The sun., 1918-11-06
NEV YORK OFFICER
KILLED IN CHARGE
Lieut.. A. w. Gardner, 305th
Infantry, Dies in Argonne
Forest Fighting.

Mrs. Alfred W. Gardner. 325 West
Eighty-ninth street. received word yes
| terday of the death Of her son. Lieut..
Alfred w. Gardner Of Company f, So5th
| Infantry. stationed in the Argonne For
est. Lieut.. Gardner was acting Captain
| OF his company October I, when a ma
chine gun bullet struck him as he was
| leading his men in a charge.
Sergeant Benjamin Chester, reported
| killed in action. was a member OF the
| lQ6th Infantry. When he enlisted In the
| Regular Army four years ago he was
| living with his parents ip 141 Alabama
| avenue, Brooklyn. since his departure
for France the family has moved TO
| Philadelphia.
Sergeant Frank Goerse of Company 4.
! 305th Machine Gun Battalion. was
| wounded in action September IS and
| died October ]. His wife, Mrs. Helen
Steinauer Goerse. whom he married four
months before he left for the front, re-
ceived official notification of his death in
the home of her mother, 573 East 136th
street.
Shortly after the receipt of the War
Department telegram the postman
brought her a letter written by her hus-
band four days before he received his
fatal wounds. In 1t Sergeant Goerse
said he had been in the fighting continu-
ously since August Is. and that he was
| looking forward to the day when no
would earn his gold stripe for six months
service at the front.
Sergeant Goerse was 81 years DID, He
has a brother in Company b, 3l6th Ma
chine Gun Battalion.
Corporal James O'Donnell. 10. Com
| pany d. l06th Infantry. reported killed
| in action September 4, was the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick O'Donnell, 62l0
Fifth avenue, Brooklyn. He was a grad
| uate Of st. Johns Parochial School, and
was employed by the Brooklyn Rapid
| Transit when he enlisted in the Four
| tenth Regiment Immediately after tho
declaration of war. lie has a brother,
81 years old, In the navy.
Private William T. Hickton. 90 STAN
hope street, Brooklyn, killed in action
September |. was a letter carrier as
| signed to the Wall street branch of the
New York post office. He enlisted in the
Twenty-third Regiment soon after war
was declared. He was later transferred
| to Company X. l0sth Infantry. He was
twenty-five years old. In his last letter
home. dated August Is. he described the
successes achieved by his division at the
front.
Don't worry. I'm getting along like
Ford running down hill" wrote Cor
poral Philip +. Brouilet of Company Il ,
S07th Infantry. in a reassurins letter to
his wife, Mrs. Mabel Brouillet, of 322
Palmetto street. Brooklyn. The letter was
written from a hospital cot where the
| corporal was recuperating from a bullet
wound in the thigh.
He was hit on September In a sharp
engagement in the open, in which the
American troops wrested French viii
lage from the grasp of the Germans
The corporal was picked w by several OF
his company mates who lost their way.
1t was fourteen hours before they re-
gained the American trenches. where the
wounded man received first aid.
Lieutenant Miller told me was to
| be cited again for carrying a wounded
man the day I was hit" said Corporal
Brouillet in another part of his letter,
and also for crawling TO a place where
could observe, which l did on my own
account, during that shclling. So that
evens matters up"