The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-12
battery Congratulated.


sonally congratulated by the Colonel of
the regiment for its good work. Reid
was doubly happy because he had just
been recommended for captaincy and
two days before had completed his physi-
cal examination. He felt SO good that
he sent for company barber and In
dulged in the rare luxury OF n shave.
seated on an old plush chair that the
Germans had left under a tree when
they retreated.
Suddenly two German shells landed.
one to the right, the other to the left
OF the battery position, followed by
rain Of them. The men counted 100
shells in fifteen minutes. They took to
the dugouts. A sergeant safely made
the rounds OF all the dugouts, warning
the occupants that the Germans were
throwing gas shells.
man who had been wounded in a
dugout fifty yards from the one which
sheltered Lieut. Reid and group shouted
for Reid. who instantly. without telling
where he was going, left his dugout and
ran through the bombardment to the
wounded soldier. The wound proved to
be comparatively slight. Reid dressed It
end started back toward his own dugout.
When he was half way across the zone
Of fire the bomba rdment became so fierce
that he saw he could not get through.
But several yards beyond him was
ditch two feet deep. in which lay a man
who had been caught in the fire The
men in Reds dugout saw him make
flying baseball slide into this ditch He
landed all right Then gas shell burst
ten feet in front Of him.
Both Dead in Ditch.
Five minutes later the Germans, hav-
I've \,
rtopped. Reds men rushed out to And
Reid and the private both dead in the
ditch. They had been killed instantly by
the shell and gas. Reds body was
| hardly marked. He was buried close to
tie battery position. Chaplain Thomas
| Of Brooklyn. Capts, John Fine and T.. Il.
Dick and Lieuts. Bolmer and Graham
| conducted the service
Extreme soiicitude for his men, abso-
lutte disregard Of danger in answering a
| call for help cost Reid his life. Except
for Reid and the private in the ditch the
| battery lost no men in or before this
bombardment
At Princeton Reid captained the cham
pionship nine of 1906. He led the bat
ting list because he could be counted
on to get base whether on a hit, four
balls or being hit himself Sammy Reid
always landed on first base.
President of His Class.
He was president of the class OF 1906
and secretary of the Princeton Club OF
New York. After graduation he studied
at the New York Law School. practised
in the Office of William +. McCombs, be-
came attorney for the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company In trial cases and then
Assistant United States Attorney in
Brooklyn.
! A few years ago he was appointed q
! referee in bankruptcy and opened his
own law office at 60 Wall street. HI
won a Lieutenancy at Plattsburg and
was assigned to Camp Upton. He Il
survived by his parents. Mr.. and Mrs
| Samuel j. Reid of 757 Hancock street
Brooklyn; n sister, Mrs. Norman Folger
and a brother, John Reid.
On motion OF United States Attorne,
Melville. Judge Chatfield ordered a nota
ton of Reds death made in the minutel
OF the Federal Court In Brooklyn yes
terday. A committee consisting o
Frank w. Holmes. Mr. France, Eugen
F. O'Connor. Jr., Clark Day, Bruce r
Duncan and Robert H. Wilson, presiden
of the Brooklyn Bar Association, wa
appointed to arrange a memorial meet
ing.
Judge Chatfield will adjourn his cour
on the day set for the meeting and vii
give the use OF the court room.