New-York tribune., 1918-06-06
Clayton and Bullock, of
~Ouartermaster's Depart
ment, Listed as Slain
Former a West Pointer
Subordinate Was Secretary of
N. Y. Municipal Railway
Corporation

The names of two Brooklyn men,
Colonel Bertram T. Clayton and Cap
tan Harry A. Bullock, appeared yes
tcrdav among those named in the
casualty list as killed in action. Both
were in the quartermaster's depart
nent. both were occupying the same
quarters, both we're killed by aerial
bombs. and it is believed that the same
bomb killed both.
Colonel Clayton had served one term
as Representative in Congress from
Brooklyn district, was the organizer
and first captain Of Troop c, and had
heen colonel of the 14th Regiment, of
BROOKLYN. He also had served as ad-
infant of the old 18th Regiment.
He was born in Clayton. Ala, in
1862. His father, Henry De Lamar
Clayton, was a Southern major general
in the Civil War. He was graduated
from West Point in 1885, but in 1883
he resigned from the army to enter
business. He maintained his interest
in military affairs, however, being
prominent for many years in National
Guard organizations of Brooklyn. He
commanded Troop C during the Span
ish War and was appointed to cap
taincy in the regular army by Presi-
dent Mckinley, serving in the Philip
pine Islands, San Francisco and
Panama From the Canal Zone he was
transferred to the quartermaster's de-
partment at this port, shortly before
being sent to France.
His brother, Henry D. Clayton, a
l.,
Colonel Clayton was married to Louise
NJ. Brasher, of Brooklyn, in 1887. They
were divorced in 1902 Five years later
he married Mary D. Watson, of New
Orleans
Bullock Well known
Captain Bullock was secretary of the
New York Municipal Railway Corpora
ton, part of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit system. He had been on leave
of absence since May, 1917, when he
went to the Plattsburg training camp.
He was born in Northampton, Mass,
in 1879; was graduated from Amherst
College in 1899, and became a reporter
on newspapers, first in New Haven,
then in Boston. and finally joined the
staff of "The New York Times" Arti-
cles which he wrote concerning trac-
ton, insurance and other investiga-
tons resulted in his being called to
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit to act as
special Investigator for Timothy S.
Williams. president of the company
That was in 1911, and shortly after
ward he became secretary of the New
York Municipal Railways Corporation.
In Brooklyn Captain Bullock's home
was in the Hotel Touraine. He is sur
ylved by two sisters, Miss Grace F.
Bullock, of 211 West Eighty fifth
Street. and Mrs. Emerson KimbaI, of
Concord, \. H., and two brothers, Pro-
lessor Charles J. Bullock, of Harvard,
and Edward Bullock.
Another Brooklyn Casualty
Corporal Walter ]. Dixon, whose name
also appeared among those killed, lived
with his mother Mrs. Anna j. Dixon,
at 1874 Sixty-ffth Street, Brooklyn
She was on her way to Boston yester-
day when the War Department tele-
gram was delivered at her home. Her
son enlisted in April, 1916, and went
to France with the original Pershing
expedition.
Lieutenant Robert Baker Mcdowell,
OF Jersey City, reported captured, is a
plattsburg eradicate, twenty-four years
Old He was married in December and
went TO France in January
Frederick Dondero, of Flushing,
a corporal in a Camp Upton regiment.
tie was drafted last fall He was en-
ployed by the Long Island Railroad.
PATERSON, N. J., June 5.-Mrs.
Mary Hancock, of so Marshall Street.
bas received word that her son. John
=. Hancock, was seriously wounded in
France Hancock was a private in an
engineer unit. He. enlisted soon after