The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-12
WINNER
OF WAR CROSS, DEAD
Had Displayed Courage in VOy-
age to France and at
the Ourcq.
GILLIAN PRAISED BY HAIG|
Machine Gun Officer Killed in
Action After COmmenda-
ton by Marshal.
GILLIAN PRAISED BY HAIG

James's Episcopal Church, Seventy-frst
street and Madison avenue. Capt Baker
was formerly cashier OF the Bank OF
the Manhattan Company. July 20 he
| was awarded the Croix de Guerre for
valient service at the battle of the
ourcq. His citation was "for bravery
aud good judgment in battle and for
leading his unit after his ear drum had
been punctured.
Capt Baker. who was graduate OF
| the Hill School and of Princeton Uni
versty, lived with his parents at East
| Seventy-flfth street. His father, Stephen
Baker, Is president of the bank of which
| Capt Baker was cashier. The young
| officer, who formerly held a commission
| In tho old Sixty ninth Regiment. before
| ever reaching the front was commended
by the Navy Department for having ex-
ercised Great bravery in the voyage
| across the Atlantic on board transport.
Shattered machinery caused leak and
the drowning of 100 mules. Capt BAKER
at great personal risk, repaired the dam
age.
Praised for Work in Action.
Capt. Walter E. Gillian. Company d.
| 3O6th Machine Gun Battalion, a son OF
NJ. NJ. Gillian. 372 Broadway, Flushing,
i won Marshal Haig's commentator be-
| fore he was killed in action September
| 4, according to q letter received by his
! father yesterday. Captain. you make
wonderful officer" the Marshal said to
him, according to the letter. The praise
| was elected by the efficient manner in
| which Capt. Gillian handled his men dur
ing an engagement.
Cant, Gillian, who was 81. won second
| honors In the examinations at the close
of the first Plattsburg camp. Before
| entering Plattsburg he was associated
| with his father in the advertising busi-
ness. He was one of the best known
athletes in Queens.
News was received yesterday by
Henry NJ V. Connolly, col West Fifty
seventh street. that his brother. Lieut..
| Edmond ]. Connolly. 165th Infantry.
had been severely wounded and gassed,
| and also had been cited for bravery
| August IL by the commander of the
| Forty-second Division. July rs. at
| Neurcy farm. according TO the citation.
| Lieut. Connolly disregarded his own
safety and encouraged and aided his
men in holding the position he had
gained. He is a graduate OF the first
Plattsburg camp and. before entering
the service, was civil engineer.
Three Times In Action.
| Lieut. Charles II. Eypper, son OF Mr..
and Mrs. George H. Eypper 1913 Mid
land avenue, Montclair. severely wound
ed September. IL. enlisted in 1917. and
was commissioned last February. He
sailed for France in March and has
| been three times in action since his ar
rival there. He Is &c years old and has
two brothers in the service. George w,
an Instructor in aerial gunnery with the
! American Air Service, and Norman Il,
with the Twenty-seventh Division.
| Corporal Charles J. Reilly. 155th IT.
fantry, dead from wounds, wrote let
ter to his mother. Mrs. Maria Reilly. 2@2
Lexington avenue, just before no went
into action and was hit October ). He
said he expected to take part in big
drive with a large body of American
troops, and after the fighting he would
go to a rest camp. where he would write
n long letter. An hour after Mrs. Reilly
received her sons communication tele-
gram arrived from the War Department,
announcing that he had been wounded
This was followed by another message
announcing his death.
Corporal Reilly wrote that Father
Duffy, the chaplain Of his regiment, was
a remarkable man" and that 'ht
4
though he were on Fifth avenue. aiding
the wounded despite the fact that bull
let's and shell were falling all around
him" Corporal Reilly was GRADUATE
of st. Francis Xavier's School, Fifth
avenue and Sixteenth street.
Although he had been cited for bravery
when wounded in action August II, Ser
geant Lockern Hupman in a letter to his
brother John. 421 Stelnway avenue. Long
q IGIa
mentioning the former fact The letter
told only OF his having received bullet
in the shoulder Sergeant Hupman was
born in Nova Scotia and had been q
foreman for a firm OF contractors IN
Long Island City five years when he en-
. listed in July, 1917. He left for France
three weeks later with Company l., Sixth
Infantry. He rose to corporal in three
} weeks and sergeant a month later.
Wants Brother in Navy.
Wounded and gassed. probably in the
fighting at Chateau Thierry. Sergeant
, John r. Cieslinski, "a Myrtle avenue
, Bloomfield. n. j., died in France August
20. according to Il War Department tele'
gram received by his parents, Mr.. and
! Mrs J.. Ciesllnskl, yesterday. He en-,
: listed In tho Medical Corps June 81 anG
' went to France almost Immediately. He
had q life saving medal, won for rescu
ing two persons in Greenwood Lake
, near Bloomfield. He was prominent ir
Z athletics during his school days.
81 Corporal William A. Flaherty. dead
: from wounds received In action, lived
n with his parents at 1888 Third avenue
: In letter dated September he asked
{ his brother Thomas. 10, to enlist in tht
n navy. Lets have our family repre-
5 scented on the water, as there are two or
z land" he said. He was in Company A
302d Engineers, and was wounded Sep
a TENDER :.
I Corporal Samuel Kaplan, reported
e dead September IL from wounds re
r ceived in action. wrote n letter the sam,
] day to his brother, Elias Kaplan, with
e whom he lived at 1910 Washington ave
| nue., The Bronx. but did not mention tina
r he had been wounded. Ehas thinks ar
r error has been made and has acksJ tn,
( War Department for verification Sam
: uel was In Battery b, 306th Field Artil
0 lery. Before entering the army h,
taught in a Hebrew school.
y Mechanic Joseph a. Bannone, Com
l. pany A, s05th Infantry. reported as hav
= ing died of wounds September IS, wrot,
s. his family September II that he haC
been wounded by shrapnel. had been OPP
c Grated on and was recovering. He sale
which had gone into action. His mother
Mrs. Rose Bannone. IS Spring street
y clings to the hope that an error has beer
= made In reporting his death.
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