The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-24
BORDER VETERANS
IN WAR DEATH LIST
Capt. Butcher and Lieuts. Bur-
nett and Grocsbeck Are on
Nations Honor Roll.
LETTERS PROVE HEROISM
Lieut.. Crane Wounded in 10
Places by Shell Is Back
in His Command.

Capt. George Stanley Butcher OF q
machine gun company attached to the
1l1th Infantry was killed In action Oc-
tober 81, according TO official word re-
ceived yesterday by his parents. Mr..
and Mrs. Charles r. Butcher OF Upper
Montclair, y. ]. Butcher enlisted as a
private in Company of the state Guard
Cavalry in 1916 and served on the Mem
lean border. He WAS advanced to a
First Lleutenancy, and on October 9
while In France was promoted to Cap
taIncy when his machine gun company
storned a German position and held II.
Capt. Butcher was cited for the act. He
was 90 years old.
Capt. 5. r. Scnoonmaker OF Hacken-
sack, y. j., killed in action on octo-
her IS, was attached to the 10ist In
fantry. He was Lieutenant in Com
pany L. Fifth New Jersey Infantry, be-
fore enlisting for service IN the war.
Capt. SHOEMAKER was 20.
Lieut.. George Hurd Burnett OF Pater-
son. =. j., who was in the brokerage
business In this city before entering the
service, was killed IN action at Grand
Pre- on November !. His regiment. the
370th of the Eightieth Division, under
: Major-Gen. Joseph p. Dickman, partici-
apparently the Lieutenant met a hero S
death when the town was captured
Lieut. Burnett was In his twenty second
year He enlisted in the Fifth Regi-
lnent. y. G. y. j., in 1916. and saw ser
vice on the Mexican border. Later he
entered the officers training camp at
Fort Myer.
The young Lieutenant was son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry c. Burnett of Pat
erson and a nephew of George B. Hurd
and Frank B. Hurd OF George B. Hurd
Co, paper manufacturers, 425-427
Broome street, this city. He was also a
nephew Of DR.. Walter B. Johnson, presi-
dent of the Paterson chapter of the
American Red Cross.
First Lieut.. Herbert Groesbeck OF the
sosth Machine Gun Battalion was killed
in action in France on November l.
according to advices received yesterday
from Washington by his parents, Mr..
and Mrs Herbert GroesbAck, Sr., OF %
West Ninth street. He was in his
twenty-sixth year and an artist by pro-
fession. Before going abroad he did
considerable magazine work, contribut-
ing cover designs TO the Saturday maya
zine supplement Of the Eronin0 Post
Lieut. Groesbeck served four years in
Squadron A and was on the Mexican
Dofuof tne Gays VIII
Mexico. At Plattsburg he was commits
stoned a First Lieutenant. At Camp
Dix he was assigned to the 3O9th. Lieut.
Groesbeck in April last married Amy
Bradish johnson, step-daughter of Col
William G. Bates, formerly OF the
Seventy-frst 4egiment, now OF the
Fifty-ninth Pioneers
Mr.. and Mrs L. Is. Robins OF Rosele
". j.. received confirmation through
United States Senator Frelinghuyseu
yesterday of the death OF their son
Lieut. Harvey Clifford Robins. They
had been led to believe he had survived
shrapnel wounds as the result of a letter
from a friend of Robins saying that he
had been wounded on October 20, three
days before he was reported dead. Lieut.
Robins was member of the Second
regiment, n. G. y. j.. and entered
Company G. 18th Infantry. when war
was declared.
Second Lieut.. Frank F.. Pollewski
263 Nineteenth street, Brooklyn IN
a., recent letter to his mother. written
from a base hosp!tat~in England, ex.
planned how he was listed among the
wounded on August 81. zone night the
Huns shot over gas for three or four
masks on all the time. Some Of my mer
~ere blinded and lot OF them burned
7 also was burned and look like a coon
some blisters are four TO six niche!
long"
Lieut.. Arthur f. Crane OF 81 Rockviev
avenue, North Plainfield. ~ j.. who wac
wounded in the Chateau Thierry drive
and listed in yesterdays casualties, has
since recovered. He is now believed IL
be on his way with the American forces
of occupation. Lieut. Crane was wounded
by high explosives, and nineteen pieces
OF shell were removed from various
parts Of his body.
Lieut.. Sidney Schwartz, son OF Man
Schwartz of Little Hungary. 257 East
Houston street. was killed in action or
October 3, according to a despatch re.
ceived yesterday by his father. The
Lieutenant was % years old. He be.
longed to machine gun company OF the
, Sixteenth Infantry. His parents live in
the Hotel Alexandria, ESQ West 1896
street
Former Alderman George Garfield
Goetz, 20 years old, OF Jamaica. L. l..
died OF pneumonia In France on Novem.
Der 4. He was a member of Company
B, 306th Machine Gun Battalion. Goet2
was in the real estate business He was
defeated for County Clerk three yeart
ago.