The sun., 1918-08-13
SOLDIER son DEAD,
MOTHER COLLAPSES
Thomas F. King Had Written
Of Picking Cherries and
Berries Near Front.
SAW FARMERS AT WORK
They Plough and Dig as If
Hundred Miles Away From
Fighting Line.

Told yesterday OF the death OF her
soldier son. Thomas F. King, Mrs. Rose
L. King. 1870 Park place. Brooklyn. col
iapsed and 80 serious was her condition
that a physician had to be summoned.
King was 22 and enlisted March Is.
1917. with Company f. Sixth United
States Infantry. He was trained In
Washington. d. c., and sailed for France
in December. His father Is James H.
King, a police lieutenant. stationed at
Canarsie. In his last letter home King
said:
ct am sitting under big orchard Just
now trying to think what should write.
The Germans make 1t kind OF hot for
us at times. but II won't be long before
our boys will make 1t too hot for them.
II Is a pretty place where l am just
now. We go picking cherries and ber-
ries every afternoon. We are camped
In the woods and the French are with us.
1.-THE weather has been fine and cool.
It doesn't get dark until 10 80 at night
and we have daylight at in the
morning. II Is a great thing to see the
farmers working the land under shell
fire. They plough and dig Just as II they
were a hundred miles away"
Hardest Fighting He Ever Saw.
According to a German officer we
captured, the American Marines are
either crazy or Just pure devils" said
Robert Louis Wilson in a recent letter
to a chum. Wilson was reported yes
terday among the killed. Maybe you
have heard about us. but II you didn't.
I will say that we sure set the ball
rolling a short time ago. The Germans
thought hell had broken loose. Early
one morning We started after them. and
before they knew what was coming We
were on top of them. Slaughter and
captures followed.
"One German officer who was taken
prisoner told us he had fought the Eng
1ish. French. Algerians. Canadians and
all the rest, but he had never fought a
bunch like us. who cared not a damn for
all the machine guns they had. We
Marines drove the Huns out of their
position and back about ten miles. A
good many Of them put up no fight at
all some fed but others couldn't. One
fellow We got was chained to a post at
machine gun. The Hun is not our
equal. but he is sure tricky l, for one.
don't believe in showing him any mercy"
Wilson was %, and lived in Port
Chester. when he enlisted in the Forty
ninth Company, Fifth Marine Regiment,
December IT.
Rose From Ranks.
After serving as a private under Gen.
Pershing in the Mexican expedition and
receiving an honorable discharge. Lieut..
Carl w. Wirths among the severely
wounded reported yesterday, went TO
Plattsburg and earned commission as
Lieutenant. Lieut.. Wirths is So and
was severely wounded July 2e, accord
ing to a telegram received by his wife,
Mrs Helen X. Wirths, s Garden place
Brooklyn. .,sa., =
Lieut.. wirths first went to France
with $50 men sent to study military af-
fairs. After completing his course there
he returned to this country and acted as
an instructor for draftees. Later he went
back to Europe, and in his last letter
home reported that he had been over
the top seven times. He said:
I'VE are now at the front. lying low
IN a deep dugout We have some straw
TO keep us out OF the wet. Shrapnel is
flying continually about us, but I am
cape it. Our boys over here are taking
things as they come"
Albert Klaider. 20. Hackensack n. j..
Killed in action July 10. left the class
room at high school to Join the army
early last year. Soon he sailed fol-
France with the 1s6th Machine Cur
Company.
IT have gathered a lot OF junk on the
firing line which / intend to send home
shortly, as souvenirs" wrote Sergeant
Rudolph A. Koslik. sos East Sixty-nintt
street, in a recent letter. He has since
been wounded. Before enlisting h.
lived with his widowed mother. two
brothers and a sister. He was 25. ant
enlisted in Company NJ. Forty seventh
Ynrt ntar
Nephew of FrOhman Wounded.
Private Daniel Dawson, wounded /.
son. 60 East Seventy-fourth street ant
a nephew OF Daniel Frohman. Hi
mother. Mrs, Rachael Frohman Dawson
is known throughout the training camps
of the country as Mother Dawson" Sh,
has done much to amuse the boys IL
khaki and has staged many theatrica
performances for them.
According to a letter received from
Corporal Dawson. he is being treated a
base hospital in Bordeaux. He di,
not mention the nature Of his wound. blu
said he expected to be out soon and bacl
on the firing line. Dawson enlisted fl
April. 1917. and was sent to Fort Slocun
for training. He went later to a training
camp in Texas and upon reaching Europ
became a member OF Company NJ Mint
Infantry.
On a service flag in the window of ~
East l4lst street. The Bronx. are fou
stars, one Of which represents Privat
Frank NJ. Tryan. 22. wounded in action
His brothers. George. Carl and Fred ar
all at the front. Private Tryan enliste,
last year in Company X. Forty secon,
Infantry. and received his training II
South Carolina. He was wounded Jul,
81 and in a letter to his mother recentl
spoke Of his injuries. but urged her no
to worry.
Corporal T. A. Richardson. who die
of wounds. was serving his second enlist
ment, He first enlisted In 1915 for ser
vice in Mexico. and was on duty at +
Paso. Tex. when he was injured throug
his horse falling under him. He wa
given an honorable discharge early las
year, but when war was declared he re
enlisted and was sent to France in Sep
TENDER.
Private James B. Graham, 1858 s.
Marks avenue, Brooklyn severed
wounded, enlisted in the Twenty-thi
Infantry Immediately after the Unite
States entered the war. but later wa
transferred to Company H. Ninth In
fantry. He received his training q
Syracuse and sailed for France Angus
20, 1917. Prior to his enlistment he wa
timekeeper for the Interborough
Not IS When He EnIisted,
Although he is now only 10 and ha
not reached his eighteenth birthda
when he enlisted. Corporal Harry n