The sun., 1918-11-22
WOUNDED BROTHERS
MEET IN HOSPITAL
Lieut.. McCarrOll Thought
Bandased Figure Looked
Strangely Familiar.
DIED IN ARGONNE FIGHT
Lieut.. Schenck Of 1'Lost Bat
TALON" Was to Have Been
Made Captain.


how by a peculiar coincidence he found
his brother in the same hospital.
Lieut. McCarroll was being wheeled
about the 1iilding one day during his
convalescenee when he noticed something
strangely familiar about the form OF one
Of the patients who was badly injured
and heavily bandaged. In answer to
casual inquiry the nurse startled him
with the information that the oandaged
man was Thomas J. McCarroll his own
brother The men held "A rousing re-
union then and there, Joined by the In
mates OF the ward, the efforts OF the at
tendants to keep them reminded OF the
reactions that would surely result from
any undue outbursts proving unavailing.
Lieut.. McCarroll Ia attached TO the
stan OF Mator-Gen. ORyan. Twenty
seventh Division, and his brother.
Thomas, was a member Of the 10bth
Machine Gun Battalion. Both men are
recovering.
Killed with Lost Battalion.
Iaeut-Col. Charles whittlesey.
commander of the lost battalion" has
sent letter to Mrs. Charles M. Schsnck
from training camp at Cambridge,
Mass, where he IL now stationed, tell
ing how he- son, Lieut. Gordon L
Schenck. was killed October Z while the
intrepid band was holding of the sur
rounding Germans In the Argonne
Forest.
The story Of Lieut.. schenck's death
was detailed by his commander. but Mrs.
Schenck would permit the publication of
only one paragraph. II reads:
Lieut.. Schenck was to have sbeen
made a Captain. II he had come out OF
the A-gonne Forest his promotion would
have gone through"
Lieuts Schenok and Arthur McKeogh,
who on q previous occasion carried an
appeal for rescue from Col. Whittlesey
through the German lines to the regi-
mental commander. were chums. They
attended the Plattsbu-g training camp
together In 1917. After getting his COM
20Sth Infantry. He went overseas last
April as acting Captain of Company c.
Schenck lived with his mother at 1l3
: Cambridge place. Brooklyn. He was
graduated from Yale in the class Of
1913. A memorial service will be held
next Sunday in Clinton Congregational
Church. Clinton and Lafayette Streets
Brooklyn.
Miss Catharine NJ. Buckley has learned
that her brother. Private Daniel Buck
ley, Company X, 1S6th Infantry. was
killed In action OctoSer IL. Miss Buck
ley believes there In a chance that the
Daniel Buckley reported in the casual
ties may not have been her bother, as
there are two men OF that name in his
company. She has written to Washing
ton to clear up all doubt.
Daniel Buckley had many thrilling es-
capes from death. He was a passenger
on the Titanic when II went down in
1919. He was taken into the lifeboat
occupied by Mrs. John Jacob Aston. He
obtained work in New York and enlisted
In the Slxty-ninth the day war was de-
clared. He trained at Camp Mills and
was sent to France in October, 1917.
He received injuries in action last March,
and again in July in the Chateau Thierry
fight, where he was one OF the first men
across the River Ourcq. He was born in
King Williamstown. County Cork. Ire
land.
"Best BOMBING Pilot" Killed.
Ernest Tyler, Hackensack, n. j.,
though not yet officially notified, believes
that his nephew. Lieut.. John C Tyler,
aviator, was probably killed In action
September Is. He has received a letter
from one OF the other officers in Tyler's
command. in which the past tense is
used whenever mention Is made of Tyler
The letter encloses the duplicate of a
certificate of citation which Tyler had
received for extraordinary courage in
downing enemy planes. Honest" John
Tyler wasxthe name he came to be known
by. and one squadron head officially re-
ported him as being tho best American
bombing pilot on the western front
Lieut Tyler was born In Brooklyn
twenty-five years age. He attended the
Polytechnic Institute there. Williams
College and the Massachusetts Institute
OF Technology. He had just received his
diploma in mechanical engineering when
he enlisted in the Aviation Corps. He
trained IN France and was put in COM
mand OF French -Escadrille. Later he
was transferred to an American squad
ron. He has been missing since Septem-
her 16.
Corporal Maurice Sturgls, Company
Il. 10th United States Infantry. son OF
Harold L. Sturges. an old member OF
the Consolidated Stock Exchange was
killed In action October IS. Before
going overseas with his regiment, the
old Seventh, Corporal Sturges was for
nine years with the United States Mort
gage and Trust Company, in whose EN-.
ploy he began as a messenger in 1909
Jie entered the service In July. 1917
Corporal Sturges was graduate OF the
New York Chapter OF the American In.
stitute of Banking. class of 1915 Hls
only brother, also a corporal, is in France
with the $3.50 United States Infantry.
"aAteu Shhuceb II A1iIed.
Lieut.. w. Copley Herbert, Montclair
N. j.. son of Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur F.
Herbert, was wounded In battle. He
commands a unit In the Regular Army
and was member OF the class OF 1917
at Rutgers College. He is reported con.
valescing In Paris hospital
Writing from France to his mother
early in September Sergt Louis A.
Kline, 20. COL West l29th street, com
planned Of not getting a chance to be al
the front He is now reported killed
September 81. Sergt. Kline was born
In Austria and came 20 this country
when child. He was drafted in Sen.
TENDER, 1917, and had gone 70 France
IN the headquarters company, Fourth
Infantry, as a clerk. lie was q studen,
at Columbia Law Schol.
A letter from Sergt. John Burton
Seaman to his parents. Mr.. and Mrs
John L. Seaman, 347 Gates avenue
Brooklyn. tells OF the death in battle OF
his brother. Lieut.. Horace Scanlon. The
latter who was but "a, fell while lead
ing his men.
Lieut.. Lewis Peterson, 1l17 Avenue
=, Brooklyn. was killed September 20
In a letter received by his parents from
his brother-in-law he is described at
having met death with his face toward
Germany" Peterson was acting com.
mander or Company I. 1O6th Infantry
At tho time. Born In Brooklyn and edu.
Gated at st. Joseph's Parochiai School
Peterson enlisted In the 18th Regiment
y. G. N. T., In April. 1915, and
served six months on the border II,
received his commission and sailed FOL