The sun., 1918-11-03
WAR MAKES WIDOW
OF 4 MONTHS BRIDE
Message Tells Wife of Death
of Capt. Burragc, Wounded
in Battle.
COLONEL is NEAR DEATH
Memorial Services to BE Held
To-day for Rev. w. Stevens,
First Chaplain to Die.
COLONEL is NEAR DEATH

A War Department message received
yesterday by Mrs. Helen Burrage, %
Glenwood avenue, East Orange. brought
to her the first news OF the death OF her
husband, Capt. Percy l. Burrage. to
whom she was married in June. few
days before he sailed for France with
the Sl6th Infantry. Capt Burrage died
OF wounds received in battle September
80.
Capt. Burrage was the son of Mrs.
Robert j.. Burrage and the late DR.,
Burrage. medical director for the Pru-
Dental Insurance Company in Newark.
lie was graduated from the Mohegan
Military Academy and Princeton Uni
Versity and attended the first officers
training camp at Plattsburg He was
transferred to Governors Island and
finally won his commission as Captain
at Fort Niagara In May, 1917.
Cant. Reginald II. Sturgis, 500 Cedar
avenue, Richmond HILL gassed In action,
also trained at Plattsburg and went TO
France In April with Company l. of the
30sth Infantry. He is the son OF the
late Thomas Sturgis. who was Fir.
Commissioner in New York city under
Mayors Strong and Low.
Several Times Near Death.
In his letters home the Captain told
OF the many narrow escapes he had be-
fore he fell q victim to gas fumes. Both
of his Leutenants, he said. were killed
one day as they stood talking to him.
On another occasion he was in his
Colonel's dugout when a she'll struck the
shelter. seriously woundng the Colonel,
but leaving the writer unscathed. The
Captain was gassed August 81 as he
was leaving the trenches after long
siege of trench duty in which his com
pany had suffered acutely from lack OF
hot food
Can't Joseph S. Bach OF the Quarter
masters Department. who was killed in
action October 6, lived in Hastings-on-
Hudson. He had been in France only
two months. His mother received the
War Departments notification OF her
sons death at her summer home in Deal
Nj.
Lieut. Matthew Olsten of the United
States Medical Corps died Of wounds
October /, according to word received
from the War Department by his father,
Isadore Olstein OF Peekskill, n. Y. He
was "a years old and a graduate OF the
Albany Medical Schol. After serving in
the Medical Corps at Camp Upton he
was sent to France in July. and was as
signed 10 tnt ol7th
wounded in Three Places.
Lieut.. Herman c. wotherspoon. Com
pany d. l04th Infantry, who was
wounded in three places by machine gun
fire. is q member of the veteran corps
of the old Seventh Regiment. y. G. y
V, and is a son OF the late Henry II
wotherspoon, a civil war veteran OK the
same regiment. Lieut. Wotherspoon was
a sergeant In Company II of the Seventh
He won his commission at Spartanburg
S. C. A few days before his regiment
sailed he was married to Miss Heller
McQunn of Bangor. He Is now con-
valescing al a base hospital in France.
Corporal Benjamin Franklin of the
10th Infantry, whose name was twice
included in the casualty list by mistake
has at last been definitely reported al
severely wounded. and is in a base hos
pital in England. His father is MajoI
Il. A. Franklin. manager OF the produc
ton division of the Bridgeport distric
ordnance office He Is 81 years old. anC
enlisted during his freshman year at Co
lumbia University. where he was ACTIVE
In athletics. His home Is in Springfield
Mass. lie is supposed TO have beef
wounded during the attack on Cambria
In a letter to his parents he said
'If you should never hear from m
again you can make sure that before m,
demise ten Germans got what was com
ing to them
First Officer KILLED In War.
The Royal Arcanum has been well rep
resented in the national honor roll sew
eral hundred of its members having bee
reported killed, wounded or missing i
action up to date. At least forty-thre
members who donned Khaki have mad
the supreme sacrifice and their name
will be inscribed on the honor roll Q
the order and placed In it's archives
Among those reported killed is Cap
Newell r. Fiske of Crawford Council NJ
1859. who was the first American Office
officially reported killed on the BATTLEFIELD
OF the Marine. He was a Captain in III
Seventh Infantry and received his fats
wounds while leading his company in
charge.
A special memorial service will be hel
in the First Reformed Episcopal Churcl
Madison avenue and Fifty-fifth street. ;
II o'clock this morning In honor of n
Rev. William Du Bose Stevens, fir
New York city pastor to die in the Sc
vice of the American EXpeditionaT
Forces. Two Brooklyn churches wi
suspend their morning services so thi
their congregations may attend the M