The sun., 1918-11-17
NEW YORK OFFICERS
DIE FROM WOUNDS
Lieut.. G. w. Henry and Capt.
T. A. 0'Brien Victims in
Last Battles.
ANOTHER F0RESAW END
Lieut.. BOrcher, New Jersey
Man, Regretted Fate Of
Foreign Burial.
ANOTHER FORESAw END

Greenwich. Com. He vas born in New
York city in 1896 and entered Harvard
in the fall OF 1914. He left college IN
lbs senior year TO enter the Army Ser
vice School at Fort Leavenworth. being
assigned to the Forty-sixth Infantry
upon his graduation. Almost immedi-
ately he was detailed to Camp Gordon.
Georgia, as master Of the bayonet.
Lieut.. Henry fought for two days at
St Mihiel without harm and was then
wounded in the leg and abdomen. The
infantry had advanced so rapidly that
they had outdistanced their supporting
artillery and II became necessary to
take machine gun nests In hand to hand
fighting. Lieut. Henrys Captain was
wounded and his company suffered
heavy losses. He had succeeded in ST.
lencing a battery and was leading his
men forward through the woods when
he was hit by fragments Of h bomb
dropped from an airplane.
In writing of his death one OF Lieut..
Henry's men said that he gave his life
20 save others and that his company
felt his loss to be a personal one His
body will eventually be brought back
from France. and at his own request
will be buried in the\Sound Beach sec
ton of Greenwich.
veteran OF Goth Dead of Wounds.
y Capt. Thomas A. O'Brien OF the
NTwenty-fourth Infantry, who died OF
wounds October ~, was a veteran of the
old Sixty-ninth and Seventy-frst Ma
tional Guard regiments and had served
IN the latter command for ten years. He
was wounded at the Eecond battle OF
the Marine, but returned to the front
after three weeks. The wound that killed
him was received in the fighting in the
Argonne Forest. He lived with his
mother at ESQ East Burnside avenue.
The Bronx. Captain O'Brien was presi-
dent of the fremont Lyceum.
Lieut. Henry r. Blackham OF Com
pany a, 1l6th Infantry. killed in action
october IL, was the won OF Mrs. Clara
Blackham of 3s3 Fairmont avenue. Jer-
sey City. After attending Trinity School
and the New York Law School he was
admitted TO the New Jersey Bar in
June. 1915. He was private secretary to
Justice Black of the New Jersey Su-
preme Court when he enlisted In the
Fourth New Jersey Infantry in Novem-
ber 1915. He went to the Mexican Dor
der. and when the regiment was ordered
TO Admission. Ala, he was Battalion
Sergeant Major. He went to the officers
training school there and received his
commission in June.
Two Lieutenapts living In the Forest
Hill section Of Newark. n. j.. have been
killed In action. They are Elmer Stan
ley Terhune. son OF Mr.. and Mrs Frank
A. Terhune, 66S Mount Prospect avenue.
and Clarence c. Borcher. who was mar
ried and lived at 221 Woodside avenue.
Lieut. Terhune was born in West Mil
FORD thirty-two years ago. graduated
from Cornell and was a civil engineer
at Peoria, ul. when he entered the SER
vice. He was engaged to Miss. Daisy
Hauseknecht of Batavia, n. Y. He was
a First Lieutenant in the heavy field
artillery when he was killed October s..
Lieut.. BOrcher FOretOId His end.
Lieut. Borcher predicted his own fate
in the last letter he wrote his wife 1t
was dated October s. fve days before
he was killed. He said he was going
into action and that he had but zone
chance in a hundred" of coming out
alive. DO not cry IL I am killed on the
Held Of honor" he wrote. ''for it is for a
great and good cause. My only regret
is that cannot kiss you good-by and DO
buried on American soil" He was born
in Clifton, n. j.. twenty-six years ago
and was assigned to Company T., l13th
JGfSntry.
Corporal Raymond A. Mcclure Of
Company Is, 10th Infantry, was a
,nemfber OF the old Seventh Regiment.
He lived at 1928 Loring place The
Bronx, and was employed by William
II. Grace & Co. A requiem mass was
held for him at the Paulist Fathers
Church, Sixtleth street and Ninth ave-
nue. Saturday. He was a son of John
Mcclure. civil war veteran. and had
two brothers and ten first cousins in the
service. Shortly before his death he
wrote a letter home in which he told OF
his company going into action $50 strong
and coming out with but seventeen
electives.
News has been, received OF the death
in action in the Argonne Forest October
OF Corporal James McVicker Whitney,
son of Stephen Whitney and grandson
OF Mrs. Stephen Suydam Whitney, of
Morris Plains, N. j.. He was not 21
years old and went to France in the
ambulance service in July, 1917. He
later enlisted in the American Tank
Corps and was made a corporal after
reaching the front. In writing of his
death one of his comrades said:
He and his tank were missing for
several days. Nobody knew anything
about him. Then they found the tank
and Whit and his driver had both been
killed In the tank. suppose they must
have been hit head on by an explosive
she'll"
Young Whitney was educated at st.
Paul's School and at the Manlius Mill
tary Academy. Two brothers survive
him. one of whom Stephen Whitney. Jr.,
10 Ill at n hospital in England, and the
other is a young man at school.