New-York tribune., 1918-09-24
Jersey Officer
War Captive in
Bayreuth Camp
Lieut.. Irving Smith, Jr., of
South Orange, Taken
on the Marne

News was received here yesterday Of
the capture of Lieutenant Irving Smith,
.jr.. of 500 Hillside Avenue, South
Orange, n. j., when the fighting was on
the Marne. He is reported to be pris
oner at Bayreuth, Bavaria. Lieutenant
Smith is twenty-three years old. He
was graduated from Williams College
last year. At Camp Mcclellan, Ola,
where he went with a New Jersey
troop, he won appointment to an Off
GERS training school and obtained a
commission. He was on the steamship
Moldavia when she was torpedoed
Sergeant Feter J. Crotty, of the l65th
Infantry, whose death from wounds was
announced yesterday, is the third of
four irsaparables in that regiment to
lose his life fighting overseas. James
Corrigan and John Quinn were killed
before him and only Corporal Jack
Gibbons remains alive of the -four
musketeers." All four had been wound
ed and gassed on March u. The
wounds which caused Sergeant Crotty's
at 3Sl Tenth Avenue A widow and
three children survive him.
Veteran Sergeant Killed
Sergeant Thomas Reilly, OF Company
X, goth Infantry, who was killed in ac-
ton July 81, was known as "the fight
ing lrishman" to the rest of X Com
pany. His sister Mary, VINO lives at
202 East Seventythird Street, said
that he was fighting to avenge the
death of brother who was killed
while serving in the British ranks in
France. Sergeant Reilly first enlisted
ten years ago.
Corporal p. Edgar Price, formerly r
reporter for The Brooklyn Citizen" /"
was severely wounded August 4. &C
cording to a message received by his
father, Thomas, of 1854 Tompkjns Ave
nue.. Brooklyn. Nevertheless, Mr..
Price has letter from his son. dated
August H. in which he mentions no
wounds, but says that he was kept too
busy for two weeks previously to write.
He is member Of Company M. 326th
Infantry.
Sergeant Peter J. Martinson. who
was killed in action, lived at $40 Forty
seventh Street. Brooklyn. He sailed
with the 77th Division from Camp Up
ton.
Lucky Kid" Among Missing
Private John {. Bedell, who was
killed in action August 2l was a mem
Der OF the lO6th Infantry. He was
twenty-one years old. He lived at 1856
Seventh Avenue. Brooklyn.
Private Harold Batai!le. Of the 1O7th
Infantry, who lives at 800 Irvngton
Avenue, South Orange, N. j.. received
three wounds August % as the result
of the explosion of a tren>h mortar.
In recent letter he said he expected
to be back in the line soon.
Private Benjamin Franklin Fees, of
the 18th Company, 9th Regiment,
United States Marine Corps. who is
listed as missing, was wounded and
gassed in the lighting at Chateau
Ihlerry, but wrote to his mother, who
lives at 512 Cookman Avenue, Asbury
Park, N. j.:
II am all right except for some gas
in my system and one eye blinded. It's
my left eye. III be all right now soon,
SO don't worry. | was sure lucky kid
We were sent from one hell to another
where we were to make a big drive.
saw two Dutchmen in the woods who
had not been taken. | grabbed my 'gat'
and with that in their faces they yelled
'kamerad' and marched them off to
the first aid station and made them
carry wounded back to the trucks"