in the
recent heavy hghting were contained in
,bs list sent home by Gen. Pershing.
For several days the lis. had been
,eng,hening. but most of the casualties
reported before occurred in the fighting
which Immediately preceded the launch
ins OF the allied drive which forced the
Roche back across the Marine and
started him off on the disastrous retreat
which still is in progress Not all OF
those reported killed or wounded in the
list made public yesterday participated
in the Marine drive. Several of the
casualties dated back as far as June 4.
The death in action of Lieut.. Ray B.
Jauss OF Isl West Eightieth street Is
the sad anti-climaN OF the romance
which made Miss Harriet James Of
Congers, y. Y, his bride two days be-
fore Lieut. Jauss sailed for France in
April. Lieut. Jauss was graduate OF
Columbia University and was a civil and
sanitary engineer.
Married when Ordered TO Sail.
For years Lieut.. Jauss's father, super
.ntendent of the lighterage station of the
New York Central Railroad at Weehaw-
ken, y. j.. has had summer residence
at Congers. There as boy Lieut.. Jauss
had Miss James as a playmate. He went
10 Plattsburg last summer and came out
o, the training camp with a commission
as Second Lieutenant. The wedding was
arranged quickly when. just after being
assigned to a regiment at Camp Greene.
Charlotte, y. c.. Lieut.. Jauss received
orders to start for France. He was
connected with the intelligence service
Of his division. After his arrival in
France he was promoted to be First
Lieutenant.
Among the first of those TO fall in
the hghting along the Marine was Pri-
rate Harold w. Hubert, reported seri-
ously wounded, who was thought by his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles C. HUI
bert Of 26l Mclean avenue. Yonkers.
still TO be in a hospital recovering from
the effects OF being gassed early in June
They received telegram from the War
Department yesterday announcing that
he had been wounded on July 10.
Private Hubert was 81 years old and
graduate OF Yonkers High School
When this country entered the war he
tried valnly to enlist In both the army
and the navy, but was rejected because
OF poor syesight. In September he sue
ceedrd and was assigned to the Sixth
Engineers. with which command he ar
rived in France on Christmas Eve.
Gassed While on Guard.
In his last letter home, received by
his parents early in June, Hubert re-
Neaed that he was In a base hospital
He said he and group of soldiers had
been assigned to guard 500 pounds Of
guncotton and in doing 80 had been I'M
der a gas attack for seven and half
hours He said he expected to be in the
hospital for Il long time.
Lieut.. John Vincent Flood. who gave
up the pra ctice OF law to get into the big
right. vast another of the most recent
casualties. He is serving in France with
the 3nsth Infantry-part of the metro
politan division trained at Camp Upton.
4 message from the War Department
yesterday announced 10 his widowed
ter. Mrs. Ellen Flood, that he had
been severely wounded in action.
Lieut.. Flood was graduated from the
Albany Law School and was connected
with the law office OF Frank l.. Savidge,
a. Cedar street. He was a member of
lie old SiXty-ninth Regiment of this
city and served with that command on
TIE Mexican border. Later he went to
Plattsburg and received his/
in April He went abroad last Septem-
By lie has two brothers serving as
pr.vates.
Private Henry Beck OF rs Rivington
IS another OF the men from Camp Upton
listed in yesterdays casualties. He was
% years old and was drafted in Decem-
her He was in France four months
later, but 1t is not known what regiment
lie was with. The War Department S
message to his parents said he. too had
been wounded on July Is.
sixty-ninth in Action.
That the old SiXty-nlnth, now the
's5th Regiment. is out there banging
away at the Germans in the present
drive was indicated through the appear
ence az tho mama Of ADCar G Nonoul