The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
LIEUT.. LOCKWOOD
DEAD OF WOUNDS
Staff Officer Of 310th Infantry
Was Tennis Star Of Will
Jams College.
MORE ERRORS IN THE LIST
+. ii. Bayer and Henry Todd
Each Report Safety, Though
Latter Was Wounded.
MORE ERRORS IN THE LIST

The death of Lieut.. Richard b. Rock
wood, a tennis star and all round ath-
lete who was graduated from williams
College in 1916. has been reported to his
mother. Mrs. Persis lockwood Of Clark
street, Brooklyn. He was attached to
the Headquarters Company. s1oth In
fantry. Under date of September "a
Lieut. lockwood wrote his mother that
lie waAa staff officer and stationed far
behind the first lines. IT feel iike a
Stacker, being way back here he wrote
-Four days later he, was MORALLY
wounded.
A pair OF wire cutters which he car
.ried In his pocket saved the life of Cor
poral George Merritt, a member of
Headquarters Company of the 306th
Field Artillery. whose wife lives at s04
East Nineteenth street, Brooklyn. The
wire cutters received the full force OF
piece of shell which broke against his
side.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bayer 2010 Arthur
avenue. The Bronx, hopes there Is some
error in the report that her son, Ser
Sesnt Frederick II. Bayer, Company L.
306th Infantry is dead of wounds. She
received an undated cablegram from him
W
feel better. His death Is reported to
have occurred October I.
Todd Doubts HIS own Death.
Private Henry Todd, who had seen
seven years of service IN the Regular
Army before going to France, was very
much surprised to hear that he was
dead, 81 can hardly believe the report"
he said in a telegram to his sister. Mrs.
Henry Clayborne of 1910 Third avenue.
Todd was wounded at Scissors on July
Is and, minus an arm. he journeyed in
the western part OF tho United States
on behalf of the Liberty Loan. He Is
now in Walter Reed Hospital. WASH
ington, D. c.
Private George O. S. Carr. 1o5th Ma
chine Gun Battalion. brother OF Mrs.
Sadie Doehle, 81 Carlton street. wrote
10 his sister that he preferred death to
capture or being MANNED for life. He
. was wounded In action September rs and
died the following day.
Corporal James Tevan. IS. an English
man. formerly a foreman for the New
York Consolidated Gas Company. was
wounded on September IL and died two
days later. His home was In 1885 Sec
ond avenue.
Edward A. Lucus OF 81 Sherman
street, Passaic. has received intelligence
A Lucus, in action September &c.
Commander McCallum's Son Dead.
Sergeant-Major Horace Woodruff WILL
Jams. %. formerly engaged in the 40
vertising business in Manhattan. died of
pneumonia in France September IS. He
lived with his sister. Mrs. Roswell Haw-
kins. in 20 Brinckerhoff street, Jersey
City.
Private Hulburt ]. McCallum. 165th
Infantry, son of James f. McCallum. a
acknowledgements in the United
States Navy. died September "a of
wounds received in action. In a letter
written TO his mother at 101 East Ire
mont avenue. The Bronx. a few hours
before he received the wounds which
proved fatal. he said: Our greatest diff
ficulty is the continued hard rain. all of
us being soaked continuously" Private
afcCallum was a purchasing agent for
T. B. Latham & Co., Murray street.
George II. Buetner. a city fireman OF
Elizabeth, y. j., a private, was killed IN
action September "a.
Two deaths. just reported. bring the
first gold stars to Port Chester. Privates
Cwrmine Arcuriv and Harry J. Con-
molly were killed in action.