The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-08
BROOKLYN BATTERY
DIDN'T LOSE A MAN
Command B Had Remarkably
Good Fortune, Says Major
G.. B. Gatuna.
TELLS ARMORY AUDIENCE
1000 Men and Women Gather
to Get News Of Soldier
Boys.

Brooklyn mothers and sweethearts
TANNED the Thirteenth Regiment Ar
rory yesterday to get news OF Brook
irn boys who are in France with the
JYfty-ninth Artillery. Coast Artillery
Corps, an exclusively Brooklyn outfit
that has done valiant work in the Ar
gonne.
Major George b. Gatuna OF Battery
y knew all the boys by their first
names. and told the gathering how the
brooklyn soldiers had Jared. whether
they we're wounded or killed and how
soon they we're coming home. To some
re brought the sad news that their
loved ones would not be among the
,onquering hosts who are returning to
America. He told the 1000 men and
women that Battery B did not suffer
the loss OF a single man in action.
Credit for the victories must go to
the doughboys." he said. They found
tie machine gun nests OF the Germans
and drove them before them and
the Germans had very little infantry.
Every man had n machine gun. They
would lie fiat and NOW down the on
rushing French and British. and that
IS why they were 80 successful. But
the Americans came too fast for them
swept past their nests and swamped
;hem.
Got Lost in ArEonne Forest.
II went into No Mans Land on an
observation tour one morning abor.
o'clock and got lost in the Argonne
Forest. / wandered around until early
ire next morning. tore my gas mask
on the barbed wire entanglements. For
Two hours I was lost in these entan-
elements, and when finally came out
was in little clearing not fifty feet
from a fire. around which sat fifty
German soldiers.
Il thought II was the end OF me, and
that I was surely captured, when sud
denly sentry walked past and he had
On the steel helmet OF n Yank. and
then knew what It meant, the Yanks
had captured the Germans"
In the casualty list of yesterday
Lieut.. jerome S. Hanratty Of d5S
Forty-ffth street. Brooklyn. Is re-
ported missing In action. He was in
The S0Sth Infantry. 1t Is believed he
was wounded and Is in base hospital
He was formerly n mounted policeman
attached to the Flatbush' precinct in
Brooklyn.
Lieut.. Edward Mclaughlin of 102
Jackson street. Newark, NJ J., was
killed in action in France. He enlisted
in the First New Jersey Infantry in
1899. When the United States entered
ffis war he was transferred to the
18th Infantry and won his commits
SION.
Mrs. Catherine O'Brien Of ASS ST.
Nicholas avenue said yesterday that
there is a mistake in the appearance
ot her sons name in the casualty list
Lieut. William H. OBrien was re-
ported to have been killed October 5.
She received letter from him dated
November 8, after he had been pro-
noted, and he was in the best OF
health. Lieut.. O'Brien was in the 10Th
Infantry.
Second of Three Chums to Die.
Lieut.. Kenneth Malcomb Reid OF
Paterson, n. j.. whose death was re-
ported yesterday, is the second OF three
huns Of the engineering school OF
New York University. known at Uni
Ners!ty Heights as THE Insepara bles,"
70 de in this war. All three enlisted
- the same time. Lieut.. Reid. who
vas In the air service. lost his life Oc-
'ober c5 by a fall during a fight.
Lieut.. Gerard Vincent Carroll of Pas
sale, n. J., his chum, was killed by
iall at Ellington. Tex. The surviving
member of the trio Is Lieut.. James w.
Storey Of South Norwalk. Conn. who
IS attached to the l65th Infantry.
Lieut.. Lawrence j. Ayers. reported
% have been killed In action on No
Nember 3, lived with his mother at 1871
West Ninety-eighth street. He was
graduate Of Plattsburg. and went over
seas with the 316th Infantry.
Memorial services for Philip Kerney
I!ndll. Jr.. who was killed in France.
viii be held in the Ascension Memorial
Chapel. Forty-third street and Eighth
avenue. this afternoon. at o'clock.
He was the son OF Philip K. Mindil.
" newspaper man, and the grandson
Of Major-Gen. George W. Mindil. who
was twice decorated by Congress for
'ravery in the civil war.
Private Charles Stewart, son OF Prof.
Charles Stewart of Richmond Hill,
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