The sun., 1918-11-26

Buffers father lives at 230 West Sew
enty-second street but passes large
part OF his time at his breeding farm
at East View, N. Y. He was there
yesterday when word of his sons
death reached him
War Experiences Printed.
Lieut-Col. Donovan. commanding Of
fcer OF the 165th Isantry-the old
Sixty-ninth New York-is IN a base
wound in one leg. A machine gun bull
'et passed through the bone just below
the knee. The Colonel is widely known
in New York asl-Wild Bill" Donovan.
His war experiences. as related in let
tiers to relatives in America, were re-
Gently printed In the THE SUNDAY SUN.
News that he had been wounded has
just been received here in q letter
from George Boothby. a New York
newspaper man.
81 have just been over to a base
hospital across the Seine River and
passed three hours at the bedside OF
our old friend Bill Donovan. who is
now on the high road to recovery" Mr..
Boothby wrote from Paris. He is
most cheerful and expects to be able TO
'eturn to his command in about three
weeks, but doubt this somewhat.
I'm another hospital is a slightly
wounded boy by the name OF Tom
O'Kelly. who sends his best love. Our
cd friend Mike Walsh was killed in
the same battle in one Of the toughest
fights yet. 7 saw Father Duffy again
few days ago and he is In the best
% health. He sends you his blessing.
Father DUFFY Unwounded.
an another part OF France I ran
across Jack Mangan end Billy Nc
Kenna. They are both attached to
Haskell's STAFF. Tell Mr.. McKenna that
Jeanne and her little sister Georgette
and I found Jim's grave and placed
>ome flowers on it,"
Mr.. Boothby's letter disproves the
truth OF recent rumbrs here that
Father Duffy. chaplain OF the old Six
ty-ninth, had been wounded. Mike
Walsh" IS Capt. NJ. J. Walsh Of Com
pany E. and his death was reported
~ y.
member Of Company c. was credited
with having the best singing voice in
the regiment. "Jim's grave" is that Of
Major James McKenna, killed after
having led his battalion across the
Ourcq under a storm Of machine gun
FIRE.
News came to the army piers in Ho-
boken yesterday Of the death from
pneumonia in France OF Lieut.. Col.
George A. Bomford. He was in COM
mand of the North German Lloyd and
Hamburg America Line docks IN Ho-
boken in April, 1917. when he held
the rank OF Captain. This was when
they were first taken over by the Gov
eminent, and although & strick dis
ciplinarian Col. Bomrord made many
friends. He had served in the Philip
pines and IN Cuba and was made a
Lieut.-Col. when in a Texas aviation
camp. He leaves a widow and a ten
year-old son.
Said War Would End Soon,
Lieut.. Edward Ellsworth, J... %.
killed IN action October 20, wrote q
letter to>ais mother. who lives al 220
West Fifty-eighth street. shortly be-
fore she received word OF his death. in
which he told her that the war would
soon be over and that she could expect
10 see him within few months. He
was attached to the Sixth Engineers.
having been commissioned after at
tending the Plattsburg camp.
Lieut.. Ellsworth was one of the few
to survive when his company was
practically annihilated while con-
structing a bridge across the Marine.
The American troops later streamed
across the structure and broke the
enemy line.
Rupert B. Thomas Of Flushing, T.
l., former representative Of Queens on
the Board OF Education. has received
a War Department telegram stating
that his son, Lieut.. Gerald Provost
Thomas, has been missing IN action
since September %. AFTER daringly
attacking six German Fokker machins,
his own planewas seen to crash to the
ground. Lieut.. Thomas's fate is I'M
certain. although his comrades believe
he must have been killed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward r. Pierce. 1872
West Seventy-ninth street. have re-
ceived official word from the War De-
partment that their son. Edward A.
Pierce, Company c. l07th Infantry,
was killed In action at lie Catelet Sep
TENDER 30. He enlisted In the Sew
enth Regiment February 2l, 1917,