Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-29
HOW A V|RG|N|AN
MARINE OFFICER DIED
Captain Lloyd Williams Meets
End With Heroic
Goodness
DIR. MccoRMIcK's NEPHEW

In its local columns telling how a
Virginian officer died, the New Orleans
Item has the following TO say of the
heroism and bravery with which Capt.
Lloyd Williams met his death over
seas.
Capt Williams was a nephew of
Medical Director A. NJ. ID. Mccormick.
u. s. Navy, attached to duty at the
Naval Academy, and he went overseas
with the Fifth Regiment, U. S. NJ c.,
of which General Charles A. Doyen,
T. s. NJ. c.. of this city, was in COM
mand
The New Orleans Item says:
Don't bother with me. Take care
of my men, said Capt. Lloyd Williams.
He had carried out his orders, cap
ltured and consolidated German out
post. His command had suffered great
loss. He had been wounded. He did
not feel the hurt or regard his own
wounds as being so painful and so
serious as were those inflicted on his
men, So he spoke the words quoted
above to those who came up to care
for the wounded.
Captain Williams was especially
mentioned for gallantry, received pro-
motion for the GOODNESS, ability and
success which he had attained in the
fighting in France, and died in a hos
pital of the wounds which he received
in action.
AT times men rise Unexpectedly to
heroic stature. Again the martial and
chivalrous instinct is to be expected
because it is a part of the blood and
of the tradition of families and of
races. No finer example of the latter
rule can be found than in the case of
this young Virginian officer. His peo-
pie had served their country faith
fully and we'll in war and in peace.
1t was to be expected that he would
be in the army, that his services would
earn promotion, and that so long as
life lasted he would perform any duty
intrusted to him ably and successfully
THE closing chapters of his gallant
life contains only one of many deeds
of heroism which are coming back to
America from the battle fields of
France 1t is noteworthy, principally
because it illustrates that the affection
which exists between a good officer
and his men is stronger than that love
of life which is found in every human
breast.
Among all of the queer manias
which have seized on the reason of
the rulers of the German Empire, the
most fantastic and inexplicable was
hte idea advanced that Americans
would not fight. Just why this
propaganda should have found reflec-
ton in our own country is something
that is beyond understanding. A lit
tie more than so years ago the peo-
pie of America demonstrated that this
normally peaceful nation is a fight
ing nation-peer of any under the sun.
These boys in Europe are of the same
strain and of the same blood as were
the men of Valley Forge and York
town, of Gettysburg and Appomattox.
''Sir Philip Sidney, wounded to
death, refused a cup of water in or
der that comrade might drink. And
here is a young Virginia soldier
wounded to death who asks that the
men who followed him to victory and
death might first receive attention.
We have commented on this case be-
cause we happened to know this boy.
He is just like your own boys, who
have gone out to the war, just like
millions more who stand ready to go
when their country calls. AS one of
ten thousand casualties already re-
corded. he symbolizes and typifies the
spirit of this great militant republic.
Somewhere beyond the veil the men
who made America may be assembled,
captains and statesmen of another age.
And there we feel that the shades of
Washington and Jefferson, of Lee and
of Lincoln, and of all the great spirits
who have mare the life and the tradi-
ton of this great land of freedom are
bidding welcome to the gallant COM
pany which comes to join them, boys
and men who have lived and died in
order that the freedom of this new
world may be extended to all man
kind for all time"