The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-12
HEARS SON is KILLED
AS CITY CELEBRATES
Mothers Joy at Victory Turns
to Grief on Report Of
Casualty.
F. A. WOOD DIES IN FLIGHT
Lieut. Harry JenkinsOn Also
Reported to Have Met Death
in Airplane Fall.

'Tt hurts more than ever because II
comes at such a time" said Mrs. James
Martin as she sat In her home. t3l
cambridge street, Brooklyn, yesterday,
! and talked Of the death Of her son.
| Private Harold Martin, 10 years old.
While the din Of tin horns and COW bells
and rattles drifted in from the streets.
and struggling knots OF merrymakers
| went by the house. she described how
, her son fell In action. August 10. He
, fought with the Eleventh Machine Gun
, Battalion.
/ The possible fate OF Lieut.. Harry
Jenklnson OF the 14Sth Aero Squadron.
son Of Henry Jenkinson or I25 Cherry
street, Elizabeth, N. j., is causing much
concern to the members Of his family.
] He Is reported as missing since Septem-
Der and the War Department believes he
! may be a prisoner In a German camp.
/ The father Of the Lieutenant. however,
has received word from a relative in
England that he was killed by q fall
! from an airplane following battle.
Lieut. Jenkinson was IS years old. He
was graduated from Fort Myer Training
Camp and later transferred to the Ava
! ton Corps He went to Canada. where
! he served as scout pilot for the British
| Flying Corps. and later went to England.
where he was transferred to the Ameri-
| can copps.
Lieut.. Henry Allen Foote, SO. who en-
| listed as a private In June. 1917. is re-
ported to have been killed in action on
October 8. He had a house in West
Forty-eighth street. Manhattan. and
owned a large estate at Split Rock. six
! miles west of Boonton. n. j.. where he
| spent his summers. A wife. who was
Miss Ida ". Cowan. survives.
| Aviator Killed at st. Mihiel.
| Lieut. Francis Appleton Wood of the
Aviation Service. son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
! Chalmers Wood OF 20 East Eighty-third
! street. Manhattan, who had been work.
ing continuously from early morning. fell
on his fourth flight of the day as he was
leading the victorious American van
guard In the st. Mihiel offensive Septem-
Der II. He was born June 2, 1894. in
| Ipswich, Mass. attended ST. Marks
School. Southborc. Mass, and was grad
uated from Columbia University with
the class Of 1916. He went to the Next
| |an border with the Seventh New York
Infantry While there he was made a
Second Lieutenant in the Sixty-ninth
New York. AT our entrance into the
war he volunteered for the air service
and trained in Canada, In Texas and in
France. At the time OF his death he was
attached to the British Independent Air
Service, Ninety-ninth Squadron.
Lieut.. Murray E. Cramer. 80, who
served on the Mexican border with the
Seventh New York Infantry. was killed
in action on September 90 fighting with
the 10Th Infantry.
Lieut.. John Edward Mitchell, 20, son
: OF Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell OF Cedar
hurst, L. l.. was killed while leading a
| platoon Of the 30sth Infantry on Octo-
Der 6.
! Lieut. Clarence c. Borcher. Company
F. 18th Infantry, who had been cited
for bravery on a previous occasion, was
killed in act on on October 10. His wife
lives In Bloomfield, N. ]. One brother,
Walter. is Lieutenant in Company B OF
the same regiment. and another brother.
John. Is in the Engineer Corps
Ralph r. Buell. wounded.
Lieut.. Ralph Polk Buell. OF the 10th
Infantry. for many years q member of
the Seventh New York and lawyer with
/ UIiIces In Manhattan. has been wounded.
according to letter received by his
wife. Lieut.. Buell. was shot through one
OF his lungs. He lived in Bayside and
Is a member OF the Bayside Yacht Club.
Private James n. Giligan. 22. an en-
ployee in the store of John Wanamaker.
IS repoi ted IN an otfic.ai message TO AS
mother, Mrs. Julia Gilligan. SIS West
Ninety-third street, to have died OF
wounds October .. His last letter to his
mother said he had been gassed.
Corporal Frank J. Vetter. who lived
with his parents at 424 Cortland street,
West Hoboken. was killed In action Oc-
tober 5. He had served in Mexico in
! Troop +, Sixth Cavalry. under Gen.
! Pershlng In France he was with Com
! p ny b. Third Ammunition Train.
Friends In Ocean Grove. y. j.. have
been notified OF the death OF Trad NJ.
Hidden. who enlisted soon after the war
was declared and served first in the Av-
alton Corps. Later he was transferred
! 10 the Ambulance Corps. His death oc-
CURED october IS and was due to pneu-
monia. Mr.. Hidden was q graduate of
, Princeton University. He leaves W Re
| Mrs. Lois Hidden. and two children. Lois
! and Georgiana, who are in California.
Reported Dead, but Writes Home.
Corporal Henry c. Alfieri, 90. of l35
! Manhattan avenue. Brooklyn. is reported
TO have died OF wounds October .. but
: Thomas Alfieri, his father. has received
! a letter dated October II in which the
I Corporal writes that he Is feeling fine
| and resting after big battle. He was
a member OF Company b, saith Infan-
try
| The body OF Seaman James II. Fleury
/ who was lost In the sinking of the
Tampa, has been washed up at Fresh
Water, Pembroke. England, and was
buried at Penby. England He was the
son OF Mrs. James 3. Fleury OF Is Aslop
street, Jamaica.
The parents of Private William II.
| Nelson, Company b, 305th Infantry, re-
| ported killed In action September 2e,
| have not given up hope that he may still
| be alive, as comrade. Private Walter
| Henry of the same company, wrote 10
| hts parents In Elmhurst to notify Mrs
Nelson that her son. though wounded, IL
doing well. Private Nelson is the son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. William II. Sels5u OF
70 North street, Corona.
! Corporal frank PutZ. Company X.
| lo5th Infantry. son OF Sergeant Frank
Putt If the Fu~hing police station, was
shot through the heart In action Septerl-
Der 81. Two NJ his comrH de- have writ
ton 10 the parents that they saw him far
Acting as Captain Of hts company AND
Leading his men for the third charge
over the top Lieut.. Percy NJ Hall. who had
| been for several wears a member of the
! S""""th Regiment OF New York, was
OF a Cot al