The Washington herald., 1918-10-28
D. G. SOLDIERS
FLU VICTIMS
Casualties at Various U. S.
Camps Reported by War
Department.

Fifteen Washington men died IN the
service of their country at the vari-
Gus army camps of influenza and
pneumonia during the week ending
October 1S according to the list is
sued last night by the War Depart
ment
The names of the men ind their re-
spective camps are:
Camp Ben Harrison. Indiana. Pri-
vate John A. Bligh. s26 Seventh street
D,,'s west.
Fort Bliss. Tex, Mess Sergt. Harry
F. Huth, 23e Massachusetts, avenue
northeast.
Camp Meade, Md. John NJ. Lam
bert, 4o5 Sixth street southeast: James
L. Reed. Io2 e street northwest; Vic
tor. Buchalter. 1910 Sixth street north
west: Second Lieut.. George b. Chew.
jr.. 1+4S Newton street northwest;
Cook Nicholas ]. Demopoulis. 800
Ninth street northwest; Alien T..
Grymes. 1888 Fifth street northwest.
Camp Humphreys. Va, William J..
Lawiess, 53f Eighth street; Corp. Vic
tor E. ]. Mayer. i715 Euclid street.
Camp Eustis. Va. George jackson.
2e2o Tenth street northwest.
Camp Sewer. s. c.. Private Wilson
Meade, 2 Champagne place.
Lieut.. George b. Chew.
Second Lieut.. George B. Chew, jr.,
li4s Newton street northwest, was a
Washington boy who was educated
at the public schools and at the Cen
trail High School He was born jan
uary Is, 1891.
Lieut.. Chew attended the Univer-
aifv nf Naunda ranatxi1p hfa
from the department of civil engin-
eering, after having gone West on a
surveying tour in the interest Of the
Geological Survey
He enlisted in the army in Novem-
Der. 1917, after which he was sent ia
Fort Leavenworth, Kans. He was
commissioned in March, 1917, in the
Sixty-thir Infantry. Later he was
ordered to the Preside. California,
for five months He had been at
Camp Meade since August He leaves
a father and mother, two brothers,
Capt. Beverley Grayson Chew. Six
teenth Infantry, A. E F., and John
Hunter Chew, and sister. Miss
Marie Theresa Chew.
John NJ. Lambert.
John NJ. Lambert, 405 Sixth street
who was mentioned in
last nights list. was born June II.
1883. in Charles County. Nd. He
had been in military service since
August as a clerk in the Quarter
master Corps at Camp Meade. He
had been in the code room of the
cipher section of the War Depart
ment before his enlistment.
His mother is Mrs. Mamie Nc
Pherson Lambert, who is employed
in the Government Printing Office.
Nicholas II. DemopeuIis.
Nicholas ]. Demopoulis, 309 Ninth
street northwest, who died at Camp
Meade. was one of five brothers en-
listed in the allied armies. He was
a native of Corinth. Greece. Two
brothers are in the service of the
army of Greece: one is in France
with the American Expeditionary
Forces; one is attending a local
medical school preparatory to en-
tering the medical corps of the
army.
He had been in America nine years.
For six years. with his partner.
Victor K. Kissal, he had conducted
a lunch room at 800 Ninth street.
Corp. Victor f. j. Mayer
Corp. Victor E. J, Mayer. of 17I5
Euclid street, was native of WASH
ington. He was born July II, 1891.
and was educated at local schools.
including Georgetown Law School.
Before his enlistment he was con-
nected with the Geological Survey of
the Interior Department.
He was assigned to the 472nd En-
gineers at Camp Humphreys. July 10.
1918. He was corporal in the school
of topography. He was also a MEM
ber of the Hiram Lodge. No. 10, OF
the Masonic order.
Besides his wife, father and mother.
he leaves a brother in Chicago. one
in Pittsburgh and a brother, Julius
E. Mayer. of this city.