The sun., 1918-10-26
GRANDSON OF CIVIL
WAR GENERAL HURT
Corporal John E. sigel Dis
abled-Worked in Health
Department.
MARINE CAPTAIN is HIT
lanes F. Rorke, Bay Ridge
Doctor, Wounded as He
Receivers From Gas.
MARINE CAPTAIN is HI

,u.rican soldiers recorded In yester-
hy', casualty lists was, Corporal John
s,gel, grandson Of the famous civil
Gar leader General Franz Sigel. Tho
,orporals aunt. Mrs. Anna Sigel Of the
pupIic Charities Department Cumber-
ind Street Hospital. Brooklyn, was the
s-, 10 receive notification that the
rounR man had been disabled.
Corporal Sigel Is IS. He was drafted
n September. 1917, and was sent to
rance with Company NJ, 305th Infantry.
S.yenty-seventh Division. He was for
m,rly employed in the diagnosis labora-
.o, OF the Department OF Health. His
h-other. Reginald Sigel. is a lieutenant
4, the sOsth Field Artillery. A statue
q, his grandfather stands on Riverside
Drive.
Capt. James F. Rorke. Fifth Regiment,
Marines. was hit in the shoulder by
shrarnel while leading hts company into
action and Is now in a base hospital.
He was gassed June and had only
been back in action a short time.
served in Spanish War.
Captain Rorkes home ia at 431 Fifty
sx;h street, Brooklyn. He Is a graduate
Of the illinois Medical College and prac-
Used medicine in Bay Ridge. During the
Spanish American War he served with
the Medical Corps of the Thirteenth
Resimcnt which was stationed at Camp
Black. Later he Joined the old Twenty
third Regiment, and in 1914 he became
first lieutenant in the Second Naval
Battalion. For a time he was in charge
Of the power plant which supplied the
wireless station at Sayville.
When the United States entered the
var. Capt Rorke was sent into training
4, a Marine camp in Maryland. He
saied April %. He has n wife and three
children. His father is Police Lieut.
J. H. Rorke. retired.
Lieut.. Phipps Weed. son of Nathan
Weed. Upper Mountain avenue. Mont
clair. has been wounded in action. His
,ame was included In the casualty lista
only yesterday. but his father received a
letter from him recently stating that he
tad almost recovered from his wounds
Lieut.. Weed Is serving with Company
B. sIlth Regiment. Tank Corps. His
brother. Ensign Walker Ten Eyck Weed
United States Flying Corps. lost his life
a. Cape May February % in a heroic
s,tempt to save the life OF a fellow
aviator.
Gassed and Wounded.
Corporal Richard z. Lain. seriously
wounded In action August 81. entered
the service a year ago and sailed fol
France with Company F. 30sth Infan.
Try. He is "a and lived with his mother
a. isi Crown street, Brooklyn. He at
ended the Brooklyn College.
Sergeant Edward U. Koch. 1867 At.
an;.c avenue. Brooklyn. sassed Au.
gust %. entered the service in Septem-
Nr. 1917, and trained at Camp Upton
with Company OF the 305th Infantry
A brother, Joseph. is with an artillery
tEiment in France.
Corporal William Chaplin, Jr., field ar
.Iilery, was both gassed and wounded
according to word received by his uncle
who lives at ss Horton street, Queens
Dr.. c. W. Hoblitzell. 81 Bowers street
Jersey City. has received word that hi,
rn Private Charles w. Hoblitzell, Com.
tany l., 10Th Infantry, has beer
wounded in action. Only recently an
ether son. Corporal George w. Hoblit'
Nl. was klIieu IN FRANCE.
Ministry student Killed.
Funeral services for Sergeant Erwin
Hamilton. who died in France Sep
'anOer %. viii be held at the FRS
Presbyterian Church, Bordentown. y. J.
y soon as the authorities remove the
Spanish Influenza ban against public as
'emhlages. James v. Hamilton. father
o. the sergeant, was notified yesterday
:" his sons death. Sergeant Hamilton
vas - and had been in the army since
B. me beginning OF the Mexican trouble
He went over with the 1osth Infantry
Prior TO enlistment he was studying fol
the ministry and his engagement to Mis-
Catherine Sherman. Montoursville, Pa.
had been announced.
Corporal Robert S. Raven, Maple ave
nue., Bay Shore, l.. l., was killed ir
action September %. He was %, tn,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry s. Raven
Before entering the service he wal
rperintendent OF the mills of the Leor
Ferenbach SILK Company, Wilkesbarre
"a. He went over with the 10th In
'antry tthe former Seventh New York;
Two brothers are In the service.
Private James I. Dooley, lO6th In
antry. transferred from the Twenty
laird New York. enlisted the day wal
vas declared. He was a clerk in {
Manhattan engineering Office and LIVED
NTH his mother, Mrs. Marie Dooley. a
rs East Tenth street, Brooklyn. Al
ohcial notice from Washington yester
lay said he had been wounded
Auguss %.
Joseph Riey, formerly a Jockey a
Belmont Park, who made his home will
NE famil., NJ ThaR MYtftaT in Han1n
Nead road. Queens Village. died on Sep
'smber 10 in France as the result of al
accident while serving with the Seventy
seventh Division. He had no relatives
~ Queens and the official notice cam'
HssterdlN 70 the Mnffer family.