The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-30
MORE NEW WORKERS
ON CASUALTY LISTS
College Bred Officers Among
the Killed and Wounded
on Western Front.
ONE VICTIM. OF ACCIDENT
Others Shot While Calamity
Leading Their Men Against
Enemy in France.


Could the disheartened German SOL
diers who have been complaining that
their officers send them forward 70 al
most certain destruction while the Of
fcers remain behind In comparative
safety have stolen a glance at the
American casualty list made public yes
terday they might have learned that an
Americap doughboy's lighting enthusi-
asm accr1es partly from the fact that no
matter how hot the fighting may be his
officers are out there with him.
So far as rank was concerned. Gen.
Pershing's latest list of casualties was
led by the name OF Major Roy w. Gaus-
mann of Leonia. n. j.. who was reported
severely wounded in action. Major
Gausmann is So years of ase and was
born in Brooklyn. but has lived since
boyhood at Leonia.
The Major Is another on the long list
of Columbia University men who have
fallen in the fighting in France. After
graduating from. public school at
Leonia. Major Gausmann took an engi-
neering course at Columbia, but quit his
profession upon the entrance OF this
country into the war and went to Platts-
burg. where he was assigned to an engi-
neer corps and quickly won his commits
sion He went to France three months
ago. His family Is spending the summer
IN the Catskill Mountains. and tho
.l-.l In
did not know yesterday whether the
War Departments notification that he
had been wounded yet. had reached his
relatives.
VIII Avenge His slain Brother.
IT wouldn't have had him anywhere
else in the worid,1 said Mrs Harry
l. Hamel. as she folded up a telegram
from the War Department delivered at
her home in South Pennsylvania avenue.
Atlantic City. yesterday. announcing
that her son. Capt. Alfred r. Hamel,
had been killed in action in the allied
drive on Scissors on July Is.
A little later Mrs. Hamel sent word to
her other son. at work las life guard
on the Atlantic City beach, of the mes
sage she had received. The brother re-
signed his life guard job, werft home to
ternoon enlisted In the United States
Marine Corps.
II am certain my son died like brave
man." Mrs.. Hamel said. when men
we're SO badly needed In France l would
have been ashamed of him had he re-
ma!ned at home This is. my sacrifice"
Capt Hamei won his commission in
1915, after preparatory course at Fort
Monroe, and went abroad with a field ar
tillery unit. He was 27' years old and
received his first promotion. to be a
First Lieutenant, just before he sailed
for France with the, first expedtionary
contingent in 1917. He won his cap
taincy just after landing in France.
Cnpt. Cooke Accident Victim.
Capt. Paul L. Cooke of $40 West l35th
street lost his life In an accident come
where In France, but none of the details
Of the circumstances in which he was
killed was contained in the War Depart
ment's official message to his relatives
Capt. Cooke was a son of the late
Gen. william r. c. Cooke, U. S. A., and
his wife is a granddaughter of Commo-
dore Charles Stewart and a cousin of
Charles SteYart Parnell. the Irish
patriot. For fifteen years Capt. Cooke
practised medicine at Birmingham, Ala
He came to New York several years ago
and for two years before enlisting last
August he was attached to the stan at
tho City Hospital, on Blackwelrs Island.
He was AZ years old. Mrs. Cooke Is
visiting relatives in Toronto. Ont. The
dead officers mother lives at Breno, Va
Brooklyn sent one OF the officers listed
as killed. He was Lieut.. Lawrence c.
Lowell, who was killed In an airplane
accident In France on June 20. Lieut..
Lovell's home was at 1855 Parkside ave-
rue, In the Flatbush section. He was
rs years old and served with the Signal
Corps on the Mexican border. When
this country entered the war he sue
ceeded In having himself transferred to
the aviation section and left for France
in September after having taken a course
in aeronautics at Cornell University.
Lieut. Lowell was a graduate of Pub
lie School 1Ss and studied for three
years at Erasmus Hall High School,
as well as at Pratt Institute. With his
FAMILY. Lieut.. Lowell was we'll known
in Christian Science Church circles.
Mrs. Cornelius d. Dubois of Walden
place, Montclair. ". J., received word
from the War Department yesterday
that her son. Lieut.. Norman Dubois.
had been killed in action on July II.
Lieut. Dubois was attached to the
i4Sth Field Artillery, one of the COM
Rainbow Division, with which New
fork's old Sixty-ninth Regiment is out
there doing things.
Was n williams College Man.
Lieut.. Dubois graduated from the
Montclair Military Academy anu from
Williams College. He received his
commission after taking tho course of
training at Plattsburs. Later he took
special courses in the British and
French artillery schools. Lieut.. Du-
Bois's father formerly was president of
the Montclair Board OF Education.
Stir another of the officers mentioned
In yesterdays casualty list was Lieut.
Joseph r. Busk, who was severely
wounded in action. He Is a brother of
Capt Frederick w. Busk Of Company
b, 3l0th Infantry. National Army
command. Lieut.. Busk is a son Of Fred
erick T. Busk Of the Produce Exchange
nrm OF Busk & Daniels. He is 20
years old, and in a letter to his father
explained he had been shot in the groin
while participating in a night raid on
The German trenches on June 16. Lieut..
Busk quit his studies at Harvard Uni
versity to go to Plattsburg. where he
won his commission.
Recently he was assigned to the same
regiment as that In which his brother
was serving.
Private william T. ChekIey Of Pater-
son. N. j.. reported missing in action.
was attached to the Second Engineers
and has two brothers with the American
forces In France He went abroad In
September.