The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-29
ANOTHER SUN MAN :
KILLED IN FRANCE
Lieut.. Crawford Led Platoon
That Went to Almost
Certain Death.
ORDERED TO HOLD HILL
Sister, IN Red Cross Service,
Receives News-Brother
in Same Battle.
ORDERED TO HOLD HILL


cording to word received from his Sis
ter Charlotte, an American Red Cross
worker in France. Tho news reached
Miss Crawford in a letter from the Cap
tain Of her brothers company.
Lieut.. Crawford was at the head Of
one Of number of platoons ordered
to advance and occupy a position on
the crest of Hill 220 and not in any
circumstances to retire once n had
been captured. The Captain wrote that
every man in the detachment knew that
he must die when orders to take the
position were received.
Just as the crest was reached Lieut..
Crawford, who had been urging his men
forward, fell with a machine gun bull
let through his heart. His eldest brother.
Capt. Gilbert Crawford, regimental ad-
jutant of the 302d Engineers, was Tight
ing not far away.
Lieut.. Crawford was a corporal In the
old Seventh New York and say service
on the Mexican border. Later he went
to Plattsburg and was commissioned
a Second Lieutenant in the Regular
Army. He was born in Nyack. n. y,
his family moving to Brooklyn, where
he lived with his mother. Mrs. Gilbert
H. Crawford. 272 Hicks street. There
are two ,other brothers, Capt. Merritt
Crawford of the Seventh New YORK.
Morria and three more sisters. Lucy ana
Caroline Crawford and DR.. Mary Craw-
ford Schuster, who has just returned
from France after eighteen months
service with DR.. Blake's hospital.
Hoped for share in Fighting.
The family has received word that
Lieut.. Crawford's grave-now within
redeemed territory-is plainly marked.
In letter written July rs Lieut..
Crawford said: II hope in a short
time that will be able to tell you that
l have had share in the fightins.
Isn't II a grand and glorious little OLD
drive we are having over here!
One OF his brothers received letter
dated July 5 in which Lieut.. Crawford
wrote: "If ever I am famous you can
remember this-at 80 A. NJ, July g.
1915, 1 was under fire for the first time.
I was walked by what Irwin Cooo de-
scribes as a sound like the end OF every
thing the screech Of ~. A second
later there was terrific explosion, the
Air was filled with smoke and we were
completely covered with dirt. gravel and
leaves. The shell had hit twenty yards
from us, but as we were lying on the
ground no one was hurt, though Dig
limousine was smashed into bits. put
my gas mask and steel helmet on In
nothing fat"
Lieut.. James Valentine. Jr., Royal
FLYING Corps has been missing since
last Thursday. according to cable re-
ceived from the Air Board, LONDON by
his parents, Is Douglas road, Glen Ridge'
y. ], His family think he was probaoiy
a participant in the air raid on Mann
helm, August %. He was STUDENT III
Stevens Tech. Hoboken.
C. Townsend Young, banker, Ossin-
ing has received notice Of the death
in action July IS of Lieut.. Townsend
Young, %, his son, His name mas no'
yar anpeared on the casualty lists he
was the first Ossining boy to enlist, first
from the town to go to France ana nrs'
to die in battle. He enlisted In the
Eighteenth Infantry, the 18th OF the
month, and was killed July H. 1910
KILLED by AirpIane Bomb.
According to a report received by his
mother at her summer home, Ho!ai
Farms. Little Silver, N. j.. Sergeant
Henry q. Woodruff was killed by a
bomb dropped from a German airplane
far behind the battle front. He was q
vale man and left his business in Chile
IN hurry home and enter the army when
war WAS declared. His family has long
heen prominent at West Brighton. staten
Island, where he was born.
Mrs. Felix l.. Quigley, Newark, yes
terday was answering letter recently
received from her son. Delmar J. Quis-
lev. when she received telegram re-
portlns his death August IL IRON,
wounds received in action, IL was .he
arst intimation she had received that
h.r son had been wounded. He was
% wears old, attended ST. Josephs pa
rochial and the Alexander street pubic
.cbooIs and WIS employed on war work
in Newark machine shop last Septem-
her when he was drafted.
Cornoral Michael Connolly, Company
Thirty-eighth Infantry, missing In
a ction. is a prisoner OF war In Germany
and Martin ]. Slattery, 165th infantry
Conno,ly's nephew, is In the same camp
Mrs. Patrick Slattery, 3oS East Ihir'
tieth street, Connolly's sister ana Mar
tins mother, has received the hotihca'
tons .
Mrs Slattery said her brother went
m France with one of the first trans
norts and that he had written he had
heen in action many times. Her son
she said, falsifed his age In order 70
sni,at and celebrated his eighteenth
hirthday in France. She has another
son who win come under the new Ia"
ara fling boys of IS and another brother
in France, John Connolly, %. OF CON-
many X, 307th Infantry.
Zig Boy Soldier Missins.
Frederick c. Klenke, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs II. Klenke, 1877 Garden street. no
boken, missing in action since July 20
is only l6 years old, although he Is SIX
feet tall and well built. Last year ne
ran away twice to enlist. once IN the
navy and once in the army. Each time
his father secured his discharge upon
nroducing evidence of his age. Frederick
finally overcame his parents Opposition
and enlisted third time.
Private Carmenio Uricchio, ~, 6s
MYRTLE avenue. Passaic. n. j., killed IN
action July is, enlisted year ago IN
the Thirty-eighth Infantry after he mad
failed in an effort to obtain a passport
TO go to Italy and Join his brother IN
the Italian army. He hoped, he said, to
meet his brother in the war zone.
Mrs Emma Husman, 403 Schenck ave-
nue., Brooklyn. has been notified that her
nephew. Corporal Richard Henry Vette
was wounded in action June Is and
died June 90 but letter written by
him June 10 leads his family to believe
there may have been an error.
Frank c. Brough, $50 East 1c7th
street, who died OF wounds, July 10, was
a son of DR.. Frank t. Brough, a Harlem
MUSICIAN. He enlisted in the Marine
Corps in December. 1917, with three
friends from the Worcester Polytechnic
institution. He Is the second OF the trio
killed.
Mrs. Sarah Schwartz. 1852 Simpson
street. The Bronx, has been notified that
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