The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-25
GRIEF OF FATHER Is
TEMPERED BY PRIDE
Patrick Collins Learns One Of
Four Soldier Sons Is
Dead.
MEMBER OF. OLD GOTH
Second Son Won Chance for
Commission Through Cool
ness i'm Action.
MEMBER OF. OLD GOTH

me courageous philosophy with which
American parents have given their sons
N the cause Of liberty Is reflected In
ths statement made yesterday by Patrick
co,,ins of 165 East Seventy fifth street.
when he learned that his son. John ].
Colns, a member OF Company II, 16bth
Infantry, had been killed in action.
"of course, we were all crushed at the
news Of Johns DEATH said Mr.. Collins.
With an obvious effort to control his
emotions but when one has four sons
serving in France bad news must be ex-
p.cted any time. My three sons en-
listed in the old Sixty-ninth at the out
break of the Mexican trouble and saw
service on the border. A fourth was
drafted. My youngest son. Daniel will
soon be Of age and viii come under the
next draft"
Bravery Won Him Commission.
One OF Mr. Collins's sons, Thomas, 20.
was recently promoted from private to
Second Lieutenant in the 165th Regi-
ment for extricating himself and six
company mates from q tight fix during
an attack. The group was caught in No
Mans Land between a double barrage
from both the German and American
batteries. Collins. assuming the leader
ship Of the party, prevailed upon the
other men to lie quiet in a she'll crater
until the German fire had spent itself
Then he led his companions back to the
American lines in safety. For this he
was commended by the commanding Of
fcer and sent to the Pershing training
school, where he got his commission.
Private Patrick Corrigan, reported in
yesterdays casualty list as severely
wounded. is one of three brothers in the
service. He is "a and lived with his
widowed mother in 119 West Sixtieth
street After the declaration of war by
this country he enlisted with the Twelfth
Infantry, while his brothers went in for
aviation. Three days ago Mrs. Corrigan
got letter from one OF Patrick's friends
at the front who wrote that Patrick had
been gassed and was in the base hospital.
'"All my sons have gone now" said
Mrs. Corrigan yesterday. TT was a ter
rble ordeal to see them go one by one.
but I would rather have It that way than
that they should have been remiss in
their duty to their country. I will be a
proud mother when they return
News Of the wounding Of Robert w.
McGrath, 400 North Pearl street, East
Orange. was received yesterday by his
tdiSHls, D. JAMES
At the start of the war McGrath tried
TO enlist in the Regular Army. but was
rejected because of some slight defect.
Determined to get into the fight. how
ever, he went to Canada and Joined the
Ftfty-seventh Canadiani Battalion, with
which he went overseas a year ago.
Bravery in action won him a nom
CONS rank and he was placed in COM
mand of a machine gun squad. He was
wounded on August IS and is now in
q Canadian hospital recovering from a
severe wound in the right leg. His
brother, Kenneth, is in the United States
aviation service.
Left Bride of Three Weeks.
Private John E. Seifried, 10, 1915
Fifth avenue. Brooklyn. reported Sc.
verely wounded In action July 80, en-
listed in the Fourteenth Infantry the day
the United States entered the war. He
was transferred later to the 105th In.
fantry. Three weeks before he sailed
for France he was married. On MARCH,
81 ne was gassed and passed a fen
days in the hospital.
Private John Osperren of 116 Eckford
street. Brooklyn, reported wounded July
Is, enlisted year ago with his brother
Robert in the Ninth Regiment. They
were later transferred to Company G
Io5th Infantry. John Is 81 and Rober,
IS. On August 2, the former wrote his
mother that he was in the hospital. but
would soon be ION the job" again. His
regiment, he said. was being praised by
the French.
George McKeon, killed in action, lived
with his sister in SO wythe avenue
Brooklyn. She moved recently to
Water street. Manhattan.
Private Bernard Goldmunz of zoe
twentieth street, Brooklyn, listed in yes
.erday's honor roll as among thosf
severely wounded in action July Is. IL a
member Of Headquarters Company. 105th
Infantry. He enlisted in June, 1915. ir
The Fourteenth Regiment and saw ser
sice on the Mexican border. In a letter
lated August he tofrf-his family that
be was in a rest camp and was recover.
hg rapidly.
Private John Zap. ais Bergen street
Brooklyn. severely wounded in action
August s. enlisted in the Twenty-third
Infantry in September. 1917. and. was
Irained at Camp Wadsworth, sailing for
France last December.
Despatch Rider Wounded.
Private Joseph P. Hennessey of New
Try. was wounded in action, according ia
Yesterdays casualty lists. He was Is
Ind enlisted In the old Sixty-ninth Regi-
nent in July, 1917. He was serving as
despatch rider In France when wound
n, He was graduated from New Ro-
belle High School. His brother, Thomas
hennessey, Is in the students training
amb at Plattsburg.
Mrs. A. c. Russell, "a Ascot place
tonkers, received her last letter from
eer son. Private William Russell OF
company B. Sixth Engineers, July 20
me boy said he was in a hospital suffer
hg from she'll shock, but that he would
non be as well as ever. Yesterday Mrs
russell received another letter. Think
ing that 1t contained the news of her
"ys complete recovery. she tore 1t open
MgeFly' 1t was from company mate
md merely read:
william died Of wounds"
russell was 20 years old and waa
%rh In Railway. N. ]. He enlisted last
oee'ooer at Fort Slocum and sailed for
trance last December.