The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-27
WOUNDED WHERE
ROOSEVELT FELL
Capt. Foster. New Rochelle,
Received Injury Same Day
T. RS Son Was Killed.
CAPT. FINN DECORATED
Receives Medal of Legion Of
Honor With Other Members
of 165th Infantry.
CAPT. FINN DECORATED

Capt. Hamilton X. Foster. %, 211
was put out OF action on the French
front August 10, the same day as Major
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.. and in the same
engagement.
Foster IL Captain of Company A,
Twentieth Infantry. in Major Roosevelt's
battalion. His father, Lieut. NJ. l..
Foster. Is in the Medical Corps. Hamil-
ton Foster was appointed to the Regular
Army after training at Fort Leaven-
worth and service on the Texas border
and went to France last year with the
second contingent of American troops
He received his Captains bars Au-
gust II. but in the War Department
casualty list he is mentioned as a Lieu
tenant. His family has had a cable
message saying ne was In hospital,
would be laid up for few months and
found 1t hard to wait.
Receives Medal of Honor.
Capt. James G. Finn, Company II,
lssth Infantry the Sixty-ninth), was
y,
according to a letter received by his
sister, Miss Helen A. Finn. 245 Ocean
Parkway. Brooklyn With Major Alex
ander E. Anderson, Second Battalion,
and Capt. Michael Kelly, who were
slightly wounded. and seventeen other
members Of the battalion. Capt, Finn
received the mefal of the Legion Of
Honor.
Finn's wound was a compound frac-
ture Of the right leg. caused by a shell
fragment. He is 3s years old, was
football star at Bowdoin College. where
he was graduated in 1905. and until he
went TO war was in the Corporation
Counsers office. He served In the
Spanish American war with the First
Maine Volunteers and on the Mexican
border with the sixty-ninth two years
ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Angelo Tellone, Newark,
learned of the death OF their son, Pri-
vate Henry Tellone. through letters they
had written to him and which were re-
turned marked KILLED in action juno
T." BY wiring to Washington the father
verified the information. - Meanwhile
anxiety had caused the mothers health
TO break down. Yesterday the official
list of killed had young Tellones name
He was 2s years old.
smiling Tim BADLY Wounded.
Private Timothy Callahan. "a. Com
pany +. 105th Infantry, reported severely
wounded August 5, was an electrician
at the Hotel Belmont and lived at 737
Third avenue. He is known to his
friends ass Smiling Tim" He was
drafted April 4.
Private Boleslaw Plezia, severely
wounded July is. is an Austrian who
after coming to the United States FIVE
years ago liked the country SO well he
enlisted In its army in June last year.
He couldn't wait for the draft. to go
back and get crack at the misrulers
Of his country He is "a and lived in
Brooklyn with his cousin, Walter Slauk.
II Berry street.
lived at III East 18th street with his
parents and brother and sister. he was
drafted, sent to France in January and
transferred to Company X. Eighteenth
Infantry.
Won Legion OF Honor Ribbon.
Lieut.. Harry Winant Caygill. 90, a
Columbia graduate. son of Alderman and
Mrs. Ransom Caygill. Mount Vernon.
who won the ribbon OF the Legion Of
Honor in the American Marine offensive,
was unable to be present at the brilliant
ceremony at a divisional headquarters
Sunday, when fifty-five officers and men
were decorated. Alderman CaygHl has
received word that his son was gassed
and wounded in a later action and is in
a hospital in Paris
Lieut.. Caygill earned his decoration
BY advancing with one other man against
a German machine gun detachment
which was holding up the advance Of his
company. The two killed the officers Of
the detachment and captured seventeen
men. This is the second time he has
been gassed
Second Lieut.. Vincent S. Manning. 20.
82oth Infantry. son Of the late James
u. Manning. Jersey City. was killed by
shell in action in France July 90. He
was a student at st Peters College and
attended the Officers Training School at
Fort Myer Virginia. His mother lives
at 2Se2 boulevard. Jersey City.
Sergeant Herman c. Seib, Sixth Ma
fine Regiment. killed July 10. was a
brother Of John c. Seib. 40 Bowers
street, and Mrs. Charles F. Jacobs. 20
Hancock avenue. Jersey City. Sergeant
seib was in the Spanish-Am war,