New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-04
Kept News of Fatal
Injury From Mother
Until Death Came
Sergeant Bishop, Victim Of
Plane Fall, Wrote He Was
Suffering From Grip

After concealing his injuries from
his mother by telling her he was laid
up IN Is hospital from an attack Of grip,
Sergeant Frank II. Bishop, twenty.four
years old, died July % in France, the
result of fall from an aeroplane.
Bishop vas one of three brothers in
the auto business on the Boston Road.
Two enlisted and the third remained
at home to support their mother, Mrs
Sophia Bishop, 2 East 128th Street.
Sergeant Bishop sailed for France in
rnent. Several days ago there came a
letter from him, written by a Red
Cross officer, saying: az am sick in a
base hospital with a slight attack Of
the grip, and hope to be back in action
soon"
With the letter was tribute from
Lieutenant W w. Davies, Of the Red
Cross, saying. His condition is more
+ serious than he knows" Yesterday
! Mrs. Bishop received a letter, dated
July "a. from a woman who signed her
self Nine. Lenoir, French woman
who admired your son." saying that
Sergeant bishop had died as a result
Of an acrcplane accident.
Private Frank H. kavanagh, Of the
308th Infantry. evidently lived up to his
nickname Of speed" when he went
over the top at Chateau Thierry.
Wounded in July, he wrote that he
killed eight Germans in bayonet
fight and accounted for others with
his rifle. Yesterday his parents, who
live at 2z2 East Fifty-seccnd street.
were notified that he had been killed
in action August l6
Infantry cannot make his young
wife jealous by his letters from a
base hospital, where he is recovering
from severe wound. 81 don't want to
get we'll, I'm having a fine time" he
wrote.
mo, am sure it isn't because he
IS In love with beautiful nurse" said
Mrs. Myron. 81 suppose the poor boy
is glad to get d rest. as he has been
since he went to France" Myron and
Miss Lena Silbert were married Just
before Myron went overseas.
Lieutenant James {. Osburn, of New
Rochelle, was wounded while captur-
ing German machine gun. he told his
wife, in letter she received yester.
day. Osburn is thirty-nine wears old.
veteran Of the Spanish American
war, and saw service in the Philip
pines and in the Boxer rebellion in
emma. lie Is in the 1o3rd Infantry.
triuseppi Eianco. twenty five years
cid, has been wounded III France. Less
than Two weeks after her son was born
Mrs. Bianco, of 1873 Johnson Avenue.
brooklyn. received word from the War
Department that her husband had been
kurt. He is in the 4th Infantry.
Lieutenant Arthur Frank Williams.
of Newark. listed among the wounded
was graduated from Amherst College
about year ago and Immediately en-
tered the service. His wife is living
with her father. John D. Wyeth, a New
York broker The family is in the
Eerkshires at the Wyeth summer home
Williams is a son Of Mr. and Mrs.
Franklin Williams, of Sunderly. Mass.
Corporal Francis McElroy, twenty
+ three years old. Of 1863 Hoyt Street.
! brooklyn. was Severely wounded in ac-
tion in France on July 80. according to
War Department telegram received
by his mother, Mrs. Mary McElroy.
William q. Carroll, of Stamford,
Conn. reported as having died of
wounds. was probably the youngest
Connecticut soldier in the American
army. He enlisted in 1917 when six
teen years old. as member of Com
pany E, 102nd Regiment, and went over
IN June. After obtaining his fathers
consent. He was rst wounded in Feb
ruary, 1918.
His family had no word that he was
back at the front until a telegram
came announcing his death from
wounds sustained in action July 10.
His father is employed on the Percy
U. Rockefeller place at Greenwich