Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-02
CASUALTY LISTS SHOW
E|CHT|ETH IS FIGHTING
Two New Jersey Officers OF Division
Identified Among Those
Wounded in Action.
CAPTAIN CRUM is KILLED
Former Soldier of Fortune Wounded
While Serving In French Army.
Mrs. Christine Mile" Clemson
Sings at Camp Lee

CAMP LEE. November l.-Casualty
n l,s's nave begun to show the, effect
sion This unit. formed and trained
AT Camp Lee. is composed OF enlisted
W est Virginia and left for overseas
last t,s May IL was first brigaded with
visions in the engagements around Ar
eonne forest. In Il recent letter re-
CeiNcd by friend. MajorGenera
been highly cornplmented by British
generals who had seen its work.
.,r frequently names Of officers and men
we'll kno~n. Yesterdays casualty list
SHOWS Lieutenant Clarence w. Mcrrell.
81 New Jersey. member OF the Three
Hundred and Eighteenth Infantry. who
o-day contains First Lieutenant lien
~ l.; Demarest. Of Tcnany. y. j.. :,
S snsmDer Of the Three Hundred and
DeHarcst was slightly wounded
Accounts published elsewhere show.
mat Captain John Crum, captain in
tantry' a Virginia regiment. was kill
ed III action recently. Captain Crum
was probably the. most picturesque
character connected with the division.
He had participated in seven wars be-
sides the present war. and had been
gilHd for gallantry in action by. the
ing in the Boer War. He was at one
time risadier-general in one OF the
fhe rev armies Of Mexico. He
Legion in the present war.
Captain Crum was severely wounded
while hghting with the French. but
wa. commissioned in the American
army. He was forty-onc years old and
"a native of Idaho.
Forty three enlisted men. graduates
OF recognized dental schools. have APP
piled for COMMISSIONS in tho dental
corps and Will be examined on Mon
examined. must have received the con-
sent OF the surgeon general of the
army. Il is thought that the major
the examination and obtain their COM
missions.
FORMER BARBER NOW
OFFICER INSTRUCTOR
Every man in the service has an OPP
portun,y for advancement. Frequent
~ they are individual incidents recited.
showing that the commissioned per
sonnet Of the army contains men from
every walk of life. One of the in
ing school in civil life was ba rber.
Among the number Of men who have
been GRADUATED from the scho9i every
Chaplain Robert Nelson. who is at,
tached to camp headquarters, will
conduct S. communion services every
q. A. hostess house.
An Improvement in the method o!
receiving recruits from civil life Is
contemplated for the next draft. Here;
totore these men have been received
at the recruit receiving station near
the camp Lee railroad station. In
event OF rain the new draftees were
necessarily vet before they could be
carried through the initial mastering
process. To prevent this possibility
Of the men becoming i'll two barracks
have been taken over as receiving
station at Twenty-fifth Street These
Will form the recruit receiving station
and during the winter the time taken
Il the station will be inside in warn,
rooms. The Y. NJ G. A. organization
will furnish the rockies hot coffee free
of charge upon their arrival in camp
During the summer the y organization
formed a bucket brigade and gave the
men ice water.
" herever d unit OF the camp goes
the Y organization follows. Part OF
the second section Of the Depot Bri-
gade has been moved from their
quarters between Thirty-fifth and
Th!rty-six Streets TO point "a mile
below Foriieih Street. Here the bat
talions will be quartered in tents. The