The sun., 1918-12-04
MAJOR WOODWARD
Is SHELL SHOCKED
Inventor of TrOtol-Gelatin III
valided Home Before the
"Wounding'' Is Printed.
NOTED AVIATOR Is SLAIN
Lieut.. A. G. Kimber, Son Of
Former Trinity Vicar, Is
Killed in Battle.
NOTED AVIATOR Is SLAIN

Although his name lounu us why
into the casualty list only yesterday
Major Harold C. Woodward, expert on
explosives and one time military aid!
TO Gov. whitman, already is back in
this country recuperating from the
aftermath of shell shock. Major Wood
ward was reported in the casualty list
as wounded, degree undetermined.
He arrived at Newport News from
France Sunday morning, and was sent
20 q military hospital in New Jersey,
Among his many other achievements
Major Woodward is best known as the
inventor Of trotol- gelatin, an explosive
which Is said TO be twice as powerful
as 80 per cent. dynamite, but perfectly
safe to handle. In n report issued sew
eral years ago the War Department
declared that the invention promised
10 revolutionizc it's ordnance plans.
Gen of Former Trinity Vicar Killed
First Lieut.. Arthur Clifford KIM
Der of the American Aviation Service
was killed in battle on the Meuse, Sep
tember &C. according to cable des-
patch received by his father the Rev
DR.. Kimber, who for a number OF
years was vicar of St. Augustine
Chapel, Trinity Parish.
Lieut., Kmber was in his twenty
third year and a senior at Stanford
TTnt, x.,ho ho
vice. To him was designated the sig
nal honor of carrying the first official
United States flag to France. The
flag was carried by him in the process
sion down Fifth. avenue, and then was
placed in the chancel of Trinity
Church, where 1t remained during the
services on the following Sunday. On
June 4, 1917. it was formally presented
TO the American Ambulance Field Ser
vice in France, of which young KIM
Ter was then n member.
At the second battle of the Marine
Lieut.. Kimber was transferred to the
Aviation Corps. and shortly after vas
made a FIRST Lieutenant. He was
buried at Bantheville, Paris.
Capt. Harry 3. Doremus, Company
c, Hath Infantry, who was killed in
action October rs. lived in Hacken-
sack. He was veteran of the Span.
ish-American war and the Mexirlr
border campaign. He leaves a widow
nnd child.
i Lieut.. Joseph P. Mulvey. S92 Ridge.
wood avenue, Brooklyn. reported IN
yesterdays. casualty list as having
been wounded in action, was formerly
a detective serc1ant on the New York
police force. He served in the Philip.
pines and entered the Plattsburg train.
ing camp at the outbreak OF the wal
with the Central Empires. Relatives
Of the officer say they have not beer
officially notified that he was wounded
although in recent letters he SAID hi
had been gassed, but that he was fully
recovered.
War Bride In Widowed.
"The war Is nearly over. Be SURF
to be at Old Trinity Church and see
us march up Broadway" wrote Cor
poral William j. Courier to his brid,
of year October Is. Four days latel
!. Courter's dead body was found in NJ
Mans Land after a raid. In his poke
were several letters freshly penned Il
his wife and photograph OF her.
Corporal Bernard Schwartz, %.
Simpson street, reported killed in &C
ton, was only 16 when he entered tn,
service last July. Having some mu
steal talent. he was assigned to tn
band of the Thirteenth Regiment
United States Marines. When h
reached France a month later, how
ever. he was put in the trenches. Ac
cording to the War Department tele
gram received by his mother, he fel
in battle November /. Before joinin,
the colors he was a junior teacher IL
the Murray Vocational School, Thirty
\ fifth street and Lexington avenue.
185th Called the "Green Devils
Private John A. Walsh, of the ia
nous 165th Infantry. who is now II
Military Hospital No. Q. the Bronx
Incorporating from wounds received il
the bloody fighting at the Ourcq tell
an amusing story of the hickman
given his regiment by the Blue Devil
of France.
VI The 165th'c buglers, Walsh says, no
ticed during the early days of tn
fighting that the Blue Devil trumpet
ters had blue banners attached to thei
instruments. Determined that the,
would not be less ornate than thei
French brothers, tho 165th men at
tached the Irish flag to their bugles
and from that time on the regimen
was referred to by the Frenchmen a
the Green Devils" of New York.
To DR.. Hammond Vedder, A Eas
Seventy-siXth street, has fallen tn
double sorrow OF having both his son
killed in France. The two boys
James. co. and Hammond Jr 22-wer
students together at Columbia Uni
versity. Two days after the DECLARE
ton of war they enlisted n the oil,
Seventh Regiment, and later sailed 70
France in Company X. 10Th Infantry
James was the first to fall in battle an,
his death, on September 2S, was de
scribed in a letter written by Hammond
A few days after this letter was re
ceived by DIR. Nedder War Depart
ment telegram came announcing tn
death of Hammond, who had been kille
in action November 8. He forfelte
his life during the smashing OF tn
Hindenburg line at Cambria.