Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-07
STATEN ISLAND
MEN IN PARADE
Many Men From Richmond
Cheered- Are Being Dis
charged
By Special Correspondent.

BY S1ectai CoTrfSDohdeht-
TOTTENvILE, May Staten Is
lands sons were well represented in
the parade Of the Seventy-seventn Di-
vision up Fifth avenue. Manhattan,
yesterday. when those of that divi-
Sion passed in review for the last time
before their rehabilitation that starts
today at Camp Upton, from where
they left more than a year ago to go
to France to take UP the fight for de-
mocracy.
All along the line OF march the boys
nom the borough of Richmond In the
varies companies were given a recep-
ton BY the many relatives and friends
that had gathered to cheer them along
On the march. In the service flag Of
the division there we're gold stars for
several Staten Island boys that were
left behind sleeping under a mound In
France, where they were killed in ac-
tion.
Martin o. Brown. of Pleasant Plains
and Thomas Cavello, of Tottenville,
were two of the boys killed In action
OF the division. Sergeant Henry
Reichert, Of the 3OSth Infantry. whose
home IS In Tottenville. was among the
wounded Of the division that came
back and he was in the parade up the
avenue.
Frederick Farnam Webb. of Tot
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division who with Reichert has been
at the Greenhut hospital in Manhat-
tan. was also there. Among some
of the boys from this end of the Is
land in the parade that went out from
mere In the draft were Sergeant Ma
jor Leland Nance, Murray
Joseph Piazza, of Pleasant Plainsi
Paul Bloomington and Royal Dag
gett of Richmond Valley; Luther
Paugh, Thaddeus Cline, Robert
Lewis, Robert Deitz, Wilbur Harvey,
Joseph Kruzyn. Harry Wood. James
II. Wright and Richard Fitzgerald.
6f Tottenville, John and Michael Car
roll, william Wagner of Eltingville;
BENJAMIN Levenson of Tottenville, ar
rived yesterday on the President
Grant. and was one of the seventy
seventh division.
In the long list of the number kill
ed in this division there is recorded
but eleven staten Islanders killed or
wounded in action. Besides the losses
by disease, 1,571 were killed in &C
ton. The 308th infantry lost the
largest number, 800 privates and nine
teen officers and the other infantry
regiments, the 305th, 306th and 307th
lost the next highest number. the
losses in the three machine gun bat
talions ranged from four to fifty-nine,
and the three artillery regiments lost
from nineteen to twenty-four, while
the 302nd engineers lost forty pri-
yates and two officers.
Rev. Duncan II. Browne, of Christ
church, New Brighton. who was the
chaplain of the 805th infantry. has
been cited for bravery for remaining
under shell fire caring for men dur
Ing last September.
Staten Island police attached to the
four precinct stations and those or
the police reserves both of the men
and women divisions, were on duty at
the parade. Those from Tottenville
left here on the early trains yester-
day morning and took up their posi-
Hons along the line of march. Lieu
tenant Reifsert with Sergeant Con-
boy and the following eleven patrol
men of the Goth precinct station, were
on duty at Hath street and fifth ave-
nue.: S~treeter, Winant, Bacon, Hall,
Eotter, Rs2g Wgff EiLif5sfEald No9lalE
To iBreidenbach and Mensing.
.a<@rose of the women's police reserves
under Major Neidlinger from the Tot
t~enville precinct that acted as ushers
on the mayors committee at S6th
street and Fifth avenue, were Captain
Emily Hoehn, Lieutenant OliVe
Hitchcock and Privates Walters,
Hoehn, Mcconnell, Stern and Slaight.
There were eight privates OF the
men police reserves from the local
precinct under Sergeant Deitz along
the line of march.