New-York tribune., 1918-09-12
wYorkerD Describes Night
Attack When Americans
Found Huns Asleep
Lieut.. Murray Killed
Major Budd, Harvard Man
and Member of Local
Clubs, Is Cassed
Lieutenant Kenneth Paul Murray,

Lieutenant Kenneth Paul Murray,
whose death was reported in casualty
list last week, was one of lS9 men of
Company G. SSth United States Infan-
trv, to engage in an attack in which
only ffty-one survived. but which cost
the Germans 1000 men, according to
information received yesterday by
Lieutenant Murray's mother. Mrs. Mary
Murray, of 157 Lincoln Avenue. Mount
Vernon.
She received = letter containing a
high tribute to her sons valor from
Captain j. ". Woodbridge, commander
of Corranv G., who has been cited for
the D. 5. O. for his gallantry in the
stack in which Lieutenant Murray was
killed.
He is buried where he FELL" wrote
Captain Woolridge, 'in an open field,
900 wards east by southeast of a little
church in May, France. The grave is
marked by rife and q wooden cross
which bears the inscription: Lieuten-
ant Kenneth Paul Murray. Company G,
3sth L. s. Infantry. died in action July
Is, 19lS.''
Private Jack Standfast, 23d Com
many. 9th Machine Gun Battalion,
United States Marine Corps, who is
listed among the wounded, wrote to his
narents. Mr.. and Mrs. John Standfast,
Of 227 South Parsons Avenue. Flushing,
Queens. of the circumstances under
which he was wounded on July 10.
I'VE were taken from Belleau Wood
on July 16'' he wrote, 'and sent further
north. near scissors. and were told to
go find Fritz We surprised him com
pletely, pushing him back many kilo-
metres and taking many canton and
prisoners and large quantities of munl-
tious.
u wasn't as lucky as was in the
Bois de Marin Americain, but real
lucky at that. A high explosive she'll
struck a tree near where three com
rades and myself were passing. 1t fell
On them, pinning them to the ground
got down on my hands and knees and
tried TO lift the tree SO they could
crawl out from under. 1t was certainly
heavy one. but | got the strength
IRON somewhere to lift it just enough
81 they could crawl cut.
@" got from under myself and was
Just about to stand up when, whang-o!
Night had fallen when | came to. My
lead and back we're aching so | couldn't
s,and up. | looked for the others. but
tho she'll had done its work well. Pres
entlv three Zouave strctcher bearers
came along and one of them took me
by the arms, and toward the rear VIC
went"
Major Kenneth PepperelI Budd, who
was severely wounded. was a member
Of the firm of lselin & Co., drygoods
commission merchants, when he went
to the Plattsburg Training Camp. He
received commission as major while
there but refused it for q captaincy
and was assigned to Camp Upton,
where he was promoted to the rank
Of major before the division sailed
Lincoln Cromwell, one of the partners,
recently received a letter from him
in which he said he had been gassed.
Major Budd was graduated from Har-
ward in 1902. He is q member of the
Racquet, Harvard and Knickerbocker
clubs
Private James A. O'Hare, who was
Killed in action, is the son of Police
Sergeant John j. O'Hare, 1856 Bed
ford Avenue, Brooklyn, and was a
member of the 1O6tr United States
Field Artillery. A brother, Joseph t.,
Is in the same regiment, and wrote his
mother that he visited James's grave
daily. James O'Hare was twenty two
years old. and enlisted in the SID
United States Infantry in 1915. He
saw service at the border and was
transferred to the artillery regiment
while it was at Camp Wadsworth. A
solemn requiem mass will be said for
hun tomorrow morning at ST. The
lesa's Roman Catholic Church, Brook
iyn.
Private Michael Higgins. OF Company
r., l65th |. S. Infantry, who was killed
IN action, had written to his mother
Two days before his death to have her
send him d Scotch terrier, "Si1ver,"
which he had brought from the Mexi-
can border. Somehow Mrs. Higgins
managed TO get permission to send the
Cog, but on the day "Silver" was to be
Grated ne jumped from the roof of
Mrs Hlgglns's home at 431 East Sixty
sixth street and broke two legs. A
ilttie later in the day the message tell
ing OF his owners death arrived. Pri-
Fa,e higgins was eighteen years old.
Lieutenant John +. Williams, mem
Der of the Mackey- Roosevelt Hospital
ambulance unit, who died from typhoid
1ever, was so exhausted by his efforts
al Cnateau Thierry that he could not
COMBAT the disease, according to in
formation received by his parents, Mr..
ana Mrs. William p Williams, of II
Lincoln Avenue, RoseHe, N. j.
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