The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-02
WAR DEATH CLAIMS
ANOTHER SUN HERO
Lieut.. Edgar Killed in Air
plane Accident While
at Front.
LOAN PLEA FROM FIELD
Words Of Sergeant, Who Gave
Life, Praise People Of Ma
ton for Support.

Casualties--thoSe announced yester"
6ay in the Official lists from Washing
.on-and those, word Of which was re- |
c.iyed through private advices, included
the usual number Of boys from the city.
Manhattan and Brooklyn each contrib
uted about equal quotas.
In the unofficial list In the name OF
another Sun man--Lieut. Stuart Il. Ed
gar OF the l0ad Aerial sauadron--who
gas killed In an airplane accident on
August II. Lieut., Edgar was mem
her OF the staff of tn EVENING SUN
and went to France hrst In the ambul-
aviation after graduating from the
French aviation school at Pau. He was
the son of Mrs. Howard Edgar OF Nut
lev. n. J., who received particulars OF
lis death yesterday from his former
commanding officer.
Perhaps no appeal for subscriptions to
the Liberty Loan could be more trench
ant In its effect than that unconsciousiy
written by Sergeant Theodore wallace
Todd OF the 1o7th Infantry two weeks
before he was killed In action on August
g. On August . In letter TO his fam
lily Sergeant Todd wrote'
1T Is very gratifying to know that
our people and nation in general are CIV
Ing us their support, as we are the nu-
man breakwatsr which harbors me
peace OF our homes"
Letters received By his relatives and
friends yesterday told Of the death In
action of Lieut.. Edward ]. Wolh OF the
sixteenth Field Artillery, son OF Mr..
and Mrs Edward J. Violin OF Pougn-
keepsie. Lieut.. woif was well known In
musical and social circles in New York
~
was killed apparently by machine gun
bullet from a German aiTplane and the
missile, before piercing his heart, cut
tho centre Of the scapular suspended
about his neck.
Particulars Of how he met his end
were received from a brother officer OF
Lieut. VOLTS and also from the chaplain
OF his regiment. Enemy planes were
operating overhead and an ammunition
dump belonging to the Sixteenth took
fire Lieut., Wolff volunteered to lead a
detachment to save the ammunition and
was struck and killed instantly While
performing this duty.
Lieut.. Louis J. Lederle, killed IN
action. was graduate OF Fordnam
University and known in intercollegiate
circles as an athlete. He was the son
Of Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Lederie OF ~
West 113th street and was member Oh
the s0sth Infantry.
Soldier Writes Of Wound.
Corporal George NJ. Brunhuber, Sc
verely wounded, formerly lived with ms
mother. MIRA Annie Brunhuber. Of 500
Fourth avenue. Manhattan In letter
since received from him the wounded lad
wrote that, he had been hit by fraE-
ment of shrapnel and that II had been
necessary TO amputate his left foot
Privte Lyle Mobrey. ~ years old. Sc
vereiy wounded, was an actor before he
began to play a part In the great drama
being staged In France. He was as
signed to the s0sth Headquarters Com
pany and was a stretcher bearer when
hit. Mobrey arrived at an Atlantic port
n few days ago and Is now at the Ellis
Island Hospital. His home is at SIS
Eighth avenue.
Private Herman SCHNEIDER. killed in
action, was a clerk and lived with his
father at 4os West Fiftieth street. He
was a member of the 10th.
Another member of the old Sixty
ninth whose name appears In the list Of
killed IL Private John J. O'Hara, who
succumbed to wounds received In the
hattie OF the Ourcq Private OHara
formerly lived with his seventy-one-year
old mother at s41 East Thirty-sixtf
street.
Boxer LANDED on Enemy.
Private John Ward OF the So7th In
fsntry was an amateur bantam weigh
boxer before he went to Camp Uptor
and put on SO much flesh that he hac
TO fight in the heavyweight class II,
was severely wounded on August 20. bu
In a letter written just before that dat,
TO his mother at 361 West Eleventh
street Ward said;
Il have been over the top half a dozeI
times. and when ] get back Guy Empe!
will have nothing on me. For ever!
pound l take on l will take ton o
Hun flesh"
"Smiling Jack Lane. a bosom frient
Of Ward, and also we'll known In tn
Greenwich Village district, was kille'
N action on August 30.
Private Morris A. Hafing. severel.
wounded on August 10. was a clerk an
lived with his mother at % Avenue d
He went to France as member of tn
2o5th Infantry. He was overcome b,
gas.
Yesterdays lists included even NOR
rames OF BrooklynItes than lads from
Manhattan, and in the list was that o
Major De Lancey Kane Jay Of West
bury, l. l. Major Jay, according L
word that has been received by member
OF his family. lost an arm. He IL so
of Col. William Jay Of westbury an
pract!sed law In Manhattan. He In
member of the Meadow Brook and othe
clubs and Is well known as a pol
player. He is 81 years old and receive
his commission a Plattsburg
The day / was wounded we Tough
TIE Germans TO a standstill,' was tn
cheerful letter received from her sor
Private Timothy Byrnes by his mother
Mrs. Annie Byrnes OF is Hayward stree
Brooklyn, yesterday. ByTnes wrote tina
he was suffering from gas and shrapns
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