The sun., 1918-09-04
KAVANAGH KILLED
IN BAYONET DUELS
Private From Camp Upton Had
Done Heroic Work When
Wounded MOrtally.
BOYS OF II AND 10 HEROES
Mothers and Wives Hear of
Gallant Deeds Along With
News of Death and Injury.

dH inidHtTy uult rs one Ol 30 many Udy-
onets A soldier lost. under this usage.
becomes a "baypnet" lost-but that
hardly covers the loss of Private Frank
II. Kavanagh of Camp Upton's 308th.
listed in the new casualty list as killed
in action August 16
Kavanaghs was superbayonet.
Eight Boches were to it's credit when
wound put its owner temporarily out of
action at Chateau Thierry. but Kav-
anagh regarded his score as only mod
estly begun.
IT am going back 20 get some more
Germans" wrote Kavanagh in letter
received by his parents a month ago. II
have already accounted for eight Of them
In bayonet duels. I don't know how
many more of them have dropped with
bullets"
Kavanagh lived at 247 East Fifty-sec-
cnd street and was a clerk in the offices
OF the New York Central Railroad until
he was drafted last March. Five weeks
later he sailed for France with Company
G.. 30sth Infantry.
Z Private Kavanagh's fellow clerks. who
had given him a nickname that might
, well have been carried along into the
service-"Speed''-t a solemn sort
Of holiday yesterday in honor Of the Of
hce hero.
Aviation Fall Causes Death.
On the official list Sergeant Frank II.
Bishop appears as having died OF dis
case, but his mother has an unofficial let
IL ~ rHn A Il
mired Your Som that ascribes his death
to injuries sustained in a fall from an
airplane.
Sergeant Bishop was one OF three
brothers who ran an automobile supply
business on Boston road before the
United States declared war. Frank
Bishop and one of his brothers enlisted
! at once, leaving the other to be the sup
port of their mother. Mrs. Sophia Bishop.
. East 128th street. Frank chose avia-
ton and quickly won promotion.
Several days ago Mrs. Bishop got a
letter from Frank. who said he was in
a base hospital in France suffering from
q slight attack of grip. Appended was
q postscript written by Lieut.. w. w.
Davies Of the American Red Cross. who
said Bishops condition was more seri-
Gus than he had himself admitted and
congratulating Mrs Bishop on being the
mother of "a dear. brave, cheerful typ
teal American youth"
Private Charles F. Tashlein, severely
wounded. is 10 years old and a Regu-
lar He enlisted in the Twenty-sixth
Infantry a few months before war was
declared and trained at Fort Slocum and
in Texas. His father. Charles Tashlein.
ATS Ninth avenue, is a y. NJ. c. A.
worker in France. Tashlein had been
a chauffeur before his enlistment and
overseas had been driving an ammuni-
ton truck.
Lieut.. James C. Osburn OF New
Rochelle was severely wounded while
capturing a German machine gun July
22-but he and hts men, a letter to
his wife says, got the gun.
Amherst Graduate Wounded.
Lieut., Arthur Frank Williams. listed
as wounded, degree undetermined" en-
tered the service Immediately after he
was graduated from Amherst a year
ago. His bride is in the Berkshires with
her father. John d. Wyeth, a New York
broker. Lieut.. Williams is a son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Williams, OF
Sunderly, Mass.
Charles Havana gh, who was wounded
severely August 2, Ia not related to the
kavanagh who got eight Boches before
they got him. but his is also a fighting
branch Of the family. A twenty-one.
year-oid brother, William Kavanagh
was killed in action last May while with
the British army; another brother
Michael, Is serving as a British infantry
man, and third brother, John, is in the
British aviation service. Like his bayo
net welding namesake, Charles Kava
nagh was a railroad clerk when a civil
fan.
News that her husband Giuseppi hat
been wounded reached Mrs. Catherin,
Bianco, 1853 Johnson avenue, Booklyn
two weeks after the birth of a littl,
Giuseppi Bianco was drafted last De
cember, and sailed for France in April.
Corporal Francis McEroy. 1855 Hoy
street. Brooklyn, who Is listed as Sc
verely wounded. enlisted In June. 1917
and went overseas with the 1929 in
fsntry. In a letter dated July II he toIt
his mother:
THE Germans were pushed back eigh
miles yesterday and also got out of tn
Marine. Gee, you ought to see some O
the towns. They sure do look shaker
up, The holes in the ground caused b.
continual dropping of shells are so larg
that you could put a couple of wagons II
each"
boy Not Yet II on List.
Private Stephen Singervald, listed a
wounded. degree undetermined" Is no
yet IT years old. but he manage
to convince a recruiting officer in Decem
Der. 1917. that he was 90 His mother
Mrs Mary Singervald, 1872 East Thir
street, has letter from the boy !
which he tells of having been struck 1
the heel by a shell fragment.
ION July Is our regiment made
surprise attack In which ] took part
explained a letter received by Mr.,
Leonardo Gavone. a Thompson stree
whose grandson, Joseph De Jorge. wa
severely wounded in action. at was
success, although / was wounded an
am now In a French hospital. 1t is
good place and the treatment Is fine"
Harry Spiess, missing in action sine
August IS, had been in the Regula
Army for eight years. His parents, VIII
live at 1873 Pitt street, received a lette
from him in May in which he said h
had seen plenty of fighting and rattle
enjoyed It,"
Private Bernard Saltzberg, killed 4
action, was "a years old and had been
shoe salesman. He lived at 536 Morn
avenue. The Bronx.
Leonard Miller. Jr.. son of a Hoboke
dairyman, who Is reported as wounde
had been n munitions worker. In
letter to his family he said he had bee
hit four times by bullets July 22.
Private Harry NJ. Rosenfeld. wounde
dasree undetermined, was employed b
r. II. Macy & Co. as an upholster,
until he was drafted last December. AT
lived with his parents at 100 West 1l7t
street Under date OF July 30 he wro
his mother that he had been wounde
slightly and gassed. but expected to n