Evening star., 1945-03-06
Todoy's Casualty Lists


men from the District area
! haze been reported killed.
Killed
Capt. George A. Sesso, 80, a mem
ber of the Army Dental Corps, tn
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Carmine Sesso
1927 Seventeenth street NV, wa
killed in Italy December 80, the Wa
Department has notified his parents
He. was graduated from Marylant
University in 1887 and from tn
School of Dentistry at Georgetown
University in 1941. He was com
missioned in the Army in April
1912, and went overseas one yea
later. His wife and son, Georg'
Francis Sesso, make their home IL
Chicago.
Pfc. Cyril d. Mott, %, has beer
killed in action in Germany, &C
cording to word received from tn,
War Department by his widow, Mrs
Genevieve Mott, 1900 South Twenty.
eighth street, Arlington, Va. HI
was the son of Percy D. Mott, 172t
Price street, Alexandria, Va.
A native of the District, Pfc
Mott attended schools in Florida
before returning here about eigh
years ago. He was a distributor fol
heating gas concern before hi,
induction into the Army March II
1914. He went overseas last Sep.
tember and was serving with the 9th
Army at the time of his death Janu-
ary 81. Besides his widow, he 1.
survived by two children, Michae
John, 8, and Karen Marie, aged
months.
Pfc. Benjamin E. Brent, jr, 20
son of Mrs. Annie Brent of l441
Fifty-eighth street NV. and the
late Benjamin Brent. was killed In
action in France on January 81
He left his position as packer with
the Peoples Drug Stores warehouse
here in 1910 to volunteer for the
Army.
A native Washingtonian, he was
graduated from Armstrong High
School in 1884 and joined a CCC
camp, where he remained for three
years. He was, first reported a
prisoner of war on February 26, but
on March 2 his family received word
he had been killed in action. Be-
sides his mother, he is survived by
four sisters, Isabel, Otis, Juanita
and Annie Brent, and one brother,
Charles r. Brent, stewards mate
second class, with the Navy overseas
Pvt. Walter w. Pusey, 20, son of
Mrs. Marie A. Pussy, 500 Sixty
eighth place, Seat Pleasant, Nd,
was.- killed N action with the kt
Infantry~Diyision iEsxrance Feb1I.
ary Is, the War Department has
notified his parents.
Pvt Pslsey was euaployed ataI3ae
star fnf 1xEetad motfhAszx. nm:
sengrr and at Garfinckels ~and- the
Government Printing Office before
he joined the service only six months
ago. Besides his mother he is sur
vived by four brothers and four
sisters: Irwin, in the Coast Guard :
Robert, an Army private: Frank, in
the Navy, and Herbert, high school
student; Mrs. Anita Sydlo OF Brook
lyn, Mrs. B. G. McCurdy and Misses
Loretta and Violet Pusey Of WASH
ington. A separate story about Pvt.
Pusey and two Of his friends is car
ried IN The Star today.
pvt Rfnh1rH sSIlvvI r1~,,s VU~p1-~ -
son Of Mrs. Claire Wellons, 26O4
Thirty-third street Sc, who was
wounded Christmas Day while fight
ing with the 26th Division in Lux
embourg, died of his wounds in
England on February IA and was
buried at Cambridgeshire, the War
Department has informed his
mother.
Pvt. Wellons attended st. Theresa s
School in Anacostia and worked In
the Post Office Department before
entering the Army in June, 1943.
He had been in combat since last
August.
Wounded
Pvt. Donald C. Crisp, 21, son of
Mrs. Thomas B. Crisp and the late
DR.. Crisp, was wounded January / in
Belgium. He was returned to this
country last week and is now In an
Army hospital in New York.
He was born in the District and
was graduted from the Landon
School for Boys at Bethesda. He
was student at the University of
Virginia when he went into the
Army in February, 1943. His basic
training was taken at Fort Bliss,
Tex, and he went overseas with an
unit last June. A short
time before he was wounded he was
transferred to an infantry regiment.
Capt. Thomas B. Crisp, "A, of the
Army, is brother. The Crisp home
is at 1924 Greenvale road, Chevy
Chase, Md.
Pfc. Ralph X. Burroughs, Is,
formerly of 1924 Lyman place NE,
who was wounded June 8 when he
landed in France with the 82d Air
Borne Division, has been wounded
again in the European theater of
war. He was with the Virginia Ma
tional Guard when 1t was absorbed
by the United States Army,
Sergt. Henry w. Minot, jr., whose
father Is associated with the Office of
Senator Saltonstan, Republican, of
Massachusetts,, was wounded in ac-
ton December 80 in Belgium. He
was born in Boston, was graduated
from st. Marks School and was
attending Harvard University when
he entered the Army in July, 1943.
He Is now in the Cushing Hospital
at Framingham, Mass. His father
lives at the Brighton Hotel, 2123
California street NV.
Pvt. Calmer w. BoldinG, 70, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Bolding, Ma
nassas, Va, was wounded January
IL In Luxembourg and is recovering
In an Army hospital In England.
He was born In Pickens, s. c., and
was graduated from the high school
at Manassas. He entered the Army
in February, 1943. He took his basic
training at Fort jackson, 8. G. He