New-York tribune., 1918-07-30
First Mt. Vernon
Soldier Killed in
Action Overseas
Corporal Edward J. Farrell
Died "Going Over
the Top

i have been over the top, and expect
TO go over again." were the words Cor
poral Edward j. Farrell, twenty four
years old, wrote to his parents, who
live at 415 South Second Avenue.
Mount Vernon. He again went over
the top, and word from the War De-
partment yesterday told of his being
Killed in action on July 49, He was the
first Mount Vernon man to be killed in
battle in France
In letter received from him Ju1v
he told of his first experience cover
the top"
1T was tame, compared with what
expected" he said "But | enjcyed
every minute of it,. We just beat the
enemy barrage in. It's all right to keep
ahead OF it, or get behind it, but don't
get tangled up in it. On our way in
tour shells burst near the barbed wire
fence, but missed US"
Farrell wrote that he was the signal
man who kept the detachment in touch
with those behind during the raid. He
was attached to the 1O1st Field Bat
TALON, Signal Corrs, cnlisting week
after war was declared He went over
seas last November. A brother, joseph
l. Farrell, twenty-five years old, is in
the 4Oth Telegraph Battalion, now in
France
Missing Man" Safe
Ir1 =,
port Covington, on which ne was
nreman. was torpedoed, Robert T. Tur-
Ger has written to his mother, of ia
Golden Avenue, Flushing, that he is re-
cuperating in a hospital in France with
majority of the crew. No word had
been received from him since the trans
port was torpedoed. His brother,
Richard NJ, is in the navy
Another officer of the Rainbow Divi-
SION has made the supreme sacrifice.
Yesterday Mrs Cornelius D. Du Bois,
of Montclair. N. j.. was notified that
her son, Lieutenant Norman Du Bois,
OF the 10th Field Artillery, had been
Killed in action in France on July II.
A graduate of Montclair Military Acad-
emy and Williams College, he attended
the first Plattsburg camp, and after
gong overseas studied at the British
and French schools of modern war;
fare. His father, now dead, was at one
time president of the Montclair Board
of Education.
Probably the happiest woman in New
Boehm. IS Washington Avenue, Irving
ton. Her son, Christian Boehm. sup
posed to have been killed early in June.
IS recovering from a serious wound in
a hospital in France. After his death
had been reported his mother received
a letter dated some time after his sup
posed death. She started an investi
cation and yesterday learned that the
reported death Of her son was an error.
he is with the marines.
Fighters Son Killed
Captain Paul Cooke, who died in
France following an accident, lived
with his wife at $50 West 135th Sire It.
Mrs. Cooke is granddaughter of Z C)m
modore Charles Stewart and cousin
Ct Charles Stewart Parnell Captain
Cooke was son Of The late Genera.
William kutfan Coleman Cooke, y. S :.
He was forty.two years old. For fs-
teen years he was a physician at Biz
mlngham, Ala and for two years was
physician at the City Hospital, BLACK
wells Island. Mrs. Cooke is now visit
ing relatives in Toronto.
Many in Flatbush last night mourned
the death in France of Lieutenant
Lawrence c. Lowell, who was killed in
an aeroplane accident on June 90. His
parents reside at 1856 Parkside Avenue
flatbush. A member of the Signal
Corps on the border, he was trans
ferred to the Aviation Corps last Sep
tember. In his last letter, dated June
70, he said he was happy and liked his
work. Lieutenant Lowell, after attend
ing the local schools, was studying at
Cornell when he enlisted.
In far off Russia wife ard little