The sun., 1918-11-08
BROOKLYN AVIATOR
KILLED In BATTLE.
Lieut.. X. 7. Walker One Of
Several Officers to Meet
Death at Front.
DIES LEADING PLATOON
Raymond 7. Turn Falls in
yerdun Sector-K. of c. ,
Worker Loses O Leg.

First Lieut.. Russell Tracy Walker Of
the seventy:seventh Aero Squadron has
been killed in France. His father.
Russell s. Walker. president OF the Dime
Savings Bank of Brooklyn. received
word from the War Department yester-
been able to learn details OF his sons
death.
Lieut.. Walker was born in Brooklyn
twenty-seven years ago. He was grad
uated from Columbia in 1919. and for
time was associated with the firm OF
Starrett & Van Week. architects. Later
he formed the firm of Walker Sc Ward,
associate architects, OF CO Vanderbilt
avenue. Manhattan. He was q men,
ber of the Architectural League. the
Columbia Club OF New York. Riding and
Driving Club and the Montauk Club OF
Brooklyn.
During the Mexican crisis Lieut..
Walker served on the border with Squad
ron A, n. G. n. Y, OF which he had
been a member for some time Shortly
after IL declaration OF war against
Germany he was commissioned First
Lieutenant In the Seventy-seventh Aero
Squadron and sailed for France in De-
cember, 1917 Besides his parents he is
survived by three sisters.
Capt. James l.. Young. Company b.
Fifty-fourth Pioneer Infantry. died of
pneumonia in France October .. In his
last letter to his wife. who lives at 455
Irving avenue. Brooklyn, received Sep
temb4r 90, he said he was in the best OF
health and spirits He was 80 years old
and before the outbreak of the war had
been n member Of the old Forty-seventh
Regiment, N G. y. Y, for sixteen years.
Lieutenant Victim OF Gas.
Lieut.. Joseph Alphonaus Augustus
Kerrigan. AS Fourth street, was gassed
September and is now In a hospital
recuperating He is 20 years old and
member of Company l., 106th Infantry.
He saw service on the Mexican border.
Lieut. Raymond T. Turn, son Of John
s. Turn, secretary OF the Aetna Life In
surauce Company. was killed while
leading his platoon into action In tho
Verdun sector September 26. He was
born in Wyoming county. Pennsylvania,
in 1898. In 1917 he was graduated
from the University Of Pennsylvania and
Immediately after completing his coll
lege course entered the officers training
school at Fort Niagara.
In August, 1917, he was commissioned
a Second Lieutenant and assigned TO
Company I. 3l5th Infantry a year
later he was sent TO Fort Sill, Okla, for
special training in sortifcatlon work ana
was promoted to a First Lioutenancy. He
sailed for France last July. His death
was described in letter received by his
father from First Lieut. Robert C. Van
Buren,. surgeon with the 315th In
fantry.
Williams College Man Diesl
Samuel NJ Meeker, v!ce-president OF
the Williamsburg Savings Bank OF
Brooklyn learned yesterday OF the death
of his son, Private Amerherst Wight
Private Meeker was r. member
OF the famous Company l., 10th 1nfan-
try, which has lost all but twenty-nine
OF it's members in the fighting on the
Quentin front. He was
wounded September 20. and died the
day.
Private Meeker was "a years cid and
was in his Junior year at Williams Col
lege when he enlisted in the Williams
College unit OF the United States Am
bulance Service. He was anxious 20
get into active service, however. and
finally managed to secure a transfer TO
the l07th Infantry. lie started over
seas on May ..
While distributing smokes and re-
freshments 10 soldiers in the trenches.
Joseph p. Grove. a field secretary for
the Knights OF Columbus, lost his leg,
blown off by a German shell, according
TO word received at the Knights OF CO.
lumbus headquarters In this city yes
terday. He Is a resident of Bingham
ton and was n travelling salesman be-
fore going overseas for the Knights OF
Columbus