The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-01
LOSES SECOND SON
In AIRPLANE CRASH
g. E. Hill of Orange Hears of
Lieut.. Maurice NJ. Hills
Death in Accident.
BROOKLYN MEN WOUNDED
, Cc- \. V. McDermOtt and
Lieut.. Meredith Wood
Suffer Injuries.
BROOKLYN MEN WOUNDED

Lieut.. Maurice NJ Hill, whose death as
the result of an airplane accident was
reported yesterday in n despatch to his
father, @. f. Hill of orange. N. j.. Is the
second Of Mr.. Hills sons to lose his life
through an airplane accident and was one
OF four brothers who entered the army
at the entrance OF this country into the
war.
Lieut.. Robert b. Hill, the first one Of
them to die. was a member of the British
Royal Flying Corps. and was killed In
an accident In England last April.
Lieut.. Maurice Hill volunteered for the
aviation service when a senior at the
University OF Pennsylvania and received
his training at the aeronautical school at
Princeton. Another brother, Lieut..
James w. Hill. is also an aviator. The
fourth brother, Capt. @. L. Hill Jr.. Is In
the Signal Corps.
tributed in full measure to the war is
represented in the casualty lists by the
names OF Lieut.. Michael Cassidy and
Lieut. James c. Cassidy. brothers, Of
East Orange.
Lieut.. William Cassidy was killed and
his brother severely wounded in the same
battle. according to a telegram from the
War Department yesterday TO their
brother. John T. Cassidy.
Both officers were graduated from
Seton Hall College. South Orange. and
after enlisting as privates q year ago
received their training at Spartanburg,
8. c.. and were commissioned on their
arrival In France.
Lieut.. Amory v Eliot of Capt. Craw-
ford Blagden's famous bloodhound"
Company of the 3O7th Infantry. Seventy
seventh Division. has been gassed and
slightly wounded.
Lieut.. Eliot was member of X
Company. Seventh Regiment, and was on
the Mexican border with that regiment
Gu his return he received n commission
at Governors Island and later went to
the 1917 Plattsburg camp.
VI
Brooklyn Omcer Wounded.
Another name OF a family of soldiers
to appear In the last casualty lists is
that of Lieut. Meredith Wood. who Is
reported wounded. He is a son of DR.. J.
Scott Wood. 172 Sixth avenue. Brooklyn.
He Il graduate OF Williams College.
and was commissioned at the first Platts-
burg camp. His brother. Lieut. Kenneth
Wood. is at Camp Upton. and another
brother, Lieut.. Everett Wood. Is with the
Tank Corps in France.
The names Of two Captains appear
among the wounded of the Twenty-sev-
enth New York; Division. They are
Capt. Frank r. Potter. 160 West 121st
"
$50 st. Marks aven u.eBrooklyn. Capt
Potter is a veteran OF the Spanish War
and was serving with the 106th Infantry,
Capt. McDermott of the same regiment
10 one of four brothers now serving with
the army.
Private Ferdinand Frerichs, killed in
action in France, was the son OF +. J.
Frerichs. 100 Underhill avenue. Brook
lyn. He enlisted year ago. and was
attached to the Twenty seventh Machine
Gun Battalion.
Word was received yesterday by
Philip Rhinelander, IS West Forty
eighth street, of the wounding of his son,
Private T. ]. Oakley Rhinelander of the
I107th Infantry. New York's old Seventh.
Private Rhinelander enlisted on his
eighteenth birthday and left for France
last April.
Lay Wounded I'm Field "a Hours.
Private Frederick c. Ware of the
same regiment wrote on October 10 a
letter received yesterday by his father
Frederick A Ware. telling that he was
in a hospital in Bath, England, recover
ing from a severe chest wound. In his
letter he said that after receiving his
wound he lay on the enemy side of tho
fighting line for twenty-four hours feign-
ing death lest the Germans discover that
he was alive and bayonet him.
Private Joseph C. Couse, also of the
10th. is enc of four boys from Asbury
Park whose names appear among the
wounded. He is the son OF William ].
Couse, president of the Asbury Park
Trust Company. Three of his comrades
from Asbury Park were wounded in the
came fighting in which he was injured.
They are Corporal Kenneth wother-
spoon. Lieut.. Claude A. Lyon and Lieut..
Harold Steiner.
A letter received at the Knights OF
Columbus headquarters in this city told
OF the gassing OF John Stewart of
Helena. Mon, a X. of C, secretary, when
assisting wounded American officer.
Stewart had been TO the firing line with
comforts for the fighting men and was
returning when he stopped to assist the
ofiioer. As he was helping him through
field a gas shell burst beside them.
Dr. Harmon A. Vedder of A East
Seventy-sixth street received letter
yesterday from his son. Sergeant Har-
mon B. Vedder, informing him of the
!, death of younger son, Corporal James
o. Vedder 20, a former student at Co
lumbia In the class OF 1919. The letter
said Corporal Vedder was wounded
while leading a machine gun squad
and died several days later.
Both sons of DIR. Vedder were in the
a07th Infantry, the new number OF the
old Seventh Regiment.