The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-16
CAPT. BLAISDELL HIT,
FOUGHT TO DEATH
wounded Leader Insisted on
Returning to Command
in Field. &C..
MOTE BROOKLYN HEROES
Lieut.. Jackson and Captain
Van Thun Among Victims
Of Battle.

In a letter received yesterday in his
home in Brooklyn definite word came of
the death III action September 20 OF
capt. william L. Blaisdell OF the 1csth
Infantry. q command made up almost
altogether OF members Of the old Four
teenth, Twenty-third and F'erty-seventh
regiments OF Brooklyn.
Capt. Blasdell, whs had been recon-
nended- for promotion to Major. was In
command of the Third Battalion of his
regiment when he was killed and lost
his life through his valor In going back
into action after he had been wounded
and was on his way to the rear. He
was struck early In the fight and was
unconscious when placed upon a stretcher.
While being carried of the field he re-
Gained consciousness, found that his in
Jury was not sufficient to prevent his GO
ing back into action and insisted on re-
turning to the head Of his men. Half an
hour after he resumed his place on the
lighting line he was struck again and
LED in a few minutes.
Hero Trained I'm Guard.
Letters received previously by his
family have indicated that he might be
wounded or missing rather than dead.
Capt Blaisdell was a son OF George
Baisdell Of 11o9 st. Johns place. Brook
Tyr. and received his military education
in the National Guard.
Another veteran of the Guard whose
death Is reported in the lists Is Lieut..
Edward Warschauer. for years a MEM
Der of the old Seventy-first. He was
Killed on September 2s while serving
with the 106th Infantry and while lead
ing his company in a bayonet charge.
His home in this city was at 1913 East
Eighty-ninth street .. 49,. @
Lieut.. Franklyn J. jackson OF the
same regiment was killed on September
q. Lieut.. jackson lived in Brooklyn.
He was a graduate of New York Univer-
sity and received his military education
IA the National Guard and at Spartan
burg.
Another Brooklyn officer whose name
s found In the casualty list Is Capt.
william Van. Thun of SOS Lintoln place,
Brooklyn. Word was received that he
had died as the result of an accident
the nature of which was not given.
Sergeant spauIding Killed.
Sergeant Bernard F. Spaulding Of 1851
Park place, Brooklyn. reported killed In
action on October 3, was a clerk in the
employ of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company when he enlisted in the Twenty
third Regiment of Brooklyn In April. 1917.
Al the time Of his death he was serving
with the Twenty-third United States In
fantry Of the old Regular Army.
Sergeant Justin A. Herold, reported
dead Of pneumonia in France on Octo-
Der ~, lived at 2532 Grand avenue. The
Bronx, and was a descendant OF a
French family which numbered four
representatives among the officers of Ma
poleon and Of Antoine I,orenx master Of
the sword at West Point in the early
hfties. he was member Of the 1920
Engineers
Capt. Hamilton K Foster. a son Of Dr.
u. L Foster. New Rochelle. was killed
in action October 4, according to a mes
sage received yesterday by DR. Foster
from the War Department.
Capt. Foster went to camp at Platts-
burg from the Massachusetts, Institute
Of Agriculture, was commissioned In the
Regular Army before this country de-
clared war, and was sent to France as a
Lieutenant In June, 1917. He won his
captaincy for gallantry at the capture
II Scissors.
Word was received yesterday by Sam
uel L. Crump, Montclair. ". J., that his
son. Lieut. Samuel Crump, Jr., was killed
in action September 20. He was an
ofncer in the 10Th Infantry. which that
day took part IN the attack on the Hin
denburg line Lieut. Percy NJ. Hall, also
Of Montclair, was killed in the same
action.