The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-23
5 JERSEY FIGHTERS
In WAR DEATH LIST
Passaic Engineer Killed by
Truck on Way to Camp
After a Furlough.
Filler FALLS 10000 FEET
New York Sailor Victim of
Pneumonia After Narrow Els"
capes-Other Casualties.
Filler FALLS 10000 FEET


OF the Tldewater OIL Company, was
killed In n motor accident in France, ae-
cordlng to a letter received yesterday
from Henry A Barry, Commissary Stew
ard on the U. 8. s. Corsair. Barry.
who was Benson's friend and also q
Passaio resident, heard reports Of the
young mans death when his ship was at
Bordeaux and confirmed the news, which
he transmitted In letter to Mrs. Ben
son.
Benson, who graduated from Prince
ton in 1916, was a master engineer on
the headquarters stan OF the sO7th
Stsvedore Battalion. He Was returning
TO camp after a leave OF absence when
ne was run down In the road by an
American army truck and killed. He
was married May 10, 1917, to Miss
Louise Roebllng. daughter OF George w.
Roebllng OF Passalc. A child was born
last June. which he had peyer seen. Be
fore entering the army he was associ-
nted with his father in the Underwater
OH Company.
Confirmation was received In Mont
clair yesterday OF the death In France
OF Lieut.. William l.. Deetjen OF the
aviation service. His machine fell
distance Of 10000 feet while engaged In
battle with enemy nirmen. Lieut.
Deotjen formerly was In the New Jer-
sey National Guard and was active In
instructlng the Montclalr High School
battalion.
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Word also reached Montclair yester.
day OF the death in action of Capt
George Stanley Butcher. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. r. Butcher. He was commits
stoned Lieutenant when the First New
Jersey Infantry was mustered into the
Federal service and was recently men
toned ip dispatches for bravery in ac>
ton with his machine gun unit.
Lieut. Pettc J. Campbell, Wounded
August 81, wJ' clerk in the Ma
tional City Ban, He had seen ser
vice on the Mexican border, where he
won his sergeants cheyrons as a mem
Der of the Twenty-third Regiment of
Brooklyn. At Camp Spartanburg he
was promoted to First Lieutenant and
was sent to France with Company 1
of the 106th Infantry. He is 20 years
old.
Having survived one torpedo disaster
and risked his life in the rescue of
Q crew of another stricken ship Chief
Boatswain's Mate JThn p. Doyle, $50
Hudson street. returned TO this coun-
try on furlough to die OF pneumonia
He was a victim to his sense OF duty,
Tor while he was still suffering from
an attack of influenza he insisted on
taking detachment of recruits from
the Brooklyn navy yard to San Fran
cisco, where he died. His body was
brought back to New York and buried
with full naval honors.
Doyle was popular in Greenwich VII
lnge. where he had lived all his life.
He was SO years old and lived with
his mother and sister.
Cited for bravery at Sea.
Doyle had been running, the submarine
ganilet almost steadily since the en-
trance of this country into the war.
He was a member of the Grew OF the
American patrol ship Alcedo when that
ship was torpedced In foreign waters
November 6. 1915, and twenty MEN,
hers of It's crew and one Of It's officers
killed. Within the four minutes that
the Alcedo remained afoat Doyle man
aged to launch a llfeboat. In which
twenty-one men were saved For this
he received special commentator from
Secretary Daniels.
Again, on October .. while serving
aboard another war vessel he took an
active part in qescuing survivors from
the American troopship Antilles, which
was sunk by a torpedo October 10.
Lieut.. Kenneth II. Reid, a graduate OF
New York University and OF Georgia
Tech. who entered the Aviation Corps
after graduating from the Plattsburg
camp. was killed october 25 In the final
great air fight OF the war. according 70
word received yesterday by his mother
MIS- Jennie w. Reid. On October 2B he
wrote his mother that ne was about to
start on n scouting trip. acting as leader
or a force of nine battle planes. 1t was
on this expedition that he lost his life
He was % years old.
Corporal Alexander A Kin, killed in
action IN France, was n son of DR.
Yamel Kin. a Chinese woman physician
and lived with her at 90 West Eleventh
street. He was graduated from Columbia
and entered the employ OF brokerage
Arm. which he left TO joln the cOlors
His mother LEFT New York n fortnight
ago for Pelsin. China,
Politicians Son Wounded.
Capt Herbert =. Luce commanding
Company G, S05th Machine Gun Battal-
ion. has been wounded In France. accord
1nR TO n message from the war Depart
ment to his father, Francis II. Luce OF
Woodhaven, former chairman OF the
Queens county Republican committee.
Capt, Frank Henry Knight. United
States Medical Corps, died October % In
the United States Army Base Hospital
PortsOlouth. England, OF pneumonia
Word 10 that effect has been received BY
his widow. Mrs Lisette s Knight, 50 Sew.
enth avenue, Brooklyn. Capt. knight
was az years old. He was visiting gyne.
cololgist at the Swedish Hospital and
visiting surgeon at st. Johns Hospital
and the Kings County Hospital.
He was graduated from the College OF
Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia
University In 1893, and was q member
OF the Brooklyn genealogical Society
American Medical Association; Fellow o.
the College of Surgeons and member Of
Kings County Medical Society and the
Medical Society of the State OF New
York.
Capt. Knight also was member Of
the Crescent Club. His name was on th'
honor roll OF Al Saints Church II
Brooklyn. He Is also survived by a son
Henry Lambert knight.
SEVEN MORE OTRANT0 VICTIMS