The sun., 1918-10-10
MAJOR, 2S, KILLED ON.
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! EVE OF HOME TRIP
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Wife, in Brooklyn, Not Seeing
Name on Casualty List,
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capt. Ships WOUNDED
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lieutenant Receives Death Hit
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y Trench Lines.
capt. Ships WOUNDED

Field Artillery was killed In action on
September 12. according to Information
which reached Brooklyn yesterday. His
name has not, however. appeared In the
casualty lists, and Mrs. Harvey has sent
q cable addressed to him and has tele-
graphed to the War Department in the
hdpe that ne Is still alive.
DMajor Harvey was born at McComb.
Miss, twenty eight years ago and was
graduated from West Point in 1915. He
waa married in November, 1915, the
couple having met while he was cadet
1t the Military Academy.
Recently Major Harvey wrote to his
wife, who is making her home with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Canavan
% 277 Macon street, Brooklyn. that he
expected to be returned to this country
to be assigned as an instructor at
Southern training camp. Surviving
Major Harvey are his wife, a boy 1Nyear
old and his mother, Mrs. James II.
Harvey.
TCapt. Harry L. Ships son OF DR.. and
Mrs. William II. Ships Of Bordentown,
N. j., was seriously wounded Septen-
hpr II. He arrived in France early in
June on his twenty-sixth birthday an
niversary. He was commissioned First
lieutenant at Fort Myer. trained as
member of the Iron Battalion under
Col. Paul Azan at Harvard and was
commissioned Captain, Company NJ.
Sosth Infantry. at Camp Dix, Wrights-
town
Lieutenant Filler Killed.
Tho death of Lieut.. Edward NJ. Cronin
Of the United States Aviation Corps is
reported. He was returning with a bomb
Ing squad which had been operating
over the German lines on SEPTEMBER ID
when hit. News of the death came from
his brother. Sergeant William T. Cronin.
sfho is also IN the aviation service. His
mother. Mrs Mary A. Cron!r, lives at
6t1 Broadway. Bayonne. N. ].
Lieut.. William b. Merselis. we'll known
In athletics in Passaic N. j.. and former
manager Of the Williams College football
team, was killed by a German shell
which struck the tent where he was
sleeping on September II. He had lived
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
b. Merselis, 223 Lexington avenue.
r&ssaic.
<Iieut, Edward ]. Sullivan Of the 10lth
infantry of the Twenty-second Army
Corps had an opportunity to look be-
hind him at his men while awaiting a
signal rocket to attack. Some were
smiling and others praying. but not a
suan fiinched. Lieut. Sullivan has been
wounded and is in a base hospital.
ffls sister is Mrs. Mary A. Sullivan.
matron attached to the office of Mrs.
1ilen A. O'Grady. Fifth Deputy Police
Commissioner. Lieut.. Sullivan tells his
Ulster that the boys on the firing line
want letters from home. Before enlist
ing he was a member of the New York
Police Department.
Sergeant Thomas v. Rowe. 81, Com
pnny d. 105th Infantry, who had been
clerk for the Metropolitan Steamship
Company. captured nine Germans and
was on his way to a dugout to get more
prisoners when a German sniper got him
and he died on August 81. He lived with
his parents at 1884 Amsterdam avenue
Second Lieut. Horace b. Seaman
Company X. 106th Infantry. son of Johr
l.. Seaman, BAT Gates avenue. Brooklyn
Is reported to have died of wounds or
september 3, but the father received Q
letter from him under date of Septem'
Der s. in which he wrote that he wa:
back in the trenches.
~Bayonet Master" wounded,
Z Lieut. Clifford w. Henry. son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ira w. Henry of Manhattan
was wounded In action while leading .
platoon Of the 1920 Infantry. He wa
known at Camp Gordon. where he wa!
an instructor. as master of the bayo
net" He is an engineer by profession.
The circumstances of the death of Ser
Geant Edward T. Hayes have been toll,
to his wife, Mrs. May Hayes, 474 Stat
street, Brooklyn, by the Captain of Com
Dhny L. 306th Infantry. home on a fur
Tough. He was struck in the breas
while hurrying to mess call when tn
regiment was stationed between Fisme
and St Kriblant on the Vesle River.
Private William r. Mcconnell. VIII
was killed in action on July 20, ha
been a member of the faculty Of Prince
ton University since 1915. His first offe
to enter the service in this country wa
refused, as he was under height.
Private William L. Reynolds. 2:
Company II, 305th Infantry, who Is re
p8rted to have died Of wounds. was mar
RED In March, and his wife lives wit
her father, DIR. William F. Splcer, at So
West 161st street.
Miss Frances W. Moeschen, 2S, Re
Cross nurse, is reported to have died @
pneumonia September Z. She was tn
daughter of Mrs. Kate Moeschen of So
Third avenue and was graduated froI
the Lenox Hill Hospital in 1915. She wer
as a Red Cross nurse with the troops I
the border and when the country entere
the war with Germany she reenlisted an
went 10 France with the Red Cross.
Private Michael J. Oppelt has write
to his family at II Forty-second stree
Corona, L. l., that while sitting in
dugout with six comrades the roof fe
ID and buried them. A piece of shrapn'
was removed In an operation IN Par
hospital and he is recovering.
Corporal James Keavey, 2S. reporte
TO have died OF pneumonia on Septepbe
II, lived with his cousin, Michael Ma
lpney. OF 400 East 145th street. wit
sixteen others he came from Count
Claire. Ireland, six years ago. The
had pledged themselves to stick tC
gether and when the war was declare
all enlisted in Company G, 165th II
xantry All have been wounded.
Mrs. Mary Gardner OF S31 West Sid
avenue. Jersey City. has been informe
That her two sons Walter and Frank J
both serving in the 114th Infantry. hay
been wounded.
"A letter telling OF the death OF Privat
John Fisher. OF Company A. 106th II
fantry, has been received by his parent
ME-. and Mrs. George G. Fisher. 81
FRANKLIN street. Brooklyn, from CorpoJi
John Owens. a member of the san
company. Fisher was killed July 10,
Corporal Owens wrote the paren
Chat they could we'll be proud of the
CONS achievements on the battle froI
and that he had glorious death.
Fisher at the time war was declare
was studying for the priesthood in Il