The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-10
FIRST OVER OURCQ,
BOWLING Is KILLED
Lieutenant Who Led Men in
Face OF Machine Gun Fire
Dies Fighting.
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Son of b. r. T. Attorney Is
Among Members Of New
York Troop to Fall.
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ninth who saw service in Cuba. the
Philippines and Mexico. has fought his
last battle.
His name topped yesterdays list of
heroes killed in action in France, a list
to which the gallant 1s5th contributed
moro than its usual quota.
Lieut. Bowling gave a good account of
himself before making the supreme sac
rlfce. A recent despatch from the front
contained a thrilling account of how he
led the American troops across the
Ourcq River. wading waist deep in the
water in the face of IA lively fire from
German machine guns.
Downing came to this country from
ireland. AS soon n 9 he was old enough
hc enlisted in the Regulars, with whom
he saw action in Cuba, the Philippines
and Mexico. finally rising to the rank of
top sergeant
When this country entered the war he
obtained an appointment to Plattsbnrg,
and after completing his course there
was recommended for a commission by
IL.
Lieutenant to the 165th. He was raised
to First Lieutenant shortly before sail
ing for France.
brother Hopes Report Mistake.
Lieut. Bowling wrote to his sister
July Il saying that he had been gassed
March 81, but was back in action and
was looking forward to furlough which
would permit him to return to this coun-
try for a visit
Thanks to my German friends" he
wrote, II have been gassed and have
had three weeks rest in the hospital"
Lieut.. Bowling was six feet tall and
powerfully built. He was 81 years old,
and before leaving for France lived with
his brother. John bowling, at 10 West
Ninety-eighth street John still hopes
that the report of Patrck's death may
he a mistake and that the latter is only
wounded and in a hospital somewhere
behind the lines.
But IL It is true" said he, I'VE shall
feel proud that he died in a good cause.
He was full of fire and ambition. and
that's what sent him out into the fight
ing July %, when he is supposed to have
been killed"
George Thomas Kelly. one of the at
,orneys for the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company, and former Assemblyman
from Albany. received War Depart
ment telegram at his home, sos West
18TH street. yesterday announcing the
death Of his son. Private Francis Igna-
thus Kelly. also a member OF Company
X, 165th Infantry. who was killed in
action July 80.
The news came as double shock to
Private kelly's parents, whose younger
son. George T. Kelly, Jr., was buried
Ia OF ~ 1ntt III Ill
recently for service in the United States
Ambulance Corps. A few days after his
enlistment he fell Ill with typhoid fever
and died. He was IS years old.
Suffered IN Gas Attack.
Francis Kelly was % years old and
was employed in the State Engineering
Department at Albany. He enlisted In
the Sixty-ninth in May. 1917. and was
sent to France the following October
In his first few days in the front line
trenches he was gassed and sent to a
base hospital for considerable period
His mother was about to leave for Can
ada TO visit her married daughter when
The telegram was received from Wash
ington announcing his death.
Malcolm T. Robertson, son of Dr. and
Mrs. Victor A Robertson. 81 Eighth ave-
nue., Brooklyn, was killed in action in
France July 10, according to telegram
received by his parents yesterday from
The War Department. RE was private
in the l65th.
Robertson had a remarkable war ex-
perience for man OF only 23 He was
n his senior year at Princeton when
he and few OF his classmates volun-
teered with American Ambulance Sec
ton No. l for service in France and
Belgium. His chief work was among
the English soldiers at Dunkirk. After
FIVE months he returned to this country
70 complete his college course, bringing
with him 400 photographs AID hundreds
OF souvenirs. which he donated to the
Princeton Library. He also lectured I'M
der the auspices Of the American Red
Cross.
Anxious to Get Back.
Anxious to get back into the thick OF
things, he was about to enter the ambu-
lance service with the Canadian forces
when this country entered the war. July
2, 1917 he enlisted in the Seventh Reg
ment, and was one of the first men
from that unit to volunteer for service
with the l65th when that regiment was
formed through the amalgamation of
parts OF the Seventh and Sixty-ninth.
Corporal Joseph =. DUNCAN. also a
member OF the l65th, who was listed in
the Nations Honor Roll yesterday as
among those missing in action, Is a
brother of State Senator John / Duni-
gan Of 1914 Simpson street, The Bronx.
He was reported missing July IS, the
hrSt day Of the victorious Franco-Ameri-
can drive in the Marine salient.
Brother Is Aviation Chaplain.
Another brother of Corporal DUNCAN
II Father James DUNCAN of st. RAJ
nhaels Roman Catholic Church. Forty
hfst street and Tenth avenue. who was
recently assigned as chaplain TO the
Aviation Corps at Garden City. Senator
DUNCAN and his family were attending
service at st. Raphaers, where Father
DUNCAN was being presented by the
members OF his parish with n chaplain's
Insignia. when the War Department
telegram containing the news about the
missing brother arrived at the DUNCAN
home
corporal DUNCAN served with the old
NlNty-ninth on the Mexican border Re-
tore leaving for France he married Miss
Margaret kranshaw of Brooklyn. Father
DUNCAN officiating.
company X, l65th infantry, contrib
urea another member to the list of killed
IN action He was Sergeant John
harold Embree. College Point, l.. l..
whose father, John @. Embree Is prin-
c.pa! OF the Poppenhusen Institute and
chairman OF the College Point branch
OF the Queens county chapter of the Red
Cross
Sergeant Embree was 20 years old. He
mad finished his freshman year in Cor
nell University when he enlisted in the