The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-15
NY. UNIVERSITY HAST
1,7OOM US. SERVICE
Nine Of Student and Alumni
List Have Been Killed
or Died.
6 CITED FOR CALAMITY
Surgeon-General Gorgas Heads
the $50 Graduates Who
Hold Commissions.

e"0W AVN ohVohUhy y cVuut0aAAoA "
the war In terms of men was summar-
ised yesterday BY Chancellor Elmer n
Brown In . report which showed that
more than 100 students and alumni
are actively engaged. including . rsis-
lively small number in civil WORK In
Governmental Department.. Nine uni-
vsrsity men have bean killed Or died In
the service. Six have bsen cited for
gallantry in action. including two en-
gineers who were at csmbrai.
surgeon-oenerai 0orgas 10 the high
est ranking aiumnu4 Nearly $50 other
graduates hold ohicers' commissions
from Lieutenant to Colonel. $50 serving
in the Medical Corps. thirteen In the
aviation service and about twenty In the
Engineer Corps In the fighting
branches tho alumni have more than la6
officers. including eight Majors and
twenty-one Captains.
OF 76s students thirty-one are on
GERS. as follows: One Captain, two
First Lisutenants and eighteen Second
Lestehants In the Army: ono Second
Lieutenant Of aviation: two Ensisns in
the regular Navy. and seven EnsiSns In
the Naval Reserve. Two others are
privates or non-commissioned ofncers.
Four Anbulancss Sent Acrses.
The New York University Ambulance
company Of 40 men. With two ambu-
lances. was called into active service .
year ago. went to Allentown. Pa, and
a month later sailed for Franco. The
school Of pedagogy and the ciass Of
1917 have sent ambulancss to the front.
The roster Of dead includes Lieuts.
Wilmer Bodenstab. Yonksrs, Of the lo7th
Regiment, Twenty-seventh Division,
killed in action: Gerald v. Carroll, killed
at Texas flying field Walter G. John
son OF Jersey city. killed at Kelly Field.
Texas. and Privatss Howell A. Gassert,
500 West l6+th street, killed in action ;
Willard Lloyd Martin. 20t West 107th
street. died in training Russell r Myer.
died at Fort Hamilton; Dillon w,
Franks. died at Fort Leavsnworth. Kan
sas: C. David spruks. Ambulance Corps.
died at Allentown, Pa
Corporal Arthur W. (Tex) Baker was
killed in action when in charge Of Q
squad Of sharpshooters with the ls6th
Infantry.
Tho list Of citations includes Capt. c.
Raymond Hulsart and Lieut. Irving "
HUE, who fought at Cambria with the
Eleventh Regiment Of Engineers; Lieut..
c. B. Brakeman. who was attached to Q
machine gun battalion and won the Croi1
de Guerre In leading An attack April II
Lieut.. Ralph L Bishop. who twice went
through enemy hrs and his own barraSs
to recover tho body Of one OF his men
Sergeant Spencer @. Rosssll. who wor
the croix de Guerre with the ls6th In.
fantry, and Private Thaddsus Cam
cited for bravery aboard ship In foreign
waters Private Cam volunteered tc
dive into the hold and locate leak and
after several attempts succeeded.
Faculties Give 81 Men.
The faculties Of the nine schools Of the
university have given ninety-seven mer
to active servic" and q number OF other:
to civil departments and the Y. n. c. A
OF these ffty-one were professors In thu
medical school, Col. Louis A 10 Gard'
having the highest rank. He 10 attached
to the Surgeon-Generars ONCE. DR.
Hermann NJ. Biggs 10 serving with thu
Council of National Defence and DR.
Samuel A. Brown. dean Of the medica
school, 10 Lieutenant-Colonel In tn
New York State Guard.
From the college Of arts and sciences
more than twenty OF the faculty hav'
left for service. Among them are Dear
Archibald L. Bouton, q Major with TIL
American army in France: Prof. Thee
dore F. Jones. naval intelligence censo
at Madrid. Spain; Prof. Chester 8.
Whitney. Major in the smbuianoe ser
vice In France. and DR.. John Chsrle
Hubbard, Captain of the Division OF Re
search and Investigation, A. z f.
France.
The veterinary college among other
has sent Dr.. w. Reid Blair into the scr
vice. He Is a Major. DR.. Harry d. Gill
a Major, Is in charge Of horses 1t tn
port of embarkation.
| The university 10 training 500 New
! York and 100 Rhode Island soldiers
the school OF engineers under the direc
ton of the War Department SIX hun
dred finished their courses last Wednes
| day and have received assignments a
mechanics, electricians. carpenters. rahi
operators. &c. In army camps Aircraf
experimentation Is soon to be conducte
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