The sun., 1918-07-22
OYSTER BAY HONORS
QUENTIN ROOSEVELT
First Gold Star Placed on Ser
vice Flag for Lieutenant
Killed in Battle.
PRAISED BY THE ENEMY
Germans Report Military Flu
neral Was Given for "Brave
Young Airman."

ne tDWn VI oytlcT Day, ~ L. hN"
It's service nag. with 32l stars in Towns
end Park yesterday and in the border
a solitary gold star told the story Of the
death OF Lieut.. Quentin Roosevelt, Avla-
ton Section OF the Signal Corps. u. s.
r. While the town mourned for the
young aviator who met death over the
German lines In fight there came
from Amsterdam and Paris by the As
ISOLATED Press cables details OF the fight
In which Lieut. Roosevelt was killed and
information concerning his brothers,
Major Theodore Roosevelt. wounded !:
Capt. Archie Roosevelt, wounded. and
Capt. Kermit Roosevelt. Just joining the
Americans from the British army, to say
nothing OF Major Richard Derby, the
Roosevelt son-in-law.
There was much relief at the Roose-
welt home at Oyster Bay when Mrs
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., cabed that
Major Roosevelt was not seriously hurt
The message from the Majors wife
said
Ted has a clean bullet wound through
leg below knee. At Blakes hospital for
few days and then at my house. No
danger"
Quentin's Death Mourned.
The family has no information as 20
where the Major was fighting when he
was shot The Colonel had a busy day
hearing the reports Of valor on the part
OF his boys.
Ted was gassed" he said. about
seven weeks ago and he refused to go
to a hospital. Apparently this wound
Is rot dangerous and II won't be many
days before he Is back at the front"
All Of the churches in the village had
mn rnfa 20 hA nf
Quentin Roosevelt. The members OF the
family were also remembered in every
service. TIE Rev. George E. Talmage.
at Christ Episcopal Church, where the
family attended. spoke of the bravery Of
the boy who had given his life for his
country. Al all OF the masses at st.
Dominick's Roman Catholic Church the
Rev. Father Charles J. Canivan offered
prayers for the repost of his soul. The
Roosevelt children had always attended
fairs at this church and they we're ex-
tremely popular with priests and parish
toner's.
German HOnOrs for Dead.
The eemi-official Wolff Bureau. ac-
cording to a Berlin despatch sent from
Amsterdam by the Associated Press yes
terday. told how young Roosevelt had
been killed and how he was buried by
the Germans with military honors. The
story. as sent by the Associated Press,
follows:
"On Sunday. July II. an American
squadron of twelve battleplanes was
trying to break through the German de-
fence over the Marine. In the violent
combat which ensued with seven Ger
man machines one American aviator
stubbornly made repeated attacks. This
eliminated In duel between him and
a German on-commissioned officer. who
after a short night succeeded in getting
good aim at his brave but unexpeI-
enced opponent. whose machine fell after
a fNw shots near the village OF Cham
bray, ten klometers north OF the Marine
His pocket case showed him to he
Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt Of the Aviation
Section Of the United States Army The
personal belongings Of the fallen airman
are being carefully kept with view to
sending them later TO his relatives The
earthly remainsc OF the brave young
a!rman were buried with military hon
ors by German airmen near Chambray'
at the spot where ne fell"
Kermit To Join Artillery.
BY the Associated Press cables also
came the Information that Capt. Kermit
Roosevelt. who had been with the Brit
ish expedition TO Mesopotamia. where he
won the Distinguished Service Order.
reached Paris three days ago to take
service with tho United States Army.
Kermit will take course AT a French
artillery school before beginning active
duty.
The same message said that Capt.
Archie Roosevelt, who was wounded W
shrapnel, underwent = secondary opei a.
ton on July 4, and the doctors do not
think that he will be able TO return to
the front for eight months
Major Richard Derby, who married
Ethel Roosevelt, is going back to the
front to-day after having been In Paris
for week as sufferer from Spanish
Influenza He was in the thick of the
fighting around Chateau Thierry with