New-York tribune., 1918-09-20
Listed as Killed,
He Advises Parents
To Ignore Report
Private Bushey Had Writ
ten amily Concerning Ex-
tent Of His Wounds

Private Clinton f. Bushcy, ir., was
listed among the killed in action in
yesterdays casualty list. but his par
ents, at 205 Jessamine Avenue, Yon-
kers. had received letter from him
warning them to disregard the notice
of his death that they would receive
from the War Department.
81 was listed by my company as hav-
ing been killed in action July Is, but |
am only slightly wounded" he wrote
from a hospital in France three days
after he was supposed to nave been
victim of Hun bullet. Private Bushey
who is only seventeen years old, en-
listed in Company II, 165th Infantry,
last July.
Bushcy received his wound on the
day the German offensive started. He
was one OF a working party Of about
seventy repairing wire in front of the
American trenches on the night the
German drive began. AS he described
1t, German shells began falling obout
one foot apart One hit bridge under
which he and fifteen comrades were
croucEing. Ten were killed and five
besides Bushey were wounded.
81 am certainly the luckicst fellow
on two feet" wrote Bushey. 81 don't
want to come as close to death again as
| dld up there when ,ne Germans stare
ed in. It was some bombardmcnt.
Every gun on both sides was drop
ping shells. When you figure this was
happening on a fifty mile front you
can imagine the noise it made. was
knocked fiat twice by the concussion
of shells. ! certainly did think never
would see dawn again
Captain Charles Dabney Baker, COM
mandng Company f., l65th Infantry,
yesterday was privately reported as
having died from a wound received in
the fighting on the Ourcq July 29 He
had many friends in New York. Grad
uating from Princeton in 1918, he en-
tered the employ of the Bankers Trust
Company and served with the 69th on
the Mexican border The captain dis
tinguished himself early in the war
by helping to save a horse transport
which had been tampered with by
enemy aliens and was decorated with
the CroiX de Guerre for bravery in
action last May.
Private Michael A. Milan, of East
Orange, was one Of the marines killed
IN action July 16 while helping to stop
the last German drive toward Paris.
One of his brothers is now in the avia-
ton service in France. His parents
were accidentally asphyxiated by H.
Illuminating gas last December His
brother Thomas died of typhoid fever
while serving in the Spanish American
War.
Captain Belvidere Brooks, twenty
nine years old, was killed in action on
the Nesle River August 21. His
brother. Lieutenant G.. B. Brooks. of
the 305th Field Artillery, who is now
IN this country. told yesterday that
the captain was killed by a she'll. An
other brother, Captain j. w. Brooks,
Of the 150th Machine Gun Battalion,
is now in France Before going to
Plattsburg Captain Belvidere Brooks
was connected with the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company and
lived at 80 West Ninth Street.
Private Frank l.. Allyn, jr., of Com
pany f. 106th Infantry, who was killed
on the Flanders front August 10. was
descendant of some of the earliest
settlers OF Jamaica Township; was the
son of DR.. Frank l.. Allyn of Wood
haven, l.. l.. and nephew of Mrs. John
5. Merrill, whose husband was once dis
trct attorney of Queens County. He
was a graduate of the Richmond Hill
High School and of the College Of
the City of New York.